1899 Penn Quakers football team

1899 Penn Quakers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–3–2
Head coach
CaptainTruxtun Hare
Home stadiumFranklin Field
Seasons
← 1898
1900 →
1899 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Harvard   –   10 – 0 – 1
Lafayette   –   12 – 1 – 0
Princeton   –   12 – 1 – 0
Buffalo   –   7 – 1 – 0
Boston College   –   8 – 1 – 1
Carlisle   –   9 – 2 – 0
Swarthmore   –   8 – 1 – 2
Washington & Jefferson   –   9 – 2 – 1
Wesleyan   –   7 – 2 – 0
Pittsburgh College   –   2 – 0 – 2
Villanova   –   7 – 2 – 1
Yale   –   7 – 2 – 1
Western Univ. of Penn.   –   3 – 1 – 1
Columbia   –   9 – 3 – 0
Fordham   –   3 – 1 – 0
Cornell   –   7 – 3 – 0
Penn   –   8 – 3 – 2
Brown   –   7 – 3 – 1
New Hampshire   –   4 – 2 – 0
Vermont   –   5 – 3 – 0
Tufts   –   7 – 4 – 0
Bucknell   –   6 – 4 – 0
Holy Cross   –   5 – 5 – 0
Syracuse   –   4 – 4 – 0
Drexel   –   3 – 3 – 0
Army   –   4 – 5 – 0
Colgate   –   4 – 5 – 0
Penn State   –   4 – 6 – 1
Frankin & Marshall   –   3 – 5 – 1
NYU   –   2 – 6 – 0
Temple   –   1 – 4 – 1
Dartmouth   –   2 – 7 – 0
Lehigh   –   2 – 9 – 0
Rutgers   –   2 – 9 – 0
Geneva   –   0 – 3 – 0

The 1899 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1899 college football season.[1]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 27Franklin & Marshall
W 48–0
September 30Lehigh
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 20–0
October 4Bucknell
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 47–10
October 7at BrownProvidence, RIT 6–61,000–2,000[2][3]
October 11Virginia
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 33–6
October 14Carlisle
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 5–16
October 18Wesleyan
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 17–6
October 21Lafayette
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 0–6
October 28Chicago
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
T 5–58,000[4][5][6][7]
November 4Harvard
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)
L 0–16> 30,000[8]
November 11Michigan
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 11–10
November 17Penn State
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 47–0
November 25Cornell
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)
W 29–0

References

  1. ^ 1899 University of Pennsylvania football scores and results Archived October 9, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on October 8, 2013.
  2. ^ "U. Of P. Tied". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 8, 1899. p. 22. Retrieved March 13, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  3. ^ "Brown Played Quakers A Tie". The Philadelphia Times. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 8, 1899. p. 11. Retrieved March 13, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  4. ^ "Play a Tie Game: Pennsylvania and Chicago Quit Even After Playing Two Exciting Halves; Each Scores Once; Neither Team Succeeds in Kicking a Goal from Touchdown During Contest (part 1)". The Sunday Inter Ocean. October 29, 1899. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  5. ^ "Play a Tie Game: Pennsylvania and Chicago Quit Even After Playing Two Exciting Halves; Each Scores Once; Neither Team Succeeds in Kicking a Goal from Touchdown During Contest (part 2)". The Sunday Inter Ocean. October 29, 1899. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  6. ^ "Play a Tie With Penn: Maroons and Quakers Battle Fiercely on Marshall Field". The Chicago Sunday Tribune. October 29, 1899. p. 17 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  7. ^ "Chicago Played Penn a Tie Game: Score 5 to 5; Each Scored a Touchdown, But Both Failed in the Try for Goal". The Times (Philadelphia). October 29, 1899. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  8. ^ "Harvard Defeats Pennsylvania Team: The Quakers Were Outplayed in Every Department of the Game". The Times. Philadelphia. November 5, 1899. pp. 1, 11 – via Newspapers.com.