July 18, 1918

Lt. Levi Lamb, a lineman and three year letter winner on the teams of 1912-1914, is killed near Soissons, France, while leading his army platoon against a German stronghold. He is one of two former players to die in World War I along with 1912 teammate Red Bebout who is killed on a French battlefield on September 29, 1918.

In 1952 Penn State's first student athlete scholarship fund was founded by the Lion's Paw Alumni Association. The endowment was named the Levi Lamb Fund in his honor and still exists to this day.

- Information obtained from the Penn State Football Encyclopedia by Lou Prato

July 1, 1994

Jim Tarman retires as Athletic director and is succeeded by former football walk-on Tim Curley.

July 1, 1980

J.T. White, the last assistant coach from the Rip Engle era except for Joe Paterno, retires after 26 years of coaching defensive ends.

July 1, 1974

Penn State formally withdraws from the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference in a dispute over ECAC financial arrangements with 214 member schools. Penn State athletics refuses to pay 1/5th of the ECAC's total budget plus ten percent of all television and bowl revenues.

- Information obtained from the Penn State Football Encyclopedia by Lou Prato