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1924 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

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1924 Penn State Nittany Lions football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–3–1
Head coach
CaptainBas Gray
Home stadiumNew Beaver Field
Seasons
← 1923
1925 →
1924 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 9 Dartmouth     7 0 1
No. 3 Yale     6 0 2
No. 8 Penn     9 1 1
Rutgers     7 1 1
Bucknell     8 2 0
Lafayette     7 2 0
Washington & Jefferson     7 2 0
Holy Cross     7 1 1
Army     5 1 2
Syracuse     8 2 1
Fordham     6 2 0
Lehigh     4 1 3
Boston College     6 3 0
Penn State     6 3 1
Princeton     4 2 1
Springfield     4 2 1
Columbia     5 3 1
Pittsburgh     5 3 1
NYU     4 3 1
CCNY     4 3 0
Brown     5 4 0
Carnegie Tech     5 4 0
Colgate     5 4 0
Cornell     4 4 0
Harvard     4 4 0
Tufts     3 4 2
Franklin & Marshall     3 5 1
Villanova     2 5 1
Drexel     2 7 0
Vermont     2 7 0
Temple     1 4 0
Boston University     1 5 0
Buffalo     1 7 0
Rankings from Dickinson System

The 1924 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylvania State College in the 1924 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 27Lebanon ValleyW 47–33,500
October 4NC State
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 51–63,500[2]
October 11Gettysburg
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 26–06,000
October 18at Georgia TechL 13–1522,000[3]
October 25Syracusedagger
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA (rivalry)
L 6–10
November 1at NavyW 6–0
November 8Carnegie Tech
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 22–77,000
November 15at PennT 0–052,000[4]
November 22Marietta
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 28–03,500
November 27at PittsburghL 3–2433,000[5]
  • daggerHomecoming

References

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  1. ^ "Penn State Yearly Results (1920-1924)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on August 5, 2015. Retrieved August 10, 2015.
  2. ^ "Penn State easily chalks up victory". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 5, 1924. Retrieved December 12, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Dixie Eleven Resists Invasions of Warriors From the East 15 to 13". The Anniston Star. October 19, 1924. p. 8. Retrieved May 6, 2016 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  4. ^ "Quakers-Lions battle to scoreless tie". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. November 16, 1924. Retrieved October 20, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Brilliant Victory Thrills Throngs as Panthers Crush Foe". The Gazette Times. November 28, 1924. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.