1907 Swarthmore Quakers football team

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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

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]

Schedule[edit]

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[edit]

  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.