1933 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

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1933 Penn State Nittany Lions football
ConferenceIndependent
Record3–3–1
Head coach
CaptainTom Slusser
Home stadium New Beaver Field
Seasons
  1932
1934  
1933 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 7 Princeton   9 0 0
Duquesne   10 1 0
No. 9 Army   9 1 0
Boston College   8 1 0
Columbia   8 1 0
Pittsburgh   8 1 0
Colgate   6 1 1
Bucknell   7 2 0
Fordham   6 2 0
Tufts   6 2 0
Villanova   7 2 1
Harvard   5 2 1
Drexel   5 3 0
Massachusetts State   5 3 0
Temple   5 3 0
Manhattan   5 3 1
Cornell   4 3 0
Carnegie Tech   4 3 2
La Salle   3 3 2
Syracuse   4 4 0
Yale   4 4 0
Penn State   3 3 1
Brown   3 5 0
Vermont   3 5 0
Franklin & Marshall   4 5 0
NYU   2 4 1
Penn   2 4 1
Northeastern   1 3 1
Boston University   2 5 0
Washington & Jefferson   2 7 1
CCNY   1 5 1
Rankings from Dickinson System

The 1933 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylvania State College in the 1933 college football season. The team was coached by Bob Higgins and played its home games in New Beaver Field in State College, Pennsylvania.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendance
October 7 Lebanon Valley W 32–63,000
October 14 Muhlenberg
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
L 0–34,000
October 21 Lehigh Dagger-14-plain.png
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 33–05,000
October 28at Columbia L 0–33
November 4at Syracuse L 6–1210,000
November 11 Johns Hopkins
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 40–65,000
November 18at Penn T 6–620,000
  • Dagger-14-plain.pngHomecoming

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