1916 Swarthmore Quakers football team

1916 Swarthmore Quakers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–1–1
Head coach
Home stadiumSwarthmore Field
1916 Eastern college football independents records
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW L T
Army    9 0 0
Pittsburgh    8 0 0
Brown    8 1 0
Colgate    8 1 0
Yale    8 1 0
Fordham    6 1 1
Swarthmore    6 1 1
Penn State    8 2 0
Washington & Jefferson    8 2 0
Boston College    6 2 0
Cornell    6 2 0
Princeton    6 2 0
Lehigh    6 2 1
Dartmouth    5 2 2
Harvard    7 3 0
Penn    7 3 1
Temple    3 1 2
Tufts    5 3 0
Carnegie Tech    4 3 0
Rutgers    3 2 2
NYU    4 3 1
Syracuse    5 4 0
Holy Cross    4 5 0
Vermont    4 5 0
Rhode Island State    3 4 1
New Hampshire    3 5 2
Geneva    2 5 2
Carlisle    1 3 1
Lafayette    2 6 1
Bucknell    3 9 0
Columbia    1 5 2
Franklin & Marshall    1 7 0
Villanova    1 8 0

The 1916 Swarthmore Quakers football team was an American football team that represented Swarthmore College as an independent during the 1916 college football season. The team compiled a 6–1–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 94 to 45. Bill Roper was the head coach.

A new football field was donated during the 1916 season. The field was built with a contribution from Morris L. Clothier, a Swarthmore alumnus and Philadelphia merchant, and was named Swarthmore Field.