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Historic Sporting Events
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
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
The Penn football team has won seven national championships, tied with Michigan and Oklahoma for seventh all-time.
In the News
Voices of Penn’s basketball past reflect on the Quakers’ present challenges
The 1979 Final Four team was honored on last month at the Palestra as part of Penn’s annual basketball alumni weekend.
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Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappe are more relatable when they turn backs on Saudi money
Peter T. Struck of the School of Arts & Sciences says that the most highly paid athlete in history was Gaius Appuleius Diocles, a chariot racer in ancient Rome.
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Wharton sophomore climbs world’s tallest volcano on a bike
Wharton School second-year Ryan Torres from Barcelona biked up the world’s tallest volcano in the Andes mountains during Winter Break, breaking the world record for highest altitude reached on a bike.
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Star USA player Christian Pulisic cleared to play against Netherlands after game injury
John Vasudevan of the Perelman School of Medicine says that Christian Pulisic’s “contusion” is a fancy word for a bruise to the bone or soft tissues, with recovery usually taking between one to three weeks.
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Meet the Phillies’ ballgirl who is also helping save lives
A profile examines Cailyn Chow of Penn Medicine, a lifelong Phillies fan who’s now a ballgirl for the World Series.
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Peggy Kowalski, who may have spent more hours in the Palestra than anybody ever, retires
For many of the last 38 years, as Penn Athletic’s director of special events, Kowalski has to be on the short list, maybe even at the top of it, for people who spent the most combined lifetime time at the Palestra and Franklin Field. Her earliest work days were as an undergrad selling tickets and answering to her boss who was also her father, and in honor of the two, the front lobby box office will be named the Donohue-Kowalski Box Office.
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