1932 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

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1932 Penn State Nittany Lions football
ConferenceIndependent
Record2–5
Head coach
CaptainGeorge Collins
Home stadium New Beaver Field
Seasons
  1931
1933  
1932 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 5 Colgate   9 0 0
Brown   7 1 0
Columbia   7 1 1
Pittsburgh   8 1 2
No. 8 Army   8 2 0
Drexel   5 1 1
Massachusetts State   7 2 0
Villanova   7 2 0
Duquesne   7 2 1
Fordham   6 2 0
Penn   6 2 0
Temple   5 1 2
Tufts   5 1 2
Cornell   5 2 1
Franklin & Marshall   4 2 1
Boston College   4 2 2
La Salle   4 2 2
Harvard   5 3 0
NYU   5 3 0
Washington & Jefferson   5 3 1
Manhattan   6 3 2
Carnegie Tech   4 3 2
Bucknell   4 4 1
Syracuse   4 4 1
Princeton   2 2 3
Yale   2 2 3
Boston University   2 3 2
Vermont   2 4 1
CCNY   2 5 0
Penn State   2 5 0
Rankings from Dickinson System

The 1932 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylvania State University in the 1932 college football season. The team was coached by Bob Higgins and played its home games in New Beaver Field in State College, Pennsylvania.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 1 Lebanon Valley W 27–02,500
October 8 Waynesburg
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
L 6–74,000
October 15at Harvard L 13–4620,000 [1]
October 22 Syracuse Dagger-14-plain.png
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA (rivalry)
L 6–126,000
October 29at Colgate Hamilton, NY L 0–314,000
November 5 Sewanee
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 18–65,500 [2]
November 12at Temple L 12–1315,000
  • Dagger-14-plain.pngHomecoming

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References

  1. "Harvard Swamps Penn State, 46-13". The Pittsburgh Press. October 16, 1932. p. Sports 2 via Newspapers.com.
  2. "State comes back to down Sewanee". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 6, 1932. Retrieved August 13, 2021 via Newspapers.com.