The 1922 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylvania State University in the

1922 college football season The 1922 college football season had a number of unbeaten and untied teams, and no clear-cut champion, with the ''Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book'' listing California, Cornell, Iowa, Princeton, and Vanderbilt as national champio ...

. The team was coached by

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and played its home games in

New Beaver Field New Beaver Field was a stadium in University Park, Pennsylvania. It served as the third home of the Penn State University Nittany Lions football team, hosting the team until they moved in 1960 to Beaver Stadium. It was built to replace the origi ...

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. The Lions were invited to the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day, the first edition of the

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played in the current stadium.

Schedule

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Penn State Penn State Nittany Lions football seasons

Penn State Nittany Lions football The Penn State Nittany Lions team represents the Pennsylvania State University in college football. The Nittany Lions compete in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision as a member of the Big Ten Conference, which they joined in 1993 af ...

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