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Bedenk Is Fifth to Join
'SO-And-Over Club' Vets
A new name was added to the rolls today as Joe Bedenk, veteran
baseball coach and football .aide, tacitly admitted to the 50 years
which are a prerequisite to membership in the Lions’ select “50-And-
Over Club.”
With the addition of Bedenk, who observed his birthday July 14,
the club roster now claims five members of the Lion coaching staff,
including Football Coach Bob
Higgins, and his golfing mentor,
Bob Rutherford, Sr., who is dean
of the staff both in years and in
length of coaching service.
The 67-year-old Rutherford is
closely pressed for top honors by
Leo Houck, veteran boxing coach
who completed his 25th year as
ring coach last year. The 59-year
old Houck came to the campus a
year after Rutherford, and al
ready is making plans for his 26th
season as Lion ring maestro.
The fifth member of the group
is Bill Jeffrey, whose phenomenal
record in soccer is widely known,
and who next season will field
his 22nd Lion soccer team. Jeff
rey, who’ll be 55 next month, has
been on the Nittany campus since
1926.
COACHES 23 YEARS
Bedenk, as junior member of
the group, looks back on a coach
ing career of 23 years which
started at Rice Institute, Texas,
where he was head baseball coach
and football line coach under John
Heisman, before shifting his al
legiance to the University of Flor
ida, where he also directed the
baseball team and served on the
■football staff under Head Coach
Charley Bachman.
Bedenk, who was an all-Amer
ica football player at the College,
returned to his alma mater in
1929 as an assistant in football and
baseball, remained as line coach
under Bob Higgins and replaced
’lugo Bezdek as head baseball
eoach in 1931.
Over a 17-year span, Nittany
Lion diamond teams .under Be
denk. have won two of every three
games played.
Bedeiik’s coaching record cur
rently shows 170 wins and 82
losses in 253 games. The only tie
game was played in 1946.
LAST YEAR'S TEAM BEST
The 1946 team, incidentally,
was one of Bedenk’s best, winning
10, losing one, and tying one. This
year, the Nittany Lions won 11
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of 18 against tough competition:
His first team, in 1931, won 8 of
10 starts, the 1936 team won 13 of
17, and the 1940 nine took 14 of 16
decisions.
His team lost more games than
it won only once, in 1935, when
the Lions won 7 and lost 8.
Higgins, who’ll be 54 in Decem
ber, and Bedenk have been close
ly allied in their years on the
College campus. Higgins returned
to his alma mater, a year before
Bedenk, served two seasons as end
coach, and in 1930 was named
head football coach. Both men,
two of five Walter Camp all-
Americans in Penn State football
history, soon will inaugurate their
18th season as. head coach and
line coach, respectively.
Two new athletic awards have
been established at Penn State in
memory of former Lion athletes.
Lions Tales
Ashenfelter Good Too
Horace Ashenfelter is expected
to be Curt Stone’s successor as
IC-4A two-mile champion in 1948.
The “forgotten man” of the Lion
distance corps flashed a brilliant
9:19 to finish second to Stone in
the 1947 championships. He had
previously posted a respectable
4:19 over the mile-route.
Lacrossemen Chosen
Two Penn State ’ players, Art
Tenhula of Bessemer .and Ken
Kerwin of Sunbury, have been
named to the 1947 all-Pennsylva
nia collegiate lacrosse team. Bill
Hollenbach of Allentown and
George Locotos of Pittsburgh won
second team berths. Tenhula and
Hollenbach also are all-North
choices.
Villanova First
Coach Joe Bedenk credits Vil
lanova with the best baseball
team his club opposed in 1947.
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Lions Match Wing Against T
It will be the single wing versus
the T-formation when the Nit
tany Lions and Washington State
inaugurate football relations at
Hershey Stadium, Saturday, Sep
tember 20.
Represented as the “hard luck”
club of the Pacific Coast Confer
ence lasi year, the Cougars have
perfected the T under Coach Phil
Sorboe and this Fall will present
an experienced personnel for the
season’s opener against the Lions.
EXPERIMENTS WITH 'T'
While Coach Bob Higgins ex
perimented with the T during
Spring drills, he is expected to
stick pretty largely to the single
wing for the forthcoming cam
paign, with no more than three or
four plays originating from the
T-formation.
A 1 Hoptowit, newest, addition
to the Washington State coaching
staff, played six years for the pro
fessional Chicago Bears, and his
acquisition is expected to bring
new strength to the Cougar ver
sion-of the T-formation.
FIRST MEETING
This year’s game, a night affair,
will be the first ever played be
tween these two far-flung elev
ens.
The contest will not be included
on the athletic books. Special
ticket applications are available
at Student Union. The. Stadium
will seat approximately 15,000
persons.
Coach Higgins is expected to'
build his team around 16 hold
overs from last year’s twice-beat
en team, plus ten lettermen from
the 1944-45 wartime squads.
LOSE ONLY TWO
Last , year’s Lions were topped
only by Michigan State and Pitt
while taking victories from Buck
nell, Temple, Fordham, Syracuse.
Colgate, and Navy.
Only Michigan State will be
missing from this year’s schedule
with the West Virginia Moun
taineers filling the vacated spot.
Home contests are listed with
Bucknell, Colgate, Syracuse, and
West Virginia while the Higgins
men will meet Fordham at New
York, Navy at Baltimore, Temple
at Philadelphia, and Pitt at Pitts
burgh in addition to the Washing
ton State game at Hershey.
Alumni Honor Coach
Nick Thiel, Lion lacrosse coach,
won the abiding devotion of his
former players by writing news
letters to them throughout the
war years. The other day, a big
package came to his ( home. It was
a combination radio and phono
graph, addressed “To the Coach
from His Former v Lacrosse
Alumni.”
Wins His Degree
Delayed by the war, track star
Barney Ewell finally won his col
lege degree in 1947.
Football Co-Captains
Co-captains, the third set in
history, will head the Penn State
football team in 1947.
Vet Is Captain
A Purple Heart veteran, Bob
Gehrett, will captain the 1948
Lion baseball team. Gehrett is a
right-handed pitcher.
BOBBY WILLIAMS AND WALLY TRIPLETT are two of
the 1946 backiield stars that Bob Higgins will have on hand for
the Lions' 60th football season which gels underway with next
month's pre-season practices on New Beaver Field. . Williams
was on the 1942 Lion squad while last year was Triplett's first
year on the varsity.
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