1894 Swarthmore Quakers football team

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1894 Swarthmore Quakers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–5
Head coach
CaptainHodge
Home stadiumWhittier Field
Seasons
← 1893
1895 →
1894 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Yale     16 0 0
Penn     12 0 0
Villanova     1 0 0
Penn State     6 0 1
Harvard     11 2 0
Geneva     5 1 0
Princeton     8 2 0
Temple     4 1 0
Holy Ghost College     7 2 1
Washington & Jefferson     5 2 1
Brown     10 5 0
Bucknell     5 3 0
Colgate     2 1 1
Army     3 2 0
Frankin & Marshall     6 4 0
Cornell     6 4 1
Amherst     7 5 0
Trinity (CT)     4 3 0
Syracuse     6 5 0
Tufts     6 5 0
Massachusetts     3 3 0
Swarthmore     5 5 0
Western Univ. Penn     1 1 0
Lafayette     5 6 0
New Hampshire     2 3 0
Rutgers     4 6 0
Lehigh     5 9 0
Williams     1 3 0
Drexel     1 3 0
MIT     1 4 0
Boston College     1 6 0
Carlisle     1 8 0
Buffalo     0 2 0
NYU     0 3 0
Wesleyan     0 5 0

The 1894 Swarthmore Quakers football team was an American football team that represented Swarthmore College as an independent during the 1894 college football season. The team compiled a 5–5 record and outscored opponents by a total of 230 to 202. Jacob K. Shell was the head coach,[1]and Hodge served as the captain.[2]

The rivalry game against Haverford is considered to have the first "action shot" photograph during a football game.[3]

Schedule[edit]

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 6at PennPhiladelphia, PAL 0–66
October 10at LehighBethlehem, PAL 0–33
October 17Pennsylvania Medical
W 54–0300[4]
October 24at Lafayette
L 0–46
October 27Georgetown
  • Whittier Field
  • Swarthmore, PA
L 18–22
November 3Dickinson
  • Whittier Field
  • Swarthmore, PA
W 66–15
November 7Penn JVL 0–20
November 10Franklin & Marshall
  • Whittier Field
  • Swarthmore, PA
W 10–0
November 17Pennsylvania Military
  • Whittier Field
  • Swarthmore, PA
W 50–0350[5]
November 24Haverford
  • Whittier Field
  • Swarthmore, PA
W 32–01,000[6]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Swarthmore Yearly Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on February 6, 2010. Retrieved September 16, 2021.
  2. ^ "Swarthmore's Eleven". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 7, 1894. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Haverford Vs. Swarthmore 1894 – First Known Action Shot Of A College Football Game". This is Lower Merion. June 29, 2021. Retrieved November 16, 2022.
  4. ^ "Swarthmore Played Well". The Philadelphia Times. October 18, 1894. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Easy for Swarthmore: They Shut Out the Pennsylvania Military College Team". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 18, 1894. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Swarthmore and Haverford: A Crushing Defeat Administered to the Red and Black by the Garnet". The Philadelphia Times. November 25, 1894. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.