1906 Penn Quakers football team

The 1906 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1906 college football season. The Quakers finished with a 7–2–3 record in their fifth year under head coach Carl S. Williams. Significant games included a 24 to 6 loss to the Carlisle Indians, a 17 to 0 victory over Michigan, and a scoreless tie with Cornell The 1906 Penn team outscored its opponents by a combined total of 186 to 58.[1][2]

1906 Penn Quakers football
ConferenceIndependent
1906 record7–2–3
Head coach
CaptainEdward L. Greene
Home stadiumFranklin Field
1906 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Princeton      9 0 1
Yale      9 0 1
Harvard      10 1 0
Cornell      8 1 2
Lafayette      8 1 1
Penn State      8 1 1
Washington & Jefferson      9 2 0
Swarthmore      7 2 0
Tufts      6 2 0
Penn      7 2 3
Carlisle      9 3 0
Brown      6 3 0
Rutgers      5 2 2
Dartmouth      6 3 1
Syracuse      6 3 0
Colgate      4 2 2
Fordham      5 3 0
Western U. of Penn.      6 4 0
Drexel      3 2 1
Holy Cross      4 3 1
Amherst      3 3 1
Lehigh      5 5 1
Bucknell      3 4 1
Carnegie Tech      2 3 2
Army      3 5 1
Frankin & Marshall      3 5 1
Wesleyan      2 4 1
New Hampshire      2 5 1
Villanova      3 7 0
NYU      0 4 0

Eight players on the 1906 Penn team received recognition on the 1906 College Football All-America Team. They are ends Izzy Levene (WC-3; CW-2; NYS-2; CC-2; NYT-2) and Hunter Scarlett (NYM-1), tackle Dexter Draper (WC-2; NYS-1; NYT-2), guard Gus Ziegler (WC-2; CW-1; NYS-2; CC-2; NYM-1; NYT-2), center William Thomas Dunn (WC-1), and halfbacks Bill Hollenback (WC-2; CW-1; NYS-1; NYM-1), Bob Folwell (NYT-1) and Edward Green (NYT-2).[3][4][5][6][7]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResult
September 29 LehighW 32–6
October 3 Gettysburg
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
T 6–6
October 6 North Carolina
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 11–0
October 10 Franklin & Marshall
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 47–6
October 13 Swarthmore
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 0–4
October 17 Medico-Chirurgical[8]
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 31–0
October 20 Brown
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 14–0
October 27 Carlisle
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 6–24
November 10 Lafayette
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
T 0–0
November 17 Michigan
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 17–0
November 24 Villanova
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 22–12
November 29 Cornell
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)
T 0–0

References

  1. "1906 Pennsylvania Quakers Stats". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
  2. "Pennsylvania Yearly Results (1905-1909)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
  3. "Walter Camp Football Foundation". Archived from the original on March 30, 2009. (WC)
  4. Caspar Whitney (1907). "The View-Point". Outing. p. 537. (CW)
  5. "'Philistine' Is Generous: Sun Accords Syracuse Bank Amid First Sixtten". The Post-Standard. December 4, 1906. (NYS and CC)
  6. "New Football Produces Individual Brilliancy: Many Players Merit Places on Fanciful All-American Team" (PDF). The New York Times. December 9, 1906. (NYT)
  7. "untitled". Daily Gazette And Bulletin. December 5, 1906. (NYM)
  8. The Medico-Chirugical College of Philadelphia, later absorbed into the University of Pennsylvania.
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