1905 Swarthmore Quakers football team

1905 Swarthmore Quakers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–1
Head coach
Home stadiumWhittier Field
Seasons
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1905 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Yale   –   10 – 0 – 0
Penn   –   12 – 0 – 1
Temple   –   2 – 0 – 1
Dartmouth   –   7 – 1 – 2
Swarthmore   –   7 – 1 – 0
Western U. of Penn.   –   10 – 2 – 0
Princeton   –   8 – 2 – 0
Harvard   –   8 – 2 – 1
Washington & Jefferson   –   10 – 3 – 0
Lafayette   –   7 – 2 – 1
Wesleyan   –   7 – 2 – 1
Carlisle   –   10 – 4 – 0
Penn State   –   8 – 3 – 0
Syracuse   –   8 – 3 – 0
Fordham   –   5 – 2 – 0
Amherst   –   3 – 1 – 2
Holy Cross   –   6 – 3 – 0
Brown   –   7 – 4 – 0
Tufts   –   5 – 3 – 0
Vermont   –   6 – 4 – 1
Cornell   –   6 – 4 – 0
Colgate   –   5 – 4 – 0
Columbia   –   4 – 3 – 2
Army   –   4 – 4 – 1
Bucknell   –   5 – 5 – 0
NYU   –   3 – 3 – 1
Lehigh   –   6 – 7 – 0
Frankin & Marshall   –   4 – 6 – 0
Geneva   –   4 – 6 – 0
New Hampshire   –   2 – 4 – 2
Springfield Training School   –   3 – 5 – 0
Rutgers   –   3 – 6 – 0
Villanova   –   3 – 7 – 0
Drexel   –   1 – 7 – 0

The 1905 Swarthmore Quakers football team was an American football team that represented Swarthmore College as an independent during the 1905 college football season. The team compiled an 8–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 218 to 22. George H. Brooke was the head coach. The team's only loss was to undefeated Penn.[1]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 2Pennsylvania Railroad Y.M.C.A.W 17–0[2]
October 7at Penn
L 4–11[3]
October 14George Washington
W 30–0[4]
October 21at GeorgetownWashington, DCW 28–0[5]
October 26Medico-ChiSwarthmore, PAW 28–0[6]
October 28at Navy
W 6–5[7]
November 4at Cornell
W 14–030,000[8]
November 15Lafayette
  • Whittier Field
  • Swarthmore, PA
W 27–0[9]
November 25Wesleyan
  • Whittier Field
  • Swarthmore, PA
W 50–6[10]

References

  1. ^ "1905 Swarthmore Garnet Tide Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved September 14, 2021.
  2. ^ "Swarthmore". The Washington Times. October 16, 1905. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Penn Overpowers Swarthmore 11-6". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 8, 1905. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Swarthmore Had an Easy Time". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 15, 1905. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Blue and Gray Lose: Swarthmore Too Heavy for Georgetown Eleven". The Washington Post. October 22, 1905. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Swarthmore Beat Medico-Chi, 28-0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 27, 1905. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Navy Is Defeated: Swarthmore's Heavy Team Wins By Score of 6 To 5". The Baltimore Sun. October 29, 1905. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Wonderful Reversals: It was a sad Sight that 30,000 Cornellians saw on Percy Field Yesterday, Swarthmore defeating Cornell". Buffalo Morning Express. November 5, 1905. p. 22 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Swarthmore Beats Lafayette 27 to 0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 16, 1905. pp. 1, 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Wesleyan Easy for Swarthmore". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 26, 1905. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.