1879 Pennsylvania Military Academy football team

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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]

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1879 college football records
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW L T
Princeton â€“ 4–0–1
Yale â€“ 3–0–2
Massachusetts â€“ 1–0–0
Michigan â€“ 1–0–1
Haverford â€“ 1–0–1
Harvard â€“ 2–1–2
Penn â€“ 2–2–0
Amherst â€“ 1–1–0
Navy â€“ 0–0–1
McGill â€“ 0–0–1
Toronto â€“ 0–0–1
Stevens â€“ 1–2–5
Rutgers â€“ 1–2–3
Pennsylvania Military â€“ 0–1–1
NYU â€“ 0–2–1
Racine â€“ 0–1–0
Swarthmore â€“ 0–1–0
Columbia â€“ 0–3–2
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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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DateTimeOpponentSiteResultSource
October 253:00 p.m.CrescentsChester, PAT 0–0[5]
November 1SwarthmoreChester, PAUnknown
November 8PennChester, PAL 0–6[6]
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