The Penn Quakers are the athletic teams of the University of Pennsylvania. The school sponsors 27 varsity sports. The school has won three NCAA

National Collegiate Athletic Association

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 national championships in men's fencing

NCAA Fencing team championship

NCAA fencing championship results, combined men and women , men's and women's .-Combined:Note: Team scoring in 1990 was based on weapon team events standings. From 1991 to 1994, point values increased due to fencers not qualifying as part of a team being able to contribute points from individual...

 and one in women's fencing

NCAA Fencing team championship

NCAA fencing championship results, combined men and women , men's and women's .-Combined:Note: Team scoring in 1990 was based on weapon team events standings. From 1991 to 1994, point values increased due to fencers not qualifying as part of a team being able to contribute points from individual...

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Men's crew

Football

The football

College football

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 team has competed since 1876. It has won eighteen national championships

NCAA Division I FBS National Football Championship

A college football national championship in the highest level of collegiate play in the United States, currently the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Football Bowl Subdivision , is a designation awarded annually by various third-party organizations to their selection of the best...

 when the school competed in what is now known as the FBS Since the formation of the Ivy League in 1956, Penn has won 15 Ivy League Football Championships.(1959, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1993, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2009, 2010). Eighteen former players have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame

College Football Hall of Fame

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Men's lacrosse

See also: Ivy League men's lacrosse and College lacrosse

College lacrosse

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 and Lacrosse in Pennsylvania

Lacrosse in Pennsylvania

Lacrosse has been played in Pennsylvania since the 19th century. Today, there are many respected amateur programs at the club, college and high school level, as well as several respected past and present professional teams at the National Lacrosse League and Major League Lacrosse ...

Men's soccer

Before the NCAA began its tournament in 1959, the annual national champion was declared by the Intercollegiate Association Football League

Intercollegiate Soccer Football Association

The NCAA held its first men's National Collegiate Soccer Championship in 1959, with eight teams selected for the tournament. Before 1959, unofficial champions were declared by the Intercollegiate Soccer Football Association . These were the result of polls and the subjective opinion of the ISFA...

 (IAFL) — from 1911 to 1926 — and then the Intercollegiate Soccer Football Association

Intercollegiate Soccer Football Association

The NCAA held its first men's National Collegiate Soccer Championship in 1959, with eight teams selected for the tournament. Before 1959, unofficial champions were declared by the Intercollegiate Soccer Football Association . These were the result of polls and the subjective opinion of the ISFA...

 (ISFA), from 1927 to 1958. From 1911 to 1958, Penn won ten national championships.

Women's crew

NCAA football television controversy

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See also

• Olympic Boycott Games
  Olympic Boycott Games
  The Liberty Bell Classic was an event held at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1980 by 29 of the boycotting countries of the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics as an alternative to the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow...
  
   (1980) – held at the University of Pennsylvania
• Penn Relays
  Penn Relays
  The Penn Relays is the oldest and largest track and field competition in the United States, hosted annually since April 21, 1895 by the University of Pennsylvania at Franklin Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
  
  
• The Red and the Blue
  The Red and the Blue
  The Red and the Blue may refer to:#A nickname used collectively for the University of Pennsylvania sports teams. The name comes from the two school colors which are apparent on the university's coat-of-arms...
  
  
• Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame
  Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame
  The Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame is a nonprofit organization in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., that was established in May 2002, to honor individuals and groups who are either area natives who became prominent in the field of sports or who became prominent in the field of sports in the...
  
  
• Sports in Philadelphia#Collegiate sports