PAGE FOUR
Bill Kern Assures
Fighting Eleven
West Virginia University's
AfFountaineers head into their
foyty-eighth year of intercollegi
ate football this fall with a new
man, blond Bill Kern, in the
coach's seat.
With Korn comes a new staff,
) - (3)lacing that of Dr. Marshall
Glenn. Eddie Hirschberg will be
hi.; first assistant, with Frank
utz coaching the guards and
Mike Nicksick the backs. Ray
Carnelly will be Freshman coach,
and Errett Rodgers, West Virgin
ia's only All
lerican an d
in of Moun
neer coaches,
being retained
backfield
ich and chief
)ut. Like heir
35, Hirschberg,
Itz, and Nick
it- are former
stars, while
7nelly . was the
star quarterback
of Carnegie
Tech!s eastern championship elev
en of 1938.
Bill Kern
Kern, late of Carnegie Tech,
where in 1938 he was voted the
nation's "coach of the year," is a
pretty good guarantee the Moun
taineers won't follow beaten paths
:;o painful to West Virginians the
past two years, but prospects are
till very doubtful.
"We don't have big enough boys
to play teams like that this year,"
said Kern. "Our backs are all
and must be taught to run.
On top of this our squad is a lim
ited one, and we've got a new sys
tem to install."
A hard-working, deadly serious
fellow, well schooled in the Jock
Sutherland football which carried
Pitt's Golden Panthers to an en
vied spot, can only guarantee this
fall that the Mountaineers "will
be up to their necks with the best
football of which they're capable."
).{e demands a fighting, hard-hit
ting type of play, some assurance
of which can be found in the re
cent comment of a well-known
Pittsburgh sports columnist that
"Opponents of West Virginia are
_going to see more stars up over
Mountaineer Field than they've
seen in a long, long time." Kern's
teams at Tech played the same
type of football, and were among
the finets drilled in the country.
Brown and Gramly
fried Al Fullback
Two untried sophomores, Earl
Brown and Len Gramly, will in
all probability take over the full
back chores in the West Virginia
encounter Saturday, replacing the
injured Bill Smaltz and Ralph
Ventresco.
Both newcomers to varsity
ranks, neither of whom saw action
in the Bucknell game, they were
given a thorough tryout in the
number three backfield spot in
yesterday's scrimmage against the
freshmen and performed very
creditably. In the starting lineup
Coach Bob Higgins will probably
use the lightweight Brown who is
completely recovered from his
shoulder injury.
In contrast to gloomy Monday,
when a series of injuries claimed
several of the key players, yester
day's practice session rejuvenated
the hopes of Lion followers who
were cheered by the return to ac
lion of Chuck Peters, star halfback,
and Carl Stravinski, veteran left
tackle.
Peters was easily the outstand
ing player on the field apparently
suffering little, if at all, from his
three week layoff. His shifty
running completely fooled the
yearling tacklers all afternoon as
Ise got away for numerous long
Bill Smith Wins
Firs, Time-Trials
Captain Bill Smith, 125-pound
titan of cross-country runners,
again proved his harrier superi
ority when he drifted across the
finish line almost two minutes
ahead of Alex Bourgerie in yes
terday's fi v e-mile time trials.
Smith's time was 26.54.
Max Peters, Chet Snyder, Pop
Thiel, Howard Wheeler, and Clair
Hess were the other five harriers
who finished in order in competi
tion for the Michigan State starting
posts on Saturday.
However, Coach Chick Werner
has not designated this group as his
lineup against the Spartans, be
cause he was disappointed with
the comparatively slow time of the
squad. Bourgerie, Peters, Snyder,
FOOTBALL
PSYC OLOGY?
"THEY DIDN'T NEED
- COACHING," by
MI SATURDAY EVENING
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
and Thiel, all were in the 28 min
ute class, while Wheeler and Hess
did the five-mile course in 30 min
utes.
Smith made his best time last
year when he broke the course
record at 25.54 in the Syracuse
meet. He was exactly one minute
slower yesterday. Alex Bourgerie
competed in only the Manhattan
meet last year because of injuries,
and his time was 31:16, compared
with yesterday's 28.27.
Intramural Swimming
Competition 'Continues
Sigma Pi and Theta Chi drew a
tie in yetsercjay's intramural
swimming meet, and as a result
will clash again today. Delta Chi
beat Delta Upsilon; DTD and Phi
Delta Theta won by forfeits from
SAE and Phi Kappa Tau.
read
Dick Harlow
How's your
Gymnast.. Leaves College
John Wolf '43, ace gymnast on
the freshman team last year and
form e r Philadelphia scholastic
champion, dropped out of the Col
lege last week. Financial difficul
ties and a desire to enter the avia
tion field caused his withdrawal.
LET MEDICO BE YOUR NEXT PIPE
The wisest dollar you ever spent
HARVARD'S HEAD COACH DICK HARLOW —
he found he'd have to beat Harvard before Harvar
Post.d
could beat anybody else. Read this week's
YOU'RE the new football coach. Your new team
is terrible. The student body is indifferent as a
clam. Player aftr player drops ut of spring practice.
Head Coach e Dick Harlow' o tells how he shook
Harvard out of its famed "indifference"... insulted
. Torby Macdonald into a 78-yard sprint-for a touch-.
down . bui a tart. around a man who broke his leg!
In this we lt
ek's Post Harlow lets . you in on some
of the psychological gags that worked on the Crimson
—and some that backfired. Buy the Post this week:
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Today's Movie Schedule
Cathaum—"Dulcey"
State—" Westerner"
Nittany—"New Moon"
Ten miles of radiators supply
heat to 152 campus buildings at
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