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Sports
Quakers top Hatters on New Year’s Eve
The women’s basketball team was too much for Stetson.
15-0: The 1897 Penn football team
The Quakers won the 1897 national championship with an unblemished 15-0 record. No team has gone 15-0 since.
Penn preps for 33rd Street Battle, Stetson, Princeton
The women’s basketball team takes on Drexel on Dec. 21, Stetson on Dec. 31, and Princeton on Jan. 5.
Wang picks up Big 5, Ivy League honors
The forward on the men’s basketball team has been named Rookie of the Week.
In a rocking Palestra, Penn vanquishes Villanova
The Quakers’ 78-75 win last night put an end to the Wildcats’ 25-game Big 5 winning streak, and marked the first time Penn has beaten Villanova in 16 years.
Penn shipwrecks Explorers, gets ready for Nova
The men’s basketball team downed La Salle 83-65 on Saturday. They take on defending national champion Villanova on Tuesday evening.
Inside man
Nick Miller, a senior inside linebacker on the Penn football team and a unanimous First-Team All-Ivy selection, chats about his incredible Quaker career.
The legend of John Heisman
The Heisman Trophy namesake, a Penn Law alumnus, was a former player and coach on the Penn football team.
Quakers fee-fi Big 5 foe La Salle
Penn eased to a 65-34 win over the Explorers on Wednesday at The Palestra.
Quakers calm Hurricanes
The men’s basketball team beat Miami of Florida 89-75 on Tuesday, improving to 7-2—their best start since 1994.
In the News
Philadelphia Inquirer
Penn’s female rowers have a new teammate. She’s 10.
With the help of Penn’s women’s rowing team, the sport is bringing Keira McGrenehan joy and relief as she manages ulcerative colitis through a national program called Team IMPACT, which connects kids with serious and chronic illnesses to college athletic teams.
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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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ESPN
‘Professor Cope’: NFL linebacker’s offseason job? Teaching ‘Life 101’
Brandon Copeland, the New York Jets linebacker heading to free agency next month, and a Wharton graduate, returns to his alma mater to teach Inequity and Empowerment, Urban Financial Literacy along with Brian Peterson, the director of Makku, Penn's Black Cultural Center, calling the course Life 101.
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Philly.com
Why this New York Jets linebacker wants to help Penn undergrads manage their money
Brandon Copeland, a Penn alum and New York Jets linebacker, wished he’d taken a personal finance course to learn the basics of budgeting, investing, retirement planning, and career basics. Now he’s teaching that very undergraduate class.
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Philly.com
Penn looking to put one championship behind while chasing another
The next challenge for men’s basketball is an exclusively Ivy League competition, six straight weekends of grueling Friday-Saturday back-to-backs, on the heels of the Big 5 win at the Palestra.
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