1929 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

American college football season

1929 Penn State Nittany Lions football

Conference| Independent
Record| 6–3
Head coach|

* Hugo Bezdek (12th season)

Captain| Jack Martin
Home stadium| New Beaver Field

Seasons

<- 1928

1930 ->

1929 Eastern college football independents records

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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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Date| Opponent| Site| Result| Attendance| Source

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September 28| Niagara|

* New Beaver Field
* State College, PA

| W 16–0| 4,000|
October 5| Lebanon Valley|

* New Beaver Field
* State College, PA

| W 15–0| 4,000|
October 12| Marshall|

* New Beaver Field
* State College, PA

| W 26–7| 5,000|
October 19| at NYU|

* Yankee Stadium
* Bronx, NY

| L 0–7| 35,000| [2]
October 26| Lafayette|

* New Beaver Field
* State College, PA

| W 6–3| 10,000|
November 2| at Syracuse|

* Archbold Stadium
* Syracuse, NY (rivalry)

| W 6–4| 12,000|
November 9| at Penn|

* Franklin Field
* Philadelphia, PA

| W 19–7| 60,000|
November 16| Bucknell|

* New Beaver Field
* State College, PA

| L 6–27| 12,000| [3]
November 28| at Pittsburgh|

* Pitt Stadium
* Pittsburgh, PA (rivalry)

| L 7–20| 25,755| [4]

* Homecoming

## 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.

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Penn State Nittany Lions football

Venues|

* Old Main lawn (until 1891)
* Beaver Field (1892–1908)
* New Beaver Field (1909–1959)
* Beaver Stadium (1960–present)

Bowls & rivalries|

* Bowl games
* Alabama
* Maryland
* Michigan
* Michigan State
* Ohio State
* Old Ironsides
* Pittsburgh
* Syracuse
* West Virginia

Culture & lore|

* Nittany Lion
* "Fight On, State"
* Penn State Blue Band
* Uplifting Athletes
* Joe Paterno statue
* Something for Joey
* 1982 Nebraska game
* Child sex abuse scandal
* 2016 Ohio State game
* Paterno
* White Out
* 2021 Illinois game

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