1976 Penn Quakers football team

The 1976 Penn Quakers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Pennsylvania during the 1976 NCAA Division I football season. Penn tied for last place in the Ivy League.

In their sixth year under head coach Harry Gamble, the Quakers compiled a 3–6 record and were outscored 159 to 90.^[1] Robert Graustein, Robert Mardula and William Petuskey were the team captain.^[2]

Penn's 2–5 conference record placed it in a four-way tie for fifth place, at the bottom of the Ivy League standings. The Quakers were outscored 121 to 55 by Ivy opponents.^[3]

Penn played its home games at Franklin Field adjacent to the university's campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 18	at Dartmouth	Memorial Field Hanover, NH	L 0–20	11,300	[4]
September 24	Lehigh*	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L 20–24	9,300–9,305	[5][6]
October 2	Columbia	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L 10–14	6,688	[7]
October 9	at Brown	Brown Stadium Providence, RI	W 7–6	1,200	[8]
October 16	at Lafayette*	Fisher Field Easton, PA	W 15–14	8,000–10,000	[9][10]
October 23	Yale	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L 7–21	15,101	[11]
October 30	at Princeton	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	W 10–9	10,000	[12]
November 6	Harvard	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)	L 8–20	8,423	[13]
November 13	at Cornell	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY (rivalry)	L 13–31	9,000	[14]
*Non-conference game Homecoming