1917 Penn Quakers football team

The 1917 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1917 college football season. The Quakers finished with a 9–2 record in their second year under head coach Bob Folwell. Significant games included victories over Michigan (16–0), Carlisle (26–0), and Cornell (37–0), and losses to undefeated national champion Georgia Tech (41–0) and Pittsburgh (14–6). The 1917 Penn team outscored its opponents by a combined total of 245 to 71.[1][2]

1917 Penn Quakers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record9–2
Head coach
CaptainHeinie Miller
Home stadiumFranklin Field
Seasons
← 1916
1918 →
1917 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Pittsburgh  1000
Williams  701
Yale  300
Princeton  200
Syracuse  811
Army  710
Rutgers  711
Penn  920
Brown  820
Fordham  720
Lehigh  720
Boston College  620
Swarthmore  620
Washington & Jefferson  730
Colgate  420
Harvard  313
New Hampshire  322
Dartmouth  530
Geneva  531
Penn State  540
Buffalo  440
NYU  223
Tufts  330
Carnegie Tech  231
Bucknell  351
Lafayette  350
Holy Cross  340
Rhode Island State  242
Carlisle  360
Columbia  240
Delaware  250
Cornell  360
Franklin & Marshall  260
Villanova  032
Temple  061

Five Penn players received honors on the 1917 College Football All-America Team. They are: end Heinie Miller (Jack Veiock and Dick Jemison 1st teams, Walter Eckersall, 2nd team); Joseph Strauss (Jemison 1st team); guard Herbert Dieter (Paul Purman 2nd team); center Lud Wray (New York Times All-Service team, Purman 2nd team); and fullback Joseph Howard Berry, Jr. (Eckersall and Purman 1st teams, Veiock 2nd team).[3][4][5][6]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 3 AlbrightW 73–10
October 6at Georgia Tech
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 0–41
October 13 Swarthmore
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 10–0[7]
October 20 Bucknell
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 20–65,000[8]
October 27 Pittsburgh
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 6–1418,000[9]
November 3 Lafayette
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 27–0
November 6 Pennsylvania Military
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 23–0
November 10vs. DartmouthW 7–0
November 17 Michigan
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 16–012,851
November 24 Carlisle
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 26–0
November 29 Cornell
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)
W 37–0

References

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