1917 Penn State Nittany Lions football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–4
Head coach
CaptainLarry Conover, Bob Higgins
Home stadiumNew Beaver Field
Seasons
← 1916
1918 →
1917 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Pittsburgh     10 0 0
Williams     7 0 1
Yale     3 0 0
Princeton     2 0 0
Syracuse     8 1 1
Army     7 1 0
Rutgers     7 1 1
Penn     9 2 0
Brown     8 2 0
Fordham     7 2 0
Lehigh     7 2 0
Boston College     6 2 0
Swarthmore     6 2 0
Washington & Jefferson     7 3 0
Colgate     4 2 0
Harvard     3 1 3
New Hampshire     3 2 2
Dartmouth     5 3 0
Geneva     5 3 1
Penn State     5 4 0
Buffalo     4 4 0
NYU     2 2 3
Tufts     3 3 0
Carnegie Tech     2 3 1
Bucknell     3 5 1
Lafayette     3 5 0
Holy Cross     3 4 0
Rhode Island State     2 4 2
Carlisle     3 6 0
Columbia     2 4 0
Delaware     2 5 0
Cornell     3 6 0
Franklin & Marshall     2 6 0
Villanova     0 3 2
Temple     0 6 1

The 1917 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylvania State College in the 1917 college football season.[1] The team was led by third-year head coach Dick Harlow, with Lawrence Whitney as an assistant coach, his final season. The Nittany Lions played their home games at New Beaver Field in State College, Pennsylvania.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 29vs. Army Ambulance CorpsAllentown, PAW 10–0
October 6GettysburgW 80–0
October 13St. Bonaventure
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 99–0
October 20at Washington & JeffersonL 0–7
October 27West Virginia Wesleyan
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 8–7
November 3at DartmouthL 7–10
November 10Lehigh
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
L 0–9
November 17Maryland
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA (rivalry)
W 57–0
November 29at PittsburghL 6–2820,000[2]

References

  1. ^ "Penn State Yearly Results (1915–1919)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on August 5, 2015. Retrieved August 10, 2015.
  2. ^ Guy, Richard (November 30, 1917). "Attack of Panther is too Fierce for Dick Harlow's Men". The Gazette Times. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.