1912 Swarthmore Quakers football team

The 1912 Swarthmore Quakers football team was an American football team that represented Swarthmore College as an independent during the 1912 college football season. The team compiled a 7–1–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 150 to 31. George H. Brooke was the head coach.[1]

1912 Swarthmore Quakers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–1–1
Head coach
Home stadiumWhittier Field
Seasons
← 1911
1913 →
1912 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Harvard     9 0 0
Penn State     8 0 0
Carlisle     12 1 1
Maine     7 1 0
Princeton     7 1 1
Swarthmore     7 1 1
Yale     7 1 1
Lehigh     9 2 0
Dartmouth     7 2 0
Wesleyan     7 2 0
Colgate     5 2 0
Washington & Jefferson     8 3 1
Rhode Island State     6 3 0
Bucknell     6 3 1
Temple     3 2 0
Penn     7 4 0
Army     5 3 0
Brown     6 4 0
Franklin & Marshall     6 4 0
Holy Cross     4 3 1
Rutgers     5 4 0
Tufts     5 4 0
Fordham     4 4 0
Villanova     3 3 0
Morris Harvey     2 2 0
Lafayette     4 5 1
Syracuse     4 5 0
Carnegie Tech     3 4 1
Geneva     3 4 0
Vermont     3 5 0
Pittsburgh     3 6 0
Boston College     2 4 1
Cornell     3 7 0
NYU     2 6 0

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 28Villanova
W 27–0[2]
October 5at Lafayette
W 22–0[3]
October 12at PennW 6–3[4]
October 19at NavyW 21–6[5]
October 26Johns Hopkins
  • Whittier Field
  • Swarthmore, PA
W 40–6[6]
November 2at UrsinusCollegeville, PAW 20–0[7][8]
November 9Lehigh
  • Whittier Field
  • Swarthmore, PA
L 0–3[9]
November 16Bucknell
  • Whittier Field
  • Swarthmore, PA
W 14–13[10]
November 23at DickinsonCarlisle, PAT 0–0[11]

References

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  1. ^ "1912 Swarthmore Garnet Tide Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved September 14, 2021.
  2. ^ "Little Quakers Bump Villa Nova". The Philadelphia Inquirer. September 29, 1912 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Swarthmore Won From Lafayette". The Allentown Morning Call. October 7, 1912. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Penn Loses Game On Jourdet's Muff". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 13, 1912. pp. Sports 1, 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Navy Eleven Falls Before Swarthmore". The Baltimore Sun. October 20, 1912. p. 13 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Hopkins Beaten By Swarthmore Team". The Baltimore Sun. October 27, 1912. p. 13 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Easy for Swarthmore: Ursinus Goes Down to Defeat By Score of 20 to 0". Evening Star. November 3, 1912 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Swarthmore Takes Over Ursinus, 20-0". The Gazette Times. Pittsburgh. November 3, 1912. p. 19 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Quakers Lose First Game To Lehigh". Chester Times. November 11, 1912. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Big Football Teams Battle". Altoona Tribune. November 18, 1912. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Garnets Battle Dickinson To Tie". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 24, 1912. p. 16 – via Newspapers.com.