1979 Penn Quakers football team
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American college football season
| 1979 Penn Quakers football | |
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| Conference | Ivy League |
| Record | 0–9 (0–7 Ivy) |
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| Home stadium | Franklin Field |
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Yale $ | 6 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 8 | – | 1 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Brown | 5 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 6 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Princeton | 5 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cornell | 4 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dartmouth | 4 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 4 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Harvard | 3 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 3 | – | 6 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Columbia | 1 | – | 6 | – | 0 | 1 | – | 8 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Penn | 0 | – | 7 | – | 0 | 0 | – | 9 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1979 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1979 NCAA Division I-A football season.
Schedule
[edit ]| Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source |
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| September 22 | Cornell | L 13–52 | 5,671 | [1] | |
| September 29 | at Lehigh * | L 7–31 | 10,500 | [2] | |
| October 6 | at Columbia | L 7–12 | 7,850 | [3] | |
| October 13 | Brown |
| L 18–24 | 5,651 | [4] |
| October 19 | No. T–8 Lafayette * |
| L 7–9 | 9,074 | [5] |
| October 27 | at Yale | L 6–24 | 19,852 | [6] | |
| November 3 | Princeton |
| L 10–38 | 13,604 | [7] |
| November 10 | at Harvard | L 26–41 | 7,500 | [8] | |
| November 17 | Dartmouth |
| L 6-20 | 10,397 | [9] |
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References
[edit ]- ^ "Cornell Clobbers Penn in Season Opener, 52-13". Boston Sunday Globe . Boston, Mass. United Press International. September 23, 1979. p. 88 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Larimer, Terry (September 30, 1979). "Lehigh and Lafayette Turn Back Ivy League Foes; Engineers Play Ball-Control in Handing Penn 31-7 Pasting". Sunday Call-Chronicle . Allentown, Pa. p. C1 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Newman, Chuck (October 7, 1979). "Failure to Make 'Big Plays' Dooms Quakers, 12-7". The Philadelphia Inquirer . Philadelphia, Pa. p. 8-D – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Simmons, Bill (October 14, 1979). "Brown Outlasts Stubborn Penn". The Philadelphia Inquirer . Philadelphia, Pa. p. 8D – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Shister, Gail (October 20, 1979). "Penn Drops a 9-7 Heartbreaker". The Philadelphia Inquirer . Philadelphia, Pa. p. 1C – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Shister, Gail (October 28, 1979). "Quakers Try a 'Surprise,' but Yale Enjoys the Party". The Philadelphia Inquirer . Philadelphia, Pa. p. 9-D – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Penn Blasted by Princeton". Boston Sunday Globe . Boston, Mass. November 4, 1979. p. 52 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Concannon, Joe (November 11, 1979). "Harvard Wins ... at Last". Boston Sunday Globe . Boston, Mass. p. 52 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Shister, Gail (November 18, 1979). "It's Over; Penn Bows to Dartmouth, Ends Its Season Winless". The Philadelphia Inquirer . Philadelphia, Pa. p. 10-D – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "1979 Pennsylvania Quakers Schedule and Results". Sports Reference. Retrieved January 6, 2019.