1887 Penn Quakers football team

The 1887 Penn Quakers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Pennsylvania as an independent during the 1887 college football season. In its third and final year under head coach Frank Dole, the team compiled a 6–7 record. Penn lost five games to the Big Three (Princeton, Harvard, and Yale) by a combined score of 291 to 0.[1]

1887 Penn Quakers football
Conference	Independent
1887 record	6–7
Head coach	Frank Dole (3rd season)

1887 Eastern college football independents records
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Yale			–					9	–	0	–	0
Penn State			–					2	–	0	–	0
Harvard			–					10	–	1	–	0
Lafayette			–					7	–	2	–	0
Princeton			–					7	–	2	–	0
Lehigh			–					4	–	3	–	0
Trinity (CT)			–					3	–	3	–	1
Penn			–					6	–	7	–	0
Wesleyan			–					4	–	5	–	0
Amherst			–					4	–	6	–	0
Massachusetts			–					2	–	3	–	0
Rutgers			–					3	–	6	–	0
Tufts			–					3	–	6	–	0
Cornell			–					0	–	2	–	0
Franklin & Marshall			–					0	–	2	–	0
Stevens			–					0	–	6	–	1
Bucknell			–							–
Union (NY)			–							–
Worcester Tech			–							–

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Source
October 8	Graduates	Philadelphia, PA	W 14–6
October 12	Tioga	Philadelphia, PA	W 46–0
October 15	Graduates	Philadelphia, PA	W 18–0
October 19	Princeton	Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)	L 0–57
October 22	at Princeton	Princeton, NJ	L 0–42
October 29	Yale	Philadelphia, PA	L 0–50
November 2	Rutgers	Philadelphia, PA	W 13–10
November 5	Princeton	Philadelphia, PA	L 0–96
November 9	Haverford	Philadelphia, PA	W 36–0
November 12	Lehigh	Philadelphia, PA	W 6–4
November 16	Lafayette	Philadelphia, PA	L 0–20
November 19	at Harvard	Jarvis Field Cambridge, MA (rivalry)	L 0–46
November 24	vs. Wesleyan	New York, NY	L 4–10

References

1. "2018 Penn Football Fact Book" (PDF). University of Pennsylvania. 2018. p. 152. Retrieved February 13, 2020.