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The game was dubbed the "Battle for the 33d Street Trophy." In reality, it was the battle to avoid becoming Philadelphia's last winless Division I men's basketball team.

Drexel downs Penn 58-49 Eds: APNewsNow. Drexel 58, Penn 49. PHILADELPHIA Jamie Harris scored 22 points to lead Drexel to its first win, beating still-winless Penn 58-49 on Tuesday night.

PHILADELPHIA -- A season that began with promise after two wins ended with a thud and the Cornell football team's eighth straight loss on Saturday.

Penn guard Tyler Bernardini, a 6'6" junior, was sitll listed Sunday as questionable for Tuesday's home college basketball game against Drexel.

Keiffer Garton threw two touchdown passes and ran for a score to lead Penn to a 34-0 rout of Cornell on Saturday.

ITHACA -- Other than having the stingiest defense in the country, 25th-ranked Penn's recipe for winning no less than a share of the Ivy League title goes like this -- eight different players have completed a pass, 13 players have run the ball and 15 different receivers have caught a pass.

Chris Wynn came to Penn to win rings. As in plural. And why not? Under football coach Al Bagnoli, the Quakers had won six Ivy League titles in 11 seasons, beginning in 1993.

Two undefeated teams. It was the No. 1 offense in the Ivy League against the No.

Clinging to a five-point lead midway through the second half, Talor Battle drove into the lane and hesitated 10 feet from the hoop.

Penn's football team earned a ranking in the top 25 for the first time in more than four years.

Villanova moved up one spot to second in The Sports Network poll and Penn is in the Top 25 for the first time since 2005.

Villanova coach Jay Wright has always approached Big 5 games with the utmost caution.

Week 10, November 16, 2009 OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK Penn senior quarterback KYLE OLSON had a stellar day in a driving rainstorm in the Quakers' 17-7 win over Harvard to win a share of their first Ivy title in six seasons.

I've only covered two funerals in my life, and both were just a few months apart.

Junior Bradford Blackmon was one of the many offensive players to step up Saturday.

The University of Pennsylvania clinched at least a share of the Ivy League title, defeating Harvard 17-7 on Saturday.

Nobody thought Penn would win all of it's men's college basketball games this year, not even the Quakers themselves.

Jeff Brooks added 10 points for the Nittany Lions , who won their sixth straight dating back to last spring's run to take the postseason NIT title.

A blue stocking cap pulled over his ears, Al Bagnoli, the football coach at Penn, stood in the rain Wednesday at Franklin Field as he directed an important practice before the 282nd game of his career, a game that he said would feel different.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.; Nov. 12, 2009 - The Nittany Lion basketball team will embark on its 114th season on Friday when Penn State takes on intrastate rival Penn at 7:30 p.m. in the Bryce Jordan Center.