1926 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

1926 Penn State Nittany Lions football
Conference	Independent
Record	5–4
Head coach	Hugo Bezdek (9th season)
Captain	Ken Weston
Home stadium	New Beaver Field

1926 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
No. 5 Lafayette			–					9	–	0	–	0
No. 10 Brown			–					9	–	0	–	1
NYU			–					8	–	1	–	0
No. 9 Army			–					7	–	1	–	1
Washington & Jefferson			–					7	–	1	–	1
Boston College			–					6	–	0	–	2
No. 10 Penn			–					7	–	1	–	1
Cornell			–					6	–	1	–	1
Princeton			–					5	–	1	–	1
Carnegie Tech			–					7	–	2	–	0
Springfield			–					6	–	2	–	0
Syracuse			–					7	–	2	–	1
Villanova			–					6	–	2	–	1
Colgate			–					5	–	2	–	2
Columbia			–					6	–	3	–	0
Pittsburgh			–					5	–	2	–	2
CCNY			–					5	–	3	–	0
Temple			–					5	–	3	–	0
Penn State			–					5	–	4	–	0
Tufts			–					4	–	4	–	0
Yale			–					4	–	4	–	0
Bucknell			–					4	–	5	–	1
Fordham			–					3	–	4	–	1
Harvard			–					3	–	5	–	0
Rutgers			–					3	–	6	–	0
Vermont			–					3	–	6	–	0
Drexel			–					2	–	5	–	0
Boston University			–					2	–	6	–	0
Lehigh			–					1	–	8	–	0
Franklin & Marshall			–					0	–	8	–	1
Rankings from Dickinson System

The 1926 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylvania State University in the 1926 college football season.^[1] The team was coached by Hugo Bezdek and played its home games in New Beaver Field in State College, Pennsylvania.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 25	Susquehanna	New Beaver Field State College, PA	W 82–0	3,500
October 2	Lebanon Valley	New Beaver Field State College, PA	W 35–0	3,500
October 9	Marietta	New Beaver Field State College, PA	W 48–6	4,000
October 16	at Notre Dame	Cartier Field Notre Dame, IN (rivalry)	L 0–28	18,000
October 23	Syracuse	New Beaver Field State College, PA (rivalry)	L 0–10	8,000
October 30	George Washington	New Beaver Field State College, PA	W 20–12	3,500	[2]
November 6	at Penn	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L 0–3	55,000
November 13	Bucknell	New Beaver Field State College, PA	W 9–0	15,000	[3]
November 25	at Pittsburgh	Pitt Stadium Pittsburgh, PA (rivalry)	L 6–24	42,915
Homecoming

References

1. "Penn State Yearly Results (1925-1929)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on August 5, 2015. Retrieved August 10, 2015.
2. "Penn State beats George Washington". The Morning Call. October 31, 1926. Retrieved February 13, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
3. "Roepke Big Gun in Penn State Victory". The Pittsburgh Press. November 14, 1926. p. Sporting 1 – via Newspapers.com.