PAGE BIX
The Nittany Realm
Uonald Longenecker, Nittany Lion harrier ace, has participated
.n numerous races in his three years of collegiate running, but prob
ably his greatest race is the one against age which threatens to cut
short his competitive running career.
Up until now Longenecker seems to have more than held his
>wn against the Old Man with a scythe. The balding senior, appro
riately enough called “Pappy" for short, actually seems, like good
'hiskey, to improve with age.
Just two weeks ago he climaxed a successful three-year colle
iate career by leading the seven-man Lion aggregation across the
inish line at the Natiorial Collegiate varsity cross-country meet
taged at East Lansing, Mich. The fact that Captain Horace Ashen,
dter was running on a seriously-injured ankle helped considerably,
-nurse.
At an age when many men limit their physical exercise to
i silting through crowds at a stadium to witness a football game,
.ongenecker is just beginning to
’ome into his own as a distance
unner.
“I’m still improving, despite the
act I’ll be 33 years old in less
han three months,” the short
tatured runner declared. “I don’t
'\ink I’ve even hit my peak as a
stance runner yet.”
His life before entering college
almost as fabulous as the fact
hat he is still a top harrier de
?ite his accumulated years, far
lore than most other collegiate
oen-fleld runners.
After graduation from West
■fewton High School in his home
town, Longenecker began a voca
tional career that is equalled in
he number of positions held only
■■y the diversity of those positions.
In rapid succession he worked
s a loader in a coal mine, a con
traction worker in a steel mill,
a farmer and a grocery clerk,
among other jobs. Then came
1940 and Don, then 24, enlisted in
he Army Air Forces. He was stationed at Hickam field on December
1941, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
For the next four years Longenecker was busily engaged play-
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THE DAILY COLLECT AN STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Heavyweights Thrill
Big IM Fight Crowd
Heavy-weights have the punch!
Another overflowing crowd around the varsity ring in Recrea
tion hall whetted its appetite on 11 exploding “preliminary” bouts
last night, then erupted with roaring violence as John Smidansky,
Sigma Nu, battled furiously to another win in the unlimited class,
this time over stocky, determined Bill Dale, Sigma Phi Epsilon.
The intramural department hit
a new high with 9 fights of a
scheduled card of 12 coming off.
Twelve more brawls are listed for
tonight at 5 p.m.
SMIDANSKY WINS
Smidansky, who roared with
comparative ease over Bob Young
in his first bout, found the going
tough with Dale in last night’s
warfare. Forced to box and
counterpunch instead of slugging
in the first and second rounds, the
heavy Sigma Nu rocker ripped
into his opponent with set lips
in the final minute.
Dale swung his fists savagely
trying to stem the tide, but a one
two burst by Smidansky in the
last 15 seconds pulled the cur
tain.
Ski Coach Fogg
Needs Jumper
For Lion Team
By Joe Coppa
Ski Coach Sherman Fogg has a
cal problem on his hands!
Up until now he has qnly eight
.nen out for the varsity team,
which has been working out for
the past three weeks. They are:
Sterling Banker, Huston Brosius,
Francis Curry, Robert Drew, Wil
liam Graf, Howard James, George
Keenan and Otto Pfefferkorn.
Brosius, Graf and James are sen
iors; Banker, Curry, Drew and
Pfefferkorn are juniors, and
Keenan is a sophomore.
Of these men, only Graf has a
berth clinched, while Brosius is
rated highly by Coach Fogg. The
other candidates are inexper
ienced but are working hard in an
effort to make the team. Clifford
Carts, last year’s captain, is in
eligible for competition this sem
ester but may be able to perform
in the Spring.
“Our real problem is to find
another jumper besides Graf and
Brosius, since three jumpers are
necessary to obtain a team score
although others may compete in
dividually. Penn State ski teams
have always been weak in down
hill slalom, but I’m hoping some
of the men who are trying out
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Tamburo On
INS 'AH' Team
Sam Tamburo, brilliant Lion
end, was chosen for the offensive
team on the International News
Service Double Platoon All-
America.
The tall senior, a pass-catching
wizard from New Kensington,
Pa., although playing on thd
offense as well as on the defense,
was selected for his superior per
formances while on the attack. A
four-year college football vet
eran, Tamburo was highly re
garded as a smart, clean football
player.
Charles Bednarik, Penn center,
and Joe Henry, Army guard from
Clearfield, Pa., were the other
Eastern selections for the offen
sive unit on the two-platoon
team.
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FORTUNE
THE ESQUISSE AGENCY
LEATHER FLIES
Peltih’ Vince Chominski, Theta
Kappa Phi setting the stage for
the heavy riot, gave Paul Thorpe,
Sigma Chi, a sample of what it
feels like to be caught in a wind
mill in th e175-pound class.
Chominski, standing out of reach
of Thorpe’s mitts then springing
in with leather flying wide and
handsome, cut Thorpe down in
the last stanza with a lightning
right bouncing off the loser’s
temple.
These two bouts were worth
waiting for, but the waiting
wasn’t bad either. Fighting 15
this season after winning the 145
crown in 1947, Chuck Hoyt, Chi
Phi, staved off wicked sallies by
Lou Trioni, Sigma Nu, but unable
to connect often enough himself,
gave up the decision to the pok
er-faced white stab wearer. Some
fans questioned the decision, but
judges Chuck Drazenovich, Ma
jor Robert Halpin, and referee
Glenn Hawthorn lifted Trioni’s
hand for cooler work under fire.
Other atomic exhibitions saw
Edward Data, Phi Gamma Delta,
left jab his way to his second de
cision, beating Dick Evans, Delta
Tau Delta; 165-pound George
Mitchell, Lambda Chi Alpha,
stagger Bob Chapman, Kappa
Delta Rho, in the first round then
win on a TKO; Slick Bob Win
slow, Kappa Delta Rho, fend off
the attempts of southpaw Bob
Coyne, Theta Kappa Phi, and
win the bout.
Pi Kappa Phi’s Herold, catch
ing up with fast-stepping Dan
Durth, Delta Tau Delta, pulled
through the decision on fancy
punching; Bill Curtin, Phi Delta
Theta, weathering an early storm,
came back with fast connecting
lefts to decision Martin Wozniak,
Theta Kappa Phi; and Burton
Raymond, Pi Kappa Phi slugging
all the way, won the nod over
RUss Herman, Alpha Chi Sigma.
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1940
Between
Lions OSS?
By Tom Morgan
SPORTS EDITOR
The Unexpected Balm . .
Lion Lacrosse Skipper Nick
Thiel called a halt to winter prac
tice last week in anticipation of
customary State College snow
flurries which aren’t conducive to
lacrosse. Now he’s sorry he did,
’cause of this balmy pre-Christ
man weather (balmy for Decem
ber, that is.)
Thiel will attend the 60th an
nual meeting of the Intercolle
giate Lacrosse Association in
New York this weekend.
Ex-Reporter
An old hand at sports report
ing is Wrestling Coach Charlie
Speidel, who used to write up
some of his own wrestling bouts.
Consequently, he knows what an
approaching sports scrivener
wants and recently bowled Us
over by producing pencil ahd
paper and jotting down these sig
nificant words for us and fob the
fodder of the fans:
"We're on the mend after a
difficult post-war adjustment
period, and wil be r. real threat
in our sectional wrestling com
petition this year."
Charlie put it another way by
declaring: “I can’t avoid telling
people our prospects are excel
lent. Otherwise, if we do come
up with a good team this year,
they’ll say I was too pessimistic.”
ON Vandeweghe
One of the best basketball
teams Penn State meets this
season will undoubtedly be Col
gate, headed by Center Ernie
Vandeweghe. Holder of vir
tually every individual Colgate
scoring record and possessor of
1007 points in three seasons of
play, Vandeweghe is an in
tegral cog in the Red Raider
floor attack.
Much to the discomfort of op
posing teams, however, Vande
weghe is not the whole Colgate
show. “No “ball hog,” he passes off
to teammates as often as he
shoots himself (at the basket, that
it.) What’s disturbing about it
all is that his cohorts can make
baskets too. Look out, Penn
State!
From the Morgfue)
Line Coach Joe Badenlc lad
Fearless Fallback Franny Rm*l
spefee Monday night at the high
school football banquet of
Ridgeway. ... As movies of
the Cotton Bowl game were
shown, Rogel modestly gave a
running account (ha amassed SS
yards in that game to lead both
teams in total offense) ...
. . . Wrestling Coach Charlie
Speidel and his assistant, Charlie
Ridenour, conducted a high school
wrestling clinic at Lewistown
over the weekend. . . .