1916 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

American college football season

1916 Penn State Nittany Lions football
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–2
Head coach
  • Dick Harlow (2nd season)
CaptainHarold Clark
Home stadiumNew Beaver Field
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Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Army     9 0 0
Pittsburgh     8 0 0
Brown     8 1 0
Colgate     8 1 0
Yale     8 1 0
Fordham     6 1 1
Swarthmore     6 1 1
Penn State     8 2 0
Washington & Jefferson     8 2 0
Boston College     6 2 0
Cornell     6 2 0
Princeton     6 2 0
Lehigh     6 2 1
Dartmouth     5 2 2
Harvard     7 3 0
Penn     7 3 1
Temple     3 1 2
Tufts     5 3 0
Carnegie Tech     4 3 0
Rutgers     3 2 2
NYU     4 3 1
Syracuse     5 4 0
Holy Cross     4 5 0
Vermont     4 5 0
Rhode Island State     3 4 1
Geneva     2 5 2
Carlisle     1 3 1
Lafayette     2 6 1
Bucknell     3 9 0
Columbia     1 5 2
Franklin & Marshall     1 7 0
Villanova     1 8 0

The 1916 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylvania State University in the 1916 college football season.[1] The team was coached by Dick Harlow, with Lawrence Whitney as an assistant coach, and played its home games in New Beaver Field in State College, Pennsylvania.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 23SusquehannaW 27–0
September 30Westminster (PA)
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 55–0
October 7Bucknell
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 50–7
October 14West Virginia Wesleyan
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 39–0
October 21at PennL 0–15
October 28Gettysburg
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 48–2
November 4Geneva
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 79–0[2]
November 11at Lehigh
W 10–7
November 17Lafayette
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 40–0
November 30at PittsburghL 0–3127,500[3]

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. ^ "Penn State Smothers Kidlets From Geneva". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. November 5, 1916. p. 16. Retrieved September 25, 2021 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  3. ^ Davis, Ralph (December 1, 1916). "Pitt's Biggest Season". The Pittsburg Press. p. 40 – via Newspapers.com.
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