2017 Ivy League football season

2017 Ivy League football season
2017 Ivy League football season
League	NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision
Sport	Football
Duration	September 16, 2017 –; November 18, 2017
Number of teams	8
Regular season
Champions	Yale
Football seasons
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The 2017 Ivy League football season was the 62nd season of college football play for the Ivy League and was part of the 2017 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The season began on September 16, 2017, and ended on November 18, 2017. Ivy League teams were 18–6 against non-conference opponents and Yale won the conference championship.

2017 Ivy League football standings
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Team	W		L	W		L
No. 24 Yale $	6	–	1	9	–	1
Columbia	5	–	2	8	–	2
Dartmouth	5	–	2	8	–	2
Penn	4	–	3	6	–	4
Harvard	3	–	4	5	–	5
Cornell	3	–	4	3	–	7
Princeton	2	–	5	5	–	5
Brown	0	–	7	2	–	8

$ – Conference champion Rankings from STATS Poll

Season overview

Conf. Rank	Team	Head coach	STATS final	STATS high	Overall record	Conf. record	PPG	PAG
1	Yale^[1]	Tony Reno	24	24	9–1	6–1	35.5	15.6
2 (tie)	Columbia^[2]	Al Bagnoli	NR	NR	8–2	5–2	23.9	17.5
2 (tie)	Dartmouth^[3]	Buddy Teevens	NR	NR	8–2	5–2	27.4	20.0
4	Penn^[4]	Ray Priore	NR	NR	6–4	4–3	29.8	25.7
5 (tie)	Harvard^[5]	Tim Murphy	NR	NR	5–5	3–4	22.0	20.9
5 (tie)	Cornell^[6]	David Archer	NR	NR	3–7	3–4	17.3	24.3
7	Princeton^[7]	Bob Surace	NR	NR	5–5	2–5	38.2	26.5
8	Brown^[8]	Phil Estes	NR	NR	2–8	0–7	13.0	30.1

Schedule

Week 1

Date	Time	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result	Attendance
September 16	12:00 p.m.	San Diego	Princeton	Princeton Stadium • Princeton, NJ	W 27–17	10,421
September 16	12:30 p.m.	Yale	Lehigh	Goodman Stadium • Bethlehem, PA	W 56–28	4,996
September 16	12:30 p.m.	Bryant	Brown	Brown Stadium • Providence, RI	W 28–23	3,770
September 16	1:00 p.m.	Wagner	Columbia	Wien Stadium • New York City, NY	W 17–14	3,828
September 16	1:00 p.m.	Harvard	Rhode Island	Meade Stadium • Kingston, RI	L 10–17	3,812
September 16	1:00 p.m.	Ohio Dominican	Penn	Franklin Field • Philadelphia, PA	W 42–24	3,009
September 16	3:30 p.m.	Cornell	Delaware	Delaware Stadium • Newark, DE	L 14–41	14,714
September 16	6:00 p.m.	Dartmouth	Stetson	Spec Martin Stadium • DeLand, FL	W 38–7	2,435
^#Rankings from STATS Poll. All times are in Eastern Time.

Week 2

Date	Time	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result	Attendance
September 23	12:00 p.m.	Brown	Harvard	Harvard Stadium • Boston, MA	HAR 45–28	10,651
September 23	12:30 p.m.	Penn	Lehigh	Goodman Stadium • Bethlehem, PA	W 65–47	5,060
September 23	1:00 p.m.	Georgetown	Columbia	Wien Stadium • New York City, NY	W 35–14	4,101
September 23	1:00 p.m.	Cornell	Yale	Yale Bowl • New Haven, CT	YALE 49–24	10,926
September 23	6:00 p.m.	Lafayette	Princeton	Princeton Stadium • Princeton, NJ	W 38–17	7,239
September 23	7:00 p.m.	No. 25 Holy Cross	Dartmouth	Memorial Field • Hanover, NH	W 27–26 ^OT	7,094
^#Rankings from STATS Poll. All times are in Eastern Time.

Week 3

Date	Time	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result	Attendance
September 29	7:00 p.m.	Dartmouth	Penn	Franklin Field • Philadelphia, PA	DART 16–13	4,023
September 30	12:30 p.m.	Columbia	Princeton	Princeton Stadium • Princeton, NJ (Rivalry)	COL 28–24	5,073
September 30	1:30 p.m.	Colgate	Cornell	Schoellkopf Field • Ithaca, NY (Rivalry)	L 7–21	3,325
September 30	2:00 p.m.	Harvard	Georgetown	Cooper Field • Washington, D.C.	W 41–2	3,256
September 30	6:00 p.m.	Yale	Fordham	Coffey Field • Bronx, NY	W 41–10	3,988
September 30	7:00 p.m.	Rhode Island	Brown	Brown Stadium • Providence, RI (Rivalry)	W 24–21	3,191
^#Rankings from STATS Poll. All times are in Eastern Time.

Week 4

Date	Time	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result	Attendance
October 7	12:00 p.m.	Columbia	Marist	Leonidoff Field • Poughkeepsie, NY	W 41–17	2,396
October 7	1:00 p.m.	Brown	Stetson	Spec Martin Stadium • DeLand, FL	L 13–17	1,689
October 7	1:00 p.m.	Penn	Central Connecticut	Arute Field • New Britain, CT	L 21–42	4,917
October 7	1:00 p.m.	Georgetown	Princeton	Princeton Stadium • Princeton, NJ	W 50–30	4,466
October 7	1:30 p.m.	Harvard	Cornell	Schoellkopf Field • Ithaca, NY	COR 17–14	7,313
October 7†	1:30 p.m.	Yale	Dartmouth	Memorial Field • Hanover, NH (Rivalry)	DART 28–27	8,114
^#Rankings from STATS Poll. All times are in Eastern Time.

Week 5

Date	Time	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result	Attendance
October 14	12:00 p.m.	Lafayette	Harvard	Harvard Stadium • Boston, MA	W 38–10	10,025
October 14	12:30 p.m.	Princeton	Brown	Brown Stadium • Providence, RI (Rivalry)	PRIN 53–0	3,028
October 14	1:00 p.m.	Dartmouth	Sacred Heart	Campus Field • Fairfield, CT	W 29–26	5,569
October 14	1:00 p.m.	Holy Cross	Yale	Yale Bowl • New Haven, CT	W 32–0	8,709
October 14†	1:30 p.m.	Penn	Columbia	Wien Stadium • New York City, NY (Rivalry)	COL 34–31 ^OT	13,081
October 14	1:30 p.m.	Bucknell	Cornell	Schoellkopf Field • Ithaca, NY	L 18–26	4,202
^#Rankings from STATS Poll. All times are in Eastern Time.

Week 6

Date	Time	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result	Attendance
October 20	7:30 p.m.	Princeton	Harvard	Harvard Stadium • Boston, MA (Rivalry)	PRIN 52–17	10,114
October 21	12:30 p.m.	Columbia	Dartmouth	Memorial Field • Hanover, NH	COL 22–17	5,237
October 21	1:00 p.m.	Yale	Penn	Franklin Field • Philadelphia, PA (Rivalry)	YALE 24–19	6,408
October 21†	3:00 p.m.	Brown	Cornell	Schoellkopf Field • Ithaca, NY	COR 34–7	13,514
^#Rankings from STATS Poll. All times are in Eastern Time.

Week 7

Date	Time	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result	Attendance
October 28	12:00 p.m.	Dartmouth	Harvard	Harvard Stadium • Boston, MA (Rivalry)	HAR 25–22	11,143
October 28	12:30 p.m.	Penn	Brown	Brown Stadium • Providence, RI (Rivalry)	PENN 17–7	2,008
October 28	1:00 p.m.	Columbia	Yale	Yale Bowl • New Haven, CT	YALE 23–6	15,422
October 28	7:00 p.m.	Cornell	Princeton	Princeton Stadium • Princeton, NJ	COR 29–28	5,642
^#Rankings from STATS Poll. All times are in Eastern Time.

Week 8

Date	Time	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result	Attendance
November 3	8:00 p.m.	Brown	Yale	Yale Bowl • New Haven, CT	YALE 34–7	8,216
November 4	1:00 p.m.	Harvard	Columbia	Wien Stadium • New York City, NY (Rivalry)	HAR 21–14	7,011
November 4†	1:00 p.m.	Princeton	Penn	Franklin Field • Philadelphia, PA (Rivalry)	PENN 38–35	9,073
November 4	1:30 p.m.	Cornell	Dartmouth	Memorial Field • Hanover, NH (Rivalry)	DART 10–0	4,033
^#Rankings from STATS Poll. All times are in Eastern Time.

Week 9

Date	Time	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result	Attendance
November 10	8:00 p.m.	Dartmouth	Brown	Fenway Park • Boston, MA	DART 33–10	12,297
November 11	12:00 p.m.	Penn	Harvard	Harvard Stadium • Boston, MA (Rivalry)	PENN 23–6	10,122
November 11	1:00 p.m.	Yale	Princeton	Princeton Stadium • Princeton, NJ (Rivalry)	YALE 35–31	11,229
November 11	1:30 p.m.	Columbia	Cornell	Schoellkopf Field • Ithaca, NY (Empire State Bowl)	COL 18–8	5,613
^#Rankings from STATS Poll. All times are in Eastern Time.

Week 10

Date	Time	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result	Attendance
November 18	12:30 p.m.	Harvard	Yale	Yale Bowl • New Haven, CT (134th The Game)	YALE 24–3	51,426
November 18	1:00 p.m.	Brown	Columbia	Wien Stadium • New York City, NY	COL 24–6	5,341
November 18	1:30 p.m.	Cornell	Penn	Franklin Field • Philadelphia, PA (Trustees' Cup)	PENN 29–22	3,861
November 18	1:30 p.m.	Princeton	Dartmouth	Memorial Field • Hanover, NH	DART 54–44	3,081
^#Rankings from STATS Poll. All times are in Eastern Time.

Attendance

Team	Stadium	Capacity	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3	Game 4	Game 5	Total	Average	% of Capacity
Brown	Brown Stadium	20,000	3,770†	3,191	3,028	2,008	—	11,997	3,000	15.0%
Columbia	Wien Stadium	17,000	3,828	4,101	13,081†	7,011	5,341	33,362	6,673	39.3%
Cornell	Schoellkopf Field	25,597	3,325	7,313	4,202	13,514†	5,613	33,967	6,794	26.5%
Dartmouth	Memorial Field	11,000	7,094	8,114†	5,237	4,033	3,081	27,559	5,512	50.1%
Harvard	Harvard Stadium	30,323	10,651	10,025	10,114	11,143†	10,122	52,055	10,411	34.3%
Penn	Franklin Field	52,958	3,009	4,023	6,408	9,073†	3,861	26,374	5,275	10.0%
Princeton	Princeton Stadium	27,773	10,421	5,073	4,466	5,642	11,229†	36,831	7,367	26.5%
Yale	Yale Bowl	61,446	10,926	8,709	15,422	8,216	51,426†	94,699	18,940	30.8%
Total	—	246,097	53,024	50,549	61,958	60,640	90,673	316,844	63,972	26.0%

†Season High

References

^ "2017 Yale Football Schedule" (PDF). Yale University Athletics. Retrieved April 16, 2017.
^ "Football - 2017 Schedule". Columbia Athletics. Retrieved April 16, 2017.
^ "Football - 2017 Schedule". Dartmouth College Varsity Athletics. Retrieved March 13, 2017.
^ "Penn Quakers". STATS LLC. Retrieved April 16, 2017.
^ "2017 Harvard Football Schedule". Harvard University Athletics. Archived from the original on March 13, 2017. Retrieved April 16, 2017.
^ "2017 Varsity Football Schedule". Cornell Football Association. Archived from the original on October 3, 2016. Retrieved April 16, 2017.
^ "Future Varsity Schedules". Princeton Tigers. Archived from the original on 16 April 2017. Retrieved 16 April 2017.
^ "2017 Brown Football Schedule". Brown University Athletics. Archived from the original on March 13, 2017. Retrieved April 16, 2017.

[1] "2017 Yale Football Schedule" (PDF). Yale University Athletics. Retrieved April 16, 2017.

[2] "Football - 2017 Schedule". Columbia Athletics. Retrieved April 16, 2017.

[3] "Football - 2017 Schedule". Dartmouth College Varsity Athletics. Retrieved March 13, 2017.

[4] "Penn Quakers". STATS LLC. Retrieved April 16, 2017.

[5] "2017 Harvard Football Schedule". Harvard University Athletics. Archived from the original on March 13, 2017. Retrieved April 16, 2017.

[6] "2017 Varsity Football Schedule". Cornell Football Association. Archived from the original on October 3, 2016. Retrieved April 16, 2017.

[7] "Future Varsity Schedules". Princeton Tigers. Archived from the original on 16 April 2017. Retrieved 16 April 2017.

[8] "2017 Brown Football Schedule". Brown University Athletics. Archived from the original on March 13, 2017. Retrieved April 16, 2017.

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