1949 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

The 1949 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylvania State University in the 1949 college football season. The team was coached by Joe Bedenk. He was named head coach after coaching the offensive line for several years. After a single 5–4 season.,[1] Bedenk requested a return to coaching the offensive line, and Penn State brought in Rip Engle as head coach. The team played its home games in New Beaver Field in State College, Pennsylvania.

1949 Penn State Nittany Lions football
ConferenceIndependent
1949 record5–4
Head coachJoe Bedenk (1st season)
Home stadiumNew Beaver Field
1949 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
No. 4 Army      9 0 0
Brown      8 1 0
No. 12 Cornell      8 1 0
No. 13 Villanova      8 1 0
Buffalo      6 3 0
Pittsburgh      6 3 0
Princeton      6 3 0
Fordham      5 3 0
Tufts      5 3 1
Carnegie Tech      5 3 1
Penn State      5 4 0
Temple      5 4 0
Penn      4 4 0
Yale      4 4 0
Boston College      4 4 1
Syracuse      4 5 0
Drexel      3 3 1
Duquesne      3 6 0
Franklin & Marshall      2 5 2
NYU      3 6 0
Columbia      2 7 0
Colgate      1 8 0
Harvard      1 8 0
Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResult
September 24Villanova
L 6–27
October 1at Army
L 7–42
October 8Boston College
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 32–14
October 15Nebraska
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 22–7
October 22at No. 15 Michigan State
  • Spartan Stadium
  • East Lansing, MI (rivalry)
L 0–24
October 29Syracuse
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA (rivalry)
W 33–21
November 5at West Virginia
  • Mountaineer Field
  • Morgantown, WV (rivalry)
W 34–14
November 12at Temple
W 28–7
November 19at Pittsburgh
L 0–19
  • Homecoming
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References

  1. "Penn State Yearly Results (1945-1949)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Retrieved July 26, 2015.


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