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1912 Penn Quakers football team

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1912 Penn Quakers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–4
Head coach
CaptainLeroy Mercer
Home stadiumFranklin Field
Seasons
← 1911
1913 →
1912 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Harvard     9 0 0
Penn State     8 0 0
Carlisle     12 1 1
Maine     7 1 0
Princeton     7 1 1
Swarthmore     7 1 1
Yale     7 1 1
Lehigh     9 2 0
Dartmouth     7 2 0
Wesleyan     7 2 0
Colgate     5 2 0
Washington & Jefferson     8 3 1
Rhode Island State     6 3 0
Bucknell     6 3 1
Temple     3 2 0
Penn     7 4 0
Army     5 3 0
Brown     6 4 0
Franklin & Marshall     6 4 0
Holy Cross     4 3 1
Rutgers     5 4 0
Tufts     5 4 0
Fordham     4 4 0
Villanova     3 3 0
Morris Harvey     2 2 0
Lafayette     4 5 1
Syracuse     4 5 0
Carnegie Tech     3 4 1
Geneva     3 4 0
Vermont     3 5 0
Pittsburgh     3 6 0
Boston College     2 4 1
Cornell     3 7 0
NYU     2 6 0

The 1912 Penn Quakers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1912 college football season. In their fourth and final season under head coach Andy Smith, the Quakers compiled a 7–4 record and outscored opponents by a total of 191 to 106.[1] Fullback Leroy Mercer was selected as a first-team All-American by Walter Camp.

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 28 GettysburgW 25–0
October 2Franklin & Marshall
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 35–0
October 5 Dickinson
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 16–0
October 9 Ursinus
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 34–0
October 12Swarthmore
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 3–6[2]
October 19at Brown
L 7–30
October 26 Lafayette
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 3–7
November 2 Penn State
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 0–14
November 9Michigan
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 27–2115,000
November 16 Carlisle
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia
W 34–26
November 28 Cornell
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)
W 7–2

References

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  1. ^ "1912 Pennsylvania Quakers Stats". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved April 5, 2020.
  2. ^ "Penn Loses Game On Jourdet's Muff". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 13, 1912. pp. Sports 1, 4 – via Newspapers.com.