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

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.

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 icon.
  5. ↑ "State College Scalped". The Times. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. November 22, 1896. p. 9. Retrieved April 27, 2021 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.


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