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
Seasons
← 1907
1909 →
1908 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   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
Frankin & 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
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.

History[edit]

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.[1][2]

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.[3]

Two Penn players, halfback Bill Hollenback and end Hunter Scarlett, were consensus picks on the 1908 All-America college football team.[4] Both were later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame, Hollenback in 1951 and Scarlett in 1970.[5][6] Other notable players included quarterback Allie Miller and tackle Dexter Draper.

Schedule[edit]

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 26West Virginia
W 6–0[7]
September 30Ursinus
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 30–0[8]
October 3Bucknell
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 16–0[9]
October 7Villanova
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 11–0[10]
October 10Penn State
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 6–07,000[11]
October 14Gettysburg
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 23–4[12]
October 17Brown
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 12–010,000[13]
October 24Carlisle
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
T 6–625,000[14]
October 31at Carnegie TechPittsburgh, PAW 25–10[15]
November 7Lafayette
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 34–4[16]
November 14at Michigan
W 29–0[17]
November 26Cornell
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)
W 17–4[18]

References[edit]

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