1918 Penn Quakers football team

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1918 Penn Quakers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–3
Head coach
CaptainJames Neylon
Home stadium Franklin Field
Seasons
  1917
1919  
1918 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Bucknell   6 0 0
Princeton   3 0 0
Holy Cross   2 0 0
Army   1 0 0
Buffalo   6 1 0
Columbia   5 1 0
Syracuse   5 1 0
Pittsburgh   4 1 0
Boston College   5 2 0
Rutgers   5 2 0
Franklin & Marshall   2 1 0
Geneva   4 2 0
Swarthmore   4 2 0
Harvard   2 1 0
Fordham   4 2 1
Villanova   3 2 0
Penn   5 3 0
Dartmouth   3 3 0
Lehigh   4 4 0
Washington & Jefferson   2 2 0
New Hampshire   2 2 1
Lafayette   3 4 0
Brown   2 3 0
Tufts   2 3 0
Penn State   1 2 1
Vermont   0 1 1
Drexel   0 1 0
NYU   0 4 0

The 1918 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1918 college football season. [1]

Contents

Season summary

The 1918 Penn football team was adversely affected by the Spanish flu sweeping through the city. Head coach Bob Folwell was hospitalized. Only 22 of his players were healthy enough to practice at one point in mid-October. Penn’s scheduled game against Georgia Tech was canceled. Penn postponed a scheduled game with the Navy Yard’s Marines football club. It was rescheduled for October 26 and played at an empty Franklin Field closed to fans to prevent the spread of the virus. [2]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 19USS MinnesotaW 27–0
October 26 League Island Marines
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 0–72,500 [3]
November 3 Swarthmore
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 12–20
November 7 Saint Joseph's
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 12–0
November 10 Lafayette
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 34–0
November 16at Pittsburgh L 0–37 [4]
November 24Swarthmore
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 13–7
November 28 Dartmouth
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 21–0

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References

  1. "1918 Pennsylvania Quakers Schedule and Results". College Football at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved June 18, 2019.
  2. Fitzpatrick, Frank (March 11, 2020). "In 1918, it was Spanish influenza that afflicted Philadelphia sports". Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Retrieved March 11, 2020.
  3. "Forward Passes Defeat Old Penn". The Philadelphia Inquirer . Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 27, 1918. p. 20. Retrieved September 11, 2021 via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg .
  4. "Pitt's Big Eleven Crushes Old Penn". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 17, 1918. p. 22 via Newspapers.com.