College Football Hall of Fame Inducted in 1954 (profile)
Hugo Francis Bezdek (April 1, 1884 – September 19, 1952) was a Czech American athlete who played American football and was a coach of football, basketball, and baseball. He was the head football coach at the University of Oregon (1906, 1913–1917), the University of Arkansas (1908–1912), Pennsylvania State University (1918–1929), and Delaware Valley College (1949). Bezdek also coached the Mare Island Marines in the 1918 Rose Bowl and the Cleveland Rams of the National Football League (NFL) in 1937 and part of the 1938 season. In addition, Bezdek coached basketball at Oregon (1906–1907, 1913–1917) and Penn State (1919), coached baseball at Arkansas (1909–1913), Oregon (1914–1917) and Penn State (1920–1930), and served as the manager of Major League Baseball's Pittsburgh Pirates (1917–1919). He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1954.
Coach Bezdek is the only Coach to bring three different teams to the Rose Bowl Game; University of Oregon, Mare Island Marines and Pennsylvania State University. Bezdek was inducted into the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame on December 31, 2022.
Hugo Francis Bezdek (April 1, 1884 – September 19, 1952) was a Czech American athlete who played American football and was a coach of football, basketball...
accomplishments. HugoBezdek was Penn State's head football coach for 12 seasons and was the Nittany Lions' first athletics director. Bezdek posted a 65–30–11...
football team, coached by HugoBezdek, finished 7–0. The Cardinals became the Razorbacks after Arkansas defeated LSU 7–0, and coach Bezdek told a group of reporters...
Bezdek may refer to: Bezdek or Bezděk is a surname. The Czech feminine form is Bezděková. HugoBezdek (1884–1952), Czech-American sports figure Károly...
were said to play like a "wild band of Razorback hogs" by former coach HugoBezdek. The Arkansas Razorbacks are the only major sports team in the U.S. with...
participate in it. The Rams then moved to the NFL the following year and hired HugoBezdek as their new head coach. During his tenure, however, he coached the team...
Shorts (1905) HugoBezdek (1906) Gordon B. Frost (1907) Robert Forbes (1908–1909) Bill Warner (1910–1911) Louis Pinkham (1912) HugoBezdek (1913–1917) Charles...
seasons. In those seasons, ten coaches have led Oregon to bowl games: HugoBezdek, Shy Huntington, Jim Aiken, Len Casanova, Rich Brooks, Mike Bellotti...
until HugoBezdek, who had coached the Webfeet to a 5–0–1 record in 1906, returned to Oregon from the University of Arkansas in 1913. Bezdek, Oregon's...
Shorts (1905) HugoBezdek (1906) Gordon B. Frost (1907) Robert Forbes (1908–1909) Bill Warner (1910–1911) Louis Pinkham (1912) HugoBezdek (1913–1917) Charles...
.182. Of the 31 different head coaches who have led the Razorbacks, HugoBezdek, Francis Schmidt, Wyatt, Broyles, and Holtz have been inducted as head...
Shorts (1905) HugoBezdek (1906) Gordon B. Frost (1907) Robert Forbes (1908–1909) Bill Warner (1910–1911) Louis Pinkham (1912) HugoBezdek (1913–1917) Charles...
Shorts (1905) HugoBezdek (1906) Gordon B. Frost (1907) Robert Forbes (1908–1909) Bill Warner (1910–1911) Louis Pinkham (1912) HugoBezdek (1913–1917) Charles...
(1906–1907) Thomas Kelly (1908–1910) Paul Lynch (1911) Homer Jamison (1912) HugoBezdek (1913–1916) No team (1917) Dean Walker (1918) Charles A. Huntington (1919–1920)...
coach (1901–1903) No team (1904) No coach (1905) No team (1906–1907) HugoBezdek (1908–1913) Earle T. Pickering (1914–1915) T. T. McConnell (1916) No...
Hollenback (1910) Bill Hollenback (1911–1914) Dick Harlow (1915–1917) HugoBezdek (1918–1929) Bob Higgins (1930–1948) Joe Bedenk (1949) Rip Engle (1950–1965)...
team's name and mascot changed for the 1910 season after head coach HugoBezdek proclaimed the undefeated 1909 team played "like a wild band of razorback...
Shorts (1905) HugoBezdek (1906) Gordon B. Frost (1907) Robert Forbes (1908–1909) Bill Warner (1910–1911) Louis Pinkham (1912) HugoBezdek (1913–1917) Charles...
v t e Penn State Nittany Lions athletic directors HugoBezdek (1918–1936) Carl P. Schott (1937–1953) Ernie McCoy (1953–1968) Edward M. Czekaj (1968–1980)...
were held before the game honoring three-time Rose Bowl Game head coach HugoBezdek (1884–1952), recently retired Rose Bowl Stadium CEO Darryl Dunn, 1977...
Rams (1936–1945) and St. Louis Rams (1995–2015) Damon Wetzel (1936) HugoBezdek (1937–1938) Art Lewis # (1938) Dutch Clark (1939–1942) No team (1943)...
(23–113), Guy Hecker 1917 (51–103), Jim Callahan, Honus Wagner, and HugoBezdek 1952 (42–112), Billy Meyer 1953 (50–104), Fred Haney 1954 (53–101), Fred...
McDaniel (1903) Ancil D. Brown (1904–1905) Frank Longman (1906–1907) HugoBezdek (1908–1912) Earle T. Pickering (1913–1914) T. T. McConnell (1915–1916)...
capitalize the new club, and Wetzel became general manager. Under head coach HugoBezdek and with sole star Johnny Drake, the team's first-round draft pick, the...
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