Summary
Football team, 1885
In this year, Frank Dole became the University of Pennsylvania’s first football coach, and the team began playing games on the newly-built athletic field at 37th and Spruce Streets, later the site of the dormitories in the Quadrangle.
Team Members
- Geo. H. Frazier, ’87 (captain)
- Paul Thompson, post grad (captain)
- F.W.W. Graham, ’87
- C.A. Griscom, Jr., ’87
- S.F. Houston, ’87
- S. Hutchinson, ’88
- Ed. M. Jeffreys, ’86
- Gus. Remak, Jr., Law
- R.L. Rutter, ’86
- J.P. Tunis, ’86
- Wm. T. Wright, ’87
Substitutes:
- L.H. Alexander, ’88
- N. Downs, ’88 Medical
- J.H. Dewey, ’88
- E. DeF. Miel, ’88
- G.W. Pepper, ’87
- F.W. Ralston, ’87
- William Holmes Salter, ’87
| Date | Opponent | Location | Score | Outcome | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Penn | Opponent | ||||
| Oct. 7 | Graduates | 42 | 0 | Win | |
| Oct. 10 | Lehigh | 54 | 0 | Win | |
| Oct. 14 | Swarthmore | 68 | 6 | Win | |
| Oct. 17 | Graduates | 6 | 5 | Win | |
| Oct. 24 | Princeton | 0 | 57 | Loss | |
| Oct. 28 | Lafayette | 54 | 10 | Loss | |
| Oct. 31 | Princeton | 10 | 70 | Loss | |
| Nov. 4 | Lafayette | 30 | 22 | Win | |
| Nov. 7 | Wesleyan | 18 | 25 | Loss | |
| Nov. 14 | Yale | 5 | 53 | Loss | |
| Nov. 18 | Lehigh | 35 | 0 | Win | |
| Nov. 21 | Stevens Inst. | 22 | 9 | Win | |
| Nov. 26 | Princeton | 10 | 76 | Loss | |