1906 Penn Quakers football team

1906 Penn Quakers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–2–3
Head coach
CaptainEdward L. Greene
Home stadiumFranklin Field
Seasons
← 1905
1907 →
1906 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Princeton     9 0 1
Yale     9 0 1
Haverford     7 0 2
Harvard     10 1 0
Cornell     8 1 2
Lafayette     8 1 1
Penn State     8 1 1
Washington & Jefferson     9 2 0
Swarthmore     7 2 0
Drexel     6 2 0
Tufts     6 2 0
Penn     7 2 3
Carlisle     9 3 0
Brown     6 3 0
Rutgers     5 2 2
Dartmouth     6 3 1
Syracuse     6 3 0
Colgate     4 2 2
Vermont     5 4 0
Fordham     5 3 0
Western U. of Penn.     6 4 0
Holy Cross     4 3 1
Amherst     3 3 1
Lehigh     5 5 1
Bucknell     3 4 1
Dickinson     3 4 2
Carnegie Tech     2 3 2
Army     3 5 1
Frankin & Marshall     3 5 1
Wesleyan     2 4 1
New Hampshire     2 5 1
Villanova     3 7 0
Springfield Training School     1 5 3
NYU     0 4 0

The 1906 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1906 college football season. The Quakers finished with a 7–2–3 record in their fifth year under head coach Carl S. Williams. Significant games included a 24 to 6 loss to the Carlisle Indians, a 17 to 0 victory over Michigan, and a scoreless tie with Cornell The 1906 Penn team outscored its opponents by a combined total of 186 to 58.[1][2]

Eight players on the 1906 Penn team received recognition on the 1906 College Football All-America Team. They are ends Izzy Levene (WC-3; CW-2; NYS-2; CC-2; NYT-2) and Hunter Scarlett (NYM-1), tackle Dexter Draper (WC-2; NYS-1; NYT-2), guard Gus Ziegler (WC-2; CW-1; NYS-2; CC-2; NYM-1; NYT-2), center William Thomas Dunn (WC-1), and halfbacks Bill Hollenback (WC-2; CW-1; NYS-1; NYM-1), Bob Folwell (NYT-1) and Edward Green (NYT-2).[3][4][5][6][7]

  1. ^ "1906 Pennsylvania Quakers Stats". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
  2. ^ "Pennsylvania Yearly Results (1905-1909)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on September 6, 2015. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
  3. ^ "Walter Camp Football Foundation". Archived from the original on March 30, 2009. (WC)
  4. ^ Caspar Whitney (1907). "The View-Point". Outing. p. 537. (CW)
  5. ^ "'Philistine' Is Generous: Sun Accords Syracuse Bank Amid First Sixtten". The Post-Standard. December 4, 1906. (NYS and CC)
  6. ^ "New Football Produces Individual Brilliancy: Many Players Merit Places on Fanciful All-American Team" (PDF). The New York Times. December 9, 1906. (NYT)
  7. ^ "untitled". Daily Gazette And Bulletin. December 5, 1906. (NYM)

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