SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1943 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 1 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 1 11111 1 C•LLEGIAN ' SPORTS 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 This season Coach Nick Thiel starts his ninth season as Penn State's varsity lacrosse coach. Dur ing tnis time his teams have come through with about as many vic tories as defeats. Impressive rec ord'? No—unless you look behind the scenes. Nick Thiel adesn't coach players, he makes them. In all his nine sea sons of coaching lacrosse. at Penn' Mate, he has only seven bOys come out for the stick . sport who had ever played the game before Thiel got hold of them. Only-seVen out of at least 90 varsity men de-, .veloped in those last nine stanzas had. ever played lacroise before joining the Nittany squad. Tom Mitchell, inside attack on this year's edition is. the seventh. . Out of these untried stickhand-: lers, Thiel has produced five:first-, String All Americans. Back in 1935, George Koth, Nit tany captain for that year and inside attackman, made the All- American roster. Then along came another George, George Ritter, who made the 'honorary squad a& a defenseman, was also chosen for the North-South All-Star team and 'walked 'away 'from the Yankee:- Confederate clash with the vote as Outstanding defenseman of The 'en 'counter. • Al Blair, Lion center fielder, 'made the All-American team a few 'years back and was follovired by Ray Coskry, -who was the choice ;for 'first team All-American attack in 1938: .Coskry was credited with thedargest 'total of goals - Scored' in 'the North. Lag' year Bill Zeigenfus received 'the 'honor fOr his defen sive' -play around the Nittany_ net during the :season. • Several players have been choices for: second and third teams , On the star squad. Gerberwa - s-se - cond teeni : goalie' :While Co*als; this 'yearts:-Captain; :Was narhed - to the •sectind string- group of last year's teeth. Both .he • and tom' kitchell •;pla:yed on the Thiel-cdached North burich last year. Players work hard to pleaSe the Bide and White Mentor. JIM Rid dell; 1941 graduate, is the outstand:- ing:.example, according to Thiel. "Jim came out' for the team his froSh year," the COachrelates, "and I didn't give a plugged nickel for his chances • of graduating to the varsity. He only. weighed 130 and sto'ed five feet four inches from the turf. He wore glasses arid was as slow as an old cow. He got in one genie that year and got his. tooth , ,broken running into one of his own players." "'Well, he practiced every day -that summer, he told me later, and shOwed . - up for first team in the Fall. He was the most improved maxi on the squad and also the best stickhandler that year. He made the varsity all right at the inside • I mportant Announcement! Pennsylvania Greyhound Lines wish to an- - nounce to all students that, in order to ar range accommodations for travel on April 21st, 22nd, and 23rd, 1943, it will be necessary to make reservation by purchasing your tick et as far in advance as possible, but not later than eight hours prior to your intended de parture time. . All . buses will leave from the GREYHOUND POST, HOUSE. LEAVE STATE tOLLEGE, P/A1 East Bound West Bound North Bound 2155 A.M. 1118 A.M. 7:40 A.M. MO 2140 P.M. 1445 P.M. -- atoo 7155 P.M. 6120 PA. 215 P.M. (Make Your I?eserveitions Early) By ART MILLER 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 attack position and played three 'varsity seasons with us. Nick himself played a lot of la crosse for Syracuse from 1931 to 1934. He was named All-American, his Junior and Senior years at the New York school when Syracuse was the best team in the Northern section of the country. Immediate ly after his graduation; he was called to coach Penn State squads. The Blue and White teams, Medi= ocre since their commencement in 1913, perked up :When 'Thiel ar rived and have been no pushover for any squad since. The Nittany team has never lost a tilt to Cornell since Thiel took over and play most of the powerful clubs in the East including Yale, Dartmouth, Syracuse, Cornell, Ho bart, 'and Army as well, as Johns Hopkins; often the Number One squad in the nation. Entries Close Soon For Track Intramurals; 8 Meets Scheduled EntrieS for the intramural track meet scheduled for Thursday, April 29; must be in by April 27, accord= ing to Irvin Kochel and John Dibeler, student sponsors of the event. All entries' may be filed at the Rec- Hall Locker Room or Gene Bischoff's office. The meet will be run off• on the New Beaver Field 'track. Track intramurals this year will be an all relay affair with the ex 'ception of two events, the 100-yard dash and the obst.6.cle course run. No • fraternity or independent' sec tions will be run separately. • Order of events for the meet is as. follows: •-• • 440 relay—it men run 110. yards each - - 3-man medley.relay-220, 220, 440 • in. thil order Mile - relay-4 men .run 440 yards eac , li .. , . 100-yard. dash trials • • 880 ralay-4' men run 220 yards each Snow Confuses Dinglebury, But Today's Game Is All Off Penn State's baseball team is un defeated and is sure of staying that way, •at least at the present, for Joe Gremlin - was at work in the strato yesterday, pouring the snow form the sky,• until New Beaver Field is now in impossible playing condition for today's game, and may be for all that are scheduled next week. Joe Bedenk took his charges to THE DAILY COL•LEGLAN The Sports Parade By REM ROBINSON Drexel Cancels Games Drexel Tech in Philadelphia has dropped its entire sports program for the duration, cancelling games in football, lacrosse, baseball, track and tennis. The graduate manager said that the shortage of men, and the poor traveling facilities forced the issue to a point. • Temple Gets None For Two Temple's 'baseball team, enroute to Bucknell to play the Bisons yes terday, were forced to return to Philadelphia because of heavy snow storms throughout the state. Following the Bucknell game, the Owls were scheduled to arrive in State College this morning to meet the Joe Bedenk squad. New Yorkers In A Tie It looked like the New York Giants and the New York Yankees will have to toss a coin to see which team is "consolation cham pion" of the metropolitan area, for inclement weather has forced can cellation of the final game of the round robin tourney which was copped •by the Brooklyn Dodgers. Track Managers Called Seconds for the manager's po sitions on the track team were urged to report to ,the second floor of the Water Tower any night af ter 4 p. m., if they want to try out for a first assistants rating next semester. Since the Squad manager, Wal lace Murfit, will leave school at the end of this semester, the pres ent assistants will move up, mak ing room for three additional sec onds. Spririt medley •relay-440, 100, 220 • -A4O in that order 100:yard• dash finals Obkacle , courde run There will be a 25-cent charge for each person competing in the meet, with 'r eg.u 1 a r intramural Medals being awarded_ to all • first place relays and places in the in dividual events. Philadelphia last Saturday, and eked out a slim victory over Villa nova Two days later they were to play Navy at Annapolis, but this time it was rain that submerged the diamond This afternoon, the Temple Owls would have batted it out with the Lions, but the rain changed form, and State College was blitzed with the worst snow storm for April clays since 1928, when 20 ,inch , es fell: before an "equally' kirPrised group• of students. According to a last minute re lease from the Collegian weather expert, 3. Solvency : DinglebUry; who was reported to have commit ted suicide several months ago be cause he predicted the IFC Ball Weekend wrong, snow may fall for several days yet, or might stop to night. He also commented that there is a possibility of a cloud burst tomorrow afternoon at 4:28, or a long dry spell beginning early tomorrow morning. Whatever is the outcome of the predictions of the little pet of the office staff, baseball is certainly staring misfortune in the face. The Monday game with Pitt will be postponed if the infield does not dry up by tomorrow afternoon. Muhlenberg was also slated to ap pear against the Bedenkmen, but players are skeptical about getting the go - sign. The final game which may be 1 cancelled is the Juniata contest next Friday afternoon, but if the present snow thaws sufficiently, New Beaver Field will be in shape because it has always bOell Penn State Gymnasts Prepare For May NAAU Competition Even Lion gymnasts will enter toe National AAU gymnastic net to be held in New York City May J. The• Penn State squad, after claiming the Eastern Intercollegiate League championship as well a:: three individual titles, is expected to baitle it out with the Gymnastic ooc'ety of Union City, N. J. team, many times the national champs All defending champions are AA amateur performers with the exception of Temple's star tumbler, George Szypula, the only colle giate titleholder returning for competition again this year. Szypula: a,so holds the Eastern Collegiate tumbling crown which he won at the intercollegiate championships held in Rec Hall last month. One factor in favor of the Blue fluid White squad is the fact that the Lions have dominated the rope climbing event for the past three kears and are again expected to dominate this year. Lion climbers Lebow, Young, Barclay and Wirtschafter are slated to rank in this event. There is a possibility that any of the Lion climbers may: break the world's record, now held by Chick Lebow since the inter•- collegiates in March. In last season's rope event, the Blue and White Squad members took five places and finished second :in team scoring. Coach Wettstone will take Barclay, Sorenson, Wirtschafter, Wintersteen and Young to represent Penn State at the meet. Although Szypula is expected t, dominate the tumbling event, Penn State's Harold Frey and Billy Meade are counted upon to place high en the mats. Bordo, eastern p-bar titleholder, and Small are :.everal of the favorites for the parallel bar event orld rope climb record-holder and eastern horizontal bar chamP i Chick Lebow, is expected to contribute several points to the Lion'p . luta', while Bonsall and Small should add to Penn State's score in the ring event. Small took second last season in the flying ring match. - Roy Sorenson will enter the all-around competition, but Will not compete in the tumbling trick according to the AAU rules. Lion Wintersteen will carry the Blue and White colors in the Indian club event, another feature of the NAAU title competition. The Nittany gymnasts climaxed an undefeated season by winning the eastern league trophy and then claiming three individual chanV. piorships MILITA,"[Y to ALL APRIL 30 o Mit ey. The ARISTOCRATS ph . e roma 'of the Centaand • LOVE-RIDES THE RAILS - or . . Will the Mail Train-Run Tonight?' • Presented by THE PENN STATE PLAYERS • A tribtite to the theater as it use to be . . . with Modern Embellishments ! ! ! • An ArrgY of Song, Dance and Drama ! ! ! • An Evening of Entertainment, thrills, and fun ! ! ! NWT MISS IT ! SAlwab AIRE 7:30 P. Ml_ April r rra,i PACE T!3 11
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