Even though Penn dominated almost all of the 200 minutes it played to win its fourth consecutive Penn Soccer Classic title, it came away disappointed. Playing Hartwick on Friday night under the lights in its home opener, the Quakers came away with an impressive 2-1 victory.

With the season opener fast approaching, there's quite a bit on the minds of Penn football fans. Who will kick? Will the new offense produce? Is Coach Lake still alive? Well now, it's time to address the questions and let the betting begin. Straight from Las Vegas, here is the official 2007 Penn Football bettors' guide.

The road is often unkind to lost travelers. A three-game road trip to begin the season left the men's soccer team winless, with its early-season questions in goal and on the back line still unanswered. This weekend, however, Penn (0-3-0) looks to get its season back on track with a homestand - against Hartwick (3-1-0) tonight and La Salle (1-2-0) on Sunday as part of the Penn Soccer Classic.

Robert Irvin is glad he now has passing plays in his head, rather than butterflies in his stomach. The junior is not the same quarterback he was as a rookie last season, and will get his first chance to prove that at Franklin Field against No. 25 Lafayette tomorrow.

Penn volleyball coach Kerry Carr has a prime scouting opportunity this weekend. When she takes her team to the American Volleyball Tournament in D.C., four Ivy League teams will be on display. It's a Patriot-Ivy League showdown as Penn, Columbia, Cornell and Harvard will face off against Army, Navy, American and Lafayette.

When deciding on the best strategy for Penn's new-look offense this season, Quakers coach Al Bagnoli took a cue from the past. "We're probably going off closer to what we were with [former offensive coordinator] Andy [Coen] with motion, shifting, people out of the backfield," Bagnoli said of the offense, mentioning there would be an emphasis on "a much more open, no-huddle, up-tempo" style this year.

It was all over. Harvard players rejoiced, as they had grown accustomed to doing, on the field and along the sidelines. Penn players lay spent, left to ponder what might have been - a feeling that they knew all too well. This 1982 Penn football team had gone the way of the 22 others before it: out of the money, without ring, cup, or banner.

As the Cornell field hockey team visits Penn tomorrow, the squads find themselves facing two very different scenarios. The Big Red (3-0, 1-0 Ivy) are tied for first among the Ivies and remain the only Ancient Eight team undefeated overall. Meanwhile, the Quakers (1-4, 0-1) are tied for last, and only have a better overall record than one other Ivy team, Yale, at 0-2.

To the most casual Penn football fans, Kelms Amoo-Achampong is nothing more than the hyphenated mouthful that sits atop the Quakers' roster. To those who follow the team a bit more closely, he is the more-than-competent backup to first-team All-Ivy running back Joe Sandberg.

The Northwestern women's soccer team already had history made this season. In its game against Florida Atlantic on Sunday, senior forward Kelsey Hans scored her 30th career goal, putting her atop the school's all-time list. But Penn (3-1) will try to make some history of its own by handing the Wildcats (5-1) their first-ever loss at Lakeside Field tonight.

Yale at Georgetown Yale tailback Mike McLeod is used to plowing over one or two defensive linemen. Georgetown hopes that eight will be a few too many. The Hoyas' eight-man front and spread-option offense are two unique challenges for Yale in its opener.

Looking at the Quakers' defense on paper, it makes sense that a 5-2 is the set of choice. The 6-foot, 285-pound Naheem Harris clogs the middle from the nose-guard position, defensive end Mike Marinelli provides size and speed over the tackles and co-captain Joe Anastasio fortifies the linebacker position.

After last season's kicking woes, head coach Al Bagnoli came up with a simple plan. If the Quakers brought in enough kickers in the offseason, he figured, at least one was bound to succeed. So, instead of recruiting one standout talent, Bagnoli added three freshmen to a potential kicking corps that already included Derek Zoch, whose ineffectiveness last season cost him the starting role; A.

Last year could have been a coronation for Brown. The Bears returned their All-Ivy quarterback, Joe DiGiacomo, and chunks of the previous year's Ivy Championship defense, including future NFL talent Zak DeOssie. It was nothing short of a disaster. A 2-2 start to the Ivy campaign was inauspicious at best, but it only got worse from there.

Columbia coach Norries Wilson rarely hides his feelings. His Lions were shut out by Penn last year, prompting him to rail on the media, the Penn administration, the officials, the other Ivy League schools and even his own employer for six surreal minutes afterward.

Has anyone been paying attention to the women's soccer team lately? It's not like it's been hard - they've played each of their first four games in the friendly confines of Rhodes Field. And if you have managed to make the trek down to the home of Penn's soccer teams, chances are you witnessed some fireworks.

Penn goalkeeper Alanna Butera was flat on her back, the ball bouncing a few yards away from her, and the net was wide open. For the first time this season, it didn't matter. The whistle after the loose ball signalled that possession was going the other way, and with little time left on the clock, the Quakers coasted to a 1-0 win over Lafayette last night at Franklin Field, their first of the year.