1903 Penn Quakers football team

1903 Penn Quakers football
Conference	Independent
Record	9–3
Head coach	Carl S. Williams (2nd season)
Captain	Sol Metzger
Home stadium	Franklin Field

1903 Eastern college football independents records

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Princeton			–					11	–	0	–	0
Yale			–					11	–	1	–	0
Columbia			–					9	–	1	–	0
Dartmouth			–					9	–	1	–	0
Geneva			–					9	–	1	–	0
Holy Cross			–					8	–	2	–	0
Temple			–					4	–	1	–	0
Washington & Jefferson			–					8	–	2	–	0
Lehigh			–					9	–	2	–	1
Harvard			–					9	–	3	–	0
Penn			–					9	–	3	–	0
Army			–					6	–	2	–	1
Carlisle			–					6	–	2	–	1
Amherst			–					7	–	3	–	0
Lafayette			–					7	–	3	–	0
Cornell			–					6	–	3	–	1
Colgate			–					4	–	2	–	1
Penn State			–					5	–	3	–	0
Swarthmore			–					6	–	4	–	0
Brown			–					5	–	4	–	1
Syracuse			–					5	–	4	–	0
Fordham			–					1	–	1	–	0
Frankin & Marshall			–					5	–	5	–	1
Buffalo			–					4	–	4	–	0
Rutgers			–					4	–	4	–	1
Delaware			–					4	–	4	–	0
Villanova			–					2	–	2	–	0
Bucknell			–					4	–	5	–	0
Vermont			–					4	–	5	–	0
Tufts			–					5	–	8	–	0
Wesleyan			–					3	–	6	–	1
Springfield Training School			–					1	–	3	–	1
NYU			–					2	–	5	–	0
New Hampshire			–					2	–	6	–	1
Pittsburgh College			–					1	–	5	–	1
Western U. Penn.			–					1	–	8	–	1

The 1903 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1903 college football season. The Quakers finished with a 9–3 record in their second year under head coach Carl S. Williams. Significant games included victories over Penn State (39–0), Brown (30–0), and Cornell (42–0), and losses to Columbia (18–6), Harvard (17–10), and Carlisle (16–6). The 1903 Penn team outscored its opponents by a combined total of 370 to 57. Guard Frank Piekarski was the only Penn player to receive recognition on the 1903 College Football All-America Team; Piekarski received third-team honors from Walter Camp.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 26	Dickinson	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 27–0
September 30	Franklin & Marshall	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 17–0
October 3	Lehigh	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 16–0
October 7	Haverford	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 58–0
October 10	Penn State	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 39–0
October 14	Gettysburg	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 72–0
October 17	Brown	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 30–0
October 24	at Columbia	Polo Grounds New York, NY	L 6–18
October 31	Bucknell	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 47–6
November 7	Harvard	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)	L 10–17	23,000
November 14	Carlisle	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L 6–16
November 26	Cornell	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)	W 42–0