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1923 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

1923 Penn State Nittany Lions football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–2–1
Head coach
CaptainJoe Bedenk
Home stadiumNew Beaver Field
Seasons
← 1922
1924 →
1923 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Cornell     8 0 0
Yale     8 0 0
St. John's     5 0 1
Dartmouth     8 1 0
Syracuse     8 1 0
Boston College     7 1 1
Rutgers     7 1 1
Washington & Jefferson     6 1 1
Holy Cross     8 2 0
Lafayette     6 1 2
Tufts     6 2 0
Army     6 2 1
Colgate     6 2 1
Geneva     6 2 1
Lehigh     6 2 1
NYU     6 2 1
Penn State     6 2 1
Vermont     6 3 1
Brown     6 4 0
Harvard     4 3 1
Carnegie Tech     4 3 1
Penn     5 4 0
Pittsburgh     5 4 0
Bucknell     4 4 1
Columbia     4 4 1
Duquesne     4 4 0
Princeton     3 3 1
Franklin & Marshall     3 5 1
Drexel     2 6 0
Buffalo     2 5 1
Fordham     2 7 0
Boston University     1 6 0
Villanova     0 7 1
Temple     0 5 0
CCNY     0 7 0
Springfield     0 7 0

The 1923 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylvania State College in the 1923 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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DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 29Lebanon ValleyW 58–03,000
October 6NC State
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 16–03,000[2]
October 13Gettysburg
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 20–03,000
October 20Navydagger
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 21–320,000
October 27vs. West VirginiaT 13–1350,000[3]
November 3at SyracuseL 0–1025,000
November 102:30 p.m.Georgia Tech
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 7–010,000[4]
November 17at PennW 21–056,000
November 29at PittsburghL 3–2033,000[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 shows Tarheels few tricks in winning, 16 to 0". The Pittsburgh Post. October 7, 1923. Retrieved December 15, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Penn and West Virginia tied". The News and Observer. October 28, 1923. Retrieved July 21, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Penn State conquers Georgia Tech, 7 to 0". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. November 11, 1923. Retrieved December 15, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Pitt Smashes Records For Football Attendance". The Pitt Weekly. Vol. 14, no. 12. December 12, 1923. p. 7. Retrieved March 16, 2021.