1953 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

1953 Penn State Nittany Lions football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–3
Head coach
CaptainDon Malinak, Tony Rados
Home stadiumNew Beaver Field
Seasons
← 1952
1954 →
1953 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Westminster (PA)     8 0 0
Juniata     7 0 0
No. 14 Army     7 1 1
Harvard     6 2 0
Franklin & Marshall     5 2 0
Hofstra     6 3 0
Penn State     6 3 0
Yale     5 2 2
Carnegie Tech     5 3 0
Boston College     5 3 1
Boston University     5 3 1
Syracuse     5 3 1
Princeton     5 4 0
Tufts     4 3 0
Cornell     4 3 2
Holy Cross     5 5 0
Temple     4 4 1
Colgate     3 4 2
Columbia     4 5 0
Fordham     4 5 0
Villanova     4 6 0
Drexel     2 3 1
Brown     3 5 1
Penn     3 5 1
Pittsburgh     3 5 1
Dartmouth     2 7 0
Buffalo     1 5 1
Bucknell     1 8 0
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1953 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylvania State University in the 1953 college football season.[1] The team was coached by Rip Engle and played its home games in New Beaver Field in University Park, Pennsylvania.

  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.