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Saturday, Penn football took on quite possibly its hardest Ivy opponent of the season — itself — in the closest simulation the team will get to a real game until the fall.
Penn quarterback Billy Ragone was named one of four finalists in the running for Ivy League football Player of the Year on Tuesday. Ragone, a sophomore, is the youngest of the finalists.
Though senior football players Josh Powers and Jared Mollenbeck were honored with ESPN First-Team Academic All-District honors earlier this month, the accomplishments of the Quakers over the past four years are much more significant to them.
After his team clinched a share of the Ivy title, Penn coach Al Bagnoli took time to reflect on the directions this season could have taken following the loss of Owen Thomas last spring.
Saturday’s 34-14 defeat of Harvard guaranteed the Quakers at least a share of the Ivy crown. It's their 15th Ivy title, their fifth in 10 years, and marks the third time they have won back-to-back titles.
When the Quakers face second-place Harvard at home Saturday afternoon, they will have a few obstacles to overcome before they can once again call themselves Ivy champions.