SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1949 Between se . • UOIS Bspools s y Tom Morganmao On Bedenkisars "What are the immediate re sults of this new policy in Penn State football?" Speaking was Witty Wil, our admiring fraternity brother. We countered by asking him to be specific. "Well," he returned, - You know what I mean—Bedenk inn, this policy of encouraging more experienced players to try out for other sports rather than spend all their time in spring football practice." We aimed to answer Wil's question by pointing out a few gridiron regulars who have re cently have become candidates for other spring sports: Don "Duck" Murray, Blue and White tackle, and Joe Dramnovich, guard, are candi dates for defense posts on the lacrosse squad. Chuck "Jiggs" Beatty, first string center, is trying out for the 100- and 220-yard dashes on the Nittany track squad. "Jiggs" comments, "I was never out for track before in my life. This is strictly an adventure." Concerning Beall y's any "slight variation" insti tuted by Coach Joe Bedenk in backfield position will vitally affect the man playing center, so Beatty's services on the spring football , practice field are necessary, even though he may be out for track too. Francis "Punchy" Rogel, Lion fullback, contemplates trying out for the sprints "to loosen up and build up my speed." Clarence "P et e" Gorinski, sub fullback, has been pro nounced by the docs as not physically ready to play spring football because of a knee in jury. Luckily for Penn State baseball fans, however, the knee won't keep "Pete"—a crackerjack batter—froin the diamond sport. Fresh from his Eastern boxing championship, Chuck Drazeno vich will mix spring football with putting the shot in Lion track ranks. For lookers-on at any cur rent spring football practice, this policy of Sedenkism pro motes a strange sight about 5:30 pan. when grid players trying out for other sports re join their football brethren to "run a few new plays."' Instead of ranks of players uni formly dressed in Nittany foot ball moleskins and brogan s, there's likely to be a polyglot gathering of footballers, others dressed in lacrosse shoulder pads and shorts, and still others wear ing track livery. 9 Forfeits Mar Second Round IM Wrestling Eliminations Fraternity wrestling rounded the corner and headed into the tournament's second round on the Rec Hall mats Thursday night but IM officials were still bemoaning the ,over-supply of forfeits reported. Despite pre-season instructions to wrestling candidates were not to enter the tourney unless they could appear matches, forfeits were piling up almost as fast as legitimate deci sions. Thursday, nine grapplers chalked up victories the easy way as their opponents either failed to appear, couldn't make the weight division limits, or appeared with out physical exam cards. SIGMA NU Those matches which did come off, however, flared up with blaz ing fury. Sigma Nu, last season's champion, was still finding the 1949 battles rough. Joe Billera, 145-pounder from that house suc cumbed to Bill Thompson, Theta Chi, after 17 seconds of the third round. The Sigma Nu's did capture one victory. Bill Humphries, 128- pounder, thrashed out a 4-2 de claim over. Dave Greenwald, Phi Epsilon Pi. Bob Boyd, Pi Kappa Phl, edged Vance Genzlinger, Sigma Chi, 6-4, in a 135-pound bout; Jim Yetter, Alpha Zeta, trounced Barton Cahan, Pi Lamb da Phi. 541; George /rvio„ Sigma THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Gridders Go Indoors For Blackboard Drill Snow may have driven the Penn State football team from the practice field yesterday afternoon, but spring practice kept moving with an hour-long talk by backfield coach Al Michaels on offensive plans for the 1949 campaign. A scrimmage was planned for this afternoon, but since the field is covered with snow, the drill has been called off and the gridders given a day of rest. Over 65 football players gath ered in the basement of Irvin Hall to heai Coach Michaels out line variations of the single-wing offense. DOUGHERTY With Head Coach Bedenk counting on Owen Dougherty to fill the place left by Wally Trip lett, the Nittany attack is ex pected to include pass plays originating from the wingback spot. Dougherty, who will be a jun ior in the fall, came to the fore toward the latter part of the 1948 season. His port - side aerials, teamed with Johnny Chuckran's right-handed heaves, will make the Nittany backfield a poten tially powerful unit both in the air and on the ground. EiL.l it ,Lail Coach Michaels also outlined power plays from the fullback position with Fran Rogel listed as the likely ball carrier. Notre Dame, Michigan State and Navy were named as the sources of some of the new plays explained to the team by Coach Michaels. On the play patterned after the Michigan State model, Coach Michaels asked if anyone remembered the Spartans' coun termodel of last season. GROAN A loud groan from the team in dicated that the gridders remem bered the Green and White in vaders ripping through the Penn State line all too well. Monday afternoon the squad will return to the New Beaver practice field, and a scrimmage is planned for the end of the week. IM Volleyball In fraternity action, Kappa Sigma-B defeated Sigma Pi-B, 15-6 and 15 -7; Phi Sigma Kappa-B won by forfeit from Chi Phi-B; Delta Tau Delta-B fell be fore Phi Gamma Delta-B, 15-8 and 15-6; Beta Sigma Rho-B for feited to Theta Kappa Phi-B. Sigma Phi Epsilon-B beat Al pha Chi Sigma-B, 15-1 and'ls-11; Beta Theta Pi-B defeated Pi Kappa Phi-B, 15-12, 9-15 an. 15-10; Pi Lambda Phi-B crushed Phi Sigma Delta-B, 15-14 and 15-6; Sigma Nu-B won from Phi Delta Theta-B, 15-12 and 15-7; Alpha Epsilon Pi-B edged Phi Kappa Tau-B, 17-15 and 15-12. Chi, slipped by George Seavy, Al pha Chi Sigma, 4-3; Bill Rey nolds, Delta Upsilon, battered Don Desandro, Alpha Sigma Phi, 5-2. Harry Nelson, Alpha Sigma Phi, pinned Howard Decker, Del ta Upsilon, after 1:58 in the sec ond. round; Wil Roth, Zeta Beta Tau, flattened Ed Hinkle, Phi Gamma Delta, in 1:45; Merle Sieber, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, turned the trick over Bob Rodli, Beta Theta Pi, in 1:36 of the ..._c ond round, and Don Keck, Phi Sigma Kappa, won by fall over Dick Goldner, Pi Lambda Chi, in 1:05. Winners by forfeit were: Ed Aiken, Phi Delta Theta; Beryl Hoffman, Pi Lambda Phi; Fred Shihaden, Phi Kappa Sigma; Bill Aiken, Phi Delta Theta; Andy Marcinko, Sigma Phi Sigma; Rex Lord, Sigma Chi; Oscar Schmitt, Phi Kappa Psi; Ed Van Sickel, Phi Kappa Psi, and Israel Dinner, Piti Sigma Delta. Simon Gains AP Honorable Mention For the second consecutive year, Milt Simon, Penn State basketball captain, was given honorable mention on the annual Associated Press All-Pennsylvania basket ball team, released yesterday. Simon, who scored 179 points this year, provided the spark for the fair Nittany team which end ed its season by winning seven games and losing ten. Only two cage stars who made the select list of the top ten Penn sylvania hoopsters, Sam David of Pitt and Nelson Bobb of Temple, saw action against the Nittany five. Thiel Releases Varsity, JV Stick Roster Lions Open Slate Against Quakers With less than four weeks re maining before Penn State's opening lacrosse tilt, Coach Nick Thiel has released his 1949 battle roster listing a full complement of 41 varsity and 44 jayvee stick wielders. The Lion varsity's first meatus ter pitts it against Penn on April 13, while the junior varsity will move into action ten days later against Navy's J.V.'s at Annapolis. Although the present snow fig ures to halt operations a few days, Thiel feels that this year's la crossers are further ahead in their conditioning than in other years. The Lions thave 13 letter men plus a host of unpublicized dia monds-in-the-rough fighting for one of the ten starting berths against the Quakers. Varsity roster—Bob Abernathy, Larry Atkinson, Ernie 'Bugs' Baer, Ed Belfield, Harrie Bragg, James Case, John Deck, Joe Dra zenovich, Stan Domash, John Finley, Frank Fryburg, John Hagerman, Dick Hanna, John Hayes, Bill Hickey, John Herr, John Hughes, Rocky lannetta, Ken Kaye, Dean Kissell, John Long, Bob Louis, John Lux, Eu gene McNamara. John Nehoda, Roger Nestor, Joe Owens, Bob Pee, Bud Pierce, Bur_ ton Raymond, L. Ritchie, I. Smith, J. Smith, M. Snyder, Jason Stone, John Szadziewicz, Buddy Thom as, Rodney Waters, Gilbert Watz, W. Weaver and Jim Workley. Jayvee—R. Baily, Philip Bene detti, Martin Berkowitz, J. Cook, Nat Feinstein, Joe Filoromo, Vance Genzlinger, Fred Giallor eto, J. Glessner, Tom Grifferty, Ray Hagy, S. Harshberger, Bill Heyser, Dick Hughes, Bill Ishler, John Johnson, Charles Junker, Bob Kelley, Milo Kosanovich, Bob Malcolm, Adolph Mark, Bib Maz er, Steve Meisel, John Moffatt. John Neff, Charles Niskey, Tom Overdorf, Dick Pasch,'Frank Pok orny, Bill Porter, Paul Raffens perget, Harry Rintz, Bob Rob bins, Bob Rodli, Dale Sheffer, Bill Shore, Bill Smiles, Harry Swim mer, Norman Tarnoff, Don Wat kins, George Weber, Allen Weise, John Wilcox and Hal Wolfson. that men for their Poor Returns Only three lettermen reported to Coach Bedenk for the initial baseball practice in 1945, and all three expected to be drafted. be fore the season started. Champ to Coach Glenn Smith, Bellefonte High School wrestling coach, won the 155-pound Eastern championship is 1945. LETTERMEN JAYVEES The Nittany Realm Elmer Gross, Penn State's new basketball coach, believes that the sliding zone is as good as any other type of defense. He contem plates no definite change in State's style of basketball next season. Stating that "teams are learning more about the zone all the time," Coach Gross added that a man-to-man defense may be used to combat unusual offensive tactics. "Although many people didn't realize it," he said, "John Lawther switched to a man-to-man de fense in this season's game at Syracuse." Not rigorously strict on form, Coach Gross plans to allow his players to shoot "any way they can get the ball in the basket." Although successful with a one-hand push shot in his playing days, he does not intend to emphasize it now. In speaking of Penn State's foul shooting accuracy this season, he said that no supervised drilling was done at the foul line. "Free throw practice was left to the individual. Lawther believes that mental attitude is mainly impor " tent in foul shooting." Coach Gross calls Joe Tocci, the Lions' playmaker, "one of the best dribblers I've ever seen." He thinks Lou Lamie has a great basketball future, and that Lee Schisler, Jack Storer and Ken Weiss should do well next sea son. He hopes to improve Marty Costa's play in general, and be lieves the giant center will play a better game next year. DIFFERENCE With reference to next season, Coach Gross stated, "If I break even, I'll be lucky." Declaring that almost all of Penn State's basketball opponents can offer scholarships to promising play ers, he pointed out that the most that can be done for an outstand ing basketball player here is to find him a job so he can work for his meals. Penn State must pick up' men who have no offers from other college s, he. said. Therefore Coach Gross termed the court squad "an amateur team playing in a professional league." Born in Munhall in 1917, Coach Gross now resides permanently in State College with his wife and two daughters. In 1933 and 1934 he played varsity basketball at Munhall high school. CO-CAPTAIN For four years, 1939 to 1942, Gross was on the Penn State var sity. He served as captain in his senior year, and led the Nittany Lions in scoring with 169 points. This 1942 quintet won 17 and lost 2, the best seasonal record of any Lion court squad. The 1942 West Virginia quintet was labeled by Coach Gross as the best team he ever played against. This Mountaineer team handed Penn State one of its two losses during the '4l to '42 season, a 58-33 shellacking at Morgantown, W. Va. Later that season in a return game in Rec Hall the Lions whipped the West Virginians. player in 1942. 'lke' Gilbert Releases Spring Sport Schedules Round-up of spring sports activities was completed yesterday with the release of complete tennis and golf schedules for this spring by "Ike" Gilbert, graduate manager of athletics. The schedule features 13 tennis matches, six of them on the home courts, and seven golf matches, four of those on the home links. In addition to the College dual events, the Eastern Intercol' giate Golf Association playoffs will be held here on May 6 and 7, and the PIAA high school ten n;s and golf tournaments May 20 and 21 Baseball, track, and lacrosse schedules were printed in pre vious issues of the Daily Colle gian. Tennis and golf schedules are as follows: TENNIS—Apra 27, Bucknell at Lewisburg; 30, Colgate, home. May 4, Navy at Annapolis, Md.; 7, Duquesne, home; 11, Lehigh at Bethlehem; 13, Colgate at Hamil ton, N. Y.; 14, Syracuse at Syra cuse, N. Y.; 18, Bucknell, home; 19, Washington and Jefferson, home; 20 and 21, PIAA, home; 21, Pittsburgh, home; 28, Syracuse, home. GOLF April 22 and 23, Georgetown at Washington, D. C.; 27, Bucknell, home; 30, Colgate, home. May 2, Gettysburg, home; 6 and 7, EIGA, home; 14, EIGA Cham pionship Playoff at Atlantic City, N. J.; 18, Bucknell at Lewisburg; 20 and 21, PIAA, home; 21, Syra cuse at Syracuse. Dance Programs Invitations • Form Letters CommercialPrinlinp Inc. 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