1879 Pennsylvania Military Academy football team

The 1879 Pennsylvania Military Academy football team represented Pennsylvania Military Academy during the 1879 college football season. The team played Swarthmore, Penn, and as one cadet put it, “whoever we could inveigle into coming to us.”[1][2]

1879 Widener Pride football
ConferenceIndependent
Record0–1–1
Seasons
1880 →
1879 college football records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Princeton     4 0 1
Yale     3 0 2
Massachusetts     1 0 0
Michigan     1 0 1
Haverford     1 0 1
Harvard     2 1 2
Penn     2 2 0
Amherst     1 1 0
Navy     0 0 1
McGill     0 0 1
Toronto     0 0 1
Stevens     1 2 5
Rutgers     1 2 3
Pennsylvania Military     0 1 1
NYU     0 2 1
Racine     0 1 0
Swarthmore     0 1 0
Columbia     0 3 2

The game against the Crescents Football Club was reported to be first game played at the Military Academy.[3] The result of the contest with Swarthmore is not known.[4]

Schedule edit

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultSource
October 253:00 p.m.CrescentsChester, PAT 0–0[5]
November 1SwarthmoreChester, PAUnknown
November 8PennChester, PAL 0–6[6]

References edit

  1. ^ "CONTENTdm".
  2. ^ "Straws From the Barracks". Delaware County Daily Times. November 13, 1879. Retrieved December 1, 2020.
  3. ^ "Widener 2010 Football Media Guide by Derek Crudele - Issuu".
  4. ^ "Inquirer.com: Philadelphia local news, sports, jobs, cars, homes".
  5. ^ "Football at the P. M. A." Delaware County Daily Times. Chester, Pennsylvania. October 27, 1879. p. 3. Retrieved March 29, 2022 – via Newspapers.com  .
  6. ^ "Football". Delaware County Daily Times. Chester, Pennsylvania. November 10, 1879. p. 3. Retrieved March 29, 2022 – via Newspapers.com  .