1894 Penn Quakers football team
{{short description|American college football season}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}}
{{Infobox college sports team season
| year = 1894
| team = Penn Quakers
| sport = football
| image =
| image_size =
| conference = Independent
| record = 12–0
| head_coach = George Washington Woodruff
| hc_year = 3rd
| stadium =
| captain = Alden Knipe
| champion = Co-national champion (Davis)
}}
{{1894 Eastern college football independents records}}
The 1894 Penn Quakers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Pennsylvania as an independent during the 1894 college football season. In their third season under head coach George Washington Woodruff, the Quakers compiled a 12–0 record, shut out nine of twelve opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 366 to 20.{{cite web|title=1894 Pennsylvania Quakers Schedule and Results|publisher=Sports Reference LLC|work=SR College Football|accessdate=March 29, 2022|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/pennsylvania/1894-schedule.html}}[http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_iaa/ivyleague/pennsylvania/1890-1894_yearly_results.php 1894 University of Pennsylvania football scores and results] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131009065712/http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_iaa/ivyleague/pennsylvania/1890-1894_yearly_results.php |date=October 9, 2013 }}. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on October 8, 2013.
There was no contemporaneous system in 1894 for determining a national champion. However, Penn was retroactively named as the co-national champion by one selector, Parke H. Davis. Other selectors chose Princeton or Yale as the 1894 national champion{{cite book | url=http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2020/FBS.pdf | title=2020 NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision Records | publisher=The National Collegiate Athletic Association | pages=112–114 | date=July 2020 | location=Indianapolis | access-date=January 12, 2021 | archive-date=November 1, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101032438/http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2020/FBS.pdf | url-status=live }} Penn defeated Princeton and Harvard in head-to-head competition.
Four Penn players were named to 1894 All-America college football team: halfback Alden Knipe (chosen by Walter Camp, Caspar Whitney, and Leslie's Weekly); halfback George Brooke (chosen by Camp, Whitney, and Leslie's Weekly); end Charles Gelbert (chosen by Camp, Whitney, and Leslie's Weekly); and guard Charles Wharton (chosen by Leslie's Weekly).{{cite web|title=Walter Camp Football Foundation |url=http://waltercamp.org/index.php/teams_and_awards// |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090330065940/http://waltercamp.org/index.php/teams_and_awards |archive-date=March 30, 2009 }}{{cite web|title=All-America Addendum|publisher=College Football Historical Society Newsletter|date=February 2001|url=http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/CFHSN/CFHSNv14/CFHSNv14n2f.pdf|access-date=March 5, 2010|archive-date=June 13, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100613011304/http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/CFHSN/CFHSNv14/CFHSNv14n2f.pdf|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|title=Football Award Winners|publisher=National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)|year=2016|access-date=October 21, 2017|page=6|url=http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2016/awards.pdf}} Three individuals from the 1894 Penn team were later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame: Gelbert (inducted 1960); coach Woodruff (inducted 1963); and Brooke (inducted 1969).{{cite web|title=Charlie Gelbert|publisher=National Football Foundation|accessdate=March 29, 2022|url=https://footballfoundation.org/hof_search.aspx?hof=2101}}{{cite web|title=George Brooke|publisher=National Football Foundation|accessdate=March 29, 2022|url=https://footballfoundation.org/hof_search.aspx?hof=2098}}{{cite web|title=George Woodruff|publisher=National Football Foundation|accessdate=March 29, 2022|url=https://footballfoundation.org/hof_search.aspx?hof=2104}}
Schedule
{{CFB schedule
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = October 3
| w/l = w
| away = y
| opponent = {{cfb link|year=1894|team=Franklin & Marshall|title=Franklin & Marshall}}
| site_stadium =
| site_cityst = Lancaster, PA
| score = 34–0
| attend = 800
| source = {{cite news |author= |title=Pennsylvania's First Victory |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/77060408/the-times/ |newspaper=The Times |location=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |date=October 4, 1894 |page=3 |access-date=May 4, 2021 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = October 6
| w/l = w
| opponent = Swarthmore
| site_stadium =
| site_cityst = Philadelphia, PA
| score = 66–0
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = October 10
| w/l = w
| opponent = Crescent Athletic Club
| site_stadium =
| site_cityst = Philadelphia, PA
| score = 22–0
| attend = 1,500
| source = {{cite news|title=Pennsylvania Downs Crescent|newspaper=The Philadelphia Times|date=October 11, 1894|page=10|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/51648440/pennsylvania-downs-crescent/|via=Newspapers.com}}
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = October 13
| w/l = w
| opponent = Georgetown
| site_stadium =
| site_cityst = Philadelphia, PA
| score = 46–0
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = October 17
| w/l = w
| opponent = Lehigh
| site_stadium =
| site_cityst = Philadelphia, PA
| score = 30–0
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = October 20
| w/l = w
| away = y
| opponent = Crescent Athletic Club
| site_stadium = Eastern Park
| site_cityst = Brooklyn, NY
| score = 18–10
| source = {{cite news|title=Shook Them Up: Crescent Kickers Surprise University of Pa. Players|newspaper=The Brooklyn Citizen|date=October 21, 1894|page=3|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/51649039/shook-them-up/|via=Newspapers.com}}{{cite news|title=The Crescent-Pennsy Game|newspaper=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle|date=October 21, 1894|page=24|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/51649134/the-crescent-pennsy-game/|via=Newspapers.com}}
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = October 26
| w/l = w
| neutral = y
| opponent = Virginia
| site_stadium = National Park
| site_cityst = Washington, DC
| score = 14–6
| attend = 2,500
| source = {{cite news |author= |title=Gave The Quakers A Shock |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85310712/the-washington-times/ |newspaper=The Washington Times |location=Washington, D.C. |date=October 27, 1894 |page=3 |access-date=September 14, 2021 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = October 27
| w/l = w
| away = y
| opponent = Navy
| site_stadium = Worden Field
| site_cityst = Annapolis, MD
| score = 12–0
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = October 31
| w/l = w
| opponent = Lafayette
| site_stadium =
| site_cityst = Philadelphia, PA
| score = 26–0
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = November 10
| w/l = w
| neutral = y
| opponent = Princeton
| site_stadium = State Fair Grounds
| site_cityst = Trenton, NJ
| gamename = rivalry
| score = 12–0
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = November 17
| w/l = w
| opponent = Cornell
| gamename = rivalry
| site_stadium =
| site_cityst = Philadelphia, PA
| score = 6–0
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = November 29
| w/l = w
| opponent = Harvard
| site_stadium =
| site_cityst = Philadelphia, PA
| gamename = rivalry
| score = 18–4
| attend = 23,000
| source = {{cite news|title=Penn's Glorious Finish: Harvard's Football Hope Crushed Out, 18 to 4|newspaper=Boston Post|date=November 30, 1894|page=1|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/boston-post-nov-30-1894-p-1/|via=NewspaperArchive}}
}}
}}
References
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