1907 Penn Quakers football team

The 1907 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1907 college football season. They finished with an 11–1 record and claim 1907 as a national championship season. They outscored their opponents 256 to 40.[1]

1907 Penn Quakers football
Part of the crowd watching Pennsylvania defeat Cornell on Franklin Field, Philadelphia
National champion
ConferenceIndependent
Record11–1
Head coach
CaptainBob Folwell
Home stadiumFranklin Field
Seasons
← 1906
1908 →
1907 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Yale     9 0 1
Dartmouth     8 0 1
Penn     11 1 0
Carlisle     10 1 0
Temple     4 0 2
Fordham     6 1 1
Cornell     8 2 0
Western U. of Penn.     8 2 0
Princeton     7 2 0
Washington & Jefferson     7 2 0
Lafayette     7 2 1
Lehigh     7 2 1
Swarthmore     6 2 0
Army     6 2 1
NYU     5 2 0
Vermont     4 1 2
Harvard     7 3 0
Brown     7 3 0
Penn State     6 4 0
Syracuse     5 3 1
Drexel     3 2 2
Colgate     4 4 1
Geneva     4 5 2
Amherst     3 4 1
Tufts     3 4 1
Frankin & Marshall     4 6 0
Rutgers     3 5 1
Springfield Training School     2 4 2
Bucknell     4 7 0
New Hampshire     1 5 2
Villanova     1 5 1
Holy Cross     1 7 2
Wesleyan     1 7 1
Carnegie Tech     1 8 0

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 29North CarolinaW 37–0
October 2Villanova
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 16–0[2]
October 5Bucknell
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 29–2
October 9Franklin & Marshall
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 57–0
October 12Swarthmore
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 16–8[3]
October 16Gettysburg
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 23–0
October 19Brown
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 11–0
October 26Carlisle
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 6–26
November 2Lafayette
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 15–0
November 9Penn State
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 28–0
November 16at MichiganW 6–019,500
November 28Cornell
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)
W 12–4

References

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  1. ^ 1907 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. ^ "Penn Wins, But Goal In Danger". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 3, 1907. p. 10. Retrieved November 7, 2021 – via Newspapers.com  .
  3. ^ "Penn Defeats Swarthmore by Score 16 to 8". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 13, 1907 – via Newspapers.com.