1899 Penn Quakers football team

The 1899 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1899 college football season.[1]

1899 Penn Quakers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–3–2
Head coach
CaptainTruxtun Hare
Home stadiumFranklin Field
Seasons
← 1898
1900 →
1899 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Harvard     10 0 1
Lafayette     12 1 0
Princeton     12 1 0
Buffalo     7 1 0
Boston College     8 1 1
Carlisle     9 2 0
Swarthmore     8 1 2
Washington & Jefferson     9 2 1
Wesleyan     7 2 0
Pittsburgh College     2 0 2
Villanova     7 2 1
Yale     7 2 1
Western Univ. of Penn.     3 1 1
Columbia     9 3 0
Fordham     3 1 0
Cornell     7 3 0
Penn     8 3 2
Brown     7 3 1
New Hampshire     4 2 0
Vermont     5 3 0
Tufts     7 4 0
Bucknell     6 4 0
Holy Cross     5 5 0
Syracuse     4 4 0
Drexel     3 3 0
Army     4 5 0
Colgate     4 5 0
Penn State     4 6 1
Frankin & Marshall     3 5 1
NYU     2 6 0
Temple     1 4 1
Dartmouth     2 7 0
Lehigh     2 9 0
Rutgers     2 9 0
Geneva     0 3 0

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 27Franklin & MarshallW 48–0
September 30Lehigh
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 20–0
October 4Bucknell
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 47–10
October 7at BrownProvidence, RIT 6–61,000–2,000[2][3]
October 11Virginia
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 33–6
October 14Carlisle
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 5–16
October 18Wesleyan
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 17–6
October 21Lafayette
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 0–6
October 28Chicago
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
T 5–58,000[4][5][6][7]
November 4Harvard
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)
L 0–16> 30,000[8]
November 11Michigan
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 11–10
November 17Penn State
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 47–0
November 25Cornell
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)
W 29–0

References

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  1. ^ 1899 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. ^ "U. Of P. Tied". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 8, 1899. p. 22. Retrieved March 13, 2022 – via Newspapers.com  .
  3. ^ "Brown Played Quakers A Tie". The Philadelphia Times. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 8, 1899. p. 11. Retrieved March 13, 2022 – via Newspapers.com  .
  4. ^ "Play a Tie Game: Pennsylvania and Chicago Quit Even After Playing Two Exciting Halves; Each Scores Once; Neither Team Succeeds in Kicking a Goal from Touchdown During Contest (part 1)". The Sunday Inter Ocean. October 29, 1899. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.  
  5. ^ "Play a Tie Game: Pennsylvania and Chicago Quit Even After Playing Two Exciting Halves; Each Scores Once; Neither Team Succeeds in Kicking a Goal from Touchdown During Contest (part 2)". The Sunday Inter Ocean. October 29, 1899. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.  
  6. ^ "Play a Tie With Penn: Maroons and Quakers Battle Fiercely on Marshall Field". The Chicago Sunday Tribune. October 29, 1899. p. 17 – via Newspapers.com.  
  7. ^ "Chicago Played Penn a Tie Game: Score 5 to 5; Each Scored a Touchdown, But Both Failed in the Try for Goal". The Times (Philadelphia). October 29, 1899. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.  
  8. ^ "Harvard Defeats Pennsylvania Team: The Quakers Were Outplayed in Every Department of the Game". The Times. Philadelphia. November 5, 1899. pp. 1, 11 – via Newspapers.com.