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1879 Pennsylvania Military Academy football team

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1879 Widener Pride football
ConferenceIndependent
Record0–1–1
Seasons1880 →
1879 college football records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Princeton     4 0 1
Yale     3 0 2
Massachusetts     1 0 0
Michigan     1 0 1
Haverford     1 0 1
Harvard     2 1 2
Penn     2 2 0
Amherst     1 1 0
Navy     0 0 1
McGill     0 0 1
Toronto     0 0 1
Stevens     1 2 5
Rutgers     1 2 3
Pennsylvania Military     0 1 1
NYU     0 2 1
Racine     0 1 0
Swarthmore     0 1 0
Columbia     0 3 2

The 1879 Pennsylvania Military Academy football team represented Pennsylvania Military Academy during the 1879 college football season. The team played Swarthmore, Penn, and as one cadet put it, “whoever we could inveigle into coming to us.”

The game against the Crescents Football Club was reported to be first game played at the Military Academy. The result of the contest with Swarthmore is not known.

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultSource
October 253:00 p.m.CrescentsChester, PAT 0–0
November 1SwarthmoreChester, PAUnknown
November 8PennChester, PAL 0–6

References

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  2. "Straws From the Barracks". Delaware County Daily Times. November 13, 1879. Retrieved December 1, 2020.
  3. "Widener 2010 Football Media Guide by Derek Crudele - Issuu".
  4. "Inquirer.com: Philadelphia local news, sports, jobs, cars, homes". Archived from the original on August 27, 2016.
  5. "Football at the P. M. A." Delaware County Daily Times. Chester, Pennsylvania. October 27, 1879. p. 3. Retrieved March 29, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  6. "Football". Delaware County Daily Times. Chester, Pennsylvania. November 10, 1879. p. 3. Retrieved March 29, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
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