1936 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

The 1936 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylvania State University in the 1936 college football season.

1936 Penn State Nittany Lions football
Conference	Independent
Record	3–5
Head coach	Bob Higgins (7th season)
Captain	Chuck Cherundolo
Home stadium	New Beaver Field
Seasons ← 1935 1937 →

1936 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Middlebury			–					8	–	0	–	0
Saint Anselm			–					6	–	0	–	1
No. 3 Pittsburgh			–					8	–	1	–	1
No. 10 Penn			–					7	–	1	–	0
No. 12 Yale			–					7	–	1	–	0
No. 13 Dartmouth			–					7	–	1	–	1
Franklin & Marshall			–					7	–	1	–	1
No. 14 Duquesne			–					8	–	2	–	0
Boston College			–					6	–	1	–	2
Boston University			–					5	–	1	–	2
No. 15 Fordham			–					5	–	1	–	2
Holy Cross			–					7	–	2	–	1
Villanova			–					7	–	2	–	1
Army			–					6	–	3	–	0
Colgate			–					6	–	3	–	0
Drexel			–					6	–	3	–	0
Temple			–					6	–	3	–	2
La Salle			–					6	–	3	–	1
Buffalo			–					5	–	3	–	0
Columbia			–					5	–	3	–	0
Princeton			–					4	–	2	–	2
Saint Vincent			–					5	–	3	–	0
NYU			–					5	–	3	–	1
Manhattan			–					6	–	4	–	0
Northeastern			–					5	–	4	–	0
Bucknell			–					4	–	4	–	1
CCNY			–					4	–	4	–	0
Tufts			–					3	–	3	–	1
Harvard			–					3	–	4	–	1
Cornell			–					3	–	5	–	0
Penn State			–					3	–	5	–	0
Westminster (PA)			–					2	–	4	–	1
Brown			–					3	–	7	–	0
Carnegie Tech			–					2	–	6	–	0
Massachusetts State			–					2	–	6	–	0
Providence			–					1	–	7	–	0
Syracuse			–					1	–	7	–	0
Vermont			–					1	–	8	–	0
Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 3	Muhlenberg	New Beaver Field State College, PA	W 45–0	7,535
October 10	Villanova	New Beaver Field State College, PA	L 0–13	9,593
October 17	at Lehigh	Taylor Stadium Bethlehem, PA	L 6–7
October 24	at Cornell	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY	L 7–13	6,000
October 31	Syracuse	New Beaver Field State College, PA (rivalry)	W 18–0	7,137
November 7	at No. 5 Pittsburgh	Pitt Stadium Pittsburgh, PA (rivalry)	L 7–34	15,692
November 14	at No. 11 Penn	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L 12–19	40,000
November 21	Bucknell	New Beaver Field State College, PA	W 14–0	9,227–12,000
Homecoming Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game