Tuesday, September 18,1984
Higgins Puts Gridders Throu,
More Than 100 Yearling Gridders Report
To Walke For Opening Practice Sessions
Bucky McKee Lost to
Squad for Season;
Skemp Out
Apparently believing that the way
to mould a football team is to let
them play football, Coach Bob
gins has been doing just that with the
1934 Lion grid Aspirants.
Beginning with a light session
Tuesday afternoon, the gridders have
had at least one scrimmage every day,
culminating in a regulation practice
game before no loss than a thousand
spectators on New Beaver field Satur
day afternoon.
With the scrimmage sessions came
their inevitable consequence—injur
ies. Fortunately there was nothing
serious. Kroizman is out with a bad
leg, and Frank O’Hora and Sawchak
are expected to be on the ’ sidelines
until .the end of the week with sprain
ed ankles.
But the more serious losses to the
squad have not come as the result of
injuries. Leo Skemp, veteran back,
will be unable' to play because of an
ear injury sustained last year. But
the holes most difficult to fill will be
the ends. Two veterans, one of them
a letterman last year, will not be
back.
Salvatore Orlando did not return
to school, and late last week Bucky
McKee, letterman who reported for
the early practice sessions, left school,
leaVing Art Fry as the only wingman
with varsity experience.
Thus far little or no empasis has
been laid on a ‘first’ team, Coach
Higgins preferring to try all the pos
sible combination. Definite progress is
being made and with a week's more
practice the squad should be in shape
to pick a more or less permanent
eleven.
Coach Jerry Frock is.running the
Lebanon Valley grid squad through
two intensive drills daily in prepara
tion for their opening game with
Penn State on New Beaver field on
Saturday, October G.
Frock, who was named head coach
at the Anville institution when
‘Hooks’ Mylin went to Bucknell, is
Nittany Booters
Not Discouraged
By Scottish Trip
9 Veterans To Return
As Mainstays of
’34 Season
After that disastrous Scottish tour,
in which, the Caledonian ranks just
refused to give, the Lion booters are
now in the frame of mind to sweep
all native opposition aside in their
usually successful quest of an in
tercollegiate gonfalon.
Material worries, fortunately en
ough, will cause little furrowing of
Mentor Bill Jeffrey’s brow, since nine
lettermen are expected back, plus
some excellent reserves. Among, the
players to form the nucleus of this
year’s edition are Captain Jack Flet
cher,- Don Masters, George Corbett,
o‘oe Bielicki and Ed Long.
Others include Dick Sigel, Ben
Palmer, Jack Binns, Bob Dallas,
Woody Corman, Frank Osterlund, Bill
McEwan, and F. Marple Ambler. Only
three lettermen were lost -last June,
“Shorty" Edwards, “Swede" Hansen,
and Eddie Finzel.
Faced by a schedule which con
tains an assortment of tough spots
and breathers, the lads should com
fpile an average very much on’ the
credit side of the ledger. Whether
they can go through the season un
defeated, as last year, is again an
other matter. The teams which are
likely to prove the stumbling blocks
(on the basis of past seasons, a none
too reliable barometer) are all met on
successive week-ends; Syracuse,
Springfield and Navy, with the going
getting progressively harder.
Springfield held the Blue and White
to a 2-0 score last year, while Navy
proved itself the only opponent ca
pable of piercing the State defense
ail season, scoring one goal to State’s
three. Syracuse was topped,- 4-0, in
another shut-out tussle. Other teams
to be met this year are Get
tysburg, Lafayette and Dickinson.
3 JUNIORS NAMED TO
CHEERLEADING STAFF
Three juniors have been named to
positions on the cheer-leading staff
for this year. The juniors, who will
assist Head Cheerleader William B.
Edwards and other members of the
senior staff, are Albert E. C. Bickell,
Eugene M. Decker, and John B. Har
baugh.
They were selected by a committee
composed of Head Fotball Coach Rob
ert A. Higgins, Director Hugo Bez
dek, of the School .of Physical-Edu
cation and Athletics; • Prof. Richard
W. Grant,- of the department of mu
sic; Neil M. Fleming, graduate man
ager of athletics, and retiring Head
Cheerleader, John T. Davies.
Sports’ Scriveners
Beginning with this issue, the
COLLEGIAN sports department
will bring you the latest dope on
both varsity and freshman foot
ball,- cross-crounty, and soccer
teams, covering in full the things
the ordinary spectator does not
usually see.
Don Sanders will cover varsity
football, Harry Henderson will
write freshman football, Jack
Barnes, varsity and. freshman
cross-country and Walt ’Freunsch,
soccer. If you want to know
what’s what and who’s who in
sports, read the Collegian every
Tuesday and Friday morning.
; an advocate of an open game with a
speedy running attack and a decep
tive passing game. No scrimmages
will be held until the latter part of
this week.
The Valleymen are handicapped by
the loss of two veteran backs, Barth
old and Boran, both out for appendix
citis operations. The remaining ex
perienced backs arc co- Captain
‘Smoky’ Rust, ‘Scoop’ Feeser, and
‘Sully’ Whiting. The backfield will- be:
built around these men, drawing upon
Patrizio, Zarada, Shccsley, Tindall,
Carchidi, Fridinger, Capka and .Black.
The tackle candidates arc Ricker,
Baugher, Bartolet, and Rozman.
Crook is expected to man the flank
not covered by co-Captain Smith.
Three veteran guards are available
from last year, -all of them letter
winners. They are Furlong, Boyd
Sponauglc, and Coda Sponaugle.
Other guard candidates are Davies,
Cl-ipa, and Knupp.
At the pivot post, Coach Frock has
‘lron-Man’ Sincavage, veteran of two
years experience, and Kroske and
Broun.
After the tussle with the Nittany
Lions, Lebanon Valley will meet Mur
lenberg, Drexel, Delaware, Juniata,
St. Joseph's, and Albright on succes
sive Saturdays with a week’s lay-off
before winding up the season against
Pennsylvania Military College o n
Thanksgiving.
Sheriff Sells Bellefonte
; Academyjor $3500
One of Penn State’s most fruit
ful sources of football stars in for
mer years ended a fitful career when
the historic Bellefonte Academy was
sold by the sheriff recently. It’s new
owner is the Fidelity Trust Co., of
Pittsburgh, which purchased the
property for the sum of $3500.
The academy failed to weather the
storm of depression and was last year
turned into a school of-aeronautics.
Lack of students in the new venture
spelled disaster and the Pittsburgh
bankers forclosed the $55,000 mort
gage they held against the institu
tion.
The exact fate of the school could
not be learned today. The property
sold includes a large building on S.
Spring street, two other buildings
and a picturesque campus on the
same street, as well as an athletic
i field and swimming pool.
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With Mercersburg
October 8
Out of the 100-odd freshmen that
reported for the freshmen football
team, Coach Nels Walke has to whip
together a smooth functioning ma
chine capable of taking over Mer
cersburg prep when he takes a squad
down there October G, just three
weeks away.
The job that faces the freshmen
mentor is not an easy one by any
means. His squad is made up of a
great variety of men, some are high
school and prep school stars, some
have had a little high school expe
rience,- and a few have hardly more
than heard of the game.
Walke seems to think that the way
to build up a team is by hard work
and he has lost no tinie putting this
rule into effect. Saturday he had the
first year men out on the practice
field behind the East stands and aft
er a general warming-up workout, he
divided the squad into.two groups
under Coaches Slusser, Cole and Ev
erhardus. Under these new coaches
they practiced pulling out of the
line, charging, and getting down the
field under punts.
Most of the first year squad have
had some experience in high school
and while this experience is doubt
less invaluable it also has its draw
backs. For example, under some
systems * high school coaches • teach
their ends, when on the defensive, to
charge forward as deep as possible;
others have them charge one or two
steps and wait there to see where the
play is going.
Walke also has a system and that
is the system which these freshmen
gridders will have to grasp, and
grasp firmly before they will be able
to coordinate and click smoothly and
easily as a team. Three weeks doesn’t
allow Coach Walke much time with
which to develop and smooth down
the rough places in ( a team whose
members probably never saw one an
other before- last Wednesday.
But unless the material should
prove very weak and unwilling, \the
freshmen coach should -be-able tof do
again what he has done so'well in
the last two years.
The yearling gridders will play
their first home game October 20,
when they meet Dickinson seminary.
On November 3 they tackle the ever
strong Bison yearling team which
will travel here for the game. And
on November 20 the Pitt freshmen
will come here for the first time since
1932 when they defeated the Blue and
White yearlings, 13-0 The Lion
freshmen will close their 1934 sea
son on November 24, when they go to
Gettysburg to play the Bullet cubs.
Golf Captain Defeated
Lloyd “Chick" Beyer, co-captain of
the 1935 golf squad, was eliminated
in the national amateur tourney at
Brookline, Mass., last Thursday, in his
second round match,- after having
drawn a first round bye.*
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h Full Length Practice Game Saturday
Hamas Must Beat Lasky on
October 5 To Meet Champ
Steve Hamas, who was graduated
from here in 1929 after winning 11
letters and a Bachelor of Arts de
gree, is busy trudging about Pomp
ton Lakes, N. J.,- in preparation for
the most important bout of his heavy
weight career—a 10-round slugfest
with Art Lasky. at Madison Square
Garden on October 5.
Steve promises to knock Lasky all
over the lot and then, he says, “You’ll
hear me yodeling all over the place
for a match with'Maxie Baer, whom
I understand claims to be heavy
weight champion. ' I’ll be the out
standing challenger then and Maxie
can’t evade me."
Hamas hasn’t had a fight since he
gave Schmeling a-terrific beating in
Philadelphia last February, so two
•months ago he tore himself away
from the society, entanglements which
resulted from his own good looks and
set to work. The. wealthy Mrs. Lucy
Cotton Thomas McGraw had announc
township on the eastern outskirts of
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holding the strings as far as Steve
is concerned.
“That society stuff was all*right
for awhile,” said Steve on leaving for
Dr. Bier’s camp at Pompton* Lakes,
New Jersey, where he will begin the <
final training grind, “but I got tired;
of it and decided to come down here i
and buckle down to-work.
“I don’t imagine I’ll have much
trouble with Lasky. I have never
seen him fight, but I understand he’s
the stand-up type, which I like so
well. 'Whether he’s good or overrated,
I’ll- be ready for him. I’m in swell
shape now. No, that leg I hurt in
football hasn’t bothered me a bit—
not since before that Schmeling fight.
No, I haven’t done any boxing up
here."
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