Today I wrote a column about the Penn-Northwestern women's lacrosse rivalry. While it's certainly missing some elements of a classic rivalry (namely parity between the schools over a long period of time) it nonetheless has developed into Penn's best team's biggest rivalry.
But has it become the school's biggest rivalry? Considering the men's basketball hasn't played a truly meaningful game against Princeton since 2004, that rivalry certainly isn't at its height. Penn-Cornell has fast become a more important rivalry as Cornell has won the last two M. Hoops Ivy titles. In football, Penn-Cornell historically was a huge game, one that nearly rivaled (no pun intended) Harvard-Yale.
So I ask you, which of the following rivalries is the biggest currently at Penn:
- Penn-Cornell Football
- Penn-Cornell Basketball
- Penn-Northwestern W. Lax
- Penn-Princeton Basketball
- Any other one you can think of?
Tags: basketball, cornell, Football, princeton, rivalries, W. Lax
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April 28th, 2009 at 10:47 am
Penn-Drexel
I know this is not known as a big rivalry at Penn but it really should be. The two schools can't be any closer and they play each other every year.
The games are always hard fought and usually very close.
A lot of Penn and Drexel students/alums know each other as well, so it gives them bragging rights.
April 28th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
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