1899 Penn Quakers football team

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1899 Penn Quakers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–3–2
Head coach
Captain Truxtun Hare
Home stadium Franklin Field
Seasons
  1898
1900  
1899 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW 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 27 Franklin & Marshall W 48–0
September 30 Lehigh
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 20–0
October 4 Bucknell
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 47–10
October 7at Brown Providence, RI T 6–61,000–2,000 [2] [3]
October 11 Virginia
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 33–6
October 14 Carlisle
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 5–16
October 18 Wesleyan
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 17–6
October 21 Lafayette
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 0–6
October 28 Chicago
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
T 5–58,000 [4] [5] [6] [7]
November 4 Harvard
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)
L 0–16> 30,000 [8]
November 11 Michigan
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 11–10
November 17 Penn State
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 47–0
November 25 Cornell
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)
W 29–0

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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 logo PLoS transparent.svg .
  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 logo PLoS transparent.svg .
  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 logo PLoS transparent.svg
  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 logo PLoS transparent.svg
  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 logo PLoS transparent.svg
  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 logo PLoS transparent.svg
  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.