1929 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

1929 Penn State Nittany Lions football
Conference	Independent
Record	6–3
Head coach	Hugo Bezdek (12th season)
Captain	Jack Martin
Home stadium	New Beaver Field
Seasons ←  1928 1930  →

1929 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
No. 3 Pittsburgh			–					9	–	1	–	0
Colgate			–					8	–	1	–	0
Fordham			–					7	–	0	–	2
Bucknell			–					8	–	2	–	0
No. 11 Penn			–					7	–	2	–	0
Boston College			–					7	–	2	–	1
Villanova			–					7	–	2	–	1
Cornell			–					6	–	2	–	0
Tufts			–					5	–	1	–	2
Harvard			–					5	–	2	–	1
Yale			–					5	–	2	–	1
NYU			–					7	–	3	–	0
Franklin & Marshall			–					6	–	3	–	0
Penn State			–					6	–	3	–	0
Syracuse			–					6	–	3	–	0
Washington & Jefferson			–					5	–	2	–	2
Drexel			–					6	–	3	–	1
Temple			–					6	–	3	–	1
Carnegie Tech			–					5	–	3	–	1
Army			–					6	–	4	–	1
Providence			–					3	–	3	–	2
Brown			–					5	–	5	–	0
Columbia			–					4	–	5	–	0
CCNY			–					2	–	4	–	2
Princeton			–					2	–	4	–	1
Boston University			–					3	–	6	–	0
Vermont			–					2	–	7	–	0
Rankings from Dickinson System

The 1929 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylvania State University in the 1929 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

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 28	Niagara	New Beaver Field State College, PA	W 16–0	4,000
October 5	Lebanon Valley	New Beaver Field State College, PA	W 15–0	4,000
October 12	Marshall	New Beaver Field State College, PA	W 26–7	5,000
October 19	at NYU	Yankee Stadium Bronx, NY	L 0–7	35,000	[2]
October 26	Lafayette	New Beaver Field State College, PA	W 6–3	10,000
November 2	at Syracuse	Archbold Stadium Syracuse, NY (rivalry)	W 6–4	12,000
November 9	at Penn	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 19–7	60,000
November 16	Bucknell	New Beaver Field State College, PA	L 6–27	12,000	[3]
November 28	at Pittsburgh	Pitt Stadium Pittsburgh, PA (rivalry)	L 7–20	25,755
Homecoming

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. "Violet bloom but Lion fails to roar". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 20, 1929. Retrieved June 20, 2021– via Newspapers.com.
3. "Bisons Rout Lions, 27 To 6". The Sunday News. Lancaster, Pennsylvania. November 17, 1929. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.