# 2017 Ivy League football 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

| Conf. Rank | Team | Head coach | STATS final | STATS high | Overall record | Conf. record | PPG | PAG |
| 1 | Yale | Tony Reno | 24 | 24 | 9–1 | 6–1 | 35.5 | 15.6 |
| 2 (tie) | Columbia | Al Bagnoli | NR | NR | 8–2 | 5–2 | 23.9 | 17.5 |
| 2 (tie) | Dartmouth | Buddy Teevens | NR | NR | 8–2 | 5–2 | 27.4 | 20.0 |
| 4 | Penn | Ray Priore | NR | NR | 6–4 | 4–3 | 29.8 | 25.7 |
| 5 (tie) | Harvard | Tim Murphy | NR | NR | 5–5 | 3–4 | 22.0 | 20.9 |
| 5 (tie) | Cornell | David Archer | NR | NR | 3–7 | 3–4 | 17.3 | 24.3 |
| 7 | Princeton | Bob Surace | NR | NR | 5–5 | 2–5 | 38.2 | 26.5 |
| 8 | Brown | Phil Estes | NR | NR | 2–8 | 0–7 | 13.0 | 30.1 |

## Schedule
### Week 1

| Date | Time | Visiting team | Home team | Site | Result | Attendance |
| 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 | Result | Attendance |
| 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 | Result | Attendance |
| September 29 | 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 | Result | Attendance |
| 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 | Result | Attendance |
| 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

| Date | Time | Visiting team | Home team | Site | Result | Attendance |
| October 20 | 7:30 p.m. | Princeton | Harvard | Harvard Stadium • Boston, MA (Rivalry) | PRIN 52–17 | 10,114 |
| October 21 | 12:30 p.m. | Columbia | Dartmouth | Memorial Field • Hanover, NH | COL 22–17 | 5,237 |
| October 21 | 1:00 p.m. | Yale | Penn | Franklin Field • Philadelphia, PA (Rivalry) | YALE 24–19 | 6,408 |
| October 21† | 3:00 p.m. | Brown | Cornell | Schoellkopf Field • Ithaca, NY | COR 34–7 | 13,514 |
| $^#$Rankings from STATS Poll. All times are in Eastern Time. |||||||||

### Week 7

| Date | Time | Visiting team | Home team | Site | Result | Attendance |
| October 28 | 12:00 p.m. | Dartmouth | Harvard | Harvard Stadium • Boston, MA (Rivalry) | HAR 25–22 | 11,143 |
| October 28 | 12:30 p.m. | Penn | Brown | Brown Stadium • Providence, RI (Rivalry) | PENN 17–7 | 2,008 |
| October 28 | 1:00 p.m. | Columbia | Yale | Yale Bowl • New Haven, CT | YALE 23–6 | 15,422 |
| October 28 | 7:00 p.m. | Cornell | Princeton | Princeton Stadium • Princeton, NJ | COR 29–28 | 5,642 |
| $^#$Rankings from STATS Poll. All times are in Eastern Time. |||||||||

### Week 8

| Date | Time | Visiting team | Home team | Site | Result | Attendance |
| November 3 | 8:00 p.m. | Brown | Yale | Yale Bowl • New Haven, CT | YALE 34–7 | 8,216 |
| November 4 | 1:00 p.m. | Harvard | Columbia | Wien Stadium • New York City, NY (Rivalry) | HAR 21–14 | 7,011 |
| November 4† | 1:00 p.m. | Princeton | Penn | Franklin Field • Philadelphia, PA (Rivalry) | PENN 38–35 | 9,073 |
| November 4 | 1:30 p.m. | Cornell | Dartmouth | Memorial Field • Hanover, NH (Rivalry) | DART 10–0 | 4,033 |
| $^#$Rankings from STATS Poll. All times are in Eastern Time. |||||||||

### Week 9

| Date | Time | Visiting team | Home team | Site | Result | Attendance |
| November 10 | 8:00 p.m. | Dartmouth | Brown | Fenway Park • Boston, MA | DART 33–10 | 12,297 |
| November 11 | 12:00 p.m. | Penn | Harvard | Harvard Stadium • Boston, MA (Rivalry) | PENN 23–6 | 10,122 |
| November 11 | 1:00 p.m. | Yale | Princeton | Princeton Stadium • Princeton, NJ (Rivalry) | YALE 35–31 | 11,229 |
| November 11 | 1:30 p.m. | Columbia | Cornell | Schoellkopf Field • Ithaca, NY (Empire State Bowl) | COL 18–8 | 5,613 |
| $^#$Rankings from STATS Poll. All times are in Eastern Time. |||||||||

### Week 10

| Date | Time | Visiting team | Home team | Site | Result | Attendance |
| November 18 | 12:30 p.m. | Harvard | Yale | Yale Bowl • New Haven, CT (134th The Game) | YALE 24–3 | 51,426 |
| November 18 | 1:00 p.m. | Brown | Columbia | Wien Stadium • New York City, NY | COL 24–6 | 5,341 |
| November 18 | 1:30 p.m. | Cornell | Penn | Franklin Field • Philadelphia, PA (Trustees' Cup) | PENN 29–22 | 3,861 |
| November 18 | 1:30 p.m. | Princeton | Dartmouth | Memorial Field • Hanover, NH | DART 54–44 | 3,081 |
| $^#$Rankings from STATS Poll. All times are in Eastern Time. |||||||||

## 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