1929 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

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

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.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 28Niagara
W 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 NYU
L 0–735,000[2]
October 26Lafayettedagger
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 6–310,000
November 2at Syracuse
W 6–412,000
November 9at Penn
W 19–760,000
November 16Bucknell
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
L 6–2712,000[3]
November 28at Pittsburgh
L 7–2025,755[4]
  • daggerHomecoming

References

  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.


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