1951 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

1951 Penn State Nittany Lions football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–4
Head coach
Captains
  • Art Betts
  • Len Shephard
Home stadiumNew Beaver Field
1951 Eastern college football independents records
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW L T
Bucknell    9 0 0
No. 6 Princeton    9 0 0
Susquehanna    6 0 0
Trenton State    6 0 0
Northeastern    6 0 1
No. 19 Holy Cross    8 2 0
Carnegie Tech    6 2 0
Hofstra    6 2 1
Cornell    6 3 0
No. 16 Boston University    6 4 0
Temple    6 4 0
Columbia    5 3 0
Villanova    5 3 0
Fordham    5 4 0
Franklin & Marshall    5 4 0
Penn    5 4 0
Penn State    5 4 0
Syracuse    5 4 0
Buffalo    4 4 0
Colgate    4 5 0
Dartmouth    4 5 0
Drexel    3 4 0
Harvard    3 5 1
Boston College    3 6 0
Yale    2 5 2
Pittsburgh    3 7 0
Geneva    2 5 0
Army    2 7 0
Brown    2 7 0
NYU    1 7 0
Tufts    0 7 2
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1951 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylvania State University in the 1951 college football season. The team was coached by Rip Engle and played its home games in New Beaver Field in State College, Pennsylvania. The team was ranked at No. 60 in the 1951 Litkenhous Ratings.