The 1896 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

Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State or PSU) is a Public university, public Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related Land-grant university, land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvan ...

–as an independent during the

1896 college football season The 1896 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the ''Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book'' listing Lafayette and Princeton as having been selected national champions. Lafayette finished with an 11–0–1 record whil ...

. The team was coached by

Samuel B. Newton Sylvanus Blanchard "Samuel" Newton (December 4, 1868 – April 30, 1932) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Pennsylvania State University (1896–1898), Lafayette College (1899–1901, 1911), Lehig ...

and played its home games 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", ...

University Park, Pennsylvania University Park (also referred to as Penn State University Park) is the name given to the Pennsylvania State University's main campus located in both State College and College Township, Pennsylvania, United States. The campus post office was de ...

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Penn State Nittany Lions football seasons

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