PAGE EIGHT
Jeffrey Record Shines
As the last molecule of air escapes from the soccer ball and as the last Blue and White uniform
is put into mothballs one can only look back and reminisce. Another soccer season has passed and
the record book for 1949 shows seven wins against one loss and one tie.
Discounting the tie, that’s a .875 won-and-lost percentage. That’s good batting in any game but
averages like that are nothing uncommon for Nittany booting men. Under the guidance of their
veteran mentor, Bill Jeffrey, they
have been adding percentages
like that to the soccer archives for
the past 22 years, Jeffrey’s ten
ure at Penn State.
DEPARTURE FROM
SCOTLAND
Jeffrey left Scotland in 1912, to
iet away from the game he
ioved—soccer. But getting away
rom one’s favorite sport isn’t
:asy and it wasn’t long after he
'anded in this country that he
•ook up the booting game.
He played with the Altoona,
Braddock and Bethlehem Steel
soccer squads and in 1925 became
playing manager of the Altoona
team. He brought the Altoona
soccermen to Penn State for an
exhibition tilt with the college
eleven.
Hugo Bezdek, then athletic di
rector at the College, liked the
display of power of the Altoona
team and the following year ask
ed Jeffrey to come to Penn State
for a three-month trial period as
coach.
His team went through the
schedule without a defeat and his
contract was renewed immedi
ately. Since then the Nittany
Lions have finished 12 seasons
without a defeat, reeling off un
beaten records nine years in a
row.
Penn State soccer record from
1926 to 1948:
1» t, TJTm 1* t*
1926 ’0 1 1938—8' o’ 0
1927 2 1 1939—9 0 2
1928 1 3 1940—8 0 0
1929 0 1 1941—5 1 1
1930 1 2 1942—6 1 0
1931 0 3 1943—1 2 4
1932 3 0 1944—3 4 0
1933 0 0 1945—2 2 1
1934 0 1 1946—7 1 1
1935 0 0 1947—5 2 1
1936 0 2 1948—7 1 1
1937 0 1
Total—won 126; lost 21; tied 26.
One hundred and twenty-six
wins against a mere 21 losses,
that’s Jeffrey’s record. Outstand-
; ng? It certainly is when you
consider that his charges annual
ly have encountered the best in
collegiate booting circles and an
.857 average over a 22 year scan
—that’s outstanding anyplace!
UNBEATEN SKEIN
From November 5, 1932, until
November 15, 1941, the soccer
men had a shdng of 65 consecu
tive games without defeat. Syra
cuse downed the Blue and White
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By George Vadasz
BILL JEFFREY
in ’32 and it wasn’t until 1941,
when Army upset the Lions 1-0,
at West Point, that the Jeffrey
men were again defeated.
Between 1926 and 1946 the
Lions played a total of 118 games,
winning 84, losing 15 and tying
19. The average score per game
for the Jeffreymen was 3.3 to
the opponents’ .78.
• “The war years were pretty
hard on our record,” said Jef
frey. “In the 15-year stretch
from 1926 to 1940 we only lost six
games, while in the five years be
tween 1941 and 1945 we lost nine
games.”
THE RECORD
Only twice in his 22 years as
head coach did his charges end
with a record below the .500
mark. In 1944 the hooters won
three while dropping * four con
tests and in ’43 they won seven,
lost two, tied 4. In 1932, they
broke even with three wins and
three losses. In ’27, ’43, and ’45
they lost two encounters.
That’s 13 losses for five years
while the remaining 17 years his
charges dropped only eight en
counters. Jeffrey considers his
'35 outfit the best he has ever
coached. Captained by Joe Bil
:cki, a present United Airlines
pilot who flies over State Col
’ege twice weekly, the ’35 unit
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won seven straight games with
out giving up a goal.
Ray Bell, a State College lad,
guarded the nets that year and
during his three year tenure of
goal-tending only three shots
went past him a record that
still stands.
BILL McEWEN
“Highest scoring man that ever
played for me,” comments Jef
frey, “was Bill McEwen, the
captain of the 1936 team. Bill
scored 21 goals his sophomore
year and during his three years
here he had 40 goals.”
Captain of the 1928 soccer crew,
Dick Marshall, from Munhall, is
another Jeffrey great while Bud
Anderson, performer on the ’3l
outfit, was the greatest outside
man that Jeffrey ever tutored.
Jeffrey looks back with great
sorrow to that depression year
of ’32. His men lost three con
tests by close margins. October
4, 1941 the Lions’ encounter
against Gettysburg was cancel
led because of an infantile para
lysis epidemic at that school.
Highest margin of victory for
the Blue and White came Octob
er 20, 1939 when the Lions out
-cored Carnegie Tech, 13-0.
ALL GREAT
“It’s hard to look back and
name the outstanding players of
my tenure,” the veteran Scot
says, “I wouldn’t want' to leave
any one out but I want to make
sure such “greats” as Mousa
Berry, Egypt’s great center for
ward of 1930; fulback Bob Schu
ler, captain of the 1940 team and
the present assistant graduate
manager of athletics at the Col
lege, Walter Hosterman, all were
too flight performers.”
It’s all in the record books now,
~one but not forgotten. . . .
Between Lions—
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