On February 9, 1907 the Western University of Pennsylvania Athletic Committee hired Yale graduate John A. Moorhead as head football coach for the 1907 season.

Plus, the Athletic Committee reviewed the eligibility rules and determined that graduate students Jud Schmidt and Joe Edgar could play another season.

[15][16] On October 5 the Pioneers of Marietta College arrived in Pittsburgh to open the WUP football season at Exposition Park.

The Marietta eleven surprised the oddsmakers and fifteen hundred fans in attendance as they held the WUP offense scoreless in the first half.

Jud Schmidt managed to score a touchdown late in the first half from the ten yard line off a double pass and Richard Hoblitzell kicked the goal after.

is a larger team, but there was but little rapidity in the getting off of the plays and the men showed but little of the pulling and helping game, and their most sinful omissions were the lack of adaptability in handling punts and in fumbling the ball.

In the second half there was a departure from the straight football plays and the onside kicks and forward passes were resorted to, and while some of them were well executed, penalties crept in too often to mark the effect of the good work done.

Fifteen hundred fans attended the October 19 game against the Muskingum College Fighting Muskies from New Concord, Ohio.

To generate more offense coach Moorhead inserted both Banbury brothers (Quince and Winfred) and Fred Klawuhn into the starting backfield with quarterback Karl Swenson.

The Pittsburgh Press discussed the offensive struggles:"When the coaches saw what an easy proposition they were going to have of the visiting eleven, they turned it into a sort of practice affair, and instead of trying to roll up a record breaking score as has been the case the past years, they put all their plays to test, chief of which was the onside kick.

The Pittsburg Press wrote: "The WUP players appeared on the field with bright numbers on their jerseys, and this improved the game considerably from a spectator's standpoint.

Previous researchers have documented the 1908 season as the start of numerals on uniforms by WUP or Washington & Jefferson but Dr. L. H. Baker in his 1945 treatise "Football: Facts & Figures" had the first game with numbers listed as Chicago versus Wisconsin in 1913.

[3] On October 26 the Bucknell University football team from Lewisburg, Pennsylvania took on the WUP eleven at Exposition Park in front of over four thousand vociferous fans.

The Pittsburgh Daily Post noted "Enthusiasm was not lacking, the Wup students with a band, and the Bucknell postgrads in the left field bleachers keeping up a continual exchange of yells.

Early in the game Bison halfback Clark intercepted a pass and raced into the end zone but the play was called back due to a penalty.

After Hoblitzell had a field goal attempt blocked, the Bison used the forward pass to advance the ball to the WUP five yard line.

The game consisted of two twenty-five minute halves[28] On November 2 for the third year in a row the WUP contingent traveled to Ithaca, New York to take on Cornell at Percy Field.

With less than five minutes to play, WUP halfback Jud Schmidt was attempting to punt and Cornell center May blocked it into the end zone and fell on it for the Big Red's third touchdown.

Coach Moorhead started John Mackrell at quarterback to keep Swenson rested for the Saturday game with West Virginia.

[30][31] On November 16 close to twelve thousand rabid fans jammed Exposition Park for the yearly battle between WUP and the Red and Black of Washington & Jefferson.

WUP rooters met at Union Station and paraded through the downtown streets and into Exposition Park behind a monster horn carried by six able-bodied students.

The Pittsburgh Daily Post noted: "Both teams will wear bright numbers and this will enable the spectators to distinguish them readily.

He fumbled and W & J fullback Kumler picked up the ball and carried it into the end zone for the only touchdown of the game and a 9–2 lead for the Red and Black.

The rest of the WUP offense took out their frustration with the Washington & Jefferson loss on the Fighting Scots as they scored twenty-eight points in the first half.

[9] Ten thousand fans spent their Thanksgiving Day at Exposition Park watching the tenth meeting between State College and WUP on the gridiron.

The Pittsburgh Daily Post described the scene: "The greatest football day in this city in the history of the fascinating college sport resulted yesterday in a splendid victory for the Western University of Pennsylvania over Pennsylvania State College by a score of 6-0... Thousands were gladdened by the bright rays of the sun, whose face the weatherman had predicted would not show.

Gaily attired girls and matrons brilliant with colors of their favorite college added splendor to the scenes of the contest.

"[10] Even though they were on a two-game losing streak, the State College contingent was confident of victory since they had won eight of the previous nine games against WUP.

The second half began as more of the same when Vorhis missed another field goal try from thirty yards out and the WUP offense struggled to consistently move the ball.

With less than five minutes to play WUP quarterback Karl Swenson dropped back and threw a thirty-yard spiral to Quince Banbury.