1912 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

1912 Penn State Nittany Lions football

Co-national champion (NCF)
Conference	Independent
1912 record	8–0
Head coach	Bill Hollenback (3rd season)
Captain	Pete Mauthe
Home stadium	New Beaver Field
Seasons ← 1911 1913 →

1912 Eastern college football independents records
v t	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Harvard		–		9	–	0	–	0
Penn State		–		8	–	0	–	0
Carlisle		–		12	–	1	–	1
Princeton		–		7	–	1	–	1
Swarthmore		–		7	–	1	–	1
Yale		–		7	–	1	–	1
Lehigh		–		9	–	2	–	0
Dartmouth		–		7	–	2	–	0
Wesleyan		–		7	–	2	–	0
Colgate		–		5	–	2	–	0
Washington & Jefferson		–		8	–	3	–	1
Rhode Island State		–		6	–	3	–	0
Bucknell		–		6	–	3	–	1
Temple		–		3	–	2	–	0
Penn		–		7	–	4	–	0
Army		–		5	–	3	–	0
Brown		–		6	–	4	–	0
Franklin & Marshall		–		6	–	4	–	0
Holy Cross		–		4	–	3	–	1
Rutgers		–		5	–	4	–	0
Tufts		–		5	–	4	–	0
Fordham		–		4	–	4	–	0
Villanova		–		3	–	3	–	0
Morris Harvey		–		2	–	2	–	0
Lafayette		–		4	–	5	–	1
Syracuse		–		4	–	5	–	0
Carnegie Tech		–		3	–	4	–	1
Geneva		–		3	–	4	–	0
Vermont		–		3	–	5	–	0
Pittsburgh		–		3	–	6	–	0
Boston College		–		2	–	4	–	1
Cornell		–		3	–	7	–	0
NYU		–		2	–	6	–	0

The 1912 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented Penn State University during the 1912 college football season. The second of Penn State's retrospective national champions,^[1] the team was undefeated and only scored upon once (6 points by Cornell).^[2] This team is known for playing the first of a series of games against eventual rival Ohio State, in which the Buckeyes forfeited because of the alleged rough play^[3] of the Nittany Lions once the score was 37–0. The official score was 1–0, but the gameball lists the score as 37–0.

The team was selected co-national champion by the National Championship Foundation, an NCAA-designated major selector.^[4]

Schedule[]

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 5	Carnegie Tech	New Beaver Field State College, PA	W 41–0
October 12	Washington & Jefferson	New Beaver Field State College, PA	W 30–0	4,000	^[5]
October 19	at Cornell	Percy Field Ithaca, NY	W 29–6
October 26	Gettysburg	New Beaver Field State College, PA	W 25–0
November 2	at Penn	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 14–0	15,000
November 9	Villanova	New Beaver Field State College, PA	W 71–0
November 16	at Ohio State	Ohio Field Columbus, OH (rivalry)	W 37–0	3,500
November 28	at Pittsburgh	Forbes Field Pittsburgh, PA (rivalry)	W 38–0	15,000	^[6]

References[]

^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
^ "Penn State Yearly Results (1910-1914)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on August 5, 2015. Retrieved August 10, 2015.
^ "Ohio State Team Guide 2017" (PDF). Retrieved January 17, 2018.
^ 2018 NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision Records (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association. August 2018. p. 111. Retrieved December 10, 2018.
^ "Wash-Jeff Is Conquered By Penn State". The Pittsburgh Gazette Times. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. October 13, 1912. p. 19. Retrieved September 18, 2021 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Penn State Defeats Pitt But is Forced to Fight For Every Inch". The Pittsburgh Post. November 29, 1912. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.

v t Penn State Nittany Lions football
Venues	Old Main lawn (until 1891) Beaver Field (1892–1908) New Beaver Field (1909–1959) Beaver Stadium (1960–present)
Bowls & rivalries	Bowl games Alabama Maryland Michigan State Minnesota Ohio State Pittsburgh Syracuse Temple West Virginia
Culture & lore	Nittany Lion "Fight On, State" Penn State Blue Band Uplifting Athletes Joe Paterno statue Something for Joey 1982 Nebraska game Penn State child sex abuse scandal 2016 Ohio State game Paterno White Out 2021 Illinois game
People	Head coaches All-Americans Statistical leaders NFL draftees
Seasons	1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
National championship seasons in bold

v t College football national champions (pre-AP Poll)
1869–1879	1869: Princeton / Rutgers 1870: Princeton 1871: None 1872: Princeton 1873: Princeton 1874: Yale 1875: Harvard 1876: Yale 1877: Yale 1878: Princeton 1879: Princeton
1880s	1880: Princeton / Yale 1881: Yale 1882: Yale 1883: Yale 1884: Yale 1885: Princeton 1886: Yale 1887: Yale 1888: Yale 1889: Princeton
1890s	1890: Harvard 1891: Yale 1892: Yale 1893: Princeton 1894: Yale 1895: Penn 1896: Lafayette / Princeton 1897: Penn 1898: Harvard 1899: Harvard
1900s	1900: Yale 1901: Michigan 1902: Michigan 1903: Michigan / Princeton 1904: Michigan / Penn 1905: Chicago 1906: Princeton 1907: Yale 1908: LSU / Penn 1909: Yale
1910s	1910: Harvard / Pittsburgh 1911: Penn State / Princeton 1912: Harvard / Penn State 1913: Harvard 1914: Army 1915: Cornell 1916: Pittsburgh 1917: Georgia Tech 1918: Michigan / Pittsburgh 1919: Harvard / Illinois / Notre Dame / Texas A&M
1920s	1920: California 1921: California / Cornell 1922: California / Cornell / Princeton 1923: Illinois / Michigan 1924: Notre Dame 1925: Alabama 1926: Alabama / Stanford 1927: Illinois / Yale 1928: Georgia Tech 1929: Notre Dame
1930s	1930: Alabama / Notre Dame 1931: USC 1932: USC 1933: Michigan 1934: Minnesota 1935: Minnesota

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