1915 Swarthmore Quakers football team

The 1915 Swarthmore Quakers football team was an American football team that represented Swarthmore College as an independent during the 1915 college football season. In their first season under head coach Bill Roper, the Quakers compiled a 5–3 record and outscored opponents by a total of 94 to 77.[1]

1915 Swarthmore Quakers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–3
Head coach
Home stadiumWhittier Field
Seasons
← 1914
1916 →
1915 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Cornell     9 0 0
Pittsburgh     8 0 0
Columbia     5 0 0
Harvard     8 1 0
Carnegie Tech     7 1 0
Rutgers     7 1 0
Villanova     6 1 0
Washington & Jefferson     8 1 1
Colgate     5 1 0
Syracuse     9 1 2
Dartmouth     7 1 1
Tufts     5 1 2
Penn State     7 2 0
Lafayette     8 3 0
Princeton     6 2 0
Franklin & Marshall     6 2 0
Temple     3 1 1
Geneva     6 3 0
Wesleyan     6 3 0
Allegheny     5 3 0
Swarthmore     5 3 0
Army     5 3 1
Lehigh     6 4 0
Holy Cross     3 2 2
Brown     5 4 1
Fordham     4 4 0
NYU     4 4 1
Middlebury     3 4 2
Muhlenberg     4 5 0
Yale     4 5 0
Boston College     3 4 0
Penn     3 5 2
WPI     3 5 1
Buffalo     3 5 0
Carlisle     3 6 2
Rhode Island State     3 5 0
New Hampshire     3 6 1
Gettysburg     3 6 0
Rochester     3 6 0
Bucknell     2 6 3
Vermont     1 4 2
Williams     1 7 0

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultSource
October 2Dickinson
W 42–0
October 9at BucknellLewisburg, PAW 3–0
October 16at UrsinusCollegeville, PAW 14–6
October 23Franklin & Marshall
  • Whittier Field
  • Swarthmore, PA
L 7–21[2]
October 30at Johns HopkinsBaltimore, MDW 21–12
November 6at Lafayette
L 0–17
November 13Villanova
  • Whittier Field
  • Swarthmore, PA
L 0–19
November 20Haverford
  • Whittier Field
  • Swarthmore, PA (rivalry)
W 7–2[3]

References

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  1. ^ "Swarthmore Yearly Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on February 6, 2010. Retrieved September 16, 2021.
  2. ^ "F. & M. Tears Through Swarthmore and Defeats Quaker Eleven, 21 to 7". The Lancaster News Journal. October 25, 1915. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Garnets Scored Only Touchdown Early in Game: Swarthmore Wipes Out Last Season's Tie Score With Ancient Rivals on Whittier Field in Furious Battle 7 to 2". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 21, 1915. p. 17 – via Newspapers.com.