The 1973 Brown Bears football team was an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wi ...

team that represented Brown University during the

1973 NCAA Division I football season The 1973 NCAA Division I football season was the first for the NCAA's current three-division structure. Effective with the 1973–74 academic year, schools formerly in the NCAA "University Division" were classified as Division I (later subdiv ...

. After seven years of last- or second-to-last-place finishes, Brown rose to fifth place in the

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. In their first season under head coach John Anderson, the Bears compiled a 4–3–1 record and outscored opponents 183 to 163. B. Ball was the team captain. The Bears' 4–3 conference record placed fifth in the Ivy League standings, the team's best showing since 1964. They outscored Ivy opponents 163 to 143. Brown played its home games at

Brown Stadium Richard Gouse Field at Brown Stadium is a football stadium located in Providence, Rhode Island. It is the home of Brown University's football and outdoor track teams. The athletic teams at Brown University, known as the Bears, compete in the Iv ...

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Brown Bears football seasons

Brown Bears football : ''For information on all Brown University sports, see Brown Bears'' The Brown Bears football program is the intercollegiate American football team for Brown University located in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. The team competes in the NCAA Divi ...