1918 Penn Quakers football team

The 1918 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1918 college football season.[1]

1918 Penn Quakers football
ConferenceIndependent
1918 record5–3
Head coachBob Folwell (3rd season)
Home stadiumFranklin Field
1918 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Princeton      3 0 0
Army      1 0 0
Columbia      5 1 0
Syracuse      5 1 0
Pittsburgh      4 1 0
Boston College      5 2 0
Rutgers      5 2 0
Franklin & Marshall      2 1 0
Geneva      4 2 0
Swarthmore      4 2 0
Harvard      2 1 0
Fordham      4 2 1
Villanova      3 2 0
Penn      5 3 0
Lehigh      4 3 0
Dartmouth      3 3 0
Wash. & Jeff.      2 2 0
New Hampshire      2 2 1
Lafayette      3 4 0
Brown      2 3 0
Tufts      2 3 0
Penn State      1 2 1
Drexel      0 1 0
NYU      0 4 0

Season summary

The 1918 Penn football team was adversely affected by the Spanish flu sweeping through the city. Head coach Bob Folwell was hospitalized. Only 22 of his players were healthy enough to practice at one point in mid-October. Penn’s scheduled game against Georgia Tech was canceled. Penn postponed a scheduled game with the Navy Yard’s Marines football club. It was rescheduled for October 26 and played at an empty Franklin Field closed to fans to prevent the spread of the virus.[2]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResult
October 19USS MinnesotaW 27–0
October 26Philadelphia Naval Yard
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 0–7
November 3Swarthmore
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 12–20
November 7Saint Joseph's
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 12–0
November 10Lafayette
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 34–0
November 16at PittsburghL 0–37
November 24Swarthmore
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 13–7
November 28Dartmouth
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 21–0

References

  1. "1918 Pennsylvania Quakers Schedule and Results". College Football at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved June 18, 2019.
  2. Fitzpatrick, Frank (March 11, 2020). "In 1918, it was Spanish influenza that afflicted Philadelphia sports". Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Retrieved March 11, 2020.
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