1896 Penn Quakers football team

1896 Penn Quakers football
Conference	Independent
Record	14–1
Head coach	George Washington Woodruff (5th season)
Captain	Charles Wharton
Home stadium	Franklin Field

1896 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Fordham			–					1	–	0	–	0
Lafayette			–					11	–	0	–	1
Princeton			–					10	–	0	–	1
Washington & Jefferson			–					8	–	0	–	1
Penn			–					14	–	1	–	0
Yale			–					13	–	1	–	0
Pittsburgh College			–					11	–	2	–	0
Buffalo			–					9	–	1	–	2
Villanova			–					10	–	4	–	0
Bucknell			–					5	–	2	–	1
Harvard			–					7	–	4	–	0
Boston College			–					5	–	3	–	0
Storrs			–					5	–	3	–	0
Cornell			–					5	–	3	–	1
Syracuse			–					5	–	3	–	2
Temple			–					3	–	2	–	0
Army			–					3	–	2	–	1
Rutgers			–					6	–	6	–	0
Carlisle			–					5	–	5	–	0
Holy Cross			–					2	–	2	–	2
Brown			–					4	–	5	–	1
Wesleyan			–					4	–	5	–	1
Frankin & Marshall			–					3	–	4	–	2
Geneva			–					3	–	4	–	0
Penn State			–					3	–	4	–	0
Colgate			–					3	–	4	–	1
Amherst			–					3	–	6	–	1
Western Univ. Penn.			–					3	–	6	–	0
Lehigh			–					2	–	5	–	0
Tufts			–					2	–	6	–	1
Swarthmore			–					2	–	6	–	0
New Hampshire			–					1	–	4	–	0
Drexel			–					1	–	5	–	0
Massachusetts			–					0	–	4	–	0
Rhode Island			–					0	–	4	–	0

The 1896 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1896 college football season. The Quakers finished with a 14–1 record in their fifth year under head coach and College Football Hall of Fame inductee, George Washington Woodruff. Significant games included victories over Navy (8–0), Carlisle (21–0), Penn State (27–0), Harvard (8–6), and Cornell (32–10), and its sole loss against undefeated national champion Lafayette (6–4). The 1896 Penn team outscored its opponents by a combined total of 326 to 24.^[1][2]

Five Penn players received recognition on the 1896 College Football All-America Team: end Charlie Gelbert (consensus 1st team);^[3] guards Charles Wharton (consensus 1st team),^[3] Wylie G. Woodruff (consensus 1st team),^[3] and L. J. Uffenheimer (Leslie's Weekly, 2nd team);^[4] and fullback John Minds (Philadelphia Inquirer, 1st team).^[5]

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 26		at Franklin & Marshall	Lancaster, PA	W 24–0		[6]
September 30		Gettysburg	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 32–0	1,500	[7]
October 3		Bucknell	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 40–0	2,500	[8]
October 7		at Navy	Worden Field Annapolis, MD	W 8–0
October 10	3:37 p.m.	Dartmouth	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 16–0	4,000	[9]
October 14		Virginia	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 20–0
October 17		Lehigh	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 34–0
October 21		Amherst	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 14–0
October 24		Lafayette	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L 4–6
October 28		Brown	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 16–0	4,500	[10]
November 3		Dickinson	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 30–2
November 7		Carlisle	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 21–0
November 14		Penn State	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 27–0
November 21		Harvard	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)	W 8–6
November 26		Cornell	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)	W 32–10

References

1. "1896 Pennsylvania Quakers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
2. "Pennsylvania Yearly Results (1895-1899)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on September 6, 2015. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
3. "2014 NCAA Football Records: Consensus All-America Selections" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2014. p. 4. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 26, 2018. Retrieved August 16, 2014.
4. "All-America Addendum" (PDF). College Football Historical Society Newsletter. February 2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 13, 2010. Retrieved November 25, 2015.
5. "The Inquirer's All-American Team: This Organization is a Hard One to Pick, but Here is the Best". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 29, 1896.
6. "Penn's Initial Showing Is Poor: She Defeats Franklin and Marshall by Only 24 to 0". The Times (Philadelphia). September 27, 1896. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
7. "Quaker Kickers Play a Good Football". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 1, 1896. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
8. "More Good Work By Penn's Team: Bucknell's Team Downed by a Score of Forty Points". The Times (Philadelphia). October 4, 1896. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
9. "The Quakers Down Dartmouth". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 11, 1896. p. 10. Retrieved March 22, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
10. "Old Penn Defeats Brown By 16 To". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 29, 1896. p. 4. Retrieved March 10, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .