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Gridmen Adopt
'Fast, Fancy'
Offense Plays
Flashy Routines
Feature Workout
By Elliot Krane
The "new look" has hit the Nit
tarty Lion football team. Every
afternoon on the New Beaver
practice field the Penn State
squad runs through a fast and
fancy formation that is far re
moved from the straight line play
of the 1948 team.
Under Coach Joe Bedenk and
. Assistant Coach Earle Edwards,
the team performs flashy routines
in the backfield which include re
verse passes and quarterback
plunges.
Yesterday afternoon, the team
held an informal scrimmage on
the practice field. Vince O'Bara,
,sophomore Lion tailback, broke
away for two long gains and a
touchdown as the team approach
ed the mid-point of the Spring
practice period.
Saturday afternoon a "White"
team was composed of Danny
Kline and Jack Storer at end,
Charlie Godlasky and Bill Mc-
Dermott at tackle, Joe Sarabok
and Fred Felbaum at guard and
Ray Hedderick at center.
The backfield, made up of
Charlie -Murray in the quarter
back position, Owen Dougherty
at the wingback, John Chuckran
at the tailback and Herb Kurtz
at fullback, put on a fancy, hour
long display of gridiron dazzle.
FAKE
Early in the scrimmage, Chuck
ran faked a run off tackle and
handed the ball to Murray on a
quick-opening play. Since he was
just a short distance from the
line, Murray crashed right
through the "Red" defenders and
almost broke away for a score.
A fancy reverse followed the
"quarterback crash" with Chuck
ran running to the right and
handing the ball to Dougherty,
who ran toward, the left. A left
handed passer, Dougherty kept
running until he spotted Chuck
ran wide open in the right hand
corner of the "end zone" and
tossed the ball into his arms for
the first score in the scrimmage.
Another play which caught the
opposition by surprise was the
buck pass in which Herb Kurtz
took the ball on a direct pass
from the center, roared up to the
line, and then stopped and flipped
the pigskin to an end for a easy
10-yard gain.
THREAT
The Lions turned up a long
range scoring threat in Dougherty
when the sophomore wingback
faded back and tossed a 40-yard
aerial to Danny Kline near the
goal. Storer threw a slicing block
on the defending safety man and
Kline crossed the goal unmolest
ed.
After the first half-hour of
scrimmage, Coach Edwards shift
ed his third, fourth and fifth teams
into the lineup and gave each
gridder a crack at actual battle
conditions.
Al Peluso, Caliseo DiValerio
and Fran Sniutney. who ran with
Contilined on page seven
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Lion Cage Tutor Views Future;
Tocci, Lamie Main Prospects
Elmer Gross, projected into the role of head basketball mentor at Penn State in a recent shift,
may find himself seated on a hornet's nest during the coming season but that isn't worrying him
now.
Only in his newly-appointed
time out from his busy regime
"What kind of an offense wil
J...0u Lamie
3 Athletes Vie
For AA Post
Three College athletes were
nominated for the office of presi
dent of the Men's Athletic Asso
ciation at a meeting held yester-
day afternoon.
Charles Drazenovich, football
and boxing, James Gehrdes, track,
and Joseph Tocci, basketball,
were nominated for the position.
The man receiving the second
highest number of votes will be
named vice-president.
Nominated for the office of sec
retary-treasurer were: Charles
Beatty, football; Edward Beffield,
lacrosse; Casmir Borowy, swim
ming, and Kenneth Hosterman,
soccer.
Elections for these offices will
be held during the All-College
elections on April 6 and 7. All
men are' eligible to vote for Ath
letic Association officers.
Nominations were made by the
incumbent officers of the A.A.,
team captains, coaches and man-
4 New Coaches
New coaches will be at the helm
of four Penn State football op
ponents in 1949.
Tennis Call
Additional candidates for
the varsity tennis team should
report to Coach Sherm Fogg,
213 Rec Hall, or call Manager
Bill Bickford at 4923.
Candidates for tennis man
agerships are requested to re
port to the Rec Hall balcony at
p.m. today.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
position 24 days, the husky former Nittany Lion cage captain took
yesterday to ponder over the coming court season.
I use? Well, I've found that the
points, but we won't give up the
fast break entirely.
"Against certain teams which
use the Penn State type of offense,
utilizing screens and slow offense,
the deliberate handling of the
sphere is greatly successful.
"But w..th fast kids like Joe
Tocci, Lou Lamie and Ken Weiss
who have picked up a great deal
of valuable experience this year,
we will rely on the fast break
much more than last year."
Likewise in the defensive realm
the Nittany cagers will alternate
man-to-man with their usual
:Tght zone, Gross indicated.
Heading the list of seasoned
varsity dribblers who will report
next fall is the Lions' 5-foot 7-
inch play-setter, Joe Toed, de-
Continued on page six
Applicants for handball
doubles and badminton singles
are warned to turn in their en
tries before 5 p.m. tomorriaw if
they want to see action in the
forthcoming tou r n a ments.
Each organization may spon
sor one handball team and
two badminton players. Entry
fee for handball is 50 cents, for
badminton, 25 cents per
player.
Tamburo Signs
With Bulldogs
Sam Tamburo, Nittany Lion
end and Collier's All-America
end for 1948, signed a contract to
play professional football with
the New York Bulldogs of the
National League this week.
Tamburo will team up with an
other Penn Stater, John Nolan,
when he reports to the Bulldogs'
summer training c amp in
Hershey. Nolan, 235-pound form
er tackle, is the smallest tackle
on the New York team's squad
list.
The Bulldogs, a reorganized
team, were originally the Boston
Yanks, but due to financial diffi
culties, changed their name and
location. While in New York, the
team will play in the Polo
Grounds.
Since he weighs a mere 195-
pounds as compared to the 240-
and 220-pound defensive ends of
the Bulldogs' roster, Tamburo
will be slated for the offensive
team. The New Kensington grid
der was drafted by the Bulldogs
this winter.
Passing star Bud DeMoss of
Purdue, who was Tamburo's
teammate in both the Hawaii and
Florida all-star games this year,
By Ray Koehler
TOCCI
IM Applicants
deliberate offense has its good
Joe Tocci
11 Lion Boxers
Win Letters
Penn State boxing letters for
1949 will be awarded eleven
members of Coach Leo Houck's
most recent team, through action
of the executive committee on
boxing.
Boxing letter-winners, as an
nounced by George Schantz,
member of the committee, are
John Benglian (captain), Jack
Bolger, Johnny Deck, Chuck
Drazenovich, Lou Guthrie, Pat
Heims, Jim Maloney, Jack
Sheehe, Fred Smith, Paul Smith,
011ie Wallace.
Bill Shade was selected head
manager for next year, while
Doug Mead and Ray Adams were
named his associates. Chosen first
assistant managers were Joe
Courtney, Dick Heisler and Fel
ton Wheeler. Alternate first assist
ants will be Len Abrams, Ken
Shull and Paul Starr.
The committee also designated
the following as senior award
winners: Bernard Ashner (man
ager), Benglian, Deck, Ross Pils
bury (manager), Sheehe, F.
Smith.
Voting members of the execu
tive committee on boxing are
Benglian, team captain; Ashner,
out-going head manager; Schautz,
vice-president of the Athletic
Association; Houck, boxing coach,
and Harold "Ike" Gilbert, grad
uate manager of athletics.
has also been signed by the Bull
dogs.
Since he has a few months of
vacation before the actual train
ing period starts, Tamburo will
spend the first part of the summer
working for a construction com
pany in his home town.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1949
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by Tom Morgan
SPORTS EDITOR
Praise From Without
Sundry persons sometimes ac
cuse college sports reporters of
making unerring gods out of the
athletes they write about. Al
though we try to avoid this pit
fall, the Daily Collegian sports
staff has not been immune to
such charges.
So, like a Congressman groping
for easy arguments, we seize
every chance to bolster ourselves
by printing nice words other peo
ple say about Penn State athletes.
Witty Wilbert, our admiring fra
ternity brother whose tongue is
often scarred with sarcasm, calls
our tactics "like helping a . lame
dog over a stile."
Anyway, one of our contempor
aries—the Syracuse Daily Orange
—throws some bouquets to Bill
Bonsall, Lion gymnastic captain,
so we take the liberty of quoting
what follows here:
"'The important thin g in the
Olympic games is not winning but
taking part.' That is what the
sign overlooking Wembley Sta
dium in London read.
"Gymnastic Coach Gene Wett
stone of Penn State probably has
one of the best
reasons .to .be
proud of his
Olympic star.
Bill Bonsall.
"Bonsall is a
champion. But he
is not a champ in
name only and
his recent per
formance at the
Eastern Intercol
legiates proved
that.
Bonsall
"The short
Statesman had just tied for fourth
place on the flying rings. A medal
was to be awarded to the winner
and being that there was only
one award, the judges had the
two boys flip for the medal.
"Bonsall called right and was
officially awarded the token. .
"There was no doubt that Wett
stone's star was a champ when
he walked over to the fellow who
had lost the flip and asked him
to please accept the award as a
favor to him, Bonsall. For the Nit
tany star thought that he was not
as deserving of the award as the
other athlete.
"It is very rarely that you hear
of such an occurrence where an
athlete will deny himself an
award when he has earned it
justly. But Bill thought the other
man deserved it and thus gave
it up to him.
"To Bonsall this was not just a
way of expressing that the medal
meant little or nothing to him. It
is a Certainty that he has gotten a
great amount of glory and his in
dividual performance in the Olym
pics was certainly an enviable
one.
"But to Bonsall the word sport
is the symbol that has been for
gotten by too many of our modern
athletes. What the slight Penn
Stater did (by this act) probably
will never go down as a great
achievement.
"But it must be agreed upon
that Bill Bonsall is a champ in
his own right. It takes a great
athlete to smile in defeat but it
takes an even greater one to judge
his own performance and then
favor another one."
From the Morg(ue)
Wife of Sever Toretti, newly
appointed football line coach at
State, is the former Ruth Kistler,
native of State College . . . both
are Nittany grads ...
Curt Stone, an ex-Penn Stater
and one of the nation's top long
distance runners, attended an
Edinboro coaching clinic last
weekend with Joe Bedenk, head
grid coach; Chuck Medlar, Lion
trainer, and Norm Gordon, assist
ant track skipper.
Don "Duck" Murray, ace Penn
State tackle on the football elev
en, owns the official pie-eating
record of California State Teach
ers College. . . . While a fresh
man there, "Duck" devoured an
entire chocolate custard pie in
40 seconds flat.
Triple Winner
Ray Conger, physical education
instructor, was the first man to
win the Wanamaker Mile three