For a brief moment it looked like Penn football was going to be able to hang with No. 18 Fordham.

Brother, can you spare a dime package?Because after No. 18 Fordham properly toasted Penn football’s secondary today, the Quakers are positively begging for something ? anything ? to help shore up the defense’s back four.Rams quarterback Mike Nebrich threw for 566 passing yards against the Red and Blue ? the most in program history.All that yardage didn’t go between the twenties, though, unlike the disturbing plurality of Penn offensive possessions that ended in midrange Jimmy Gammill field goals.The Rams’ drives in points.

For a brief moment it looked like Penn football was going to be able to hang with No. 18 Fordham.

A late first-half goal was enough to seal the 1-0 win over Columbia for Penn women’s soccer, which improves to a 5-3-2 record, 1-2-0 in the Ivy League

The Quakers dropped Thursday’s nonconference pairing with Monmouth, 4-2, the second straight loss for a Penn team that now drops below the .500 mark to 4-5. All five losses have been by two goals or less.

Penn volleyball is playing for more than just wins this weekend as the Quakers are involved with the Side-Out Foundation’s Dig Pink! rally.

The Quakers (4-3-2) have a tough weekend ahead of them, facing a strong Ivy test against Columbia on Friday and a nonconference duel with Navy.

If the Quakers can take to the field for both halves with guns blazing, they should have no problem recording their first Ivy win of the season.

Penn’s men’s heavyweight, men’s lightweight and women’s crews will join the likes of Navy, La Salle and Rutgers in a series of head races on Saturday.

Seeking to avoid an 0-4 start for the first time since 2007, the Quakers (0-3) do not get an appealing confidence building opportunity as the heart of the Ivy slate nears, but rather a high powered Rams (5-1) squad that will look to aggressively attack Penn’s defense.

Over the past two weeks, Penn field hockey has dived headfirst into Ivy play, winning one of their first three conference contests. This weekend, though, the Quakers will get a break from the Ancient Eight grind.

For Penn sports fans, Ivy season is one of the best parts of fall, but for the teams it is often one of the most stressful.

With three games of their Ivy League season in the books, Penn will have their hands full this weekend as they face Yale and Brown.

The Red and Blue (2-1) is quietly putting together a strong resume heading into its week four matchup with Franklin Pierce (1-2) on Friday night.

Incident allegedly began after fellow Penn student yelled racial slurs at Countryman, who has been suspended from the football team until further notice

Watching senior Allison Weisenfels in goal for Penn field hockey, you wouldn’t expect that she has only played in two games prior this season. What’s even more surprising is that this is her first season as goalkeeper.

In a sport like soccer, where win-loss records, shots taken and goals scored define post-game analysis, it is easy to get caught up in the statistics. But sometimes the numbers don’t tell the whole story.