1911 Penn Quakers football team

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1911 Penn Quakers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–4
Head coach
Home stadiumFranklin Field
Seasons
← 1910
1912 →
1911 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Penn State     8 0 1
Carlisle     11 1 0
Princeton     8 0 2
Trinity (CT)     6 0 2
Temple     6 1 0
Army     6 1 1
Swarthmore     6 1 1
Dartmouth     8 2 0
Lafayette     8 2 0
Yale     7 2 1
Harvard     6 2 1
Cornell     7 3 0
Rhode Island State     5 2 1
Brown     7 3 1
Bucknell     6 3 1
Penn     7 4 0
Pittsburgh     4 3 1
Washington & Jefferson     6 4 0
Syracuse     5 3 2
Dickinson     4 4 0
Lehigh     5 5 1
Rutgers     4 4 1
Dickinson     4 4 0
St. Bonaventure     2 2 0
Carnegie Tech     4 5 0
Holy Cross     4 5 0
Tufts     3 4 0
Vermont     3 5 0
NYU     1 3 3
Colgate     3 6 0
Franklin & Marshall     3 6 0
Geneva     1 6 1
Villanova     0 5 1
Boston College     0 7 0

The 1911 Penn Quakers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1911 college football season. In their third season under head coach Andy Smith, the Quakers compiled a 7–4 record and outscored opponents by a total of 131 to 83.[1] Fullback Leroy Mercer was selected as a first-team All-American by Tommy Clark and Wilton S. Farnsworth.[2][3]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
September 30 GettysburgW 5–3
October 4Franklin & Marshall
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 14–0
October 7 Ursinus
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 9–0
October 11 Dickinson
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 22–10
October 14Villanova
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 22–0
October 21Brown
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 0–6
October 28 Penn State
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 6–22
November 4 Carlisle
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia
L 0–16
November 11 Lafayette
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia
W 23–6
November 13at MichiganL 9–11[4]
November 30 Cornell
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)
W 21–9[5]

References

  1. ^ "1911 Pennsylvania Quakers Stats". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved April 5, 2020.
  2. ^ Tommy Clark (December 8, 1911). "All American Football Team For 1911". The Altoona Mirror. p. 18.
  3. ^ "Latest Sporting News All-American Football Team Selected by W. S. Farnsworth". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. December 10, 1911.
  4. ^ "Pennsy Beaten in Close Game: Michigan, Aided Greatly by Craig, Wins by a Margin of Two Points" (PDF). The New York Times. November 19, 1911.
  5. ^ "Barr's Kicking Big Factor In Penn's Victory". The Philadelphia Inquirer. December 1, 1911. pp. 1, 10 – via Newspapers.com.