1879 Pennsylvania Military Academy football team

1879 Widener Pride football
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Record0–1–1
Seasons
1880 →
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.”[1][2]

The game against the Crescents Football Club was reported to be first game played at the Military Academy.[3] The result of the contest with Swarthmore is not known.[4]

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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".