The 1904 Swarthmore Quakers football team was an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...

team that represented

Swarthmore College Swarthmore College ( , ) is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1864, with its first classes held in 1869, Swarthmore is one of the earliest coeduca ...

as an independent during the

1904 college football season The 1904 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the ''Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book'' listing Michigan, Minnesota, and Penn as having been selected national champions. 1904 was a big year for the South. It was ...

. The team compiled a 6–3 record and outscored their opponents by a total of 187 to 28. George H. Brooke was the head coach The team featured

drop kick A drop kick is a type of kick in various codes of football. It involves a player dropping the ball and then kicking it as it touches the ground. Drop kicks are used as a method of restarting play and scoring points in rugby union and rugby league ...

Wilmer G. Crowell Wilmer Gardner Crowell (January 29, 1884 – August 23, 1943) was an American college football, basketball and lacrosse player and coach. He was a quarterback and drop kicker at Swarthmore. He served as the head football coach at George Washingt ...

. He made a 40-yard field goal against Lehigh, and 55-yard and 48-yard field goals against Franklin & Marshall.

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