Conference Independent Home stadium Beaver Field | 1897 record 3–6 | |
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Head coach Samuel Newton (2nd year) | ||
The 1897 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylvania State University in the 1897 college football season. The team was coached by Samuel Newton and played its home games on Beaver Field in University Park, Pennsylvania.
Despite the article title, the school did not adopt the Nittany Lion as its mascot until 1907.
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1897 Penn State Nittany Lions football team Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA