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.
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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
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Continued from page two
TITLE
dual meets. One bout ended in a
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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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Trackmen Face
Irish, Spartans
A triangular meet with Penn
and Navy, and home meets with
Michigan State and Notre Dame
highlight the Penn State track
schedule announced yesterday by
Harold R. Gilbert, graduate man
ager of athletics.
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.
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