1904 Swarthmore Quakers football team

The 1904 Swarthmore Quakers football team was an American football team that represented Swarthmore College as an independent during the 1904 college football season. The team compiled a 6–3 record and outscored their opponents by a total of 187 to 28. George H. Brooke was the head coach[1][2]

1904 Swarthmore Quakers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–3
Head coach
CaptainBower (left end)
Home stadiumWhittier 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

The team featured drop kicker Wilmer G. Crowell.[3] He made a 40-yard field goal against Lehigh, and 55-yard and 48-yard field goals against Franklin & Marshall.[4]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 28at PennL 4–6
October 5at Lehigh
W 20–0[5]
Jefferson Medical
  • Whittier Field
  • Swarthmore, PA
W 17–0
October 12at ColumbiaL 0–12800[6]
October 15Delaware
  • Whittier Field
  • Swarthmore, PA
W 41–0 or 40–0
October 22at LafayetteEaston, PAL 0–4[7]
October 29at NavyW 9–0
November 12Franklin & Marshall
  • Whittier Field
  • Swarthmore, PA
W 69–0
November 19Haverford (PA)
  • Whittier Field
  • Swarthmore, PA
W 27–67,000[8]
November 24BucknellIsland ParkCancelled [9]

References