1913 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

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1913 Penn State Nittany Lions football
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ConferenceIndependent
Record2–6
Head coach
Captain Shorty Miller
Home stadium New Beaver Field
Seasons
  1912
1914  
1913 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Harvard   9 0 0
Carlisle   10 1 1
Washington & Jefferson   10 0 1
Army   8 1 0
Dartmouth   7 1 0
Tufts   7 1 0
Colgate   6 1 1
Franklin & Marshall   6 2 0
Pittsburgh   6 2 1
Princeton   5 2 1
Yale   5 2 3
Rutgers   6 3 0
Penn   6 3 1
Villanova   4 2 1
Lehigh   5 3 0
Bucknell   6 4 0
Cornell   5 4 1
Boston College   4 3 1
Syracuse   6 4 0
Fordham   3 3 2
Geneva   4 4 0
Lafayette   4 5 1
Brown   4 5 0
Duquesne   3 5 1
Carnegie Tech   2 4 1
Holy Cross   3 6 0
Temple   1 3 2
Penn State   2 6 0
Rhode Island State   2 6 0
Vermont   1 5 0
NYU   0 8 0

The 1913 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylvania State University in the 1913 college football season. [1] The team was coached by Bill Hollenback and played its home games in New Beaver Field in State College, Pennsylvania. Following a 26-game unbeaten streak for Hollenback (not the program, which had losses in 1910), the Nittany Lions closed out the 1913 season with six straight losses.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 4 Carnegie Tech W 49–0
October 11 Gettysburg
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 16–0
October 18at Washington & Jefferson L 0–177,000 [2]
October 25at Harvard L 0–29
November 1at Penn L 0–17
November 7 Notre Dame
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA (rivalry)
L 7–14
November 15at Navy L 0–10
November 27at Pittsburgh L 6–718,000 [3]

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References

  1. "Penn State Yearly Results (1910-1914)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on August 5, 2015. Retrieved August 10, 2015.
  2. "W. and J. Wins Decisively Over Penn State Eleven". The Pittsburgh Gazette Times . Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. October 19, 1913. p. 18. Retrieved September 18, 2021 via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg .
  3. "Small Score Wins For Pitt on Wet Field". The Pitt Weekly. Vol. 4, no. 10. December 5, 1913. p. 3. Retrieved August 26, 2020.