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PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
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SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1932
COLLEGE BOXING: ITS FUTURE
With the clang of a tuner's bell and a sharp impact
cf shining, new gloves, the finest college boxers in the
ration opened up the first National Collegiate Boxing
tournament yesterday afternoon. Tonight eight men
who have survived the gruelling two-day battle will be
clowned as the champion boxers of America. Not only
do these men hold national titles, but they, with the
three other semi-finalists in each weight, will have the
opportunity to entei the final Olympic tryouts at San
rancisco.
Penn State has been proud to extend a welcome to
a splendid array of college athletes. It ha been the
greatest wish of Penn State athletic officials to have in
attendance at this tout nament every friend and every
foe of college boxing. Surely those who believed that
boxing has no place in colleges could hardly male such
statement after witnessing this splendid exhibition of
6.dt combined with the highest type of sportsmanship.
Although plans have not definitely been made to
bold this event annually, the success of the tourney
this year certainly makes a careful consideration of its
po'ssible annual occulience a necessity. Boxing in col
leges is on the upgrade. Its rapidly growing popularity
from coast to coast has been little short of phenomenal.
Let the men who have been responsible for its success
continue to advance its cause Let them guard religious
ly the amateur cods of the college boxer. Unless college
hosing is kept clear of professionalism it most certainly
15 doomed. If stiict amateur regulations are adhered
to, under careful management boxing will take its place
near the front ranks of American college sports.
EASTERN BOXING RULES
During the twelve yews of its existence the Eastern
Intercollegiate Boxing Association has made great
strides towards placing the Labe sport on a firm foot
ing in eastern colleges. Tun drastic changes in the
Association rules, however, both put into effect during
the last two years, have met with opposition serious
enough in its character to threaten the progress of
• allege boxing in the east.
Tho new rule changes did away with the Judges,
placing the entire responsibility of decision on the ref
eree, and eliminated the heavyweight class from official
league contests. In an effort to accumulate enough in
formation to render assistance in the formation of next
year's rules, the COLLEGIAN has conducted a nation-wide
poll to determine the concensus of opinion among a wale
misortmenl of honing officials, coaches, and athletic di
lectors
The result of the survey has been very significant.
It has left no doubt as to the opinion of officials on the
heavyweight question It was a mistake to ban the big
n4en from college ring careers. Pointing out that the
dagger connected with heavyweight bouts has been over
ejiiphasized, 'that it is unfair to contestants and fans to
eli,Minate that weight, boxing colons seem to favor the
lOwn of the ring giants.
Although officials favored a referee's decision rath
er than the judges, one very important factor must be
pointed out. The reason advanced by a majority of
those who thought the referee should be given the entire
right of decision was that it is too bald to supply the
colleges with competent judges. Is this sound reason
ing' With so much at stake shouldn't it he the duty of
Association officials to find competent judges? Cer
tainly there are enough men engaged in college boxing
to provide the sport with efficient judges.
RINC PERSONALITIES
Interesting studies in psychology on why crowds so
speedily become attached to some boxers and gain a dis
tils fin others wore presented in the Olympic matches
here.
Throughout the rounds the audience was quick to
pick favorites. Although they kept close watch for ring
generalship and clever boxing, spectators responded
most heartily to men who showed willingness to engage
in brisk exchanges and in the more spectacular punches.
An in always tiue, the moat popular boxers were rela
tively obsculo fighters with comparatively mediocre rec
ords who toppled opponents boasting formidable con
quests and established reputations.
From the first, spectators singled out their hoped-for
champions because of some appeal in personality or
style. Tho unfolding of their character's saga of con
quest or defeat was followed as eagerly as any boy
scads a "thriller" while the uncertainty of the calibre
of their favorite's opponent added the necessary dash of
1 The Ring Around
We might just Its well held ourself another ark
(Noah Inaba') and heave a rainbow over the bows,
now that tine influx for tine Olympus is about us.
What wrath Alligators, Tien's, Wildcats, Bisons,
Mules, Panthers, Bulldogs, Cougars, Wolves, Grey
hounds, Yellowjackets, Owls anal Game-C,ocks, we will
float 11101111 y away on the Green Wave leaning no
Tenons with a doughty crew of Mountainects, Orange
men, Tan tans, Dukes, Cavaliers, and Presidents. Thole
you have them, no a net shell.
We could mod°ce a spectrum mom all the college
colors that mould jar our phymensts and even put
some of the new spring outfits no tine shade, with
mange, blue, red, black, white, mm ono, chewy, gal net,
en unison, gold, may, green, pun plc, and olive. And if
they were land end to end, what a stung of lmociouts
that would he. As one of the gels lam 'fag Hill
(Giange Delon to you, Mn. Dope) put it, the end of tine
depression for the oculists is no sight.
As soon as you figure that one out, get the photo
graphic celebration in onler and picture somethmg.
name, for nample, a borer from Duquesne taunt
ing a Georgia man.
"G'wan, you'i c yellow."
"Put up ya Dukes" '
Or a Loyola Southerner sticking live tongue nut
at ono of the Baltimore Loyolas.
"You've notlinn' but a big Greyhound bust."
"No? Wolf fer two rents I'd Loyolova you"
Pitt's Panther and the Nittany Lion are sisters
under the skin, the nature ed. ripple tell us. It
wouldn't be so bad, if only Pittsburgh didn't get under
our skin so much.
if Princeton throws in the towel, can we call it
the Tiger Rag'
Most undoubtlessly, the neatest trk. of the wk
price goe.s to the good old publicity dept. As a matter
of fact, the dot has a good chance to cop the grand
toward for the fiscal yr with this effort. Here is the
dirt. The Public Information boys got together and
decided that they ought to send out pictures of some
of the boxers ssho were coming here for the week-end
So they pasted a bunch of the pictures together on a
suitable haeltgiound and made a mat of the whole
thing
Up to that point, everything was 'lamb. But lily
gildels 'ear their ugly heads in the best of dept.", and
this one is no eseeption So what? So the artists
woo called in to do a bit of garnishing, and said art
ists lot upon the idea of doing said garnishing by
hanging a few pairs of boxing gloves about in appro
priate places Except for the fact that they would
probably require a good set of brass knuckles insole,
ithe first pair designed wasn't such a bail job.
They looked like this•
But holes for the second pair. Maybe
the lutist was in a bully, or perhaps lie was
used to doing landscapes. Anylion, hme is the Rem
brandt that was sent out on the mat to the Curwens
ville lint old, the Philadelphia Mrllefor, and umpteen
other papers scattered ovei this well known Common-
tm poverty
Maybe the boxfightet whn was emiected
to dr, battle with these had his right thumb
out of place Or maybe he was just left
handed and didn't care who knew it.
Speaking of Pitt, two ringmen front Mr. Mellon's
garden patch were talking the other day, and got
into a discussion as to what each was going to be in
later life. Said the first deter in our little vignette
to the second actor, said he, "Itey, Simko, what are
you going to he in later life?" '
The second sacristan of the Cathedral of Know
ledge pondered a bit, since lie weighed 175 Ihs , and
was pretty ponderous, then said, "I usta think I
would make a good engineer, on account of how I can
hold my liquor pretty well, but since I broke my
schnozzle in a door, there is nothing left but profes
sional boxing."
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THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
College poxin
POpuldrity
Intramural Contests
Began Mit Sport
About 1880
Receiving impetus from the Great
War, in the last ten years boxing has
grown from its former minor place in
the college world to a position where
almost all inajoi colleges and solver
,ities now boast teams in competi
tion.
Although intramural contests date
as far back as 1880 and have been
earned on in many institutions since
that time in unoiganised fashion, the
training camps of the war period did
much to popularise the sport and to
pave the way for the present situa
tion where boxing has in many Nil
lege, come to supplant other winter
sports in contestant and spectator ap
peal
Among the earliest colleges to place
teams in inteicollegiate competition,
Penn State and Penn first met in
1919, the Quakers winning 4-to-2. In
the next few years Navy, Springfield,
Massachusetts Institute of Technol
ogy, Yale, Army, and several Can
adian teams comprised the competi
tion in the East
Form New League
In 1921 when the National Colleg
ite Athletic Association recognized the
Intercollegiate Boxing association
which consisted of Navy, Penn, N. I.
T, and Penn State, another step had
been made in furthei ing boxing. Not
until 1924, bon ever, was the first
tournament held among the charter
members, with the exception of Ili I.
T. which was replaced by Syracuse's
newly formed team.
Harvard had carried boxing as an
amural sport since 1880 but did
not give formal insh action until 1890
and filially placed a team in intercol
legiate competition in 1930. Carnegie
Institute of Technology, the Univer
sity of Pittsburgh, and Bucknell are
other institutions nhere the sport has
developed only in the last several
years So great has the development
been in colleges that a new league
was organized this spring consisting
of formerly unattached schools and
those in Western Pennsylvania and
West Virginia. The Eastern Inter
collegiate tournament has been held
annually since its inception in 1924.
Virginia Takes Lead
In the New England states, inter
collegiate boxing is a growth mainly
of the last ten ! years and had its ori
gin in intramurals, according to W
11 Cowell, director of the physical
education department. at New llama
shoe Univms..y and district official
fin the tom ranicnt. here. In his opin
ion the sport is still in an experimen
tal stage n that region and its fu-
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Hugo Berdek, Do octar of the
School af Physical Education, heads
the Colll»ratee that organwed the
Collegiate Olympic ti youts hoc. He
was appointed last ape mg at a
meeting of the Olympic Games Com.-
mini., nod since that twee has
done the greater amount of mooch
connected with en tonging the bolds.
He metered an roach of the LIM
football team two years ago, and
since that tune has held his pe emit
position as head of the wady carol
ed School of Physical Education.
tore depends on wise supervision of
coaching and competition
The University of Virginia intro
duced boxing to the colleges of the
South in the wintei of 1922, with the
aid of Washington and Lee Univer
sity. The Casabas were the first in
the South to recognize the sport of-'
tidally and to make it a major ac
tivity Since 1926 a tournament in
the Souther n Conference has been
held annually. Fourteen of the six
teen schools with boxing teams in the
'conference last yeas reported that
'boxing drew larger crowds than bas
ketball to rank as the most popular
winter sport Louisiana State has
one of the strongest teams in the far
South and Florida was the first team
in its region to introduce the sport
following Virginia's lead in making it
a major activity.
In the Southwest bo‘ing has a good
field for development Entirely un
mganized, according to Dr. Harpy A.
Scott. of Rice Institute, Texas, and
district representatives for the Olym
pic trials, intrammal competition is
the extent of boxing in that region.
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btore than 1,600 towels will be used
during the National Olympic Boxing
tournament, according to Harry Pen
nington, locker , room attendant at
Recreation Hall. Each mitman will
require approximately nineteen mas
sager,.
If placed end to end, the towels
used here yearly would be long
enough to reach from here to Altoona
on the main highway, with enough
left over to give one to every Inhab
itant of State College and Boalshurg.
Approximately 9,700 towels 'are
used each month by athletes and phy
. meal education closes% Pennington
states Nearly 80,000 towels are
needed for the whole year. _
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Eliminating any possible worries
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Princeton's new coach, Fritz Crisler,
may have next fall, fourteen football
players, Including Captain-elect Fred
Billings, have been listed on lost
term's honor roll.
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