I Friday, January 11, n 3.4.
Freddie
Lion Athlete
Will Fill Weak
Spot in Team
Former Blue and White
TaCkle Changes His
Mind About Army.
By HARRY lIENDERSON
The Lion Boxing team's chances for
a more successful season loomed a bit
brighted today when Johnny Houck,
manager of the mitmen, announced
that Freddie O'Neil was returning to
school and, would be eligible for.inter
collegiate ring 'competition.
Fred:a second-string tackle on the
Lion 'football team during the fall of
1933 and a junior, failed to return
here last ,fall because he had hopes
of getting into West Point. However
things somehow didn't work out and
Freddie changed his mind about
entering the military institution.
Consequently he is returning here
next seinster.
Freddie was a hard-working mem
ber of the Lion ring team while he
was here and showed considerable
promise. ffe never fought any inter
collegiate battles because he was
unable to win over last year's ring
Captain .Tommie Slusser in the prac
tice sessions of the boxers.
O'Neil's return is considered a
definite step towards strengthening a
Iveak spot in the line-up. His long
reach often gave him the advantage
over many opponents and he is ex
pected by Lion fans to begin showing
his reach and a lot of his punch be
fore
the Lion ring season closes.
Harnai' Have Daughter
Steve llamas, outstanding con
tender for the world's heavyweight
boxing' championship, announced the
birth of a daughter, Kathryn Ann
llamas, on December 5.
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O'Neil Ek-Lion Will Join Boxers on Return Here
Harlow Viewed as State's
Most Famous Athletic Son;
Harvard Publications Scoff
Former Lion Expected To Restore One-Time
Grid Prowess to Fading Crimson.
By FRED W. WRIGHT, Sports Editor
With the appointment of Harvard's
new head football coach now definite
ly a matter of record, Dick Harlow
has beyond doubt become Penn State's
most illustrious athletic son.
Although Harlow's merited advance
ment has aroused a flurry of comment
from all of those persons connected
with the sport, there is little doubtt,
that' he will in one or two seasons
accomplish just exactly, that for'
which Harvard athletic authorities
hired him—restore to the Crimson
some of its one-time football prowess
and meanwhile be' exemplary. as a
gentleman in the style that affiliation
which Harvard requires. , Also, it
would be nice if more persons' , pur
chased ducats to -Soldiers Field,
Publications Flay Appointment .
liarvard's two most important un
dergraduate publications have been
the chief factors in the skepticism
and agitat/on following the appoint
ment of trig ex-Lion coach. '”Where
is Western Maryland?" the LaMpoon
asks, while the Crimson charges that
their new head coach has always been
conneeted with colleges of somewhat
shady character in the matter of re
cruiting players.
There isn't very much doubt, that
the..charges of the Harvard under
graduate publications are, in a. good
many instances, true but they can
never be officially ,substantiated. Giv
ing Penn State due credit for drop
ping the athletic scholarship hand
out system-in 1927—far in advance
of other colleges who gained all the
credit—it is impossible to deny that
coaches did and still. do proselyte.
Harlow, either as head coach here
in 1915, 1916, and 1917, or at Col-
gate, Western Maryland, or V. P. 1.,
had a job to preserve, too.
It seems pretty far-fetched to take
any other stand on the question, es
pecially when Bill Shepherd, the na
tion's highest-scoring back, matricu
lated at Western Maryland under Sir
Richard the Lion Hearted when his
home was only forty-two miles from
State College. It may have been an
exception, but most persons within
that radius generally come here.
There isn't very much doubt that
Penn State attempted a little recruit
ing when Shepherd was graduated
from high school, although, of course,
there aren't any records available to
prove it. In this case, it is logical to
assume that personality did the trick.
Harlow has long been esteemed by
his contemporaries on a basis of per
sonal qualifications as well as his
football acumen. Certainly a coach
must have some very potent quali
ties to bring an obscure Methodist
college into the national football lime
light, where only the greats like Har
vard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia,
Penn, Pitt, Army, and Navy are giv
en welcome,-
Is Noted Ornithologist
Singularly enough, a Pend State
graduate is chosen as head coach
when 'Harvard decides to scrap their
GO-year-old policy of having only
bearers of its degree in charge of
things athletic. But there is a catch
to that, too. Harlow is not the or
dinary coach who goes in for football
an a grand scale and forgets the aca
demic background and requirements
of the profession: He is football's
most noted ornithologist and ornithol
ogy's most noted football exponent.
Before the next year is out Harlow
will probably have a degree from
Harvard; they could award him an
honorary degree right now without
creating much commotion, in view of
his ornithological studies which have
taken him above the Arctic circle.
It is only reasonable to predict that,
given two years to exercise his per
sonality and to study the best mode
of play to use against Hariard's op
ponents, Harlow will have old grads
from 'O9 and the typical Harvard
undergraduate pseudo-sophisticate
bashing in hats on Saturday afteik
noons. And when that state of af
fairs is reached there will• be few
people indeed who will give second
thought, about the charges floating
around now.
Harvard, State Policies Compared
Bill Corum, writing In the Evening
Journal in New York, springs to the
aid of this College with "I stand will ,
ing to wager ... that, let
. 9s say,
Penn State, can show a record quite
as lily white as Harvard's. Particu
larly over the last five years."
Back to Harlow: His successful
coaching is in a great measure due
to his willingness to change set
systems and suit or modify them to
the type of player he •Itas to work
with. In addition, Harlow trekked to
New York for every home game the
Giants played and says he learned a
lot.
In this neck of the woods, there
'has been no little comment about the
rather strained relations which ex
isted between Harlow and Penn State
d•hen the former went to Colgate.
To Harlow's everlasting credit, he
did not reply to the Harvard ueder
graduate attacks made upon him.
Harlow once squabbled with the
gentlemen of Harvard after his team
had been out-scorebooked, 13-0, on
October 31, 1915, but it did little good,
and he has apparently become older•
and wiser since then. Apparently, his
wiseness is going to be kept by Har
vard for a long time to come, since
Harvard authorities gave every in
dication that they were planning to
do away with year-to-year contracts.
And now it's rumored about that
J. Neil (Skip) Stahley, also an ex.,
Lion and at present coaching at the
University of Delaware, will accom
pany Sir Richard as an assistant
coach. Stahley has denied the rumor,
but he seems to know quite a lot
about the situation in Harvard.
THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
Famous Athletic Son
"DICK" HARLOW 'l2
Fencers Will Engage
5 Schools This Year
Crossing swords with five schools
this year, the Lion fencing team is
whipping into shape for one of the
most difficult seasons it has yet faced.
The sworqsmen will clash blades
at borne with Syracuse on February
23 and Cornell on March 2. Away
meets are scheduled with Johns Hop
kins on March 15 and Penn the next
day in a two-day trip. A match with
Rutgers is still pending.
Headed by Captain Johnny Kreeger
and Charlie Lipeczky, last year's cap
tain,.the varsity (oilmen will swing
into action with the support of a
small but powerful 'squad. :Walt
Storrs, last season letterman, and two
sophomores, Ed Bowen and Bill Goo
kin, who led last year in the fresh
man tournament, will supply plenty
of strength for the foil division.
Although Lipeczky starred at saber
last year, it is doubtful that he will
enter the saber competition this year.
Under his tutelage, Dick Allen and
Dick Lewis are working steadily on
the heavy blades. In epee combat,
Kreeger, Lipeczky, and Storrs will
probably lead the attack, with Carl
Brodhun in reserve. '
Penn and Johns Hopkins, both tra
ditionally well-drilled teams, offer the
toughest oppositiori of the season.
Last year, the Lions lost to a swift
Penn team by a single point, and de
feated Rutgers by a good margin,
ending the season with a recognized
place in intercollegiate competition.
She-Lions
Delta Gamma's victory over Alpha.
Omicron Pi . was- . the • outstanding
event of the basketball playing at
Roe hall Monday night., The game
was closer than the 35-t0.21 score
would indicate. .Kappa Alpha Theta
retained a lead on the white team by'
defeating a strong Downtown Girls
group 40-to-13. Theta Phi Alpha, sur
prisingly enough, won from Gamma
Phi Beta with a 30-to-23 score. How
ever, with Peg Abraham scoring 32
points, Delta Gamma overwhelmed
Theta Phi Alpha on Tuesday. Three
of the seven scheduled games were
forfeited.
The Thetas, , with an imposing ag
gregation that includes Libby Shaf
fer, Bets Walter, Peg Campbell, and
Harriett Brakeman, stand at. the head
of the blue team. They probably ivill
retain their lead unless Chi Omega
comes forward with an unexpected
strength to defeat them. This is
rather doubtful•.
Delta Gamma, with four Phys Ed
majors, namely Peg Abraham, Ruth
Lonberger, Dot Hennicke, and Maria
Weber, won the lead on the white
team with their defeat of Alpha Omi
cron Pi. The group has an undefeat
ed record, and they are the most seri
ous contenders for the intramural
ehampionship
Scheduled games are:
Monday, Roe hall, 7:15
Chi Omega vs. Downtown Girls
Alpha Chi Omega vs. Itappa Alpha
Theta
Theta Phi Alpha vs. Alpha Omicron
Pi
Delta Gamma vs. Phi Mu
Downtown Dorms vs.-Kappa Kappa
Gamma
Gamma Phi Beta vs:Grange
Tuesday, Armory, 9:15
Phi Mu vs. Woman's. Building
Wednesday, ArinorY, '7:15
Alpha CM Omega vs, Downtown
Girls
Kappa Kappa Gamma vs. Mae
•
Delta Gamma vs.Gazahia Phi Beta
Fencing instructions, at 3 and 4
o'clock every afternoon in the Home
Cagemen Outfight
Owls, Lose, 3335,
In Extra Session
Lions Stage Comeback
From Penn Defeat;
Lead Throughout.
The widely-heralded dribblers from
the Owl school who journeyed up here
Wednesday night fora "breather" in
their schedule lost quite a number of
their fine feathers before their finally
managed to eke out a 35-to-33 deci
sion in an extra-period onslaught
with the Lion courtmen.
The Temple team won the game,
but that fact is quite incidental. What
is significant is that the Nittany Lion
could stage such a fierce comeback
from the drubbing it took from the
Penn quintet, which team was sup
posed to be decidely inferior to the
Owl team.
It took the Temple courtm2n about
thirty-five seconds to learn that in
stead of meeting a set-up, they had
bumped into an enraged Lion's lair.
At the opening whistle Stocker and
Co. whirled into action, met the Owls
at their own game, and held a scant
but , hard-earned lead for practically
all of the fray. In the last minute of
1 the regular period Messikomer, Tem
ple guard, scooped up a fumble and
dribbsd twenty yards to score, making
it 31-to-30. Fifteen seconds later
Frank Smith got loose and seemed
all set to score the winning goal when
the sleek .Rosan leaped his sturdy
frame. Smith was awarded two free
shots for being fouled and make one
of them, tying the game. In the extra
period the Owls grabbed an early lead
and by finesse, managed to hold the
two-point lead until the end.
Juniata Here Tomorrow
Though the Lions lost the Temple
game, their sudden display of feroci
ousness gave rebirth to confidence and
enthusiasm among the followers of
the sport. A much more optimistic
gathering will assemble when the
Lions meet Juanita in Recreation
hall tomorrow night at 7:30 o'clock.
The Juanita courtmen are coming
here
,after an engagement with
Elizabeth tonight. The only other
team which they will have met is Wit.
tenberg, who defeated them by a
three-point margin before the Christ
mas holiday. Since that game, the
line-up has been re-vamped and is re
ported to be much more_efficient..,
The probable starting line-up for
the Huntingdon team will be: Jae
Daher and Frank Kepler, forwards;
Merle Garner at the tip-off post; and
Mel Wenger and Captain Babe Mat
lack at the guard positions. The Lion
line-up will remain the same except
that Bar Riley may start in Hunter's
place.
.They Won By a Nose I
Fl rd. TI
Penn State
F. Stocker (C.) ___ 5 0
F. Fletcher
r•. J. smith u 3
C. Hunter 0 1 2
C. Riley 0 2 4
G, Korniek 5 0 5
G. P. Smith 3 2 7
Total . 33
Temple
F. Rosan 3 2 7
F. Fox 1 3 7
F. Brown ( 2 1 4
F. Dubin 0 2 4
F. Greenberg 0 0 0
C. Jcuenger 2 1 4
G. Messikomer 0 2 4
G. Fricberg (C.) __ 0 1 22
C. Casper 1 1
Total 35
Officials: Wallace and Bolster,
of Pittsburgh.
(V.O.P. Pinch-Flitting For C.M.S.)
Ec building, are progressing quietly.
Manager Eddie Oglevee says. that the
novices at the sport are progressing
rapidly.
There is no varsity team or fanfare
of publicity for this activity, but in
terest' and enthusiasm for it is grow
ing steadily. The student instruc
tors in the sport arc Earle Keyser,
Seva Kozitzky, John Kreeger and
Walter ,Storrs.
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Int&class Wrestlers To Determine Team
Prowess, Individual Champions in Tourney
Tomorrow; Seniors Expected To Take Meet
By N ANCE
The gravy of the College's beef
twisters will be determined tomorrow
afternoon when the wrestling repre
sentatives of the four different classes
clash in Recreation hall at 2:30 o'-
clock in the annual interclass grap
plang
During the preliminaries, two meets
will be going on simultaneously on
different mats. The freshmen will
meet the juniors and the sophomores
will meet the seniors. The sixteen
men, two in each weight division, will
tussle immediately afterward for the
individual championships. The team
winning the greatest number of
points, probably the senior congrega
tion, will capture the tournament.
The eliminations for the positions
on the various class teams have been
going on all week, but only the senior
team is definitely decided. The sen
iors will be represented by Dißito,
Ross, Horvath, Civitts, Cruiser, John
ston, Zimmerman, and Yoder. Three
juniors who are fairly certain of po
sitions on their team are Wolfson,
Light, and Waite. The satellities of
the freshman class are Economes, 165
pounds, and Slumlord, heavyweight.
Intramural Pugilists
A large part of the first round of
the intramural boxing jamboree was
staged Wednesday night. The time
for the final rounds has not been de
cided definitely as yet. The brawny
belters who came out on top Wed
nesday are:
125 Pound Class
Joe Corriols 37, independent.
William Bowers '3S, Alpha Chi Sig
ma.
David Minnick '36, independent
35 Pound Class
Eugene Wolf, Alpha Chi Rho.
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Paul Hagerty 'fiS, independent.
Richard Stenmiler '36, Alpha Chi
Sigma.
Gregg Thompson '3S, independent
115 Pound Class
Sheldon Tones '36, Sigma Pi.
Harry Miller '35, Pi Kappa Phi
.Saverio Donato '3B, independent
Bob Griffith '3B, independent.
155 Pound Class
Leroy Sunday '37, Phi Delta Theta
Peter Oleny '3B, Pi Kappa l'hi.
165 Pound Class
Dick Maurer '304 Phi Delta Theta
Albert ochroch '37, Sigma Tau Phi
Coach Calls Aspirants
For 1935 Indoor Track
Track Coach Charles "Chick" Wer
ner has issued a call for varsity and
freshman indoor track candidates in
preparation for the most extensive
indoor track season ever scheduled
for a Penn State team.
Several runners have been work
ing out for over a month and addi
tional candidates may report at the
varsity locker room in Recreation
hall any afternoon at 1:00 o'clock,
Coach Werner said.
On February 9, Penn State will
take part in the West Virginia Invi
tation meet at, Morgantown, W. Va.,
and on February 24, the Catholic Uni
versity Invitation meet at Washing
ton, D. C. A team will be sent to
the Intercollegiates which will be held
this year on March 4. An indoor
dual meet with Cornell is pending.
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