1916 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

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.

1916 Penn State Nittany Lions football
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–2
Head coach
CaptainHarold Clark
Home stadiumNew Beaver Field
Seasons
← 1915
1917 →
1916 Eastern college football independents records
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
New Hampshire     3 5 2
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

Schedule

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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 LehighW 10–7
November 17Lafayette
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 40–0
November 30at PittsburghL 0–3127,500[3]

References

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  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  .
  3. ^ Davis, Ralph (December 1, 1916). "Pitt's Biggest Season". The Pittsburg Press. p. 40 – via Newspapers.com.