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Penn State football coach Hugo Bezdek shakes hands with the Nittany Lion in the 1920s. The mascot was the creation of Penn State senior H. D. "Joe" Mason in 1904. While on a trip to Princeton University, Mason had been embarrassed that Penn State did not have a mascot. Mason did not let that deter him: he fabricated the Nittany Lion on the spot ...
The 2020 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylvania State University in the 2020 NCAA Division I FBS football season as a member of the Big Ten Conference. The team was led by seventh-year head coach James Franklin. On August 11, 2020, the Big Ten Conference canceled all fall sports competitions due to the COVID-19 ...
Description. Penn State text logo.svg. Pennsylvania State University athletics wordmark logo, used from 1983 to 2011. The January 2005 Penn State art sheet has this as the primary wordmark. In January 2008, this text wordmark became secondary. Penn State dropped the wordmark in its May 2011 art sheet. Date.
Penn State is a state-related university and a member of Pennsylvania's Commonwealth System of Higher Education. While it receives funding from the Commonwealth and is connected to the state through its board of trustees, however, it is otherwise independent and not subject to any direct control by the state.
Architect (s) Charles Klauder. Old Main (originally called "Main Building") is The Pennsylvania State University's first building of major significance. First completed in 1867, the current incarnation of the building was completed in 1930. Today, Old Main serves as the administrative center of Penn State, housing the offices of the president ...
James T. Harris III, president of Widener University. Susanne Hambrusch, computer scientist and professor. Marci Hamilton, professor at the University of Pennsylvania. John W. Heston, president of Washington State University, South Dakota State University and Dakota State University. David C. Hodge, President of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
The Penn State Nittany Lions are the athletic teams of Pennsylvania State University, except for the women's basketball team, known as the Lady Lions. The school colors are navy blue and white. [2] The school mascot is the Nittany Lion. The intercollegiate athletics logo was commissioned in 1983.
The Nittany Lion Shrine at Pennsylvania State University was dedicated on October 24, 1942 during homecoming. Animalier Heinz Warneke and stonecutter Joseph Garatti created it from a 13-ton block of Indiana Limestone. The shrine was chosen from six models submitted by Warneke. The shrine is a gift of the class of 1940 and rests in a natural ...