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1919 Penn Quakers football team

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1919 Penn Quakers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–2–1
Head coach
CaptainBert Bell
Home stadiumFranklin Field
Seasons
← 1918
1920 →
1919 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Harvard     9 0 1
Penn State     7 1 0
Swarthmore     7 1 0
Dartmouth     6 1 1
Colgate     5 1 1
New Hampshire     7 2 0
Lafayette     6 2 0
Washington & Jefferson     6 2 0
Williams     6 2 0
Syracuse     8 3 0
Penn     6 2 1
Pittsburgh     6 2 1
Lehigh     6 3 0
Princeton     4 2 1
Geneva     4 2 2
Army     6 3 0
Boston College     5 3 0
Holy Cross     5 3 0
Rutgers     5 3 0
Yale     5 3 0
Villanova     5 3 1
Brown     5 4 1
Bucknell     5 4 1
NYU     4 4 0
Carnegie Tech     3 4 0
Columbia     2 4 3
Cornell     3 5 0
Vermont     3 6 0
Franklin & Marshall     2 4 2
Tufts     2 5 0
Buffalo     0 5 1
Rhode Island State     0 8 1
Drexel     0 4 0

The 1919 Penn Quakers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Pennsylvania as an independent during the 1919 college football season. In their fourth season under head coach Bob Folwell, the Quakers compiled a 6–2–1 record, shut out five of nine opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 283 to 40.[1] The team played its home games at Franklin Field in Philadelphia.

Bert Bell, who later served as commissioner of the National Football League, was the team captain. End Heinie Miller was selected by Walter Camp as a first-team All-American.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
September 27BucknellW 16–0
October 4Pennsylvania Military
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 54–0
October 11Delaware
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 89–0
October 18Swarthmore
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 55–7
October 25Lafayette
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 23–0
November 1Penn State
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 0–10
November 8vs. DartmouthL 19–20
November 15Pittsburgh
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
T 3–3
November 27Cornell
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)
W 24–0

References

  1. ^ "1919 Pennsylvania Quakers Stats". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved April 5, 2020.