1931 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

1931 Penn State Nittany Lions football
Conference	Independent
Record	2–8
Head coach	Bob Higgins (2nd season)
Home stadium	New Beaver Field

1931 Eastern college football independents records

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Bucknell			–					6	–	0	–	3
Colgate			–					8	–	1	–	0
No. 9 Pittsburgh			–					8	–	1	–	0
Cornell			–					7	–	1	–	0
Drexel			–					7	–	1	–	0
No. 7 Harvard			–					7	–	1	–	0
Temple			–					8	–	1	–	1
Columbia			–					7	–	1	–	1
Massachusetts State			–					7	–	1	–	1
Syracuse			–					7	–	1	–	1
Fordham			–					6	–	1	–	2
No. 8 Yale			–					5	–	1	–	2
Army			–					8	–	2	–	1
Franklin & Marshall			–					6	–	2	–	0
Manhattan			–					4	–	2	–	1
Brown			–					7	–	3	–	0
Providence			–					7	–	3	–	0
Penn			–					6	–	3	–	0
NYU			–					6	–	3	–	1
Boston College			–					6	–	4	–	0
Washington & Jefferson			–					6	–	4	–	0
Tufts			–					3	–	2	–	2
Villanova			–					4	–	3	–	2
La Salle			–					4	–	4	–	0
Duquesne			–					3	–	5	–	3
Carnegie Tech			–					3	–	5	–	1
St. John's			–					3	–	5	–	1
CCNY			–					2	–	5	–	1
Boston University			–					2	–	7	–	0
Penn State			–					2	–	8	–	0
Princeton			–					1	–	7	–	0
Vermont			–					1	–	8	–	0
Rankings from Dickinson System

The 1931 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylvania State University in the 1931 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 26	Waynesburg	New Beaver Field State College, PA	L 0–7
October 3	Lebanon Valley	New Beaver Field State College, PA	W 19–6
October 10	at Temple	Temple Stadium Philadelphia, PA	L 0–12
October 17	Dickinson	New Beaver Field State College, PA	L 6–10
October 24	at Syracuse	Archbold Stadium Syracuse, NY (rivalry)	L 0–7
October 31	Pittsburgh	New Beaver Field State College, PA (rivalry)	L 6–41
November 8	Colgate	New Beaver Field State College, PA	L 7–32
November 14	at Lafayette	Fisher Field Easton, PA	L 0–33
November 21	at West Virginia	Mountaineer Field Morgantown, WV (rivalry)	L 0–19
November 28	vs. Lehigh	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 31–0
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