1900 Penn Quakers football team

1900 Penn Quakers football
Conference	Independent
Record	12–1
Head coach	George Washington Woodruff (9th season)
Captain	Truxtun Hare
Home stadium	Franklin Field

1900 Eastern college football independents records

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

The 1900 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1900 college football season. The Quakers finished with a 12–1 record in their ninth year under head coach and College Football Hall of Fame inductee, George Washington Woodruff. Significant games included victories over Penn State (17–5), Chicago (41–0), Carlisle (16–6), and Navy (28–6), and a loss to Harvard (17–5). The 1900 Penn team outscored its opponents by a combined total of 335 to 45.^[1][2] Four Penn players received recognition on the 1900 College Football All-America Team: guard Truxtun Hare (consensus 1st-team All-American);^[3] tackle Blondy Wallace (Walter Camp, 2nd team); guard John Teas (Camp, 3rd team); and fullback Josiah McCracken (Camp, 3rd team).^[4]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 29	Lehigh	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 27–6
October 3	Franklin & Marshall	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 47–0
October 6	Haverford	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 38–0
October 10	Dickinson	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 35–0
October 13	Brown	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 12–0		[5]
October 17	Penn State	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 17–5
October 20	Columbia	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 30–0
October 27	Chicago	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 41–0
November 3	at Harvard	Soldiers' Field Cambridge, MA (rivalry)	L 5–17	17,000	[6]
November 10	Lafayette	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 12–5
November 17	Carlisle	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 16–6	18,000	[7][8]
November 21	at Navy	Worden Field Annapolis, MD	W 28–6
November 29	Cornell	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)	W 27–0

References

1. "1900 Pennsylvania Quakers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
2. "Pennsylvania Yearly Results (1900-1904)". 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. "Walter Camp's 1900 All America Selections". Capital Times. November 23, 1930.
5. "Pennsy Keeps Brown On The Defensive During Both Halves, Winning By 12 To 0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 14, 1900. p. 14. Retrieved March 13, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
6. "Details of Harvard Victory: U. of P.'s "Guards Back" Easily Broken, The Result Was Never in Doubt". The Boston Globe. November 4, 1900. p. 24 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
7. "Quakers Defeat The Indians". The Philadelphia Times. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. November 18, 1900. p. 1. Retrieved October 24, 2024 – via Newspapers.com .
8. "Quakers Defeat The Indians (continued)". The Philadelphia Times. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. November 18, 1900. p. 11. Retrieved October 24, 2024 – via Newspapers.com .