AUGUST, 1347
Higgins Issues Grid Call
Sixty-five candidates received invitations this week to the open
ing session of pre-season football drills in preparation to the season’s
opener against Washington State, at Hershey, September 20.
Numbered among the players invited to return for the early
drills are 16 lettermen.from the 1946 squad, and ten monogram-win
ners from the war-time squads
of 1944. About 25 boys who
played as freshmen at state
teacher colleges a year ago, also
were invited
A preliminary list indicated
that in the returning squad
would be ten ends, eight tackles,
eight guards, six centers, ■ six
wingbacks, six full backs, six
blocking backs, and ten tail
backs. Thirty-six of the 65 boast
prior varsity experience.
Washington State will field a
much more' experienced team
than- the one which lost six
games in 1946, Only seven of 38
lettermen will be missing.
Wing Against
Coach Phil Sorboe will counter
the Higgins single wing with a
T-formation-schooled team that
boasts a speedy backfield.
Bill Lippincott, all - Pacific
Coast Conference- halfback -in
1945 will spearhead the attack
and Lion line coach Jim O’Hora,
who scouted-the Cougars against
Michigan State last year, states
that Lippincott will be the man
to watch.
“He is the type of runner, pass
er and all-around ball handler
that a team has to be on its. toes
to stop,” O’Hora emphasized.
All-Star Candidates
Other Cougar men who will
stand watching are center Andy
Lazor and end Francis Bacoka,
both candidates for all-star hon
ors.. Gordy Brunswick, 205-pound
fullback, is noted for his passing
and kicking. ‘
Two veterans. John Godfrey,
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Bob Doornick, the tackles with
185, and Phil Claymore, 182, are
at guards; Tom Parry and Bob
Doornick, the tackles with Dave
Swanson serving with Bacoka at
the end positions.
The Cougar backfield will be
missing 1946 Captain Die.. Abrams
but Bob George, a light but fast
fullback, is being groomed to
take his place. Either Jerry Wil
liams or Bruce Bradley will
share. the, halfback work with
Lippincott with 200-pound Bob
Reiser at quarterback.
Among the familiar faces Lion
fans will see at Hershey Stadium
will be tailbacks Elwood Petchel
and Bobby Williams from last
year’s team and Johnny Chuck
ran from ’44 and ’45. Joe Colone
and Bob Weitzel are expecting
competition from Francis Rogel,
a California import, at fullback.
Many Wingbacks
Jeff Durkota ana Wally Trip
lett run into a host of good men
as they try for the Wingback
position. The Drazenovich broth
The Nittany Lyon
All this publicity about the College refusing to schedule football
and boxing, with schools where discrimination is practiced is not, we
learn, a new policy of Penn State.
In 1936, three Penn State boxers—lzzie Richter, Sammy Donato
and Frankie Goodman-refused to participate in tryouts for the
Olympics. The reason: the Olympics that year, you’ll remember, were
held in Germany, and Germany at that time was under the thumb of
a paperhanger who later .took up butchering as a hobby.
By their action, they showed the way for other college alh
leles and started off the trend which pops up every now and then
in northern schools. .
Penn State, according to an issue of Froth at that time, was more
proud of its boxers than it was when they cleaned-up the Eastern
Intercollegiate team championship the preceding March.
One athlete—Jesse Owens—spoiled the Whole Olympic program
for Hitler, because the Ohio State flash shot Der Fuehrer’s non-Aryan
theory to nothing.
The funny thing is that back in 1936, Penn State whole-heartedly
approved the action of Messrs. Donato, Goodman and Richter. There
didn’t seem, to be the difference of opinion .which,is currently preva
lent about, the .Sugar Bowl bid for Penn State’s 1948 boxing team.
A trip to New Orleans for a squad-of boxers, coach and trainer
is not to be sneezed at, and there are some fellows who would have
made the trip this year that don’t think a little thing like principle
should have prompted the Athletic Board to decline the invitation.
But if you think a paid trip to New Orleans is nice, how
would, you like to travel first class to Berlin in pre-war days?
This sudden surge of Penn State spirit supposedly started last
-year when the Nittany Lion football tearti was scheduled to play at
the University of Miami, then withdrew because the southern school
refused to allow a couple of Negro members of the Penn State squad
to make the trip.
People were bitter about that all over the nation. In fact, several
U. of Miami profs went on record as opposing it. But nothing was
done.
This year, we find that a state law on the Louisiana books pro
hibits mixed competition. While there are no members on the Penn
State boxing squad who aren’t 101 per cent white and as free from
any racial tinges as the whitest Louisiana senator, the College de
cided that it was the principle of the thing and politely said so.
One of those boys who refused a chance at the Olympics, Frankie
Goodman, now offers an award for the outstanding Penn State boxer
each year.
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