1943 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

1943 Penn State Nittany Lions football
Conference	Independent
Record	5–3–1
Head coach	Bob Higgins (14th season)
Captain	John Jaffurs
Home stadium	New Beaver Field

1943 Eastern college football independents records

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		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.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 25	Bucknell	New Beaver Field State College, PA	W 14–0	6,639–10,000
October 2	at North Carolina	Kenan Stadium Chapel Hill, NC	L 0–19	9,983
October 9	Colgate	New Beaver Field State College, PA	T 0–0	6,933
October 16	at No. 3 Navy	Thompson Stadium Annapolis, MD	L 6–14
October 23	at Maryland	Byrd Stadium College Park, MD (rivalry)	W 45–0	5,000
October 30	West Virginia	New Beaver Field State College, PA (rivalry)	W 32–7	4,494
November 6	at Cornell	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY	L 0–13	6,617
November 13	Temple	New Beaver Field State College, PA (rivalry)	W 13–0	4,142
November 20	at Pittsburgh	Pitt Stadium Pittsburgh, PA (rivalry)	W 14–0	12,242
Homecoming Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game