1906 Penn Quakers football team

1906 Penn Quakers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–2–3
Head coach
CaptainEdward L. Greene
Home stadiumFranklin Field
1906 Eastern college football independents records
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Princeton   –   9 – 0 – 1
Yale   –   9 – 0 – 1
Haverford   –   7 – 0 – 2
Harvard   –   10 – 1 – 0
Cornell   –   8 – 1 – 2
Lafayette   –   8 – 1 – 1
Penn State   –   8 – 1 – 1
Washington & Jefferson   –   9 – 2 – 0
Swarthmore   –   7 – 2 – 0
Drexel   –   6 – 2 – 0
Tufts   –   6 – 2 – 0
Penn   –   7 – 2 – 3
Carlisle   –   9 – 3 – 0
Brown   –   6 – 3 – 0
Rutgers   –   5 – 2 – 2
Dartmouth   –   6 – 3 – 1
Syracuse   –   6 – 3 – 0
Colgate   –   4 – 2 – 2
Vermont   –   5 – 4 – 0
Fordham   –   5 – 3 – 0
Western U. of Penn.   –   6 – 4 – 0
Holy Cross   –   4 – 3 – 1
Amherst   –   3 – 3 – 1
Lehigh   –   5 – 5 – 1
Bucknell   –   3 – 4 – 1
Dickinson   –   3 – 4 – 2
Carnegie Tech   –   2 – 3 – 2
Army   –   3 – 5 – 1
Franklin & Marshall   –   3 – 5 – 1
Wesleyan   –   2 – 4 – 1
New Hampshire   –   2 – 5 – 1
Villanova   –   3 – 7 – 0
Springfield Training School   –   1 – 5 – 3
NYU   –   0 – 4 – 0

The 1906 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1906 college football season. The Quakers finished with a 7–2–3 record in their fifth year under head coach Carl S. Williams. Significant games included a 24 to 6 loss to the Carlisle Indians, a 17 to 0 victory over Michigan, and a scoreless tie with Cornell The 1906 Penn team outscored its opponents by a combined total of 186 to 58.[1][2]

Eight players on the 1906 Penn team received recognition on the 1906 College Football All-America Team. They are ends Izzy Levene (WC-3; CW-2; NYS-2; CC-2; NYT-2) and Hunter Scarlett (NYM-1), tackle Dexter Draper (WC-2; NYS-1; NYT-2), guard Gus Ziegler (WC-2; CW-1; NYS-2; CC-2; NYM-1; NYT-2), center William Thomas Dunn (WC-1), and halfbacks Bill Hollenback (WC-2; CW-1; NYS-1; NYM-1), Bob Folwell (NYT-1) and Edward Green (NYT-2).[3][4][5][6][7]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 29 LehighW 32–6
October 3 Gettysburg
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
T 6–6
October 6 North Carolina
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 11–0
October 10 Franklin & Marshall
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 47–6
October 13 Swarthmore
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 0–4
October 17 Medico-Chirurgical[8]
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 31–0
October 20 Brown
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 14–0
October 27 Carlisle
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 6–2420,000
November 10 Lafayette
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
T 0–0
November 17 Michigan
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 17–026,000
November 24 Villanova
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 22–12
November 29 Cornell
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)
T 0–0

References

  1. ^ "1906 Pennsylvania Quakers Stats". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
  2. ^ "Pennsylvania Yearly Results (1905-1909)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on September 6, 2015. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
  3. ^ "Walter Camp Football Foundation". Archived from the original on March 30, 2009. (WC)
  4. ^ Caspar Whitney (1907). "The View-Point". Outing. p. 537. (CW)
  5. ^ "'Philistine' Is Generous: Sun Accords Syracuse Bank Amid First Sixtten". The Post-Standard. December 4, 1906. (NYS and CC)
  6. ^ "New Football Produces Individual Brilliancy: Many Players Merit Places on Fanciful All-American Team" (PDF). The New York Times. December 9, 1906. (NYT)
  7. ^ "untitled". Daily Gazette And Bulletin. December 5, 1906. (NYM)
  8. ^ The Medico-Chirugical College of Philadelphia, later absorbed into the University of Pennsylvania.