1983 Penn Quakers football team

The 1983 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1983 NCAA Division I-AA football season. They finished with a 6–3–1 record and were the Ivy League co-champions with Harvard,^[1] whom they defeated in the next-to-last week of the season.

1983 Penn Quakers football
Ivy League co-champion
Conference	Ivy League
Record	6–3–1 (5–1–1 Ivy)
Head coach	Jerry Berndt (3rd season)
Captains	Marc Hembrough Bill Lista
Home stadium	Franklin Field
Seasons ← 1982 1984 →

1983 Ivy League football standings

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

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Rank	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 17	Cornell		Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)	W 28–7	21,003	[2]
September 24	at Delaware*		Delaware Stadium Newark, DE	L 7–40	17,568	[3]
September 30	vs. Columbia		Giants Stadium East Rutherford, NJ	W 35–10	7,221	[4]
October 8	Brown		Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	T 24–24	14,576	[5]
October 15	No. 17 Lafayette*		Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 28–20	6,038	[6]
October 22	at Yale		Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 17–0	14,424	[7]
October 29	Princeton		Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)	W 28–27	36,579	[8]
November 5	No. T–18 Colgate*	No. 16	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L 20–34	6,921	[9]
November 12	at Harvard		Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	L 0–28	12,000	[10]
November 19	Dartmouth		Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 38–14	28,416	[11]
*Non-conference game Rankings from NCAA Division I-AA Football Committee Poll released prior to the game