1937 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

1937 Penn State Nittany Lions football
Conference	Independent
Record	5–3
Head coach	Bob Higgins (8th season)
Captain	Sam Donato, John Economos
Home stadium	New Beaver Field

1937 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
No. 1 Pittsburgh			–					9	–	0	–	1
No. 6 Villanova			–					8	–	0	–	1
No. 3 Fordham			–					7	–	0	–	1
No. 7 Dartmouth			–					7	–	0	–	2
No. T–14 Holy Cross			–					8	–	0	–	2
St. Thomas (PA)			–					6	–	1	–	1
No. 12 Yale			–					6	–	1	–	1
Army			–					7	–	2	–	0
Boston University			–					6	–	2	–	0
Cornell			–					5	–	2	–	1
Harvard			–					5	–	2	–	1
Syracuse			–					5	–	2	–	1
CCNY			–					5	–	2	–	0
No. 12 Manhattan			–					6	–	3	–	1
Penn State			–					5	–	3	–	0
Duquesne			–					6	–	4	–	0
Brown			–					5	–	4	–	0
NYU			–					5	–	4	–	0
Temple			–					3	–	2	–	4
Boston College			–					4	–	4	–	1
Bucknell			–					3	–	3	–	2
Buffalo			–					4	–	4	–	0
Princeton			–					4	–	4	–	0
Tufts			–					3	–	4	–	1
Colgate			–					3	–	5	–	0
Columbia			–					2	–	5	–	2
Hofstra			–					2	–	4	–	0
Carnegie Tech			–					2	–	5	–	1
Penn			–					2	–	5	–	1
Providence			–					2	–	6	–	0
Vermont			–					2	–	6	–	0
La Salle			–					2	–	7	–	0
Massachusetts State			–					1	–	7	–	1
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1937 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylvania State College in the 1937 college football season.^[1] The team was led by eighth-year head coach Bob Higgins and played its home games in New Beaver Field in State College, Pennsylvania.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 25	at Cornell	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY	L 19–26	6,000
October 2	Gettysburg	New Beaver Field State College, PA	W 32–6	8,919
October 9	Bucknell	New Beaver Field State College, PA	W 20–14	11,376	[2]
October 16	Lehigh	New Beaver Field State College, PA	W 14–7	7,660
October 30	at Syracuse	Archbold Stadium Syracuse, NY (rivalry)	L 13–19
November 6	at Penn	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 7–0	50,000
November 13	Maryland	New Beaver Field State College, PA (rivalry)	W 21–14	7,535	[3]
November 20	at No. 1 Pittsburgh	Pitt Stadium Pittsburgh, PA (rivalry)	L 7–28	19,936
Homecoming Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References

1. "Penn State Yearly Results (1935-1939)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on August 5, 2015. Retrieved August 10, 2015.
2. "State Comes From Behind, Nips Bucknell". The Scranton Tribune. October 10, 1937. p. 26 – via Newspapers.com.
3. "Maryland bows to Penn State, 21–14". The Sunday Star. November 14, 1937. Retrieved December 19, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.