issing an extra point after a
touchdown has haunted football
teams since the sport was in-
vented in the mid-1800s, and
in one such instance in 1959, a missed
kick may have cost Penn State a chance
at winning its first national championship.
An errant kick usually changes a team's
game strategy and often leads to a frustrating
loss in a game that could have been won.
That's precisely what happened on Nov.
7, 1959, in a game hyped as "The Battle of
Unbeatens" when the largest crowd in the
51-year history of New Beaver Field,
34,000, saw the Nittany Lions lose, 20-
18, to a Syracuse team that went on to
win the national title.
The players on Penn State's 1959 team
Memories of a heartbreaking loss
still linger, but PSU shined in '59
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