1895 Penn Quakers football team

The 1895 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1895 college football season. The team finished with a 14–0 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, and National Championship Foundation, and as a co-national champion by Parke H. Davis.[1] They outscored their opponents 480 to 24.[2]

1895 Penn Quakers football
National champion (Billingsley, Helms, Houlgate, NCF)
Co-national champion (Davis)
ConferenceIndependent
1895 record14–0
Head coach
CaptainCarl S. Williams
Home stadiumFranklin Field
1895 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Penn   –    14 –0 –0
Yale   –    13 –0 –2
Princeton   –    10 –1 –1
Harvard   –    8 –2 –1
Lafayette   –    6 –2 –0
Syracuse   –    6 –2 –2
Army   –    5 –2 –0
Bucknell   –    5 –2 –0
Colgate   –    4 –2 –0
Tufts   –    8 –5 –0
Wesleyan   –    6 –3 –0
Amherst   –    6 –5 –0
Brown   –    7 –6 –1
Carlisle   –    4 –4 –0
Rutgers   –    4 –4 –0
Villanova   –    3 –3 –0
Penn State   –    2 –2 –3
Cornell   –    3 –4 –1
New Hampshire   –    2 –3 –1
Frankin & Marshall   –    3 –5 –1
Boston College   –    2 –4 –2
Lehigh   –    3 –6 –0
CCNY   –    2 –5 –1
Temple   –    1 –4 –1
MIT   –    1 –4 –0
Trinity (CT)   –    1 –4 –0
Massachusetts   –    1 –5 –0
Western Univ. Penn.   –    1 –6 –0

Schedule
DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 1Swarthmore
W 40–0
October 2Bucknell
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 40–0
October 5Franklin & Marshall
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 42–0
October 9at Crescent Athletic Club
W 32–0<500[3][4]
October 14Lehigh
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 54–0
October 16Carlisle
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 36–0
October 19Virginia
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 54–0
October 23at Duquesne Country and Athletic ClubPittsburgh, PAW 30–0
October 26Lafayette
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 30–0
October 30Brown
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 12–0
November 1Chicago Athletic Association
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 12–4
November 9Penn State
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 35–4
November 23at HarvardCambridge, MA (rivalry)W 17–14
November 28Cornell
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)
W 46–2

References
  1. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 107. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  2. 1895 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. "The Crescents Shut Out: University of Pennsylvania Scored 32 Points". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 10, 1895. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. "Penn Shuts Out the Crescents". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 10, 1895. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
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