1906 Swarthmore Quakers football team

1906 Swarthmore Quakers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–2
Head coach
Home stadiumWhittier Field
Seasons
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1906 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Princeton   –   9 – 0 – 1
Yale   –   9 – 0 – 1
Haverford   –   7 – 0 – 2
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
Drexel   –   6 – 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
Vermont   –   5 – 4 – 0
Fordham   –   5 – 3 – 0
Western U. of Penn.   –   6 – 4 – 0
Holy Cross   –   4 – 3 – 1
Amherst   –   3 – 3 – 1
Lehigh   –   5 – 5 – 1
Bucknell   –   3 – 4 – 1
Dickinson   –   3 – 4 – 2
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
Springfield Training School   –   1 – 5 – 3
NYU   –   0 – 4 – 0

The 1906 Swarthmore Quakers football team was an American football team that represented Swarthmore College as an independent during the 1906 college football season. The team compiled a 7–2 record. George H. Brooke was the head coach.[1]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
September 29USS WashingtonSwarthmore, PAW 65–0[2]
October 6VillanovaSwarthmore, PAW 4–0[3]
October 13at Penn
W 4–0[4]
October 20George WashingtonSwarthmore, PAW 17–0[5][6]
October 27GettysburgSwarthmore, PAW 19–4[7]
November 3at Johns HopkinsBaltimore, MDW 26–0[8]
November 10at Navy
L 4–5[9]
November 17at Cornell
L 0–28[10]
November 24Amherst
  • Whittier Field
  • Swarthmore, PA
W 21–0[11][12]

References

  1. ^ "1906 Swarthmore Garnet Tide Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved September 14, 2021.
  2. ^ "Swarthmore Has an Easy Thing: U.S.S. Washington Eleven Not in Same Class With Quakers -- Score 69 to 0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. September 30, 1906. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Swarthmore Scored: Her Team Scores Only Four Points Against Villa Nova". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 7, 1906. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Penn Defeated By Swarthmore By Score 4 To 0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 14, 1906. pp. 1, 14 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "G.W.U. Does Well With Swarthmore: Holds Penn's Conqueror to Two Touchdowns, Field Goal, and Safety". The Washington Times. October 21, 1906. p. 17 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Swarthmore Defeats George Washington". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 21, 1906. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Swarthmore Beat Gettysburg 19-4: Sieber Kicks a Goal From Field and O'Brien Makes a Run of 85 Yards". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 28, 1906. p. 27 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Swarthmore Has An Easy Time". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. November 4, 1906. p. 28. Retrieved September 18, 2020 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  9. ^ "Nervy Navy Team Overcomes Odds: Beats Swarthmore 5 to 4 With Star Men Out and Many Important Shifts". The Washington Times. November 11, 1906. p. 19 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Cornell Outplays Swarthmore, 28-0". November 18, 1906. p. 31 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Swarthmore Defeats Amherst By Score 21-0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. November 25, 1906. p. 15. Retrieved September 18, 2020 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  12. ^ "Swarthmore Beats Amherst--Lafayette Wins (continued)". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. November 25, 1906. p. 25. Retrieved September 18, 2020 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.