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Collier's Selects Sam Tamburo
Ace Nittany Terminal Gains
Coveted First Team Berth
Attaining one of the most coveted honors in collegiate football,
Sam Tamburo—Penn State’s sterling end—has been named on Col
lier’s 59th All-America first team. The Collier’s team is regarded
by most gridiron authorities as the foremost national All-America
selection and is slated to appear on newsstands today.
Astonished by the news of his
good fortune, Tamburo late yes
terday expressed his reaction
through four, startled words: “I
think it’s wonderful!’’ In all the
excitement, Sam—a departing
senior member of Coach Bob Hig
gins’ ’4B team —managed to cred
it the entire Nittany eleven with
making his All-America selec
tion possible and said: “I enjoyed
playing with the team. Every
member deserves credit, for they
;:re a great bunch of players.”
COACHES COMMENT
Earle Edwards, Nittany Lion
end coach who tutored Tamburo
in his four years of varsity foot
ball, yesterday described the Li
on terminal as “a hard worker
and consciencious trainer.” De
clared Edwards:
“Sam is good because he can
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make use of his imagination and
ingenuity on the football field.
For example, on offense, he has
repeatedly been able to outman
euver opposing backs by leaving
the regular pass-catching zones
when he sensed that the situation
warranted doing so. Tamburo
has developed into an excellent
pass receiver and a brilliant de
fense man.’’
Head Coach Higgins echoed Ed
ward’s words by proclaiming
Tamburo “one of the best ends
we’ve ever had.” The Hig add
ed:
“Sam does everything well. He
deserves recognition on Collier's
All-America.”
BOARD CHOSE STARS
The Collier’s selection of eleven
nationally _ outstanding players
was made this year by a board
composed of eight grid coaches.
They include Matty Bell, SMU;
Bernie Bierman, Minnesota; Wal
ly Butts, Georgia; Jeff Cravath,
Southern California; Harvey Har
man, Rutgers; Frank Leahy, No
tre Dame; Lou Little, Columbia,
and Tuss McLaughry, Dartmouth.
With Chuck Bednarik, star
Penn center, Tamburo represent
ed the Keystone State on the top
notch All-America, now in its
59th year and originally chosen
by the famed Walter Camp, more
recently by Grantland Rice.
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even football players across the
nation who gained berths on the
1948 Collier’s All-America:
E—Sam Tamburo Penn State
E—George Brodnax Ga. Tech
T—Leo Nomellini Minnesota
T—Al Wistert
G—Marty Wendell Notre Dame
G—Paul Burris Oklahoma
C—Chuck Bednarik Penn
B—Doak Walker SMU
B—Charley Justice N. Carolina
B—Jackie Jensen California
B— Clyde Scott Arkansas
By securing Collier's All-Am
erica mention, Tamburo followed
closely the path of Penn State’s
’47 standout guard, Steve Suhey,
and became the eighth Penn State
All-American in the highest sense
of the term.
Suhey last year was the first
Lion performer to achieve a spot
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SAM TAMBURO
Michigan
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Gain Triumphs
Smidansky Downs
Young in Heavy
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Twice flooring Bob Young, Alpha
Tau Omega, with hard lefts fol
lowed by smashing right crosses,
John Smidanski, Sigma Nu, blis
tered his way to a third-round
TKO heavyweight victory in the
featured bout of a card of 11 at
Recreation Hall last night.
Five other pugilists battered to
victory in a sensational card staged
by the intramural department be
fore 400 half-crazed boxing fans.
Four others won by forfeit.
Thirteen bouts are scheduled for
the varsity ring tonight in another
top-notch card featuring fights in
five classes.
Smidansky and Young, wasting
no time measuring each other, ex
changed hard blows from the
opening gong. Young rushed out
eagerly to force the early slug
ging, but the Sigma Nu football
star, leading with a snaky left that
celdom missed its mark, battered
Young to the mat in the second
frame, took his breather, and then
came back to finish his man mid
way in the last round.
CLASSY 155 POUNDER
Another Sigma Nu, Lou Trioni,
captured the early favor of the
crowd, stalking Carl Miller, Lamb
da Chi Alpha, forcing him into
corners and then pummeling his
rangier opponent with blow after
blow to win a unanimous decision.
Trioni’s boxing style, calm, col
lected but packing TNT in both
fists, set the gallery in an uproar
all the way.
FIRST ROUND TKO
Richard Yeagley, Phi Gamma
Delta, bounced his opponent,
Thomas Grifferty, Delta Tau Del
ta, off the mat in the first round to
snare a 145-pound-class TKO vic
tory.
The flooring blow was a terrific,
roundhouse right cross that whis
(Continued on page five)
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1948
Between
Lions ES^ll?
By Tom Morgan
SPORTS EDITOR
AII in the Family
Football honors were the lot of
another Tamburo in New Ken
sington this week as Sam’s broth
er Dick received all-Western
Pennsylvania high school honor
able mention. Now a senior at
Ken Hi, Dick was acclaimed as
all-state center last year before
switching to an end position this
season. Sam’s elder brother,
Harry, played two years of var
sity ball at VPI, also as a nend.
In Demand
Penn Stale's Sam, who is 22,
scales 185 and reaches 6 feet-2,
looks forward to coaching foot
ball and is already getting his
feet wet in that concomitant
to a coaching career—public
speaking.
He’s already been a guest at
several local gatherings, the latest
of which was last night at the
Bellefonte Quarterbacks Club.
Incidentally, the crackerjack
Lion terminal, as well as the
other ten members of Collier's
All-America, will be featured
next Thursday, Friday and Sat
urday in Warner Pathe News
at the Calhaum theater. And
next Friday Tamburo's exploits
on the gridiron will be viewed
coast-to-coast by television fans
on the Philco Quarterback
Show.
Sam will later receive a perm
anent gold football engraved with
his name and those of the other
ten Collier’s selectees.
Penn Hoodoo
Penn Slate's '4B Lion football
squad put the skids on Penn, it
seems. Counting the loss to
Slate, the Quakers dropped
three in a row (the other two)
to Army and Cornell), some
thing that hasn't been done in
Quakerland for more than a
decade.