1900 Penn Quakers football team

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1900 Penn Quakers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record12–1
Head coach
CaptainTruxtun Hare
Home stadiumFranklin Field
Seasons
← 1899
1901 →
1900 Eastern college football independents records
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[edit]

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 29 Lehigh
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 3at Harvard
L 5–1717,000[6]
November 10 Lafayette
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 12–5
November 17 Carlisle
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 16–6
November 21at Navy
W 28–6
November 29 Cornell
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)
W 27–0

References[edit]

  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 Open access icon.
  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.
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