1906 Penn Quakers football team

1906 Penn Quakers football
Conference	Independent
Record	7–2–3
Head coach	Carl S. Williams (5th season)
Captain	Edward L. Greene
Home stadium	Franklin Field

1906 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Princeton			–					9	–	0	–	1
Yale			–					9	–	0	–	1
Haverford			–					7	–	0	–	2
Harvard			–					10	–	1	–	0
Cornell			–					8	–	1	–	2
Lafayette			–					8	–	1	–	1
Penn State			–					8	–	1	–	1
Washington & Jefferson			–					9	–	2	–	0
Swarthmore			–					7	–	2	–	0
Drexel			–					6	–	2	–	0
Tufts			–					6	–	2	–	0
Penn			–					7	–	2	–	3
Carlisle			–					9	–	3	–	0
Brown			–					6	–	3	–	0
Rutgers			–					5	–	2	–	2
Dartmouth			–					6	–	3	–	1
Syracuse			–					6	–	3	–	0
Colgate			–					4	–	2	–	2
Vermont			–					5	–	4	–	0
Fordham			–					5	–	3	–	0
Western U. of Penn.			–					6	–	4	–	0
Holy Cross			–					4	–	3	–	1
Amherst			–					3	–	3	–	1
Lehigh			–					5	–	5	–	1
Bucknell			–					3	–	4	–	1
Dickinson			–					3	–	4	–	2
Carnegie Tech			–					2	–	3	–	2
Army			–					3	–	5	–	1
Frankin & Marshall			–					3	–	5	–	1
Wesleyan			–					2	–	4	–	1
New Hampshire			–					2	–	5	–	1
Villanova			–					3	–	7	–	0
Springfield Training School			–					1	–	5	–	3
NYU			–					0	–	4	–	0

The 1906 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1906 college football season. The Quakers finished with a 7–2–3 record in their fifth year under head coach Carl S. Williams. Significant games included a 24 to 6 loss to the Carlisle Indians, a 17 to 0 victory over Michigan, and a scoreless tie with Cornell The 1906 Penn team outscored its opponents by a combined total of 186 to 58.^[1][2]

Eight players on the 1906 Penn team received recognition on the 1906 College Football All-America Team. They are ends Izzy Levene (WC-3; CW-2; NYS-2; CC-2; NYT-2) and Hunter Scarlett (NYM-1), tackle Dexter Draper (WC-2; NYS-1; NYT-2), guard Gus Ziegler (WC-2; CW-1; NYS-2; CC-2; NYM-1; NYT-2), center William Thomas Dunn (WC-1), and halfbacks Bill Hollenback (WC-2; CW-1; NYS-1; NYM-1), Bob Folwell (NYT-1) and Edward Green (NYT-2).^{[3][4][5][6][7]}

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
September 29	Lehigh	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 32–6
October 3	Gettysburg	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	T 6–6
October 6	North Carolina	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 11–0
October 10	Franklin & Marshall	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 47–6
October 13	Swarthmore	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L 0–4
October 17	Medico-Chirurgical[8]	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 31–0
October 20	Brown	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 14–0
October 27	Carlisle	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L 6–24
November 10	Lafayette	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	T 0–0
November 17	Michigan	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 17–0
November 24	Villanova	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 22–12
November 29	Cornell	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)	T 0–0

References

1. "1906 Pennsylvania Quakers Stats". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
2. "Pennsylvania Yearly Results (1905-1909)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on September 6, 2015. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
3. "Walter Camp Football Foundation". Archived from the original on March 30, 2009. (WC)
4. Caspar Whitney (1907). "The View-Point". Outing. p. 537. (CW)
5. "'Philistine' Is Generous: Sun Accords Syracuse Bank Amid First Sixtten". The Post-Standard. December 4, 1906. (NYS and CC)
6. "New Football Produces Individual Brilliancy: Many Players Merit Places on Fanciful All-American Team" (PDF). The New York Times. December 9, 1906. (NYT)
7. "untitled". Daily Gazette And Bulletin. December 5, 1906. (NYM)
8. The Medico-Chirugical College of Philadelphia, later absorbed into the University of Pennsylvania.