FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1948
Harriers Practice Today
On Country Club Course
Conditioning exercises for the Nittany Lion cross-country team
reached high gear this afternoon as Coach Chick Werner took his
entire 50-man squad to the Centre Hills Country: Club, a course
similar to the Van Courtland Park on which the initial meet of the
year against NYU will be run next Saturday.
Although not quite so hilly as the Van Courtland layout, the
Country Club is the nearest thing in the immediate area to the cross
country home of the Violet har-i
UP HILLS
In preparation for this after
noon’s practice run, most of last
night’s session on the golf course
was devoted to teaching the Lion
barrie r candidates the proper
wtay to run up hills.
“This year’s squad is getting in
condition more rapidly than any
group in previous years,” Wer
ner commented yesterday while
watching his boys run warm-up
laps on the New Beaver oval.
In practice sessions thus far
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the Altoona club of the Pennsyl
vania Professional Football league
and may wind up bolstering that
eleven’s forward wall. They are
Johnny Potsklan, last year’s Nit
tafiy co-captain and end; Ray
Ulinski, Who saw Lion action in
’47 as a blocking back, and John
“Shag” Wolosky, last year’s num
ber-one Nittany center.
* All three have returned to
classes at State, and if they join
the Altoona eleven, they’ll not
be the first Penn Staters there.
Ex-Blue and White gridmen al
ready performing for the Horse
shoe town are Bill Kyle, Bob
Weiisel and Bob Rita.
York Yoeman
John Kraynyak, behemoth line
man on Coach Bob Higgins’ 1946
football edition, is now first-team
guard on the York Roses of the
same state pro loop. The Roses are
undefeated in three tilts.
Married in August, Kraynyak
is pursuing graduate studies on
campus.
Down a Notch
Returning to the Bisons, we
glees from a bulletin issued by
the National Collegiate Athletic
Bureau that Bucknell has been
dropped from its previous role
as a "major" college team. The
Bison Herd is now classed as a
"small college" eleven because
it doesn't play a schedule on
which at least half the oppo
nents are "major" elevens.
Penn State and the rest of the
Lion football foes are classed as
"major."
Lion, Alias "Fuzzy"
We predict Wendell Oliver
Lomady (otherwise known as
“Fuzzy”) will be more fun than a
barrel o’ Bisons cavorting tomor
row on New Beaver field. “Fuzzy”
will be the Nittany Lion, all deck
ed out in new togs for the ’4B
campaign.
Joo-kor
Tales about Lion Tailback
Larry Joe's propensity to fum
ble crop up occasionally. Here's
one:
In practice the other day.
Larry was tackled near the
sidelines where his wife, Marie,
and four-months-old Larry Joe
Jr. were watching. Larry drop
ped the ball.
"Listen. Larry." piped up End
Coach Earle Edwards, "if I
were Marie I wouldn't even let
you hold the baby!"
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the emphasis has been chiefly on
conditioning, and for that reason
the tall harrier mentor has not
really had the chance to discover
how good the squad is.
“However,” he added, “this
season’s group of sophomores is
a very promising lot. Whether or
not any of them make the team
this season, I expect big things
from them later on.”
COMPETITION
The Lion cross-country coach
did mention that several of the
upperclassmen might have to
step faster than ever before to
prevent one of the crop of cross
country rookies from usurping a
spot on the seven-man traveling
squad.
Outstanding among the soph
omores in recent early season
drills have been A 1 Porto, Bob
Parsons, Bob Freebairn, Jack St
Clair, John McCall, Hal Wilson
and Hal Borck.
Several upperclassmen notably
Paul Ooch, Bob Bour, ‘ and Ed
Forney, have surprised both Wer
ner and Assistant Coach Norman
Gordon by showing phenomenal
improvement over last season’s
form.
Football Forecast
Through the courtesy of his brother, who is an undergraduate
student on campus, the Daily Collegian here presents this week’s
football forecast of Joe Harris, nationally-prominent crystal-bailer.
Only the more important gridiron games are listed, with prob
able winners appearing at the left.
COLLEGES
Columbia-Harvard 20-13
Duke-Tennessee 14- 7
Georgia Tech-Tulane 27- 7
Holy Cross-Syracuse 7-0
Illinois-Wisconsin 20-14
Indiana-lowa 20- 7
Kentucky-Mississippi .... 14- 7
Michigan State-Hawaii ... 34- 7
Michigan-Oregon 20- 7
Minnesota-Nebraska 27- 7
Mississippi State-Baylor .. 20-14
Navy-Cornell 27-13
North Carolina-Georgia ... 21- 7
Notre Dame-Pitt 34- 0
Ohio State-Southern Cal. . 20-14
Oklahoma-Texas A&M 20- 7
Penn State-Bucknell 34- 0
ANNUAL
CHURCH RECEPTION
for
PENN STATE STUDENTS
By The
Churches of State College
OCT. 1-Baptist 8 P.M.
Catholic 8 P.M.
At PHI KAPPA HOUSE
Evangelical United
Brethren 8 P.M.
Friends 7:30 P.M.
Methodist 8 P.M.
OCT. 8-Episcopal 8 P.M.
Presbyterian 8 P.M.
Lutheran 8 P.M.
Reformed 8 P.M.
ELWOOD PETCHEL
Lion Tailback
Penn State football teams have
been unbeaten on their home
gridiron for 40 of the last 61
years.
Perm State’s Bob Higgins rates
physical condition a prime factor
in any successful football cam
paign.
Penn-Dartmouth 34- 7
Princeton-Brown 20-13
Purdue-Northwestern ...20-14
Rice-Louisiana State , 27-20
Rutgers-Colgate 14- 7
Southern Metho.-Tex. Tech 27-r 7
Vanderbilt-Alabama 14- 7
Villanova-Duquesne 27- 7
Washington State-Stanford 20-13
West Virginia-Temple .... 14-0
Wm. & Mary - Wake Forest 20- 7
PROFESSIONAL
Green Bay-Detroit 24-14
Philadelphia-Los Angeles . 28-14
Pittsburgh-Boston 17- 7
Washington-New York 21-17
Buffalo-Brooklyn 28-14
Cleveland-Baltimore ...'.. 21- 7
Sturges To Boot
Lion Extra Points
The crowd is almost silent. Both teams are standing on the field
looking intently toward the bench. A football player wearing no
pads calmly removes his glasses, trots onto the field, kicks a perfect
extra point and returns to his seat on the bench.
This scene, which took place four times in last Saturday’s in
tra-squad scrimmage, will be repeated often this year when Carl
Sturges, 165-pound place-kicking
specialist, is called upon to boot
tne extra martyr for the Nittany
lhon football squad.
Place-kicking for Carl started
during his high school days al
thougn an odd quirk of fate gave
him the chance to do the kicking
lor Penn State.
KNEE INJURY
During the pre-game practices
last fall, the Wasfiington D. C.
tailback injured his knee and he
figured that his years of football
playing had come to an end.
However, Backfield Coach Earle
Edwards suggested to Carl that
when his knee recovered, he try
place-kicking.
Sturges reported for spring
practice and while the regular
squad was running through plays,
he was sending the pigskin
through the uprights. Not content
to wait for fall practice to re
sume his training, he borrowed
two footballs from the College
and every day kicked the ball in
the parks and lots near his home.
"I didn’t always have goal
posts to aim at,” said the 24-year
old Sturges, “so I just tried to
kidk the ball high and straight.
Although I was afraid that my
knee would give me trouble in
kicking,” he continued, “it hasn’t
bothered me a bit.”
As for football experience,
Sturges is well trained in the
gridiron sport. Playing on the
Roosevelt High School team in
Washington, Carl did all the kick
ing for his team. In 1942 he went
to the University of Maryland
and played on the freshman
team.
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Even in the service he contin
ued his football career by play
ing for the 29th Infantry Regi
ment team that won the “Cham
pionship of Iceland.”
“Iceland is a bad location for
football,’’ he remarked. “We us-
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ually played in mud and a few
games had to be postponed be
cause of blizzards.” In passing
Sturges mentioned that he missed
one of 20 tries for extra points
while in Iceland.
Every day while his teammates
go through the regular drills and
exercises associated with foot-
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