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Penn State Football can make Beaver Stadium history vs. Ball State

By Nick Kreiser

STATE COLLEGE, PA - DECEMBER 12: A general view of the stadium after the game between the Penn State Nittany Lions and the Michigan State Spartans at Beaver Stadium on December 12, 2020 in State College, Pennsylvania. Normally, the area in front of the stadium would be crowded with fans and tailgating. Fans were not permitted to attend the game due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. (Photo by Scott Taetsch/Getty Images)
STATE COLLEGE, PA - DECEMBER 12: A general view of the stadium after the game between the Penn State Nittany Lions and the Michigan State Spartans at Beaver Stadium on December 12, 2020 in State College, Pennsylvania. Normally, the area in front of the stadium would be crowded with fans and tailgating. Fans were not permitted to attend the game due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. (Photo by Scott Taetsch/Getty Images) /
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When Penn State Football welcomes Ball State to town this weekend, there are some noteworthy storylines for fans to watch for. 

As Penn State Football takes the field on Saturday, on the anniversary of perhaps the darkest day in this country’s history, the Nittany Lions will be in search of a milestone win for the program with a few famous, and quite funny, fans in attendance.

It will be an amazing and exciting day, as it will be the first game where the Penn State Football faithful can watch their Nittany Lions in a home game in nearly two years.

Here are the off the field storylines that will help make this weekend one to remember for Penn State Football .

Penn State Football Chasing Milestone Win

With a win on Saturday, Penn State Football will have won their 300th game inside Beaver Stadium. The program’s first win in Beaver Stadium was a 20-0 win over Boston University on September 17, 1960.

Previous to Beaver Stadium in it’s current location, the Nittany Lions played at New Beaver Field, which is located approximately where the Nittany Parking Deck currently stands, just northeast of Rec Hall and the Nittany Lion Shrine. Prior to the 1960 season, New Beaver Field was disassembled and moved to where the stadium currently stands, and was renamed Beaver Stadium.

New Beaver Field seated 30,000 fans, and when it was relocated, it was also expanded to seat just over 46,000. Clearly, it has gone through many more changes and expansions since then, the most recent expansion being the addition of the upper deck on the south side of Beaver Stadium.

I guess it is a silver lining that Penn State did not win many games last season, is that if they did, they would have gotten the 300th win without 107,000 fans there to witness it.

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