The 1906 Penn Quakers football team represented the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...

in the

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. The Quakers finished with a 7–2–3 record in their fifth year under head coach

Carl S. Williams Carl Sheldon "Cap" Williams (May 16, 1872 – November 8, 1960) was an American football player, coach, and ophthalmologist. He played college football at Oberlin College and the University of Pennsylvania during the 1890s. He returned to P ...

. Significant games included a 24 to 6 loss to the

Carlisle Indians The Carlisle Indians football team represented the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in college football, intercollegiate football competition. The program was active from 1893 until 1917, when it was discontinued. During the program's 25 years, th ...

, a 17 to 0 victory over

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, and a scoreless tie with

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The 1906 Penn team outscored its opponents by a combined total of 186 to 58. Eight players on the 1906 Penn team received recognition on the

1906 College Football All-America Team The 1906 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans by various organizations and writers that chose College Football All-America Teams for the 1906 college football season. The organ ...

. They are ends

Izzy Levene Israel George "Izzy" Levene (May 1, 1885 – November 12, 1930) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of Tennessee from 1907 to 1909 and at Wake Forest University in 1922, compiling a c ...

(WC-3; CW-2; NYS-2; CC-2; NYT-2) and

Hunter Scarlett Hunter Watt Scarlett (October 16, 1885 – December 23, 1954) was a notable ophthalmologist, and is best known for his college football career for the Penn Quakers from 1904 to 1908. During World War I, he worked in both French and American ...

(NYM-1), tackle

Dexter Draper Dexter Wright Draper (May 23, 1881 – August 22, 1961) was an American football player and coach, as well as a pediatrician. He was an All-American tackle at the University of Pennsylvania from 1905 to 1907. Draper became head football coach at ...

(WC-2; NYS-1; NYT-2), guard

Gus Ziegler Augustus Bergey Ziegler (October 24, 1875 – April 14, 1960) was an American football player and coach. He played college football at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a two-time College Football All-America Team, All-American at Guar ...

(WC-2; CW-1; NYS-2; CC-2; NYM-1; NYT-2), center

William Thomas Dunn William Thomas "Mother" Dunn (May 13, 1881 – November 17, 1962) was an American college football player who was a linebacker and center for the Penn State Nittany Lions football team of Penn State University. Dunn captained the 1906 Nittan ...

(WC-1), and halfbacks

Bill Hollenback William Marshall "Big Bill" Hollenback (February 22, 1886 – March 12, 1968) was an American football player and coach. He played football at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was selected as an All-American fullback three straight year ...

(WC-2; CW-1; NYS-1; NYM-1),

Bob Folwell Robert Cook Folwell Jr. (February 17, 1885 – January 8, 1928) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at Lafayette College (1909–1911), Washington & Jefferson College (1912–1915), the University of Pennsylvan ...

(NYT-1) and Edward Green (NYT-2). (NYS and CC) (NYM)

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References

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Penn Quakers football The Penn Quakers football program is the college football team at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. The Penn Quakers have competed in the Ivy League since its inaugural season of 1956, and are a Division I Football Championship ...