The 1896 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the

1896 college football season The 1896 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the ''Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book'' listing Lafayette and Princeton as having been selected national champions. Lafayette finished with an 11–0–1 record whil ...

. The Quakers finished with a 14–1 record in their fifth year under head coach and

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inductee, George Washington Woodruff. Significant games included victories over Navy (8–0),

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(21–0),

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(27–0),

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(8–6), and

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(32–10), and its sole loss against undefeated national champion Lafayette (6–4). The 1896 Penn team outscored its opponents by a combined total of 326 to 24. Five Penn players received recognition on the

1896 College Football All-America Team The 1896 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans for the 1896 college football season, as selected by Caspar Whitney for ''Harper's Weekly'' and the Walter Camp Football Foundat ...

: end Charlie Gelbert (consensus 1st team); guards Charles Wharton (consensus 1st team),

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(consensus 1st team), and L. J. Uffenheimer (''Leslie's Weekly'', 2nd team); and fullback

John Minds John Minds (April 9, 1871 – December 31, 1963) was an American football player and coach. He played college football at the University of Pennsylvania as a fullback from 1894 to 1897. Minds served as the head football coach at the University ...

(''Philadelphia Inquirer'', 1st team).

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