1904 Penn Quakers football team

The 1904 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1904 college football season. The team finished with a 12–0 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, and Parke H. Davis, and as a co-national champion by the National Championship Foundation.[1] They outscored their opponents 222 to 4.[2]

1904 Penn Quakers football
Penn in action
National champion (Helms, Houlgate, Davis)
Co-national champion (NCF)
ConferenceIndependent
1904 record12–0
Head coachCarl S. Williams (3rd season)
CaptainRobert Torrey
Home stadiumFranklin Field
1904 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Penn      12 0 0
Western U. of Penn.      10 0 0
Dartmouth      7 0 1
Yale      10 1 0
Amherst      9 1 0
Colgate      8 1 1
Carlisle      10 2 0
Lafayette      8 2 0
Princeton      8 2 0
Army      7 2 0
Fordham      4 1 1
Harvard      7 2 1
Columbia      7 3 0
Cornell      7 3 0
Villanova      4 2 1
Syracuse      6 3 0
Penn State      6 4 0
Temple      3 2 0
Brown      6 5 0
NYU      3 6 0
Wesleyan      3 7 0
Geneva      1 4 2
New Hampshire      2 5 0
Rutgers      1 6 2
Tufts      2 9 1
Lehigh      1 8 0
Frankin & Marshall      0 10 0

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 24Penn StateW 6–0
September 28Swarthmore
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 6–4
October 1Virginia
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 24–0
October 5Franklin & Marshall
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 34–0
October 8Lehigh
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 24–0
October 12Gettysburg
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 21–0
October 15Brown
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 6–0
October 22Columbia
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 16–015,000[3]
October 29at HarvardW 11–0
November 5Lafayette
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 22–0
November 12Carlisle
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 18–0
November 24Cornell
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)
W 34–0

References

  1. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  2. 1904 University of Pennsylvania football scores and results Archived October 9, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on October 8, 2013.
  3. "Great Runs Won For Penn Over Columbia, 16-0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 23, 1904. pp. 1, 14 via Newspapers.com.
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