Category Archives: Football
Erik Rask’s dominant football career
Erik Rask will admit it: he did not like Penn at first. He missed the sun and the beaches of his Newport Beach home. He wasn’t getting on the field in any football games. The schoolwork was difficult. “There were … Continue reading
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When great athletes return to Penn
Saturday on 33rd street, the Penn football team lost and the Penn basketball team won. But for some, those results may have seemed secondary to a couple of grand returns to the University. Let’s start with a very special homecoming … Continue reading
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Homecoming special: From Franklin Field to the Silver Screen
In the recent issue of the Gazette, I profiled filmmaker Rick Cohen C’87, who long before he began making movies, was a football player at Penn. Standing by itself, that may not sound remarkable. But when you consider that three … Continue reading
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An ode to the streak
It took a trip to Rhode Island, a driving rainstorm, a soggy grass field and a scrappy Brown team to end the Penn football’s team historic Ivy League winning streak at 18 games. But the Quakers, who are still very … Continue reading
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This Day in Penn History – 1974
Last spring Adolph “Beep Beep” Bellizeare Jr. C’75 – one of the best football players in Penn history – died at the age of 58. In what amounted to a brilliant career during something of a down period (Penn didn’t … Continue reading
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Can Penn’s fall-sport dominance continue?
For the Penn athletic teams, this fall’s Ivy League season has begun to mixed results. The football team shook off two straight nonleague losses to kick off its quest for a third consecutive conference title with a dramatic come-from-behind win … Continue reading
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Penn football holds media day
Although its season doesn’t begin for nearly three more weeks, the Penn football team held its media day on Monday, inviting a slew of reporters, videographers and cameramen to Franklin Field to preview the upcoming season. The excitement was certainly … Continue reading
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Ivy League acts on growing football concussion problem
Although racked by grief and confusion, Kathy Brearley always hoped something good, however small, might come from her son Owen Thomas’s suicide. And in the weeks and months following the revelation that Thomas, a former Penn football player who hanged … Continue reading
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Week in perspective: A new Voice, a new robot and the end of an old streak
There’s been some interesting sports news coming out of Penn this week. Let’s start with something I’ve been following for a while: After a long wait, John Alexander learned he would replace his father, C.T. Alexander, as the public announcer … Continue reading
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A championship unlike any other
It’s not an uncommon occurrence for Penn to win an Ivy League football championship on a cold November day at Cornell’s Schoellkopf Field, nor is it rare for the Quakers to run through their conference schedule undefeated under head coach … Continue reading
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