1919 Swarthmore Quakers football team

1919 Swarthmore Quakers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–1
Head coach
1919 Eastern college football independents records
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Harvard   –   9 – 0 – 1
Penn State   –   7 – 1 – 0
  –   7 – 1 – 0
Dartmouth   –   6 – 1 – 1
Colgate   –   5 – 1 – 1
New Hampshire   –   7 – 2 – 0
Lafayette   –   6 – 2 – 0
Washington & Jefferson   –   6 – 2 – 0
Williams   –   6 – 2 – 0
Syracuse   –   8 – 3 – 0
Penn   –   6 – 2 – 1
Pittsburgh   –   6 – 2 – 1
Lehigh   –   6 – 3 – 0
Princeton   –   4 – 2 – 1
Geneva   –   4 – 2 – 2
Army   –   6 – 3 – 0
Boston College   –   5 – 3 – 0
Holy Cross   –   5 – 3 – 0
Rutgers   –   5 – 3 – 0
Yale   –   5 – 3 – 0
Villanova   –   5 – 3 – 1
Brown   –   5 – 4 – 1
Bucknell   –   5 – 4 – 1
NYU   –   4 – 4 – 0
Carnegie Tech   –   3 – 4 – 0
Columbia   –   2 – 4 – 3
Cornell   –   3 – 5 – 0
Vermont   –   3 – 6 – 0
Franklin & Marshall   –   2 – 4 – 2
Tufts   –   2 – 5 – 0
Buffalo   –   0 – 5 – 1
Rhode Island State   –   0 – 8 – 1
Drexel   –   0 – 4 – 0

The 1919 Swarthmore Quakers football team was an American football team that represented Swarthmore College as an independent during the 1919 college football season. The team compiled a 7–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 145 to 79. Leroy Mercer was the head coach.[1]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 4Maryland StateSwarthmore, PAW 10–6[2]
October 11at Pennsylvania MilitaryChester, PAW 14–0[3]
October 18at PennL 7–55[4]
October 25Johns HopkinsSwarthmore, PAW 20–6[5]
November 1UrsinusSwarthmore, PAW 13–12[6]
November 8at Franklin & MarshallLancaster, PAW 20–0[7]
November 15at Delaware
W 17–03,000[8]
November 22HaverfordSwarthmore, PA (rivalry)W 44–0[9]

References

  1. ^ "Swarthmore Yearly Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on February 6, 2010. Retrieved September 14, 2021.
  2. ^ "State Fights, But Loses: Marylanders Give Swarthmore Stiff Argument In Opening Tilt". The Baltimore Sun. October 5, 1919. p. 31 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Swarthmore Held by P.M.C. Eleven". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 12, 1919. p. 22 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Easy for Ole Penn: Red and Blue 55, But Quakers Score". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 19, 1919. p. 21 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Hopkins Meets a Tartar: Garnet Better in Mud; Hopkins Eleven Tastes Defeat By 20-To-6 Score". The Baltimore Sun. October 26, 1919. p. 12 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Little Quakers Win From Ursinus, 13-12". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 2, 1919. p. 23 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Swarthmore Defeats Franklin-Marshall". The Pittsburgh Press. November 9, 1919. p. 25 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Swarthmore Wins From Delaware". Wilmington Morning News. November 17, 1919. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Swarthmore Routs Haverford 44-0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 23, 1919. p. 20 – via Newspapers.com.