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Soose Follows In Coach's Footsteps As Uncrowned Champion
Dean Of Men's Report
Shows 5,000 Sfudenfs
As Sports Participants
; How fully Pennsylvania State
College students go in for extra
curricular activities especially
sports—is shown in a report by
Dean of Men A. R. Warnock.
Out of a student body of 6,500,
there were 5,500 sports partici
pants during the past academic
year. These include duplications
that occurred where a student en
gaged in more than one sport. In
tercollegiate sports accounted for
1,099 participants, men’s intra
murals 3,543, and women’s intra
murals 900.
;■ Next most popular interests out
,-side the classroom were the men’s
[social fraternities, with 1,900
[members, professional societies
[and men’s independent units with
jl,loo each, and musical groups
[with 636. The Christian Associa
tion reported 600 workers, and
sorority members totalled 533.
Student government claimed 300,
publications 216, dramatics 158,
pid debating 124.
• “These various types of extra
curricular activities,” said Dean
{Warnock, “not only furnish prac
licums suitable for the develop
ment of personal characteristics,
put also, because they are con
ducted in the democratic tradition
of the campus, they provide an
effective type of preparation for
living in a democracy and pre
serving its principles and produc-
: Eight Los Angeles students of
the University of California will
attend the seventh Japanese-Am
erican student conference in Japan
this summer.
Fifty-five per cent of men and
44 per cent of women at the Uni
versity of Michigan would like
more dates, a survey shows.
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Lion Boxer Still Chasing Title
After Decisioning Two Champions
Champ!
Billy Soose has beaten two
champions and gotten no crown.
As an intercollegiate boxer he
won the Eastern title and was
undefeated in his only season of
competition, 1937.
Athletes Are Sissies!
Don't You Believe If
The old belief that big rugged
athletes became the fathers of
daughters more "often than of sons
received a setback in the findings
of a research t study completed in
the School of Physical Education
and Athletics recently.
The study, which took in all
Penn State athletes of the past
ten years who are now fathers, in
dicated that participation in sports
has no effect on determining the
sex of children. The number of
male' and female offspring was
almost exactly even.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Billy Gels $2,000
Consolation, However
If Penn State’s Billy Soose ne'
er officially wins the world’s mi
dleweight boxing championsh:
he’ll be following in the footste]
of his old coach, Doctor Leo Floi
ian Houck, Lion boxing maste:
Soose decisioned both ’ claim
ants to the world’s middle we igi
title this summer but got
crown because ■ both were ovei
weight bouts. -He took a split di
cision from Overlin, recognized .■
champion by New York and Ca.
ifomia, in Scranton on July ~ 2*
On August 21 he finished off. lid
conquest of champions ' soiindl
trouncing Tony Zale,' recognize
by every other state and the.N;
tional Boxing Association,'. hi
bout staged in Chicago. ..
For the fights, Soose got no
tie, but he came away from, tl
Zale battle with more than $2,
010.16 representing his 20 per cei
share of the gate receipts.
Coach Houck, who tutori
Soose to an Intercollegiate cham]
ionship here' in 1937, was the “ui
crowned champion” of the 1910’s.
He carried off the middleweight
championships of Europe and Can
ada in 1912 and the light-heavy
weight championship of Cuba, but
getting the world’s title which
rested in America was a different
matter.
In seeking the world’s title, Leo
always fought the right people at
the wrong times.. He beat George
Chip ; five times but when*. Chip
kayoed Frank Klaus to win 'the
crown, he wouldn’t fight Houck
again. Houck also beat John Wil
son twice before Wilson lifted the
crown from Mike O’Dowd.
Soose currently is angling for
re-matches with both Overlin and
Zale with the title at stake but
neither are expected to come
through until they have capital
ized as much as possible on their
current official dominance. Both
are comparatively new as champ
ions, having been crowned this
year, and neither is anxious to be
uncrowned any sooner than ne
cessary.'
He was an undefeated boxer
and 155-pound champion on Penn
State’s Intercollegiate champion
ship boxing team of 1937. In 1938,
however, he was,barred for par
ticipating in several semi-profes
sional fights and then dropped out
of college to turn to pro boxing.
+ + +
Professor Houck
“Doctor” Leo Houck, Penn
State boxing coach and Billy
Soose’s tutor, was an uncrowned
champion himself. (See article
above).
Ebony Flash
Barney Ewell, Penn State’s ace
runner, added to his list of na
tional championships this summer
and since January has won almost
as many in the broad jump and
sprints as you can count on both
hands. (See column 5.)
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1940
Track Aces Win
Summer Honors
Not satisfied with their accomr
plishments during the regular
track season, Barney Ewell and
Nick Vukmanic, standout Liori
trackmen; scaled new heights dtnv
ing the Summer gaining for State
third place in the National Col
legiate meet at Minneapolis.
(Most noteworthy feat Was'
Ewell’s double win in the National
Collegiates. He sprinted the 220 in
21.1 to set a new collegiate mark'
for a course with one turn and
edged out Clyde Jeffrey to cop
the 100-yard dash in 9.6 seconds.
In the National Amateur Ath?;
letic Union, meet at Fresno, Cal.,
Ewell, was upset in two close races,
theloo;and 200. meter dashes, by
;Haf Dsiyis, a junior college runner;.
I' ln the'National Collegiate me£jt
■Vukmaxiic . tossed the javelin with*
in two feet of the 201-foot winning
distance but only managed to come
-in. fourth. In the NAAU tourney
he reached the distance of 218 feet
to gain third place. i
In the National Collegiates Ewell
and Vukmanic, although they werC
the only Lion
scored enough points to give
third place among the team rank
ings. Southern California won the
title and another West coast school*
Stanford, came in second.
Twelve works of art by ten Am
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for the permanent' collection of
the University of Nebraska.
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