1951 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

1951 Penn State Nittany Lions football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–4
Head coach
CaptainArt Betts, Len Shephard
Home stadiumNew Beaver Field
Seasons
← 1950
1952 →
1951 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Bucknell     9 0 0
No. 6 Princeton     9 0 0
Susquehanna     6 0 0
Trenton State     6 0 0
Northeastern     6 0 1
No. 19 Holy Cross     8 2 0
Carnegie Tech     6 2 0
Hofstra     6 2 1
Cornell     6 3 0
No. 16 Boston University     6 4 0
Temple     6 4 0
Columbia     5 3 0
Villanova     5 3 0
Fordham     5 4 0
Franklin & Marshall     5 4 0
Penn     5 4 0
Penn State     5 4 0
Syracuse     5 4 0
Buffalo     4 4 0
Colgate     4 5 0
Dartmouth     4 5 0
Drexel     3 4 0
Harvard     3 5 1
Boston College     3 6 0
Yale     2 5 2
Pittsburgh     3 7 0
Geneva     2 5 0
Army     2 7 0
Brown     2 7 0
NYU     1 7 0
Tufts     0 7 2
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1951 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylvania State University in the 1951 college football season.[1] The team was coached by Rip Engle and played its home games in New Beaver Field in State College, Pennsylvania. The team was ranked at No. 60 in the 1951 Litkenhous Ratings.[2]

  1. ^ "Penn State Yearly Results (1950–1954)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on August 5, 2015. Retrieved July 26, 2015.
  2. ^ "Vols Top Final 1951 Litkenhous Ratings". The Nashville Banner. December 14, 1951. p. 49 – via Newspapers.com.