PAGE THIRTY-FOUR Fifty-Three An-Americans THIS PLAQUE, which hangs in the lobby, of Bee Hall tells a story that few people know. The plaque honors 38 Penn State soccer players who have accounted for an amazing total of 53 All-American selections. Erected as a monument to the Penn State •soccer players who died in World War•ll, the plaque pictures former coach Bill Jeffrey. The first Penn State All-American came in 1926 when left forward G. F. Lippincott made the select team, and the list has 'been swelling constantly since. The latest are a pair of super stars from the 1954' national championship team, center forward Dick Packer and outside left Jack Pinezich. The two lineman were named to the first team and fullback Paul Dierks was selected for the second team. Their names had not yet been added to the plaque when the picture was taken. Links Opened in 1931 Penn State's 18-hole golf course, part of an intense recreational de velopment program in the 1920'5, was completed in 1931. Designed primarily for student use,• it was free to all students and faculty members until 1954 when opera tion expenses required a 50-cent fee installment. • From F.H.S. to P.S.U. These last 100 years have brought many changes to our campus—changes that have developed a small college for agricultural students, into the large mod ern physical plant that we know today. As enrollment grew, new buildings sprang up. Coeds were admitted. More schools and curriculums were added. This expansion increased until this was no longer a college, but a university. It is this institution that we of Mur's are proud to serve. MUR Jewelry Co 120 S. ALLEN ST. Football Card Intact With the substitution of Boston University for Fordham, Penn State's 1955 centennial year foot ball schedule remains intact. Bos ton U., Syracuse; Navy, and Pitt will be played at home; Army, Virginia, West Virginia, Penn, and Rutgers on the roadnhe Virginia game will be played at Richmond: THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Bezdek—Man Of Talents (Continued from page 32) go, where he starred as a 5-7 full back. He also was a top-notch second baseman on the Univer sity's baseball squad. From there he went to the Uni versity of Arkansas as head foot ball coach. Bezdek's next stop was at the University of Oregon, once again as top grid mentor. His 1917 team at Oregon met and defeated Penn in the Rose Bo 1. The stage was then set for his reign in the Centre County hills for almost two decades. Refused to Roth. Instead of going into retirement upon coaching his last Penn State grid team in 1929, Bez took an other step up the ladder of suc cess. In 1930 he became the first dean of Physical Education and Athletics at Penn State, a posi tion he held until 1936. He then left Penn State to coach the Cleveland Rams for a year. In his only other contact with coaching the pros, from 1917 to 1919, Bezdek managed the Pitts burgh Pirates and brought them out of the cellar and into the first division. When he decided to leave the world of sports in 1936, Bez bought a poultry farm near Doylestown where he spent from 12-14 hours a day watching a crop of White Leghorns of 200 increase to over 4000. Moved to New Jersey . Bezdek spent his last days along with his wife and daughter in their New Jersey cottage. Almost a carbon-copy of the great Knute Rockne as a psychol ogist, the granddaddy of Nittany Lion coaches believed the teams who worked the hardest through out the week had the most success Saturday. He also was against what he termed "headline praise" ihich Bez claimed tended to raise player's ego and become a "defi te hinderance." PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY NITTANY LION INN Has Served Its Students and Alumni Once Woman Penn State has had some very unique happenings in the first hundred years of its existence, but probably the most startling was having a woman play for one of its varsity teams. And she was good, too. The woman was Miss Dorothy Louise Anderson. Miss An derson was a tennis standout in 1935 when she won six out of seven matches—all against men who were reputed to be among the best college tennis players in the East. Dorothy came to Penn State from Los Angeles where she received her early tennis instruc tion. She was ineligible her first year here, but as soon as it was possible for her to play she was on the team. She was a tall, grace ful woman who could use her height to a decided advantage. She could hit hard, and covered the court like a tent. Her first varsity match was against Car negie Tech. She lost the first set 4-6, but then shook off the jitters and settled down, and promptly proceeded to blast her' male op ponent off the court by winning the last two sets 8-6, 6-0. She moved, all winningly, through Bucknell, Gettysburg, John Hopkins, and Syracuse be fore being spragged at Cornell. However, most of the team lost, so there was some solace for our heroine, The athletic miss might have been a coaches dream on the ten nis courts, but most assuredly she was nothing but a headache to her coach H. W. "Dink" Stover when it came time to make travel ing accommodations for the team. Miss Anderson was quartered in sorority houses and women's dorms whenever possible, but more often than not she would be housed in a hotel or some simi lar shelter. In 1934, before coming to State, Dorothy, along with her partner, Mrs. Jean Artzberber, found time to cop the women's doubles cham pionship of Western Pennsylvania. This Marks the 100th Year Education at the and the 24th Year that the TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 22:195k a Century— on Varsity BT JOE CHEDDAR Before that in 1931 to 33, she was singles champion of Northwestern Pennsylvania. A f ter graduation, Dorothy taught school at Butler (Pa.) High School for a few years. In 1940 she married and moved to Mil waukee where she immediately became the scourge of women's tennis, copping all the champion ships in sight. Since then, how ever, Dorothy has. retired to more leisurely pursuits. At present she is engrossed in reporting and rais ing children. She has three: Linda, 10; Evelyn, 8; and Andrew, 6. White Hall Opened Way For Women's Athletics With the completion of the Mary Beaver White Recreation Hall in 1939, women's athletics at the Uni versity entered a new era of pro gress. The Women's Recreation Asso ciation was soon organized, along with eleven organized clubs whose purpose it was to develop interest and skill in a particular sport or activity for each member. The clubs included archery, bowling, badminton, dancing, fencing, golf, rifle, swimming, tennis, and rid ing. Oldest coach, in years of ser vice, on the Penn State coaching staff, is wrestling mentor Charlie Speidel.
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