Editing University of Pennsylvania (section)

===Football===
{{Main|Penn Quakers football}}
[[File:ChuckBednarik1952Bowman.jpg|thumb|[[Chuck Bednarik]], also known as Concrete Charlie, was a three-time All-American at Penn who was inducted into the [[College Football Hall of Fame]], the first player selected in the [[1949 NFL draft]] by the [[Philadelphia Eagles]], where he went on to win the 1960 NFL Championship and was inducted into [[Pro Football Hall of Fame]].]]

Penn first fielded a football team against [[Princeton Tigers football|Princeton]] at the Germantown Cricket Club in Philadelphia on November 11, 1876.<ref name="Fight song"/>

During the 1890s, Penn's coach and alumnus [[George Washington Woodruff]] introduced the quarterback kick, a forerunner of the [[forward pass]], as well as the [[Placekicker|place-kick]] from scrimmage and the delayed pass.

The achievements of two of Penn's other outstanding players from that era, John Heisman, a Law School alumnus, and [[John Outland]], a [[Penn Med]] alumnus, are remembered each year with the presentation of the Heisman Trophy to the most outstanding college football player of the year, and the [[Outland Trophy]] to the most outstanding college football [[Lineman (gridiron football)|interior lineman]] of the year.

The [[Bednarik Award]], named for [[Chuck Bednarik]], a three-time [[All-America]]n [[Center (American football)|center]] and [[linebacker]] who starred on the 1947, is awarded annually to college football's best defensive player. Bednarik went on to play for 12 years with the [[Philadelphia Eagles]], and was elected to the [[Pro Football Hall of Fame]] in 1969.

Penn's game against [[University of California, Berkeley]] on September 29, 1951, in front of a crowd of 60,000 at [[Franklin Field]], was first college football game to be broadcast in color.<ref name="eyesofageneration.com">{{cite web |access-date=August 4, 2021 |title=September 29, 1951 ... Two College Football Television Firsts |url=https://eyesofageneration.com/september-29-1951-two-college-football-television-firstsdid-you-know-cbs-an/ |website=Eyes Of A Generation – Television's Living History |date=29 September 2016 |archive-date=August 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210804063937/https://eyesofageneration.com/september-29-1951-two-college-football-television-firstsdid-you-know-cbs-an/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thedp.com/article/2021/03/penn-football-first-televised-color-game-ncaa-history |title=Highlighting Penn football's small role in color television broadcasting |work=The Daily Pennsylvanian |last=Frank |first=Matthew |date=March 28, 2021 |access-date=August 4, 2021 }}</ref>