1917 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

The 1917 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylvania State College in the 1917 college football season. The team was led by third-year head coach Dick Harlow, with Lawrence Whitney as an assistant coach, his final season. The Nittany Lions played their home games at New Beaver Field in State College, Pennsylvania.

1917 Penn State Nittany Lions football
Conference	Independent
Record	5–4
Head coach	Dick Harlow (3rd season)
Captains	Larry Conover Bob Higgins
Home stadium	New Beaver Field
Seasons ← 1916 1918 →

1917 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Pittsburgh			–					10	–	0	–	0
Williams			–					7	–	0	–	1
Yale			–					3	–	0	–	0
Princeton			–					2	–	0	–	0
Syracuse			–					8	–	1	–	1
Army			–					7	–	1	–	0
Rutgers			–					7	–	1	–	1
Penn			–					9	–	2	–	0
Brown			–					8	–	2	–	0
Fordham			–					7	–	2	–	0
Lehigh			–					7	–	2	–	0
Boston College			–					6	–	2	–	0
Swarthmore			–					6	–	2	–	0
Washington & Jefferson			–					7	–	3	–	0
Colgate			–					4	–	2	–	0
Harvard			–					3	–	1	–	3
New Hampshire			–					3	–	2	–	2
Dartmouth			–					5	–	3	–	0
Geneva			–					5	–	3	–	1
Penn State			–					5	–	4	–	0
Buffalo			–					4	–	4	–	0
NYU			–					2	–	2	–	3
Tufts			–					3	–	3	–	0
Carnegie Tech			–					2	–	3	–	1
Bucknell			–					3	–	5	–	1
Lafayette			–					3	–	5	–	0
Holy Cross			–					3	–	4	–	0
Rhode Island State			–					2	–	4	–	2
Carlisle			–					3	–	6	–	0
Columbia			–					2	–	4	–	0
Delaware			–					2	–	5	–	0
Cornell			–					3	–	6	–	0
Franklin & Marshall			–					2	–	6	–	0
Villanova			–					0	–	3	–	2
Temple			–					0	–	6	–	1

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 29	vs. Army Ambulance Corps	Allentown, PA	W 10–0
October 6	Gettysburg	New Beaver Field State College, PA	W 80–0
October 13	St. Bonaventure	New Beaver Field State College, PA	W 99–0
October 20	at Washington & Jefferson	Washington Fairgrounds Washington, PA	L 0–7
October 27	West Virginia Wesleyan	New Beaver Field State College, PA	W 8–7
November 3	at Dartmouth	Memorial Field Hanover, NH	L 7–10
November 10	Lehigh	New Beaver Field State College, PA	L 0–9
November 17	Maryland	New Beaver Field State College, PA (rivalry)	W 57–0
November 29	at Pittsburgh	Forbes Field Pittsburgh, PA (rivalry)	L 6–28	20,000	[1]