1911 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

The 1911 Penn State Nittany Lions football team was an American football team that represented Pennsylvania State College as an independent during the 1911 college football season. In its second season under head coach Bill Hollenback, the team compiled an 8–0–1 record, shut out seven of nine opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 199 to 15.^[1][2]

1911 Penn State Nittany Lions football
Co-national champion (NCF)
Conference	Independent
Record	8–0–1
Head coach	Bill Hollenback (2nd season)
Captain	Dexter Very
Home stadium	New Beaver Field
Seasons ← 1910 1912 →

1911 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Penn State			–					8	–	0	–	1
Carlisle			–					11	–	1	–	0
Princeton			–					8	–	0	–	2
Trinity (CT)			–					6	–	0	–	2
Temple			–					6	–	1	–	0
Army			–					6	–	1	–	1
Swarthmore			–					6	–	1	–	1
Dartmouth			–					8	–	2	–	0
Lafayette			–					8	–	2	–	0
Yale			–					7	–	2	–	1
Harvard			–					6	–	2	–	1
Cornell			–					7	–	3	–	0
Rhode Island State			–					5	–	2	–	1
Brown			–					7	–	3	–	1
Bucknell			–					6	–	3	–	1
Penn			–					7	–	4	–	0
Pittsburgh			–					4	–	3	–	1
Washington & Jefferson			–					6	–	4	–	0
Syracuse			–					5	–	3	–	2
Dickinson			–					4	–	4	–	0
Lehigh			–					5	–	5	–	1
Rutgers			–					4	–	4	–	1
Dickinson			–					4	–	4	–	0
St. Bonaventure			–					2	–	2	–	0
Carnegie Tech			–					4	–	5	–	0
Holy Cross			–					4	–	5	–	0
Tufts			–					3	–	4	–	0
Vermont			–					3	–	5	–	0
NYU			–					1	–	3	–	3
Colgate			–					3	–	6	–	0
Franklin & Marshall			–					3	–	6	–	0
Geneva			–					1	–	6	–	1
Villanova			–					0	–	5	–	1
Boston College			–					0	–	7	–	0

There was no contemporaneous system in 1911 for determining a national champion. However, Penn State was retroactively named as the national champion by the National Championship Foundation.^[3]

Penn state end Dexter Very was selected by Walter Camp as a second-team player on the 1911 All-America college football team.

Five persons associated with the 1911 Penn State team were later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame: coach Hollenback (inducted 1951); tackle Dick Harlow (inducted 1954 as a coach); fullback Pete Mauthe (inducted 1957); quarterback Shorty Miller (inducted 1974); and Very (inducted 1976).^{[4][5][6][7][8]}

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 30	Geneva	New Beaver Field State College, PA	W 57–0		^[9]
October 7	Gettysburg	New Beaver Field State College, PA	W 31–0		^[10]
October 14	at Cornell	Ithaca, NY	W 5–0		^[11]
October 21	Villanova	New Beaver Field State College, PA	W 18–0		^[12]
October 28	at Penn	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 22–6	15,000	^[13]
November 4	St. Bonaventure	New Beaver Field State College, PA	W 46–0		^[14]
November 11	Colgate	New Beaver Field State College, PA	W 17–9		^[15]
November 18	at Navy	Worden Field Annapolis, MD	T 0–0		^[16]
November 30	at Pittsburgh	Forbes Field Pittsburgh, PA (rivalry)	W 3–0	15,000–20,000	^[17]^[18]

References

1. "1911 Penn State Nittany Lions Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved March 30, 2022.
2. . College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on August 5, 2015. Retrieved August 10, 2015.
3. 2020 NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision Records (PDF). Indianapolis: The National Collegiate Athletic Association. July 2020. pp. 112–114. (PDF) from the original on November 1, 2020. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
4. "Dexter Very". National Football Foundation. Retrieved March 30, 2022.
5. "Dick Harlow". National Football Foundation. Retrieved March 30, 2022.
6. "Pete Mauthe". National Football Foundation. Retrieved March 30, 2022.
7. "Shorty Miller". National Football Foundation. Retrieved March 30, 2022.
8. "Bill Hollenback". National Football Foundation. Retrieved March 30, 2022.
9. "Geneva Is Easy For State Men". The Gazette Times. Pittsburgh. October 1, 1911. p. 20 – via Newspapers.com.
10. "One-Sided Contest Taken by Penn State: Gettysburg Fails to Make First Down Against Speedy Opponents". The Pittsburgh Post. October 8, 1911. p. 18 – via Newspapers.com.
11. "Cornell Loses To Penn State: Keystone Football Players Vanquish Ithacans on Home Grouund, 5 to 0". The New York Times. October 15, 1911. p. 39 – via Newspapers.com.
12. "Penn State Wins Rough Game From Villa Nova". The Pittsburgh Press. October 22, 1911. p. 19 – via Newspapers.com.
13. "Penn Is Routed by State College: Bill Hollenback's Team Beats Red and Blue Eleven by Savage Onslaught in First Half of Game That Carries Quakers Off Their Feet". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 29, 1911. p. 12 – via Newspapers.com.
14. "Penn State Swamps St. Bonaventure". The Gazette Times. Pittsburgh. November 5, 1911. sec. 3, p. 2. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
15. "Pennsylvania State Disposes of Colgate: Captain Very Breaks Visitors' Interference in Brilliant Style". The Pittsburgh Post. November 12, 1911. p. 20 – via Newspapers.com.
16. "Navy's Scrubs Hold Down the Penn Staters". The Baltimore Sun. November 19, 1911. p. 13 – via Newspapers.com.
17. "Game and Prize Go to State". The Pittsburgh Post. December 1, 1911. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
18. "Pitt is Beaten By State, 3-0". The Gazette Times. Pittsburgh. December 1, 1911. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.