2017 Penn Quakers football team explained

Year:2017
Team:Penn Quakers
Sport:football
Conference:Ivy League
Short Conf:Ivy
Record:6–4
Conf Record:4–3
Head Coach:Ray Priore
Hc Year:3rd
Off Coach:John Reagan
Oc Year:3rd
Def Coach:Bob Benson
Dc Year:3rd
Stadium:Franklin Field

The 2017 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania during the 2017 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by third-year head coach Ray Priore. They played their home games at Franklin Field. They are a member of the Ivy League. They finished the season 6–4 overall and 4–3 in Ivy League play to place fourth . Penn averaged 5,274 fans per game.

Schedule

The 2017 schedule consisted of five home and five away games. The Quakers hosted Ivy League foes Dartmouth, Yale, Princeton, and Cornell, and traveled to Columbia, Brown, and Harvard. Homecoming coincided with the game against Princeton on November 4.[1]

In 2017, Penn's non-conference opponents were Ohio Dominican of the Great Midwest Athletic Conference (Division II), Lehigh of the Patriot League and Central Connecticut of the Northeast Conference.[2]

Game summaries

Ohio Dominican

See also: Ohio Dominican Panthers.

Lehigh

See also: 2017 Lehigh Mountain Hawks football team.

Dartmouth

See also: 2017 Dartmouth Big Green football team.

Central Connecticut

See also: 2017 Central Connecticut Blue Devils football team.

Columbia

See also: 2017 Columbia Lions football team.

Yale

See also: 2017 Yale Bulldogs football team.

Brown

See also: 2017 Brown Bears football team.

Princeton

See also: 2017 Princeton Tigers football team and Penn–Princeton football rivalry.

Harvard

See also: 2017 Harvard Crimson football team and Harvard–Penn football rivalry.

Cornell

See also: 2017 Cornell Big Red football team and Cornell–Penn football rivalry.

2018 NFL Draft

See main article: 2018 NFL draft.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Penn Alumni - Homecoming. University of Pennsylvania. 11 October 2017.
  2. Web site: Penn Quakers Scores and Schedules. Penn Athletics. 24 May 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170527200613/http://www.pennathletics.com/schedule-list#!/m-footbl/2017. 27 May 2017. dead. dmy-all.