1982 Penn Quakers football team

1982 Penn Quakers football
Ivy League co-champion
Conference	Ivy League
Record	7–3 (5–2 Ivy)
Head coach	Jerry Berndt (2nd season)
Captains	Michael Christiani Chris DiMaria
Home stadium	Franklin Field
Seasons ←  1981 1983  →

1982 Ivy League football standings

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Harvard +	5	–	2	–	0			7	–	3	–	0
Penn +	5	–	2	–	0			7	–	3	–	0
Dartmouth +	5	–	2	–	0			5	–	5	–	0
Princeton	3	–	4	–	0			3	–	7	–	0
Yale	3	–	4	–	0			4	–	6	–	0
Brown	3	–	4	–	0			5	–	5	–	0
Cornell	3	–	4	–	0			4	–	6	–	0
Columbia	1	–	6	–	0			1	–	9	–	0
+ – Conference co-champions

The 1982 Penn Quakers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Pennsylvania during the 1982 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Penn was one of three co-champions of the Ivy League.

In their second year under head coach Jerry Berndt, the Quakers compiled a 7–3 record and outscored opponents 221 to 192. ^[1] Tom Roland and Boris Radisic were the team captains. ^[2]

Penn's 5–2 conference put it in a three-way tie atop the Ivy League standings. The Quakers outscored Ivy opponents 160 to 127. ^[3] Penn won the head-to-head matchups with its co-champions, defeating Dartmouth in the first week of the season and beating Harvard in the second-to-last. Some argue this placed them at the top of the league.

This was Penn's first year in Division I-AA, after having competed in the top-level Division I-A and its predecessors since 1876.

After starting the year with three wins, the Quakers made several appearances in the weekly Division I-AA top 20 rankings. They were ranked No. 17 for the last week of the Ivy League season, but were unranked in the final rankings, which were released after their season-ending loss to Cornell.

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

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Rank	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 18	at Dartmouth		Memorial Field Hanover, NH	W 21–0	8,500	[4]
September 25	Lehigh *		Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 20–17	11,154	[5]
October 2	Columbia		Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 51–31	13,563	[6]
October 9	at Brown	No. 16	Brown Stadium Providence, RI	W 24–21	6,500	[7]
October 16	at Lafayette *	No. 10	Fisher Field Easton, PA	L 20–35	10,000	[8]
October 23	Yale	No. 17	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 27–14	32,175	[9]
October 30	at Princeton	No. 14	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	L 14–17	20,249	[10]
November 6	No. 12 Colgate *		Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 21–13	12,212	[11]
November 13	Harvard		Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)	W 23–21	34,746	[12]
November 20	at Cornell	No. 17	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY (rivalry)	L 0–23	9,500	[13]
*Non-conference game Rankings from NCAA Division I-AA Football Committee Poll released prior to the game

References

1. "Football Fact Book: All-Time Year-by-Year". Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania. p. 158. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
2. "Football Fact Book: All-Time Team Captains". Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania. p. 98. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
3. "Year-by-Year History". Ivy League Football Media Guide (PDF). Princeton, N.J.: Ivy League. 2017. p. 30. Retrieved July 10, 2020.
4. Reinert, Bob (September 19, 1982). "Penn Shuts Off Dartmouth". Boston Sunday Globe . Boston, Mass. p. 52 – via Newspapers.com.
5. Newman, Chuck (September 26, 1982). "Penn's 3d-Quarter Rally Topples Lehigh, 20-17". The Philadelphia Inquirer . Philadelphia, Pa. p. 1-E – via Newspapers.com.
6. Livingston, Bill (October 3, 1982). "Penn Stays Unbeaten, Whips Columbia, 51-31". The Philadelphia Inquirer . Philadelphia, Pa. p. 1-E – via Newspapers.com.
7. Concannon, Joe (October 10, 1982). "Brown Lets Penn Slip Home". Boston Sunday Globe . Boston, Mass. p. 39 – via Newspapers.com.
8. Livingston, Bill (October 17, 1982). "Penn Streak Halted, 35-20, by Lafayette". The Philadelphia Inquirer . Philadelphia, Pa. p. 1-E – via Newspapers.com.
9. O'Connell, Mike (October 24, 1982). "Rubin, Penn Trip Yale". Boston Sunday Globe . Boston, Mass. p. 83 – via Newspapers.com.
10. Logan, Joe (October 31, 1982). "Late FG by Princeton Gives Penn 1st Ivy Loss". The Philadelphia Inquirer . Philadelphia, Pa. pp. 1-E, 14-E – via Newspapers.com.
11. Newman, Chuck (November 7, 1982). "Quakers Steal a 21-13 Victory from Colgate". The Philadelphia Inquirer . Philadelphia, Pa. pp. 9-E, 14-E – via Newspapers.com.
12. Logan, Joe (November 14, 1982). "Penn Trips Harvard, Clinches Tie for Title". The Philadelphia Inquirer . Philadelphia, Pa. p. 1-E – via Newspapers.com.
13. Logan, Joe (November 21, 1982). "Penn Falls to Cornell, Settles for Third of Title". The Philadelphia Inquirer . Philadelphia, Pa. p. 1-E – via Newspapers.com.