1908 Penn Quakers football team

1908 Penn Quakers football
National champion (Helms, Houlgate, Davis) Co-national champion (NCF)
Conference	Independent
Record	11–0–1
Head coach	Sol Metzger (1st season)
Captain	Bill Hollenback
Home stadium	Franklin Field
Seasons ←  1907 1909  →

1908 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Penn			–					11	–	0	–	1
Harvard			–					9	–	0	–	1
Cornell			–					7	–	1	–	1
Fordham			–					5	–	1	–	0
Yale			–					7	–	1	–	1
Dartmouth			–					6	–	1	–	1
Carlisle			–					10	–	2	–	1
Washington & Jefferson			–					10	–	2	–	1
Army			–					6	–	1	–	2
Pittsburgh			–					8	–	3	–	0
Lafayette			–					6	–	2	–	2
Princeton			–					5	–	2	–	3
Syracuse			–					6	–	3	–	1
Brown			–					5	–	3	–	1
Temple			–					3	–	2	–	1
Colgate			–					4	–	3	–	0
Lehigh			–					4	–	3	–	0
Dickinson			–					5	–	4	–	0
Amherst			–					3	–	3	–	2
Holy Cross			–					4	–	4	–	0
Penn State			–					5	–	5	–	0
Vermont			–					3	–	3	–	3
Wesleyan			–					3	–	4	–	2
Springfield Training School			–					3	–	4	–	1
NYU			–					2	–	3	–	2
Frankin & Marshall			–					4	–	6	–	1
Bucknell			–					3	–	5	–	2
Rutgers			–					3	–	5	–	1
Boston College			–					2	–	4	–	2
Carnegie Tech			–					3	–	7	–	0
Geneva			–					1	–	6	–	2
Tufts			–					1	–	6	–	1
Villanova			–					1	–	6	–	0
Drexel			–					0	–	7	–	0

The 1908 Penn Quakers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Pennsylvania as an independent during the 1908 college football season.

History

In their first season under head coach Sol Metzger, the Quakers compiled an 11–0–1 record, shut out seven of twelve opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 215 to 28. ^{[1] [2]}

There was no contemporaneous system in 1908 for determining a national champion. However, Penn was retroactively named as the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, and Parke H. Davis, and as a co-national champion by the National Championship Foundation. ^[3]

Two Penn players, halfback Bill Hollenback and end Hunter Scarlett, were consensus picks on the 1908 All-America college football team. ^[4] Both were later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame, Hollenback in 1951 and Scarlett in 1970. ^{[5] [6]} Other notable players included quarterback Allie Miller and tackle Dexter Draper.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 26	West Virginia	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 6–0		[7]
September 30	Ursinus	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 30–0		[8]
October 3	Bucknell	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 16–0		[9]
October 7	Villanova	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 11–0		[10]
October 10	Penn State	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 6–0	7,000	[11]
October 14	Gettysburg	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 23–4		[12]
October 17	Brown	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 12–0	10,000	[13]
October 24	Carlisle	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	T 6–6	25,000	[14]
October 31	at Carnegie Tech	Pittsburgh, PA	W 25–10		[15]
November 7	Lafayette	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 34–4		[16]
November 14	at Michigan	Ferry Field Ann Arbor, MI	W 29–0		[17]
November 26	Cornell	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)	W 17–4		[18]

References

1. "1908 Pennsylvania Quakers Schedule and Results". SR College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved March 29, 2022.
2. 1908 University of Pennsylvania football scores and results Archived October 9, 2013, at the Wayback Machine . College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on October 8, 2013.
3. 2020 NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision Records (PDF). Indianapolis: The National Collegiate Athletic Association. July 2020. pp. 112–114. Archived (PDF) from the original on November 1, 2020. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
4. "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
5. "Bill Hollenback". National Football Foundation. Retrieved March 29, 2022.
6. "Hunter Scarlett". National Football Foundation. Retrieved March 29, 2022.
7. "Penn Is Victor by Slim Margin". The Philadelphia Inquirer. September 27, 1908. p. 22 – via Newspapers.com.
8. "Penn Rolls Up 30-Point Score". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 1, 1908. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
9. "Penn Won From Bucknell 16-0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 4, 1908. p. 10b – via Newspapers.com.
10. "Villa Nova Is Beaten by Penn". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 8, 1908. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
11. "Penn State Holds U.P. To 6-0 Score". The Scranton Republican. October 11, 1908. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
12. "Penn Scored on by Gettysburg". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 15, 1908. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
13. "Penn Has an Easy Victory: Brown Is Beaten by Penn 12 to 0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 18, 1908. p. 10b – via Newspapers.com.
14. "Indians Tie Old Penn in Grueling Football Battle". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 25, 1908. p. 13 – via Newspapers.com.
15. "Penn Rolls Up 25 Points on Carnegie Tech". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 1, 1908. p. 10b – via Newspapers.com.
16. "Lafayette Simply Given a Beating by Penn, 34-4". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 8, 1908. p. Sports 1, 10 – via Newspapers.com.
17. "Michigan's Worst Defeat of the Yost Regime". Detroit Free Press. November 15, 1908. pp. 17, 20 – via Newspapers.com.
18. "Penn Defeats Cornell in Grandly Played Game by Score of 17 to 4". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 27, 1908. pp. 1, 12 – via Newspapers.com.