1939 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

1939 Penn State Nittany Lions football
Conference	Independent
Record	5–1–2
Head coach	Bob Higgins (10th season)
Home stadium	New Beaver Field

1939 Eastern college football independents records

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
No. 4 Cornell			–					8	–	0	–	0
No. 10 Duquesne			–					8	–	0	–	1
Swarthmore			–					6	–	0	–	1
Scranton			–					7	–	0	–	2
Princeton			–					7	–	1	–	0
La Salle			–					6	–	1	–	1
Penn State			–					5	–	1	–	2
No. 11 Boston College			–					9	–	2	–	0
No. 17 Fordham			–					6	–	2	–	0
Villanova			–					6	–	2	–	0
Boston University			–					5	–	3	–	0
Brown			–					5	–	3	–	1
Dartmouth			–					5	–	3	–	1
Hofstra			–					4	–	3	–	0
NYU			–					5	–	4	–	0
Pittsburgh			–					5	–	4	–	0
Harvard			–					4	–	4	–	0
Manhattan			–					4	–	4	–	0
Penn			–					4	–	4	–	0
Syracuse			–					3	–	3	–	2
Vermont			–					3	–	3	–	2
Tufts			–					3	–	4	–	1
Yale			–					3	–	4	–	1
Army			–					3	–	4	–	2
Bucknell			–					3	–	5	–	0
Carnegie Tech			–					3	–	5	–	0
Providence			–					3	–	5	–	0
Columbia			–					2	–	4	–	2
Massachusetts State			–					2	–	5	–	2
Colgate			–					2	–	5	–	1
Temple			–					2	–	7	–	0
CCNY			–					1	–	7	–	0
Buffalo			–					0	–	7	–	0
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1939 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylvania State University in the 1939 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
October 7	Bucknell	New Beaver Field State College, PA	W 13–3
October 14	Lehigh	New Beaver Field State College, PA	W 49–7
October 21	at No. 12 Cornell	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY	L 0–47
October 28	at Syracuse	Archbold Stadium Syracuse, NY (rivalry)	T 6–6
November 4	Maryland	New Beaver Field State College, PA (rivalry)	W 12–0
November 11	at Penn	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 10–0
November 18	at Army	Michie Stadium West Point, NY	T 14–14
November 25	Pittsburgh	New Beaver Field State College, PA (rivalry)	W 10–0
Homecoming Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game