1923 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

The 1923 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylvania State College in the 1923 college football season.[1] The team was coached by Hugo Bezdek and played its home games in New Beaver Field in State College, Pennsylvania.

1923 Penn State Nittany Lions football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–2–1
Head coach
CaptainJoe Bedenk
Home stadiumNew Beaver Field
Seasons
← 1922
1924 →
1923 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Cornell     8 0 0
Yale     8 0 0
St. John's     5 0 1
Dartmouth     8 1 0
Syracuse     8 1 0
Boston College     7 1 1
Rutgers     7 1 1
Washington & Jefferson     6 1 1
Holy Cross     8 2 0
Lafayette     6 1 2
Tufts     6 2 0
Army     6 2 1
Colgate     6 2 1
Geneva     6 2 1
Lehigh     6 2 1
NYU     6 2 1
Penn State     6 2 1
Vermont     6 3 1
Brown     6 4 0
Harvard     4 3 1
Carnegie Tech     4 3 1
Penn     5 4 0
Pittsburgh     5 4 0
Bucknell     4 4 1
Columbia     4 4 1
Duquesne     4 4 0
Princeton     3 3 1
Franklin & Marshall     3 5 1
Drexel     2 6 0
Buffalo     2 5 1
Fordham     2 7 0
Boston University     1 6 0
Villanova     0 7 1
Temple     0 5 0
CCNY     0 7 0
Springfield     0 7 0

Schedule

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DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 29Lebanon ValleyW 58–03,000
October 6NC State
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 16–03,000[2]
October 13Gettysburg
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 20–03,000
October 20Navy 
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 21–320,000
October 27vs. West VirginiaT 13–1350,000[3]
November 3at SyracuseL 0–1025,000
November 102:30 p.m.Georgia Tech
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 7–010,000[4]
November 17at PennW 21–056,000
November 29at PittsburghL 3–2033,000[5]
  •  Homecoming

References

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  1. ^ "Penn State Yearly Results (1920-1924)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on August 5, 2015. Retrieved August 10, 2015.
  2. ^ "Penn State shows Tarheels few tricks in winning, 16 to 0". The Pittsburgh Post. October 7, 1923. Retrieved December 15, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Penn and West Virginia tied". The News and Observer. October 28, 1923. Retrieved July 21, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Penn State conquers Georgia Tech, 7 to 0". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. November 11, 1923. Retrieved December 15, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Pitt Smashes Records For Football Attendance". The Pitt Weekly. Vol. 14, no. 12. December 12, 1923. p. 7. Retrieved March 16, 2021.