1907 Swarthmore Quakers football team

The 1907 Swarthmore Quakers football team was an American football team that represented Swarthmore College as an independent during the 1907 college football season. The team compiled a 6–2 record and outscored opponents by a total of 150 to 53. George H. Brooke was the head coach.[1]

1907 Swarthmore Quakers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–2
Head coach
Home stadiumWhittier Field
Seasons
← 1906
1908 →
1907 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Yale     9 0 1
Dartmouth     8 0 1
Penn     11 1 0
Carlisle     10 1 0
Temple     4 0 2
Fordham     6 1 1
Cornell     8 2 0
Western U. of Penn.     8 2 0
Princeton     7 2 0
Washington & Jefferson     7 2 0
Lafayette     7 2 1
Lehigh     7 2 1
Swarthmore     6 2 0
Army     6 2 1
NYU     5 2 0
Vermont     4 1 2
Harvard     7 3 0
Brown     7 3 0
Penn State     6 4 0
Syracuse     5 3 1
Drexel     3 2 2
Colgate     4 4 1
Geneva     4 5 2
Amherst     3 4 1
Tufts     3 4 1
Frankin & Marshall     4 6 0
Rutgers     3 5 1
Springfield Training School     2 4 2
Bucknell     4 7 0
New Hampshire     1 5 2
Villanova     1 5 1
Holy Cross     1 7 2
Wesleyan     1 7 1
Carnegie Tech     1 8 0

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultSource
October 5Rutgers
W 29–5[2]
October 12at PennL 8–16[3]
October 19George Washington
  • Whittier Field
  • Swarthmore, PA
W 30–0[4][5]
October 26Gettysburg
  • Whittier Field
  • Swarthmore, PA
W 12–0[6]
November 2Villanova
  • Whittier Field
  • Swarthmore, PA
W 18–10[7]
November 9at NavyW 18–0
November 16at Cornell
L 0–18[8]
November 23Bucknell
  • Whittier Field
  • Swarthmore, PA
W 35–4[9]

References

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  1. ^ "1906 Swarthmore Garnet Tide Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on February 6, 2010. Retrieved September 14, 2021.
  2. ^ "Swarthmore downed Rutgers". The New York Times. October 6, 1907. Retrieved December 2, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Penn Defeats Swarthmore by Score 16 to 8". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 13, 1907 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Swarthmore wins on line plunges, G.W.U. shows big improvement". The University Hatchet. October 23, 1907. Retrieved February 13, 2021 – via Internet Archive.
  5. ^ "Quakers defeat Washingtonians". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 20, 1907. Retrieved February 13, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Quakers Defeat Gettysburg Team". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 27, 1907 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Garnets Defeat Villanova". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 3, 1907 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Cornell Downs Swarthmore, 18-0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 17, 1907 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Swarthmore Has An Easy Time". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 24, 1907 – via Newspapers.com.