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,[1][2] 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.
[3][4][5] 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,[6] 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.