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1963 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

American college football season

Field	Value
year	1963
team	Penn State Nittany Lions
sport	football
conference	Independent
CoachRank	16
record	7–3
head_coach	Rip Engle
hc_year	14th
captain	Ralph Baker
stadium	Beaver Stadium

The 1963 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented Pennsylvania State University in the 1963 NCAA University Division football season. Led by fourteenth-year head coach Rip Engle, the Nittany Lions were 7–3 and were 16th in the final coaches' poll. Home games were played on campus at Beaver Stadium in University Park; Penn State was independent in football until 1993.

The Nittany Lions were led on the field in 1963 by fifth-year senior quarterback Pete Liske, who had been selected in the NFL and AFL drafts the previous December and went on to play a dozen seasons in pro football. The regular season finale against rival Pittsburgh was postponed two weeks following the assassination of President Kennedy.

Although scoring was off in the 1963 season, the team's defense, headed by 230-pound middle guard (nose tackle in a five man line) Glenn Ressler, was particularly stout, giving up just 92 points in the first 9 games of the season. The Nittany Lions came within a single point of an upset victory over Pitt in the season finale.

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References

Uhrhammer, Jerry. (September 20, 1963). "Ducks open against Penn State". Eugene Register-Guard.
Uhrhammer, Jerry. (September 22, 1963). "Penn State outpunches Oregon in opener, 17-7". Eugene Register-Guard.
Jordan, Jimmy. (November 22, 1963). "57,331 sellout for Pitt-Penn State tilt". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Jordan, Jimmy. (December 7, 1963). "55,000 to see Pitt battle Penn State at stadium today". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
(December 8, 1963). "Pitt rallies to edge Penn State 22-21". Reading Eagle.
Dave Leherr, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-american-glenn-ressler-sparks/140716360/ "Ressler Sparks Penn State's Defensive Line,"] ''Somerset [PA] Daily American,'' Nov. 21, 1963, p. 6.
(September 29, 1963). "Penn State edges UCLA on field goal, 17-14". Reading Eagle.
McHugh, Roy. (September 29, 1963). "Penn State squeezes". Pittsburgh Press.
(October 6, 1963). "Penn State gridders trounce Rice by 28-7". Reading Eagle.
(October 13, 1963). "Army hands Penn State first defeat, 10-7". Reading Eagle.
(October 20, 1963). "Syracuse shuts out Penn State". Reading Eagle.
(October 27, 1963). "Weber nets TD as Penn State defeats Mounts". Reading Eagle.
(November 3, 1963). "Penn State edges Maryland in 17-15 battle". Reading Eagle.
(November 10, 1963). "Underdog Penn State nips Ohio State, 10-7". Reading Eagle.
(November 17, 1963). "Penn State trounces Holy Cross". Reading Eagle.

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