1883 Penn Quakers football team

1883 Penn Quakers football
Conference	Independent
Record	6–2–1
Head coach	None
Captain	Alexander Gray

1883 college football records

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Yale			–					9	–	0	–	0
Gallaudet			–					2	–	0	–	0
Carleton			–					1	–	0	–	0
Johns Hopkins			–					1	–	0	–	0
NYU			–					1	–	0	–	0
Harvard			–					8	–	2	–	0
Princeton			–					7	–	1	–	0
Penn			–					6	–	2	–	1
Stevens			–					6	–	4	–	1
Massachusetts			–					1	–	1	–	0
Minnesota			–					1	–	1	–	0
Wesleyan			–					3	–	3	–	0
Williams			–					1	–	1	–	0
Fordham			–					4	–	5	–	0
Michigan			–					2	–	3	–	0
Lafayette			–					2	–	4	–	0
Johns Hopkins			–					1	–	2	–	0
Columbia			–					1	–	3	–	0
Rutgers			–					1	–	6	–	0
Amherst			–					0	–	1	–	0
Dartmouth			–					0	–	1	–	0
Hamline			–					0	–	1	–	0
Lewisburg			–					0	–	1	–	0
Navy			–					0	–	1	–	0
CCNY			–					0	–	2	–	0
Columbian University			–					0	–	2	–	0
Georgetown			–					0	–	2	–	0

The 1883 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1883 college football season. They finished with a 6–2–1 record.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
October 13	at Harvard	Jarvis Field Cambridge, MA (rivalry)	L 0–4
October 20	Johns Hopkins	Philadelphia, PA	W 26–6
October 27	Lafayette	Philadelphia, PA	W 44–4
November 3	at Princeton	University Field Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	L 6–39
November 10	Johns Hopkins	Philadelphia, PA	W 30–0
November 14	Columbia	Philadelphia, PA	W 35–1
November 17	at Rutgers	New Brunswick, NJ	W 18–0
November 24	Penn Alumni	Philadelphia, PA	W 39–7
November 29	at Stevens	Hoboken, NJ	T 6–6