SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1949
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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.
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