1929 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

The 1929 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylvania State University in the 1929 college football season.[1] The team was coached by Hugo Bezdek and played its home games in New Beaver Field in State College, Pennsylvania.

1929 Penn State Nittany Lions football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–3
Head coach
CaptainJack Martin
Home stadiumNew Beaver Field
Seasons
← 1928
1930 →
1929 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 3 Pittsburgh     9 1 0
Colgate     8 1 0
Fordham     7 0 2
Bucknell     8 2 0
No. 11 Penn     7 2 0
Boston College     7 2 1
Villanova     7 2 1
Cornell     6 2 0
Tufts     5 1 2
Harvard     5 2 1
Yale     5 2 1
NYU     7 3 0
Franklin & Marshall     6 3 0
Penn State     6 3 0
Syracuse     6 3 0
Washington & Jefferson     5 2 2
Drexel     6 3 1
Temple     6 3 1
Carnegie Tech     5 3 1
Army     6 4 1
Providence     3 3 2
Brown     5 5 0
Columbia     4 5 0
CCNY     2 4 2
Princeton     2 4 1
Boston University     3 6 0
Vermont     2 7 0
Rankings from Dickinson System

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 28NiagaraW 16–04,000
October 5Lebanon Valley
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 15–04,000
October 12Marshall
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 26–75,000
October 19at NYUL 0–735,000[2]
October 26Lafayette 
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 6–310,000
November 2at SyracuseW 6–412,000
November 9at PennW 19–760,000
November 16Bucknell
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
L 6–2712,000[3]
November 28at PittsburghL 7–2025,755[4]
  •  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. ^ "Violet bloom but Lion fails to roar". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 20, 1929. Retrieved June 20, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Bisons Rout Lions, 27 To 6". The Sunday News. Lancaster, Pennsylvania. November 17, 1929. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ Sell, Jack (November 29, 1929). "Pitt Defeats State, 20 to 7, In Hard Game". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.