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American college football season
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
Date Opponent Site Result September 22 at Bucknell Lewisburg, PA W 17–0
September 25 Franklin & Marshall W 33–0
September 29 Washington & Jefferson Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA W 18–4
October 2 Bucknell Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA W 33–0
October 6 Gettysburg Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA W 57–0
October 9 Lehigh Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA W 58–0
October 13 Virginia Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA W 42–0
October 16 Dartmouth Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA W 34–0
October 20 Penn State Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA W 24–0
October 23 Lafayette Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA W 46–0
October 30 at Brown Providence, RI (rivalry)W 40–0
November 6 Carlisle Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA W 20–10
November 13 Wesleyan Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA W 22–0
November 20 Harvard Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA (rivalry ) W 15–6
November 25 Cornell Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA (rivalry ) W 4–0
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Further reading
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