The 1984 Penn Quakers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Pennsylvania during the 1984 NCAA Division I-AA football season. After two years of shared championships, Penn won the Ivy League title outright in 1984.
| 1984 Penn Quakers football | |
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Ivy League champion | |
| Conference | Ivy League |
| Record | 8–1 (7–0 Ivy) |
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| Home stadium | Franklin Field |
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Penn $ | 7 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 8 | – | 1 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Yale | 5 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 6 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Harvard | 5 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Brown | 4 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 5 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Princeton | 3 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 5 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cornell | 2 | – | 5 | – | 0 | 2 | – | 7 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dartmouth | 2 | – | 5 | – | 0 | 2 | – | 7 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Columbia | 0 | – | 7 | – | 0 | 0 | – | 9 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Background
editDuring its fourth year under head coach Jerry Berndt, the Quakers compiled an 8–1 record and outscored opponents 286 to 152.[1] Lal Heneghan and Kevin Bradley were the team captains.[2]
Penn's undefeated (7–0) conference record topped the Ivy League standings. The Quakers outscored Ivy opponents 254 to 90.[3] It was the first time since 1970 that any team had gone undefeated in Ivy League play.
The Quakers' only loss came in an away game against a non-league, Division I-A opponent, Army.
Despite beating every Division I-AA opponent it faced, Penn did not appear in the weekly top 20 national rankings.
Penn played its home games at Franklin Field adjacent to the university's campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Schedule
edit| Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source | ||
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| September 22 | at Dartmouth | W 55–24 | 14,324 | [4] | |||
| September 29 | Davidson* |
| W 19–14 | 12,309 | [5] | ||
| October 6 | Columbia |
| W 35–7 | 8,469 | [6] | ||
| October 13 | at Brown | W 41–14 | 12,614 | [7] | |||
| October 20 | at Army* | L 13–48 | 59,075 | [8] | |||
| October 27 | Yale |
| W 34–21 | 36,975 | [9] | ||
| November 3 | at Princeton | W 27–17 | 23,275 | [10] | |||
| November 10 | Harvard |
| W 38–7 | 38,810 | [11] | ||
| November 17 | at Cornell | W 24–0 | 5,800 | [12] | |||
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References
edit- ^ "Football Fact Book: All-Time Year-by-Year". Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania. p. 158. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
- ^ "Football Fact Book: All-Time Team Captains". Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania. p. 98. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
- ^ "Year-by-Year History". Ivy League Football Media Guide (PDF). Princeton, N.J.: Ivy League. 2017. pp. 30–31. Retrieved July 10, 2020.
- ^ Roberts, Ernie (September 23, 1984). "Penn Pastes Dartmouth". Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. p. 100 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Cataldi, Angelo (September 30, 1984). "Favored Penn Survives Scare from Davidson". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pa. p. 9-E – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Newman, Chuck (October 7, 1984). "Chambers Leads Unbeaten Penn to 35-7 Triumph". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pa. pp. 11-E, 16-E – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Powers, John (October 14, 1984). "Penn Rips Brown, 41-14". Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. p. 54 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Newman, Chuck (October 21, 1984). "Army Infantry Hands Penn Its First Loss, 48-13". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pa. pp. 7-E, 10-E – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Apple, Ginny (October 28, 1984). "Yale's Ivy Hopes Dashed by Penn". The Hartford Courant. Hartford, Conn. pp. C13, C15 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Newman, Chuck (November 4, 1984). "Penn Holds Off Princeton, 27-17". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pa. pp. 1-E, 12-E – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Newman, Chuck (November 11, 1984). "Penn Rips Harvard to Clinch Tie for Title; Surges to a 38-7 Ivy Win". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pa. p. 1-E – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Newman, Chuck (November 18, 1984). "Penn Claims the Ivy League Crown; Records Fall in 24-0 Win at Cornell". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pa. pp. 1-E, 14-E – via Newspapers.com.