1952 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

The 1952 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylvania State University in the 1952 college football season.[1] The team was coached by Rip Engle and played its home games in New Beaver Field in State College, Pennsylvania.

1952 Penn State Nittany Lions football
ConferenceIndependent
1952 record7–2–1
Head coachRip Engle (3rd season)
Home stadiumNew Beaver Field
1952 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Franklin & Marshall      7 1 0
Villanova      7 1 1
Holy Cross      8 2 0
Yale      7 2 0
Penn State      7 2 1
No. 14 Syracuse      7 3 0
Colgate      6 3 0
Pittsburgh      6 3 0
Carnegie Tech      4 3 0
Harvard      5 4 0
Boston University      5 4 1
Penn      4 3 2
Army      4 4 1
Boston College      4 4 1
Tufts      3 4 1
Drexel      3 4 0
Fordham      2 5 1
NYU      2 5 1
Columbia      2 6 1
Brown      2 7 0
Cornell      2 7 0
Dartmouth      2 7 0
Temple      2 7 1
Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

DateOpponentRankSiteResult
September 20Temple
W 20–13
September 27Purdue
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
T 20–20
October 4William & Mary
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 35–23
October 11at West VirginiaNo. 20
  • Mountaineer Field
  • Morgantown, WV (rivalry)
W 35–21
October 18NebraskaNo. 19
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 10–0
October 25at No. 1 Michigan StateNo. 19
  • Macklin Stadium
  • East Lansing, MI (rivalry)
L 7–34
November 1at No. 17 Penn
W 14–7
November 8at SyracuseNo. 15L 7–25
November 15Rutgers
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 7–6
November 22at No. 16 Pittsburgh
W 17–0
  • Homecoming
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References

  1. "Penn State Yearly Results (1950-1954)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Retrieved July 26, 2015.


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