1912 Swarthmore Quakers football team

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1912 Swarthmore Quakers football
ConferenceIndependent
1912 record7–1–1
Head coach
Home stadiumWhittier Field
Seasons
← 1911
1913 →
1912 Eastern college football independents records
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 Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Harvard   –   9 – 0 – 0
Penn State   –   8 – 0 – 0
Carlisle   –   12 – 1 – 1
Maine   –   7 – 1 – 0
Princeton   –   7 – 1 – 1
Swarthmore   –   7 – 1 – 1
Yale   –   7 – 1 – 1
Lehigh   –   9 – 2 – 0
Dartmouth   –   7 – 2 – 0
Wesleyan   –   7 – 2 – 0
Colgate   –   5 – 2 – 0
Washington & Jefferson   –   8 – 3 – 1
Rhode Island State   –   6 – 3 – 0
Bucknell   –   6 – 3 – 1
Temple   –   3 – 2 – 0
Penn   –   7 – 4 – 0
Army   –   5 – 3 – 0
Brown   –   6 – 4 – 0
Franklin & Marshall   –   6 – 4 – 0
Holy Cross   –   4 – 3 – 1
Rutgers   –   5 – 4 – 0
Tufts   –   5 – 4 – 0
Fordham   –   4 – 4 – 0
Villanova   –   3 – 3 – 0
Morris Harvey   –   2 – 2 – 0
Lafayette   –   4 – 5 – 1
Syracuse   –   4 – 5 – 0
Carnegie Tech   –   3 – 4 – 1
Geneva   –   3 – 4 – 0
Vermont   –   3 – 5 – 0
Pittsburgh   –   3 – 6 – 0
Boston College   –   2 – 4 – 1
Cornell   –   3 – 7 – 0
NYU   –   2 – 6 – 0

The 1912 Swarthmore Quakers football team was an American football team that represented Swarthmore College as an independent during the 1912 college football season. The team compiled a 7–1–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 150 to 31. George H. Brooke was the head coach.[1]

Schedule[]

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 28Villanova
W 27–0[2]
October 5at Lafayette
W 22–0[3]
October 12at Penn
W 6–3[4]
October 19at Navy
W 21–6[5]
October 26Johns Hopkins
  • Whittier Field
  • Swarthmore, PA
W 40–6[6]
November 2at UrsinusCollegeville, PAW 20–0[7][8]
November 9Lehigh
  • Whittier Field
  • Swarthmore, PA
L 0–3[9]
November 16Bucknell
  • Whittier Field
  • Swarthmore, PA
W 14–13[10]
November 23at DickinsonCarlisle, PAT 0–0[11]

References[]

  1. ^ "1912 Swarthmore Garnet Tide Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved September 14, 2021.
  2. ^ "Little Quakers Bump Villa Nova". The Philadelphia Inquirer. September 29, 1912 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Swarthmore Won From Lafayette". The Morning Call. October 7, 1912. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Penn Loses Game On Jourdet's Muff". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 13, 1912. pp. Sports 1, 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Navy Eleven Falls Before Swarthmore". The Baltimore Sun. October 20, 1912. p. 13 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Hopkins Beaten By Swarthmore Team". The Baltimore Sun. October 27, 1912. p. 13 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Easy for Swarthmore: Ursinus Goes Down to Defeat By Score of 20 to 0". Evening Star. November 3, 1912 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Swarthmore Takes Over Ursinus, 20-0". Pittsburgh Post Gazette. November 3, 1912. p. 19 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Quakers Lose First Game To Lehigh". Delaware County Daily Times. November 11, 1912. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Big Football Teams Battle". Altoona Tribune. November 18, 1912. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Garnets Battle Dickinson To Tie". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 24, 1912. p. 16 – via Newspapers.com.
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