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 stadiumNew Beaver Field
Seasons
← 1925
1927 →
1926 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   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[edit]

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 25SusquehannaW 82–03,500
October 2Lebanon Valley
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 35–03,500
October 9Marietta
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 48–64,000
October 16at Notre DameL 0–2818,000
October 23Syracusedagger
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA (rivalry)
L 0–108,000
October 30George Washington
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 20–123,500[2]
November 6at PennL 0–355,000
November 13Bucknell
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 9–015,000[3]
November 25at PittsburghL 6–2442,915
  • daggerHomecoming

References[edit]

  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.