Penn State Football Quiz

In what state did the PSU football team take on a number of highly ranked teams, never losing a game within it's boundries?
What were the original PSU school colors?
Who completed the longest scoring play ever for PSU, yet was awarded less than six points for his efforts? Hint: It came in the 1989 Holiday Bowl.
In what year did the Lions go undefeated in regular season play, but end up in a tie in the Cotton Bowl?
In what major bowl game did Lydell Mitchell score his NCAA record 30th TD?
Please identify the person at right:
In what bowl did a PSU player return an onside kickoff for a TD? Hint: The year was 1975.
Who played QB for that PSU team? Hint: He was named MVP for the game.
Who did PSU play in their first trip to the Rose Bowl as a member of the Big Ten? Hint: Picture at right.
The Arkansas Razorbacks swooned over the thought of having this PSU runner play for their school just due to the pronunciation of the player's last name: Hint: He was born in State College.
Rosey Grier was a(n) at PSU:
What team's fans recorded a song entitled "What is a Nittany Lion," which received much airplay in Pennsylvania for about two weeks?
In what bowl game did PSU make a stunning comeback based on the play of a very famous "multipurpose" runner, who still produces today for a pro team? Hint: Richie Anderson and Kyle Brady were his teammates.
What was that player's name? Hint: famous murder trial in California.
Penn State's first game result was:
What did Bob Higgins have to do with PSU football?
Who did PSU play in the 1st ever Liberty Bowl, in 1959?
What "gimmick" play turned the game around for PSU? Hint: A similiar play was recently used against Michigan with devestating effect.
In the 1967 Gator Bowl, what "much since debated poor decision" did JoePa make which lead to a 17-17 tie?
Who holds the PSU record for scoring 3 rushing TD's in a (very big) bowl game?
This ex-Lion was the first person to be named team captain, primarily because he was the only one that had a football.
In what bowl game did Booker Moore (from Michigan) explode for a TD on his very last carry ever for PSU? Hint: The year was 1980.
What two brothers played football for PSU as kickers?
Who were the two players, nicknamed "Salt and Pepper", that gave Bear Bryant fits, until he made some adjustments and outcoached young JoePa?
In what bowl game did PSU hold Marcus Allen, the Heisman trophy winner, to a season-low rushing total? Hint: The year was 1982.
What QB made a brash public prediction before that game at the airport that, when he returned, PSU would be the only undefeated team in the entire country and he would have a national championship ring?
Who was the U of Miami QB that had trouble completing passes in the 1987 Fiesta Bowl against an undersized PSU secondary?
In that same Fiesta Bowl, who was the All-American wide receiver that was afraid to catch passes after talking tough and dressing in Army fatigues before the game?
Who caught the ball, with his face streaked in blood, for the greatest interception in PSU history?
In what bowl game did Charlie Pittman power PSU to a 1 point win? Hint: The year was 1969.
Who did PSU play in that game?
Who was the defensive standout that could also tickle the ivories? Hint: He won the Outland Trophy during his stay at PSU.
Why did PSU get a second chance for a 2 point conversion in the 1969 Orange Bowl? Hint: PSU's opponent was Kansas.
Who never lost a game while starting as a PSU quarterback?
In what season did PSU hold the opposition to an average of only 1 TD per game?
In what bowl game did PSU set a bowl record of 7 interceptions while forcing a total of 9 turnovers? Hint: The year was 1970 (someone might want to verify this one with me).
In what bowl game did PSU defeat Georgia 27-23 to win the 1982 MNC?
Who was the "marquee" running back that helped beat LSU in the 1974 Orange Bowl?
Who made a spectacular 1-handed catch during that game? Hint: it set an all-time PSU TD catch record at the time.
Who made the great clutch diving catch to beat Georgia for the national title in 1982?
Who threw that pass?
Who made the great clutch diving catch on the exact same play in the Rose Bowl?
Only two PSU linebackers have been first round choices in the NFL draft. Shane Conlan (1987) was one of them. Who was the other?
Nickname of second-string TE Kirk Bowman, who caught the winning touchdown pass late in the game vrs Nebraska. Hint: A regular-season game during the 1982 MNC year.
What was the name of the town in which the "90 mile celebration parade" started on the way back to State College?
In what year did PSU attain it's first #1 ranking?
Who had a 67-yard punt return in the 1977 Fiesta Bowl?
Against what two teams did Curt Warner run all the way for a TD on the very first play of the game? Hint: Both games were Fiesta Bowls.
What was the highest scoring bowl game ever played in by PSU, in which 89 points were put up on the scoreboard?
Who stole the ball right out of the other team's QBs' hands to win that game?
In what year did JoePa (pictured at right) become head coach of the Lions?
In what bowl game did PSU play in its very first Big 10 season?
Who was the QB for PSU in that game, who now plays for the Carolina Panthers?
Who was the wide receiver that had 7 catches for 107 yards, and a TD?
Who did PSU play in their first Rose Bowl game?
In what year did PSU play in their first Rose Bowl game?
Who holds the PSU record for the longest run ever for a running back in a bowl game?
In the 1995 Rose Bowl, who was the player that turned the game around with a very long kickoff return? Hint: the next year he played for the defense.
What Big Ten teams have never beaten PSU?
The Lion's first Rose Bowl result was:
In 1948, PSU's Wally Triplett and Dennie Hoggard became the first African-Americans to play in which major bowl?
In what year did football officially begin at PSU?
Which school handed PSU a 106-0 defeat in 1889?
In explaining this 106-0 defeat, this Lion was quoted as saying "...we couldn't get at the son of a bitch with the ball":
PSU's first inductee into the NFL Hall Of Fame:
How many people have been head football coach at Penn State?
In what year did PSU attain it's first #1 ranking?
What is Joe Paterno's middle name?
What NFL team offered JoePa $1.3 million to leave PSU in 1973, a sum that was about $1.25 million more than he was making at State?
Only two PSU linebackers have been 1st round picks in the NFL draft. Shane Conlan was one of them. Who was the other?