1898 Penn Quakers football team

1898 Penn Quakers football
Conference	Independent
Record	12–1
Head coach	George Washington Woodruff (7th season)
Captain	John H. Outland
Home stadium	Franklin Field

1898 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Harvard			–					11	–	0	–	0
Drexel			–					7	–	0	–	0
Princeton			–					11	–	0	–	1
Penn			–					12	–	1	–	0
Buffalo			–					8	–	1	–	0
Cornell			–					10	–	2	–	0
Swarthmore			–					9	–	2	–	0
Washington & Jefferson			–					9	–	2	–	0
Yale			–					9	–	2	–	0
Dickinson			–					8	–	2	–	0
Syracuse			–					8	–	2	–	1
Wesleyan			–					7	–	3	–	0
Western Penn.			–					5	–	2	–	1
Brown			–					6	–	4	–	0
Carlisle			–					6	–	4	–	0
Penn State			–					6	–	4	–	0
Pittsburgh College			–					6	–	4	–	1
Army			–					3	–	2	–	1
Vermont			–					3	–	2	–	1
Holy Cross			–					5	–	4	–	1
Bucknell			–					4	–	4	–	3
Fordham			–					1	–	1	–	2
Frankin & Marshall			–					4	–	4	–	2
New Hampshire			–					4	–	4	–	0
Amherst			–					4	–	5	–	1
Villanova			–					2	–	4	–	1
Lehigh			–					3	–	6	–	1
Boston College			–					2	–	5	–	1
Colgate			–					2	–	5	–	1
Temple			–					2	–	5	–	0
Lafayette			–					3	–	8	–	0
NYU			–					1	–	3	–	0
Rutgers			–					1	–	6	–	1
Tufts			–					1	–	9	–	0
Geneva			–					0	–	6	–	1

The 1898 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1898 college football season.^[1]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 24	Franklin & Marshall	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 41–0
September 28	Gettysburg	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 50–0
October 1	Penn State	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 40–0
October 5	Mansfield Normal	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 50–0
October 8	Brown	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 18–0	5,000	[2]
October 12	Virginia	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 40–0
October 15	Lehigh	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 40–0
October 19	Wesleyan	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 17–0
October 22	Lafayette	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 32–0
October 29	Chicago	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 23–11
November 5	at Harvard	Soldiers' Field Boston, MA (rivalry)	L 0–10		[3]
November 12	Carlisle	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 35–5
November 25	Cornell	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)	W 12–6

References

1. 1898 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, 18—Brown, 0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 9, 1898. p. 14. Retrieved March 12, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
3. "Harvard Wins! Ten Points Scored by Crimson and None by Pennsylvania". The Boston Post. November 6, 1898. pp. 1, 2 – via Newspapers.com.