In their third season under head coach George Washington Woodruff, the Quakers compiled a 12–0 record, shut out nine of twelve opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 366 to 20.
[1][2] There was no contemporaneous system in 1894 for determining a national champion.
However, Penn was retroactively named as the co-national champion by one selector, Parke H. Davis.
Other selectors chose Princeton or Yale as the 1894 national champion[3] Penn defeated Princeton and Harvard in head-to-head competition.
Four Penn players were named to 1894 All-America college football team: halfback Alden Knipe (chosen by Walter Camp, Caspar Whitney, and Leslie's Weekly); halfback George Brooke (chosen by Camp, Whitney, and Leslie's Weekly); end Charles Gelbert (chosen by Camp, Whitney, and Leslie's Weekly); and guard Charles Wharton (chosen by Leslie's Weekly).