1926 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

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1926 Penn State Nittany Lions football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–4
Head coach
CaptainKen Weston
Home stadium New Beaver Field
Seasons
  1925
1927  
1926 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 5 Lafayette   9 0 0
No. 10 Brown   9 0 1
NYU   8 1 0
No. 9 Army   7 1 1
Washington & Jefferson   7 1 1
Boston College   6 0 2
No. 10 Penn   7 1 1
Cornell   6 1 1
Princeton   5 1 1
Carnegie Tech   7 2 0
Springfield   6 2 0
Syracuse   7 2 1
Villanova   6 2 1
Colgate   5 2 2
Columbia   6 3 0
Pittsburgh   5 2 2
CCNY   5 3 0
Temple   5 3 0
Penn State   5 4 0
Tufts   4 4 0
Yale   4 4 0
Bucknell   4 5 1
Fordham   3 4 1
Harvard   3 5 0
Rutgers   3 6 0
Vermont   3 6 0
Drexel   2 5 0
Boston University   2 6 0
Lehigh   1 8 0
Franklin & Marshall   0 8 1
Rankings from Dickinson System

The 1926 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylvania State University in the 1926 college football season. [1] The team was coached by Hugo Bezdek and played its home games in New Beaver Field in State College, Pennsylvania.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 25 Susquehanna W 82–03,500
October 2 Lebanon Valley
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 35–03,500
October 9 Marietta
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 48–64,000
October 16at Notre Dame L 0–2818,000
October 23 Syracuse Dagger-14-plain.png
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA (rivalry)
L 0–108,000
October 30 George Washington
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 20–123,500 [2]
November 6at Penn L 0–355,000
November 13 Bucknell
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 9–015,000 [3]
November 25at Pittsburgh L 6–2442,915
  • Dagger-14-plain.pngHomecoming

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References

  1. "Penn State Yearly Results (1925-1929)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on August 5, 2015. Retrieved August 10, 2015.
  2. "Penn State beats George Washington". The Morning Call. October 31, 1926. Retrieved February 13, 2021 via Newspapers.com.
  3. "Roepke Big Gun in Penn State Victory". The Pittsburgh Press. November 14, 1926. p. Sporting 1 via Newspapers.com.