1922 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

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1922 Penn State Nittany Lions football
Rose Bowl, L 3–14 vs. USC
ConferenceIndependent
1922 record6–4–1
Head coach
  • Hugo Bezdek (5th season)
CaptainNewsh Bentz
Home stadiumNew Beaver Field
Uniform
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Seasons
← 1921
1923 →
1922 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Cornell     8 0 0
Princeton     8 0 0
Army     8 0 2
Syracuse     6 1 2
Franklin & Marshall     8 2 0
Pittsburgh     8 2 0
Holy Cross     7 2 1
Harvard     7 2 0
Lafayette     7 2 0
Boston College     6 2 1
Brown     6 2 1
Colgate     6 3 0
Dartmouth     6 3 0
Penn     6 3 0
Vermont     6 3 0
Washington & Jefferson     6 3 1
Yale     6 3 1
Bucknell     7 4 0
Penn State     6 4 1
Carnegie Tech     5 3 1
Villanova     5 3 1
Columbia     5 4 0
Rutgers     5 4 0
Tufts     5 4 0
Rhode Island State     4 4 0
NYU     4 5 0
Fordham     3 5 2
Geneva     4 6 0
Boston University     2 4 3
Lehigh     3 5 1
New Hampshire     3 5 1
Drexel     2 4 0
Temple     1 4 1
CCNY     1 6 0
Duquesne     0 8 0

The 1922 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylvania State University in the 1922 college football season.[1] The team was coached by Hugo Bezdek and played its home games in New Beaver Field in State College, Pennsylvania.

The Lions were invited to the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day, the first edition of the bowl game played in the current stadium.

Schedule[]

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 23St. Bonaventure
W 54–03,000
September 30William & Mary
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 27–73,000
October 7Gettysburg
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 20–03,000
October 14Lebanon Valley
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 32–63,000
October 21Middleburydagger
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 33–04,000
October 28vs. Syracuse
T 0–025,000
November 3vs. Navy
L 0–1430,000
November 11Carnegie Tech
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 10–017,000
November 18at Penn
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 6–750,000
November 30at Pittsburgh
  • Forbes Field
  • Pittsburgh, PA (rivalry)
L 0–1433,000[2]
January 1, 1923vs. USC
L 3–1443,000
  • daggerHomecoming

References[]

  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. ^ "Pitt Defeats Penn State, 14-0, Before 33,000 here". The Gazette Times. December 1, 1922. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.
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