Joe Bedenk

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Joe Bedenk
Bedenk pictured in The Campanile 1926, Rice yearbook
Sport(s)	Football, baseball
Biographical details
Born	July 14, 1897
Died	May 2, 1978(1978-05-02) (aged 80) State College, Pennsylvania
Playing career
Football 1921–1923 Baseball 1922–1923	Penn State Penn State
Position(s)	Guard (football)
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football 1928–1930 1949 Baseball 1925–1926 1931–1962	Florida (assistant) Penn State Rice Penn State
Head coaching record
Overall	5–4 (football) 391–171–3 (basebeall)
Statistics College Football Data Warehouse
Accomplishments and honors
Awards Football All-American, 1923

Fred Joseph "Joe" Bedenk (July 14, 1897 – May 2, 1978) was an American football and baseball player and coach. He served as the head baseball coach at Rice University from 1925 to 1926 and at Pennsylvania State University from 1931 to 1962. Bedenk was also the head football coach at Penn State for one season in 1949, tallying a mark of 5–4.

Playing career

Bedenk played guard for the Penn State Nittany Lions football team. He was elected team captain and earned All-America honors in 1923. He graduated from Penn State with a Bachelor of Arts in finance in 1924.

Coaching career

Bedenk served for several years as Penn state's offensive line coach before being promoted to head coach for the 1949 season. After finishing the year at 5–4, Bedenk requested a return to coaching the offensive line and the university brought in Rip Engle as head coach, and Engle's quarterback from Brown University, Joe Paterno as an assistant coach.

Head coaching record

Football

Year	Team	Overall
Penn State Nittany Lions (Independent) (1949)
1949	Penn State	5–4
Penn State:		5–4
Total:		5–4

References

"Nittany Lion Baseball Team Announces Team Awards". Penn State Intercollegiate Athletics. 2006-06-01. Archived from the original on 2006-12-08. Retrieved 2007-03-05.

External links

Rice Owls head baseball coaches

Phillip Arbuckle (1912–1917)
Jack Coombs (1918)
Pete Cawthon (1920–1921)
Bob Countryman (1922–1923)
Mike O'Neill (1924)
Joe Bedenk (1925–1926)
Dickey Kerr (1927)
Dickey Kerr & Charlie Schwartz (1928)
Gene Bailey (1929)
Danny Allnoch (1930)
John Nemic (1931–1932)
Cecil Grigg (1936–1944)
Jess Neely (1945)
Cecil Grigg (1946–1947)
Jess Neely (1948)
Harold Stockbridge (1949–1952)
Dell Morgan (1953–1961)
Joe Gallagher (1962)
Doug Osburn (1963–1980)
David Hall (1981–1991)
Wayne Graham (1992– )

Penn State Nittany Lions head baseball coaches

No coach (1875–1899)
W. B. Burns (1900)
No coach (1901–1902)
Pop Golden (1903–1906)
Irish McIlveen (1907–1910)
Bull McCleary (1911)
Walter Manning (1912–1914)
R. H. Harley (1915–1917)
No coach (1918)
George Wheeling (1919)
Hugo Bezdek (1920–1930)
Joe Bedenk (1931–1962)
Chuck Medlar (1963–1981)
Shorty Stoner (1982–1990)
Joe Hindelang (1991–2004)
Robbie Wine (2005–2013)
Rob Cooper (2014– )

Penn State Nittany Lions head football coaches

George W. Hoskins (1892–1895)
Samuel B. Newton (1896–1898)
Sam Boyle (1899)
Pop Golden (1900–1902)
Daniel A. Reed (1903)
Tom Fennell (1904–1908)
Bill Hollenback (1909)
Jack Hollenback (1910)
Bill Hollenback (1911–1914)
Dick Harlow (1915–1917)
Hugo Bezdek (1918–1929)
Bob Higgins (1930–1948)
Joe Bedenk (1949)
Rip Engle (1950–1965)
Joe Paterno (1966–2011)
Tom Bradley # (2011)
Bill O'Brien (2012–2013)
James Franklin (2014– )

Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

Persondata
Name	Bedenk, Joe
Alternative names	Bedenk, Fred Joseph; Bedenk, F. Joseph; Bedenk, F. J.
Short description	American football and baseball player and coach
Date of birth	July 14, 1897
Place of birth
Date of death	May 2, 1978
Place of death	State College, Pennsylvania

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