1894 Penn Quakers football team

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1894 Penn Quakers football
Co-national champion (Davis)
ConferenceIndependent
1894 record12–0
Head coach
  • George Washington Woodruff (3rd season)
CaptainAlden Knipe
Seasons
← 1893
1895 →
1894 Eastern college football independents records
  • v
  • t
 Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Yale   –   16 – 0 – 0
Penn   –   12 – 0 – 0
Villanova   –   1 – 0 – 0
Penn State   –   6 – 0 – 1
Harvard   –   11 – 2 – 0
Geneva   –   5 – 1 – 0
Princeton   –   8 – 2 – 0
Temple   –   4 – 1 – 0
Pittsburgh College   –   7 – 2 – 1
Washington & Jefferson   –   5 – 2 – 1
Brown   –   10 – 5 – 0
Bucknell   –   5 – 3 – 0
Colgate   –   2 – 1 – 1
Army   –   3 – 2 – 0
Frankin & Marshall   –   6 – 4 – 0
Cornell   –   6 – 4 – 1
Amherst   –   7 – 5 – 0
Trinity (CT)   –   4 – 3 – 0
Syracuse   –   6 – 5 – 0
Tufts   –   6 – 5 – 0
Massachusetts   –   3 – 3 – 0
Swarthmore   –   5 – 5 – 0
Western Univ. Penn   –   1 – 1 – 0
Lafayette   –   5 – 6 – 0
New Hampshire   –   2 – 3 – 0
Rutgers   –   4 – 6 – 0
Lehigh   –   5 – 9 – 0
Williams   –   1 – 3 – 0
Drexel   –   1 – 3 – 0
MIT   –   1 – 4 – 0
Boston College   –   1 – 6 – 0
Carlisle   –   1 – 8 – 0
NYU   –   0 – 3 – 0
Wesleyan   –   0 – 5 – 0

The 1894 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1894 college football season. The team finished with a 12–0 record and was retroactively named as a co-national champion by one selector, Parke H. Davis.[1] They outscored their opponents 366 to 20.[2]

Schedule[]

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 3at Franklin & MarshallLancaster, PAW 34–0800[3]
October 6SwarthmorePhiladelphia, PAW 66–0
October 10Crescent Athletic ClubPhiladelphia, PAW 22–0
October 13GeorgetownPhiladelphia, PAW 46–0
October 17LehighPhiladelphia, PAW 30–0
October 20at Crescent Athletic ClubNew York, NYW 80–10
October 26vs. Virginia
  • National Park
  • Washington, DC
W 14–62,500[4]
October 27at Navy
  • Worden Field
  • Annapolis, MD
W 12–0
October 31LafayettePhiladelphia, PAW 26–0
November 10vs. Princeton
  • State Fair Grounds
  • Trenton, NJ (rivalry)
W 12–0[5]
November 17CornellPhiladelphia, PA (rivalry)W 6–0
November 29HarvardPhiladelphia, PA (rivalry)W 18–4

References[]

  1. ^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 107. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  2. ^ 1894 University of Pennsylvania football scores and results Archived October 9, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on October 8, 2013.
  3. ^ "Pennsylvania's First Victory". The Times. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 4, 1894. p. 3. Retrieved May 4, 2021 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  4. ^ "Gave The Quakers A Shock". The Washington Times. Washington, D.C. October 27, 1894. p. 3. Retrieved September 14, 2021 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  5. ^ "Pennsylvania 12; Tigers 0". The New York Times. November 11, 1894. p. 3. Retrieved August 1, 2020.
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