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The most important Penn sports story this weekend was not the football team winning its final non-conference game and improving to .500.
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The most important Penn sports story this weekend was not the football team winning its final non-conference game and improving to .500.
On the second play from scrimmage, John Hurley dropped back three steps, looked right and calmly completed a pass to Matt Tuten for 11 yards.
An alarmingly large percentage of current Penn students are on track to graduate having never attended a basketball game nor even seen the insides of the Palestra, “College basketball’s most historic gym,” as the great PA announcer John McAdams famously coined it.
After its best start since 2002 — including the most non-conference wins since 2000 — Penn volleyball will face its toughest test yet in the last weekend before Ivy play.
In his first two years with the Quakers, wide receiver Matt Tuten suited up for nine games and hauled in just one reception for seven yards.
From the moment they stepped onto Franklin Field against Villanova, the Quakers really didn’t have much of a chance.
With the absence of top outside hitter Julia Swanson for the second-straight weekend, the pressure was even higher on Penn volleyball’s other stud outside hitter, Elizabeth Semmens.
Penn’s 14-3 loss to Villanova was a case of missed opportunities.
Last season then-freshman Matt Hamscher saw action in seven games and won Ivy League Rookie of the Week Oct. 13 after rushing for 102 yards and a touchdown in the Oct. 11 matchup at Georgetown.
When the members of the Penn football team are scrounging for extra tickets to provide to friends and family, Bradford Blackmon is the last person they ask.
After a dominant 33-0 win in the alumni game, which ultimately amounts to a season warm-up, the lightweight football team is primed to sprint into the season. They open up on the road tonight at 7 p.m. in Ithaca, N.Y., against Ivy foe Cornell.
Before Andrew Samson landed in Philadelphia, Penn football's kicking woes might have been its biggest problem.
The 2008 Penn football season is probably best remembered for the quarterback carousel and the eventual emergence of Keiffer Garton.
Julia Swanson could not have been more disappointed.
In four of the last six seasons, volleyball's pre-Ivy schedule has included a trip to California, a state that boasts the best volleyball recruits (including nine of the 23 current Quakers).
The La Salle women's soccer team had never beaten Penn, but it seemed like 2009 might be its year to break that trend.
It was three games and three heroes for Penn volleyball in this weekend's inaugural Big 5 Tournament.
Despite struggling with its blocking all season, the 2008 Penn volleyball team finished third in the Ivy League.
Penn football was buzzing on media day Monday, based largely on the offense's stockpile of playmakers. With the emergence of a mobile quarterback in junior Keiffer Garton and the return of a potent three-headed monster in the backfield, the Quakers think they have what it takes to run themselves back into the league's top spot.
Despite struggling with its blocking all season, the 2008 Penn volleyball team finished third in the Ivy League.