1897 Penn Quakers football team

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1897 Penn Quakers football
National champion (Billingsley, Helms, Houlgate, NCF)
Co-national champion (Davis)
ConferenceIndependent
1897 record15–0
Head coach
  • George Washington Woodruff (6th season)
CaptainJohn Minds
Home stadiumFranklin Field
Seasons
← 1896
1898 →
1897 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Penn     15 0 0
Buffalo     7 0 0
Princeton     10 1 0
Washington & Jefferson     10 1 0
Yale     9 0 2
Harvard     10 1 1
Army     6 1 1
Vermont     3 0 2
Lafayette     9 2 1
Drexel     6 2 1
Colgate     5 2 1
Dickinson     7 3 2
Swarthmore     7 3 2
Fordham     2 1 �� 1
Cornell     5 3 1
Syracuse     5 3 1
Brown     7 4 0
Carlisle     6 4 0
Boston College     4 3 0
Holy Cross     4 3 1
Bucknell     3 3 1
NYU     3 3 0
Temple     3 3 0
Trinity (CT)     4 4 1
Wesleyan     6 6 0
Tufts     6 7 0
Geneva     3 4 1
Pittsburgh College     2 3 1
Villanova     3 5 1
Penn State     3 6 0
Amherst     2 6 2
Frankin & Marshall     2 6 2
Lehigh     3 7 0
New Hampshire     2 5 0
Rutgers     2 6 0
Western Univ. Penn.     1 3 0

The 1897 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1897 college football season. The team finished with a 15–0 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 463 to 20.[2]

Legacy[]

Head coach George Washington Woodruff and players Truxtun Hare, John Minds, and John H. Outland are all inductees of the College Football Hall of Fame. Outland is the namesake of the Outland Trophy, awarded annually to the best college football interior lineman. The Quakers' 15 wins in a single season would not be equalled until the 2018 Clemson Tigers.[3][4]

Schedule[]

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultSource
September 22at BucknellLewisburg, PAW 17–0
September 25Franklin & Marshall
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 33–0
September 293:47 p.m.Washington & Jefferson
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 18–4[5]
October 2Bucknell
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 33–0
October 6Gettysburg
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 57–0
October 9Lehigh
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 58–0
October 13Virginia
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 42–0
October 16Dartmouth
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 34–0
October 20Penn State
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 24–0
October 23Lafayette
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 46–0
October 30at BrownProvidence, RIW 40–0
November 6Carlisle
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 20–10
November 13Wesleyan
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 22–0
November 20Harvard
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)
W 15–6
November 25Cornell
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)
W 4–0
  • All times are in Eastern time

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. ^ 1897 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. ^ "Single Season Leaders and Records for Wins". Sports Reference. Retrieved December 30, 2018.
  4. ^ "Alabama vs. Clemson score: Tigers crush Tide to reclaim throne, win 2019 national championship". CBS Sports. Retrieved January 8, 2019.
  5. ^ "Our Quaker Kickers Encounter A Tartar". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. September 30, 1897. p. 4. Retrieved September 27, 2021 – via Newspapers.com open access.

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