1917 Swarthmore Quakers football team

The 1917 Swarthmore Quakers football team was an American football team that represented Swarthmore College as an independent during the 1917 college football season. The team compiled a 6–2 record and outscored opponents by a total of 238 to 40. Bill Roper was the head coach.[1]

1917 Swarthmore Quakers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–2
Head coach
Home stadiumSwarthmore Field
Seasons
← 1916
1918 →
1917 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Pittsburgh     10 0 0
Williams     7 0 1
Yale     3 0 0
Princeton     2 0 0
Syracuse     8 1 1
Army     7 1 0
Rutgers     7 1 1
Penn     9 2 0
Brown     8 2 0
Fordham     7 2 0
Lehigh     7 2 0
Boston College     6 2 0
Swarthmore     6 2 0
Washington & Jefferson     7 3 0
Colgate     4 2 0
Harvard     3 1 3
New Hampshire     3 2 2
Dartmouth     5 3 0
Geneva     5 3 1
Penn State     5 4 0
Buffalo     4 4 0
NYU     2 2 3
Tufts     3 3 0
Carnegie Tech     2 3 1
Bucknell     3 5 1
Lafayette     3 5 0
Holy Cross     3 4 0
Rhode Island State     2 4 2
Carlisle     3 6 0
Columbia     2 4 0
Delaware     2 5 0
Cornell     3 6 0
Franklin & Marshall     2 6 0
Villanova     0 3 2
Temple     0 6 1

Schedule edit

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
October 6at BucknellLewisburg, PAL 7–16[2]
October 13at PennL 0–10[3]
October 20Gettysburg
W 17–0[4]
October 27Franklin & Marshall
  • Swarthmore Field
  • Swarthmore, PA
W 46–0[5]
November 3at Johns HopkinsW 28–7[6]
November 10Lafayette
  • Swarthmore Field
  • Swarthmore, PA
W 56–0[7]
November 17at DelawareNewark, DEW 27–0[8]
November 24Haverford
  • Swarthmore Field
  • Swarthmore, PA
W 57–7[9][10]

References edit

  1. ^ "Swarthmore Yearly Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on February 6, 2010. Retrieved September 14, 2021.
  2. ^ "Bucknell Beats Swarthmore". The Pittsburgh Press. October 7, 1917 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Penn Stages Come Back and Beats Swarthmore by 10 to 0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 10, 1917. p. 19 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Gettysburg Was Defeated: Swarthmore College Eleven Rounds Into Form and Wins First Game at Home". Chester Times. October 22, 1917. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "F. and M. Outclassed by Swarthmore Eleven". The New Era. October 29, 1917. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ C. Starr Matthews (November 4, 1917). "Hopkins' Pretty Touchdown Takes Sting From Defeat". The Baltimore Sun. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Lafayette Jarred by Little Quakers". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 11, 1917. p. 18 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Delaware Beaten by Little Quakers: Swarthmore Wakes in Second Period and Rolls Up Total of 27 to 0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 18, 1917. p. 20 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Swarthmore and Haverford Meet Today in Annual Contest". Chester Times. November 24, 1917. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Swarthmore Eleven Wins Over Haverford in One-Sided Game". Chester Times. November 26, 1917. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.