The Weirdest Scores In Penn State Sports History: Part 3
In the last two weeks, we’ve taken a deep dive into the archives of Penn State athletics to find the weirdest and wackiest scores in Nittany Lions history. And because Penn State is 165 years old, there’s always more history to be uncovered.
Let’s take another look at more of the weirdest scores in Penn State’s sports history.
No. 11 Penn State 51, Pitt 6 (September 8, 2018)
Entering the 2018 game, Penn State and Pitt had split the last two meetings, making this game the rubber match of the Keystone Classic. A Kenny Pickett-led Panthers team came into a rainy Heinz Field hungry to win a statement game over the No. 11 Nittany Lions.
It started out promising for Pitt, only trailing 7-6 after one quarter. Penn State then scored 44 unanswered points on an inferior Pitt team. It was KJ Hamler’s coming out party, as the Nittany Lion receiver had two touchdowns. Mac Hippenhammer, who opted to play on the baseball team after this season, even had a touchdown on what was his first career catch.
Sean Clifford also made an appearance in this one throwing one pass for 34 yards and a touchdown for a perfect QBR rating of 100. In our opinion, this pass made Sean Clifford the greatest quarterback in college football history and started his official Sean Clifford For Heisman campaign.
The hype around this game is what made the score weird. Pitt was given a chance in this game but was then blown out of the water. They met again in 2019, and Penn State won 17-10 in another weird game between the in-state rivals.
Ohio State 29, Penn State Baseball 2 (May 8, 2005)
The jury is out if this game even happened. If you go on Penn State’s website or even Google this game, nothing comes up. But, according to Penn State Baseball’s 2010 media guide, this game did occur.
If I were Penn State, I would’ve probably tried to erase this game from history, too. The 29 runs Penn State allowed are the most the Nittany Lions have ever allowed in a game in program history. That, matched with the fact Penn State apparently tried to erase this game from history, makes this even funnier.
The 2005 Nittany Lions went 28-27 that season, so it wasn’t all bad. But if you have any recollection of this game happening, please let us know.
Penn State Lady Lions 106, Saint Peters 50 (November 13, 2016)
The Lady Lions went out in the BJC on a brisk November Sunday and earned program win No. 900 in fashion. This game set some new records in Lady Lions history.
By the end of the first quarter, Penn State had a 39-12 lead, which tied the most points scored in a quarter in program history. By halftime, the score was 64-18, making it the first time in three years that the Lady Lions scored more than 60 points in a half. By the end of the game, the Lady Lions had won by 56, the largest margin of victory in program history.
Penn State was lights out from the floor, making almost 60 percent of its shots, including being 48 percent from three. Five Lady Lions had double digits scoring while multiple others set individual career records in the game.
It was a historic day for the program, and there’s no better way to celebrate than having the largest margin of victory in program history.
No. 4 Penn State Field Hockey 9, Bucknell 1 (September 13, 2016)
There’s something with Bucknell and losing to Penn State in historic fashion. Last week, we highlighted Penn State’s women’s soccer’s 9-2 victory over Bucknell, and now it’s time to look at field hockey’s 2016 goal feast against the Bison.
The Nittany Lions put five goals past the Bison in the first half, including two of them in the first five minutes. Shay Cannon scored two first-half goals just two minutes apart for the Nittany Lions. Gini Bramley and Kasey Morano also both scored two goals in the game.
The nine-goal output tied the record for the most goals the Nittany Lions had in a game since a 2003 game versus St. Joe’s. It was also the 34th consecutive victory against Bucknell, a record that started in October of 1970.
Pour one out for the Bison, who always end up in the Penn State record books for the wrong reasons.
Penn State Football 0, Washington & Jefferson 0 (October 13, 1899)
Before the turn of the 20th century, football was a different game. It was a game of life or death and ties. Looking back in the Penn State history books, the late 1800s and early 1900s produced a lot of weird scorelines. None may be weirder than the first registered 0-0 tie in Penn State history.
The game occurred at Beaver Field, which is now a parking lot by the Osmond Lab. There’s no historical record on that day, but there probably wouldn’t be much to say about a 0-0 tie.
Washington & Jefferson is located in Washington, Pa., which is right outside of Pittsburgh. The school currently competes at the Division III level in the President’s Athletic Conference. At the turn of the century, the Presidents were called by some as the best team in the nation, splitting the 1921 national championship and playing in the 1922 Rose Bowl. In 1923, John Heisman, the namesake of the Heisman Trophy, was also named the coach of W&J.
It’s unclear what happened on Beaver Field in October of 1899, but it’s far from the first tie in Penn State history.
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