PAGE SIX Conover Provides Scholarship Fund Establishment of a $5OOO schol arship fund at the College for a worthy Now Jersey student-ath lete is proposed in the will of the late Larry Conover, former Lion football player and coach. Under the terms of this offer, which will be formally acted upon at the next meeting of the Board Of Trustees, the principal of the fund will be invested by the Col lege, and the interest or income thereof will be awarded annually to the New Jerseyite "who att ins the best record in football and scholarship." The will adds that the need and ability of the student shall be de termined by a committee composed of the football coach and registrar of the College. Conover, a native of New Jersey, was a member of the Nittany grid iron varsity in MG, 19117, and 1919, and captained the team in 1917. A victim of a fatal heart attack six weeks ago while. attempting to rc. , • vive a drowning victim on the Atlantic City beach, he had served as life guard captain there for more than 25 years. After completion of his college career, Conover played profes sional football and led a varied coaching career, during which he returned as a member of the Lion staff, was head coach at Clemson University, S. C., and assistant coach at the University of Georgia. More recently, he achieved prom inenice as a college and profes sional football official. {Sports Editor's Note: Upon receipt of the news of the Con over Scholarship Fund, Bob Higgins, head .football coach, and Carl P. SchoLt, dean of the School of Physical Education and Athletics, made the following comments.) 11=11=2 Coach Higgins—"l think that Larry Conovei• set a precedent in establishing this fund and I'd be happy if other old athletes would follow suit. 'I knew Larry before I was a student at State as we play ed against each other when he starred for Atlantic City High and I was at the Peddle School. He was a fine man." Dean Carl Scholt.—"l was deeply touched when I first heard of the scholarship. There was a marvel ous spirit on the part of Conover to do that. As far as I know, ha never made an indication during his life of this - aequest to Penn State. We owe him a deep voice of thanks for this gesture towards his alma mater." Photos of Gridiron Greats Grace Rec. Hall's Wails Now that the 1945 fOotball sea son is just around the corner, thoughts go back to the gridiron greats of State's history. And espe cially we think of the men Who achieved All-American recogni tion. In the lobby of Recreation Hall are pictures of six Ni'ttany players who gained such fame. The famous Walter Catrip chose five Lions on his All-American teams: "Mother" Dunn; Bob Higgins, Charley. Way, Glenn Killinger, and Joe Bedenk. The.dther gridder is Leon , Gajecki, who was picked by NEA Service. "Mother" Dunn "Mother" Dunn, christened Wil liam T., was one -4 the great cen ters that donned the Blue and White. In 1906, Camp deViated from his usual practice of picking only ivy League players for his mythical team and named Dunn, the first Penn Stater to be so hon ored. After graduation; Dunn stay ed at the College as an assistant coach, and a few years later be came. ..a doctor. At present he is practicing medicine in Hawaii. ' Bob Higgins . . Easily the outstanding end in in tercollegiate football in 1919, Rdb ert A,. Higgins was a unanimous choice for All-American honors. Previous to his entrance into the Army, he played varsity ball in 'l4, 'l5, and 'l6. Grantland Rice picked him as the ntdstanding end in the ADF after seeing him per 'form with the 89tri Division team, overseas champions. With his col legiate career over, Higgins turned to coaching, serving with the Can ton, Ohio, Bulldogs, a pro outfit, West Virginia Wesleyan, and Washington University before re Intercollegiate Sports Resumption Is Delayed "The resumption of a full sched ule of intercollegiate sports de pends on two factors," announced Dean Carl P. Schutt of the School of Physical Education- and Ath letics. "These factors are student enrollment and financial condi tions." These two items are dependent on each other, the Dean pointed out. The money to finance the sports comes prom athletic fees and gate receipts. When manpower conditions return to normal we will have the necessary funds, he added. A curtailed sports program has been in effect several years, with only eight sports continuing unin• terruptedly throughout the war period. Schedules have been car ried out for football, basketball, soccer, lacrosse, boxing, wrestling, 'baseball, and track. Resumption of other sports will await the new budget period, beginning July 1, 4946. Dean Schott indicated that the nine sports curtailed for man power and economic reasons would be resumed as soon thereafter as is practicable. The question of returning to freshman sports was aired by the Dean. He expressed the opinion that there would he frosh contests by Fall, 1947, or possibly sooner. The decision to go back to the old freshman rule depends upon the act'ons taken by the Senate Com mittee on Athletics. Cagers Begin Practice; Five Veterans Due Back Candidates for the varsity bas ketball team will report for the first practice of the season in Re-: creation Hall, 6:30 p. m. Tues day. Drills will be held nightly thereafter, except for Saturdays and Sundays, at the same hours. A bright season looms for the Lawthermen this year—possibly one of the best in recent years. Herb Currie, Ernie Nugent and Dick Light of last season's var sity will, be on hand for practice in addition to the usual large number of untested hopefuls. Re turning for the fall semester to bolster the squad will be Herb Funk, who last saw varsity serv ice in 1943, and Iry Batnick, high scorer of the 1944 squad. turning to his alma mater. 1945 marks his 35th year of football, his 25th with State, and his 16th as the Nittany bead coach. Charley Way Charles A. Way was also a member o' the great 1919 eleven. This alone is significant for State's only' setback thnt year Was by Dartmotith. In this game, Way scored 'both touchdowns. He re turned the kickoff for 90 yards, and later recovered a fumble and scampered 85 yards to his second tally. Way had :a way with kick offs—he liked to return them for touchdowns. In 1920 he returned a Ursinus kickoff for 95 yards and a touchdown. In cognizance of his great aibility as a broken-field run ner, Camp placed him on his 1920 'team. The Internal Revenue De partment in Philadelphia is his :present employer. Glenn Killinger In 1921, • Penn State's contribu tion to gridiron greats was W. Glenn Killinger, now a lieutenant commander in the Navy.'Not alone satisfied with his football prowess, he was a great basketball and baseball performer. ,Killinger too returned to the College as a mem ber of the coaching Staff in '123, '24, and '25. Previous to that he was the stra'tegian at West Chester State Teacher►' College where he also becathe Dean of Men. Joe Bedenk All-American guard in L 923, F. Joseph Bedenk was captain of the only Penn State team to go to the Rose Bawl. As irony would have it, a sprained back which he received the night before the game pre • vented him from playing in the (Continued on page seven) THE COLLEGIAN Navy Sinks Army Team In Softball You've heard of ttie famous Arrny-iNavy game. Well, Penn State had one Tuesday: The only difference between it and the more popular contest was that it was a softball game. AST unit chamWons; Barracks 8, and V-12 unit victors, Barracks engaged in the military' champion ship contest. The Navy sank the Army with a three . .run fourth inning that proved to be the clincher. The V-12ers also. scored a run in the second inning, while the soldiers pushed across single markers in the third, fourth, and sixth to bring the firi6l score to 4-3. The contest was a pitcher's bat tle all the way, .With Bob' Gibson tossing them over for the ASTs and Bill Mad Hale hurling for the sailors. Runs and hits were held to a minimum by their excellent pitching. :MaeHale was really -in trouble in the last of the seventh inning when he issued passes. to two sol diers before any outs_ had been made. One more run _would have meant extra innings and twc would have been the game, bu; he buckled down and no runs were scored. Intramurals IFC Softball In the playoff - of a. 5-'5 tie game between Phi Sigma Delta and Phi Delta Theta, the Phi Sigs and the Phi Delis again fought to a 3-3 stalemate. The 'contest had to be postponed again because of dark ness. Stan Beals pitched himself out of a hole in the last inning of an IMerfraternity softball tournament contest to lead Phi Sigma Delta to a win over Beta Sigma Rho, 4,2. In a game which began with a nine-run first inning, Alpha Chi Sigma, paced by Larry Miller's pitching and homer, out-slugged Phi Delta Theta, 15-9. Jerry Cooper broke up a contest, played on wet grounds, between Phi Epsilon Pi and Beta Sigma Rho with a two run homer in the sixth inning, giving the Phi Eps the edge, 8-7. Pi Kappa Alpha for- , feited to Theta Chi. The standings to date follow LEAGUE A Team Won Lost Theta Chi it 0 Sigma Chi 1 0 Sigma Phi Epsilon ... 0 0 Sigma Pi Pi Kappa Alpha LEAGUE B Team Alpha Chi Sigma Phi Sigma Delta Phi Epsilon Pi . Phi Delta Theta . Beta Sigma Rho V-12 Softball Barracks 37 stared in the last half of the last inning in their final game with Barracks 13 to capture the V-12 unit softball Championship for the second se mester in a row. The score of the final game was 2-11. Barracks 26 had lost their chance for a crack at the title by losing to Barracks 13 in an extra inning game, 3-2. The final standings Team Barracks 37 Barracks 26 Barracks 13 Barracks 9 Barracks 316 Won Lost 7 .1. 6 - 2 • 4 3 2 6 0 7 * ASTP Golf Lee R. Crawford and Edward ,Gwin, Company A, emerged champions in the ASTP Battalion Golf Tournament this past week by beating Don May and John Shott of Company B, two up at the end of 18 holes. The winners have had little golfing experience prior to com ing to the College, although Gwin once captured runner up honors in the Junior Tam o'Shanter Tourney for Illinois High School golfers. Both of the winners shoat consistently in the high 80's. #l,Ollll / I .IICIUMOMIA 1.q.01.1 jira HD Footl)all Practice Resumes Tuesday Football Renaissance Seen By Higgins In '47 It'll be 1946, perhaps 1947, be fore the return of pre-war talent produces the long-awaited foot ball renaissance on college cam puses, Coach Bob Higgins says. The Lion mentor, a veteran of World War I who attained all- America honors as captain of the Lions' crack 19.19 eleven, be lieves it will be a year or more before the influx of former grid stars assumes sizeable propor tions. "There will be better football in 1946," the 51-year-old grid strategist explains, "but it may be 1947 before all teams are equally manned, And competition returns to its former level." Higgins, who played football overseas for. four months before l f JS rejoining the Nittany Lions in the fall of 1919, looks for a steady • improvement in football during the next two years, with competition reaching its pre-war intensity in 1947. "The combination of new tal ent, plus older, more seasoned perforiners, should produce an other Golden :Era in football," adds State's head man. Higgins, who is looking for ward to his 16th season at the helm of the Nittany Lions, ex pects from 40 to 50 ex-gridders to return to the College campus during the next three years. Only two pre-war ,performers, Ralph Ventresco of Pitcairn and Nick Ranieri of Philadelphia, will be available for •the 1945 season, but at least six others have indicated their intention to o o o 9, Won Lo§.l . 0 . 1 0 . 1 0 ..0 li . 0 3 >~`~; 808 HIz3G.INS FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1945 Football practice will resume Tuesday after a four-week layoff. Coach Bob Higgins expects about 50 men to repeat for the drills which start at 4 p. m. "We will begin again with fundamentals," said the mentor. "In a month's time most of the fellows have forgotten the plays they went over, and we'll have to start from scratch." Present plans call for practice from 4 to .6 p. m. daily. However, Coach Higgins pointed out, if there are a good number of en gineers on the squad and it is im possible for them to get out more than three days a week in the af ternoons, he is considering going back- to twilight sessions if it doesn't affect the schedule of the rest of the men. Eligibility again looms as a threat to the Lion gridders as Higgins reports that "some of the stars are not doing well scholas tically." "It isn't that they can't do the work," he added, "but rather that they're not putting enough time on their studies. They had better hit the books soon before it's too late." The squad suffered a loss as Charley 'Stapel, promising tail back, dropped out of school. Sta pel, who has made three attempts to play college ball, found out during summer practice that his injured knee wasn't well enough to permit him to play this Fall.' Stapel, rated by Coach Higgins as an outstanding prospect in 1942 and a triple-threat man, has undergone a series of operations during the past year, but it will not be for another season that he dons the Blue and White. Grid Managers To Meet. Men students who are interested in becoming second managers for the varsity, football team should sign up in the Athletic Office,'Old Main, as soon as possible, Head Manager Paul Burns; announced today. There will be a meeting of all first and second assistant managers at the Theta, Chi house, 7 p.m. Thursday. Penn State will play an eight game football schedule in 1945, opening against Mublenberg Sep tember 29. Manager Judd Healy has re quested that all candidates for as sistant managership sign up at the Athletic Association office and re port Tuesday night. return before the 1946 season. Japan's capitulation is expected to hasten the return of others.
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