1976 Penn Quakers football team

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1976 Penn Quakers football
Conference Ivy League
Record3–6 (2–5 Ivy)
Head coach
Defensive coordinator Otto Kneidinger (6th season)
Captains
  • Robert Graustein
  • Robert Mardula
  • William Petuskey
Home stadium Franklin Field
Seasons
  1975
1977  
1976 Ivy League football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Yale + 6 1 08 1 0
Brown + 6 1 08 1 0
Harvard 4 3 06 3 0
Dartmouth 4 3 06 3 0
Columbia 2 5 03 6 0
Penn 2 5 03 6 0
Princeton 2 5 02 7 0
Cornell 2 5 02 7 0
  • + Conference co-champions

The 1976 Penn Quakers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Pennsylvania during the 1976 NCAA Division I football season. Penn tied for last place in the Ivy League.

In their sixth year under head coach Harry Gamble, the Quakers compiled a 3–6 record and were outscored 159 to 90. [1] Robert Graustein, Robert Mardula and William Petuskey were the team captain. [2]

Penn's 2–5 conference record placed it in a four-way tie for fifth place, at the bottom of the Ivy League standings. The Quakers were outscored 121 to 55 by Ivy opponents. [3]

Penn played its home games at Franklin Field adjacent to the university's campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 18 at Dartmouth L 0–20 11,300 [4]
September 24 Lehigh *
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 20–24 9,300–9,305 [5] [6]
October 2 Columbia
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 10–14 6,688 [7]
October 9 at Brown W 7–6 1,200 [8]
October 16 at Lafayette *Dagger-14-plain.pngW 15–14 8,000–10,000 [9] [10]
October 23 Yale
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 7–21 15,101 [11]
October 30 at Princeton W 10–9 10,000 [12]
November 6 Harvard
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)
L 8–20 8,423 [13]
November 13 at Cornell L 13–31 9,000 [14]
  • *Non-conference game
  • Dagger-14-plain.pngHomecoming

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The 1976 Lafayette Leopards football team was an American football team that represented Lafayette College as an independent during the 1976 NCAA Division II football season. In their sixth year under head coach Neil Putnam, the Leopards compiled a 5–5 record. Matt Walsh and George O'Shaughnessy were the team captains. Lafayette played its home games at Fisher Field on College Hill in Easton, Pennsylvania.

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