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1936 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

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1936 Penn State Nittany Lions football
ConferenceIndependent
Record3–5
Head coach
CaptainChuck Cherundolo
Home stadiumNew Beaver Field
Seasons
← 1935
1937 →
1936 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Saint Anselm     6 0 1
No. 3 Pittsburgh     8 1 1
No. 10 Penn     7 1 0
No. 12 Yale     7 1 0
No. 13 Dartmouth     7 1 1
Franklin & Marshall     7 1 1
No. 14 Duquesne     8 2 0
Boston College     6 1 2
Boston University     5 1 2
No. 15 Fordham     5 1 2
Holy Cross     7 2 1
Villanova     7 2 1
Army     6 3 0
Colgate     6 3 0
Drexel     6 3 0
Temple     6 3 2
La Salle     6 3 1
Buffalo     5 3 0
Columbia     5 3 0
Princeton     4 2 2
Saint Vincent     5 3 0
NYU     5 3 1
Manhattan     6 4 0
Northeastern     5 4 0
Bucknell     4 4 1
CCNY     4 4 0
Tufts     3 3 1
Harvard     3 4 1
Cornell     3 5 0
Penn State     3 5 0
Westminster (PA)     2 4 1
Brown     3 7 0
Carnegie Tech     2 6 0
Massachusetts State     2 6 0
Providence     1 7 0
Syracuse     1 7 0
Vermont     1 8 0
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1936 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylvania State University in the 1936 college football season.[1]

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 3MuhlenbergW 45–07,535
October 10Villanovadagger
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
L 0–139,593
October 17at LehighL 6–7
October 24at CornellL 7–136,000
October 31Syracuse
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA (rivalry)
W 18–07,137
November 7at No. 5 PittsburghL 7–3415,692
November 14at No. 11 PennL 12–1940,000
November 21Bucknell
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 14–09,227–12,000[2]
  • daggerHomecoming
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References

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  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. ^ "Penn State Eleven Slays Old Jinx and Defeats Bucknell Rival, 14 to 0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 22, 1936. p. S5 – via Newspapers.com.