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1919 Swarthmore Quakers football team

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1919 Swarthmore Quakers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–1
Head coach
Seasons
← 1918
1920 →
1919 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Harvard     9 0 1
Penn State     7 1 0
Swarthmore     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

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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

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  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.