Though Penn was not able to get the win it needed, the Quakers and Army put on an offensive display in their 58-44 duel, exchanging punch for punch over 60 minutes.

The victory over Dartmouth was Penn’s second on the season and lifted the Quakers into sole possession of sixth place in the league.

With the rain and snow that pelted the northeast this weekend, Saturday’s men’s soccer match between Penn and Brown was shaping up to be unpleasant no matter the result.

Running through mud, sleet, rain and snow, Penn men’s and women’s cross country each placed last in the all-Ivy Heptagonal Championships, a disappointing finish as they gear up for the NCAA East Regional competition in two weeks.

This mentality played directly into the Penn field hockey team’s win over Brown, 3-2, on Saturday afternoon in Providence, R.I.

After playing 110 minutes to a scoreless draw in driving snow, Penn women’s soccer coach Darren Ambrose called the playing conditions the “most dire” he had ever seen.

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Last weekend, the Varsity Eight made an appearance at the prestigious Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston, finishing an impressive 13th out of 37 boats. They’ll take part in both the Head of the Schuylkill and the Princeton Chase this weekend.

Breaking tradition is not common for the ‘Ancient’ Eight. But for only the third time in 72 years, the Ivy League Cross Country Heptagonal Championships will be held at a location other than Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx.

In 9 hours, 35 minutes and 42 seconds you could take a flight from Philadelphia to Moscow, or you could watch the entire theatrical version of The Lord of the Rings trilogy. But you still wouldn’t see Penn women’s soccer concede a goal.

In a frustrating season that has included three Ivy League losses by the slimmest of margins, senior Thomas Brandt is ready for the Penn men’s soccer team’s luck to turn around.

A problem Penn often faces when it travels to play a team with an AstroTurf field is that it needs to practice on AstroTurf, the default playing surface in Division I field hockey. Unfortunately for the Quakers, Franklin Field is composed of Sprinturf.

Facing a dominant Brown team on the road, the Penn football team might be slapped with the ‘underdog’ tag in an Ivy League matchup for the first time since its 2009 title run. But don’t count the Quakers among those who see this pivotal game that way.

On Nov. 19, just before the Quakers kick off their final home game of the season against Cornell, a statue of the man they call “Concrete Charlie” will be unveiled.

A midweek, nonconference road game is hardly an ideal scenario for any team, much less a team competing to defend its Ivy League title. But for Penn women’s soccer, that is no excuse for sub-par effort.

Despite an early 1-0 lead, the Penn field hockey team fell to nonconference powerhouse Rider, 7-1, Wednesday in Lawrenceville, N.J.