Wednesday, November 19, 1919
VERYBODY PLAYING
AT PENN STATE'.
'ew York Periodical Publishes'
Interesting Article by Noted
Football_ Coach -
(NOTC—The following nl licit , is re-
Int.l film a recent number of
luting". (Now 101 It), and ohnuld
Ova 1;f °specie] Intel rat lo nil who
o interested in Pentes State's athletic
;velem:lent its author, Sol Metrger,
a gradual° of the University of POTIO
'II 1014 and 10110 COOOIIII of the war
ty eleven during Ills SF nlar year.
e Is well known as a coach and wiper
ft.thall.. Among the Mum* which
• developed are those of Ills Alma
liter. the Unherslty of West Virginia.
ul Washington and .leffe.on. Dus
k the war hexas director of outlet
at Camp Ct-i and Ills always been
shone°us advocate of the ideas be
g developed at Penn State)
1 CfirllODl PLATING
Al' PININ STATI
II) Sol NetOgor
lhat leg the star he hood it great
and about mass athletics. but no title
to tense a definite Idea about
tern True, out twining maths car
ed on sprat to it greater degree than
had user been so intensively followed
America_ before, but no two camps
Mowed the mane program. The varied
lows of commanding officers. the (lif
ting beret:mantles of athletic allicent,
sometimes unfortunate &blunder
s:l,llns. between ..Commbuslon" men
sahletle °pi...lulls. of the var
. %wirer° co casnleatlons—sa tangle
bleb MVO! 000 wholly untangled--
emitted no in eod. definite Program
At the name time an effort was made
launch mates tableaus In our various
lieges which had Student Army Train
g Corps Tina Idea. died a. natural
nth with the &mistier. and Bust an
is launched An n. seven. the soar &s
-loped nothing much along mass spurt
es through sandal channels
But ono Imaltutleln did get resultn.
11110.4 C half a sloven Yearn ago Roy
Ills, then Graduate Manager of Mb-
MN at the Peantalsanla. State Col
ge, told me that they hod In mind
Plan at State for Instructing. what
termed, "educational ntideUce..
Hedy Penn State Was then trying to
t at a natation or the one big evil
our Intercollegiate athletic oyetem—
c
cneblect or the student who most
We uncut. Hut Penn Slate, ideally
mated for each a venture, never got
r beyond the Idea.
loot toll, llugo Detach, bent known
. manager of 1110 Pittston 111 National
ensue Case Dab Club, became head of
iv Dept. Intent of Physical Training
nd Athletics at Penn State. Dcttleit
a graduate of the University of Chi
go, on 1111110 Se. product ...of A A
tagg In both football and baseball.
o first coached collego trams at Ark.-
arias and from there Jumped to the
dem sits of Oregon Ho broke into
natlonol athletic limelight a few
Intern back when hts web-tooled elev
n downed Idol, Foloeibu Pennsylvania
Idlron hopes ut Panadons. on Now
ear's Day.
13emleit faced an discouraging a sit
atim at State College as any college
thletic enach—nnti I lino "coach .. put
°rely hero—ever (aced Not a member
f the 'll and . 17 varsity football teams
ere Wick These boys had answered
to higher call of country as did no
any young collegians. Football pros
01.W at this institution, long noted for
pinning teams, were gloomy. Such
as the situation In other sports us
ell Not only that, but Bostick was
%bout the services of Dick hurler,
oduitts football coach And Lewis, In
truetor and trainer extritordlnarY.
malt men - hand won commissions
I=ll=Mrl=l
Worse null wits the S. A. T C. sit
atlon. State, a land grant college, had
liltary training 0. 0 ntuplo lino, but
to 9 A. T C watt new—and moron,
ho only good thing I ovor heard a
out tho S. A. T C. In many tripe to
taloan collegema was that It wae ahan
oned. Still, St ado had It an lots of ue
ad the "110"
Ninety-nine college coaches I know
ut of a hundred would have met the
ligation confronting Ilcodek last fall
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The : Pennsylvania •. st - ate : College
EDWIN ERLE SPARES, Ph.D., L.L. D., PRESIDENT
Established and maintained by the joint action of the United States Government and the Commonwealth
of P - onnsylvanle.
4:1 FIVE GREAT SClloOLS—Agriculture, Libersl Arts, Mining, and Natuml Science, offering
thirty-eight courses of tour years eaoh—Also courses in Rome Economics, Industrial Art, and Physl
• mil Education. TUITION FREE to both sexes, Incidental charges moderato.
First semester begins middle of September; second semester the Brat of February, Summer Sossion•for
Teachers about the third Monday In Juno of each year. For catalogue. bulletins, announeementsr eta,
address THE REGISTRAR, Stabs College, Pennsylvania
with columnu of alibi., invented and rent
A plopugunda preparing alumni and
well-al/diem fur the worst aim In or
de: If ever nuch nubile publicity le In
order.
But Bentlek is the odd coach of the
hundred Ito hod Wear—big nod broad.
Be has courage, initiative, action, and
o tuna direct way of do ileAlek
In the 10111. Of a man witu would milt
u for that Ilve "spot" 110 101111011 lOU
111111. week If you hanneitod' to 110 oveo
due—and he .mould get It I3extlok
veal-‘l,ll-viciod State in two montlig•
time. Although his football eleven
was mothered and monsioni, although
It woe crushed and ',rushed osido, when
ho tuft State hmt opting for 1110 Plntton
It Wolin; tamp he had the natlsfactlon
of hearing more ringing tributes about
bin work there 1111111 "Big BIII" Ilol
!unhook ever hwoil In the heyday of
his most victorious football coaching
0111000 at that institution
All thin cheetlng - of Bend°k by Plato
men In due to tho fact - that ho dill
the mot temarkable 'deco of uollo
tiler e holt fall In sport that lam over
been necompltched by any college or
univerally in the country. Within a
month after Mx debut, he had es
tablittlied n metem of n athletics
that lam proven practica oels
ble and
workable tilt mud] both a siege of 5
A T C and ordinary coiled° life All
thin ho did uhile the rest of the tollege
stolid dreamed and talked and fought
about It within their oun colored °loin
tors
There uere 1000 male undergraduates
at State last fall Best9ll hod 1100
of them playing competitive games
ocety other day. There were football
term,. baseball nines, banketball fives,
track snood, tennis teams, and a long
list of other athletic teams going in for
competition with joy 11,1,1 !MI State
literally uent mad over the sport-for
all Idea. Students. alumni, trustees,
and faculty Ilre solid on the proposi
tion Slots 14 In the game for keens
But before dealing with the future
let me tell you loot how IleMelt wink
ed It out Everyone gives him full
credit nod reports to the contrary which
appealed In the press last fall were
In or, or on thin point.
"I know that It ought to he done,"
Sondeit told me. 'but I hod not plan
ned In detail. It didn't seem possible
to get under way until the 9 A. T C.
receiced scowl early In the fall that all
members of the S A. T. C. were to
have an hour a day of reereatlonnl ath
letietl / noted at once The next day
the entire 13 A. T. C. reported to me
on the geld:
"What to do with them wee the big
ni oblem Necessity solved it for me.
Immediately I norted the men accord
ing to their preferences, tho football
aspirants In one group, those cello pre
ferred baseball In another And so on.
Next I found out ',that man In each
group knew how to play that game.
These fellovw went made play leaden
and put to cork immediately.
"We had MO of tho 1 800 students
In-various games loot fall Our aim
was to hate them play only American
sports, but 011103 w Inn competitive wily
Thu object 1100 to givo each student
a working knowledge of story game In
the American cutriculum of play One
of the moth reasons why collego grad
uates fail to Iteen 1.111 an active inter
est in sport in because they have hlther
to Incited a knowledge of Buell of our
sports us a man can get most enjoy
ment out of at various Omen In M. life
That in why wo Include and boost tan
nin and golf
"Our plan is to cover the whole fiold
of sport for each four-year student
In what ollTer attractive way is tho
college-bled Yankee to Ito not only fit
but kept sor
There in no other nnsher to the
question. 13 - eudek ban a far-sighted
plan In operation 110 ban pnrimnelY
omitted calisthenics, the "phynical tor
t." of the 11, enigo collego man, from
his curriculum and tilled it with the
totice of competition. That 10 why Stato
knows it will carry_on.
Lest fall Bezdelt used the various
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unite of the S A T. C. for competi
tive pm poses Leagues In football,
baseball, basketball, (leek sports, cress
country running, )ones' boil,
punt; ball, boxing, and wreath= were
plat lug out Welt schedules until the
switch In time forted all Inductee As
it cllnutz tu the nutiluor season a lIIPPO
- Field Day W. held Saturday JO
tot 110011. Nov. 2. Contests In ail of the
above events nem ntstrted
0 lase pritelluthie, and 500 stu
dents competed
I nation. the madden, one ono of space.
Moss boxing and ma tattling went along
one Incidentally State oon the In
tot eullehlitie wt waling championship
Thli it-eight Osumi Pla)ed in sureral
basket 10111 leagues. sae games 'a day
being un 'rills miming 250 mutt
It Itedule of baseball between forty
leallig Al RN a marked feature
During tin blurter and sating there
woo no Si. A T. C. and comostuently
110 manpuiraint about the Plan The
volunteer x}stem has proven a aurptise
Tho hooka lath leanttu of forty teanat
ompleted Its acheaulo n ithout the can
cellation of a mune and baseball has
been Juin tor suctessful As 1 Inn wit
log thin at fort)-two team tennis bourn
ontent ix In progtess In addition the
urinal Inter-,!JINN competition Is (order
ed In all moon/
One is intlined to draw the conclu-
Mom helhatc previously ton med. that
Penn Slate in only lade to featuto
Nowt for nil in the tiny it does nit the
evponne of vandt3 athletics. lie ulna
no thinks in I,lllto %YOU . 11,11 000, 111,1
remat Laid(' pal t of lint whole 1.111,1 coo
lants of the font that Beedek has hit
the nail an tine he al 141 maw: lila mom
tabletion tll a breeding mound for var
. Idly material Lent fall no teas than
nit virally football pittters mere devel
oped on the intta-mend field and thin
'spring. intent In varsity catcher NON incit
ing the Intraonural league produced
the needed nen.
All of o Melt lends to the future.
to the ochenie Rohm to be practical?
and alert pltuto are on foot to make It
ou , are too pet Uncut queutlons Thu
neat can be dealt olth in a felt lines
Lot MU aunts Nell ht Fleming. tho
prudent ;umlaute Intimater of Ponn
Stltteli athletic 11.0elittiOn
°A minment recently made to our
floatd of Trustees to preside [lto bourn
a
reek In the college curriculum for
physical education in olticlt college
credit could ho gntnted wan favorably
acted upon °
As to the future State In building a
100-acre play-field that should be com
pleted when tills article appesni lye
are informed quite casually that It will
aceommmiate 2000 students at one time.
that It hill contain a 0.11010 golf course.
12 gridirons. 40 tennis courts, 4 soccer
Holds. C baseball diamonds. 10 basket
ball touch.. 2 hockey rinks. 0 volley
ball counts, and a half mile cinder
track.
Dm the big problem in the northern
Institution in a Place for winter Inn).
So enthusiastic are Stnte alumni, who
ore building the field, that one of them,
tt hone 'lime cannot be ghen, Is pres
enting the college with a monster play
pavilion, MOW'S feet, an a memorial
to the Cons of this institution 1, Ito gave
their Men In the World War This will
contain a dit t running track. 100-yard
straihht-an ay. Swimming Pool, and var
ious Simeon for playing basket bell.
baseball (indoor rOgnintion kind an
C. E. Shuey
JEWELER
Repairing a Specialty
PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
nett), football in bad weather and for
ether mllet. an well.
A ninny will house lockers and simm
ers and the tiso-story effect at the
front will contain the slalom; Wilms
needed for running such a gigantic
athletic plant Tito trustees havo ac
cepted this gift and they expect it to he
hunt thls summer.
Again Penn State han unmet the dope.
The vent majority of int have been lab
oring molar the Manion that the alumni
of un inntitution %ill "coma sierww" in
o addend want wily for winning
triune, that they are at the buck of
nil the pioxelyting In Intercollegiate
sport. Slate hail proven that thin In
tea no Tee ponstbililles twining friar,
thin churnslng piece of fact are beyond
tawonting. Ono can dream sonderful
Menton for the future of our colleges
110. OWL .0 glen title belief the Ile.
lit addition to the 100-acre Phtl
deld Mute has long pun/awed a GO-acre
athletic field, known an Beaver Field,
chore pa Sunnily trine cavort and
work out, not to Mention a training
house a hero rho varioun varsity men
lite, and a gymtianium lint the gym
mmium hue annual plane In an Intnitu
lion of low fling If the Berdek idea of
/moat fur 1111 ' 111/rolldb. It will mum into
the dineard 00 0110 of those unnecessary
and cumbersome things that grow up
In thu dark age.
State'. sport for all piogram in the
hlggent athletic fact that woo out of
the World War. It gsves ovary Omn
i. Of becoming knosit 118 the moot
overahelming athletic nictory yet won
by a college. Phillpn Andover Academy,
That's as true in
life as on the
cinders
ithnle In 17 lends,
i"iceentlfirrpred.:l.4ooH-3.0,
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It Is true, ens a pioneer In this thald
of Nan t for aII, but tiro preparatory
school does not have the prejudice to
oovercome In such a radical move that
faces the college. Iteadek, It aeons,
has built llrtolv On tuck.
Although odd. It Ix nevertheless true,
that the mow athletic epitome eallzb
liaized and noz king et both Anduver
and INnut Stale a., cleated by for
met college ntizietex and not by ithlzl
eel ezlocationut tweeittllste Lithuti, alto
inunthiel the Andover plan, nut& hit
athletic record MI tnetnirer of the
I).zt LIZIOUtiI troll). into IllrCadY
Leon introdutzed in thin article There
Ix town An thought here 'rho ques
that'll:aura% 11l free whether the Owe
le 11 tnzining Mell.ll product is really
hitting 011 all eight zulintient when It
10111. 111 handling the big national
;Holden) er gth)slcal Lllleltney h Mel)
aux brought to out attention so point.-
..di., by the mar.
l'or the Prat time alnea Saclo Sant 3
extalabilled Wm family tho World War
coaxed hint to fiend all of 1,111 beat blood
to) the family plivilelan. The result
pax a thirty-three per cent rejection. '.
l inn Ber.delt utfenW the remedy fur that
LoodIllon? That na :nay nail dal , to
IM=l
After their easy victory 'over Le
high• the soccer tern[has been taking
things halm, einih. hone, el.. daily
practice has been hold during the limit
nei.k in melioration for the games
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whICA Manager Hart expects to 'mod
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with elm Drown and White forced to
shown that the lino has the necessary
punch to score goals, while the back
field was strong enough to ward off
the dangerous olio:when started by Le
high In the first period. Consequently
some surprises will ho In store for
Penn States future opponents In the
kicking gumo
Manager Grubs, of the Sophomore
team, is getting his men in condition
for the "scrap . ' with the Preslunen, to
take place some time in December and
1110.1 the Freshmen produce some
- dad it horse" the "Sophs" will redeem
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