11-0-1 under Sol Metzger; named national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, and Parke H. Davis, and co-national champion (with LSU) by the National Championship Foundation. Penn is the only one of the three 1908 claimants (Harvard, LSU, Penn) that officially claims the title today.
Pennsylvania’s 1908 schedule1908: 2 Champions, Zero Agreement
SPLITLSU went unbeaten and untied against a weaker schedule while Penn finished 11-0-1, and the National Championship Foundation named them co-champions, but the Helms Athletic Foundation picked Penn alone.
The case for each side
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10-0 under Edgar Wingard against a lighter schedule; named co-national champion (with Penn) only by the National Championship Foundation, not by Helms.
LSU’s 1908 scheduleNo national title game was played after the 1908 season: before 1998 there was no mechanism to play one, which is why so many of these seasons were settled by vote instead.