1903 Penn Quakers football team

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1903 Penn Quakers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record9–3
Head coach
Captain Sol Metzger
Home stadium Franklin Field
Seasons
  1902
1904  
1903 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Princeton   11 0 0
Yale   11 1 0
Columbia   9 1 0
Dartmouth   9 1 0
Geneva   9 1 0
Holy Cross   8 2 0
Temple   4 1 0
Washington & Jefferson   8 2 0
Lehigh   9 2 1
Harvard   9 3 0
Penn   9 3 0
Army   6 2 1
Carlisle   6 2 1
Amherst   7 3 0
Lafayette   7 3 0
Cornell   6 3 1
Colgate   4 2 1
Penn State   5 3 0
Swarthmore   6 4 0
Dickinson   7 5 0
Brown   5 4 1
Syracuse   5 4 0
Fordham   1 1 0
Frankin & Marshall   5 5 1
Buffalo   4 4 0
Rutgers   4 4 1
Delaware   4 4 0
Villanova   2 2 0
Bucknell   4 5 0
Vermont   4 5 0
Tufts   5 8 0
Wesleyan   3 6 1
Springfield Training School   1 3 1
NYU   2 5 0
New Hampshire   2 6 1
Pittsburgh College   1 5 1
Western U. Penn.   1 8 1

The 1903 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1903 college football season. The Quakers finished with a 9–3 record in their second year under head coach Carl S. Williams. Significant games included victories over Penn State (39–0), Brown (30–0), and Cornell (42–0), and losses to Columbia (18–6), Harvard (17–10), and Carlisle (16–6). The 1903 Penn team outscored its opponents by a combined total of 370 to 57. [1] [2] Guard Frank Piekarski was the only Penn player to receive recognition on the 1903 College Football All-America Team; Piekarski received third-team honors from Walter Camp. [3]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 26 Dickinson W 27–0 [4]
September 30 Franklin & Marshall
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 17–0
October 3 Lehigh
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 16–0
October 7 Haverford
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 58–0
October 10 Penn State
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 39–0
October 14 Gettysburg
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 72–0
October 17 Brown
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 30–0
October 24at Columbia L 6–18
October 31 Bucknell
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 47–6
November 7 Harvard
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)
L 10–1723,000 [5] [6] [7] [8]
November 14 Carlisle
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 6–16
November 26 Cornell
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)
W 42–0

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References

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