1943 Penn State Nittany Lions football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–3–1
Head coach
CaptainJohn Jaffurs
Home stadiumNew Beaver Field
Seasons
← 1942
1944 →
1943 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Boston College     4 0 1
Franklin & Marshall     7 1 0
Dartmouth     6 1 0
Rochester     6 1 0
No. 11 Army     7 2 1
Holy Cross     6 2 0
Tufts     6 2 0
No. 20 Penn     6 2 1
Brown     5 3 0
Villanova     5 3 0
Colgate     5 3 1
Penn State     5 3 1
Bucknell     6 4 0
Cornell     6 4 0
Harvard     2 2 1
Yale     4 5 0
Pittsburgh     3 5 0
Temple     2 6 0
CCNY     1 3 1
Princeton     1 6 0
Carnegie Tech     0 4 1
Columbia     0 8 0
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1943 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylvania State University in the 1943 college football season.[1] The team was coached by Bob Higgins and played its home games in New Beaver Field in State College, Pennsylvania.

In the final Litkenhous Ratings, Penn State ranked 58th among the nation's college and service teams with a rating of 81.7.[2]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 25BucknellW 14–06,639–10,000[3]
October 2at North CarolinaL 0–199,983–13,500[4]
October 9Colgatedagger
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
T 0–06,933
October 16at No. 3 NavyL 6–14
October 23at MarylandW 45–05,000
October 30West Virginia
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA (rivalry)
W 32–74,494
November 6at CornellL 0–136,617
November 13Temple
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 13–04,142
November 20at PittsburghW 14–012,242
  • daggerHomecoming
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References

  1. ^ "Penn State Yearly Results (1940-1944)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on August 5, 2015. Retrieved August 10, 2015.
  2. ^ Litkenhous, E. E. (December 17, 1943). "Litkenhouse Selects U. S. Grid Leaders". The Salt Lake Tribune. Salt Lake City, Utah. p. 18. Retrieved April 16, 2023 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  3. ^ "Passes Pave Way For Lions' Win, 14-0". The Pittsburgh Press. September 26, 1943. p. III-11 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Tar Heels whip Penn State 19–0". The Greenville News. October 3, 1943. Retrieved December 22, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.