1926 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

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.

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

Schedule

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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 23Syracuse 
  • 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
  •  Homecoming

References

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  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.