1915 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

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1915 Penn State Nittany Lions football
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ConferenceIndependent
1915 record7–2
Head coach
Captain Bill Wood
Home stadium New Beaver Field
Seasons
  1914
1916  
1915 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Cornell   9 0 0
Pittsburgh   8 0 0
Columbia   5 0 0
Harvard   8 1 0
Carnegie Tech   7 1 0
Rutgers   7 1 0
Villanova   6 1 0
Washington & Jefferson   8 1 1
Colgate   5 1 0
Syracuse   9 1 2
Dartmouth   7 1 1
Tufts   5 1 2
Penn State   7 2 0
Lafayette   8 3 0
Princeton   6 2 0
Franklin & Marshall   6 2 0
Temple   3 1 1
Geneva   6 3 0
Wesleyan   6 3 0
Allegheny   5 3 0
Swarthmore   5 3 0
Army   5 3 1
Lehigh   6 4 0
Holy Cross   3 2 2
Brown   5 4 1
Fordham   4 4 0
NYU   4 4 1
Middlebury   3 4 2
Muhlenberg   4 5 0
Yale   4 5 0
Boston College   3 4 0
Penn   3 5 2
WPI   3 5 1
Buffalo   3 5 0
Carlisle   3 6 2
Rhode Island State   3 5 0
New Hampshire   3 6 1
Gettysburg   3 6 0
Rochester   3 6 0
Bucknell   2 6 3
Vermont   1 4 2
Williams   1 7 0

The 1915 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylvania State University in the 1915 college football season. [1] The season was the first coached by Dick Harlow, with Lawrence Whitney as an assistant coach. The Nittany Lions played their home games in New Beaver Field in State College, Pennsylvania.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 25 Westminster (PA) W 26–0
October 2 Lebanon Valley
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 13–0
October 9at Penn W 13–3
October 16 Gettysburg
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 27–12
October 23 West Virginia Wesleyan
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 28–0
October 30at Harvard L 0–1322,000
November 5 Lehigh
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 7–0
November 13at Lafayette
W 33–3
November 25at Pittsburgh L 0–2030,000 [2]

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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. Gibson, Florent (November 26, 1915). "Scoring 20 Points on Blue and White, Pitt Finishes Year with Clean Record". The Pittsburgh Post. p. 11 via Newspapers.com.