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Lion Harriers Prepare
For IC4-A Running
With the 1948 dual meet season just a memory, the Nittany Lion
cross-country team has begun preparations for the first of two post
season events, the IC4-A meet in New York City, Monday.
Practically every major Eastern cross-country squad, along with
Michigan State from the Midwest, will be on hand for the 51st
runing of the annual event.
Among the powers who will
compete for the title won last
year by Manhattan are Michigan
State, Army, Syracuse, Penn
State, Rhode Island State, and
Manhattan.
Last year the Lions finished in
a tie for third place along with
Army in the team ratings, while
Horace Ashenfelter, now Lion
captain, placed second to Rhode
Island State's Don Black for the
individual title.
Friday's impressive win over
a supposedly strong Manhattan
team, 19-42, provided a fitting
finale to the Lions' dual meet
season which showed three vic
tories and one defeat.
The State harriers surprised
even Coach Chick Werner as
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they copped first, second, fourth,
arid fifth places to defeat the Jas
pers with amazing ease.
"I could hardly believe my
eyes," Werner said of the Man
hattan meet. "It's just as though
Bricknell were to defeat Penn
State, 6.5-0 in football. Bob Hig
gins would be no more surprised
than I or the Manhattan coach
was, at the poor showing of their
team."
"Citation" Ashenfelter regis
tered his fourth consecutive indi
vidual win of the season as he
came home tied for first place
with sophomore Bob Parsons.
Parsons ran the finest race of his
collegiate career. Both Nittany
runners finished the five-mile
course in 27:06.
Two other sophomores, Juck
St. Clair and John McCtill, placed
fourth and fifth respectively. The
Jaspers' Bob Checcola was third
behind Ash and Parsons.
In addition to Friday's win the
Wernermen defeated NYU, Cor
nell and lost to Michigan State in
other meets this year. In doing
so the Nittanyites scored a low
total fo 93 points to their oppon
ents' 143.
One of the outstanding features
of the season was the develop
ment of several of the sopho
mores, notably Al Porto, St.
Clair, McCall, and Parsons, into
topnotch harriers.
With each succeeding race the
first-year men seem to get better
and better. This encouraging as
pect may put the Lions in posi
tion to challenge teams like
Michigan State, Army and Syra
cuse for the IC-4A title Monday.
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
Lacrosse Candidates Practice
Fundamentals, Strategy Daily
Under direction of Coach Nick Thiel, the Penn State lacrosse
scam is practising for the 1.949 season.
Although actual competition does not begin until the spring,
Coach Thiel has his squad out every day learning fundamentals,
handling sticks and practicing offensive and defensive strategy.
They will continue to work outside as long as weather permits.
Last year the Lion lacrosse men had a good record, losing only
to Army and Navy, who are both
members of the Big Five, and
Syracuse who had one of the out
standing teams in the North. The
other seven games on the sched
ule ended with the Nittany Lions
on the long end of the score.
Even though he has a squad of
40 men, led by Captain Roger
Nestor, returning from last year,
Coach Thiel emphasized the fact
that newcomers without any ex
perience will be welcomed to the
practice field. He said that among
the 60 new candidates out now,
there is only one man with any
previous experience. Lacrosse is
one sport, Thiel stressed, where
everyone has an equal chance for
success.
While it is too early to make
any predictions for the coming
season, with the squad on hand
and the men who will be out for
the team after fall and winter
sports are over, every indication
points to another strong team for
Penn State.
Packs a Punch
The Nittany Lions' big blocking
back on the football field, Charles
(Chuck) Drazenovich, of Browns
ville, won Eastern heavyweight
boxing honors in '4B.
Second Tilt
Penn State's football game
against Nebraska in '49 will be
only the second meeting between
the two schools.
This first down was on the officials. Wally Triplett, fleet-footed Lion back is shown at
right making 10 yards against Penn in the first quarter of Saturday's game in Philadel
phia. Rushing for Wally are Bill Talarico (22) and Chuck Bednarik (60). Neither made
the tackle, however, as Dolph Tokarczyk, another Quaker defender not shown, stopped
Triplett. Play was called back and the Nitta nymen penalized, for being offside.
Sigma. Nu Rallies,
Tops PSD's 22-19
Sigma Nu had to come from be
hind to edge a strong Phi Sigma
Delta swimming team, 22-19, at
Glennland pool yesterday.
They won the nieet in that
final deciding event, the 120 yard
relay.
Sid Manes of Phi Sigma Delta
put his teamates in the lead, 19-
17, in the fourth event at the pool,
with a brilliant display of diving
skill. In his three dives, a front
jack-knife, back pike, and runn
ing one and a half, Manes piled
up 26.4 award points, enough to
garner first place easily.
But the lead couldn't stand
when the Sigma Nu's jurned on
the steam to overwhelm their
rivals in the relay. With the meet
at stake, Charles Mundy, Ted
Wiedenman, Jim Brewer and
William Brinker collaborated on
a fast four laps, making the dis
tance in 1:08.7 and carrying home
the victory, 22-19.
Third round meets at the pool
begin tonight when Pi Kappa Phi
meets Phi Delta Theta, and Sig
ma Pi toes the mark against
Acacia.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1948
Evening
Between
The
Lionsgkv
By Torn Morgan
SPORTS EDITOR
Everyday Drama
Drama is enacted daily from
10 to 11 a.m. in the College In
firmary, but it's not the spectacu
lar, affected theatrics of the stage.
Our true-to-life players are a Col
lege nurse and an ex-champion
collegiate boxer.
When we circled the infirm
ary stairs down to the physical
therapy room, we found the
boxer, Johnny Benglian, wag
ing a fight to recover fully
from a shoulder injury which
threatens to halt abruptly his
collegiate career in the square
ring.
Johnny's cohort in this battle
is Nurse Florence Leist, who ad.
ministers heat treatments with a
diathermic machine and massages
his injured shoulder.
As Mrs. Leist puts it, "We're
fighting against time to have
him fixed up for boxing season
this winter."
The clever, scrappy southpaw
—recipient of many tremen
dous ovations from Nittany
boxing fans—underwent an op
eration in Johns Hopkins hos
pital in Baltimore, June 10.
Torn Tendon
Fourteen stitches were required
to sew a torn tendon in Benglian's
shoulder—his left one, which did
the lion's share of the work in
1946 when John won Eastern In
tercollegiate 127-pound honors.
Lying on the plinth (alias
table) in the infirmary, Johnny
described the incident which
was the trouble-maker: "I was
playing right field for an
American Legion Junior base
ball team in the summer and
tried to make a shoe-string
catch. I lost my footing and fell
on my left side, trapping the
ball. That's when the injury oc
curred."
(It must be added, for the fod
der of baseball fans, that Beng
lian continued playing for a short
time, but his batting average dip
ped below .300 thereafter.)
At this point Nurse Leist, ad
justing • the heating pads on
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