While Harvard travels to Yale praying for a Penn loss, the Quakers (7-2, 6-0) will try to claim the title for themselves tomorrow beginning at 1 p.m. at Franklin Field.
Yale will look to ruin Harvard's Ivy title hopes in the 126th edition of The Game.
The new Quakers open their season tomorrow afternoon against Cornell in Ithaca, N.Y.
The Red and Blue will get their next opportunity to prevent an inauspicious start when they play their home opener against Duquesne. Penn lost to the Dukes (3-0) 78-45 last season.
Penn will host the Keystone Classic Sunday — its only tournament at the Palestra in 2009 — and then it’s on the road again as the Quakers embark on a four-tournament road stand that will have them traveling up and down the east coast until Jan. 9.
Conditioning has been the main focus of the men’s squash team in preparing for the 2009-10 season. And tomorrow the Quakers will get the chance to show if it has paid off when they open their season with back-to-back matches in Ithaca, N.Y.
Tomorrow, Penn women’s swimming will face Olympic Qualifier Alicia Aemisegger and a powerful Princeton team that finished 7-0 in the Ivy League last season. The Quakers will also compete against Cornell in the dual meet held in Princeton, N.J.
Most Penn teams circle their first matchups with Princeton on their calendars. The men’s swimming team did the same thing — but for a very different reason. In tonight’s meet in Princeton, N.J., the Quakers have their eyes on Cornell.
The Quakers finally return home. And just in the nick of time.
Although it already clinched the Ivy League conference title and an NCAA Tournament berth, Penn (22-5, 13-1 Ivy) improved its conference record to 13-1, matching its best ever Ivy record from the 2002 and 2003 championship seasons.
Villanova handed the Penn’s women’s basketball team its second loss of the season and 19th-straight Big 5 loss.