1916 Penn Quakers football team

The 1916 Penn Quakers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Pennsylvania as an independent during the 1916 college football season. In their first season under head coach Bob Folwell, the Quakers compiled a 7–3–1 record, lost to Oregon in the 1917 Rose Bowl, and outscored opponents by a total of 120 to 57.[1]

1916 Penn Quakers football
Rose Bowl, L 0–14 vs. Oregon
ConferenceIndependent
1916 record7–3–1
Head coach
CaptainNeil Matthews
Home stadiumFranklin Field
1916 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Army      9 0 0
Pittsburgh      8 0 0
Brown      8 1 0
Colgate      8 1 0
Yale      8 1 0
Fordham      6 1 1
Penn State      8 2 0
Wash. & Jeff.      8 2 0
Boston College      6 2 0
Cornell      6 2 0
Princeton      6 2 0
Lehigh      6 2 1
Dartmouth      5 2 2
Harvard      7 3 0
Penn      7 3 1
Temple      3 1 2
Tufts      5 3 0
Carnegie Tech      4 3 0
Rutgers      3 2 2
NYU      4 3 1
Syracuse      5 4 0
Rhode Island State      3 4 1
Geneva      2 5 2
Carlisle      1 3 1
Lafayette      2 6 1
Bucknell      3 9 0
Columbia      1 5 2
Franklin & Marshall      1 7 0
Villanova      1 8 0

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 30West VirginiaW 3–0
October 7Franklin & Marshall
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 27–0
October 14Swarthmore
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 0–6
October 21Penn State
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 15–0
October 28at PittsburghPittsburgh, PAL 0–20
November 4Lafayette
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 19–0
November 11Dartmouth
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
T 7–7
November 18at MichiganW 10–725,584
November 25West Virginia Wesleyan
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 16–0
November 30Cornell
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)
W 23–3
January 1, 1917vs. OregonL 0–14[2]

References

  1. "1916 Pennsylvania Quakers Stats". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved April 5, 2020.
  2. "Oregon's Eleven Batters and Baffles The Best That Penn Can Send". Los Angeles Times. January 2, 1917. p. III-1 via Newspapers.com.
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