1895 Penn Quakers football team

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1895 Penn Quakers football
1895 Penn Quakers (team picture).jpg
National champion (Billingsley, Helms, Houlgate, NCF)
Co-national champion (Davis)
ConferenceIndependent
1895 record14–0
Head coach
  • George Washington Woodruff (4th season)
CaptainCarl S. Williams
Home stadiumFranklin Field
Seasons
← 1894
1896 →
1895 Eastern college football independents records
  • v
  • t
 Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Penn   –   14 – 0 – 0
Yale   –   13 – 0 – 2
Princeton   –   10 – 1 – 1
Washington & Jefferson   –   6 – 1 – 1
Harvard   –   8 – 2 – 1
Lafayette   –   6 – 2 – 0
Syracuse   –   6 – 2 – 2
Army   –   5 – 2 – 0
Bucknell   –   5 – 2 – 0
Colgate   –   4 – 2 – 0
Swarthmore   –   7 – 4 – 1
Tufts   –   8 – 5 – 0
Villanova   –   4 – 2 – 0
Wesleyan   –   6 – 3 – 0
Amherst   –   6 – 5 – 0
Brown   –   7 – 6 – 1
Carlisle   –   4 – 4 – 0
Drexel   –   3 – 3 – 1
Penn State   –   2 – 2 – 3
Cornell   –   3 – 4 – 1
Rutgers   –   3 – 4 – 0
New Hampshire   –   2 – 3 – 1
Frankin & Marshall   –   3 – 5 – 1
Boston College   –   2 – 4 – 2
Lehigh   –   3 – 6 – 0
CCNY   –   2 – 5 – 1
Temple   –   1 – 4 – 1
MIT   –   1 – 4 – 0
Trinity (CT)   –   1 – 4 – 0
Massachusetts   –   1 – 5 – 0
Western Univ. Penn.   –   1 – 6 – 0
Geneva   –   0 – 5 – 0

The 1895 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1895 college football season. The team finished with a 14–0 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, and National Championship Foundation, and as a co-national champion by Parke H. Davis.[1] They outscored their opponents 480 to 24.[2]

Schedule[]

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 1Swarthmore
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 40–0
October 2Bucknell
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 40–0
October 5Franklin & Marshall
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 42–0
October 9at Crescent Athletic Club
  • Eastern Park
  • Brooklyn, NY
W 32–0<500[3][4]
October 14Lehigh
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 54–0
October 16Carlisle
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 36–0
October 19Virginia
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 54–0
October 23at Duquesne Country and Athletic ClubPittsburgh, PAW 30–0
October 26Lafayette
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 30–0
October 30Brown
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 12–0
November 1Chicago Athletic Association
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 12–4
November 9Penn State
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 35–45,000
November 23at HarvardCambridge, MA (rivalry)W 17–14
November 28Cornell
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)
W 46–2

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. ^ 1895 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. ^ "The Crescents Shut Out: University of Pennsylvania Scored 32 Points". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 10, 1895. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Penn Shuts Out the Crescents". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 10, 1895. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
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