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1895 Swarthmore Quakers football team

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1895 Swarthmore Quakers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–4–1
Head coach
Home stadiumWhittier Field
Seasons
← 1894
1896 →
1895 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Penn     14 0 0
Yale     13 0 2
Princeton     10 1 1
Washington & Jefferson     6 1 1
Harvard     8 2 1
Lafayette     6 2 0
Syracuse     6 2 2
Army     5 2 0
Bucknell     5 2 0
Colgate     4 2 0
Swarthmore     7 4 1
Tufts     8 5 0
Villanova     4 2 0
Wesleyan     6 3 0
Amherst     6 5 0
Brown     7 6 1
Carlisle     4 4 0
Drexel     3 3 1
Penn State     2 2 3
Cornell     3 4 1
Rutgers     3 4 0
New Hampshire     2 3 1
Frankin & Marshall     3 5 1
Boston College     2 4 2
Lehigh     3 6 0
CCNY     2 5 1
Buffalo     1 4 2
Temple     1 4 1
MIT     1 4 0
Trinity (CT)     1 4 0
Massachusetts     1 5 0
Western Univ. Penn.     1 6 0
Geneva     0 5 0

The 1895 Swarthmore Quakers football team was an American football team that represented Swarthmore College as an independent during the 1895 college football season. The team compiled a 7–4–1 record and was outscored by a total of 204 to 173. Jacob K. Shell was the head coach.[1]

Schedule

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DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 1at PennPhiladelphia, PAL 0–40[2]
October 5Delaware
W 14–0[3]
October 16Ursinus
  • Whittier Field
  • Swarthmore, PA
W 20–4
October 19Baltimore City College
  • Whittier Field
  • Swarthmore, PA
W 20–0
October 233:30 p.m.at Rutgers
L 12–26[4]
October 26at DelawareNewark, DEW 31–12[5]
November 2vs. GettysburgHarrisburg, PAW 10–0
November 9Johns Hopkins
  • Whittier Field
  • Swarthmore, PA
W 28–14
November 13St. John's (MD)
  • Whittier Field
  • Swarthmore, PA
T 22–22
November 16Pennsylvania Military
  • Whittier Field
  • Swarthmore, PA
W 16–12
November 23at HaverfordHaverford, PA (rivalry)L 0–24
November 28at Franklin & MarshallLancaster, PAL 0–50

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. ^ "Football Players Warm the Gridiron". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 2, 1895. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Swarthmore and Delaware". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 6, 1895. p. 7. Retrieved October 21, 2021 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  4. ^ "Rutgers Downs Swarthmore by a Score of 26 to 12". The Daily Times. October 24, 1895. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Swarthmore, 31; Delaware College 12". The Times. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 27, 1895. p. 8. Retrieved October 21, 2021 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.