# 2019 Brown Bears football team

The 2019 Brown Bears football team represented Brown University as a member of the Ivy League during the 2019 NCAA Division I FCS football season. Led by first-year head coach James Perry, the Bears compiled an overall record of 2–8 with a mark of 1–6 in conference play, placing last out of eight teams in the Ivy League. Brown played home games at Richard Gouse Field at Brown Stadium in Providence, Rhode Island.

## Preseason
### Preseason media poll

The Ivy League released their preseason media poll on August 8, 2019. The Bears were picked to finish in eighth place.
| Predicted finish | Team | Votes (1st place) |
| 1 | Yale | 119 (9) |
| 2 | Dartmouth | 111 (2) |
| 3 | Princeton | 107 (4) |
| 4 | Harvard | 93 (1) |
| 5 | Penn | 67 |
| 6 | Columbia | 61 (1) |
| 7 | Cornell | 29 |
| 8 | Brown | 24 |

## Schedule

| Date | Time | Opponent | Site | TV | Result | Attendance |
| September 21 | 2:00 p.m. | at Bryant* | Beirne StadiumSmithfield, RI | NEC Front Row | W 35–30 | 2,242 |
| September 27 | 7:00 p.m. | at Harvard | Harvard StadiumBoston, MA | ESPNews | L 7–42 | 10,088 |
| October 5 | 12:30 p.m. | Rhode Island* | Richard Gouse Field at Brown StadiumProvidence, RI (rivalry) | ESPN+ | L 28–31 | 5,077 |
| October 12 | 12:30 p.m. | Holy Cross* | Brown StadiumProvidence, RI | ESPN+/NESN Plus | L 31–47 | 3,026 |
| October 19 | 1:30 p.m. | No. 17 Princeton | Brown StadiumProvidence, RI | ESPN+ | L 22–65 | 4,703 |
| October 26 | 1:30 p.m. | at Cornell | Schoellkopf FieldIthaca, NY | ESPN+ | L 35–37 | 4,271 |
| November 2 | 1:00 p.m. | at Penn | Franklin FieldPhiladelphia, PA | ESPN+ | L 36–38 | 8,459 |
| November 9 | 12:30 p.m. | Yale | Brown StadiumProvidence, RI | ESPN+ | L 35–59 | 2,876 |
| November 16 | 1:00 p.m. | at Columbia | Robert K. Kraft Field at Lawrence A. Wien StadiumNew York, NY | ESPN+ | W 48–24 | 4,207 |
| November 23 | 12:30 p.m. | No. 22 Dartmouth | Brown StadiumProvidence, RI | ESPN+ | L 23–29 | 3,264 |
| *Non-conference gameHomecomingRankings from STATS Poll released prior to the gameAll times are in Eastern time |||||||

## Game summaries
### At Bryant

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Bears | 0 | 14 | 7 | 14 | 35 |
| Bulldogs | 3 | 7 | 7 | 13 | 30 |

### At Harvard

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Bears | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Crimson | 7 | 14 | 7 | 14 | 42 |

### Rhode Island

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Rams | 7 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 31 |
| Bears | 7 | 7 | 0 | 14 | 28 |

### Holy Cross

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Crusaders | 13 | 14 | 7 | 13 | 47 |
| Bears | 7 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 31 |

### Princeton

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| No. 17 Tigers | 17 | 34 | 7 | 7 | 65 |
| Bears | 6 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 22 |

### At Cornell

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Bears | 6 | 6 | 13 | 10 | 35 |
| Big Red | 6 | 14 | 14 | 3 | 37 |

### At Penn

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Bears | 7 | 12 | 3 | 14 | 36 |
| Quakers | 0 | 21 | 14 | 3 | 38 |

### Yale

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Bulldogs | 17 | 7 | 18 | 17 | 59 |
| Bears | 0 | 21 | 7 | 7 | 35 |

### At Columbia

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Bears | 21 | 7 | 20 | 0 | 48 |
| Lions | 0 | 17 | 7 | 0 | 24 |

### Dartmouth

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| No. 22 Big Green | 0 | 7 | 7 | 15 | 29 |
| Bears | 3 | 7 | 13 | 0 | 23 |