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1912 Swarthmore Quakers football team

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1912 Swarthmore Quakers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–1–1
Head coach
Home stadiumWhittier 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 Swarthmore Quakers football team was an American football team that represented Swarthmore College as an independent during the 1912 college football season. The team compiled a 7–1–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 150 to 31. George H. Brooke was the head coach.[1]

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 28Villanova
W 27–0[2]
October 5at Lafayette
W 22–0[3]
October 12at PennW 6–3[4]
October 19at NavyW 21–6[5]
October 26Johns Hopkins
  • Whittier Field
  • Swarthmore, PA
W 40–6[6]
November 2at UrsinusCollegeville, PAW 20–0[7][8]
November 9Lehigh
  • Whittier Field
  • Swarthmore, PA
L 0–3[9]
November 16Bucknell
  • Whittier Field
  • Swarthmore, PA
W 14–13[10]
November 23at DickinsonCarlisle, PAT 0–0[11]

References

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  1. ^ "1912 Swarthmore Garnet Tide Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved September 14, 2021.
  2. ^ "Little Quakers Bump Villa Nova". The Philadelphia Inquirer. September 29, 1912 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Swarthmore Won From Lafayette". The Allentown Morning Call. October 7, 1912. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Penn Loses Game On Jourdet's Muff". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 13, 1912. pp. Sports 1, 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Navy Eleven Falls Before Swarthmore". The Baltimore Sun. October 20, 1912. p. 13 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Hopkins Beaten By Swarthmore Team". The Baltimore Sun. October 27, 1912. p. 13 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Easy for Swarthmore: Ursinus Goes Down to Defeat By Score of 20 to 0". Evening Star. November 3, 1912 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Swarthmore Takes Over Ursinus, 20-0". The Gazette Times. Pittsburgh. November 3, 1912. p. 19 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Quakers Lose First Game To Lehigh". Chester Times. November 11, 1912. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Big Football Teams Battle". Altoona Tribune. November 18, 1912. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Garnets Battle Dickinson To Tie". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 24, 1912. p. 16 – via Newspapers.com.