The 2018 Brown Bears football team represented

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as a member of the

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of the

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. Led Phil Estes in his 21st and final season as head coach, the Bears compiled an overall record of 1–9 with a mark of 0–7 in conference play, placing last out of eight teams in the Ivy League. Brown played home games at

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. On November 19, Estes announced his resignation. He finished his tenure at Brown with an overall record of 115–94.

Schedule

The 2018 schedule consisted of five home games and five away games. The Bears hosted Ivy League foes

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, Cornell, Penn, and Columbia, and traveled to

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, and Dartmouth. In 2018, Brown's non-conference opponents were Cal Poly of the

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, Georgetown of the

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, and

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of the

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Game summaries

At Cal Poly

Harvard

Georgetown

At No. 18 Rhode Island

At No. 25 Princeton

Cornell

Penn

At Yale

Columbia

At No. 20 Dartmouth

References

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Brown Bears football seasons

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