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Historic Sporting Events
A football man: Bert Bell, Penn, and the Philadelphia Eagles
A football man: Bert Bell, Penn, and the Philadelphia Eagles
Philadelphia Eagles co-founder Bert Bell starred on the Penn football team and was later a coach, before embarking on his NFL career.
The world-famous Penn Relays, directed by Dave Johnson
The world-famous Penn Relays, directed by Dave Johnson
On Thursday, April 25, the 125th running of the Penn Relays takes its mark at Franklin Field. Tens of thousands are expected to attend from across the globe.
125 years of Franklin Field
125 years of Franklin Field
The historic stadium, home to the University of Pennsylvania Quakers and the Penn Relays, is celebrating its quasquicentennial. It is the oldest college stadium in the country.
Sports talk with M. Grace Calhoun
Sports talk with M. Grace Calhoun
The director of athletics and recreation discusses the Red & Blue’s recent sports successes, making progress toward the department’s strategic goals, the funding of college athletics, and the 125th running of the Penn Relays.
The outsiders
The outsiders
Forty years ago, the Quakers pieced together one of the greatest underdog stories in college basketball history, culminating in what many still believe to be the sport’s most important NCAA Final Four.
Franklin Field played host to the Eagles’ last NFL title
Franklin Field played host to the Eagles’ last NFL title
In 1960, the Philadelphia Eagles defeated the Green Bay Packers in the NFL Championship Game at Franklin Field.
For the Record: The 7-time national champion Penn Quakers football team
During a 30-year span from 1894 to 1924, the Penn football team won seven national championships.
In the News
Philadelphia Inquirer
Memories of Kobe Bryant: He was a star even among the biggest stars
The Lower Merion High graduate looms large in the Philly community and around the world, as fans share memories from the Palestra to Beijing.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Olympic champion Greg Bell returned to Penn Relays with plenty of memories
88-year-old Greg Bell was one of the top athletes of his era. Competing for Indiana, he broke a Penn Relays record and captured four individual titles—three in his specialty, the long jump—from 1956 through 1958. Returning to Franklin Field in 2019, he carried his Olympic gold medal from the 1956 Melbourne Games, which he won seven months after his first Relay record.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Usain Bolt remembers his historic 2010 Penn Relays performance: ‘There was a great atmosphere’
No matter where his life and his pursuits take him, the Jamaican icon always will remember his performances at the Penn Relays and what the carnival has done to help young Jamaican athletes get noticed by U.S. colleges.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Forty years after his memorable race, Renaldo Nehemiah to return to Penn Relays
It has been 40 years since Renaldo Nehemiah created one of the most indelible memories in the history of the Penn Relays with his history-making 44.3-second anchor leg for Maryland.
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ESPN
The Ivy's last stand: Penn's 1979 Final Four run marked end of an era
An Ivy League team in the Final Four? Yep. Coach Bob Weinhauer’s basketball team didn’t seem to belong— the Quakers came from a bookworm conference that didn’t, and still technically doesn’t, allow athletic scholarships. Somehow, they found a way to accomplish a ludicrous goal and advance to the Final Four. It’s a feat no Ivy team has accomplished since.
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NJ.com
Penn Relays: N.J.'s 47 greatest performances of all time
For the past 123 years, track and field athletes from New Jersey compete in Penn Relays, "the longest-running relay carnival in the world." Here is a look at the most notable performances by New Jersey athletes from years past.
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