1944 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

1944 Penn State Nittany Lions football
Conference	Independent
Record	6–3
Head coach	Bob Higgins (15th season)
Home stadium	New Beaver Field

1944 Eastern college football independents records

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
No. 1 Army			–					9	–	0	–	0
Yale			–					7	–	0	–	1
Harvard			–					5	–	1	–	0
Bucknell			–					7	–	2	–	1
Penn State			–					6	–	3	–	0
Penn			–					5	–	3	–	0
Boston College			–					4	–	3	–	0
Cornell			–					5	–	4	–	0
Villanova			–					4	–	4	–	0
Drexel			–					2	–	2	–	0
Pittsburgh			–					4	–	5	–	0
Brown			–					3	–	4	–	1
Temple			–					2	–	4	–	2
Syracuse			–					2	–	4	–	1
Princeton			–					1	–	2	–	0
Dartmouth			–					2	–	5	–	1
Colgate			–					2	–	5	–	0
NYU			–					2	–	5	–	0
Columbia			–					2	–	6	–	0
Tufts			–					1	–	4	–	1
Franklin & Marshall			–					1	–	8	–	0
CCNY			–					0	–	7	–	0
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1944 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylvania State University in the 1944 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
September 30	Muhlenberg	New Beaver Field State College, PA	W 58–13
October 7	at Navy	Thompson Stadium Annapolis, MD	L 14–55
October 14	Bucknell	New Beaver Field State College, PA	W 20–6
October 21	at Colgate	Colgate Athletic Field Hamilton, NY	W 6–0
October 28	West Virginia	New Beaver Field State College, PA (rivalry)	L 27–28
November 4	at Syracuse	Archbold Stadium Syracuse, NY (rivalry)	W 41–0
November 11	at Temple	Temple Stadium Philadelphia, PA	W 7–6
November 18	Maryland	New Beaver Field State College, PA (rivalry)	W 34–19
November 25	at Pittsburgh	Pitt Stadium Pittsburgh, PA (rivalry)	L 0–14
Homecoming