1894 Penn Quakers football
Co-national champion (Davis)
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Record12–0
Head coach
CaptainAlden Knipe
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Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Yale   –   16 – 0 – 0
Penn   –   12 – 0 – 0
Villanova   –   1 – 0 – 0
Penn State   –   6 – 0 – 1
Harvard   –   11 – 2 – 0
Geneva   –   5 – 1 – 0
Princeton   –   8 – 2 – 0
Temple   –   4 – 1 – 0
Holy Ghost College   –   7 – 2 – 1
Washington & Jefferson   –   5 – 2 – 1
Brown   –   10 – 5 – 0
Bucknell   –   5 – 3 – 0
Colgate   –   2 – 1 – 1
Army   –   3 – 2 – 0
Frankin & Marshall   –   6 – 4 – 0
Cornell   –   6 – 4 – 1
Amherst   –   7 – 5 – 0
Trinity (CT)   –   4 – 3 – 0
Syracuse   –   6 – 5 – 0
Tufts   –   6 – 5 – 0
Massachusetts   –   3 – 3 – 0
Swarthmore   –   5 – 5 – 0
Western Univ. Penn   –   1 – 1 – 0
Lafayette   –   5 – 6 – 0
New Hampshire   –   2 – 3 – 0
Rutgers   –   4 – 6 – 0
Lehigh   –   5 – 9 – 0
Williams   –   1 – 3 – 0
Drexel   –   1 – 3 – 0
MIT   –   1 – 4 – 0
Boston College   –   1 – 6 – 0
Carlisle   –   1 – 8 – 0
Buffalo   –   0 – 2 – 0
NYU   –   0 – 3 – 0
Wesleyan   –   0 – 5 – 0

The 1894 Penn Quakers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Pennsylvania as an independent during the 1894 college football season. In their third season under head coach George Washington Woodruff, the Quakers compiled a 12–0 record, shut out nine of twelve opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 366 to 20.[1][2]

There was no contemporaneous system in 1894 for determining a national champion. However, Penn was retroactively named as the co-national champion by one selector, Parke H. Davis. Other selectors chose Princeton or Yale as the 1894 national champion[3] Penn defeated Princeton and Harvard in head-to-head competition.

Four Penn players were named to 1894 All-America college football team: halfback Alden Knipe (chosen by Walter Camp, Caspar Whitney, and Leslie's Weekly); halfback George Brooke (chosen by Camp, Whitney, and Leslie's Weekly); end Charles Gelbert (chosen by Camp, Whitney, and Leslie's Weekly); and guard Charles Wharton (chosen by Leslie's Weekly).[4][5][6] Three individuals from the 1894 Penn team were later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame: Gelbert (inducted 1960); coach Woodruff (inducted 1963); and Brooke (inducted 1969).[7][8][9]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 3at Franklin & MarshallLancaster, PAW 34–0800[10]
October 6SwarthmorePhiladelphia, PAW 66–0
October 10Crescent Athletic ClubPhiladelphia, PAW 22–01,500[11]
October 13GeorgetownPhiladelphia, PAW 46–0
October 17LehighPhiladelphia, PAW 30–0
October 20at Crescent Athletic Club
W 18–10[12][13]
October 26vs. Virginia
W 14–62,500[14]
October 27at Navy
W 12–0
October 31LafayettePhiladelphia, PAW 26–0
November 10vs. Princeton
W 12–0[15]
November 17CornellPhiladelphia, PA (rivalry)W 6–0
November 29HarvardPhiladelphia, PA (rivalry)W 18–423,000[16]

References

  1. ^ "1894 Pennsylvania Quakers Schedule and Results". SR College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved March 29, 2022.
  2. ^ 1894 University of Pennsylvania football scores and results Archived October 9, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on October 8, 2013.
  3. ^ 2020 NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision Records (PDF). Indianapolis: The National Collegiate Athletic Association. July 2020. pp. 112–114. Archived (PDF) from the original on November 1, 2020. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
  4. ^ "Walter Camp Football Foundation". Archived from the original on March 30, 2009.
  5. ^ "All-America Addendum" (PDF). College Football Historical Society Newsletter. February 2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 13, 2010. Retrieved March 5, 2010.
  6. ^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
  7. ^ "Charlie Gelbert". National Football Foundation. Retrieved March 29, 2022.
  8. ^ "George Brooke". National Football Foundation. Retrieved March 29, 2022.
  9. ^ "George Woodruff". National Football Foundation. Retrieved March 29, 2022.
  10. ^ "Pennsylvania's First Victory". The Times. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 4, 1894. p. 3. Retrieved May 4, 2021 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  11. ^ "Pennsylvania Downs Crescent". The Philadelphia Times. October 11, 1894. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "Shook Them Up: Crescent Kickers Surprise University of Pa. Players". The Brooklyn Citizen. October 21, 1894. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "The Crescent-Pennsy Game". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 21, 1894. p. 24 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ "Gave The Quakers A Shock". The Washington Times. Washington, D.C. October 27, 1894. p. 3. Retrieved September 14, 2021 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  15. ^ "Pennsylvania 12; Tigers 0". The New York Times. November 11, 1894. p. 3. Retrieved August 1, 2020.
  16. ^ "Penn's Glorious Finish: Harvard's Football Hope Crushed Out, 18 to 4". Boston Post. November 30, 1894. p. 1 – via NewspaperArchive.
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