1902 Penn Quakers football team

The 1902 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1902 college football season. The Quakers finished with a 9–4 record in their first year under head coach Carl S. Williams. Significant games included victories over Penn State (17–0), Columbia (17–0), and Cornell (12–11), and losses to Navy (10–6), Harvard (11–0), and Carlisle (5–9). The 1902 Penn team outscored its opponents by a combined total of 157 to 68.^[1]^[2] Three Penn players received recognition on the 1902 College Football All-America Team: end Sol Metzger (Walter Camp, 3rd team); tackle Robert Torrey (Caspar Whitney, 2nd team); and center James F. McCabe (Camp, 3rd team).^[3]^[4]

1902 Eastern college football independents records
v t e	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Ursinus		–		9	–	0	–	0
Yale		–		11	–	0	–	1
Geneva		–		7	–	0	–	0
Harvard		–		11	–	1	–	0
Princeton		–		8	–	1	–	0
Army		–		6	–	1	–	1
Frankin & Marshall		–		7	–	2	–	0
Dartmouth		–		6	–	2	–	1
Holy Cross		–		6	–	2	–	1
Syracuse		–		6	–	2	–	1
Carlisle		–		8	–	3	–	0
Cornell		–		8	–	3	–	0
Lafayette		–		8	–	3	–	0
Amherst		–		7	–	3	–	0
Penn State		–		7	–	3	–	0
Penn		–		9	–	4	–	0
Lehigh		–		7	–	3	–	1
Vermont		–		5	–	3	–	2
Colgate		–		5	–	3	–	1
NYU		–		5	–	3	–	0
Bucknell		–		6	–	4	–	0
Washington & Jefferson		–		6	–	4	–	0
Columbia		–		6	–	4	–	1
Springfield Training School		–		3	–	2	–	1
Villanova		–		4	–	3	–	0
Brown		–		5	–	4	–	1
Swarthmore		–		6	–	6	–	0
Western U. of Penn.		–		5	–	6	–	1
New Hampshire		–		2	–	3	–	1
Buffalo		–		3	–	5	–	1
Tufts		–		4	–	6	–	1
Fordham		–		2	–	4	–	1
Wesleyan		–		3	–	6	–	1
Rutgers		–		3	–	7	–	0
Navy		–		2	–	7	–	1
Drexel		–		1	–	4	–	1
Temple		–		1	–	4	–	1
Pittsburgh College		–		1	–	6	–	0
Boston College		–		0	–	8	–	0

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Source
September 27	Lehigh	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 12–0
October 1	Franklin & Marshall	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 16–0	^[5]
October 4	Penn State	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 17–0
October 8	Haverford	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 18–5
October 11	Swarthmore	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 11–6
October 15	Gettysburg	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 36–0
October 18	Brown	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L 6–15
October 22	at Navy	Worden Field Annapolis, MD	L 6–10
October 25	Bucknell	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 6–5
November 1	Columbia	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 17–0
November 8	at Harvard	Soldiers' Field Cambridge, MA (rivalry)	L 0–11
November 15	Carlisle	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L 0–5
November 27	Cornell	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)	W 12–11