SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 1949
Between
The vor
Lions
by Tom Morgan
SPORTS EDITOR
lions Return
Two ex-Penn State football
teammates made the rounds of
spring baseball and football prac
tice this week—Bob Davis and
Johnny Jaffurs. Both played on
the '42 Lion team coached by
Bob Higgins.
Now a pro end for the Pitts
burgh Stealers, Davis sells in
surance in the off-season, while
Jaffurs is the newly-appointed
head coach at Ithaca (N. Y.)
high school.
Davis made All-East selections
through his outstanding play at
State, while Jaffurs' inspired per
formances as a Nittany Lion
brought national attention.
Midgets
John Lawther, Nittany bas
ketball coach who resigned
three weeks ago, describes his
last Lion team as "the smallest
I've ever had." He declares:
"Even with Costa in there at
center, they averaged scarcely
six feet."
Lawther said further: "You
have to handle that ball fast and
automatically to fool anybody.
The boys were too slow at the
beginning of the year to get any
where, but picked up later."
With the Pirates
Another Penn Stater, Charles
"C huc k" Macraeffnd, who
played first base oil the 1941,
42, '46 and '47 Lion baseball
teams, was in town this week.
Chuck spent last spring with
the Pittsburgh Pirates in train
ing, then was sent to York (class
"B" league), where he played
half the season before being
transferred by the Pirates to
Salisbury, N. Caro. ("D" league).
Before the season was done,
he jumbed again, this time to
Rehoboth B each (also "D"
league), where he switched
from first to third base, then
to the outfield and catching.
Coaches now claim his arm's
too good for anything but
catching, where possession of
a whip-like arm is standard
equipment.
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Phi Delts Win 3 Bouts;
Lead IM Mat Tourney
Bud Pierce and Tom McDerm
ott shook out the reins and drove
their Phi Delta Theta wagon
right into the lead for fraternity
mat honors at Rec Hall last
night.
Pierce worked over Jim Wor
ley, Sigma Nu, 5-0, in a rip -snort
ing 165-pound battle, while Mc-
Dermott pinned Bob Smith, Phi
Gamma, in 1:37 oi the third per
iori of their fight. Featherweight
Ted Aiken, also of the Phi Delts.
gave his house three winners by
walking off with an early forfeit
in the 121-pound class.
Previous to the night's action,
Phi Delta Theta, Sigma Nu, and
Phi Gamma Delta were tied for
the lead with three men still com
peting in fraternity action.
FASTEST
Bill Eggert, Sigma Nu's 165-
pound champ now grappling with
the 175 pounders, easily rolled to
the fastest of five falls on the
mats. Eggert turned the tables
on Bill Harvey, Sigma Pi, in 59
seconds of the first round for his
second straight fall victory and a
crack at the semi-finals in his
division Monday night.
Lightning fast of the draw,
Sandy Cameron, Beta Theta Pi,
and Ron Coder, Phi Kappa Sig
ma, also downed their opponents
in the first stanzas. Cameron used
one minute and 18 seconds to pin
Jack McCall, Alpha Tau Omega.
Coder followed in quick order
with a 1:57 job on Bill Keifer,
also Alpha Tau Omega. The two
losses tossed ATO out of the fra
ternity race.
RODGERS
.Phi Gamma Delta's hopes for
champions after Smith's loss last
night rested on the shoulders of
two brothers, Charley Rodgers,
128-pound matman, and Fred, 135
pounder. Charley, fired up like
a miniature steam engine, out
classed Chet Angelo, Alpha Phi
Delta, 6-0 and advanced into the
semi-finals. Fred wrestles his
next bout Monday against Harry
Wilson of Delta Theta Sigma.
John Hull, Beta Theta Pi 155-
pound stalwart, racked uo the
other pin, clowning Don Keck,
Phi Sigma Kappa, in 1:35 of the
third period. Phil Cloud, Pi Kap
pa Phi, won over Jim Case, Al
pha Zeta in a 5-2 thriller; Bill
Humphries, Sigma Nu, trounced
Jim Graff, Phi Kappa Psi, 6-2,
and Vince Cavanaugh, Delta Up
silon, came out on top of Bill
Thompson, Theta Chi, 3-0.
Forfeits were won by Ed Sher
iff, Chi Phi, Fred Shihaden, Phi
Kappa Sigma, and Ted Pritsker,
Pi Lambra Phi.
Thursday Bob Smith, Phi Gam
ma Delta won by forfeit instead
of Jim Kehs, Pi Kappa Phi, in
their scheduled heavy duel.
Now Weighs 208
Penn State's heavyweight wres
tling champion, Homer Barr, of
Clearfield, Pa., was a 112-polity:-
er as a high school freshman.
Summer Practice
In 1945, Football Coach Bob
Higgins held practice throughout
the Summer.
6 V-Ball Teams
lose First Tilt
Six fraternity teams suffered
their first defeats Thursday in IM
volleball act;on on the Rec
courts.
Phi Kappa-B fell before Sigmr
Chi-B, IC-11 and 15-9: Sigma Phi
Sigma-B upended Alpha Epsilon
Pi-B, 15-10 and 15-5; Pi Lambda
Phi-B lost a heartbreaker to Phi
Delta Theta-B, 17-15 and 16-14.
Delta Upsilon-B handed Sigma
Phi Epsilon-B as initial loss, 15-
9 and 15-7; Phi Gamma Delta-B
tripped Beta Sigma Rho-B. 15-11
and 15-12; Alpha Chi Rho-B lost
to Sigma Pi-B, 15-5, 11-15 and
15-5.
In other games, Alpha Tau
Omega-B dealt Delta Tau Delta-
B its third straight defeat, 15-7,
12-15 and 17-l5; Kappa Sigma-B
made a strong comeback t o trim
Phi Sigma Kappa-B, 12-15, 15-4
and 15-6; Kappa. Delta Rho-B
trounced Theta Xi-B, 15-8 and
15-10, for its second consecutive
win; Alpha Gamma Rho-B also
copped its second win, defeating
Pi Kappa Alpha-B, 15-9 and 15-6.
Tau Kappa Epsilon-B and Al
pha Chi Sigma-B won by forfeit
when. Phi Sigma-B and Pi Kappa
Phi-B failed to show for the con
', tests.
Practice Features
Soph Grid Stars
Although the football season is 1
months away, a large crowd Is
expected to see the Penn State
gridders run through a practice
scrimmage on th e New Beaver
Field 2 p.m. today.
The sophomore standouts of the
1948 grid team, John Smidansky,
Vince O'Bara and Owen Dough
erty will be the focus of attention
at this, the second Lion scrimmage
of the Spring s eason.
A back who was a standout for
the jayvee team in the fall, Herb
Kurtz, ran well in the opening
scrimmage Tuesday and is slated
for action in today's battle.
Assistant Coach Earl Edwards
said that the scrimmage , will be
run with each team taking the
offensive for a number of plays
instead of alternating the offen
sive teams.
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Cagers Reach Midway Island
In IM Globe-Trotting Jaunt
MIDWAY ISLAND—Penn State's intramural basketball play
ers stopped here last week after traveling 6133 miles from State
College via San Francisco and Honolulu.
The athletes ran the distance, a new College intramural rec
ord, in five days, two hours, and 40 minutes. A total of 1300 men
made the trip.
Actually. the IM caters never
left Rec Hall. But according to
Pircures released by Gene Bisch
off. IM director. and with the aid
of research by the Wiqconsin
nhvsical Education sta f C and
'ome heavy multiplication and
division, those are the figures
racked un during this season's
^ar , e schedule.
Here's the way it was figured
The Wisconsin staff comnuted
(Between the Lions, March 3)
that a basketball guard runs and
walks 17.598 feet in a regulation
game of 40 playing minutes. In
tramural games are 20 playing
minutes long. so each man who
nlays a comnlete IM game tray
,-+4 8-799 feet. Since it takes ten
men to - play a game, the total
traveling rlistance in one game is
87.990 feet.
368 GAMES
Fraternity an d indenendent
teams played 3(38 games this year.
Multiply 87,990 feet by 368
presto. the amazing total, 32,380,-
320 feet traveled all year-6132
miles plus 3360 feet left over to
take care of arguments.
Those 368 games, at 20 minutes
per game, equal '7360 playing
minutes, or 122 hours, 40 min
utes, of actual play in the season.
Thirteen - h u n d r e d different
men participated in action, but
counting substitutes, and the fact
that some of the men played in
as many as 12 games, 5,757 names
appeared on the team lineups. To
keep the average up, each of
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In case you're confused, here
are the official figures out of the
intramural office. If you have a
penchant for numbers, sit down
and work them out for yourself.
Fraternity entries this season
numbered 49, independent 52,
totalling 101 teams. Scheduled
were 398 games, 368 were played,
30 forfeited. Last season a total
of 340 games were carded, and
306 played.
There were 706 fraternity ann
594 independent men, a total of
1300 players, in action on the
boards, compared with only 1194
last season. Total participation
this season-3049 fraternity, 2688
independent, totalling 5737 men.
Total participation last year
-4560.
With the male undergraduate
enrollment for the second semes
ter at 6518, almost one in every
five men at the College played in
tramural basketball this year.
Pi Kappa Alpha, fraternity
champion, chalked up the highest
total participation figure 107,
but the Pi KA's played the most
games-12.
The intramural cage schedule
play began November 16, and
continued through March 7 in
cluding playoffs, 39 nights of
league play, two nights to play
off league ties, and three nights
to decide the fraternity and in
dependent champions.
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