1898 Swarthmore Quakers football team

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1898
Swarthmore Quakers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record9–2
Head coach
Home stadiumWhittier Field
Seasons
1898 Eastern college football independents records
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Harvard     11 0 0
Drexel     7 0 0
Princeton     11 0 1
Penn     12 1 0
Buffalo     8 1 0
Cornell     10 2 0
Swarthmore     9 2 0
Washington & Jefferson     9 2 0
Yale     9 2 0
Dickinson     8 2 0
Syracuse     8 2 1
Wesleyan
    7 3 0
Western Penn.
    5 2 1
Brown     6 4 0
Carlisle     6 4 0
Penn State     6 4 0
Pittsburgh College     6 4 1
Army     3 2 1
Vermont     3 2 1
Holy Cross     5 4 1
Bucknell     4 4 3
Fordham
    1 1 2
Frankin & Marshall
    4 4 2
New Hampshire     4 4 0
Amherst
    4 5 1
Villanova     2 4 1
Lehigh     3 6 1
Boston College     2 5 1
Colgate     2 5 1
Temple
    2 5 0
Lafayette     3 8 0
NYU     1 3 0
Rutgers     1 6 1
Tufts     1 9 0
Geneva     0 6 1

The 1898 Swarthmore Quakers football team was an American football team that represented Swarthmore College as an independent during the 1898 college football season. The team compiled a 9–2 record and outscored opponents by a total of 152 to 64. Jacob K. Shell was the head coach.[1]

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultSource
September 28Swarthmore alumniSwarthmore, PAW 6–0[2]
October 1at Delaware
W 22–0[3]
October 8Rutgers
  • Whittier Field
  • Swarthmore, PA
W 6–0[4]
October 12at GeorgetownWashington, DCW 11–0
October 19Ursinus
  • Whittier Field
  • Swarthmore, PA
W 29–0[5]
October 222:30 p.m.at BucknellLewisburg, PAL 18–34[6][7][8]
November 2
Pennsylvania Military
  • Whittier Field
  • Swarthmore, PA
W 22–0[9]
November 5
Franklin & Marshall
Swarthmore, PAW 10–6[10]
November 9DelawareSwarthmore, PAW 6–0[11]
November 12at ColumbianWashington, DCW 22–6[12][13]
November 19
Haverford
  • Whittier Field
  • Swarthmore, PA (rivalry)
L 0–12[14]

References

  1. ^ "Swarthmore Yearly Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on February 6, 2010. Retrieved September 14, 2021.
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