1912 Penn Quakers football team

1912 Penn Quakers football
Conference	Independent
Record	7–4
Head coach	Andy Smith (4th season)
Captain	Leroy Mercer
Home stadium	Franklin Field

1912 Eastern college football independents records

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Harvard			–					9	–	0	–	0
Penn State			–					8	–	0	–	0
Carlisle			–					12	–	1	–	1
Maine			–					7	–	1	–	0
Princeton			–					7	–	1	–	1
Swarthmore			–					7	–	1	–	1
Yale			–					7	–	1	–	1
Lehigh			–					9	–	2	–	0
Dartmouth			–					7	–	2	–	0
Wesleyan			–					7	–	2	–	0
Colgate			–					5	–	2	–	0
Washington & Jefferson			–					8	–	3	–	1
Rhode Island State			–					6	–	3	–	0
Bucknell			–					6	–	3	–	1
Temple			–					3	–	2	–	0
Penn			–					7	–	4	–	0
Army			–					5	–	3	–	0
Brown			–					6	–	4	–	0
Franklin & Marshall			–					6	–	4	–	0
Holy Cross			–					4	–	3	–	1
Rutgers			–					5	–	4	–	0
Tufts			–					5	–	4	–	0
Fordham			–					4	–	4	–	0
Villanova			–					3	–	3	–	0
Morris Harvey			–					2	–	2	–	0
Lafayette			–					4	–	5	–	1
Syracuse			–					4	–	5	–	0
Carnegie Tech			–					3	–	4	–	1
Geneva			–					3	–	4	–	0
Vermont			–					3	–	5	–	0
Pittsburgh			–					3	–	6	–	0
Boston College			–					2	–	4	–	1
Cornell			–					3	–	7	–	0
NYU			–					2	–	6	–	0

The 1912 Penn Quakers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1912 college football season. In their fourth and final season under head coach Andy Smith, the Quakers compiled a 7–4 record and outscored opponents by a total of 191 to 106. Fullback Leroy Mercer was selected as a first-team All-American by Walter Camp.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 28	Gettysburg	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 25–0
October 2	Franklin & Marshall	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 35–0
October 5	Dickinson	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 16–0
October 9	Ursinus	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 34–0
October 12	Swarthmore	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L 3–6
October 19	at Brown	Andrews Field Providence, RI	L 7–30
October 26	Lafayette	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L 3–7
November 2	Penn State	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L 0–14
November 9	Michigan	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 27–21	15,000
November 16	Carlisle	Franklin Field Philadelphia	W 34–26
November 28	Cornell	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)	W 7–2