1897 Penn Quakers football team

1897 Penn Quakers football
National champion (Billingsley, Helms, Houlgate, NCF) Co-national champion (Davis)
Conference	Independent
1897 record	15–0
Head coach	George W. Woodruff (6th year)
Home stadium	Franklin Field

The 1897 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1897 college football season. The team finished with a 15–0 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, and National Championship Foundation, and as a co-national champion by Parke H. Davis.^[1] They outscored their opponents 463 to 20.^[2]

Schedule

Date	Opponent^#	Site	Result
September 22	at Bucknell*	Lewisburg, PA	W 17–0
September 25	Franklin & Marshall*	Franklin Field • Philadelphia, PA	W 33–0
September 29	Washington & Jefferson*	Franklin Field • Philadelphia, PA	W 18–4
October 2	Bucknell*	Franklin Field • Philadelphia, PA	W 33–0
October 6	Gettysburg*	Franklin Field • Philadelphia, PA	W 57–0
October 9	Lehigh*	Franklin Field • Philadelphia, PA	W 58–0
October 13	Virginia*	Franklin Field • Philadelphia, PA	W 42–0
October 16	Dartmouth*	Franklin Field • Philadelphia, PA	W 34–0
October 16	Penn State*	Franklin Field • Philadelphia, PA	W 24–0
October 23	Lafayette*	Franklin Field • Philadelphia, PA	W 46–0
October 30	at Brown*	Providence, RI	W 40–0
November 6	Carlisle*	Franklin Field • Philadelphia, PA	W 20–10
November 13	Wesleyan*	Franklin Field • Philadelphia, PA	W 22–0
November 20	Harvard*	Franklin Field • Philadelphia, PA	W 15–6
November 25	Cornell*	Franklin Field • Philadelphia, PA	W 4–0
*Non-conference game. ^#Rankings from AP Poll.

References

↑ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 107. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
↑ 1897 University of Pennsylvania football scores and results. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on October 8, 2013.

1897 Penn Quakers football—national champions

Byron W. Dickson Truxton Hare Josiah McCracken John Minds John H. Outland Pete Overfield David F. Weeks Head coach George Washington Woodruff

Penn Quakers football

Venues	Franklin Field (1895–present)

Bowls & rivalries	1917 Rose Bowl Princeton

Culture & lore	The Penn Quaker "Fight on, Pennsylvania!" Marching band

People	Head coaches NFL draftees

Seasons	1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

National championship seasons in bold

Pre-AP Poll college football national champions

1869–1879	1869: Princeton 1870: Princeton 1872: Princeton 1873: Princeton 1874: Princeton / Yale 1875: Harvard / Princeton 1876: Yale 1877: Princeton / Yale 1878: Princeton 1879: Princeton

1880s	1880: Princeton / Yale 1881: Princeton / Yale 1882: Yale 1883: Yale 1884: Princeton / Yale 1885: Princeton 1886: Princeton / Yale 1887: Yale 1888: Yale 1889: Princeton

1890s	1890: Harvard 1891: Yale 1892: Yale 1893: Princeton 1894: Yale 1895: Penn 1896: Lafayette / Princeton 1897: Penn 1898: Harvard 1899: Harvard / Princeton

1900s	1900: Yale 1901: Michigan 1902: Michigan 1903: Princeton 1904: Penn 1905: Chicago / Yale 1906: Princeton / Yale 1907: Yale 1908: Penn 1909: Yale

1910s	1910: Harvard 1911: Princeton 1912: Harvard 1913: Chicago / Harvard 1914: Army / Illinois 1915: Cornell 1916: Pittsburgh 1917: Georgia Tech 1918: Michigan / Pittsburgh 1919: Harvard / Illinois

1920s	1920: California 1921: California / Cornell 1922: California / Cornell / Princeton 1923: Illinois / Michigan 1924: Notre Dame 1925: Alabama / Dartmouth 1926: Alabama / Stanford 1927: Illinois / Georgia 1928: Georgia Tech / USC 1929: Notre Dame / USC

1930s	1930: Alabama / Notre Dame 1931: USC 1932: Michigan / USC 1933: Michigan 1934: Alabama / Minnesota 1935: Minnesota / SMU

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