1942 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

The 1942 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylvania State College in the 1942 college football season. The team was coached by Bob Higgins.

1942 Penn State Nittany Lions football
ConferenceIndependent
Ranking
APNo. 19
Record6–1–1
Head coach
CaptainLou Palazzi
Home stadiumNew Beaver Field
1942 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Williams    7 1 0
No. 19 Penn State    6 1 1
No. 8 Boston College    8 2 0
Buffalo    6 2 0
Bucknell    6 2 1
Colgate    6 2 1
Army    6 3 0
Syracuse    6 3 0
Duquesne    6 3 1
Yale    5 3 0
Fordham    5 3 1
Penn    5 3 1
No. T–19 Holy Cross    5 4 1
Dartmouth    5 4 0
Brown    4 4 0
Villanova    4 4 0
Vermont    4 3 0
Carnegie Tech    3 3 0
Boston University    4 5 0
Cornell    3 5 1
Princeton    3 5 1
Temple    2 5 3
Columbia    3 6 0
Pittsburgh    3 6 0
Tufts    2 5 1
Franklin & Marshall    1 4 2
Massachusetts State    2 5 0
Harvard    2 6 1
Drexel    2 6 0
Manhattan    2 6 0
CCNY    1 7 1
Rankings from AP Poll

Penn State was ranked at No. 68 (out of 590 college and military teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1942.

The team played its home games in New Beaver Field in State College, Pennsylvania.

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