1953 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

The 1953 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylvania State University in the 1953 college football season.[1] The team was coached by Rip Engle and played its home games in New Beaver Field in University Park, Pennsylvania.

1953 Penn State Nittany Lions football
ConferenceIndependent
1953 record6–3
Head coach
Home stadiumNew Beaver Field
1953 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
No. 14 Army      7 1 1
Harvard      6 2 0
Franklin & Marshall      5 2 0
Hofstra      6 3 0
Penn State      6 3 0
Yale      5 2 2
Carnegie Tech      5 3 0
Boston College      5 3 1
Boston University      5 3 1
Syracuse      5 3 1
Princeton      5 4 0
Tufts      4 3 0
Cornell      4 3 2
Holy Cross      5 5 0
Temple      4 4 1
Colgate      3 4 2
Columbia      4 5 0
Fordham      4 5 0
Villanova      4 6 0
Drexel      2 3 1
Brown      3 5 1
Penn      3 5 1
Pittsburgh      3 5 1
Dartmouth      2 7 0
Buffalo      1 5 1
Bucknell      1 8 0
Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResult
September 26at WisconsinL 0–20
October 3at PennL 7–13
October 10at Boston UniversityW 35–13
October 17SyracuseW 20–14
October 24TCU
  • New Beaver Field
  • University Park, PA
W 27–21
October 31West Virginia
  • New Beaver Field
  • University Park, PA (rivalry)
L 19–20
November 7Fordham
  • New Beaver Field
  • University Park, PA
W 28–21
November 14at RutgersW 54–26
November 21at PittsburghW 17–0
  • Homecoming

References

  1. "Penn State Yearly Results (1950-1954)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Retrieved July 26, 2015.
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