PAGE SIX Gridders Line Competition Keenest; Nolan Shines in. Drills Coach Bob Higgins faces the prospect of having two forward walls of almost equal strength. This may even prove to be a prob km in selecting the starters in the initial tilt of the season agains!z Muhlenberg. Nolan Outstanding By this stellar play in the scrim- Tillage, Johnny Nolan, 208 pound -12 tackle, seems to have cinch ed a berth on the starting eleven.. Nolan broke through the opposi tion line a few times to set them back for substantial losses, and he was equally aggressiv e on the offense. Marino Marchi, who played all of 60 minutes during the inter squad drills, was a strong link on en already poWerladen line. Oth er standout tackles were Howard Caskey and John Finley. Mare•hi weighs in at 220, Caskey, 235, and Finley, th e lightest of the trio, at 190. • Running the close race for the guard position are Bob Rutkow ski, JoJhn Simon, , Carl Dimmer ling, and Jim Matthews. Coach Higgins may have to choose his starters by pulling names out of a hat as all four seem to be equal in ability and experience. Close Race for Center Bronc Kosanovich played his usual steady game and appears to be the starting center. His pass ing seems to be almost faultless, but there will be strong compe tition from Chuck Drazenovich and Bob McCoy. Coach Bob Higgins will di bride his gridders into Blue and_ White teams for a pre-season intra-squad game at Ne w Beaver Field, 2:30 p.m. tomor row. The contest is open to the public at no cost and will en able Lion fans to get a sneak preview of the 1945 team a week before the season's cur- Lain-raiser. Che:Tleaders will be on hand. Let's go _and support the team. Giant Don Miltenberger and Bob Gernand look like the Lion irst-tsring ends. Placing them along are Sam Tamburo, Ross Herron, Fred Bell, and Bob Rus sel. Bell was impressive in the - practice and Russel did a cred itable bit of work. Both these boys beau• watching as possible Suture starters. Tepsic Scores Touchdown Not to be outdone by their team mates up front, th e backs out on. a display of fancy run ning and kicking. Joe Tepsic kept up his sparkling play to spear his team's attack in scoring the only touchdown of the after noon. A sustained march, of 60 yards was climaxed by Tepsic's six yard plunge for the score. A shovel pass from Al Bellas to Larry Cooney netted 10 yards. Then Tepsic swept around right end and advanced the ball 3G. yards. On the next play, Bellas plowed through the center of the line for an aditional 20 yards to set up the touchdown. Tubby Lang gave the spedtators a thrill when he coffin-corner kicked the ball out on the four yard marker. Lang's educated toe pulled his team out of trouble more than once. In seeming disregard of a slip pery field, Bob Kritzer proved this speed once again to the coach es. switched to the wing back sldt, Joe Fulcoly played practi cally the whole game and scored substantial gains through the line as did Jim Wolfe, tailback. Two-back Position Weak According to Coach Higgins, the two,back position is at present a litle weak, but the boys are working hard and by game time he expects little trouble there. PENN STATE CLASS RINGS L. G. BALFOUR COMPANY LOCATED IN THE ATHLETIC STORE Vie For Starting Positions ,411-Alitinni Staff For ten years this•five-mamber all-alumni football coaching staff has been together, guiding the fortunes of the Nittany Lions. Coach Bob Higgins '2O (center) has held the head coaching reins since the season of 1930—second longest gridiron coaching span in the East. Other coaches, left to right. are: Marty McAndrews '3O, freshman coach; Joe Bedenk '24, line coach; (Higgins, center); 'AI Michaels '35, backfield coach; and Earle Edwards '3l, end coach. Thiel Predicts Bright Future For Lacrosse In Postwar Era (Sports Editors Notes This is the second of a series.of articles on the tactics, rules, and play of lacrosse.) "Following the war, and even as the thousands of men are being returned to college, lacrosse should enjoy a tremendous resurgence," said Coach Nick Thiel. The frame-work which was being so successfully built before Pearl Harbor will flourish and sur pass anything previously experien ced. Most of the preparatory schools have been able to keep their sports programs intact and these will, after the war, contin ue to feed material into the col leges at a normal rate. "In additon to this," continued the lacrosse mentor, "many of the men whose educations. were ter minated by the war will be re turning• to complete their work. When this occurs the material at: the average college will be dou bled and competion will be much keener and of higher caliber than before the war." Our Canadian friends tell us that more than 5000 of their play ers have been playing while on duty in England which doubtless has had some influence upon Am erican observers. Some lacrosse has been played at army and navy posts which has still more widely spread interest. The many former players, who will not return to college, will still want to compete and it is reasonably certain that the old lacrosse clubs now inactive will not only field teams again but will be augmented by many new teams. The rules committee has inad vertently, perhaps been wise in freezing rules dining war-time which will enable the returning veteran to pick up where he left Off without -being too mystified. (Continued on page seven) He also pointed out that there are hre men who are potential trip le-threats, Tepsic, Ventresco, and Triplett. Notably missing from prattice these days are Chuck Willing, Larry Spencer, Ralph Ventresco, Carl Dimmerling, and Wally Triplett. All are sidelined with injuries, but as none is serious, Higgins may hbve• his squad up to full strength within a few days. THE COT .T R.GIAN Lion Grid Star Freed From Japs After 41 'Months 'Gil Radcliffe had plenty of spunk when he played football for the Nittany Lions. It was three years before he was elevated to Higgins' first string eleven. At that time he probably thought it was a tough struggle—making the first team. Then the war came . . . and Gil was playing on Uncle Sam's fight ing team in the Philippines. He. had no trouble making the team there. He was a first lieutenant and soon after h!s arrival he was ele vated to captain. April 9, 1942 . . . Corregidor . . . Bataan had fallen, and on that day Capt. Gil Radcliffe was taken pris oner by the Japs. Days followed . . . hard days, the Death March of Bataan; internment at Cabana tuan and then Korea. September 7, 1945 . . 41 months later, and Gil Radcliffe was liberated after taking all the Japs had to offer. Spunk . . . ah yes, he has plenty. That same determina tion that Gil Radcliffe, displayed years ago has carried him through, this time, to freedom. NOTICE For Real Satisfaction, in BOWLING Try THE NEW STATE BOWLING CENTER on McAllister Street 8 New Brunswick Alleys that are second to none in the country. The kind that are used in the World's Championship matches. The price is only 20 cents per game. Barracks 9 Takes Lead In V-12 Football League Leading the V-12 touch football tournament Barracks 9 scored its second consecutive triumph by downing Barracks 216, 7-0. .The lone tally of the game was scored by Bill McMaster in the, first half. Les Jacobs added the extra point. While blanking Barracks 13, 21-0, Barracks 37 scored a first in the tourney as Bob Foote neatly place-kicked a field goal. Jim McGowan now leads the scorers by tallying three times during the . game. Barracks 36 and 26 battled to a 6-6 standstill with touchdowns scored by Mike Ciaramella and Andy icieLorenzo. The sailors from 36 again fought to a tie, this time scoreless with Barracks 37. The standings follow: Team Won Lost Tied Barracks 9.... 2 . 0 0 !Barracks 37.... Barracks 36.... 0 1 2 Barracks 13.... 1 1 0 Eararcks 2G.... 0 2 1 Basketball's High Scorer Subject To Army . Call The basketball team suffered a severe loss this week as Iry Bat nick, last season's high scorer, is now subject to Army call. Batnick, who rolled up 105 points last year to lead the Law thermen in this department, drop ped out of school for the summer semester, planning to return in the Fall. The Brooklyn boy's playing will be keenly missed during the coming season. Ma.gaZines—Candy FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1945 Ex-Cage Star Cheats Death In Normandy He got through the beachhead operations unscathed. The Ger mans came close, but the concen trated artillery barrages never touched him. No, the big guns couldn't do it, but a sniper's bullet did. Capt. Elmer Gross, '42, and his platoon of men were on the other side of St. Lo following the July 25 breakthrough. For a.month he and his men lived on the danger ous, teeming Normandy beaches, but now they were in the open, with only Germans ahead. It happened when lie was lead ing his men to capture a small but important bridge. Nazi fire became heavier as they made their way through the, hedgerows. Seeing that he would need help to knock out a German position, Captain Gross decided to withdraw tem porarily. He jumped up to give the platoon his signal; his head was momentarily expOsed above the protecting hedgerows. In that split-second, a. Jerry sniper sighted and fired; the bullet passed through both,of his cheeks. No, not a serious wound, but may be if the wind wasn't blowing so hard it might have struck just a half-inch higher. But. Elmer Gross didn't quit fighting then. After a full recovery, he returned to his unit during the last few days of the rat-race pre ceding the German surrender. "The Germans are a beaten peo-. ple," said the man who captained the 1942 'basketball team. "They are also a starving people. Money doesn't mean a thing for food can not be had at any price. And you (Continued on page seven) Tobacco ... c. 4,.., ELMER GROSS
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