WEDNESDAY, JUNE-29, 1949
HISTORY-MAKING SCENE: Joe Bedwik (left), new head
football coach of Penn State's Nittany Lions, receives the con
gratulations of Bob Higgins, former head grid mentor. The picture
was taken March 12, the day that Higgins announced his resigna
tion. Bedenk has guided Nittany baseball fortunes for 19 years,
and formerly served as line coach for the football team for 20
years.
'4B-'49 Hi-lites in Revue
Oct. I—Coach Bill Jeffrey’s Lion
soccermen open the fall sports
season with a revenge 2-0 triumph
over Army’s booters.
Oct. 2—Penn State’s white-clad
football warriors coast to a 35-0
win over out-classed Bucknell.
Oct. 9—The Nittany Lion cross
country team opens the curtain
on a new season with a 19-36 (low
score wins) victory over NYU.
Oct. 16—Nittany footballers re
main unbeaten for the 13th
straight game as they smash West
Virginia, 37-7. Navy stuns soccer
forces with a 4-0 upset.
Oct. 23—An Alumni Day crowd
watches in awe as two gridiron
powers, Penn State and Michigan
State, hammer away to a 14-14
stalemate. Booters edge highly
touted Maryland, 1-0, and harriers
lose, 36-21, to Michigan State.
Nov. 5—80,000 screaming fans
see ■ the Nittany grid machine,
spearheaded by Francis ‘ Punchy”
Rogel, the human battering ram,
ground Penn into the Franklin
Field turf, 13-0.
Nov. 15—Pi Kappa Phi ekes
past Phi Epsilon Pi, 21-20, for the
intramural swimming crown.
Nov. 16—State places second in
the IC-4A cross-country run as
Michigan State wins as predicted.
Nov. * St— Spirited Pitt ends the
Blue and White’s two year victory
skein with a surprise, 7-0, victory.
Jeffrey’s soccermen drub Temple,
4-1, for the unofficial Eastern title.
Dec. 2—Sam Tamburo, star
terminal, picked on Collier's All-
America team.
Dec. 14—Bob Hicks and Neg
Norton elected as co-captains for
the 1949 football season.
Dec. 16—Sigma Nu captures the
1M boxing title.
Dec. 18—Pe'nn State’s green
courtmen down previously un
beaten Washington and Jefferson,
40-38, for the Lions’ first taste of
triumph.
Jan. B—Jim Maurey and big
Homer Barr spark Coach Charlie
Speidel’s wrestlers to a 19-9 win
over Princeton.
Jan. 11—Halfbacks Dick Han
nah and Ralph Hosterman win
berths on the 1948 All-America
soccer team.
, n. 13—Larry Joe, speedy foot
ball tailback, signs with the Buf-
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Jan. 15—“ Untouchable” Cornell
pinned by Lion matmen, 24-6.
Feb. s—Penn State boxers out
slug Army’s Black Knights, si
-2i, for their second straight
triumph. John Lawther’s court
men spring 63-47 surprise on
high-geared Syracuse. Wrestlers
lose first to Syracuse, 13-16.
Feb. 7—Gymnasts flip over
Michigan State, 61-51. Captain
Joe Colone, pigskin punter
supreme, signs with AAC’s Balti
more Colts.
Feb. 10—Setting three new pool
records, Penn State’s swimmers
whip Dickinson, 47-28.
Feb. 12—Lions’ bid for 14th
straight gym triumph foiled by
Syracuse, 56-40.
Feb. 26—Mighty Navy sub
merged for first time since 1942
by Nittany wrestlers, 20-10.
March 2—Peppy Milt Simon
sets a new Penn State scoring
record, tallying 24 points in State’s
52-41 conquest of Temple.
March s—Jumpin’ Jim Gehrdes
out-runs the great Harrison Dil
lard in Knights of Columbus
hurdles event in New York. Pi
Kappa Alpha tars Sigma Nu, 33-
24, for IM cage title.
March 7—John Lawther resigns
after 13 years at helm of basket
ball Lions. Elmer Gross moves to
the top spot.
March 12—Chuck Drazenovich
raps Syracuse’s Marty Crandall
for heavyweight title in the Inter
collegiate Boxing Association
tourney at Rec Hall. Homer Barr
snares Eastern heavyweight
wrestling crown at Cornell.
Bouncing Billy Meade successful
ly defends Eastern tumbling
crown in championship gym meet.
March 12—Bob Higgins resigns
as football coach. Joe Bedenk, line
coach, named as replacement.
March 14—End Coach Earle
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March 26—Hustling Homer Ban
places 4th in NCAA mat inert fit
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March 27—Sever “Tor” Torc-tti
named to football coaching staff.
March 29—A11-American end
Sam Tamburo affixes name to a
contract with the New York
Bulldogs of the National Football
League.
April 7, 8 and 9—Captain John
Benglian, Paul Smith and Jack
Bolger eliminated in NCAA box
ing trials. •
April 21—Lacrosse team re
turns after Southern tour with a
record of 3 wins and 1 loss. The
baseball team prepares for its
home opener after two. straight
triumphs on the road. ■
April 22—Earle Edwards con
firms reports, named as end coach
at Michigan State.
April 2<M-Coach Joe Bedenk’s
batsmen drop their first tilt to
Rutgers, 6-2.
April 27—Golfers open home
season with win over Bucknell.
April 29^— Jim Gehrdes captures
the Pehn Relays 120-yard high
hurdles event. Cy Miller twirls a
neat two-hitter as the Lion base
ballers stampede past George
gallops to victory in the Penn Re
lay two-mile run. The four-mile
relay quartet of Mitch Williams,
Bob Freebairn, and Bill and
Horace Ashenfelter is also vic
torious. Captain Billy Bonsall
takes second place in the all
around class at the NAAU gym
nastic -meet.
May 9—Golfers capture the re
gional EIGA title by defeating
Army and Cornell in extra-day
play.
May 11—Alpha Gamma Rho
beats Delta Upsilon for IM soccer
championship.
May 13—Nick Thiel’s stickmen
hand Hobart its initial loss, 13-12.
Pitt is blanked in baseball by A 1
Tkac, and the Statemen sweep to
a 5-0 win.
May 14—Michigan State romps
to an 83J-47J track win. Links
men place third in Eastern golf
finals.
May 18—Lion nine, with Cy
Miller on the mound, clips Buck
nell, 7-2, for its ninth straight
victory.
May 19—Tennis team torpedoes
Washington and Jefferson, 9-0,
for its fourth win in the last five
starts.
May 20—Colgate handcuffed by
baseball nine, 10-2. Nittanies grab
10th straight.
Scoring Punch
Nick ' Thiel’s 1949 Penn State
lacrosse team averaged better
than nine goals per game as the
Lions won five and lost four.
Former Schoolboy Ace
Owen (Sonny). Landon, Penn
State’s sophomore tennis star, is
a former Williamsport schoolboy
ace.
Penn State played 86 baseball
games over a five-year period
from 1944 to 1949 without draw
ing a whitewash.
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Recently signed by the Chi
cago While Sox. Miller is now
with Muskegon. Mich., of the
Class A Central League. The
righthander fireballed 16
a 9-and-2 record with Lions
during the past season.
On All-Star Nine
Shortstop Hal Hackman and
pitcher Cy Miller were Penn
State’s representatives on District
2’s first all-star baseball team.
Independents Gird
Two Eastern independents,
Penn State and Rutgers Univer
sity, will oppose each other on
the football field in 1950 and
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