1907 Swarthmore Quakers football team

1907 Swarthmore Quakers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–2
Head coach
Home stadiumWhittier Field
Seasons
← 1906
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1907 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Yale   –   9 – 0 – 1
Dartmouth   –   8 – 0 – 1
Penn   –   11 – 1 – 0
Carlisle   –   10 – 1 – 0
Temple   –   4 – 0 – 2
Fordham   –   6 – 1 – 1
Cornell   –   8 – 2 – 0
Western U. of Penn.   –   8 – 2 – 0
Princeton   –   7 – 2 – 0
Washington & Jefferson   –   7 – 2 – 0
Lafayette   –   7 – 2 – 1
Lehigh   –   7 – 2 – 1
Swarthmore   –   6 – 2 – 0
Army   –   6 – 2 – 1
NYU   –   5 – 2 – 0
Vermont   –   4 – 1 – 2
Harvard   –   7 – 3 – 0
Brown   –   7 – 3 – 0
Penn State   –   6 – 4 – 0
Syracuse   –   5 – 3 – 1
Drexel   –   3 – 2 – 2
Colgate   –   4 – 4 – 1
Geneva   –   4 – 5 – 2
Amherst   –   3 – 4 – 1
Tufts   –   3 – 4 – 1
Frankin & Marshall   –   4 – 6 – 0
Rutgers   –   3 – 5 – 1
Springfield Training School   –   2 – 4 – 2
Bucknell   –   4 – 7 – 0
New Hampshire   –   1 – 5 – 2
Villanova   –   1 – 5 – 1
Holy Cross   –   1 – 7 – 2
Wesleyan   –   1 – 7 – 1
Carnegie Tech   –   1 – 8 – 0

The 1907 Swarthmore Quakers football team was an American football team that represented Swarthmore College as an independent during the 1907 college football season. The team compiled a 6–2 record and outscored opponents by a total of 150 to 53. George H. Brooke was the head coach.[1]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
October 5Rutgers
W 29–5[2]
October 12at Penn
L 8–16[3]
October 19George Washington
  • Whittier Field
  • Swarthmore, PA
W 30–0[4][5]
October 26Gettysburg
  • Whittier Field
  • Swarthmore, PA
W 12–0[6]
November 2Villanova
  • Whittier Field
  • Swarthmore, PA
W 18–10[7]
November 9at Navy
W 18–0
November 16at Cornell
L 0–18[8]
November 23Bucknell
  • Whittier Field
  • Swarthmore, PA
W 35–4[9]

References

  1. ^ "1906 Swarthmore Garnet Tide Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on February 6, 2010. Retrieved September 14, 2021.
  2. ^ "Swarthmore downed Rutgers". The New York Times. October 6, 1907. Retrieved December 2, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Penn Defeats Swarthmore by Score 16 to 8". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 13, 1907 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Swarthmore wins on line plunges, G.W.U. shows big improvement". The University Hatchet. October 23, 1907. Retrieved February 13, 2021 – via Internet Archive.
  5. ^ "Quakers defeat Washingtonians". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 20, 1907. Retrieved February 13, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Quakers Defeat Gettysburg Team". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 27, 1907 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Garnets Defeat Villanova". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 3, 1907 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Cornell Downs Swarthmore, 18-0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 17, 1907 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Swarthmore Has An Easy Time". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 24, 1907 – via Newspapers.com.