WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1949 Between The Lions By Torn Morgan SPORTS EDITOR Houck on the EIBA "Just about everyone will get in the act when the Eastern titles are awarded Saturday night. You can bet on that." Talking was Leo "Fred" Houck, boxing coach who is as much a Penn State tradition, in our book, as the Nittany Lion Shrine. We asked "Fred" to go on. "Oh, you want me to elucidate my statement," countered "Fred" as we fell over from the impact of the 30-cent word. "Well, it'll be a real fight Fri day and Saturday," he contin ued. "Most of the six teams that'll be here are well balenced and include boys in almost every weight class who have a good chance to win titles. "Even Western Maryland, which you might call the weakest of the lot, has some boys who could up set the dope by edging out vic tories over higher-ranked oppon ents. "I think every team except Western Maryland that is, Penn State. Virginia. Syracuse, Army and Catholic is enter ing men In each of the eight weight, classes. So the man in each Weight who finally is crowned Eastern champion is going to know he's been through a struggle." We said amen. Versatile While in the service, Elmer Gross, newly-appointed basket ball coach, became a light heavy weight boxer at Fort Meade, Md. Among his army ring victims was at least one intercollegiate champ. Resigning Coach John Lawther says of Gross, who returned to campus in 1945: "I was lucky enough to get him before Leo Houck did." First Boxing Coach Dick Harlow, former Harvard University football chief, coached Penn State's first boxing team in 1919. ()au(' el/ 411 40 ;„ • 4 277 • Machines Wash Your Laundry in Less Than an Hour. MARSHALL'S Automatic Laundry 454 E. College avenue Rear Open Tonite 'til 10 At Your Warner Theater NOW! eadaum "PHANTOM OF THE OPERA" Nelson Eddy Susanna Foster Slate Glenn Ford Terry Moore in the "RETURN OF OCTOBER" In Technicolor Villa. Robert Donat Elissa Landi THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA The Nittany Realm Island where he was wounded in the frontline September 29, 1944. From there he was shipped on a hospital ship to New Caledonia. "I often wondered whether I'd ever see the States again," John says now. But exactly six months after he sailed out of the Golden Gate he returned to San Francisco and soon thereafter was dis charged In the fall of 1945 he enrolled at the Nittany Valley institution. He tried out for Coach John Lawther's cage team but his leg injury prevented him from moving around quickly. Boxing was suggested to him to improve his war-injured leg. John reported to Coach Houck and quickly became his top protege. He went on to capture the 127-pound Eastern Intercolle giate Boxing title at West Point that season. John says: "That was the happiest moment in my life when I garnered that crown. I sure felt good." As he was going home to Phil adelphia between summer ses sions that year, a car collided head-on with the one in which John was riding. The impact threw him out of the door, land ing him on the side of the road. A back injury from that accident prevented Benglian from partici pating in the ring wars his soph omore year. Last season the classy feather weight participated in the 120- pound weight class for the Lions. He sported an enviable ring rec ord, being unbeaten in seven draw, that against Syracuse's Captain Gerry AuClair, a previous National champion at 125 pounds. Benglian then entered the Eastern boxing tourney and was de cisioned by Virginia's Grover Masterson. John had earlier in the season defeated Masterson in Rec Hall. After the Easterns, the NCAA tourney was next on the time table and, after winning the opening bout, he lost a close and much-disputed decision to Wis consin's Jim Sreeran in a semi-final match. IM Handball, Volleyball Open; Wresting Begins Thursday handball singles and volleyball, its schedule with 20 bouts Thurs intramural style, began in Rec day night. Wrestlers, however, hall last night. should be in the Rec hall dressing room to weigh-in from 6:30 to Eight handball matches, of three 6 : 45, games each took the courts at 7 p.m. Regular handball rules will apply all season, with the player first scoring 21 points declared winner of each game. First-night volleyball action featured 12 fraternity matches. I The first match began at 7 p.m. with succeeding matches held every 40 minutes. Intramural wrestling will open Distinctive Shoes Calling All Independent Men YOUR ORGANIZATION NEEDS YOU Its Success Depends on Your Support TURN IN YOUR 25-CENT ASSESSMENT NOW To Your AIM Representative OR AT The Student Union Desk YOUR MONEY WILL BE USED BY YOUR ORGANIZATION FOR AIM Newspaper Social Activities Recreation Program Spring Week Carnival AND Other Necessary Activities Continued from page two TITLE dual meets. One bout ended in a owl). I Es UN Gape. t . Football Managers Candidates for second assis tant football managerships are requested to sign up anytime this week in 107 Old Main, then report to Dave Owe n, head manager, in the water tower Monday, at 4 p.m. or af ter. Ring Teams Continued from page one giate boxing ranks as did the Coast Guard Academy. Mary land is one of the topflight boxing powers in the country but the Terps now compete in the South ern Conference. Newcomer to the E IBA this year is Catholic University, usu ally one of the best independent collegiate units in the East. Penn State has entered teams in every tournament, and played host to the competition ten times during the first 25 years. The Lions, a power in the Eastern boxing realm, own the top spot for individual titlists. Houck has tutored 47 individual champions compared to 40 for runnerup Syracuse. Five 1948 EIBA champions will defend them titles this weekend. Al Hollingsworth, last year's 125- pound winner, will move up a weight as will Grover Masterson, last year's 130-pound victor. Featured also in the tourney will be 165-pound champ Jim Rollier, of Syracuse, and Penn State's heavyweight, Chuck Dra mnovich• Winner of the out standing award of last season's tourney, Army's slugging 175- pounder, Pete Monfore, will also compete. Still another former titlist will be Johnny Benglian, Penn State captain and 130- pounder who won the 127-pound diadem as a freshman in 1946. 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The season will open with the triangular meet at Annapolis Ap ril 23, followed by the Penti 'le lays April 29-30, and a dual meet with Colgate at Hamilton, N. Y., May 7. The Lions also will be represented in the IC4-A cham pionships at New York May 27- 28. A rematch of Jim Gehrdes and Horace Smith will mark the Penn State-Michigan State duel May 14. Gehrdes, Lion ace, was nosed out by Smith for the IC4-A in door hurdles title. The schedule: April 23, Navy and Pennsyl vania (triangular meet), An napolis; 29-30, Penn Relays, at Philadelphia. May 7, Colgate ,at Hamilton, N. Y.; 14, Michigan State; 21, Notre Dame; 27-28, IC4-A champion -hips, at New York. TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT Yon Are Welcome to the Liberal Arts Student-Faculty Mixer • PLACE—TUB • TIME-7 to 10 P.M. • AGENDA—Refreshments Dancing Entertainment ction ti ~..~:
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