1897 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

1897 Penn State Nittany Lions football
Conference	Independent
1897 record	3–6
Head coach	Samuel Newton (2nd season)
Home stadium	Beaver Field
Seasons ←  1896 1898  →

1897 Eastern college football independents records
v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Penn			–					15	–	0	–	0
Yale			–					9	–	0	–	2
Buffalo			–					7	–	0	–	0
Princeton			–					10	–	1	–	0
Harvard			–					10	–	1	–	1
Drexel			–					7	–	1	–	1
Army			–					6	–	1	–	1
Lafayette			–					9	–	2	–	1
Colgate			–					5	–	2	–	1
Cornell			–					5	–	3	–	1
Syracuse			–					5	–	3	–	1
Brown			–					7	–	4	–	0
Carlisle			–					6	–	4	–	0
Boston College			–					4	–	3	–	0
Trinity			–					4	–	4	–	1
Geneva			–					3	–	4	–	1
Duquesne			–					2	–	3	–	1
Villanova			–					3	–	5	–	1
Penn State			–					3	–	6	–	0
Western Univ. Penn.			–					1	–	3	–	0
Rutgers			–					2	–	7	–	0

The 1897 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylvania State University in the 1897 college football season. ^[1] The team was coached by Samuel Newton and played its home games on Beaver Field in University Park, Pennsylvania.

Despite the article title, the school did not adopt the Nittany Lion as its mascot until 1907.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
September 25	Gettysburg	Beaver Field State College, PA	W 32–0
October 2	at Lafayette	March Field Easton, PA	L 0–24
October 13	at Princeton	University Field Princeton, NJ	L 0–34
October 16	at Penn	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L 0–24
October 20	at Navy	Worden Field Annapolis, MD	L 0–4
October 30	at Cornell	Ithaca, NY	L 0–45
November 13	vs. Bucknell	Williamsport, PA	W 27–4
November 20	Bloomsburg Normal	Beaver Field State College, PA	W 10–0
November 25	vs. Dickinson	Sunbury, PA	L 0–6

References

1. "Penn State Yearly Results (1895-1899)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Retrieved August 9, 2015.