1908 Penn Quakers football team

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1908 Penn Quakers football
National champion (Helms, Houlgate, Davis)
Co-national champion (NCF)
ConferenceIndependent
Record11–0–1
Head coach
Captain Bill Hollenback
Home stadium Franklin Field
Seasons
  1907
1909  
1908 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW 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.

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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

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 26 West Virginia 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 6–07,000 [11]
October 14 Gettysburg
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 23–4 [12]
October 17 Brown
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 12–010,000 [13]
October 24 Carlisle
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
T 6–625,000 [14]
October 31at Carnegie Tech Pittsburgh, PA W 25–10 [15]
November 7 Lafayette
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 34–4 [16]
November 14at Michigan
W 29–0 [17]
November 26 Cornell
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)
W 17–4 [18]

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The 1893 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1893 college football season. The Quakers finished with a 12–3 record in their second year under head coach and College Football Hall of Fame inductee, George Washington Woodruff. Significant games included victories over Navy (34–0), Penn State (18–6), Lafayette (82–0), and Cornell (50–0), and losses to national champion Princeton (4–0), Yale (14–6), and Harvard (26–4). The 1893 Penn team outscored its opponents by a combined total of 484 to 62. No Penn players were honored on the 1893 College Football All-America Team, as all such honors went to players on the Princeton, Harvard and Yale teams.

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References

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  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.
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  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.