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1908 Penn Quakers football

National champion (Helms, Houlgate, Davis)
Co-national champion (NCF)

ConferenceIndependent
Record11–0–1
Head coach
CaptainBill Hollenback
Home stadiumFranklin Field
Seasons
← 1907
1909 →
1908 Eastern college football independents records
  • t
  • e
  • Conf Overall
    Team W   L   T W   L   T
    Penn     11 0 1
    Harvard     9 0 1
    Cornell     7 1 1
    Fordham     5 1 0
    Yale     7 1 1
    Dartmouth     6 1 1
    Carlisle     10 2 1
    Washington & Jefferson     10 2 1
    Army     6 1 2
    Pittsburgh     8 3 0
    Lafayette     6 2 2
    Princeton     5 2 3
    Syracuse     6 3 1
    Brown     5 3 1
    Temple     3 2 1
    Colgate     4 3 0
    Lehigh     4 3 0
    Dickinson     5 4 0
    Amherst     3 3 2
    Holy Cross     4 4 0
    Penn State     5 5 0
    Vermont     3 3 3
    Wesleyan     3 4 2
    Springfield Training School     3 4 1
    NYU     2 3 2
    Frankin & Marshall     4 6 1
    Bucknell     3 5 2
    Rutgers     3 5 1
    Boston College     2 4 2
    Carnegie Tech     3 7 0
    Geneva     1 6 2
    Tufts     1 6 1
    Villanova     1 6 0
    Drexel     0 7 0

    The 1908 Penn Quakers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Pennsylvania as an independent during the 1908 college football season.

    History[edit]

    In their first season under head coach Sol Metzger, the Quakers compiled an 11–0–1 record, shut out seven of twelve opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 215 to 28.[1][2]

    There was no contemporaneous system in 1908 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 a co-national champion by the National Championship Foundation.[3]

    Two Penn players, halfback Bill Hollenback and end Hunter Scarlett, were consensus picks on the 1908 All-America college football team.[4] Both were later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame, Hollenback in 1951 and Scarlett in 1970.[5][6] Other notable players included quarterback Allie Miller and tackle Dexter Draper.

    Schedule[edit]

    DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
    September 26West Virginia
  • Philadelphia, PA
  • W 6–0[7]
    September 30Ursinus
    • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
  • W 30–0[8]
    October 3Bucknell
    • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
  • W 16–0[9]
    October 7Villanova
    • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
  • W 11–0[10]
    October 10Penn State
    • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
  • W 6–07,000[11]
    October 14Gettysburg
    • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
  • W 23–4[12]
    October 17Brown
    • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
  • W 12–010,000[13]
    October 24Carlisle
    • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
  • T 6–625,000[14]
    October 31atCarnegie TechPittsburgh, PAW 25–10[15]
    November 7Lafayette
    • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
  • W 34–4[16]
    November 14atMichigan
    • Ferry Field
  • Ann Arbor, MI
  • W 29–0[17]
    November 26Cornell
    • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)
  • W 17–4[18]

    References[edit]

    1. ^ "1908 Pennsylvania Quakers Schedule and Results". SR College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved March 29, 2022.
  • ^ 1908 University of Pennsylvania football scores and results Archived October 9, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on October 8, 2013.
  • ^ 2020 NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision Records (PDF). Indianapolis: The National Collegiate Athletic Association. July 2020. pp. 112–114. Archived (PDF) from the original on November 1, 2020. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
  • ^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
  • ^ "Bill Hollenback". National Football Foundation. Retrieved March 29, 2022.
  • ^ "Hunter Scarlett". National Football Foundation. Retrieved March 29, 2022.
  • ^ "Penn Is Victor by Slim Margin". The Philadelphia Inquirer. September 27, 1908. p. 22 – via Newspapers.com.
  • ^ "Penn Rolls Up 30-Point Score". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 1, 1908. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  • ^ "Penn Won From Bucknell 16-0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 4, 1908. p. 10b – via Newspapers.com.
  • ^ "Villa Nova Is Beaten by Penn". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 8, 1908. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  • ^ "Penn State Holds U.P. To 6-0 Score". The Scranton Republican. October 11, 1908. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  • ^ "Penn Scored on by Gettysburg". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 15, 1908. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  • ^ "Penn Has an Easy Victory: Brown Is Beaten by Penn 12 to 0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 18, 1908. p. 10b – via Newspapers.com.
  • ^ "Indians Tie Old Penn in Grueling Football Battle". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 25, 1908. p. 13 – via Newspapers.com.
  • ^ "Penn Rolls Up 25 Points on Carnegie Tech". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 1, 1908. p. 10b – via Newspapers.com.
  • ^ "Lafayette Simply Given a Beating by Penn, 34-4". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 8, 1908. p. Sports 1, 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  • ^ "Michigan's Worst Defeat of the Yost Regime". Detroit Free Press. November 15, 1908. pp. 17, 20 – via Newspapers.com.
  • ^ "Penn Defeats Cornell in Grandly Played Game by Score of 17 to 4". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 27, 1908. pp. 1, 12 – via Newspapers.com.

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