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1898 Penn Quakers football team

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1898 Penn Quakers football
1898 University of Pennsylvania Football
ConferenceIndependent
Record12–1
Head coach
CaptainJohn H. Outland
Home stadiumFranklin Field
Seasons
← 1897
1899 →
1898 Eastern college football independents records
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Harvard     11 0 0
Drexel     7 0 0
Princeton     11 0 1
Penn     12 1 0
Buffalo     8 1 0
Cornell     10 2 0
Swarthmore     9 2 0
Washington & Jefferson     9 2 0
Yale     9 2 0
Dickinson     8 2 0
Syracuse     8 2 1
Wesleyan     7 3 0
Western Penn.     5 2 1
Brown     6 4 0
Carlisle     6 4 0
Penn State     6 4 0
Pittsburgh College     6 4 1
Army     3 2 1
Vermont     3 2 1
Holy Cross     5 4 1
Bucknell     4 4 3
Fordham     1 1 2
Frankin & Marshall     4 4 2
New Hampshire     4 4 0
Amherst     4 5 1
Villanova     2 4 1
Lehigh     3 6 1
Boston College     2 5 1
Colgate     2 5 1
Temple     2 5 0
Lafayette     3 8 0
NYU     1 3 0
Rutgers     1 6 1
Tufts     1 9 0
Geneva     0 6 1

The 1898 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1898 college football season.[1]

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 24Franklin & MarshallW 41–0
September 28Gettysburg
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 50–0
October 1Penn State
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 40–0
October 5Mansfield Normal
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 50–0
October 8Brown
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 18–05,000[2]
October 12Virginia
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 40–0
October 15Lehigh
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 40–0
October 19Wesleyan
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 17–03,500[3][4]
October 22Lafayette
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 32–0
October 29Chicago
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 23–11
November 5at HarvardL 0–10[5]
November 12Carlisle
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 35–5
November 25Cornell
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)
W 12–6

References

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  1. ^ 1898 University of Pennsylvania football scores and results Archived October 9, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on October 8, 2013.
  2. ^ "Penn, 18—Brown, 0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 9, 1898. p. 14. Retrieved March 12, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  3. ^ "Penn Plays An Erratic Game—Wesleyan Shows A Strong Defense And Fair Offense". The Times. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 20, 1898. p. 8. Retrieved July 27, 2025 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  4. ^ "Penn Plays Better—Defeats Wesleyan in an Interesting Game by the Score of 17 to 0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 20, 1898. p. 4. Retrieved July 27, 2025 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  5. ^ "Harvard Wins! Ten Points Scored by Crimson and None by Pennsylvania". The Boston Post. November 6, 1898. pp. 1, 2 – via Newspapers.com.