1896 Penn State football team

The 1896 Penn State football team was an American football team that represented Pennsylvania State College—now known as Pennsylvania State University–as an independent during the 1896 college football season.[1] The team was coached by Samuel B. Newton and played its home games on Beaver Field in University Park, Pennsylvania.

1896 Penn State football
ConferenceIndependent
Record3–4
Head coach
CaptainJames Dunsmore
Home stadiumBeaver Field
1896 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Fordham    1 0 0
Lafayette    11 0 1
Princeton    10 0 1
Washington & Jefferson    8 0 1
Penn    14 1 0
Yale    13 1 0
Pittsburgh College    11 2 0
Buffalo    9 1 2
Villanova    10 4 0
Bucknell    5 2 1
Harvard    7 4 0
Boston College    5 3 0
Storrs    5 3 0
Cornell    5 3 1
Syracuse    5 3 2
Temple    3 2 0
Army    3 2 1
Rutgers    6 6 0
Carlisle    5 5 0
Holy Cross    2 2 2
Brown    4 5 1
Wesleyan    4 5 1
Frankin & Marshall    3 4 2
Geneva    3 4 0
Penn State    3 4 0
Colgate    3 4 1
Amherst    3 6 1
Western Univ. Penn.    3 6 0
Lehigh    2 5 0
Tufts    2 6 1
Swarthmore    2 6 0
New Hampshire    1 4 0
Drexel    1 5 0
Massachusetts    0 4 0
Rhode Island    0 4 0

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 26GettysburgW 40–0
October 3Western University of Pennsylvania
  • Beaver Field
  • State College, PA (rivalry)
W 10–4[2]
October 10Dickinson
  • Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 8–0
October 24at PrincetonL 0–391,000[3]
October 31vs. BucknellWilliamsport, PAL 0–10
November 14at PennL 0–27
November 21vs. Carlisle
L 5–482,000[4][5]

References

  1. "Penn State Yearly Results (1895-1899)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on August 5, 2015. Retrieved August 9, 2015.
  2. "Athletics". The Western University Courant. Vol. XII, no. 1. Courant Publishing Association. October 1896. p. 22. Retrieved October 30, 2019.
  3. "Princeton, 39; P.S.C., 0". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 25, 1896. p. 10 via Newspapers.com.
  4. "Carlisle 48, State 5". The Pittsburgh Press. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. November 22, 1896. p. 6. Retrieved April 27, 2021 via Newspapers.com open access.
  5. "State College Scalped". The Times. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. November 22, 1896. p. 9. Retrieved April 27, 2021 via Newspapers.com open access.


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