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Lion Grid Team Hot As Scrimmages Start
Eager Squad Works Hard
As Early Practices Lend
Encouragement for Season
Denise, Kyle, Enders, Barth, Waugaman Laid Up
But Team Drives on to Gain Condition;
Two Stiff Scrimmages Held
By CHARLES M. WHEELER, JR.
New Beaver field is scorching: hot today as a willing: and eager Lion foot
ball team completes a week of torrid contact work impressively far ahead of
its form at this time last year. Scrimmaging on the second day out, the grid
tiers have literally been hot as they bore down for hard work under a broil
ing sun.
Two crackcrjuck scrimmages with quarters and all the trimmings fea
tured last week’s work on Thursday and Saturday. So viciously were the
boys hitting that live of them are on the sidelines with leg injuries of no par
ticular severity. Of the five, Barth and Enders are most seriously hurt,
while Kyle, Denise, and Waugaman are expected back any day.
Typical day’s workout so far has
included three training .tabic meals in
the Old Main Sandwich Shop, skull
practice in Varsity Hall and on the
field, sprints, signals, dummy scrim
mage, and hard scrimmage.' A team
that is heavier this year than in many
before has worked off a goodly
amount of the excess weight accumu
lated during the summer.
Prospects for the. Lions ■ this fall,
even though facing a tough schedule,
are genuinely good. A drive that has
been unprecedented' in recent State
football is evinced.' The boys are
really giving a lot for so early in the
campaign preparations.
Coach Bob Higgins has uttered no
verbal satisfaction with the results of
the work, but it can be seen that he
is pleased. He has much more to work
with than he has ever had before here.
The replacements are strong.
Blues Versus Whites
Last year when the team lined up
with “blues” and “whites,” one team
was always so superior tO;the other
that there was no opposition. These
fracases last week were no such af
fairs. . The blues scored three touch
downs Saturday against the whites,
but the whites were very much “in
there.”
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! Barantovich, ends; Schuyler and Han
ley, tackles; Economos and Toretti,
guards; Chorundolo, center; O’Hora,
quarter; Patrick and Donato, halfs;
Silvano, full. Opposing them have
started Smith and Morini> ends; De-
Marino and Cornman, tackles; Zo
chowski and Battaglia, guards; Scott,
center; Harrison, quarter; Sheridan
and Yett, halfs; Kyle, full.
Seeing considerable action in the
backfield, too, are Windy Wear, last
year's sensation: Pergrin, a newcom
er, and Metro. When Enders and De
nise get back to join Gentilman and
Wuenchel, youthful aspirants, the
backfield will be the strongest in many
years.
Defense Again Strong
The defensive work of Dean Han
ley, sophomore, who is expected to
land a tackle berth in his first, year;
Economos, of Pittsburgh fame; and
Chuck Cherundolo, captain, have been
of high order. But they are not alone.
All bei’ths are being hotly contested.
Red O’Hora was out Saturday with
blisters and Harrison did not play, but
their play, especially Harrison’s, has :
been of spectacular nature. Patrick
is the hardest runner on the team so
far, and appears to have the stuff to
give State its first driving back in two
years. Tommy Silvano has returned
to seriousness and is giving more of
the work of which he is capable.
This team is going to be one worthy
of support if its early eagerness con
tinues. Further scrimmaging this
week will see how the spirit lasts. »
Basketball to Start
Coach John D. Lawther, who will
take over'the basketball forces this
season, announced today that he ex
pects to begin fall practice in the near
future.
Between
The Lions
While football holds the intercol
legiate sports spotlight at the pres
ent time, the coming world scries in
baseball kindles interest in the na
tional game. When baseball is men
tioned, Penn State sports fans
should look up and take notice, for
it was only a few months back that
u Nittany Lion nine established a
record that will be remembered.
Coach Joe Bedenk’s 1936 edition
won thirteen games out of the sev
enteen-game schedule, placing Penn
State in the first division of eastern
colleges. In this group Fordham
■and Holy Cross showed the way,
while Manhattan and Villanova join
ed the Lions near the top.
The Penn State nine was one of
streaks. After losing the opener,
the Nittany batsmen took five
straight. Then, three games were
lost, but the team went on to finish
with an eight-game winning streak.
Offensively, the Lions were pow
erful. Red O'Hora, at shortstop, led
the eastern colleges in batting with
a terrific mark of .507. On the
mound, Frank Smith won seven
games, with many strikeouts to his
credit. Bill Ford, now with the Bos
ton Bees, Ben Simoncclli, and John
Boho each contributed two victories.
Mainly a team of sophomores and
juniors, the Penn State baseball
team can look forward to another
successful year. Perhaps an up
trend in Nittany Lion sports was
started off when Joe Bedenk’s nine
established its fine record.
With pre-season football practice
only a week old, discussions can be
heard among Penn State fans,
“grandstand” coaches, and so-called
“experts” concerning Coach Bob
Higgins’ method of training his
players. The main theme is the
practice of scrimmaging the second
day of training, and the playing of
full-length games the third and
fifth days.
The theory behind the coach’s ac
tions is probably the one that says
“the only way to learn football is
to play it” . The critics answer to
that one says yes, if the players
are in good enough physical condi
tion to stand the hard contact work.
Countering this argument, is the
one side that insists that the play
ers were supposed- to 1 report here
last Tuesday in..good physical con
dition. This is all well and good, if
circumstances are such so that the
players have jobs where they can
keep in condition. In a few cases,
this was' impossible.
And so we hear that so-and-so
was injured because Higgins scrim
maged the team too early. After
one week, there were five cases
where players were kept on the side
lines. Every football camp has its
pre-season injuries, and at Penn
State thus far, there .is no excep
tion to the rule.
Last year, two men received knee
injuries that closed their football ca
reers. Many said that this was
caused by early scrimmaging and
many players agreed. All of the
five now on the sidelines are out
with leg injuries, none of them very
serious. It is hoped that pre-sea
son injuries will end as practice for
the Lions continues. The argument
for. and against early scrimmages
is still.wide open... We shall wait
and see the results.
Cherundolo Youngest
Lion Football Leader
Have you met Chuck Cherundolo,
Lion grid captain for the year?
He’s a big fellow weighing 192
pounds, has black hair, a broad grin,
and a booming deep voice. And he
feels his oats after three years of
centering on Bob Higgins’ Nittany
Lion football team.
But most amazing of all is the fact
that he is but 20 years old, the young
est football captain in the history of
the College and probably the youngest
in the country.
But to get his spirit he must be
quoted,* “I don’t want to be the young
est, I want to be the best.”
Chuck worked on a construction job
this summer, but despite that at one
time tipped the scales at 217. Kte lost
the weight rapidly after working out.
His mother and father are both in
terested immensely in his football
prowess. He has a brother who plays
semi-pro ball for the Pittston Athletic
Club.
Chuck prefers the defensive part of
football and gets a kick out of diag
nosing the enemy’s offense. He devel
oped the love for defensive play when
captain of his high school team at Old
Forge.
As for appetite, Cherundolo has a
large one. His diet reads the same in
all seasons—spaghetti.
FRESHMAN
INSIST ON U. S. ARMY REGULATION SHOES
THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
Lion Soccer Eleven Faces Task
Of Maintaining Amazing Record
Established in Quarter-Century
State Booters Won 80,
Lost 12, Tied
20 in Period
By JERRY WEINSTEIN
When Penn. State’s soccer team
takes the field in the first game of the #
1936 season,- a task of continuing &
twenty-five • year record, which is
probably unparalleled in the history
of college sportdom. faces Bill Jef
freys' booters.
By completing the 1935 season with
a perfect record, having been unde
feated, untied, and unscored upon, the
Lion soccer team put the finishing
touches on an amazing quarter-cen
tury feat. During this span, the boot
ers lost only -twelve games, less than
one game every two years. During
seventeen seasons since 1911, when
soccer became an intercollegiate sport
here, the Blue and White teams went
undefeated. The complete twenty-five
year record shows eighty victories and
twenty ties, in addition to the twelve
losses. . s
Jeffrey Has Fine Record
• Coach Bill Jeffrey, hardy Scotch
born soccer expert, has developed win
ning soccer.- teams at Penn State for
the past ten years. Jeffrey’s teams
have dropped but six games in the de
cade, while winning forty-nine and
tieing eleven. In the past six years,
only six goals have been scored
against the Nittany Lions, while Jef
frey's booters tallied eighty-three
times.
The finest Penn State teams are
found in the last three seasons. Eight
seniors on last year’s squad never
tasted defeat.-' Lion players dominat
ed the all-American teams during this
period. ’" •*
McEwan Is High Scorer
By scoring? twenty goals in 1934,
Bill McEwan, 1 who will lead the Lion
booters in their coming.campaign, es-
Werner Pleased
With Prospects
Four Varsity Lettermen Return
To College; Trimble Fails
To Register Here
By WjOODY BIERLY
Chick Werner, coach of the cross
country team,- is optimistic concern
ing the outlook for State's harriers
this season. He feels that this will be
the best team since he took over the
the coaching reins in 1933.
Co-captain, Bill Trimble, will not
return to school., this fall and it is
this together; with the graduation of
Book and Surmatis that will be the
most serious blow to the success of
the team. However, the sophomore
harriers will .add more strength to
the varsity than any previous soph
omore group for a number of years.
Among the varsity lettermen from
last season 1 are Captain Howard
Downey, Donald Daugherty, Charles
Clark and Pete Olexy. Sophomores to
whom' Werner, is ‘ looking • for some
valuable material are Leonard Hen
densen, Burt Aikman, Bill Griestj,
Herb Hazard, Bryce Hollister, Bill
Joachim,_Al Larson, Dick Scheiman,
Art Simons, and Charles Tapman.
The schedule for this year calls
for five meets. The harriers will en
counter Pitt, and Syracuse at home,
while they mil run at Lehigh and
Cornell. The intercollegiates in Van
Cortland Park,at New York City will
close the season. According to Cap
tain Dowrjy, Syracuse and Pitt are
expected to be the toughest opponents
for the Nittany harriers.
The first practice was held yester
day afternoon. Students interested to
try-out for the teams are requested to
report at once for practice in order
that an early start may be gained.
Robert K. SJetz ’37 will be manager
of the harriers this season. He takes
the, place of Cameron Brown, who
was, elected manager but will not re
turn to college.
- Werner is also planning to hold
track practice this fall. There will be
woric-outs in all the events and the
first work-out is to be held within the
next week. A 100-yard cinder track
is planned • for construction under
the West stands., It will be used for
winter training and will end the com
plaints that the wooden track in Re
creation Hall. is unsatisfactory for
that purpose.
The prospects for a good freshman
track team are bright. Efforts of
Coach Werner to obtain good men
New Sports Writers
To introduce the new sports re
porters:
Charles M. Wheeler, Jr., who cov
ered golf in the spring, will write
football. The baseball correspond
ent, Jerry Weinstein, will follow
the Lion soccer team. Both fresh
man and varsity cross-country,
plus freshman football, will be re
ported by Woody Bierly, while
Francis H. Szymczak will write in
tramural ' sports. Szymczak was
the lacrosse expert in the spring.
tablished what is believed to be an all
time college record. Although handi
capped by a serious operation on his
knee which kept him out of the first
game last year, McEwan registered
seven goals to lead the Lions.
With such a precedent as this amaz
ing record has established, it can be
easily seen that both Bill Jeffrey and
the Penn State team will have their
hands (or rather their feet) full if
they are to perpetuate the quarter
century mark. It is with optimism
and unbounded spirit that the Lions
have begun their first practice ses
sions.
Eight Regulars Graduated
But there is a definite problem that
will have to be faced before the sea
son begins. Eight regulars, three of
them all-Americans,, were lost to the
team by graduation. The all-Amer
icans include Captain Joe Bielicki, Bill
Sutliff, and goaly Ray Bell.' Others
who went out into the world are Ed
Long, Johnny Binns, George Corbett,
Ben Palmer, and Connie Welsh.
Practice Under Way
Only five lettermen are on hand,
and around'these, plus four more vet
erans, Coach Jeffrey must build his
team. Captain Bill' McEwan, all-
American forward, has returned.
Frank Osterlund, -Solly Miehoff, and
Carl Wacker, forwards; and Phil
Barnes, fullback, are the lettermen.
The veterans include Bob Corman and
Football Fads
Tony Sacco, sophomore guard, pro
vided some amusement the second day
when he strained his back. The story
goes that Tony bent over to lie his
shoe string, but Sacco claims he hit
a charging machine . . . John Econo
mos has been working in State Col
lege all summer and’is in the best con
dition of his career .. . Alex Baranto
vich looks like the real McCoy., He
has that “something” that even foot
ball coaches can’t explain.. . . We've
been waiting a long time to see the
hal’d driving running in a State back
that Johnny Patrick has displayed so
far . . . Bud Kyle drove* an ice cream
wagon all summer ... Incidentally,
that was a terrific collision that Kyle
had with Silvano on the goal line Sat
urday. Tommy -just made it, and
that's all.. . Nomination for the most
amusing line of chatter as well as the
most cocky goes ,to Harry Harrison
. . . Contrast is the .deep, booming
voice of Cherundolo. When. Dean Han
ley and Johnny. Economos get “down
under” you should see that line buckle
.'. . Lang is the best punter,, but 0-
Hora, Patrick, Harrison, Kyle and De
nise can all kick . . . Sheridan and
Yett, hard luck boys, indicate that
they may put it over this fa 11... Peo
ple who know are laying even money
that Pitt won’t lose more than one
game in the next two years . . . They
figure that to be Ohio State . .. This
writer figures Nebraska tougher, and
then there is always that State game.
during the summer months wex;e un
tiring and it seems that he will be
rewarded for his work. Many of the
prospective stars were the winners
of individual events at tlie P. I. A. A.
track meet here last fall. .
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This Fall
Bob Dallas,‘forwards, and Eddie Man
del and Dave Waddell, halfbacks.
Yesterday, there was a large turn
out as practice started. Last week.
Coach Jeffrey and several early ar
rivals kicked a ball around, and on
Saturday, a practice game was played
with the State College high school
team. There were few Lion regulars
on hand.
Among the outstanding players who
reported yesterday, there are Haag
and Dye, goalies; Slabodian, Spiker,
Painter, Magrai!, and Forbes, half
backs; Wild, Garner, Rankin, and Par
sons, • forwards; and Hosterman,
James, Bean, and Snook, fullbacks.
Buckncll opens the booters’ schedule
on October 10. Gettysburg and Lafa
yette come here on October 17 and 24,
respectively. The Lions meet Syra
cuse away on October 31, and return
here November 7 to face Western
Maryland. The major game of the
season comes November 11, when the
Lions go to New Haven for the Yale
contest. Temple, on November 14 at
State College, and Navy, on the 21st
away, complete the schedule. -
Soccer Socka
Coach Jeffrey wears sneakers at
times instead of the regulation hard
toed soccer shoe in order to show the
boys that the toe should not be used
~ . . the best shot is obtained with the
instep, which gives the greatest di
rection control ... Captain Jim Cher
ry, of the 1927 team, is teaching here
now in the architectural engineering
department . he has been working
out with the team . . . development of
halfbacks will be Jeffrey’s hardest
task . . . the schedule is the first in
Penn State history that lists eight
games . . .
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At Pennsylania Fairs
Thirteen members of the College
faculty wiil select the winning exhib
its at eight fairs in the state this
week, Howard G. Niesley, of the de
partment of agricultural and home
economics extension, announced to
day.
They were Dr. Charles F. Noll, of
the department of agronomy; Charles
A. Burge, Carl O. Dossin, .Charles R.
Gearhart, Fred V. Grau, Harry H.
Kauffman, Lawrence C. Madison,
Joseph C. Nageotte, .Walter B;. Nis
sley, Robert H. Olmstead, John U.
Ruef, John Vandevort, and Edward
J. Walter, all of the department of
agricultural and home economics ex
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Hugo Bezdek Scores
Ace on 137-Yd. Drive
After over thirty years of 1 golfing,
Director Hugo Bezdek, of the School
of Physical Education and Athletics,
scored his first hole-in-one.
Playing the fifteenth hole on the
College course Friday, Bezdek used a
number seven iron. His ball hit the
green on a 137-yard drive, and then
rolled seven yards to the cup. .
Bezdek shot the second nine holes in
thirty-two, three, strokes under par.
Meyer M. Krull ’39, playing the
same hole late yesterday, also scored
a hole-in-one. Krull used a number