1894 Swarthmore Quakers football team

1894 Swarthmore Quakers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–5
Head coach
CaptainHodge
Home stadiumWhittier Field
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
  –   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

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 6at PennPhiladelphia, PAL 0–66
October 10at LehighSouth Bethlehem, 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 (rivalry)
W 32–01,000[6]

References

  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.