In Popular Culture
- In the second season of The Cosby Show, in the episode "Off to the Races", Cliff Huxtable is invited to run in the Penn Relays.
- In the novel Crash by Jerry Spinelli, a boy is named "Penn" by his great-grandfather, who ran in the Penn Relays. In the end Penn gets to run in the Penn Relays.
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