1912 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

The 1912 Penn State Nittany Lions football team was an American football team that represented Pennsylvania State College as an independent during the 1912 college football season. In their third season under head coach Bill Hollenback, the team compiled an 8–0 record, shut out seven of eight opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 285 to 6.[1][2]

1912 Penn State Nittany Lions football
Co-national champion (NCF)
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–0
Head coach
CaptainPete Mauthe
Home stadiumNew Beaver Field
Seasons
← 1911
1913 →
1912 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Harvard  900
Penn State  800
Carlisle  1211
Maine  710
Princeton  711
Swarthmore  711
Yale  711
Lehigh  920
Dartmouth  720
Wesleyan  720
Colgate  520
Washington & Jefferson  831
Rhode Island State  630
Bucknell  631
Temple  320
Penn  740
Army  530
Brown  640
Franklin & Marshall  640
Holy Cross  431
Rutgers  540
Tufts  540
Fordham  440
Villanova  330
Morris Harvey  220
Lafayette  451
Syracuse  450
Carnegie Tech  341
Geneva  340
Vermont  350
Pittsburgh  360
Boston College  241
Cornell  370
NYU  260

There was no contemporaneous system in 1912 for determining a national champion. However, Penn State was retroactively named as the national champion by the National Championship Foundation. Harvard was recognized as the 1912 national champion by most selectors.[3]

This team is known for playing the first of a series of games against eventual rival Ohio State, in which the Buckeyes forfeited because of the alleged rough play of the Nittany Lions once the score was 37–0.[4] The official score was 1–0, but the gameball lists the score as 37–0.

Three persons associated with the 1912 Penn State team were later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame: coach Hollenback (inducted 1951);[5] fullback Pete Mauthe (inducted 1957);[6] and quarterback Shorty Miller (inducted 1974).[7]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 5Carnegie TechW 41–0[8]
October 12Washington & Jefferson
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 30–04,000[9]
October 19at Cornell
W 29–6[10]
October 26Gettysburg
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 25–0[11]
November 2at PennW 14–015,000[12]
November 9Villanova
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 71–0[13]
November 16at Ohio StateW 37–03,500[14]
November 28at PittsburghW 38–015,000[15]

References


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