1988 Penn Quakers football team

The 1988 Penn Quakers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Pennsylvania during the 1988 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Penn won a share of the Ivy League championship, its fifth of the past six years.

1988 Penn Quakers football
Ivy League co-champion
Conference	Ivy League
Record	9–1 (6–1 Ivy)
Head coach	Ed Zubrow (3rd season)
Offensive coordinator	Dick Maloney (3rd season)
Captains	Dan Bauer Tom Gizzi
Home stadium	Franklin Field
Seasons ← 1987 1989 →

1988 Ivy League football standings

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Penn +	6	–	1	–	0			9	–	1	–	0
Cornell +	6	–	1	–	0			7	–	2	–	1
Princeton	4	–	3	–	0			6	–	4	–	0
Dartmouth	4	–	3	–	0			5	–	5	–	0
Yale	3	–	3	–	1			3	–	6	–	1
Columbia	2	–	5	–	0			2	–	8	–	0
Harvard	2	–	5	–	0			2	–	8	–	0
Brown	0	–	6	–	1			0	–	9	–	1
+ – Conference co-champions

Background

During its third and final year under head coach Ed Zubrow, the Quakers compiled a 9–1 record and outscored opponents 269 to 208.^[1] Dan Bauer and Tom Gizzi were the team captains.^[2]

Penn's 6–1 conference record tied with Cornell atop the Ivy League standings. The Quakers outscored Ivy opponents 182 to 75.^[3] Penn's only loss was to its co-champion, Cornell, in the last week of the year.

Before its last two games, Penn appeared in the weekly top 20 national rankings, at No. 19 in the poll released November 8 and at No. 14 in the poll of November 15.

Following the loss to Cornell, Penn dropped out of the rankings, and was not ranked at season's end.

Penn played its home games at Franklin Field adjacent to the university's campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 17	at Dartmouth	Memorial Field Hanover, NH	W 33–27	7,917	^[4]
September 24	Bucknell*	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 38–35	9,456	^[5]
October 1	Columbia	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 24–10	11,640	^[6]
October 8	at Brown	Brown Stadium Providence, RI	W 10–0	1,400	^[7]
October 15	Colgate*	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 33–22	9,700	^[8]
October 22	Yale	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 10–3	28,279	^[9]
October 29	at Princeton	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	W 31–23	24,500	^[10]
November 5	at No. 18 Lafayette*	Fisher Field Easton, PA	W 31–17	3,500	^[11]
November 12	Harvard	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)	W 52–13	37,612	^[12]
November 19	at Cornell	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY (rivalry)	L 6–19	18,000	^[13]
*Non-conference game Rankings from the latest NCAA Division I-AA poll released prior to the game

References

1. "Football Fact Book: All-Time Year-by-Year". Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania. p. 158. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
2. "Football Fact Book: All-Time Team Captains". Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania. p. 98. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
3. "Year-by-Year History". Ivy League Football Media Guide (PDF). Princeton, N.J.: Ivy League. 2017. pp. 32–33. Retrieved July 10, 2020.
4. Reinert, Bob (September 18, 1988). "Penn Gives Dartmouth the Slip, 33-27". Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. p. 55 – via Newspapers.com.
5. Missanelli, M.G. (September 25, 1988). "Quakers Outlast Bucknell, 38-35". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pa. p. 9-D – via Newspapers.com.
6. Missanelli, M.G. (October 2, 1988). "Penn Extends Columbia's Streak of Defeats to 44". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pa. p. 13-E – via Newspapers.com.
7. Juliano, Joe (October 9, 1988). "Defense Does Its Part as Penn Smothers Brown, 10-0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pa. p. 11-E – via Newspapers.com.
8. Juliano, Joe (October 16, 1988). "Penn Survives Colgate Rally and Wins, 33-22". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pa. p. 1-E – via Newspapers.com.
9. Juliano, Joe (October 23, 1988). "Defense Carries Quakers; Penn Sends Yale to a 10-3 Defeat". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pa. p. 1-C – via Newspapers.com.
10. Knobelman, Bob (October 30, 1988). "Penn Cracks Tigers". The Home News. New Brunswick, N.J. p. F1 – via Newspapers.com.
11. Larimer, Terry (November 6, 1988). "Slide Continues for Lafayette with a 31-17 Defeat by Penn". The Morning Call. Allentown, Pa. p. C3 – via Newspapers.com.
12. Concannon, Joe (November 13, 1988). "Harvard Punished by Penn". Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. p. 81 – via Newspapers.com.
13. Juliano, Joe (November 20, 1988). "Penn Is Denied a Perfect Ending". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pa. p. 1-D – via Newspapers.com.