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1916 Swarthmore Quakers football team

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1916 Swarthmore Quakers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–1–1
Head coach
Home stadiumSwarthmore Field
Seasons
← 1915
1917 →
1916 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Army     9 0 0
Pittsburgh     8 0 0
Brown     8 1 0
Colgate     8 1 0
Yale     8 1 0
Fordham     6 1 1
Swarthmore     6 1 1
Penn State     8 2 0
Washington & Jefferson     8 2 0
Boston College     6 2 0
Cornell     6 2 0
Princeton     6 2 0
Lehigh     6 2 1
Dartmouth     5 2 2
Harvard     7 3 0
Penn     7 3 1
Temple     3 1 2
Tufts     5 3 0
Carnegie Tech     4 3 0
Rutgers     3 2 2
NYU     4 3 1
Syracuse     5 4 0
Holy Cross     4 5 0
Vermont     4 5 0
Rhode Island State     3 4 1
Geneva     2 5 2
Carlisle     1 3 1
Lafayette     2 6 1
Bucknell     3 9 0
Columbia     1 5 2
Franklin & Marshall     1 7 0
Villanova     1 8 0

The 1916 Swarthmore Quakers football team was an American football team that represented Swarthmore College as an independent during the 1916 college football season. The team compiled a 6–1–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 94 to 45. Bill Roper was the head coach.[1]

A new football field was donated during the 1916 season. The field was built with a contribution from Morris L. Clothier, a Swarthmore alumnus and Philadelphia merchant, and was named Swarthmore Field.[2][3]

Schedule

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DateTimeOpponentSiteResultSource
October 7at Lafayette
W 10–6
October 14at PennW 6–0
October 21at Franklin & MarshallLancaster, PAW 6–0
October 28UrsinusSwarthmore, PAW 13–3
November 42:00 p.m.at Johns HopkinsBaltimore, MDW 14–6[4]
November 11at Columbia
W 18–0
November 18DickinsonSwarthmore, PAT 20–20
November 25at HaverfordHaverford, PA (rivalry)L 7–10

References

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  1. ^ "Swarthmore Yearly Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on February 6, 2010. Retrieved September 14, 2021.
  2. ^ "Noble Gift To Swarthmore". Delaware County Times. October 13, 1916. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Mr. Clothier's Gift". Delaware County Daily Times. October 18, 1916. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Big Gridiron Games On Schedule Today". The Washington Post. Washington, D.C. November 4, 1916. p. 8. Retrieved January 8, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.