Penn State Nittany Lions Ticket Information

Penn State Nittany Lions is a team of students from the Pennsylvania State University which is usually referred to as Penn State. Penn State is a state-related, land-grant university with the central campus in State College, Pennsylvania. The University is comprised of 23 extra campuses situated all over the state.

The number of students at Penn State amounts to 84,000, which makes it one of the 10 largest public universities in the States.

Penn State's mascot and also the athletic symbol, chosen by the student committee in the year of 1906, is the mountain lion. Since Penn State is situated in the Nittany Valley, at the foot of Mount Nittany, the lion was called a Nittany Lion. According to the areas folklore, Nittany, or Nita-Nee, was a brave Indian princess. It is in the honor that the Great Spirit built the Mount Nittany. Penn State is the very 1st college to take the lion as a mascot.

The school is best known for its football team – the Penn State Nittany Lions. The home of the team is the Beaver Stadium while the current head coach for the team is Joe Paterno. The team have been very successful on the football arena, having won 2 national championships (1982, 1986) and 2 Big Ten championships (1994, 2005), and having received a great many of Trophies and Individual Awards. The Penn State takes part in the NCAA Division I-A and in the Big Ten Conference in most sports. Some teams take part in various conferences: men's volleyball in the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (EIVA), mens lacrosse in the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) and also women's lacrosse in American Lacrosse conference. The fencing teams play independently.

A Penn State athlete is identified by a blue and white uniform. However those were not the university colors originally. The student body decided that dark pink and black was the best choice for the team. However, the baseball team's uniforms faded to dark blue and white. Therefore the university had to change the colors for navy blue and white.

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