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1929 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

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1929 Penn State Nittany Lions football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–3
Head coach
CaptainJack Martin
Home stadiumNew Beaver Field
Seasons
← 1928
1930 →
1929 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 3 Pittsburgh     9 1 0
Colgate     8 1 0
Fordham     7 0 2
Bucknell     8 2 0
No. 11 Penn     7 2 0
Boston College     7 2 1
Villanova     7 2 1
Cornell     6 2 0
Tufts     5 1 2
Harvard     5 2 1
Yale     5 2 1
NYU     7 3 0
Franklin & Marshall     6 3 0
Penn State     6 3 0
Syracuse     6 3 0
Washington & Jefferson     5 2 2
Drexel     6 3 1
Temple     6 3 1
Carnegie Tech     5 3 1
Army     6 4 1
Providence     3 3 2
Brown     5 5 0
Columbia     4 5 0
CCNY     2 4 2
Princeton     2 4 1
Boston University     3 6 0
Vermont     2 7 0
Rankings from Dickinson System

The 1929 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylvania State University in the 1929 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

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DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 28NiagaraW 16–04,000
October 5Lebanon Valley
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 15–04,000
October 12Marshall
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 26–75,000
October 19at NYUL 0–735,000[2]
October 26Lafayettedagger
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 6–310,000
November 2at SyracuseW 6–412,000
November 9at PennW 19–760,000
November 16Bucknell
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
L 6–2712,000[3]
November 28at PittsburghL 7–2025,755[4]
  • daggerHomecoming

References

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  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. ^ "Violet bloom but Lion fails to roar". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 20, 1929. Retrieved June 20, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Bisons Rout Lions, 27 To 6". The Sunday News. Lancaster, Pennsylvania. November 17, 1929. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ Sell, Jack (November 29, 1929). "Pitt Defeats State, 20 to 7, In Hard Game". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.