1892 Penn Quakers football team

The 1892 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1892 college football season. The Quakers finished with a 15–1 record in their first year under head coach and College Football Hall of Fame inductee, George Washington Woodruff. Significant games included victories over Penn State (20–0), Navy (16–0), Lafayette (8–6 and 10–4), and Princeton (6–4), and its sole loss to undefeated national champion Yale (28–0). The 1892 Penn team outscored its opponents by a combined total of 405 to 52.[1][2] Penn halfback Harry Thayer was selected by both Walter Camp and Caspar Whitney as a first-team player on the 1892 College Football All-America Team.[3][4]

1892 Penn Quakers football
ConferenceIndependent
1892 record15–1
Head coach
CaptainCharles Schoff
1892 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Yale   –    13 –0 –0
Washington & Jefferson   –    4 –0 –0
Colgate   –    3 –0 –0
Penn   –    15 –1 –0
Cornell   –    10 –1 –0
Harvard   –    10 –1 –0
Princeton   –    12 –2 –0
Penn State   –    5 –1 –0
Tufts   –    8 –2 –0
Navy   –    5 –2 –0
Army   –    3 –1 –1
Western Univ. Penn.   –    4 –2 –0
Amherst   –    9 –5 –0
Dartmouth   –    5 –3 –0
Franklin & Marshall   –    4 –3 –0
Bucknell   –    2 –2 –0
Fordham   –    2 –2 –0
Geneva   –    3 –3 –0
Stevens   –    1 –1 –0
Brown   –    4 –5 –1
Massachusetts   –    4 –6 –2
Rutgers   –    3 –5 –1
Lafayette   –    5 –7 –0
Lehigh   –    3 –6 –0
Delaware   –    1 –2 –2
Wesleyan   –    1 –7 –1
Drexel   –    0 –1 –0
Syracuse   –    0 –8 –1

Schedule
DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 28at Swarthmore Swarthmore, PAW 22–0 [5]
October 1 Penn State Philadelphia, PAW 20–0 [6]
October 5 Haverford Philadelphia, PAW 56–0 [7]
October 11at Virginia Charlottesville, VAW 32–0 [8]
October 12at Navy
W 16–0 [9]
October 15at Crescent Athletic Club
W 23–0[10]
October 19 Dickinson Philadelphia, PAW 78–0 [11]
October 21 Williams
  • University grounds
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 50–03,000[12]
October 22 Franklin & Marshall
  • University grounds
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 34–0 [13]
October 26at Lafayette Easton, PAW 8–6 [14]
October 29 Chicago Athletic Club
  • University grounds
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 12–10> 3,000[15]
November 5 Princeton
W 6–415,000[17]
November 8 Lehigh
  • University grounds
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 4–0
November 12vs. Yale
L 0–28> 8,000[18]
November 16 Lafayette
  • University grounds
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 10–4 [19]
November 24 Wesleyan Philadelphia, PAW 34–0 [20]

References
  1. "1892 Pennsylvania Quakers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
  2. "Pennsylvania Yearly Results (1890-1894)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
  3. "Walter Camp Football Foundation". Archived from the original on March 30, 2009.
  4. "2014 NCAA Football Records: Consensus All-America Selections" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2014. p. 4. Retrieved August 16, 2014.
  5. "Opening of the Football Season". The Philadelphia Inquirer. September 29, 1892. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. "College Players Kick the Leather". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 2, 1892. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. "University vs. Haverford". The Times (Philadelphia). October 6, 1892. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. "University Kickers Win: Pennsylvania Defeats the Virginia Collegians at Football by Thirty-Two Points to Nothing". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 12, 1892. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. "Foot-Ball at Annapolis: Pennsylvanians Defeat the Naval Cadets by 16 to 0". The Times (Philadelphia). October 13, 1892. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. "Played Good Foot Ball: Pennsylvania 'Varsity Team's Excellent Showing". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 16, 1892. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. "Another Victory for Red and Blue: University Defeats Dickinson at Football Seventy-eight Points to Nothing". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 20, 1892. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. "Inter-University Foot-Ball: Pennsylvania Defeats Williams by a Score of 50 to 0". The Times (Philadelphia). October 22, 1892. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. "'Varsity Wins Again: The Red and Blue Easily Downs Franklin and Marshall". The Times (Philadelphia). October 23, 1892. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. "Pennsylvania Has a Very Close Call". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 27, 1892. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. "'Varsity Victorious: The Chicago Eleven Defeated in a Hard Game". The Times (Philadelphia). October 30, 1892. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. Some sources, including SR/College Football, refer to the game having been played at Manheim, Pennsylvania, some 80 miles west of Philadelphia. However, the contemporaneous account in The Times clearly states that the game was played at the Germantown Cricket Club which was located on Manheim Street in the Germantown section of Philadelphia.
  17. "The Tigers Downed: The Red and Blue Waves Above the Orange and Black". The Times (Philadelphia). November 6, 1892. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. "Yale Colors Still Wave Triumphant". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 13, 1882. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  19. "Pennsylvania 10 Lafayette 4". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 17, 1892. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  20. "Wesleyan Was Easy: The Red and Blue Triumphs Over the Red and Black". The Times (Philadelphia). November 25, 1892. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
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