1980 Brown Bears football team

1980 Brown Bears football
ConferenceIvy League
Record6–4 (4–3 Ivy)
Head coach
Captains
  • Larry Carbone
  • John Woodring
Home stadiumBrown Stadium
Seasons
← 1979
1981 →
1980 Ivy League football standings
Conf Overall
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
  • $ – Conference champion

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.

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.

  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.