 While head coach Jeffrey lead the Nittany Lions on multiple international tours where they played professional and semiprofessional sides.After an initial failure to receive an invitation to join the Intercollegiate Soccer League, Penn State continued to push for recognition scheduling games against its members and sending petition letters to league leaders.It wasn't until the dissolution of the league in January of 1926 was the team extended an invitation to be a part of the next version of the former league called the Intercollegiate Soccer Football Association.