1894 Swarthmore Quakers football team

The 1894 Swarthmore Quakers football team was an American football team that represented Swarthmore College as an independent during the 1894 college football season. The team compiled a 5–5 record and outscored opponents by a total of 230 to 202. Jacob K. Shell was the head coach,[1]and Hodge served as the captain.[2]

1894 Swarthmore Quakers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–5
Head coach
CaptainHodge
Home stadiumWhittier Field
Seasons
← 1893
1895 →
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
Holy Ghost College     7 2 1
Washington & Jefferson     5 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
Massachusetts     3 3 0
Swarthmore     5 5 0
Western Univ. Penn     1 1 0
Lafayette     5 6 0
New Hampshire     2 3 0
Rutgers     4 6 0
Lehigh     5 9 0
Williams     1 3 0
Drexel     1 3 0
MIT     1 4 0
Boston College     1 6 0
Carlisle     1 8 0
Buffalo     0 2 0
NYU     0 3 0
Wesleyan     0 5 0

The rivalry game against Haverford is considered to have the first "action shot" photograph during a football game.[3]

Schedule edit

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 6at PennPhiladelphia, PAL 0–66
October 10at LehighBethlehem, PAL 0–33
October 17Pennsylvania Medical
W 54–0300[4]
October 24at Lafayette
L 0–46
October 27Georgetown
  • Whittier Field
  • Swarthmore, PA
L 18–22
November 3Dickinson
  • Whittier Field
  • Swarthmore, PA
W 66–15
November 7Penn JVL 0–20
November 10Franklin & Marshall
  • Whittier Field
  • Swarthmore, PA
W 10–0
November 17Pennsylvania Military
  • Whittier Field
  • Swarthmore, PA
W 50–0350[5]
November 24Haverford
  • Whittier Field
  • Swarthmore, PA
W 32–01,000[6]

References edit

  1. ^ "Swarthmore Yearly Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on February 6, 2010. Retrieved September 16, 2021.
  2. ^ "Swarthmore's Eleven". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 7, 1894. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Haverford Vs. Swarthmore 1894 – First Known Action Shot Of A College Football Game". This is Lower Merion. June 29, 2021. Retrieved November 16, 2022.
  4. ^ "Swarthmore Played Well". The Philadelphia Times. October 18, 1894. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Easy for Swarthmore: They Shut Out the Pennsylvania Military College Team". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 18, 1894. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Swarthmore and Haverford: A Crushing Defeat Administered to the Red and Black by the Garnet". The Philadelphia Times. November 25, 1894. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.