A little NU-Penn State History

[ladyhawke]

Here is a little of our history with Penn State:

 

The Nittany Lions and the Cornhuskers have played a total of 13 times against each other. The first game they played was in 1920 and Penn State won 20-0 at home. They didn’t play again until 1949 and Penn State won once again 22-7. The teams have played seven times since Joe Paterno has been coach for the Nittany Lions. The teams have not played since 2003 and will play for the first time in 2011. Out of all the games in which they have matched up Penn State has won 7 of the 13 games. Penn State has only lost one game at home against Nebraska and that was in 1980.

Henry Schulte was the coach of Cornhuskers and Hugo Bezdek was the coach of the Nittany Lions when they first played. Nebraska has seen five different coaches come through their program since they first played against Joe Paterno. This will be the first year Nebraska is part of the Big Ten Conference but they have won five National Championships since their first season in 1890. The only game that was played at a neutral location was at the first ever Kick-Off Classic in East Rutherford, N.J. Penn State lost to Nebraska 44-6.

 

The last time we played Penn State was in 2003. Solich was the coach and the game was in Lincoln:

"The Cornhuskers running game dominated Penn State, as the Huskers won 18-10. Nebraska rushed for 337 yards on 72 carries and held the ball twice as long as Penn State, who managed only 44 yards on 21 carries."

[gin_32]

Nice read there Ladyhawke...I presonally think that we will pull out a win on this one...what do you think? Also, with all the bad press they are getting, I wonder how they will respond?? Any thoughts

[AFhusker]

Penn State was also a 3-9 team in 2003 only finishing ahead of a two win Indiana and a one win Illinois team that year in the conference.

[ladyhawke]

Bo was our DC the last time we played Penn State as well. I think we can pull it off too especially since there is such an uproar at PSU what with the controversy surrounding their AD.

[Excel]

Edit, formatting got all screwed up when I tried to paste it...

 

 

NU v. PSU RECORDS

[TonyStalloni]

We think we have it bad! Look at the junk happening at PSU this week! As a fan I hate to see such terrible info apparently happen. Great info LadyHawke!

[ladyhawke]

Bump-I'm wondering how Bo will approach this team. One of the things that I wanted to see during the Northwestern game was more misdirection. Why didn't we use the reverse play? It was such a 'vanilla' game offensively. I felt bad for our defense because they were out there so long! Blah!