1906 Swarthmore Quakers football team

The 1906 Swarthmore Quakers football team was an American football team that represented Swarthmore College as an independent during the 1906 college football season. The team compiled a 7–2 record. George H. Brooke was the head coach.[1]

1906 Swarthmore Quakers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–2
Head coach
Home stadiumWhittier Field
Seasons
← 1905
1907 →
1906 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Princeton     9 0 1
Yale     9 0 1
Haverford     7 0 2
Harvard     10 1 0
Cornell     8 1 2
Lafayette     8 1 1
Penn State     8 1 1
Washington & Jefferson     9 2 0
Swarthmore     7 2 0
Drexel     6 2 0
Tufts     6 2 0
Penn     7 2 3
Carlisle     9 3 0
Brown     6 3 0
Rutgers     5 2 2
Dartmouth     6 3 1
Syracuse     6 3 0
Colgate     4 2 2
Vermont     5 4 0
Fordham     5 3 0
Western U. of Penn.     6 4 0
Holy Cross     4 3 1
Amherst     3 3 1
Lehigh     5 5 1
Bucknell     3 4 1
Dickinson     3 4 2
Carnegie Tech     2 3 2
Army     3 5 1
Frankin & Marshall     3 5 1
Wesleyan     2 4 1
New Hampshire     2 5 1
Villanova     3 7 0
Springfield Training School     1 5 3
NYU     0 4 0

Schedule edit

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
September 29USS WashingtonSwarthmore, PAW 65–0[2]
October 6VillanovaSwarthmore, PAW 4–0[3]
October 13at PennW 4–0[4]
October 20George WashingtonSwarthmore, PAW 17–0[5][6]
October 27GettysburgSwarthmore, PAW 19–4[7]
November 3at Johns HopkinsBaltimore, MDW 26–0[8]
November 10at NavyL 4–5[9]
November 17at Cornell
L 0–28[10]
November 24Amherst
  • Whittier Field
  • Swarthmore, PA
W 21–0[11][12]

References edit

  1. ^ "1906 Swarthmore Garnet Tide Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved September 14, 2021.
  2. ^ "Swarthmore Has an Easy Thing: U.S.S. Washington Eleven Not in Same Class With Quakers -- Score 69 to 0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. September 30, 1906. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Swarthmore Scored: Her Team Scores Only Four Points Against Villa Nova". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 7, 1906. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Penn Defeated By Swarthmore By Score 4 To 0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 14, 1906. pp. 1, 14 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "G.W.U. Does Well With Swarthmore: Holds Penn's Conqueror to Two Touchdowns, Field Goal, and Safety". The Washington Times. October 21, 1906. p. 17 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Swarthmore Defeats George Washington". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 21, 1906. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Swarthmore Beat Gettysburg 19-4: Sieber Kicks a Goal From Field and O'Brien Makes a Run of 85 Yards". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 28, 1906. p. 27 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Swarthmore Has An Easy Time". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. November 4, 1906. p. 28. Retrieved September 18, 2020 – via Newspapers.com  .
  9. ^ "Nervy Navy Team Overcomes Odds: Beats Swarthmore 5 to 4 With Star Men Out and Many Important Shifts". The Washington Times. November 11, 1906. p. 19 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Cornell Outplays Swarthmore, 28-0". November 18, 1906. p. 31 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Swarthmore Defeats Amherst By Score 21-0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. November 25, 1906. p. 15. Retrieved September 18, 2020 – via Newspapers.com  .
  12. ^ "Swarthmore Beats Amherst--Lafayette Wins (continued)". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. November 25, 1906. p. 25. Retrieved September 18, 2020 – via Newspapers.com  .