1897 Penn Quakers football team

The 1897 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1897 college football season. The team finished with a 15–0 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, and National Championship Foundation, and as a co-national champion by Parke H. Davis. They outscored their opponents 463 to 20.

1897 Penn Quakers football
National champion (Billingsley, Helms, Houlgate, NCF)
Co-national champion (Davis)
ConferenceIndependent
Record15–0
Head coach
CaptainJohn Minds
Home stadiumFranklin Field
1897 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Penn    15 0 0
Princeton    10 1 0
Washington & Jefferson    10 1 0
Yale    9 0 2
Buffalo    9 1 0
Harvard    10 1 1
Army    6 1 1
Vermont    3 0 2
Lafayette    9 2 1
Drexel    6 2 1
Colgate    5 2 1
Dickinson    7 3 2
Swarthmore    7 3 2
Fordham    2 1 1
Cornell    5 3 1
Syracuse    5 3 1
Brown    7 4 0
Carlisle    6 4 0
Boston College    4 3 0
Holy Cross    4 3 1
Bucknell    3 3 1
NYU    3 3 0
Temple    3 3 0
Trinity (CT)    4 4 1
Wesleyan    6 6 0
Tufts    6 7 0
Geneva    3 4 1
Pittsburgh College    3 5 2
Villanova    3 5 1
Penn State    3 6 0
Amherst    2 6 2
Frankin & Marshall    2 6 2
Lehigh    3 7 0
New Hampshire    2 5 0
Rutgers    2 6 0
Western Univ. Penn.    1 3 0
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