The 1893 Penn State football team was an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...

team that represented Pennsylvania State College—now known as

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–as an independent during the

1893 college football season The 1893 college football season was the season of American football played among colleges and universities in the United States during the 1893–94 academic year. The 1893 Princeton Tigers football team, led by captain Thomas Trenchard, compi ...

. The team was coached by George Hoskins. It was first team to play on

Beaver Field Beaver Field (1892–1908), was the first official home to the Pennsylvania State University, Penn State Penn State Nittany Lions football, football and Penn State Nittany Lions baseball, baseball teams. Retroactively known as "Old Beaver Field", ...

, Penn State football's first permanent home.

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Penn State Nittany Lions football seasons

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