What si the Eastern football title?
Before 1990 when Penn State joined the Big Ten and 1991 when the Big East was created, Most of those teams were independents, the best teams in the east won the Eastern Football title, "The Beast of the East" is what we always called it, seemed like it was always Penn State or Pitt when I was growing up.
Pitt won Eastern football titles in 1925, 1927, 1929, 1931, 1932, 1934, 1936, 1937, 1955, 1976, 1979, 1980, and won a co-share of the Big East Conference championship and received a BCS bowl berth in 2004.
1976 Pitt were National Champions. along with 1915, 1916, 1918, 1929, 1937, 1931, 1934 and 1936
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Plus since 1936 the best team in the east has won the Lambert-Meadowlands Trophy, I know it's not really a big deal compared to a National title, but it's something.
Lambert-Meadowlands Trophy winners.
Year School
1936 Pittsburgh
1937 Pittsburgh
1938 Carnegie Tech
1939 Cornell
1940 Boston College
1941 Fordham
1942 Boston College
1943 Navy
1944 Army
1945 Army
1946 Army
1947 Penn State
1948 Army
1949 Army
1950 Princeton
1951 Princeton
1952 Syracuse
1953 Army
1954 Navy
1955 Pittsburgh
1956 Syracuse
1957 Navy
1958 Army
1959 Syracuse
1960 Navy/Yale
1961 Penn State
1962 Penn State
1963 Navy
1964 Penn State
1965 Dartmouth
1966 Syracuse
1967 Penn State
1968 Penn State
1969 Penn State
1970 Dartmouth
1971 Penn State
1972 Penn State
1973 Penn State
1974 Penn State
1975 Penn State
1976 Pittsburgh
1977 Penn State
1978 Penn State
1979 Pittsburgh
1980 Pittsburgh
1981 Penn State
1982 Penn State
1983 Boston College
1984 Boston College
1985 Penn State
1986 Penn State
1987 Syracuse
1988 West Virginia
1989 Penn State
1990 Penn State
1991 Penn State
1992 Syracuse
1993 West Virginia
1994 Penn State
1995 Virginia Tech
1996 Penn State
1997 Penn State
1998 Penn State
1999 Virginia Tech
2000 Miami
2001 Miami
2002 Miami
2003 Miami
2004 Boston College
2005 Penn State
2006 Louisville
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