FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1943
neligibility Threatens Nittany Grid Squa•
40 Try Out
For Soccer
A large turnout. of 49 players,
about. half of whom are members
of V-12 units on campus has- be
gun intensive scrimmaging in
.preparation for the soccer sea
son's opener with Cornell 06-
,
tober 2. .
Anyone interested in a novel
game requiring skill and coord
ination should come out to the
golf-course field any afternoon to
watch., Coach. Bill Jeffrey and his
soccermen .playing at "soccer
volleyball." This mixture of. the
two sports is very helpful in
teaching inexperienced hooters
how to use their feet and their
heads, both , inside and outside,
Jeffrey claims.
By pitting V-12 candidates
against civilian and ROTC hope
fuls, Jeffrey has created the
friendly rivalry needed to spark
practice scrimmages. Standouts
in this series have been Jim Ir
win, ROTC fullback; John Wrynn,
goalie Marine from Dayton Uni
versity; Bill Shellenberger and
Frank Klase, V-12 linemen; Bob
Clauser and Jim Atherton, half
backs;' Earl Stauffer and Andy
Garber, wings, and Jose Lom
banos, All-American lineman.
Tallest men on the Penn State
football squad are end Bill Smyth,
Cincinnati; tackle Bill Kyle; Pitts
burgh; and tackle Wally - Allwoer
den, York. All are - six feet, three.
V-12 Sports News
Bob Wltherill, V-12 Tar from Barracks 26, late of Bar
racks 29, was crowned all-service golf king when he carved
out a 5 and 3 victory over Dick RoSs, ROTC entrant.
In the sera Tina round of the tourney, Wetherill advanc
ed by defeating. Peterson of Marine Barracks 13 on the 19th
hole, 1 up. Ross moved up to the final bracket by gaining a
victory by forfeit over A. S. T. P. golfer Van Citra. • •-.
• Wetherill is'the second V-12 man to• take a - title in all
service competition. The first
was, Marine Pvt. Mike Sween
ey who' won the 165-lb. crown
in the recent service boxing
tourney.
In the net sport four V-12.
men advanced, to the; semi-fi
nal round in the tennis puma
ment; idiminations during, the
;week. 'Xmas, . Barracks, 3'6,
Whipped Hamilton, Barracks
9, by 6-3, 6-4, while Fink from
BarraCks . 2o' took the , measure
of . Shaeffer 6-0; 6 1 .2. In twe
faulted matches, White of Bar
racks 29 . was given the decision
over Smith, Barracks 41„ and
Sicina.ker, Barracks 22.
Traeger Barracks 62, won over
. Prof. G. E. Bischoff,
.in charge 'of
the tourney, urges- all men to' con
sult the • R'ec . Hall bulletin' boards
and: show up at theappointed time
for the matches,
After - a short lull, On-CampUs
and -bff-Camptis league softball
teams are tuning up .this. week for
the final push for the V-12' chain
pionship tilt to be played some
time next week.
Barracks 9' and Barracks 13 i ti
ed for icadership in the On-Cam
pus sector, hattled through five
innings trying to decide• which. was
the suer;or club; only to end up
in a; 2-2 deadlock, Barracks 9•
pushing across a run in- the bot
tom of the,last frame to tie the
count. barracks 41 and Barracks
20 are even up in the other lea
gue..
The leaders will probably play
'tomorrow or Saturday • to• decide
the representatives to the Little
World Series, scheduled for early
Threat of -scholastic ineligibility of the vast majority of Penn State's football squad
veiled the 1943 grid outlook today, with but one week remaining before Penn State's open
ing game with Bucknell. " •
Possibility of mass ineligibility-results from a new Navy-:Viarine V-12 ruling, placing
eligibility for intercollegiate 'athletics on a month - to - month basis, and providing that a
single failbre in any subject for any month would knock a student out of sports competition
,hiring the next month.
Uncertainty about the future springs from the fact that the final month of the semester
does not begin until next week, 8o there is no way of determining beforehand who among
the Marine-Navy grid candidates can be counted on , at game time next Saturday.
Since grades for the current month would reportedly have Made at least 30 of the Ma
rine-Navy candidates ineligible, Coach Bob Higgins' newest training technique is being.con
centrated on such topics as physics and mathematics—both V-12 "musts"—rather than on
ordinary football essentials. Special tutors 'h ave become a regular part of the 1943 practice
schedule, according to members of the Nittany coaching staff. •
Helping compensate for ,the sudden ineligibility threat was the return this week of sev
eral of the injured players
whose inactivity has kept the
team at part strength for the
past several weeks.
Unless further mishaps occur
between now and next Saturday,
only two • Lions will be sidelined
with injuries for the opening game.
Charley Stapel, freshman tailback
whose grid performance in early
practices has attracted the atten
tion of th e entire Nittany coaching
staff. will be out of action for at
least a month with a wrenched
Phys Ed School Trains
Recreation leaders
Looking forward to •more
abundant leisure in the post-war
years, the School of Physical Ed
ucation is training boys and girls
to be municipal and industrial
recreation leaders.
In a special; intensive, post
session course, kincler the direc
tion of Ray M. Conger, assistant
professor of physical education,
crass committees are planning
workable recreation programs for
schools, communities, summer
damps, and industrial plants. In
addition, each student is develop=
ing an individual plan -for some
special hobby or activity An
which he is especially interested.
By ART MILLER AS. USNR
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Fresh Loses Starting Post
The former Avalon High School
star. had just about sewed up a
place in the first-string bac:
before he was injured while carry
ing the ball on a weak side buck in
a scrimmage two weeks ago . .
Only other injury likely to re
main on , the dockets-for more than
a few days is the shoulder separa
ti.m.' of Dante Terzi, former Day
ton University player.
Higgins Prepares Frosh'
With large-scale ineligibility still
impending, meanwhile, Higgins
and Company are developing a
.number, of
. possible replacements
among the freshman candidates"
At tackle, Marino Marchi of
Glassmere .is outstanding among
three eligible freshmen. Other
pr r,sp . eels are George Slater, As
buiy Palk, N. J., 'and Wally All
woerden, York..
-For the center of the line the
THESPIANS.' PRESENT
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Between The Lions
Only male stronghold of next
semester's Collegian will be the
sports department. All other po
sitions are to be handled by wo
'men. Apprentice Seamen Rem
Robinson, Art Miller, and Tom
Wheatley will take it from here.
We're merely to help out a little
hi the remaining weeks before
graduation.
With no predictions in the
sports future—despite Grantland
Rice and Williamson's rating
system—we leave this column to
the next staff. We had a lot more
to say but the advertising staff
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Higgins Has
Strong Man
Although Coach Bob Higgins
recently was faced with the tem
porary loss of 30 V-12 potential.
footballers, he still has on the
roster a man who has literally
proved his strength. Marine Pa.-
vate Milton McGuire of Toledo,
0., made top score in the strength
test given to 600 Navy V-12
students.
McGuire, the winner, was a
member of the Penn State base-•
ball team this summer and cur
rently is making a strong bid for
a starting halfback berth on the
football team. A former Univer
sity of Dayton athlete, he is five
feet, nine inches tall, and weighs
162 pounds.
The test is ' given periodically
to indicate the degree of improve,-
ment achieved by each trainee,
and in the most recent test Me-
Guire compiled a score of 61)
against an average of less thail
45 for the entire corps.
The test is divided• into a ser
ies of five events, namely sit
ups, pull-ups, push-ups, squat
jumps, and squat thrusts. The
tests as a whole are designed to
determine the strength, endur
ance,. and agility of ' the trainees.
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