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Hugo Bezdek

1908-1929Arkansas, Oregon, Penn State

3 schools coached, anchored by Penn State.

Hugo Bezdek coached 19 seasons, won 68.0%, and posted an average SRS of 7.9. Best season: 1919 Penn State. The profile was balanced with a highly volatile profile. 3 stops shaped the career arc.

Career record
105-46-13
Career win rate
68.0%
Average SRS
7.9
Peak SRS
28.3

Career Dossier

One glance at the full arc.

The profile below keeps the headline numbers visible, then moves into tenure shape, school impact, and full season detail.

Seasons coached
19
Career span
22 years
Best finish
Consistency
4.5

Primary school anchor

Penn State

Balanced profile with 3 program stops and a peak score of 95.7.

Career Arc

Track how the coach's season-to-season performance changed over time, where the peak landed, and where each school stop began.

Focus on where peaks separate, where floors hold, and how the shape of each career changed over time.

Hugo Bezdek
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Hugo Bezdek: 1916 OregonHugo Bezdek: 1918 Penn State
1908Actual season year • SRS range -17.1 to 28.31929

Active comparison point

Hugo Bezdek1919

Selected

1919 Penn State

Best seasonNew stop: Penn State

7-1 • SRS 28.3 • SP Overall

Win %

87.5%

YoY SRS

SP Off / Def

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Finish

Unranked

Comparison context

Focus a point to inspect how it stacks up against the rest of the field.

Tenure map

Each stop expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.

Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger tenure

Penn State

1918-192912 seasons

Avg SRS 11.7 • Win % 66.5%

Oregon

1916-19172 seasons

Avg SRS 4.3 • Win % 76.7%

Arkansas

1908-19125 seasons

Avg SRS 0.9 • Win % 68.6%

Longest tenure
Penn State • 12 seasons
Best tenure
Penn State • 11.7 SRS
Best tenure win rate
Oregon • 76.7%

Style and Strength Profile

Compare strength, identity, steadiness, and ceiling through normalized bars with raw SP and SRS context underneath.

These bars are normalized against the full coach dataset. Raw SP and SRS values stay visible so the profile reads as evidence, not decoration.

Overall Strength

Start with total quality before splitting style and variance.

Not enough data to compare.

Overall Strength

Decisive edge

Not enough data to compare.

Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

Hugo Bezdek

Insufficient sample

Raw avg SP Overall
Percentile

Insufficient sample

Normalized against the full tracked coach pool.

Impact by school

See how each stop compared with what that program usually looked like outside this tenure.

Penn State

1918-192965-30-11

Compared with this school's baseline outside the tenure over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).

Avg SRS 11.7Win % 66.5%

Avg wins

Higher is better

5.4 during vs 5.4 baseline

+0.0

Avg SRS

Higher is better

11.7 during vs 17.5 baseline

-5.8

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

during vs baseline

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline

+0.0%

Oregon

1916-191711-3-1

Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-tenure seasons for this program.

Avg SRS 4.3Win % 76.7%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.

Arkansas

1908-191229-13-1

Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-tenure seasons for this program.

Avg SRS 0.9Win % 68.6%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

Penn State 1919

7-1SRS 28.3

Biggest Improvement

Arkansas 1909

7-032.9 SRS

Best Offensive Season

Unavailable

Best Defensive Season

Unavailable

Setbacks

Worst Season

Arkansas 1908

5-4SRS -17.1

Biggest Drop

Oregon 1917

4-3-35.7 SRS

Season-by-season results

Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.

Penn State1929963066.7%7.9+14.3+27.8%
Penn State1928935138.9%-6.4-15.8-33.3%
Penn State1927962172.2%9.4+7.1+16.7%
Penn State1926954055.6%2.3-6.0+5.6%
Penn State1925944150.0%8.3+0.1-15.0%
Penn State19241063165.0%8.2-6.2-7.2%
Penn State1923962172.2%14.4+2.6+13.1%
Penn State19221164159.1%11.8-10.0-30.9%
Penn State19211080290.0%21.8-1.0+1.1%
Penn State1920970288.9%22.8-5.5+1.4%
Penn State1919871087.5%28.3+50.0%
Penn State1918412137.5%-19.6%
Oregon1917743057.1%-13.6-35.7-36.6%
Oregon1916870193.8%22.1+27.6+53.8%
Arkansas19121046040.0%-5.5-5.7-32.2%
Arkansas1911962172.2%0.2-10.8-15.3%
Arkansas1910871087.5%11.0-4.8-12.5%
Arkansas19097700100.0%15.8+32.9+44.4%
Arkansas1908954055.6%-17.1

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