1948 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

The 1948 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylvania State University in the 1948 college football season.[1] The team was coached by Bob Higgins and played its home games in New Beaver Field in State College, Pennsylvania.

1948 Penn State Nittany Lions football
ConferenceIndependent
Ranking
APNo. 18
1948 record7–1–1
Head coach
Assistant coaches
Home stadiumNew Beaver Field
1948 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
No. 6 Army      8 0 1
No. 19 Cornell      8 1 0
Penn State      7 1 1
Buffalo      6 1 1
Villanova      8 2 1
Brown      7 2 0
Dartmouth      6 2 0
Boston College      5 2 2
Pittsburgh      6 3 0
Penn      5 3 0
Franklin & Marshall      5 3 1
Harvard      4 4 0
Princeton      4 4 0
Columbia      4 5 0
Yale      4 5 0
Tufts      3 4 1
Colgate      3 6 0
Fordham      3 6 0
NYU      3 6 0
Temple      2 6 1
Duquesne      2 7 0
Carnegie Tech      1 7 0
Hofstra      0 6 2
Bucknell      1 8 0
Syracuse      1 8 0
Drexel      0 8 0
Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

DateOpponentRankSiteResult
October 2BucknellW 35–0
October 8at SyracuseNo. 10W 34–14
October 16West VirginiaNo. 9
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA (rivalry)
W 37–7
October 23No. 19 Michigan StateNo. 8
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA (rivalry)
T 14–14
October 30at ColgateNo. 12W 32–13
November 6at No. 7 PennNo. 14W 13–0
November 13TempleNo. 5
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 47–0
November 20at PittsburghNo. 6L 0–7
November 27at Washington StateNo. 18W 7–0
  • 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.
  2. "Mud battle in the offing for Washington State, Penn State". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). November 27, 1948. p. 11.
  3. Jacobs, William (November 28, 1948). "Penn State wins, 7-0, over Wash. State". Pittsburgh Press. p. 27.
  4. Ashlock, Herb (November 29, 1948). "Sarboe & Co. safe; Penn State surprised". Spokane Daily Chronicle. (Washington). p. 13.
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