1945 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

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.

1945 Penn State Nittany Lions football
ConferenceIndependent
1945 record5–3
Head coach
Home stadiumNew Beaver Field
1945 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW 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
Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

DateOpponentRankSiteResult
September 29MuhlenbergW 47–7
October 6Colgate
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 27–7
October 13at No. 2 NavyL 0–28
October 20at BucknellW 46–7
November 3Syracuse
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA (rivalry)
W 26–0
November 10Temple
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 27–0
November 17at Michigan StateNo. 12L 0–33
November 24at PittsburghL 0–7
  • Homecoming
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References

  1. "Penn State Yearly Results (1945-1949)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Retrieved August 10, 2015.
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