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Penn Quakers football

Penn Quakers football
2016 Penn Quakers football team
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First season 1876
Head coach Ray Priore
2nd year, 14–6 (.700)
Stadium Franklin Field
Year built 1895
Seating capacity 52,593
Field surface SprinTurf
Location Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
NCAA division Division I FCS
Conference Ivy League
Past conferences Independent (1876–1956)
All-time record 839–485–42 (.630)
Bowl record 0–1–0 (.000)
Claimed nat'l titles Div. I FCS: 7
Conference titles 18
Consensus All-Americans 63
Colors Blue and Red
         
Fight song Fight on, Pennsylvania!
Mascot The Penn Quaker
Marching band The University of Pennsylvania Band
Rivals Princeton Tigers
Cornell Big Red
Harvard Crimson
Columbia Lions
Lafayette Leopards
Website pennathletics
com

The Penn Quakers football team is the college football team at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Penn Quakers have competed in the Ivy League since its inaugural season of 1956, and are currently a Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Penn has played in 1,364 football games, the most of any school in any division. Penn plays its home games at historic Franklin Field, the oldest stadium in football. All Penn games are broadcast on WNTP or WFIL radio.

Penn bills itself as "college football's most historic program". The Quakers have had 63 First Team All-Americans, and the college is the alma mater of John Heisman (the namesake of college football's most famous trophy). The team has won a share of 7 national championships (7th all-time) and competed in the "granddaddy of them all" (The Rose Bowl) in 1917. Penn's total of 837 wins puts them 11th all-time in college football (3rd in the FCS) and their winning percentage of 62.9% is 21st in college football (7th in the FCS). 18 members of the College Football Hall of Fame played at Penn (tied with Alabama for 14th) and 5 members of the College Football Hall of Fame coached at Penn. Penn has had 11 unbeaten seasons. Penn plays at the oldest stadium in college football, Franklin Field, at which they have had a 35-game home winning streak (1896–1899), which is the 15th best in the country, and at which they have had 23 unbeaten home seasons. Penn is one of the few college football teams to have had an exclusive contract with a network for broadcasting all their home games. For the 1950 season, ABC Sports broadcast all of Penn's home games. The only other teams to have exclusive contracts are Miami and Notre Dame. The Quakers competed as a major independent until 1956, when they accepted the invitation to join the Ivy League.


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