WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1948
6 Lions in Running for Olympics
Barney Ewell,
Curl Stone Win
NMU Crowns
The eyes of Penn State will be
upon five Nittany Lions this week
end in the final Olympic tryouts
at Northwestern’s Dyche Sta
dium, Evanston, 111.
Two graduates and three un
dergraduates have qualified for
the Olympic finals, and one of
these boys, alumnus Hermann
Goffberg of Philadelphia has al
ready made the Olympic team.
Barney Ewell, Lancaster speed
ster and a Penn State great sev
eral years ago, and ex-Lion Curt
Stone of Brooklyn, Pa., won na
tional AAU championships at Mil
waukee last weekend.
Ewell won the 100-meter crown
and Stone retained his 5000-meter
championship.
Here is the Nittany Lion line
up for the Olympic finals:
1. Ewell, 100 and 200 meters.
2. Stone, 5000 meters.
3. Horace Ashenfelter, 5000 me
ters.
4. Jerry Karver, 1500 meters.
5. Jim Gehrdes, 110 meter High
hurdles.
Goffberg finished third in the
National AAU 10,000 meters run
last weekend and thereby gained
an Olympic berth. Ashenfelter fin
ished seventh in that race, but
had already qualified for the
Olympic finals with his second
place performance in the Na
tional Collegiate 5000 meters.
Karver finished fifth behind Gil
Dodds in the 1500 meters last
weekend and gained a qualifying
spot for the Evanston finals.
Ewell, in addition to winning
the 100 placed third in the 200
meters behind Lloyd Laßeach and
will compete in both of those
events in the Olympic finals. Bar
ney won the 200 last year at the
National AAU’s.
Jim Gehrdes, Altoona sopho
more, was shut out in the semi
finals of the 110-high hurdles last
weekend, but came back to win
a run-off and qualify for the
Olympic finals.
Stone and Ewell rate the best
chances of making the Olympic
squad, although none of the Penn
State entries can be counted out.
A one-two finish of Stone and
Ashenfelter in the 5000 meters is
highly probable and this will put
both of the Lion distance aces on
the Olympic squad.
If Jerry Karver returns to his
winning form of a year ago, the
Boyertown stylist will cop at least
a third in the 1500, good enough
to make the team. A good day for
Karver would mean a loss for
Dodds, since the 1500 is closer to
the Lion’s distance.
Fourth Night Fray
The Lion-Syracuse night game
next season will be the fourth arc
light football contest in Nittany
history.
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THE SUMMER COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
State Footballers To
Start Drills Sept. 8
Penn Stale will inaugurate
pre-season football practice on
the camDus. Wednesday, Sept.
8, coach Bob Higgins said
today.
The season will open Satur
day, Oct. 2, against Bucknell
University at New Beaver
Field.
lion Football
Combine Safe
Draft
Penn State football will not be
seriously affected by Selective
Service for one. or perhaps two
years, a study of the 1948 roster
today indicated.
Of the 44 men tentatively
chosen to return in September for
pre-season drills, only a half
dozen are non-veterans. Gradu
ation a year hence will still leave
a substantial nucleus of war
hardened players.
The two players who will be
most sorely missed if they are
called up under the draft during
either of the next two years are
Fullback Fran Rogel, of North
Braddock, and Tackle Don Mur
ray, of Easton. Both were under
age during World War 11.
Assuming that the number of
incoming sophomores will be sub
stantially reduced by the draft,
no serious dearth of manpower is
expected to develop until after
the 1949 season. The dearth will
be general then, however, and
will affect all schools equally.
Long Haul
Coach Bob Rutherford, Sr., has
been at the helm of the Lion
golfing team 27 seasons.
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Lancaster is going "all out” to
ease the road to the Olvmoics for
Barney Ewell, erstwhile Nittany
Lion speed demon.
The Lancaster newspaper, the
Intelligencer-Journal, has launch
ed a campaign to raise funds
which will be used to maintain
Barney’s family during his pro
jected trip abroad.
Friends of the former Penn
State sprint star instigated the
plan when they realized that
Barney’s home obligations vere
a serious handicap to success in
the forthcoming Olympic trials.
Under the plan, as approved by
the National AAU. funds raised
in the drive will be used soley
to provide support for Barney’s
wife. Ducella and his son. Barney.
Jr., during the period of Ewell’s
absence from home.
Lancaster friends say the plan
relieves Barney of the necessity
of keeping his job in the foundrv
where he has been working for
the past six months, and to spend
the entire time in training for the
Olympic trials.
MAJOR LEAGUES
Not including last nights results.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Team W L Pet. GB
Cleveland 42 25 .527
Philadelphia 44 29 .605 1
New York 41 29 .586 2Vj
Boston 55 82 .522 7
Detroit 35 37 .471 10%
St. Louis 25 42 .373 17
Chicago 23 43 .348 18%
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Boston 41 30 .577
St. Louis 38 31 .551 2
Pittsburgh 37 St .544 2Vi
New York 34 34 .500 5%
Philadelphia 36 37 .493 6
Brooklyn 31 35 .470 7%
Cincinnati 32 39 .451 9
Chicago 29 41 .414 11%
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Lion Golfers Eliminated
In National Collegiates
Penn State’s undefeated Eastern Intercollegiate championship
golf team was forced out of the National Collegiate tourney at Palo
Alto, Cal., last week.
The Lions, boasting the first unbeaten crew tinder coach Bob
Rutherford since 1938, were edged out in the first round of match
play after only two men qualified for the tourney,
Don Hart and Joe Boyle, the
only Lions to survive the quali
fying round, droped by the way
side,
Neither offered any excuse for
their play, but Ted Pavseur,
NCAA golf chairman, said that
he felt that the Lions “ran into
some tough luck.”
Hart lost to Art Wall of Duke
3-2, and Rov Moe of Stanford,
dimmed Boyle.
_Moe had previouslv qualified
with a 149 while Bovle checked
in with a 154. Wall had a 146 and
Hart Dosted 152 to qualify.
The Lion team totalled 1.022 in
the qualifving round, comnared
with the 979 Dosted by the cham
oinns. San Jose State.
Eliminated by scoring over the
155 deadline were Jim Noble. 158;
Tom Smith. 161: .Terry Smith, 161:
and A 1 Hack. 158.
The Lions, however, were gal
lery favorites right up to the
time they were eliminated. Penn
State’s fine record in the east this
spring made quite an impression
on the West Coast fans, but in the
end the Lions found the Cali
fornia boys a trifle too hot.
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PAGE FIVE
Old Grads Like
Pill, Penn as
lion Grid Foes
Old grads prefer Pitt and Penn
totany other opponents suggested
for future Penn State football
teams. Next in order of prefer
ence are Armv and Navy.
An informal poll, still incom
plete, also reveals a desire on the
part of alumni to build future
schedules around Eastern teams.
Rated “highly desirable” as op
ponents were Columbia, Cornell
and Syracuse. Only Syracuse is
scheduled at the present time, but
both Cornell and Columbia have
been met in the past.
The poll, the final results of
which will not be made known
until next month, was conducted
by the Penn State Alumni Asso
ciation with the approval of the
Graduate manager’s office.
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