1934 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

The 1934 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylvania State University in the 1934 college football season.[1] The team was coached by Bob Higgins and played its home games in New Beaver Field in State College, Pennsylvania.

1934 Penn State Nittany Lions football
ConferenceIndependent
Record4–4
Head coach
CaptainM. B. Morrison
Home stadiumNew Beaver Field
Seasons
← 1933
1935 →
1934 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Tufts     8 0 0
Trinity (CT)     7 0 0
La Salle     7 0 1
Washington College     5 0 1
Franklin & Marshall     8 1 0
No. 4 Pittsburgh     8 1 0
No. 8 Colgate     7 1 0
Columbia     7 1 0
No. 5 Princeton     7 1 0
Duquesne     8 2 0
Holy Cross     8 2 0
No. 15 Temple     7 1 2
No. 10 Syracuse     6 2 0
Bucknell     7 2 2
No. 14 Army     7 3 0
Northeastern     6 1 1
Rochester     5 2 0
Dartmouth     6 3 0
Saint Anselm     6 3 0
Amherst     5 3 0
Fordham     5 3 0
Yale     5 3 0
Massachusetts State     5 3 1
CCNY     4 3 0
Providence     4 3 0
Drexel     4 3 1
Boston College     5 4 0
Bates     3 3 1
Middlebury     3 3 1
Penn     4 4 0
Penn State     4 4 0
Williams     4 4 0
Carnegie Tech     4 5 0
Washington & Jefferson     4 5 0
Villanova     3 4 2
NYU     3 4 1
Boston University     3 4 0
Colby     3 4 0
Springfield     2 3 3
Manhattan     3 5 1
Harvard     3 5 0
Vermont     2 4 2
Wesleyan     3 5 0
Brown     3 6 0
Geneva     2 5 2
Saint Joseph's     2 5 1
Cornell     2 5 0
Lafayette     2 6 0
Norwich     2 6 0
Bowdoin     0 6 1
Lowell Textile     0 7 1
Rankings from Associated Press

Schedule edit

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 6Lebanon ValleyW 13–05,422
October 13Gettysburg
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 32–66,797
October 20at LehighW 31–0
October 27at ColumbiaL 7–14
November 3Syracuse 
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA (rivalry)
L 0–168,013
November 10at PennL 0–335,000
November 17Lafayette
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 25–65,775
November 24at BucknellL 7–1310,000[2]
  •  Homecoming

References edit

  1. ^ "Penn State Yearly Results (1930-1934)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on August 5, 2015. Retrieved August 10, 2015.
  2. ^ "Bucknell's Third Period Thrusts Beat Penn State". The Pittsburgh Press. November 25, 1935. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.