TUESDAY,APRIL 1, 1941
TSUWiIIBe Scene
Of 1942 National
Boxing Tourney
Baton Rouge, La., the home of
Louisiana State University, .will
i lie.the scene 6f'the 1942 national
collegiate boxing tournament, the
'Boxing Rules Committee of the
.NCAA announced after its final
'.‘meeting Sunday.
Two., “national defense” clauses
■"were”inserted"in the eligibility
rules by . the committee, which
expressed:"satisfaction with the
rules inlgenera-l and pronounced
,the 1941 tournament a “great
succegft’i - .*■
The tfttsfc addition to the eligi
bility'rules* permits college box
ers to_pact.lcipate only in Army
or -Navy—programs which '-shall
take-plaee-on the military posts
or on- ships. - against bona fide
hiembersr of/ the armed forces.
Such participation shall not count
aga insfc the- boxers on their return
to college. This still excludes par
ticipation ip amateur bouts. __
The other addition permits
Schools, and colleges to schedule
boxing .. meets with the various
"armed:, forces without being af
fected by other sections of the
eligibility rules.
telly'Blue'Gridders
Down'Greens' In First
Scrimmage Of Year
“I The varsity blue team scored
a one touchdown advantage over
the varsity green team Saturday
afternoon in the first real foot
ball scrimmage of the year.
:: Sparky Brown went over for
file.. Blues from the Green five
yard. line. Bill Smaltz connected
with_seyeral forwards to.put the
Blues in position.
Pepper .Ventresco sparked an
early Green offensive which died
out on .-the Blue four'yard stripe.
The Blues took -over and drove
sie .length of .the field for their
sjcore: ' f
-—The-- gridders may meet. St.
Vincent’s. College this Saturday
in a practice game.- A game
wrlit-Buquesne is Being arranged
fpr April 26. .
Riflemen Place Fourth
ft National Matches
:: Nittany Lion riflemen captur
ed” fourth place in the National
siflie ■ Association matches in
Washington D. C. last weekend,
it -was learned as results of late
matches were received.
i Lehigh garnered initial hon
ors ivith a 1385 out of 1500 tally
and- George Washington Univer
sity; gained second with 1373.
Najvy with a score of 1368 took
possession of third place over the
Nittanymen’s tally of 1359.
Fioish Baseballers Report
freshmen candidates for
bkseball should report to Jack
Nikon .on the Beaver Field dia
mond between 3 and 5 o’clock
this afternoon.
The first collegiate boxing meet
was a dual contest between Penn
State-and-the-Uni versify of Penn
sylvania in 1919. Penn won, 4-2.
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About 34 potential lacrosse- wrestlers advanced to the final
men sloughed through the prac- round of the National AAU
tice field mud yesterday in pre- wrestling tournament at West
paration for the first encounter YMCA in New York last Friday
of the season with Navy on April and Saturday.
12 ‘ Sam Harry, 123-pounds, beat
“Navy is one of the best la- Lee, Wilkes-Barre, Friday. He
crosse teams in the country,” lost to Eddie Collins of New York
commented Coach Nick Theil, A. C. and Merle Jennings, Mich
“but we’ll give them some real igan State National Intercolleg
competition. Having lost 14 sen- iate champ, on Saturday,
iors through graduation, the Bob Morgan, 174-pounds, was
team must be built up from raw pinned by Bissel, Big 10 Champ
material. The boys, are a little from Michigan, in 7:04 on Fri
soft now, but they’ll be toughen- day. However he pinned Win
ed up by next week. ter, New York State champ for
. two years, in 1:14 Friday night.
Collegiate boxing had its be- Saturday Morgan pinned. Was
ginnings in an intramural pro- moniskie, 1:20. In the final
gram established at Harvard in Brennaman, Lehigh, defeated
1880. him by a fall in 7:48
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Hockeymen Downed 3-2
In Season's Final Game
Vainly trying to overcome a
second period lead, the Nittany
Lion ice hockey six lost to the
undefeated Georgetown Univei'-
sity squad 3-2 in a return match
with the Hoyas at Johnstown
Friday night.
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State College
Swim Coach Galbraith
Receives NCAA Honor
Lion Coach Robert E. Gal
braith was elected second vice
president of the National Inter
collegiate Swimming Coaches
Association, and 1941 tank cap
tain Bill Kirkpatrick reached the
semi-finals of the 50 yard sprint
championships at the annual
NCAA swim tournament held at
East Lansing, Mich., last week
end.
Bill Vitusik, Stanford, covered
the 50 yards in 23.8 seconds to
beat Kirkpatrick, previously un
defeated in that event this year.
His time was one-tenth of a sec
ond better than Kirkpatrick’s
best time for the distance.
The first national intercolleg
iate boxing tournament was held
at Penn State in 1932.
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