1911 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

The 1911 Penn State Nittany Lions football team was an American football team that represented Pennsylvania State College as an independent during the 1911 college football season. In its second season under head coach Bill Hollenback, the team compiled an 8–0–1 record, shut out seven of nine opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 199 to 15.[1][2]

1911 Penn State Nittany Lions football
Co-national champion (NCF)
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–0–1
Head coach
CaptainDexter Very
Home stadiumNew Beaver Field
Seasons
← 1910
1912 →
1911 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Penn State  801
Carlisle  1110
Princeton  802
Trinity (CT)  602
Temple  610
Army  611
Swarthmore  611
Dartmouth  820
Lafayette  820
Yale  721
Harvard  621
Cornell  730
Rhode Island State  521
Brown  731
Bucknell  631
Penn  740
Pittsburgh  431
Washington & Jefferson  640
Syracuse  532
Dickinson  440
Lehigh  551
Rutgers  441
Dickinson  440
St. Bonaventure  220
Carnegie Tech  450
Holy Cross  450
Tufts  340
Vermont  350
NYU  133
Colgate  360
Franklin & Marshall  360
Geneva  161
Villanova  051
Boston College  070

There was no contemporaneous system in 1911 for determining a national champion. However, Penn State was retroactively named as the national champion by the National Championship Foundation.[3]

Penn state end Dexter Very was selected by Walter Camp as a second-team player on the 1911 All-America college football team.

Five persons associated with the 1911 Penn State team were later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame: coach Hollenback (inducted 1951); tackle Dick Harlow (inducted 1954 as a coach); fullback Pete Mauthe (inducted 1957); quarterback Shorty Miller (inducted 1974); and Very (inducted 1976).[4][5][6][7][8]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 30GenevaW 57–0[9]
October 7Gettysburg
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 31–0[10]
October 14at CornellIthaca, NYW 5–0[11]
October 21Villanova
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 18–0[12]
October 28at PennW 22–615,000[13]
November 4St. Bonaventure
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 46–0[14]
November 11Colgate
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 17–9[15]
November 18at NavyT 0–0[16]
November 30at PittsburghW 3–015,000–20,000[17][18]

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