1943 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

1943 Penn State Nittany Lions football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–3–1
Head coach
CaptainJohn Jaffurs
Home stadiumNew Beaver Field
1943 Eastern college football independents records
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW L T
Boston College    4 0 1
Franklin & Marshall    7 1 0
Dartmouth    6 1 0
Rochester    6 1 0
No. 11 Army    7 2 1
Holy Cross    6 2 0
Tufts    6 2 0
No. 20 Penn    6 2 1
Brown    5 3 0
Villanova    5 3 0
Colgate    5 3 1
Penn State    5 3 1
Bucknell    6 4 0
Cornell    6 4 0
Harvard    2 2 1
Yale    4 5 0
Pittsburgh    3 5 0
Temple    2 6 0
CCNY    1 3 1
Princeton    1 6 0
Carnegie Tech    0 4 1
Columbia    0 8 0
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1943 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylvania State University in the 1943 college football season. The team was coached by Bob Higgins and played its home games in New Beaver Field in State College, Pennsylvania.

In the final Litkenhous Ratings, Penn State ranked 58th among the nation's college and service teams with a rating of 81.7.