1945 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

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1945 Penn State Nittany Lions football
ConferenceIndependent
1945 record5–3
Head coach
  • Bob Higgins (16th season)
CaptainNone
Home stadiumNew Beaver Field
Seasons
← 1944
1946 →
1945 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 1 Army     9 0 0
Franklin & Marshall     4 0 1
No. 20 Columbia     8 1 0
Temple     7 1 0
No. 16 Holy Cross     8 2 0
Tufts     4 1 0
No. 8 Penn     6 2 0
Yale     6 3 0
Massachusetts State     2 1 1
Harvard     5 3 0
Penn State     5 3 0
Cornell     5 4 0
Villanova     4 4 0
Boston College     3 4 0
Brown     3 4 1
Colgate     3 4 1
Princeton     2 3 2
NYU     3 4 0
Pittsburgh     3 7 0
Bucknell     2 5 0
Drexel     2 5 0
Dartmouth     1 6 1
Syracuse     1 6 0
Boston University     0 5 0
CCNY     0 8 0
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1945 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylvania State University in the 1945 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[]

DateOpponentRankSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 29Muhlenberg
W 47–75,048
October 6Colgatedagger
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 27–79,619[2]
October 13at No. 2 Navy
L 0–2816,148
October 20at Bucknell
W 46–75,319[3]
November 3Syracuse
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA (rivalry)
W 26–08,505
November 10Temple
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA (rivalry)
W 27–013,135[4]
November 17at Michigan StateNo. 12
  • Spartan Stadium
  • East Lansing, MI (rivalry)
L 0–33
November 24at Pittsburgh
L 0–711,354
  • daggerHomecoming
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References[]

  1. ^ "Penn State Yearly Results (1945-1949)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on August 5, 2015. Retrieved August 10, 2015.
  2. ^ "Colgate Trimmed by Penn State". The Pittsburgh Press. Pittsburgh, Pa. United Press. October 7, 1945. p. 34 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Penn State Routs Bucknell; Lang Tallies Pair, Passes for 2". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pa. October 21, 1945. p. S2 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ Shriver, Tom (November 11, 1945). "Penn State Cuts Loose with 27-0 Win over Temple". Sunday Call-Chronicle. Allentown, Pa. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
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