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1907 Penn Quakers football team

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1907 Penn Quakers football
Part of the crowd watching Pennsylvania defeat Cornell on Franklin Field, Philadelphia
National champion
ConferenceIndependent
Record11–1
Head coach
CaptainBob Folwell
Home stadiumFranklin Field
Seasons
← 1906
1908 →
1907 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Yale     9 0 1
Dartmouth     8 0 1
Penn     11 1 0
Carlisle     10 1 0
Temple     4 0 2
Fordham     6 1 1
Cornell     8 2 0
Western U. of Penn.     8 2 0
Princeton     7 2 0
Washington & Jefferson     7 2 0
Lafayette     7 2 1
Lehigh     7 2 1
Swarthmore     6 2 0
Army     6 2 1
NYU     5 2 0
Vermont     4 1 2
Harvard     7 3 0
Brown     7 3 0
Penn State     6 4 0
Syracuse     5 3 1
Drexel     3 2 2
Colgate     4 4 1
Geneva     4 5 2
Amherst     3 4 1
Tufts     3 4 1
Frankin & Marshall     4 6 0
Rutgers     3 5 1
Springfield Training School     2 4 2
Bucknell     4 7 0
New Hampshire     1 5 2
Villanova     1 5 1
Holy Cross     1 7 2
Wesleyan     1 7 1
Carnegie Tech     1 8 0

The 1907 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1907 college football season. They finished with an 11–1 record and claim 1907 as a national championship season. They outscored their opponents 256 to 40.[1]

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 29North CarolinaW 37–0
October 2Villanova
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 16–0[2]
October 5Bucknell
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 29–2
October 9Franklin & Marshall
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 57–0
October 12Swarthmore
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 16–8[3]
October 16Gettysburg
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 23–0
October 19Brown
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 11–0
October 26Carlisle
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 6–26
November 2Lafayette
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 15–0
November 9Penn State
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 28–0
November 16at MichiganW 6–019,500
November 28Cornell
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)
W 12–4

References

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  1. ^ 1907 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. ^ "Penn Wins, But Goal In Danger". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 3, 1907. p. 10. Retrieved November 7, 2021 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  3. ^ "Penn Defeats Swarthmore by Score 16 to 8". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 13, 1907 – via Newspapers.com.