1916 Penn Quakers football team

1916 Penn Quakers football
Rose Bowl, L 0–14 vs. Oregon
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–3–1
Head coach
CaptainNeil Matthews
Home stadiumFranklin Field
Seasons
← 1915
1917 →
1916 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   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
Swarthmore   –   6 – 1 – 1
Penn State   –   8 – 2 – 0
Washington & Jefferson   –   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
Holy Cross   –   4 – 5 – 0
Vermont   –   4 – 5 – 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

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]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 30West Virginia
W 3–0[2]
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 Pittsburgh
L 0–2027,000–32,000[3][4]
November 4Lafayette
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 19–0
November 11Dartmouth
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
T 7–7
November 18at Michigan
W 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. Oregon
L 0–1427,000[5]

References

  1. ^ "1916 Pennsylvania Quakers Stats". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved April 5, 2020.
  2. ^ "Penn defeats West Virginia by field goal". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 1, 1916. Retrieved July 21, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Red Hastings Scores 14 of the 20 Points Made in a fine Gridiron Contest". The Gazette Times. October 29, 1916. p. 18 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ Davis, Ralph (December 1, 1916). "Pitt's Biggest Season". The Pittsburg Press. p. 40 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Oregon's Eleven Batters and Baffles The Best That Penn Can Send". Los Angeles Times. January 2, 1917. p. III-1 – via Newspapers.com.