rage Four 1935 Gridders Practice as 5 Spring Sports Get Under Way 80 Men Report for Spring Gridiron Practice; Higgins Plans Intensive Training Backfield Offers Greatest Problem; Only One Regular Returns; Line Almost Intact. By DON SANDERS An intensive period of spring training began for the 1935 Lion foot ball hopes on Tuesday afternoon and will continue for about four weeks. Head Coach Robert A. "Bob" Higgins has about eighty men in uniform now that all winter sports are over and the spring sport schedules have nob yet begun. Although handicapped the first day by inclement weather, the rest of the week has been ideal, and the squad i 0 taking full advantage of it. Tho first session was limited to handing out equipment and outlining the work of the spring practice. The members. of the squad have been tuld, in a general way, the plays that will be used next season, and they have been holding light scrimmages with sonic of them. It has become customary for Lion fans to say every season that the team looks better than it has since the abolishing of scholarships, and this can be said again this year. Four regulars will be graduated in June. several of them very hard to replace, but a, good crowd of reserves is com ing up and the best freshman team in years will nearly all be back. The seniors who will be missed most are ex-Captain Merrill Morrison and Harry Sigel, halfbacks, Al Mikelonis, quarterback, and Lou Kreizman, guard. Others graduating are Goo ber, tackle, TOozk, guard, Korbu, end, MeClaren, end, Zeleznock, center, and Park, tackle. This year Coach Higgins' trouble was in getting together a line. Neat year it will be the backfield, but he has more good material to begin with. The line will be back almost intact: Art Fry and Frank Smith at ends, N - l ot ktiot ir , ~ ..,,,r4.,,,,.„.. 6:30 and 8:30 Ecninga at TODAY - WEDNESDAY Return Showing, "David opperfield" • C FIELDS IUREEN ADGEOULLIVAN EVANS INA MAY OLIVER AN IC LAWTON ..IZABETH ALLAN _IONEL BARRYMORE FREDDIE , ARTHOLOMEW LEWIS STONE ROLAND YOUNG Captain Bob Weber and Roy Schuyler at tackles, Lou Barth at one of the guard posts, and Chuck Cherundolo or Frank O'flora at center. • There will be plenty of aspirants for Kreizman's post at guard, prob ably chief among which is Harry La torn, who substituted at the position this season. He should be pressed by Wismer, Perlman, O'Dowd, and John ny Economos, honorary captain of this year's freshman team. So far, as the rest of the line is concerned, only Captain Weber and Fry are juniors; the other four all have two more years of varsity competition. The backfield problem is more dif , dealt. The only regular buck is Tom my Silvan, chief ground gainer last season, who has one and possibly two more seasons to play. The work done by the second string backfield is the ILafayette and Bucknell games shows that they are not incapable of being moulded into a working combination. Bill Cooper, although a bit erratic. has shown bits of playing unequalled on New Beaver field in a long while. He will probably take Mikelonis' Iplace as kicker for the Lions. In addition, lie is a good blocking back, can pass, and should develop into a running threat. Cooper has always played fullback. ShoUld he 'be able to shift to half, he should fill a defi nite hole in the 1935 backfield. Of the remaining junior backs, Dick Maurer and Lefty Knapp have had the most experience. Maurer, at the moment, seems to lie the most log ical choice to fill the hole left by Mikelonis' graduation. The other can didates for the position are Berney Girton, a sophomore, . and , Windy Wear, coming up from, the freshman squad. He was one of the best ground gainers on this year's freshman team, although slightly irregular. Harold Robbins, captain of the freshman team two years ago, was in jured most of lust season and saw only a little action. He has two more years of varsity service. Two of the most promising aspirants for the backfield are Mike Kornick and Whi tey Rhoda, both of whom were regu lar substitutes this season. Thiel Works With 50 Lacrosse Men Outlook for Season Bright as Capt. Weber, Koth, Other Veterans Return. By HARRY HENDERSON Approximately fifty varsity la crosse candidates are working out daily on the practice field on the golf course under the direction of Coach Nick Thiel, new Lion lacrosse men tor, who is keeping the stickmen late every night and working them into shape for the opening of the season for the old Indian game. Things look definitely good for the Lions in lacrosse this year. Only a few regulars were lost by graduation last June. The two who probably will be missed most of all will be Hank Moulthrop and Johnny Rath= melt, defensive stars on the State team for the last three years. Among those whom Coach Thiel will have to rely on will be George Koth, who was captain last year and who was selected for a forward berth on the All-American lacrosse team, and Captain Iggy Weber, point, who also captain of the Lion grid team .In addition to Koth and Weber, Coach Thiel will hive Tony Robeson, Bates Barnes, Eddie . Rumbaugh for attack positions:, Robeson .and Rum baugh Wok turns last spring playing first attack under. the tutelage .of Mike Loebs, now athletic director at Colby. • . . ere's something about . a Chesterfield 7fet ite din c.) r y lik e 1 t ecta Chateti;elh—eglitely aade kcom, de tact tha - roi :tiette and jile g J I • , 4 . 14 iikiedet o .reo 4e' Jay- 14e 3i:wiz t,1!..1. , 1 . . Z 7. --v cuff C 1P33. Lcr.rrs TEE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Additional Track Men Summoned by Werner By JACK BARNES With most of the . regulars already out, Coach "Chick" Werner has is sued a call for additional aspirants for varsity nhd freshmen track. In the second time trials of the year on Saturday, cross-country captain-elect Book, in the absence of Captain Har vey, was outstanding. With the" opening meet over a month away the mild weather plus the fact.that.most of the varsity have been r unning• in the indoor track sea son has put Most of the men in com mendable condition. Although. eight lettermen from last year's varsity team have been graduated, there were only three who were outstanding and their places should be admirably fill ed by mdn from last year's strong, undefeated - freshman team. Of those graduated, Jackson, hurd ler, Woolridge, 440-man, and Adams, discus-thrower,, will be the hardest to replace, while smaller holes have been left by Van 'Kaaren, another hurdler, O'Shea; -high , .jumper, Kershner, pole vaulter,'and:-Aldrieh, dish man. Ex- Captain Sayland, who did not com pete because:of - injuries, is the other letter man who was graduated. From among the sopltomores, Ro senberger and Luttringer in the dash es, Downey ; in the middle distances, Crum'and Trimble in the mile, Hutch inson and Tait in the two-mile, and Osterlund in the hurdles will be used to strengthen the track events, and several of these plus Barnes will take part in the , ;field events. t it are ~ -/M1 et • Che,Atet Prospects .Good For Golf, Tennis Net Squad Retains 3 Ranking • Players; Linksmen. Lose Only 1 Veteran., , • By WALT FREUNSCR • Prospects for both the tennis and By BILL M golf teams loom unusually bright for With' the weather man batting for the coming season, because of the re- Santa Claus, the Penn State baseball I ' turn of almost full squads of veter- team worked out Wednesday, Thurs ans. The call for candidates in both sports will go out shortly.. day and Friday last week and' are shaping up much better than they did Net Coach Dink Stover Will have his first, second, and third men of at this time last year when rainy last year's team to work with again. weather kept them in. , They are Pip Block, Captain Nels Joe Bedenk has been trying Rob- Green, and Jinimy Smith. Another bins itt`seCond base and moving Stock of last .year's regulars still in school or 'up to .third base. Robbins played is Jack Heyison, who paired with second base on the freshman team Block in the doubles last year and oc casionally played singles. last year and was the best hitter, Several good sophomores are also while Stocker was used occasionally in line for positions on the team this on third last year. season, outstanding of them being The* matter, of pitcher is still de- Bob Morgan. The only netmen, lost pendent on *whether Smith, Stokes, by graduation were, Captain , Randy Bachman, - or Lefty'Knapp show the Skillen and Homer Manwaiing, mosi' , stuff before April 10. Lefty fourth and fifth men, last year.. has awakened from his long winter Losing only Dick Riten'Our* from hibernation and is - really starting to last year's foursome doach Bob Ruth- work. Ochrock has the' Position be crford will have his veteran number hind the plate sewed up if he stays one and two men, co-captains Chick in there and works. Beyer and Tommy Marshall, and I .The only other. new development is Don Masters as mainstays. ;• that Heckendoin another Man from The course is rapidly getting into last Year's freshinan team,'is looking playable condition, and although the good in left field and may gilie Wit holes have' not yet been placed, sev- fiver plenty. of Competition. oral players have been trying out Bill MeHechnic's torn muscle is their drives and approaches. much better now and he has been ftevez yet little monk of teklacco m my mated. tweet 't e pill out ad that 424 , a: lot v.4:011 pleaactte them ftCrtfce aid ittete col itt. itieculd Jima atot. I CA I. Baseball Team Works Out Daily in Preparation for First Game Here April 10 Smith, Stokes, Bachman, Knapp in Competition For Mound Post; Ochrock To Catch. heitetkea 5 - o - to Settet Tuesday, March 26, 1935 cDOWELL working out on the field. lie prob ably will bat in second position after Stocker because he has the eye to hit anything pitched and coo sacrifice. The seventeen-game schedule this year• includes ten home games with two trips where More than one team is met. Paste this on the wall: April 10—Bucknell April 13—Susquehanna April 17—Navy at Annapolis April 18—Georgetown at Washing ton, D. C. April 20—Washington at Chester town, Md. April 27=Juniata April 30—Lebanon• Valley May 4—Penn 'at-Philadelphia May B—Gettysburg • May 11—Western Maryland May. 17—Colgate at Hamilton, N. Y. May 18—Syracuse at Syracuse, N. Y. May 22—Dickinson May 25—Temple May 29—Muhlenburg June I—Bucknell at Lewisburg . June B—Syracuse The Middle Atlantic states Collegi ate conference is advocating twilight collegiate baseball games as a means of increasing interest in the sport;
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