1916 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

1916 Penn State Nittany Lions football
Conference	Independent
1916 record	8–2
Head coach	Dick Harlow (2nd season)
Captain	Harold Clark
Home stadium	New Beaver Field
Seasons ←  1915 1917  →

1916 Eastern college football independents records
v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Army			–					9	–	0	–	0
Pittsburgh			–					8	–	0	–	0
Brown			–					8	–	1	–	0
Colgate			–					8	–	1	–	0
Yale			–					8	–	1	–	0
Fordham			–					6	–	1	–	1
Swarthmore			–					6	–	1	–	1
Penn State			–					8	–	2	–	0
Washington & Jefferson			–					8	–	2	–	0
Boston College			–					6	–	2	–	0
Cornell			–					6	–	2	–	0
Princeton			–					6	–	2	–	0
Lehigh			–					6	–	2	–	1
Dartmouth			–					5	–	2	–	2
Harvard			–					7	–	3	–	0
Penn			–					7	–	3	–	1
Temple			–					3	–	1	–	2
Tufts			–					5	–	3	–	0
Carnegie Tech			–					4	–	3	–	0
Rutgers			–					3	–	2	–	2
NYU			–					4	–	3	–	1
Syracuse			–					5	–	4	–	0
Holy Cross			–					4	–	5	–	0
Vermont			–					4	–	5	–	0
Rhode Island State			–					3	–	4	–	1
Geneva			–					2	–	5	–	2
Carlisle			–					1	–	3	–	1
Lafayette			–					2	–	6	–	1
Bucknell			–					3	–	9	–	0
Columbia			–					1	–	5	–	2
Franklin & Marshall			–					1	–	7	–	0
Villanova			–					1	–	8	–	0

The 1916 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylvania State University in the 1916 college football season. ^[1] The team was coached by Dick Harlow, with Lawrence Whitney as an assistant coach, and played its home games in New Beaver Field in State College, Pennsylvania.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 23	Susquehanna	New Beaver Field State College, PA	W 27–0
September 30	Westminster (PA)	New Beaver Field State College, PA	W 55–0
October 7	Bucknell	New Beaver Field State College, PA	W 50–7
October 14	West Virginia Wesleyan	New Beaver Field State College, PA	W 39–0
October 21	at Penn	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L 0–15
October 28	Gettysburg	New Beaver Field State College, PA	W 48–2
November 4	Geneva	New Beaver Field State College, PA	W 79–0		[2]
November 11	at Lehigh	Taylor Stadium Bethlehem, PA	W 10–7
November 17	Lafayette	New Beaver Field State College, PA	W 40–0
November 30	at Pittsburgh	Forbes Field Pittsburgh, PA (rivalry)	L 0–31	27,500	[3]

References

1. "Penn State Yearly Results (1915-1919)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on August 5, 2015. Retrieved August 10, 2015.
2. "Penn State Smothers Kidlets From Geneva". The Philadelphia Inquirer . Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. November 5, 1916. p. 16. Retrieved September 25, 2021– via Newspapers.com .
3. Davis, Ralph (December 1, 1916). "Pitt's Biggest Season". The Pittsburg Press. p. 40 – via Newspapers.com.