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Freshman quarterback Mike McCurdy delivered a timely statement performance, slinging four second-half touchdowns to spearhead the Quakers’ 42-14 shellacking of Mansfield at Franklin Field Friday night.

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Penn raced out to a 10-0 start of its own en route to a 27-21 season-opening victory over Lafayette Saturday night at Franklin Field. The win marked just the second win for the Quakers (1-0) against the Leopards (0-3) since 2007.



Sprint Football defeats Mansfield in a second half comeback.

Freshman quarterback Mike McCurdy delivered a timely statement performance, slinging four second-half touchdowns to spearhead the Quakers’ 42-14 shellacking of Mansfield at Franklin Field Friday night.





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While I celebrate our entrepreneurial energy as vibrant evidence that the American Dream is alive, profit-driven startups should be balanced by social enterprises guided by the public good.












	Former University President Sheldon Hackney died of Lou Gehrig’s disease in his home in Martha’s Vineyard.

Most now credit the administrations of Judith Rodin and Amy Gutmann with planting the seed for Penn’s eastward expansion, but it was Sheldon Hackney, former colleagues say, who first had the idea to connect the University with Center City.