1987 Penn Quakers football team

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1987 Penn Quakers football
Conference Ivy League
Record4–6 (3–4 Ivy)
Head coach
Offensive coordinator Dick Maloney (2nd season)
Captains
  • Mike Lista
  • Brent Novoselsky
Home stadium Franklin Field
Seasons
  1986
1988  
1987 Ivy League football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Harvard $ 6 1 08 2 0
Brown 5 2 07 3 0
Yale 5 2 07 3 0
Princeton 4 3 06 4 0
Cornell 4 3 05 5 0
Penn 3 4 04 6 0
Dartmouth 1 6 02 8 0
Columbia 0 7 00 10 0
  • $ Conference champion

The 1987 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1987 NCAA Division I-AA football season.

Schedule

DateOpponentRankSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 19 Cornell No. 19L 13–1721,359 [1]
September 26at Bucknell *L 24–318,500 [2]
October 3at Columbia W 23–04,150 [3]
October 10 Brown
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 38–1727,253 [4]
October 17 Navy *
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 28–3816,809 [5]
October 24at Yale L 22–2823,151 [6]
October 31 Princeton
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)
L 7–1731,255 [7]
November 7at Lafayette *W 23–145,200 [8]
November 14 Harvard L 14–3114,900 [9]
November 21at Dartmouth
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 49–174,620 [10]

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References

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