1980 Brown Bears football team
The 1980 Brown Bears football team was an American football team that represented Brown University during the 1980 NCAA Division I-A football season. Brown tied for third place in the Ivy League.
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| Conference | Ivy League |
| 1980 record | 6–4 (4–3 Ivy) |
| Head coach | John Anderson (8th season) |
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| Home stadium | Brown Stadium |
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Yale $ | 6 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 8 | – | 2 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cornell | 5 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 5 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Harvard | 4 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 7 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Brown | 4 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 6 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Princeton | 4 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 6 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dartmouth | 4 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 6 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Penn | 1 | – | 6 | – | 0 | 1 | – | 9 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Columbia | 0 | – | 7 | – | 0 | 1 | – | 9 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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In their sixth season under head coach John Anderson, the Bears compiled a 6–4 record and outscored opponents 240 to 195. Larry Carbone and John Woodring were the team captains.[1]
The Bears' 4–3 conference record earned them part of a four-way tie third place in the Ivy League standings. They outscored Ivy opponents 190 to 161.[2]
Ivy League football teams expanded their schedules to 10 games in 1980, making this the first year since 1955 that Brown played three games against non-Ivy opponents.
Brown played its home games at Brown Stadium in Providence, Rhode Island.
Schedule
| Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source | ||
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| September 20 | Yale |
| L 17–45 | 15,500 | [3] | ||
| September 27 | Bucknell* |
| L 20–28 | 7,000 | [4] | ||
| October 4 | at Princeton | W 28–11 | 10,000 | [5] | |||
| October 11 | Penn |
| W 42–22 | 4,500 | [6] | ||
| October 18 | at Cornell | W 32–25 | 7,000 | [7] | |||
| October 25 | Holy Cross* |
| W 21–3 | 1,400 | [8] | ||
| November 1 | at Harvard | L 16–17 | 16,000 | [9] | |||
| November 15 | Dartmouth |
| L 24–28 | 5,917 | [10] | ||
| November 22 | at Columbia | W 31–13 | 5,125 | [11] | |||
| November 27 | Rhode Island* |
| W 9–3 | 7,200 | [12] | ||
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References
- "Game-by-Game Results (1878-2019) (Football)". Providence, R.I.: Brown University. Retrieved July 3, 2020.
- "Year-by-Year History". Ivy League Football Media Guide (PDF). Princeton, N.J.: Ivy League. 2017. p. 29. Retrieved July 10, 2020.
- Visser, Lesley (September 21, 1980). "Yale Rolls over Brown". Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. p. 84 – via Newspapers.com.
- "Bucknell 28, Brown 20". Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. September 28, 1980. p. 80 – via Newspapers.com.
- Bruns, John (October 5, 1980). "Punchless Tigers Lose 3rd Straight as Brown Coasts". The Home News Sunday. New Brunswick, N.J. p. B1 – via Newspapers.com.
- Monahan, Bob (October 12, 1980). "Brown Grinds Down Penn". Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. p. 56 – via Newspapers.com.
- Taussig, Pete (October 19, 1980). "Brown Fells Cornell". Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. p. 54 – via Newspapers.com.
- Powers, John (October 26, 1980). "Weather, Holy Cross No Problem for Brown". Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. p. 54 – via Newspapers.com.
- Powers, John (November 2, 1980). "Buckley, Harvard End Brown Hex -- Barely". Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. p. 48 – via Newspapers.com.
- Roberts, Ernie (November 16, 1980). "Dartmouth Comes Back". Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. p. 86 – via Newspapers.com.
- "Brown 31, Columbia 13". Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. November 23, 1980. p. 84 – via Newspapers.com.
- Visser, Lesley (November 28, 1980). "Brown Staves Off Rhode Island, 9-3". Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. p. 75 – via Newspapers.com.
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