The 1897 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1897 college football season. The team finished with a 15–0 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, and National Championship Foundation, and as a co-national champion by Parke H. Davis.[1] They outscored their opponents 463 to 20.[2]
Legacy[]
Head coach George Washington Woodruff and players Truxtun Hare, John Minds, and John H. Outland are all inductees of the College Football Hall of Fame. Outland is the namesake of the Outland Trophy, awarded annually to the best college football interior lineman. The Quakers' 15 wins in a single season would not be equalled until the 2018 Clemson Tigers.[3][4]
Schedule[]
| Date | Opponent | Site | Result |
|---|
| September 22 | at Bucknell | Lewisburg, PA | W 17–0 |
| September 25 | Franklin & Marshall | | W 33–0 |
| September 29 | Washington & Jefferson | - Franklin Field
- Philadelphia, PA
| W 18–4 |
| October 2 | Bucknell | - Franklin Field
- Philadelphia, PA
| W 33–0 |
| October 6 | Gettysburg | - Franklin Field
- Philidelphia, PA
| W 57–0 |
| October 9 | Lehigh | - Franklin Field
- Philadelphia, PA
| W 58–0 |
| October 13 | Virginia | - Franklin Field
- Philadelphia, PA
| W 42–0 |
| October 16 | Dartmouth | - Franklin Field
- Philadelphia, PA
| W 34–0 |
| October 20 | Penn State | - Franklin Field
- Philadelphia, PA
| W 24–0 |
| October 23 | Lafayette | - Franklin Field
- Philadelphia, PA
| W 46–0 |
| October 30 | at Brown | Providence, RI (rivalry) | W 40–0 |
| November 6 | Carlisle | - Franklin Field
- Philadelphia, PA
| W 20–10 |
| November 13 | Wesleyan | - Franklin Field
- Philadelphia, PA
| W 22–0 |
| November 20 | Harvard | - Franklin Field
- Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)
| W 15–6 |
| November 25 | Cornell | - Franklin Field
- Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)
| W 4–0 |
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