1894 Penn Quakers football team

The 1894 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1894 college football season. The team finished with a 12–0 record and was retroactively named as a co-national champion by one selector, Parke H. Davis.[1] They outscored their opponents 366 to 20.[2]

1894 Penn Quakers football
Co-national champion (Davis)
Conference	Independent
1894 record	12–0
Head coach	George Washington Woodruff (3rd season)
Captain	Alden Knipe

1894 Eastern college football independents records
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Yale			–					16	–	0	–	0
Penn			–					12	–	0	–	0
Villanova			–					1	–	0	–	0
Penn State			–					6	–	0	–	1
Harvard			–					11	–	2	–	0
Geneva			–					5	–	1	–	0
Princeton			–					8	–	2	–	0
Temple			–					4	–	1	–	0
Pittsburgh College			–					7	–	2	–	1
Brown			–					10	–	5	–	0
Bucknell			–					5	–	3	–	0
Colgate			–					2	–	1	–	1
Army			–					3	–	2	–	0
Frankin & Marshall			–					6	–	4	–	0
Cornell			–					6	–	4	–	1
Amherst			–					7	–	5	–	0
Trinity (CT)			–					4	–	3	–	0
Syracuse			–					6	–	5	–	0
Tufts			–					6	–	5	–	0
Boston College			–					3	–	3	–	0
Massachusetts			–					3	–	3	–	0
Western Univ. Penn			–					1	–	1	–	0
Lafayette			–					5	–	6	–	0
New Hampshire			–					2	–	3	–	0
Rutgers			–					4	–	6	–	0
Lehigh			–					5	–	9	–	0
Drexel			–					1	–	2	–	1
Williams			–					1	–	3	–	0
MIT			–					1	–	4	–	0
Carlisle			–					1	–	8	–	0
NYU			–					0	–	3	–	0
Wesleyan			–					0	–	5	–	0

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Source
October 3	at Franklin & Marshall	Lancaster, PA	W 34–0
October 6	Swarthmore	Philadelphia, PA	W 66–0
October 10	Crescent Athletic Club	Philadelphia, PA	W 22–0
October 13	Georgetown	Philadelphia, PA	W 46–0
October 17	Lehigh	Philadelphia, PA	W 30–0
October 20	at Crescent Athletic Club	New York, NY	W 80–10
October 26	vs. Virginia	Washington, DC	W 14–6
October 27	at Navy	Worden Field Annapolis, MD	W 12–0
October 31	Lafayette	Philadelphia, PA	W 26–0
November 10	vs. Princeton	State Fair Grounds Trenton, NJ (rivalry)	W 12–0	[3]
November 17	Cornell	Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)	W 6–0
November 29	Harvard	Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)	W 18–4

References

1. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 107. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
2. 1894 University of Pennsylvania football scores and results Archived October 9, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on October 8, 2013.
3. "Pennsylvania 12; Tigers 0". The New York Times. 11 November 1894. p. 3. Retrieved 1 August 2020.