J. Lester "Pete" Mauthe (July 8, 1890 – January 1, 1967) was an American football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

 player who lettered four years as a fullback

Fullback (American football)

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 for the Penn State Nittany Lions

Penn State Nittany Lions football

The Penn State Nittany Lions football team represents the Pennsylvania State University in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Football Bowl Subdivision as a member of the Big Ten Conference. It is one of the most tradition-rich and storied college football programs in the...

 from 1909 to 1912. During that timespan

Penn State Nittany Lions football under Bill Hollenback

Bill Hollenback coached the Penn State Nittany Lions football teams in 1909 and from 1911 to 1914. In his five seasons, he compiled a 28–9–4 record and a .732 winning percentage...

, Penn State was undefeated in 1909, 1911 and 1912, while losing just two games in 1910. In 1911, Mauthe scored a 35-yard field goal

Field goal

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 to defeat the rivial Pitt Panthers

Pittsburgh Panthers football

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, 3–0. In 1912 he was named the team's captain and led Penn State to an 8–0 record. That season he scored a 51-yard field goal against Pitt.

In 1913 Mauthe was named the head coach for Gettysburg College

Gettysburg College

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 and led that team to a 3–6–1 record. He later graduated from college with a degree in metallurgy

Metallurgy

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. He then joined Youngstown Steel and Tube Co. and later became that company's president. In 1964 he was awarded Distinguished Alumnus Award by Penn State. He served on the board of trustees at both Penn State and Youngstown State University

Youngstown State University

Youngstown State University, founded in 1908, is an urban research university located in Youngstown, Ohio, United States. As of fall 2010, there were 15,194 students and a student-faculty ratio of 19:1. It is recognized as being one of the premier schools in the country, comparable to Ivy League...

 and established a scholarship at Penn State for engineering students.

Mauthe was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame

College Football Hall of Fame

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in 1957.

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