1899 Penn Quakers football team

1899 Penn Quakers football
Conference	Independent
Record	8–3–2
Head coach	George Washington Woodruff (8th season)
Captain	Truxtun Hare
Home stadium	Franklin Field

1899 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Harvard			–					10	–	0	–	1
Lafayette			–					12	–	1	–	0
Princeton			–					12	–	1	–	0
Buffalo			–					7	–	1	–	0
Boston College			–					8	–	1	–	1
Carlisle			–					9	–	2	–	0
Swarthmore			–					8	–	1	–	2
Washington & Jefferson			–					9	–	2	–	1
Wesleyan			–					7	–	2	–	0
Pittsburgh College			–					2	–	0	–	2
Villanova			–					7	–	2	–	1
Yale			–					7	–	2	–	1
Western Univ. of Penn.			–					3	–	1	–	1
Columbia			–					9	–	3	–	0
Fordham			–					3	–	1	–	0
Cornell			–					7	–	3	–	0
Penn			–					8	–	3	–	2
Brown			–					7	–	3	–	1
New Hampshire			–					4	–	2	–	0
Vermont			–					5	–	3	–	0
Tufts			–					7	–	4	–	0
Bucknell			–					6	–	4	–	0
Holy Cross			–					5	–	5	–	0
Syracuse			–					4	–	4	–	0
Drexel			–					3	–	3	–	0
Army			–					4	–	5	–	0
Colgate			–					4	–	5	–	0
Penn State			–					4	–	6	–	1
Frankin & Marshall			–					3	–	5	–	1
NYU			–					2	–	6	–	0
Temple			–					1	–	4	–	1
Dartmouth			–					2	–	7	–	0
Lehigh			–					2	–	9	–	0
Rutgers			–					2	–	9	–	0
Geneva			–					0	–	3	–	0

The 1899 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1899 college football season.^[1]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 27	Franklin & Marshall	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 48–0
September 30	Lehigh	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 20–0
October 4	Bucknell	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 47–10
October 7	at Brown	Providence, RI	T 6–6	1,000–2,000	[2][3]
October 11	Virginia	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 33–6
October 14	Carlisle	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L 5–16
October 18	Wesleyan	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 17–6
October 21	Lafayette	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L 0–6
October 28	Chicago	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	T 5–5	8,000	[4][5][6][7]
November 4	Harvard	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)	L 0–16	> 30,000	[8]
November 11	Michigan	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 11–10
November 17	Penn State	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 47–0
November 25	Cornell	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)	W 29–0

References

1. 1899 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. "U. Of P. Tied". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 8, 1899. p. 22. Retrieved March 13, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
3. "Brown Played Quakers A Tie". The Philadelphia Times. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 8, 1899. p. 11. Retrieved March 13, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
4. "Play a Tie Game: Pennsylvania and Chicago Quit Even After Playing Two Exciting Halves; Each Scores Once; Neither Team Succeeds in Kicking a Goal from Touchdown During Contest (part 1)". The Sunday Inter Ocean. October 29, 1899. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
5. "Play a Tie Game: Pennsylvania and Chicago Quit Even After Playing Two Exciting Halves; Each Scores Once; Neither Team Succeeds in Kicking a Goal from Touchdown During Contest (part 2)". The Sunday Inter Ocean. October 29, 1899. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
6. "Play a Tie With Penn: Maroons and Quakers Battle Fiercely on Marshall Field". The Chicago Sunday Tribune. October 29, 1899. p. 17 – via Newspapers.com.
7. "Chicago Played Penn a Tie Game: Score 5 to 5; Each Scored a Touchdown, But Both Failed in the Try for Goal". The Times (Philadelphia). October 29, 1899. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
8. "Harvard Defeats Pennsylvania Team: The Quakers Were Outplayed in Every Department of the Game". The Times. Philadelphia. November 5, 1899. pp. 1, 11 – via Newspapers.com.