SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1943
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C•LLEGIAN ' SPORTS
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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
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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
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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
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