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)
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
September 25	Bucknell	New Beaver Field State College, PA	W 14–0
October 2	at North Carolina	Kenan Stadium Chapel Hill, NC	L 0–19
October 9	Colgate	New Beaver Field State College, PA	T 0–0
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
October 30	West Virginia	New Beaver Field State College, PA (rivalry)	W 32–7
November 6	at Cornell	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY	L 0–13
November 13	Temple	New Beaver Field State College, PA	W 13–0
November 20	at Pittsburgh	Pitt Stadium Pittsburgh, PA (rivalry)	W 14–0
Homecoming Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game