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The
Nittany
Lyon
Chick Werner, Penn State track
coach, is due to take a couple of
deep bows. The reason? Six Nit
tany Lions are in the running for
the United States Olympic team.
Chances are that only one or
two of the Lion luminaries will
actually make the team, but the
fact that they have survived two
shots of the toughest competition
imaginable speaks well not only
for the boys, but for the coach.
Werner, soft-spoken techni
cian who has stood in the back
ground while his greats have
taken the limelight, has done
a magniiicient job.
Like everyone else, we’re won
dering what’s happened to Kar
ver. Our good friend Gerald T.
has not come up to his real abil
ity in the recent NCAA and
NAAU tests.
Since coach Werner is with his
boys in the midwest we asked
assistant coach Norm Gordon.
And Gordon, who usually has
an answer for every question
concerning track, had this to say:
"Your guess is as good as
mine."
Whether Karver can return to
the form that made him a triple
mile champion last year, will be
decided, of course, in the Olym
pic trials slated for Evanston, Illi
nois this weekend.
His Penn State fans are pulling
for Karver, and we know that no
body wants to make good any
better than the Boyertown styl
ist.
Our personal guess about
Jerry is that he's simply try
ing too hard. The pressure is
terrific on the eve of the Olym
pics, and we're afraid that Jerry
is attempting to live up to his
reputation instead of just going
out and running races.
Anyway, with Dodds out in
front, any sane race will be turn
ed into a screwy one. Dodds went
out to run a 57-second first quar
ter in the NAAU 1500 meters last
weekend, enough to throw every
one off the pace. It seems that
you can’t run 57-second first
quarters and win unless your
name is Dodds.
In all the races that Jerry has
lost three straight now he
could have walked around the
course in the winning time. The
marks which are being posted by
the guys who beat Karver aren’t
my better than Jerry has run in
the past.
Everyone is hoping that the
Boyertown picture runner will
recover in lime to make the spot
on the Olympic team that he
deserves.
Statistics show that men £et
into nine times as many automo
bile accidents as women.
THE SUMMER COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Two-League Intramural
Softball Program Opens
Eight Contests
Slated Today in
Summer Circuits
Softball will be the first of
three intramural sports to swing
into action this summer. The first
games are scheduled to be played
at the New Beaver Field and the
golf course this evening at 6:45.
Two leagues have been formed,
the Fraternity League and the In
dependent League. As of today,
there are eight fraternity teams
and seven in the independent
league.
Friday, July 9, is the last day
to qualify for the Summer Ses
sions Golf Tournament. All per
sons interested are requested to
turn in their name at the Caddy
House. The pairings will be post
ed on the bulletin board in the
Caddy House on Sunday. Actual
play will start on Monday.
The tennis tournament i s
slated to begin on Monday, July
12. The last day to sign up for
tennis tournaments in men’s
singles, and mixed doubles is Fri
day. The schedule will be posted
in the tennis office.
The softball games are to be
seven innings long with ten men
on a side. In case of rain the
games will be played the follow
ing day.
Each team is required to pro
vide one umpire and as much of
their own equipment as possible.
The tournament will consist of
round robin play, the winners
the two leagues playing each
other for the championship. A
player cannot play for another
team after playing for another
previously.
The schedule:
Fraternity League
Beta Sigma Rho vs. Alpha Chi
Rho.
Delta Upsilon v S . Sigma Phi
Sigma.
Pi Kappa Alpha vs. Delta Chi.
.Lambda Chi Alpha vs Phi
Kappa.
TimeT e 6:45 NeW BeaVer Field '
Independents
Hazeltonians vs. Metallurgy
football House vs. Fuel Tech
nology.
Phvs. Ed. Grads, vs. Osmond
Lab.
Place: Golf Course. Time: 6:45.
Four of Penn State’s six all-
America football players have
been linemen, including the pres
ent coaches. Boh Higgins and Joe
Bedenk.
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Michigan State and Washing
ton State will add an intersection
al flavor to the 1948 Penn State
football schedule.
* * *
Tommy Smith, sophomore
star, was the only non-senior
on Penn State's Eastern champ
ion golf team.
* * *
The Lion baseball team, a
perennial winner under Joe Be
denk, won 12 and lost 4 in 1948.
* • *
University of Nebraska, a
newcomer to the schedule in
1949, last opnoeed Penn State
in football in 1920.
* * *
Ralph Ricker, head coach of
football at Dickinson College, is
a former Penn State lineman.
* * *
Coach of the winning team in
the world-wide Army boxing
tournament was a former Penn
State football player, Maj. Jim
Conte.
* • *
A bright future is foreseen
for Penn State’s sophomore
hurdler, Jim Gehrdes, of Al
toona, Pa.
* • *
Return of 19 lettermen estab
lishes Penn State as a nrosneotive
football power again in 1948.
State’s all-America guard, Steve
Suhey, will play for the Pitts
burgh Steelers of the National
Football League in 1948.
* * *
Neil “Skip” Stahley, newly
eJected University of Toledo foot
ball coach, is a former Penn State
all-around athlete.
• * *
Only the Lion tennis team
lost more matches than it won
during the 1948 Spring sports
season.
* • •
For the second season in a row,
State will play a nine-game foot
ball schedule in 1948.
» * •
Lion football and basketball
coaches, Bob Higgins and John
Lawther, are greatly in demand
as instructors at coaching
clinics.
* * *
Championship schoolboy tourn
aments attracted nearly 1000
Pennsylvania athletes to the Penn
State campus during the last
year.
* * •
Chick Werner’s two distance-
running stars, Gerry Karver and
Horace Ashenfelter, both were
married after the war.
* * *
Bob Higgins, veteran Penn
State football coach, is looking
forward to his 19th straight sea
son at the Lion helm.
House painting is the favorite
summer sideline of Gene Wett
stone, Penn State’s Olympic gym
nastic coach.
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Grid, Diamond
Court Snorts
Still Rale High
Varsity athletic programs in
Eastern colleges and universities
are built around the three major
sports football, basketball and
baseball.
A poll of 25 major Eastern in
stitutions today indicated that
track, tennis and golf are the
fiext most popular sports. Wres
tling follows with teams reported
by 20 schools.
Soccer, swimming and fencing
also showed surprising strength
as approximately half of the
schools polled reported teams in
these sports.
Lacrosse teams were reported
by ten schools, boxing by five
schools, and gymnastics by a like
number.
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