1904 Penn Quakers football team

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]

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
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Penn  1200
Western U. of Penn.  1000
Dartmouth  701
Yale  1010
Amherst  910
Colgate  811
Carlisle  1020
Lafayette  820
Princeton  820
Army  720
Fordham  411
Harvard  721
Dickinson  831
Columbia  730
Cornell  730
Villanova  421
Syracuse  630
Swarthmore  630
Washington & Jefferson  531
Penn State  640
Temple  320
Brown  650
Bucknell  330
Springfield Training School  441
NYU  360
Holy Cross  252
Wesleyan  370
Geneva  142
Vermont  152
New Hampshire  250
Rutgers  162
Tufts  291
Lehigh  180
Frankin & Marshall  0100

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 StateW 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 HarvardW 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]

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