Conference Independent | 1897 record 15–0 | |
Head coach George W. Woodruff (6th year) | ||
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.
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1897 Penn Quakers football team Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA