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1891 Penn Quakers football team - Wikipedia

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1891 Penn Quakers football
Conference	Independent
Record	11–2
Head coach	Woody Wagenhorst (4th season)
Captain	Ted Church
Seasons ← 1890 1892 →

1891 Eastern college football independents records
v t e	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Yale		–		13	–	0	–	0
Harvard		–		13	–	1	–	0
Princeton		–		12	–	1	–	0
Tufts		–		7	–	1	–	0
Penn		–		11	–	2	–	0
Colgate		–		4	–	1	–	0
Army		–		4	–	1	–	1
Navy		–		5	–	2	–	0
Cornell		–		7	–	3	–	0
Geneva		–		4	–	2	–	0
Washington & Jefferson		–		4	–	2	–	0
Lehigh		–		7	–	4	–	0
Rutgers		–		8	–	6	–	0
Brown		–		4	–	6	–	0
Springfield YMCA		–		5	–	8	–	1
Fordham		–		1	–	2	–	1
Syracuse		–		4	–	7	–	0
Massachusetts		–		2	–	5	–	0
Western Univ. Penn.		–		2	–	6	–	0
Lafayette		–		2	–	9	–	1
NYU		–		1	–	4	–	0
Columbia		–		1	–	5	–	0
Wesleyan		–		1	–	6	–	0

The 1891 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1891 college football season. The Quakers finished with an 11–2 record in their fourth year under head coach E. O. Wagenhorst. Significant games included victories over Rutgers (32–6), Lafayette (15–6 and 12–10), and Lehigh (42–0 and 32–0), and losses to Princeton (24–0) and undefeated national champion Yale (48–0). The 1891 Penn team outscored its opponents by a combined total of 267 to 109.^[1]^[2] Penn center John Adams was selected by Caspar Whitney as a first-team player on the 1891 College Football All-America Team.^[3] 1891 was last year John Heisman played for Penn.^[4]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 3	Penn graduates	University grounds Philadelphia PA	T 4–4	400	^[5]^[6]
October 8	Schuylkill Navy	University grounds Philadelphia, PA	W 24–0		^[7]
October 10	Haverford	University grounds Philadelphia, PA	W 34–0		^[8]
October 17	at Orange Athletic Club	Orange Oval Orange, NJ	W 26–0	1,000	^[9]
October 21	Rutgers	University grounds Philadelphia, PA	W 32–6	500	^[10]
October 24	at Lehigh	Bethlehem, PA	W 42–0	2,000	^[11]
October 28	Lafayette	Philadelphia, PA	W 15–6		^[12]
October 31	Trinity (CT)	University grounds Philadelphia, PA	W 28–5	1,500	^[13]
November 7	Princeton	Germantown Cricket Club Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)	L 0–24	12,000	^[14]^[15]
November 14	vs. Yale	Manhattan Field New York, NY	L 0–48	5,000	^[16]
November 18	at Lafayette	Easton, PA	W 12–10		^[17]
November 21	Lehigh	Philadelphia, PA	W 32–0
November 25	vs. Wesleyan	Manhattan Field New York, NY	W 18–10	2,500	^[18]

References

^ "1891 Pennsylvania Quakers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
^ "Pennsylvania Yearly Results (1890-1894)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on September 6, 2015. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
^ "2014 NCAA Football Records: Consensus All-America Selections" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2014. p. 4. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 26, 2018. Retrieved August 16, 2014.
^ "Heisman's Playing Record". November 29, 1903. p. 11. Retrieved October 7, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Between the Goals: The 'Varsity Team's Poor Showing with the Graduates; It Results in a Draw". The Times (Philadelphia). October 4, 1891. p. 14.(team identified as "an eleven composed of graduates of Pennsylvania)
^ "Football Season at Hand Again: University of Pa. Play a Tie Game with All Philadelphia". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 4, 1891. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.(opponent called "All Philadelphia"; attendance 400)
^ "U. of P., 24; A. C. S. N., 0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 9, 1891. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Kicking at the Goals: The 'Varsity Team Wins Another Well Played Game". The Times (Philadelphia). October 11, 1891. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Rah! For the 'Varsity: The Orange Athletic Club's Eleven Easily Defeated by U. of P." The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 18, 1891. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Pennsylvania Wins Easily From the Rutgers Eleven". The Times (Philadelphia). October 22, 1891. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Lehigh Men Badly Beaten by the University of Pennsylvania". The Times (Philadelphia). October 25, 1891. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Lafayette Plays a Stiff Game Against the 'Varsity". The Times (Philadelphia). October 29, 1891. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Kicking the Leather: With a Patched-Up Team the 'Varsity Defeats Trinity". The Times (Philadelphia). November 1, 1891. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Princeton's Game: The Jersey Tiger Wins by a Score of 24 to 0". The Times (Philadelphia). November 8, 1891. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Princeton Vs. U. Of Penn". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 8, 1891. p. 4. Retrieved September 8, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Yale Scores 48 Pennsylvania 0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 15, 1891. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "The University Wins: Lafayette's Team Defeated in Closely-Contested Game". The Times (Philadelphia). November 19, 1891. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Pennsylvania Won: They Capture Third Place by Defeating Wesleyan". The Times (Philadelphia). November 26, 1891. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.

v t e Penn Quakers football
Venues	Franklin Field (1895–present)
Bowls & rivalries	1917 Rose Bowl Cornell Harvard Princeton
Culture & lore	The Penn Quaker "Fight on, Pennsylvania!" Marching band 1922 Alabama game
People	Head coaches NFL draftees
Seasons	1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
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