1904 Penn Quakers football
Penn in action
National champion (Helms, Houlgate, Davis)
Co-national champion (NCF)
ConferenceIndependent
Record12–0
Head coach
CaptainRobert Torrey
Home stadiumFranklin Field
Seasons
← 1903
1905 →
1904 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Penn   –   12 – 0 – 0
Western U. of Penn.   –   10 – 0 – 0
Dartmouth   –   7 – 0 – 1
Yale   –   10 – 1 – 0
Amherst   –   9 – 1 – 0
Colgate   –   8 – 1 – 1
Carlisle   –   10 – 2 – 0
Lafayette   –   8 – 2 – 0
Princeton   –   8 – 2 – 0
Army   –   7 – 2 – 0
Fordham   –   4 – 1 – 1
Harvard   –   7 – 2 – 1
Dickinson   –   8 – 3 – 1
Columbia   –   7 – 3 – 0
Cornell   –   7 – 3 – 0
Villanova   –   4 – 2 – 1
Syracuse   –   6 – 3 – 0
Swarthmore   –   6 – 3 – 0
Washington & Jefferson   –   5 – 3 – 1
Penn State   –   6 – 4 – 0
Temple   –   3 – 2 – 0
Brown   –   6 – 5 – 0
Bucknell   –   3 – 3 – 0
Springfield Training School   –   4 – 4 – 1
NYU   –   3 – 6 – 0
Holy Cross   –   2 – 5 – 2
Wesleyan   –   3 – 7 – 0
Geneva   –   1 – 4 – 2
Vermont   –   1 – 5 – 2
New Hampshire   –   2 – 5 – 0
Rutgers   –   1 – 6 – 2
Tufts   –   2 – 9 – 1
Lehigh   –   1 – 8 – 0
Frankin & Marshall   –   0 – 10 – 0

The 1904 Penn Quakers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Pennsylvania as an independent during the 1904 college football season. In their third season under head coach Carl S. Williams, the Quakers compiled a 12–0 record, shut out 11 of 12 opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 222 to 4.[1][2]

There was no contemporaneous system in 1904 for determining a national champion. However, Penn was retroactively named as the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, and Parke H. Davis, and as the co-national champion by the National Championship Foundation.[3]

Three Penn players, quarterback Vince Stevenson, fullback Andy Smith, and guard Frank Piekarski, were consensus picks on the 1904 All-America college football team.[4] Other notable players included halfback Marshall Reynolds, end Garfield Weede, center Robert Grant Torrey, and tackle Thomas Alexander Butkiewicz.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 24Penn State
W 6–0[5]
September 28Swarthmore
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 6–4[6]
October 1Virginia
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 24–0[7]
October 5Franklin & Marshall
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 34–0[8]
October 8Lehigh
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 24–07,000[9]
October 12Gettysburg
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 21–0[10]
October 15Brown
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 6–0[11]
October 22Columbia
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 16–015,000[12]
October 29at Harvard
W 11–015,000[13]
November 5Lafayette
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 22–015,000[14]
November 12Carlisle
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 18–0[15]
November 24Cornell
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)
W 34–0> 20,000[16]

References

  1. ^ "1904 Pennsylvania Quakers Schedule and Results". SR College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved March 29, 2022.
  2. ^ 1904 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. ^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
  5. ^ "Penn Scrapes Out a Victory by the Score of 6 to 0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. September 25, 1904. p. 12 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Penn Barely Wins From Swarthmore 6-4". The Philadelphia Inquirer. September 29, 1904. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Penn Beat Down Virginia 24 to 0: Red and Blue Team Played Stronger Football and Won the Game Handily". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 2, 1904. p. 12 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Penn Gobbles Up Lancaster Team". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 6, 1904. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Penn Defeats Lehigh in Great Game, 24 to 0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 9, 1904. p. 13 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Penn Walloped Gettysburg, 21-0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 13, 1904. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Brown Defeated by Penn, 6 to 0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 16, 1904. p. 12 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "Great Runs Won For Penn Over Columbia, 16-0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 23, 1904. pp. 1, 14 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "Pennsy Defeats Harvard 11 to 0: Crimson Loses to the Red and Blue for the First Time in Seven Years". The Boston Globe. October 30, 1904. pp. 1, 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ "Pennsylvania Wins Over Lafayette Showing Force and Cleverness of Attack -- Score, 22-0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 6, 1904. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ "Penn, 18; Indians, 0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 13, 1904. pp. 1, 13 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ "Pennsy Triumphs Over Cornell, 34 to 0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 25, 1904. pp. 1, 11 – via Newspapers.com.
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