The first Ivy champs
Penn’s 1959 football team returned to campus for the Penn–Dartmouth football game on October 4 to celebrate a title that still seems improbable 60 years later.
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In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Penn’s 1959 football team returned to campus for the Penn–Dartmouth football game on October 4 to celebrate a title that still seems improbable 60 years later.
FULL STORY AT The Pennsylvania Gazette →
The women's basketball team was picked to finish at the same level in the Ivy League that they finished last year: atop the conference. The Quakers earned 125 points in the preseason poll, matched by Princeton's 125, as the Ivy favorites.
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The men’s basketball team was picked to finish second in the 2019-20 Ivy League’s Preseason Media Poll, which came from the votes of two members within each school’s media contingent in addition to one national voter.
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Iuliia Bryzgalova and Marija Curnic captured the ITA Northeast Regional doubles crown for the women’s tennis team on Tuesday afternoon, capping a week of unbeaten play, rattling off six wins to clinch a berth in November’s Oracle ITA Fall National Championships.
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The 2019 Victory Sports Tours/National Field Hockey Coaches Association Division I Senior Game roster was announced on Wednesday and Alexa Schneck was selected to represent the University of Pennsylvania among 38 other student-athletes in Winston Salem, N.C. on Friday, Nov. 22.
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Penn Athletics’ agreement with NBC Sports Philadelphia will result in a record number of live broadcasts on the regional sports network during the 2019-20 year. All 18 live events will be produced by the Penn Sports Network.
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Director of Track & Field/Cross Country Steve Dolan announced on Monday a challenging 2019-20 schedule, featuring top competition around the country. The goal, he says, is “to set up a schedule that allows both our men’s and women's teams to excel at the highest level across all event areas.”
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Two veterans with Ivy League championship experience are set to serve as captains of the 2019 Penn Football team with the selection of seniors Karekin Brooks and Sam Philippi by their teammates.
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The 2019-20 wrestling schedule will see #TheMovement make its first trip to Penn State since 2009 as a dual with the four-time defending national champions highlights the upcoming season for the Quakers.
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In the fifth season under John R. Rockwell Head Coach of Men’s Basketball Steve Donahue, the Quakers will play a 27-game schedule that includes 11 contests at The Palestra.
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