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George W. Hoskins has the highest winning percentage at 0.759. Bradley has the lowest winning percentage of those who have coached more than one game, with 0.250. Of the 16 different head coaches who have led the Nittany Lions, Bill Hollenback, Dick Harlow, Bezdek, Higgins, Engle, and Paterno have been inducted into the College Football Hall of ...
Penn State won in rout 56–21 going to a 4–5 record. Penn State players voted to not accept a bowl invitation so their final record was 4–5. A major offseason change was replacing first-year offensive coordinator Kirk Ciarrocca with Texas offensive coordinator Mike Yurcich. James Franklin is currently under a ten-year $75,000,000 contract ...
The Penn State Nittany Lions are the athletic teams of Pennsylvania State University, except for the women's basketball team, known as the Lady Lions. The school colors are navy blue and white. [2] The school mascot is the Nittany Lion. The intercollegiate athletics logo was commissioned in 1983.
Penn State returns to action Saturday, September 21 with a meeting against Kent State at Beaver Stadium. REQUIRED READING: Why Tyler Warren is a Penn State football record-breaker. 'He's an assassin.'
This is a list of seasons completed by the Penn State Nittany Lions football team of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). Since the team's creation in 1887, the Nittany Lions have participated in 1,368 officially sanctioned games, including 52 bowl games. [1][2] For most of its ...
One might think Penn State football coach James Franklin is sitting pretty. After all, Franklin has his Nittany Lions ranked 7th in the Big Ten Conference and 8th in the nation and coming off wins ...
Penn State football coach Hugo Bezdek shakes hands with the Nittany Lion in the 1920s. The mascot was the creation of Penn State senior H. D. "Joe" Mason in 1904. While on a trip to Princeton University, Mason had been embarrassed that Penn State did not have a mascot. Mason did not let that deter him: he fabricated the Nittany Lion on the spot ...
The Penn State Nittany Lions football have competed in 53 bowl games compiling a record of 31–20–2 (.608). The Nittany Lions hold a 17–8–1 record in the major bowls (Rose, Orange, Sugar, Fiesta, Peach, and Cotton). Coach Joe Paterno was responsible for most of these bids and victories, compiling more wins, 24, and appearances, 37, than ...