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1940 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

The 1940 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylvania State College in the 1940 college football season.[1] The team was coached by Bob Higgins.

1940 Penn State Nittany Lions football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–1–1
Head coach
CaptainLeon Gajecki
Home stadiumNew Beaver Field
Seasons
← 1939
1941 →
1940 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 5 Boston College   –   11 – 0 – 0
Duquesne   –   7 – 1 – 0
No. 14 Penn   –   6 – 1 – 1
Penn State   –   6 – 1 – 1
No. 12 Fordham   –   7 – 2 – 0
No. 15 Cornell   –   6 – 2 – 0
La Salle   –   6 – 2 – 0
Princeton   –   5 – 2 – 1
Columbia   –   5 – 2 – 2
Brown   –   6 – 3 – 1
Bucknell   –   4 – 2 – 2
Boston University   –   5 – 3 – 0
Colgate   –   5 – 3 – 0
Hofstra   –   4 – 3 – 0
Harvard   –   3 – 2 – 3
Dartmouth   –   5 – 4 – 0
Temple   –   4 – 4 – 1
Tufts   –   4 – 4 – 0
Vermont   –   4 – 4 – 0
Villanova   –   4 – 5 – 0
Pittsburgh   –   3 – 4 – 1
Syracuse   –   3 – 4 – 1
Buffalo   –   3 – 5 – 0
Carnegie Tech   –   3 – 5 – 0
Manhattan   –   3 – 6 – 0
Providence   –   3 – 6 – 0
NYU   –   2 – 7 – 0
Yale   –   1 – 7 – 0
Army   –   1 – 7 – 1
CCNY   –   1 – 5 – 1
Massachusetts State   –   1 – 8 – 0
Rankings from AP Poll

Penn State was ranked at No. 52 (out of 697 college football teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score system for 1940.[2]

The team played its home games in New Beaver Field in State College, Pennsylvania.

Schedule edit

DateOpponentRankSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 5Bucknell
W 9–012,091[3]
October 12West Virginia 
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA (rivalry)
W 17–1310,574
October 19at Lehigh
W 34–03,000[4]
October 26at Temple
W 18–025,000[5]
November 2South CarolinaNo. 18
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 12–09,346[6]
November 9at SyracuseNo. 16
T 13–1315,000
November 16NYUNo. 20
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 25–09,449[7]
November 23at PittsburghNo. 20
L 7–2030,083
  •  Homecoming
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References edit

  1. ^ "Penn State Yearly Results (1940-1944)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on August 5, 2015. Retrieved August 10, 2015.
  2. ^ Dr. E. E. Litkenhous (December 19, 1940). "Final 1940 Litkenhous Ratings". The Boston Globe. p. 22 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "State Topples Bucknell, 9-0, In Opener". Centre Daily Times. October 7, 1940. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Penn State Power Tops Lehigh, 34-0". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. October 20, 1940. p. S3.
  5. ^ Stan Baumgartner (October 27, 1940). "Penn State Eleven Overpowers Temple Owls in 18 to 0 Clash". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. S1 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Penn State remains in unbeaten ranks topping S. Carolina". The Baltimore Sun. November 3, 1940. Retrieved December 20, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Unbeaten Penn State sinks N.Y.U., 25–0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 17, 1940. p. 43. Retrieved February 2, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.


 

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