1895 Swarthmore Quakers football team

The 1895 Swarthmore Quakers football team was an American football team that represented Swarthmore College as an independent during the 1895 college football season. The team compiled a 7–4–1 record and was outscored by a total of 204 to 173. Jacob K. Shell was the head coach.[1]

1895 Swarthmore Quakers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–4–1
Head coach
Home stadiumWhittier Field
Seasons
← 1894
1896 →
1895 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Penn     14 0 0
Yale     13 0 2
Princeton     10 1 1
Washington & Jefferson     6 1 1
Harvard     8 2 1
Lafayette     6 2 0
Syracuse     6 2 2
Army     5 2 0
Bucknell     5 2 0
Colgate     4 2 0
Swarthmore     7 4 1
Tufts     8 5 0
Villanova     4 2 0
Wesleyan     6 3 0
Amherst     6 5 0
Brown     7 6 1
Carlisle     4 4 0
Drexel     3 3 1
Penn State     2 2 3
Cornell     3 4 1
Rutgers     3 4 0
New Hampshire     2 3 1
Frankin & Marshall     3 5 1
Boston College     2 4 2
Lehigh     3 6 0
CCNY     2 5 1
Buffalo     1 4 2
Temple     1 4 1
MIT     1 4 0
Trinity (CT)     1 4 0
Massachusetts     1 5 0
Western Univ. Penn.     1 6 0
Geneva     0 5 0

Schedule edit

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 1at PennPhiladelphia, PAL 0–40[2]
October 5Delaware
W 14–0[3]
October 16Ursinus
  • Whittier Field
  • Swarthmore, PA
W 20–4
October 19Baltimore City College
  • Whittier Field
  • Swarthmore, PA
W 20–0
October 233:30 p.m.at Rutgers
L 12–26[4]
October 26at DelawareNewark, DEW 31–12[5]
November 2vs. GettysburgHarrisburg, PAW 10–0
November 9Johns Hopkins
  • Whittier Field
  • Swarthmore, PA
W 28–14
November 13St. John's (MD)
  • Whittier Field
  • Swarthmore, PA
T 22–22
November 16Pennsylvania Military
  • Whittier Field
  • Swarthmore, PA
W 16–12
November 23at HaverfordHaverford, PAL 0–24
November 28at Franklin & MarshallLancaster, PAL 0–50

References edit

  1. ^ "Swarthmore Yearly Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on February 6, 2010. Retrieved September 16, 2021.
  2. ^ "Football Players Warm the Gridiron". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 2, 1895. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Swarthmore and Delaware". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 6, 1895. p. 7. Retrieved October 21, 2021 – via Newspapers.com  .
  4. ^ "Rutgers Downs Swarthmore by a Score of 26 to 12". The Daily Times. October 24, 1895. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Swarthmore, 31; Delaware College 12". The Times. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 27, 1895. p. 8. Retrieved October 21, 2021 – via Newspapers.com  .