1939 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

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.

1939 Penn State Nittany Lions football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–1–2
Head coach
CaptainSpike Alter
Home stadiumNew Beaver Field
1939 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW 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

Penn State was ranked at No. 51 (out of 609 teams) in the final Litkenhous Ratings for 1939.

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