2017 Ivy League football season
Sports season
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.
Season overview
Schedule
Week 1
Date
Time
Visiting team
Home team
Site
TV
Result
Attendance
Ref.
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
TV
Result
Attendance
Ref.
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
TV
Result
Attendance
Ref.
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
TV
Result
Attendance
Ref.
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
TV
Result
Attendance
Ref.
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
Week 7
Week 8
Week 9
Week 10
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 .
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