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Show IS The season of 1921 looks like an off year in football for some of the leading lead-ing schools and coaches. I have prominently in mind Coach Bcdek at Penn state. The schedule arranged by Penn this year which, of course, was supervised supervis-ed by Bezdek. Is atlp off on his own opinion of the material that he has to ; work with. For two years unde r Besdsk Penn State has been undefeated. The best any eleven would get with thn Xllmnv Lions as Bezdek's charges aro known, j was a tie Last season Penn State had six tough games on Its schedule, white this f.-afion Syracuse, Penn and I'ltts-burg I'ltts-burg ptand out as the only teams that will offer serious opposition In 1911, Penn played Harvard to a tie, 21 to 21i In one of the most sensational sen-sational games of the year The dope was also a trifle upset when Penn beat the mighty United States Naval academy eleven. 13 to 7. Othe tteama I to fall before Penn were Lehigh, University Uni-versity of Washington. Georgia Tech land Carnegie Tech. The great KJlllnger is no longer at i Penn State. Players like Kiillnger arrive ar-rive on the scene only every now and I then Besdek knew that Killiuger and several other stars lost by graduation would be missed. Betdak Is a wLse coach Star players are not developed develop-ed overnight, that is the reason Pewin Stato's schedule Is far from top henvy this year. Coach Charley Moran. who for two vear has been hogging the sporllgbt with his Centre college team, also has a big task before him. Moran has no "Ho" McMillln at Centre this year ir. cavi) out his orders. It Is Impossible Impos-sible for a coach to estimate the value val-ue of a star like McMiiud. 1 i . ntre has started out by running up its usual big Biores in the early gameS, yet the Centre team minus McMillln doesn't seem to have the r.trtmgth of lost year s aggregation The proof of this will bo tested In the clash with Harvard. When Centre met Harvard in 1920 and gave the Crimson such a great battle, losing 31 to 14 In the final minutes of play, the little southern college made a decided hit with the Harvard followers. Contre proved to bo a boxofflce attraction and was given giv-en a date on the 1921 schedule. Centre's 6 to 0 defeat of Harvard was the big surprise of last season. Harvard found the little southern college col-lege the toughest kind of opposition. It la said thai Harvard Is desirous of dropping Centre For that reason i ia r ard Is i srtain to be at top form in ordor to defeat Moran's eleven. A number of other coaches are facing fac-ing n similar situation, among them (lien Y irner at Pittsburg. The 7 to 0 defeat handed Pittsburg by Lafayetto was a bitter pill. Warner had hoped to wipe out the defeat of last year Lafayetto in scoring this win was Without the services Of Eliot, r ho eiased such a wonderful game against Pitt a year ago. |