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Ewell Shines in Olympics
Nittany Valley sports enthusiasts for years have recounted the Olympic exploits of
such famous Lion athletes as Crip Moore, Alan HelfFrich Blondy Romig A 1 Bates and
many more but their performances are temporarily forgotten and the spotlight focuses
to the star performer of the recent Olympiad, Henry Norwood “Barney” Ewell, the man
who was voted “the athlete who had done the most for Penn State” when he finished his
brilliant track career at the College in 1942.
The 30-year-old speedster, who had been considered by many too old to run in the
dashes, picked up two silver medals and was the leadoff man on the winning 400-meter
relay team at the London games
to pace the American track and
field contingent.
LOSES TWICE
Ewell lost two heartbreaking
photofinish races in the 100- and
200-meter dashes but still annex
ed two second spots as the Ameri
can trackmen captured eleven
gold medals.
But Ewell’s success at the
Olympics is only part of the story
which dates back into the early
part of this year.
Barney was then working in a
Lancaster industrial plant train
ing daily after working hours.
Many of his friends and associates
thought then that he was well
over the prime age for sprinters.
But Barney had his mind set
on the Olympics and so the citi
zens of Lancaster started a cam
paign to raise funds “to take care
of his wife and child while Ewell
was training for and participating
in the Olympic games in Lon
don.”
Funds accumulated quickly and
Ewell started the tedious training
grind. He won some of his first
warm-up races but he also lost
some. His times were nothing out
of the ordinary.
It was in the Middle Atlantic
AAU’s that the Lancaster speed
s^er started to
set American
cinders on fire.
won the 100-
and 200 - meter
m dashes in record
times. On that
same day Jerrv
Karver the Li
"ons’ strongest
ri. > —contender for an
KARVER Olympic berth,
suffered one of the season’s big
gest upsets when Villanova’s
Browning Ross cut across the tape
ahead of Karver in the 1500-
meter event.
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Then came the final Olympic
tryouts at Dyche Stadium at
Evanston, 111. It was there that
Ewell pulled one of the most dra
matic track upsets in many a year
when the 30-year-old Barnev beat
the supposedly “world’s fastest
human being,” Mel Patton, in the
world-record-equalling time of
10.2 seconds over the 100-meter
route.
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That same day Curtis Stone,
who two seasons ago was Chick
Werner’s protege in the two-mile
run. qualified for the 5000 meters
while Herman Goffberg, a Nit
tany alumnus who never quite
hit his stride as a collegiate com
petitor, was the third Penn State
man to qualify for the Olympics.
Jerry Karver, who was consid
ered by many track experts as
“the man to beat in the 1500-
meter event,” just missed making
the boat trip by inches.
The Boyertown flash, who wor
the triple mile crown last year
twice a national champion and
twice an IC4A titlist, took fourth
place from the start of the race,
then advanced to second place but
later dropped back to fourth
where he finished.
Barney Ewell,
returning to Lan
caster, Pa„ from
London, is feted
hv the citv. Mayor
Dale E. Cary pic
tured above wel
comed Ewell after
his tri u m p hant
Olvmpic trio.
After a sterling
performance in the
I.ondon spectacle
despite his age,
30, the venerable
hut versatile dash
man stood out as
the o u 1 s t a oding
member of the
TT. «?. track and
field smipd which
made a nee*. Olym
pic tour of Europe
le-e Toooth.
Ewell gained
recognition as the
ton performer of
an j n t e - national
™°et a* Praoue,.
ft t, e c h oslovakm,
-„u«re he was vk
♦or<<-ms in the 200-
raeter da*h and
was a memher of
the winnino 100-
yno+fti* retev f«am.
At 30, the veter
an cinder-pounder
amazes the track
world with his
speed and stamina.
From the opening day of the
Olympics the Americans started
their quest for gold medals. Har
rison Dillard captured the 100-
meter dash with. Ewell placinff
second. Barnev closed in with
such a terrific burst of speed that
he almost nassed Dillard. So close
was the outcome of the race that
the iudges had to go into a long
conference before awarding the
decision to Dillard.
The next day victory laurels
were again denied to Ewell when
he again finished
second, this time
to Mel Patton in
the 200 - meter
event. So close
was Ewell to
Patton that a
picture taken of
the finish decid
ed the outcome
fmd both Ewell’s WERNER
and -Pattons
times were identical.
MOVIES TELL
Ewell also figured in the 400-
meter relay team victory. Offi
cials thought that he committed a
foul when le passed the baton to
his teammate Wright and al
though the Americans won the
race by ten yards the gold medal
was awarded to Great Britain.
But films taken of the race
Continued on page eleven
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THE CLASS OF
'5l
Football Slate
VARSITY
Oct. 2—Bucknell home
Oct. B—Syracuse .. . Syracuse
Oct. 16—West Virginia home
Oct. 23—Mich. State . . home
Oct. 30—Colgate Hamilton
Nov. 6—Penn . Philadelphia
Nov. 13—Temple home
Nov. 20—Pitt . . . . Pittsburgh
Nov. 27—Wash. Slate Tacoma
JUNIOR VARSITY
Oct. B—Syracuse . Syracuse
Oct. 16—Bucknell . Lewisburg
Oct. 22—Navy Annapolis
Mon Gridders
'49, '5O Card
Penn State and Nebraska, foot
ball opponents only once in 61
vears, will resume relations in
1949 afteu a lapse of 29 years.
They will also clash in 1950.
Bob Higgins, who is looking
forward to his 19th season as
head Lion grid coach, had grad
uated when the first game was
nlaved in 1920, but he recalls
vividly watching it from the
stands.
In this era, the years immediat
ely following World War I, Penn
State enjoved its greatest success
in football .producing three all-
Americans in succession and roll
ing through 30 consecutive con
tests without defeat.
Way, who was the stand-out in
1920, "was the second all-Ameri
can player to be chosen. Walter
Camp had selected Higgins for
an end post i„ 1919. and Glenn
Killinger was named to a half
back spot in 1921. Two years lat
er, in 1923, Joe Bedenk, present
Nittany line coach, was named to
a guard position.
Nebraska, returning to the
Lion schedule in the middle of
what Nittany followers hope is
another “golden era”, will invade
New Beaver field for the second
time Saturday, October 15, 1949.
A year later, on October 21, 1950.
the Lions will appear at Lincoln.
Nebraska.
In the gridiron campaign which
is about to open, the Blue and
White eleven .will play a nine
game slate which includes Buck
nell, Syracuse, West Virginia.
Michigan State, Colgate, Penn,
Temple, Pittsburgh and Washing
ton State. Four encounters are
scheduled at home.
For the third straight year,
State has booked a night football
game for the ’47 season. The Hig
gins machine will tackle Syracuse
at Svracuse, N. Y., Friday night,
October 8, instead of- Saturday,
October 9, as previously schedul
ed.
Syracuse asked for the change,
explaining that its night game
with Penn State two years ago
attracted the largest pre - game
sale of tickets in the history of
this rivalry.
Ex-Lion Coach
Nate Cartmell, former Nittany
coach, keeps in touch with the
game as a track aide at Manhat
tan College.
MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 20. 1948
Between
Lions E§§§lr
By Tom Morgan
Sports Editor
* "other Year
Fall breezes whipping down
the Nittanv Vale already have a
co'd snap to ’em.
To the farmer, that means it’s
harvest time —t ime to gather
"rain ’n’ pumnkins, to the citv
slicker that means vacation is
trulv over and it’s high time he
hucki°d down to the ol’ grind at
the office.
But in Nittanvtown, sUas State
College, that means the wide
eyed sophs are in town, the up
nerrlass sophMicetes are close on
their heels, the local tradesmen
off wares to *“11 to
8000 College Joes and Joseys,
and f-'ach Bob Hi "gin*' cries of
anoui-h on““ pnain echo from
New Beaver F s “id to Mt. Nittanv
as h“ surveys his current crop of
40-odd husky football stalwarts.
Gulden Era
Once again, also, it is the
hanov job of the snorts editor of
this thrivin" sheet to dish out an
annraisal of what’s to come in
Ni+tanv snortin'? circles in ’4B-’49.
Bv wav of introducing the
"resent Penn State snorts pano
rama to newcomers to campus,
let’s sav at the outset that we
crp pnw smnoi--dph in the mid
dle of a Golden Era in Penn
°t,ate sports. For that, we’re
Talent is terrific in Nittany
I.i°n football and other snorts,
ma.inlv because of ihe wealth of
ambitious athletes and the keen
competition generated bv the
feet that many war veterans
whose school!no - jr.jfe.vwww
was interrunted 9
are vyin« for j
♦earn positions " ’ ~.1-'' ’
that would ordi- L' , >
narily go tof '
Harry Birniqhf
out-of High-
School.
So, you see, it
follows that we
have better
teams and win more games.
if you talk to several
Lion coaches about this, they’ll
say the other teams are having
the same boom in player talent
and attack our “argument” until
it tends to become sieve-like.)
Piaskin Picture
But. to get down to the meat of
this discourse, the '4B-'49 sports
scene is strictly favorable to the
fortunes of the Nittany Lion.
On the football front. Head
Coach Hiergins is looking forward
to his 19th straioht season at the
f -’on helm, and this year most of
the "k nowin q." nail - chewing
forecasters pick the Hig's eleven
to pace the East as in '47. Skip
per Hingins' grid edition last
vear out Penn State on the na
tional foctv.all mao like no other
orevious Lion team.
He admits that this season's
sound, now practicing twice daily
on New Beaver Field, boasts pos
sibilities of equaling last year’s,
but he’s worried about good re
serve strength on the line.
As far as foes go. there are
several powers on the gridiron
schedule that could deal a death
blow to the Lions, especially if
over-confidence engulfs the Nit
tanv eleven.
They’re billing the Penn-Penn
State struggle as the top game in
the East this year. Certain to be
a corker, that one will decide
much for the Blue and White.
With 19 lettermen returning
( 'om i->st year's unbeaten eleven,
Penn State is agam a prospective
football titan in '4B.
Continued on page ten
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