The first football team at Penn was formed in 1892, with James R. Howard serving as captain. The first full season of football was in the year 1896. Penn's first undefeated football team was in 1904 (7-0), and Penn's first Iowa Conference…
William Penn Students in front of Penn Hall. Class Photo taken September 24, 1945 by Roy D. Young Studio from Mt. Vernon IA. Left of sign is President Cecil E. Hinshaw and to the right is Dean Arthur J. McKeel.
Picture taken May 191888 of the Penn College class of 1890 including Lawrence Byers, Chalmers Chawner, Oliver Dixon, Mae Evans, Frank Green, H. Etta McCarroll, Martha Marshall, Charles Michener, Alvah Negus, Lucie Shumate and Cyrus White.
Penn College was founded by Quakers, who believed education to be a necessity in their lives, but public schooling had not yet come to Iowa in the late 19th Century. Oskaloosa seemed like the perfect location for a Quaker college due to the two…