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1889 Penn State football team

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1889 Penn State football
ConferenceIndependent
Record2–2
Head coach
  • None
CaptainJames Mock
Home stadiumOld Main lawn
Seasons
← 1888
1890 →
1889 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Princeton     10 0 0
Massachusetts     2 0 0
Yale     15 1 0
Harvard     9 2 0
Franklin & Marshall     5 1 1
Dickinson     4 1 1
Navy     4 1 1
Tufts     3 1 0
Lehigh     8 3 2
Cornell     8 4 0
Penn     7 6 0
Brown     2 2 0
Penn State     2 2 0
Delaware     1 1 1
Wesleyan     5 7 1
Bucknell     2 3 1
Lafayette     3 4 2
Columbia     2 7 2
Fordham     1 3 0
Rutgers     1 4 0
NYU     0 2 0

The 1889 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 1889 college football season.[1] The team played its home games on the Old Main lawn in University Park, Pennsylvania.

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultSource
September 27SwarthmoreW 20–6
November 9at Lafayette
L 0–26
November 11at LehighBethlehem, PAL 0–106[2]
November 25Bucknell
  • Old Main lawn
  • State College, PA
W 12–0

References

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  1. ^ "Penn State Yearly Results (1885-1889)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on August 5, 2015. Retrieved August 8, 2015.
  2. ^ "Football". The Sun. New York, New York. November 12, 1889. p. 4. Retrieved August 9, 2024 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.