1979 Penn Quakers football team

1979 Penn Quakers football
Conference	Ivy League
Record	0–9 (0–7 Ivy)
Head coach	Harry Gamble (8th season)
Home stadium	Franklin Field

1979 Ivy League football standings

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Yale $	6	–	1	–	0			8	–	1	–	0
Brown	5	–	2	–	0			6	–	3	–	0
Princeton	5	–	2	–	0			5	–	4	–	0
Cornell	4	–	3	–	0			5	–	4	–	0
Dartmouth	4	–	3	–	0			4	–	4	–	1
Harvard	3	–	4	–	0			3	–	6	–	0
Columbia	1	–	6	–	0			1	–	8	–	0
Penn	0	–	7	–	0			0	–	9	–	0
$ – Conference champion

The 1979 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1979 NCAA Division I-A football season.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
September 22	Cornell	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)	L 13–52
September 29	at Lehigh*	Taylor Stadium Bethlehem, PA	L 7–31
October 6	at Columbia	Baker Field New York, NY	L 7–12
October 13	Brown	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L 18–24
October 19	Lafayette*	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L 7–9
October 27	at Yale	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 6–24
November 3	Princeton	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)	L 10–38
November 10	at Harvard	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	L 26–41
November 17	Dartmouth	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L –6-20
*Non-conference game