1908 Penn Quakers football team

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1908 Penn Quakers football
National champion (Helms, Houlgate, Davis)
Co-national champion (NCF)
ConferenceIndependent
Record11–0–1
Head coach
CaptainBill Hollenback
Home stadiumFranklin Field
1908 Eastern college football independents records
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW L T
Penn – 11–0–1
Harvard – 9–0–1
Cornell – 7–1–1
Fordham – 5–1–0
Yale – 7–1–1
Dartmouth – 6–1–1
Carlisle – 10–2–1
Washington & Jefferson – 10–2–1
Army – 6–1–2
Pittsburgh – 8–3–0
Lafayette – 6–2–2
Princeton – 5–2–3
Syracuse – 6–3–1
Brown – 5–3–1
Temple – 3–2–1
Colgate – 4–3–0
Lehigh – 4–3–0
Dickinson – 5–4–0
Amherst – 3–3–2
Holy Cross – 4–4–0
Penn State – 5–5–0
Vermont – 3–3–3
Wesleyan – 3–4–2
Springfield Training School – 3–4–1
NYU – 2–3–2
Franklin & Marshall – 4–6–1
Bucknell – 3–5–2
Rutgers – 3–5–1
Boston College – 2–4–2
Carnegie Tech – 3–7–0
Geneva – 1–6–2
Tufts – 1–6–1
Villanova – 1–6–0
New Hampshire – 1–7–0
Drexel – 0–7–0

The 1908 Penn Quakers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Pennsylvania as an independent during the 1908 college football season. In their first season under head coach Sol Metzger, the Quakers compiled an 11–0–1 record, shut out seven of twelve opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 215 to 28.

There was no contemporaneous system in 1908 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 a co-national champion by the National Championship Foundation.[1]

Two Penn players, halfback Bill Hollenback and end Hunter Scarlett, were consensus picks on the 1908 All-America college football team.[2] Both were later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame, Hollenback in 1951 and Scarlett in 1970.[3][4] Other notable players included quarterback Allie Miller and tackle Dexter Draper.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 26West Virginia
W 6–0[5]
September 30Ursinus
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 30–0[6]
October 3Bucknell
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 16–0[7]
October 7Villanova
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 11–0[8]
October 10Penn State
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 6–07,000[9]
October 14Gettysburg
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 23–4[10]
October 17Brown
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 12–010,000[11]
October 24Carlisle
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
T 6–625,000[12]
October 31at Carnegie Tech
W 25–106,500[13][14]
November 7Lafayette
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 34–4[15]
November 14at Michigan
W 29–0[16]
November 26Cornell
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)
W 17–4[17]

[18]

References

  1. 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.
  2. "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
  3. "Bill Hollenback". National Football Foundation. Retrieved March 29, 2022.
  4. "Hunter Scarlett". National Football Foundation. Retrieved March 29, 2022.
  5. "Penn Is Victor by Slim Margin". The Philadelphia Inquirer. September 27, 1908. p. 22 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. "Penn Rolls Up 30-Point Score". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 1, 1908. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. "Penn Won From Bucknell 16-0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 4, 1908. p. 10b – via Newspapers.com.
  8. "Villa Nova Is Beaten by Penn". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 8, 1908. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. "Penn State Holds U.P. To 6-0 Score". The Scranton Republican. October 11, 1908. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. "Penn Scored on by Gettysburg". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 15, 1908. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. "Penn Has an Easy Victory: Brown Is Beaten by Penn 12 to 0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 18, 1908. p. 10b – via Newspapers.com.
  12. "Indians Tie Old Penn in Grueling Football Battle". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 25, 1908. p. 13 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. "Penn Rolls Up 25 Points on Carnegie Tech". Philadelphia Inquirer. November 1, 1908. p. 10b – via Newspapers.com.
  14. "Tech Plays Well Against Heavy Opponents". The Pittsburgh Press. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. November 1, 1908. p. 1.
  15. "Lafayette Simply Given a Beating by Penn, 34-4". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 8, 1908. p. Sports 1, 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. "Michigan's Worst Defeat of the Yost Regime". Detroit Free Press. November 15, 1908. pp. 17, 20 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. "Penn Defeats Cornell in Grandly Played Game by Score of 17 to 4". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 27, 1908. pp. 1, 12 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. "1908 Pennsylvania Quakers Schedule and Results". SR College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved March 29, 2022.