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No Summer Sports, Fleming S • ys;
Twilight Football Practice Begins
College Discontinues
Four Varsity Squads
There will be no sports pro
gram for the summer months, an
nounced Neil M. Fleming, grad
uate manager of athletics. Foot
ball and soccer, whose schedules
call for games to be played dur
ing the summer semester, will
open their seasons with home
games on September 29 and Oc
tober 6 respectively.
When asked what brought the
change in policy from last sum
mer when there were contests in
baseball, lacrosse, tennis, and
track, Mr. Fleming listed the fol
lowing causes:
Most of the schools the Lions
usually schedule have cut out
summer sports program leaving
very few opponents.
Transportation difficulties have
grown acute in the past months
and it is difficult to get the neces
sary accommodations.
There are not enough candi
dates available to make summer
sports successful, the dearth of
servicemen being an important
factor.
The student body showed very
little interest in summer. sports
last year and attendance at the
various contests was hardly more
than a handful.
The athletes themselves are not
desirous of participating in sports
during the summer .months.
Although intercollegiate con
tests will not be played until fall,
students will be able to attend
intra-squad football and soccer
games.
Varsity Booters
Replace Jeffreys
Soccer Will be one of the two
varsity sports active next fall,
football being the other. Coach
Bill Jeffrey will field his 20th
straight team at the College after
returning from an Army sports
mission. In the meantime newly
selected Captain He 01) tMendt and
letterman John Hamilton, Navy
trainee, have taken over the
coaching chores.
Jeffrey holds one of the most
amazing records in intercolleg
iate circles, his teams having
been defeated only 13 times in 19
years.
A schedule of seven games for
1945, all against long-time op
ponents, has been announced by
Neil M. Fleming, gfaduate man
ager of athletics. Four of the sev
en games will-be played on home
soil. Army, Navy, and Colgate
will be played away from home.
This year three Latin-Ameri
cans are seeking positions on the
team. Besides Mendt, a re
turning letterman from Vene
zuela, are Rene Rodriquez of
Chile and• Julio Mario Santo Do
mingd of IColumbia, 'both new
comers. . •
The schedule: •
Oct. 6—Bucknell
Oct. • 13-41VIdhleniberg
Oct. 20—Temple
Oct.. 27—at Colgate
Nov. 3—at Army
• Nov. 10—Cornell
Nov. 17—at Navy
Against all of these opponents,
the Lions claim a decided edge in
games won and lost, boasting ten
undefeated seasons during Jef
frey's regime. In 134 games since
1926, the Jeffreymen have rolled
up 441 goals to 104 for the op
position,
The wily Scot, who played in
his native country as a youth and
later, as a professional in this
country, is hoping for a good year
to compensate for last year's pit
falls. His 1944 eleven lost more
games than it won for the first
time in his coaching career.
All-America players have beeh
Trainer Hulme Witnesses
Paris V-E Day Celebration
"The trip to Europe was quite
an experience but its great to be
back again," said Trainer Jack
Hulme.
One of the unforgettable spec
tacles "Jack" witnessed was the
celebration that followed the an
nouncement of the German un
conditional surrender in Paris.
"ft was simply terrific," re
marked Mr. Hulme. "The crowds
sang, marched, and made merry
far into the night. The Champs
Elysees was filled from curb to
curb with rejoicing mobs; traffic
was impossible.
"Later that night the Arc de
Triumph was illuminated for the
first time since the outbreak of
the war. The roar of the crowds
when they saw this was over
whelming. That is one scene I
shall never forget as long as I
live."
Trainer Hulme went overseas
in March with a specialik group
attached to the Special Service
Division of the European Theatre
of Operations including Ossie So
led), University of Syracuse foot
ball coach; Dr. J. H. Nicholas, Di
rector of Physical EdUcation at
Oberlin College; A. D. Dickinson,
track mentor at lowa State Teach
ers; and Arthur Huchins, the head
Of the Southern Conferedce Foot
ball Officials.
After landing in Scotland, Mr.
Hulme went to London and from
there across the Channel to Par
is. His job was to organize, train,
institute, and introduce into the
Army athletic program a new set
up i•n the prevention and care of
athletic injuries. To carry out this
mission, the veteran Penn State
Trainer taught classes and lec
tured to groups of army offifcers
and doctors at the University of
Paris, who, in turn, would relay
the information to the men in the
ranks.
'E sides his regullar work in
Paris, Mr. Hulme went into com
bat areas to bring his vast store
house of knowledge direct to the
Gl's. His•travels took him to Bel
gium, Holland, and Germany.
Throughout his journey, Mr.
Hulme met many Penn Staters,
among them. Lt. Elmer Gross,
captain of the 1942 'basketball
team, who was recovering from
wounds received in France and
Captain William Smith, star per
former for the 1942 cross-coun
try team.
A former doughboy in the first
World War, Trainer Hulme
re-
Football Managers
'Men students who are interest
ed in becoming second managers
for the varsity football team
should sign up in the Athletic
Office, Old Main, tomorrow or
next week, Head Manager Paul
Burns, announced today.
Penn • State itas played 477
games since its intercollegiate
football debut in 1887.
a specialty of the Nittany tcoach,
who has brought this distinction
to his players 44 times in the last
19 years. There has not been a
year since 1926 that he has not
produced at least one all-Amer
ica player.
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visited some of his former battle
grounds at St. Mihiel, Verdun,
,Soissons, Chateau Thiery, and the
Argonne Forest.
Hulme came to the College in
1937 and has had over twenty
five years experience in the train
ing and conditioning of athletes.
He is at present trainer of all var
sity snorts.
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COACH JOE BEDENK
Bedenk To Head
Baseball Group
Lion Baseball Coach Joe Bedenk .
was named chairman of the exeicu
tive committee of the newly or
ganized American Association of
College Baseball Coaches at a
meeting held at the New York
Athletic Club, June 29 - and 30.
Bedenk and Coach Eippy Barnes
of Colgate University were the in
itiates in a movement to revive in
terest in collegiate baseball and
also to promote organization of
sectional leagues or conferences as
a postwar project. More than 40
coaches attended the first meeting
at which time a national organiza
tion was effected.
Branch Rickey of the Brooklyn
Dodgers and George R. Trautman
of the American Association at
tended the meeting representing
organized baSeball. Intercollegiate
interests were represented by Asa
S. Bushnell of the Eastern Central
Office and by William A. Reid,
Colgate University athletic direc
tor.
Ray Fisher of the University of
Michigan, Jack Barry of Holy
Cross College, and Jack Coombs of
Duke University spoke on behalf
of the college coaching fraternity.
Also present were Grantland Rice
and Hugh Fullerton Jr., sports col
umnists.
Topped 100 Once
Penn State rolled up its high
est score in football when it de
feated Lebanon Valley by a 109-
7 score in 1920.
15 Candidates Report;
'Many Lettermen Return
Summer football practice started
Monday, with 75 candidates re
porting the first night. Head Coach
Bob Higgins intends to continue
the drills until August when prac
tice will be suspended.
For the first time in the history
of the gridders, practice is being
held at twilight, from 7 to 9 p.m.
Resuming practice after Labor
Day, the squad will go through
more rigorous training and put on
the finishing touches for the open
ing game of the season with dVluhl
enburg at New Beaver Field on
September 29.
The schedule for the 49415 season
follows:
Sept. 29—Muhlenberg
Oct. 6—Colgate
Oct. 43—at Navy
Oct. 20—at Bucknell
Oct. 27—open date
Nov. 3—Syracuse
Nov. .10—,Temple
Nov. 17—at Michigan State
Nov. 1 24—at Pitt
Judging from the first few ses
sions, Coach Higgins intends to get
down to work without delay. At
present, the squad is drilling in
shorts and concentrating on• fun
damentals such as passing, punt
ing, basic plays, and other non
contact work.
Starting his liGth season as head
coach for the Nittany Lions, !Hig
gins will be assisted by Joe Be
dank, line coach; •Earle Edwards,
end coach; and Al Michaels, back
field coach. Marty Mac Andrews,
former freshman coach, will help
out with the dine.•
Prospects for the forthcoming
season} look brighter than they
have .been in recent years as 19
men have returned who at one
time played for Penn State.. These
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FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1945
Beta Sigs
Cop Title
In Softball
Beta Sigma Rho copped the All-
College 'civilian softball champion
ship by defeating Graham's, 6-2,
in a game played on June 12.
Capitalizing on walks by Gra
ham's Hurler "P. P." Scherer and
by bunching their hits, the 'win
ners of the ITC League pushed
across all their runs in an early
inning.
Graham's, Independent League
champs, were held hitless for the
first five innings by Beta Sig
Pitcher TVlery Wilf. They broke
into the hit column in the sixth
and seventh frames, and with a
few walks, pushed over their two
tallies.
Iry Stiefel, Dick Frontman,
Murray Glibin, and Bdb Weiss
sparkled in the field for the win
ners while Al Rich, Ted Himlka,
and Fred Dombetto were out
standing for the defeated Graham's
team.
Jack Seitchik captained the vic
torious Beta Sigs and Al Rich
headed Graham's.
The 1945 season will mark Bob
Higgins' 16th year as head coach
of football at Penn State.
men are Dino Taccalozzi, quarter
back; Elwood Petchel, diminutive
tailback; Chuck Staple, a promis
ing tailback during the '43 season
until sidelined by a knee injury;
Ralph Ventresco, ex-serviceman
who played fullback on the '4O and
'4ll teams; Larry Cooney, wing
back; Al Bellas, fullback; and
Chuck Willing and Larry ppericer,
wingbacks.
Also Bronco Kosanovics„ center;
Bob McKay, center; Marino Mar
chi, tackle; Howard Caskey, tackle;
John Simons, guard; Fred France,
guard; Jim Mathews, gu'ard; Carl
Dimmerling, guard; Bob ''RutkOw
ski, guard; Don ilVliltenberger, end;
Bob Gernand, end.