MYt 1969 PENN STATE SPORTS BASKETBALL STAR SELECTS PENN STATE 'Another "big man" will be coin ing to Penn State. Basketball coach John Bach announced that Paul Netunaxer, 6-10, 235-pound standout at Balti more Polytechnic High School, enter the University next fall. He plane to major in arch iter...tural engineering. Earlier, Bach announced that 64 Dan Tarr of Penncrest and 6 1 6 1 / 2 Ed Chubb of Middletown, will attend Penn State. •0 * • -VERSATILE MIKE REID Mike Reid, Penn &nt.'s All- American tackle candidate, is dividing his time between football practice and track this spring. In track he's a shot-putter and discus thrower and already this season he owns a new school shot put record of 57 feet, 3 / 4 inches. That /2 That came, in State's 921-61/a 6 1 / a victory over Navy and broke the old mark of 56-3 1 / 2 set in 1955 by Roosevelt Grier. Reid will have letters in three different sports when he gradu ates--football t,rack and wresd inq. He was the 1966 Eastern Aliitvyweight wrestling champion in his sophomore year but had to give up that sport because of a knee injury. THREE PLAYERS WIN BASKETBALL AWARDS Three players have won Penn State's top ba.sketball awards for the past season. Bill St,ansfield, the team cap tain, leading rebounder and No. 2 scoref,, p received the Captain's Award and the John Lawther Award given to the most valu able player as selected by his teammates. Bruce Mello received the Most Improved Player Award as de -tutAined by the coaching staff, 'gilt the Lion Award, given to the best defensive player as selected by the. squad. The Joe Egli Memorial Award, to the nlaver who unceasirwly gives of himself> to the benefit of the team, went to Ron Horn- THE HIGHACRES COLLEGIAN LIONS 'NAME ASSISTANT BASKETBALL COACH Casper Voithofer, highly suc cessful coach at Middletown(Pa.) High Sclviot for the past three seasons, will join the Penn State athletic staff next fall as an assistant basketball coach and instructor of physical education. Voithofer, 26-years-old, owns a three year record of 71-8 as head coach at Middletown. His 1967- 68 team was 28-1 and won the Class B state championship. His first team, in 1966-67 posted a 205 re"ord and his team this past season was 23-2. One of his "s'andout players was Ed Chubb, who earlier an nounced that - he will enter Penn State next fall. A - native of California, Pa., Voithofer attended West Virginia University one year where he played freshman basketball. He then transferred to California, (Pa.),State College, starring there in basketball and baseball, and was graduated in Feb., 1965. He taught in the Cleveland public school system from Feb. 1965, until Sent., 1965, when he went to Middletown. In 1965-66 he was assistant coach to Russ Timer at Middletown and helped direct the team to a 16-3 record. A year later he became head coach. Voitholer is an enthusiastic successful hard working coach," said Penn State head coach John Bach. "He teaches the type of basketball that fits completely into our overall plans and phil osophy at Penn State good man-to-man, good pressure and a good running game. We're pleas ed to have him join us." ** * * PENN STATE APPOINTS SPORTS PUBLICITY ASSISTANT Ernest W. Accorsi, Jr., sports writer for the Philadelphia In quirer, has been appointed assis tant publicity director at Penn State. He'll join the Penn State staff May 7, and in his new job will assist Jim Tarman, Penn State's snorts publicity director. Accorsi has been a member of the Inquirer staff since 1966, where his duties included desk Work as well as the coyyrage of SHORTS all sports. His major-assignments included Villanova and Temple football, Big Five and profess ional basketball, golf, NACC bas ketball tournaments, the Nation= ar Open Golf Tournament and the Holiday Basketball Festival. During the past winter he cover ed the Philadelphia 76ers regu larly. Before joining the Inquirer staff, Accorsi was sports inform ation director at St. Joseph's College in Philadelphia for the 1965-66 academic year and from Jury, 1964, until September, 1965. he was on the sports staff of the Baltimore Evening Sun. His work there included myerave of the. Master's Golf Tournament, the Natiinal P.G.A. Championship, the Walker Cup Matches and col lege basketball. A native of Hershey, Pa.; the 27-year-old Accorsi is a 1959 graduate of Hershey High School• and a 1963 graduate of Wake Forest University where he was sports editor of the student news paper and sports director of the campus radio station. He's an Army veteran and currently is active in the Air Force Reserves. Married to the former Judy Ann Nangle of Aldan, Pa., the Ac corsi's have a two-month-old son, Michael. - P5l) 6 Intercatnpus League Report On the afternoon of May 2 the members of the Highacres In- tercampus League drove out to University Park to participate in the Intercampus League State tournament. The Chess Team was proud to take second place in the state and the Ping Pong team also did very well, placing third in their competition. Only the Bowling Team did not do as well as they hoped to, finishing seventh in the State Tournament. The Highacres Campus was one of the only two Common wealth campuses which was able to send each of its teams to the State Tournament, for many teams were eliminated before reaching state competition. The participating team members roomed in dorms on the Main Campus. Chess \ and ping pang competition was held in the Het zel Union Building and the bowl ers bowled their games at the campus alleys and also at Centre Lanes off campus. Representing the Highacres Chess Team were John "Chilly" Cherilla, undefeated, Rich De- Paulo, and Mark Toniatte. The members of the Ping Pong Team were High Harris and Ray Jen kins. Bowling for Highacres were Tommy Caccese, team captain; Rich Reba, who bowled the team's high game of 232; Larry Tomasetti, Jerry Grink, and Pat Pecora. Dean McCallus coached the boys. '?alz k ru c 1 o 4 PAGE SEVEN
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