1916 Swarthmore Quakers football team

The 1916 Swarthmore Quakers football team was an American football team that represented Swarthmore College as an independent during the 1916 college football season. The team compiled a 6–1–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 94 to 45. Bill Roper was the head coach.[1]

1916 Swarthmore Quakers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–1–1
Head coach
Home stadiumSwarthmore Field
Seasons
← 1915
1917 →
1916 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Army     9 0 0
Pittsburgh     8 0 0
Brown     8 1 0
Colgate     8 1 0
Yale     8 1 0
Fordham     6 1 1
Swarthmore     6 1 1
Penn State     8 2 0
Washington & Jefferson     8 2 0
Boston College     6 2 0
Cornell     6 2 0
Princeton     6 2 0
Lehigh     6 2 1
Dartmouth     5 2 2
Harvard     7 3 0
Penn     7 3 1
Temple     3 1 2
Tufts     5 3 0
Carnegie Tech     4 3 0
Rutgers     3 2 2
NYU     4 3 1
Syracuse     5 4 0
Holy Cross     4 5 0
Vermont     4 5 0
Rhode Island State     3 4 1
Geneva     2 5 2
Carlisle     1 3 1
Lafayette     2 6 1
Bucknell     3 9 0
Columbia     1 5 2
Franklin & Marshall     1 7 0
Villanova     1 8 0

A new football field was donated during the 1916 season. The field was built with a contribution from Morris L. Clothier, a Swarthmore alumnus and Philadelphia merchant, and was named Swarthmore Field.[2][3]

Schedule edit

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultSource
October 7at Lafayette
W 10–6
October 14at PennW 6–0
October 21at Franklin & MarshallLancaster, PAW 6–0
October 28UrsinusSwarthmore, PAW 13–3
November 42:00 p.m.at Johns HopkinsBaltimore, MDW 14–6[4]
November 11at Columbia
W 18–0
November 18DickinsonSwarthmore, PAT 20–20
November 25at HaverfordHaverford, PAL 7–10

References edit

  1. ^ "Swarthmore Yearly Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on February 6, 2010. Retrieved September 14, 2021.
  2. ^ "Noble Gift To Swarthmore". Delaware County Times. October 13, 1916. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Mr. Clothier's Gift". Delaware County Daily Times. October 18, 1916. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Big Gridiron Games On Schedule Today". The Washington Post. Washington, D.C. November 4, 1916. p. 8. Retrieved January 8, 2022 – via Newspapers.com  .