1904 Penn Quakers football team

The 1904 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1904 college football season. The team finished with a 12–0 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, and Parke H. Davis, and as a co-national champion by the National Championship Foundation.[1] They outscored their opponents 222 to 4.[2]

1904 Penn Quakers football
Penn in action
National champion (Helms, Houlgate, Davis) Co-national champion (NCF)
Conference	Independent
1904 record	12–0
Head coach	Carl S. Williams (3rd season)
Captain	Robert Torrey
Home stadium	Franklin Field

1904 Eastern college football independents records
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Penn			–					12	–	0	–	0
Western U. of Penn.			–					10	–	0	–	0
Dartmouth			–					7	–	0	–	1
Yale			–					10	–	1	–	0
Amherst			–					9	–	1	–	0
Colgate			–					8	–	1	–	1
Carlisle			–					10	–	2	–	0
Lafayette			–					8	–	2	–	0
Princeton			–					8	–	2	–	0
Army			–					7	–	2	–	0
Fordham			–					4	–	1	–	1
Harvard			–					7	–	2	–	1
Columbia			–					7	–	3	–	0
Cornell			–					7	–	3	–	0
Villanova			–					4	–	2	–	1
Syracuse			–					6	–	3	–	0
Penn State			–					6	–	4	–	0
Temple			–					3	–	2	–	0
Brown			–					6	–	5	–	0
Bucknell			–					3	–	3	–	0
NYU			–					3	–	6	–	0
Wesleyan			–					3	–	7	–	0
Geneva			–					1	–	4	–	2
New Hampshire			–					2	–	5	–	0
Rutgers			–					1	–	6	–	2
Tufts			–					2	–	9	–	1
Lehigh			–					1	–	8	–	0
Frankin & Marshall			–					0	–	10	–	0

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 24	Penn State	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 6–0
September 28	Swarthmore	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 6–4
October 1	Virginia	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 24–0
October 5	Franklin & Marshall	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 34–0
October 8	Lehigh	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 24–0
October 12	Gettysburg	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 21–0
October 15	Brown	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 6–0
October 22	Columbia	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 16–0	15,000	[3]
October 29	at Harvard	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	W 11–0
November 5	Lafayette	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 22–0
November 12	Carlisle	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 18–0
November 24	Cornell	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)	W 34–0

References

1. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
2. 1904 University of Pennsylvania football scores and results Archived October 9, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on October 8, 2013.
3. "Great Runs Won For Penn Over Columbia, 16-0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 23, 1904. pp. 1, 14 – via Newspapers.com.