1943 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

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1943 Penn State Nittany Lions football
ConferenceIndependent
1943 record5–3–1
Head coach
CaptainJohn Jaffurs
Home stadiumNew Beaver Field
Seasons
← 1942
1944 →
1943 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Boston College     4 0 1
Franklin & Marshall     7 1 0
Dartmouth     6 1 0
No. 11 Army     7 2 1
Holy Cross     6 2 0
Tufts     6 2 0
No. 20 Penn     6 2 1
Brown     5 3 0
Villanova     5 3 0
Colgate     5 3 1
Penn State     5 3 1
Bucknell     6 4 0
Cornell     6 4 0
Harvard     2 2 1
Yale     4 5 0
Pittsburgh     3 5 0
Temple     2 6 0
CCNY     1 3 1
Princeton     1 6 0
Carnegie Tech     0 4 1
Columbia     0 8 0
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1943 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylvania State University in the 1943 college football season.[1] The team was coached by Bob Higgins and played its home games in New Beaver Field in State College, Pennsylvania.

Schedule[]

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendance
September 25Bucknell
W 14–06,639
October 2at North Carolina
L 0–199,983
October 9Colgatedagger
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
T 0–06,933
October 16at No. 3 Navy
L 6–14
October 23at Maryland
W 45–05,000
October 30West Virginia
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA (rivalry)
W 32–74,494
November 6at CornellL 0–136,617
November 13Temple
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA (rivalry)
W 13–04,142
November 20at PittsburghW 14–012,242
  • daggerHomecoming
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References[]

  1. ^ "Penn State Yearly Results (1940-1944)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on August 5, 2015. Retrieved August 10, 2015.
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