1996 Penn Quakers football team

The 1996 Penn Quakers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Pennsylvania in the Ivy League during the 1996 NCAA Division I-AA football season.

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Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 21	at Dartmouth	Memorial Field Hanover, NH	L 22–24	8,521	^[8]^[9]
September 28	Colgate*	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 38–7	11,214	^[10]
October 5	at Bucknell*	Christy Mathewson–Memorial Stadium Lewisburg, PA	W 30–21 ^OT	9,166	^[11]
October 12	Columbia	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L 19–20	6,435	^[12]
October 19	Lehigh*	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L 24–28	5,074	^[13]^[14]
October 26	at Brown	Brown Stadium Providence, RI	L 21–27	5,125	^[15]^[16]
November 2	Yale	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 20–3	19,203	^[17]^[18]
November 9	at Princeton	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	W 10–6	10,034	^[19]
November 16	Harvard	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)	W 17–12	21,509	^[20]
November 23	at Cornell	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY (rivalry)	L 21–24	5,223	^[21]
*Non-conference game

Background

1996 Ivy League football standings
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Team	W		L	W		L
No. 17 Dartmouth $	7	–	0	10	–	0
Columbia	5	–	2	8	–	2
Brown	4	–	3	5	–	5
Cornell	4	–	3	4	–	6
Penn	3	–	4	5	–	5
Harvard	2	–	5	4	–	6
Princeton	2	–	5	3	–	7
Yale	1	–	6	2	–	8

$ – Conference champion Rankings from The Sports Network poll