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1981 Brown Bears football
ConferenceIvy League
Record3–7 (2–5 Ivy)
Head coach
Captains
  • D. Finneran
  • T. Holcombe
Home stadium
Brown Stadium
Seasons
1981 Ivy League football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Yale + 6 – 1 – 0 9 – 1 – 0
Dartmouth + 6 – 1 – 0 6 – 4 – 0
Princeton 5 – 1 – 1 5 – 4 – 1
Harvard 4 – 2 – 1 5 – 4 – 1
Brown 2 – 5 – 0 3 – 7 – 0
Cornell 2 – 5 – 0 3 – 7 – 0
Columbia 1 – 6 – 0 1 – 9 – 0
Penn 1 – 6 – 0 1 – 9 – 0
  • + – Conference co-champions

The 1981 Brown Bears football team was an American football team that represented Brown University during the 1981 NCAA Division I-A football season. Brown tied for fifth place in the Ivy League.

In their ninth season under head coach John Anderson, the Bears compiled a 3–7 record and were outscored 250 to 153. T. Holcombe and D. Finneran were the team captains.[1]

The Bears' 2–5 conference record tied for fifth in the Ivy League standings. They were outscored 185 to 102 by Ivy opponents.[2]

This would be Brown's last season in the NCAA's top level of football competition. Shortly after the season ended, the NCAA reassigned all of the Ivy League teams to the second-tier Division I-AA,[3] which would later be renamed the Football Championship Subdivision.

Brown played its home games at

Brown Stadium in Providence, Rhode Island
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Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 19 at Yale
L 7–28 17,000 [4]
September 26 at Army*
L 17–23 31,859 [5]
October 3 Princeton
  • Brown Stadium
  • Providence, RI
L 17–20 5,800 [6]
October 10 at Penn
W 26–24 11,239 [7]
October 17 Cornell
  • Brown Stadium
  • Providence, RI
L 9–14 10,300 [8]
October 24 at Holy Cross*
L 24–34 14,792 [9]
October 31 Harvard
  • Brown Stadium
  • Providence, RI
L 7–41 14,600 [10]
November 7 at Rhode Island*
W 10–8 9,737 [11]
November 14 at Dartmouth
L 13–38 9,500 [12]
November 21 Columbia
  • Brown Stadium
  • Providence, RI
W 23–20 4,800 [13]
  • *Non-conference game

References

  1. ^ "Game-by-Game Results (1878-2019) (Football)". Providence, R.I.: Brown University. Retrieved July 3, 2020.
  2. ^ "Year-by-Year History". Ivy League Football Media Guide (PDF). Princeton, N.J.: Ivy League. 2017. p. 29. Retrieved July 10, 2020.
  3. ^ Roberts, Ernie (December 4, 1981). "Big Guys on Block Bully Ivy, HC Football". The Boston Globe. Boston, Mass.
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