1917 Swarthmore Quakers football team

1917 Swarthmore Quakers football
Conference	Independent
Record	6–2
Head coach	Leroy Mercer (1st season)
Home stadium	Swarthmore Field

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

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.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Source
October 6	at Bucknell	Lewisburg, PA	L 7–16
October 13	at Penn	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L 0–10
October 20	Gettysburg	Swarthmore Field Swarthmore, PA	W 17–0
October 27	Franklin & Marshall	Swarthmore Field Swarthmore, PA	W 46–0
November 3	at Johns Hopkins	Homewood Field Baltimore, MD	W 28–7
November 10	Lafayette	Swarthmore Field Swarthmore, PA	W 56–0
November 17	at Delaware	Newark, DE	W 27–0
November 24	Haverford	Swarthmore Field Swarthmore, PA	W 57–7