'Page 'Four WEATHER Cleverness, Not Power, Called Best Soccer Asset by Jeffrey Penn State Coach Explains Kicking Theories: Freshmen Aspirants To Report Today By JERRY WEINSTEIN Cleverness, not power, is the most important asset a soccer player can have, according to a theory of Bill Jeffrey, Penn State soccer coach. “Cleverness in ball handling, drib bling, and passing," claims Jeffrey, “is essential to every good soccer player, the same as these assets are essential to every basketball man. “And power has little place on the soccer field. Again as in basketball, the soccer pass should be short, de liberately directed to a definite team mate. No power kick can ever put the ball in a specific spot," Jeffrey said. Hurd to Break llabit The hardest thing to break high school soccer players away from is the use of sheer power. Coach Jef frey, in developing his amazing teams over a' ten-year period, has taught Penn Staters tc- use a short kick with knee action. “The power kick,” Jeffrey explains, “is caused by keeping the knee stiff and kicking from the hip. As soon as the player begins the use of knee action, his usefulness to the team in creases one hundred per cent." Freshmen to Start Today Beginning this afternoon, Jeffrey, with the help v of Jim Cherry, Penn State captain in 1927, will work with the freshman team. All freshmen who are interested in soccer are ask ed to report to the soccer field on the golf course at 4 o’clock. Soccer Socks Regulars began drifting into prac tice all week . . . short scrimmages were held and will be held daily until the players’ legs are in condition . . . There is no heavy scrimmaging . . . freshmen) too, were interested am DANCE SKY-TOP SATURDAY NIGHT COAL m ICE WE ALSO SUPPLY FIREWOOD .' 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New varsity arrivals seen this week included Captain Bill McEwan, Carl Wacker, Phil Barnes, Eddie Mandel, et al. . . . Ray Bell, last year’s goaly who prevented rivals from scoring all year, was a menace to the team in that he kept other goalies from getting experience . . . A new net-keeper will have to be de veloped . . . Dick Haag has been play ing in the net . . . and a new candi date for the post is Selly Cohn, la crosse player ... \ In 1934, Jeffrey took a team over to Scotland to play the local boys there . . . other than pleasant memo ries, the only remains of the trip are Captain McEwan, Bob Dallas, and Woody Corman ... On the way over, the ship was in a violent storm . . . no Penn Staters were injured, but many others were . . . Bill Jeffrey has been associated with soccer for thirty-two years . . . Bill McEwan’s brother, Johnny, who starred for Syracuse, and Al Dakin, one of the Nittany Lions’ outstanding players, are now- associ ated with the New York American’s, pro-league champions . . . Grid Lines The hoys all prettied up for a bat tery of photographers early in the week and several funny things hap pened. Harry Harrison, who evident ly has been photographed before, was kicking for a shot. A helpful by stander recovered the ball and kick ed it back. It was a perfect shot, konking Guy Stover’s camera right on the bean and knocking it galley west . . . Tommy Silvano was caught in a headlong dive on a football. Had he caught the pigskin just a few inches southward, the chances are that the respiration machine, Tommy Slusser, would have been needed . . . Rabbit Wear was photographed without his shoulder pads to help preserve that sylph-like 129-pound appearance. The rabbit had better watc!r out. Pretty soon he’ll be big enough to get hurt Dial 842 PACES NITTANY GRIDMEN Players Still Plenty Hot, But It’s Mostly the Weather and Tired, Aching Muscles Appear Selection Of Starting Team To Be Tough During Season By CHARLES M. WHEELER, JR. What Lion rooters hope will be the first State football team to brag of in many a day is rapidly rounding into condition on New Beaver field day by day as the second week of practice nears a climax with another heavy scrimmage tomorrow. The pace this week has lessened due to the toll wrought by the terrific heat that is plaguing grid stalwarts this season. Coach Bob Higgins has babied the lash a little in comparison to last week to allow the sore and weary muscles of the athletes to get back into tune. Nevertheless the pace has been hard enough to send the boys into the shower with enough weariness to last the day. Once the. numerous mi nor injuries heal and the weather re alizes that September is shedding a few gray hairs, the team will be in shape to go out and after that polish, drive, and finesse it will need in fac ing its toughest schedule. Bob Shifts Players About Scrimmage Wednesday saw many new and different combinations of players cavorting over the grid lines. Evidently Bob wants to get away from this first and second team stuff and give everyone an opportunity. Especially are the backs going to cause no end of worry when it comes to select four to start a game. There are ponies and there are plow horses, and the imagination can only guess that the desirability of one will be weighed against the other. Wendell Wear, the rabbit, looks to be back in his old stride with his ac curate passes. But so are Harry Har rison and the veteran red man, O’- Hora, doing exceptionally well. We care not who shall bark the signals. As for the other backs, Patrick is still outstanding with his hard driv ing- running, making it very difficult to keep him on the sidelines at any time. Kyle, Metro, and Silvano all look alike at fullback now and it gets closer every day as the two young sters learn the plays and the posi tion. The veteran Silvano, in liis best condition’of his career, is still to be heavily -reckoned with. Sideline observers are waiting un til Bill Denise gets back into harness, which may be Saturday. He is sup posed to be a -driver that equals Pat rick. Enders will be back soon to aid the blocking Sammy Donato at num ber 2 back. Lang; the team’s best Theoretically, the physical edu cation and athletic program offered to freshmen and sophomore men at Penn State is ideal. It is ideal in that the set-up allows the stu dents to choose their favorite sports and then spend two hours a week in practice and play. Actually, the program has its weak points and with such is some what of a tiresome course for most students. Poor dressing facilities, over-crowded classes, not enough instruction, and the inconvenience of class hours are just some of the arguments against the type of training given. Since the men. on the physical education staff are powerless to change the existing conditions, and since they do have a good theory in mind, students should not be too discontent. Freshman and sophomore phys ical education affects more than one-half the male student body at Penn State. Since so many are •concerned, the matter should not be considered lightly as just a one credit, necessary-evil course. In taking up the two hours per week, .Jt would benefit the freshmen in particular if they carefully choose the activities in which they will spend so much of their time. Perhaps it would be well.to .con sider the advice given by one of the foremost athletic figures in the East today. He is John Zimnoch, a former member and now a sports authority at the New York Ath letic Club. . Zimnoch w T as a famous swimmer, basketball star, and base ball player in his day and is now athletic director at a private ath letic club in New York. In addi tion to this, Zimnoch is an official in the Amateur Athletic Union and THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Bob Higgins (This is the first of. a series of biographical sketches on Penn State coaches). Bob Higgins holds the distinction cf being one of the five Penn State gridders who received all-American recognition. In 1919, : .Bob was named for an end position on Wal ter Camp's all-star team. It was in this same year that he. made his famous long run to defeat Pitt, which was the last time a Lion team stopped the Panthers. Once before Higgins received all- Amcrican notice. In 1916, Camp picked the Penn Stater on the sec ond team. Just after he was cho sen captain of the Nittany Lions for 1917, Bob went overseas where he became a first lieutenant and served with distinction! He played football there too and was selected on Grantland Rice’s “All-A.E.F." team He returned to State in 1919 and became captain again. He graduated in 1929 Since 1920. Bob served as coach of West Virginia Wesleyan College and after five seasons there he went to Washington University at St. Louis for three years as head coach. In 1926, Higgins came to Penn State as end cOach and in 1930 he became head coach. This season marks Bob’s seventh as Nittany Lion mentor . . . he en tered Penn State in 1914 after graduating from Peddie . . . and made the team immediately . . . there was no freshman rule then .. . the freshman ruling was made in 1915 . . . was the only member of his class to make the team as a frosh . . 1 punter, is also being initiated into ’ the mysteries of the position, his for mer forte being end. • • Practice this week :has included some instructions in lineman block ing. This department has. long been State's offensive - weakness. The guards, and tackles, were' given the works on how to puli''out ‘of'the line and why. / 5 Tor Toretti, with both' legs charley horsed and bruised from head to foot, has been in there every day giving as good account of himself as any one. Last year’s stalwarts, Cherun dolo and Economos,- are still going strong, but the tackle_sifuation is still a bit acute. Replacements there are not as nu merous as in-other positions and the work has not progressed there offen sively as it should. Junior Hanley is perhaps giving the most with DeMa- Between the Lions is chairman'of the AAU basket ball committee in New York. Despite the fact that he coaches team games, Zimnoch 1 gives this advice to his young students when they enter college: Play a sport that you enjoy, first of all. If you like many -.sports, you must choose one with’, a look to the future. Pick a sport that you can play when you are out of college, a sport that you can play when you get old. Nearing the half-century mark, Zimnoch himself is just learning to play golf. Along with golf, he recommends tennis and handball. STORAGE ■ COURTESY CARDS HONORED R. F. STEIN MQTOR CO. 121 SOUTH BURROIVES STREET Marklaiid Hotel Noted for good food service , -*■ + + + Green Room Cosmopolitan Cocktail Lounge Stiff Scrimmage Set For Tomorrow, H. S. Game To Follow rino willing enough. Schuyler shows the effects of the'heat and Cornman is making .mistakes. Peel is up an'd coming and will be plenty strong by season time. Ends Adessa, ‘Barantovich, and Smith are playing equally as well as the other,, while Morini has been grabbing his share of passes. Day by day the selection problem grows toqgher and tougher. All of which is a good sign. A few years ago optimists would have been called crazy if they had mentioned that some day State might have, enough players that are willing and capable ■to play them equally in games. This way every one is fresh and can give the most. Grid Lines After the big scrimmage tomorrow, the State College high school eleven will inaugurate its season on New Beaver field with Howard high school. Howard is a town a bit to the south, lost in the valley some where, but , has always-had a team that makes it more than interesting for the local lads. The' game should be good, and besides it’s free to ev eryone. Incidentally, the high school has two husky tackles in Phil Hetzel, son of the president, and Whitmore, off spring of .the chemistry deacon. Phil weighs 220 pounds, while Whitmore flirts with the 200 mark himself. Have you noticed how Chuck Cher undolo has been playing the role of iron man? Day in and day out, ev ery minute of the practice he is in there never seeming to tire. In fact he is so strong a fixture that Tor To retti, whom Bob Higgins says can nlake any position on the Lion line) has been .shifted tp.,guai*d to keep him from being inactive. And Tor has made good ... Tony Sacco was back Wednesday, ..uniform and all, and was in quite a while. He seems* willing to get back into shape, in fact, quite ferocious since that shoe string sneaked up on him ... Bill Perlman, who was a flashy nigh school center, is hack again this year, his senior one. Bill has never been- particularly impressive here, but when he keeps coming back year after year for more when he got no letter, that lakes something . . . More big business deals have been put across on the golf course or over a tennis .net than over a big, spacious desk," Zimnoch says. What Zimnoch says is true. To you freshmen . and sophomores, then, consider carefully your phys ical education program. If you en joy a sport, look forward to play-, ing it in your phys ed period. Ask for advice from the staff and they will be glad to give it. And above all, pick a sport that you will en jdy and that you will be able to play when; Father Time begins his relentless chase. State’s Pitchers Set Local Records Penn State’s baseball forces were well represented this summer in the Centre County amateur league' as Frank Smith .and Joe Didingcr fin ished first and second among the pitchers of their division. Smith, who won seven games in the spring to lead the Lions to one of their most successful seasons, pac Drop in and see our New Fall Selection of ARROW SHIRTS $2.00 and $2.50 146 South Allen Street (Diagonally across from Post Office) Footballs Official Weight and Size *8- $ 10 Basketballs Official Weight and Size $ B- $ lO- $ l2 ’ —+- Basketball Uniforms .'AT •' The Athletic Store Dial 2158 Opposite Main Gate Friday, September 18, 1936 od the Centre County league with eight wins and one defeat. lie. rep resented the Port Matilda team. Didinger, who was one of the lead ing pitchers on Leo Houck’s freshman nine last summer, finished the Centre County league season with a record cf seven victories and only a lone de feat." Didinger played for the State College nine. Smith’s only losing performance came from State College. With Di dinger pitching, the locals stopped Smith, 2-to-l.
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