WEDNESDAY, StPTEM'BER 21, 1949 Teams Need Sophomores As Managers Student Work ,"Behind Scenes" called Important Of ' • • 'major importance to Penn State's., athletic prowess is, the work "done by student managers and'aSsistant Managers, they are the:backbone . of the "behind the scenee-'• work ,• of , every athletic team..:': thider the direction of the graduate manager of athletics, Harold "Ike" Gilbert, student managers care for equipment, serve as greeters to referees find other sports officials, handle - ex penses on away trips, submit ac counts of athletic contests for of ficial records and carry out other duties in assisting player s, coaches, officials and visiting teams. All sophomore men are eligible for candidacy as a second assist ant manager for fall, winter and spring sports. Sophomores who are interested in managerships • for football, cross-country and soccer are urged•to apply now or next week, at the Assistant Graduate Man ager of Athletics' office in ,107 Old Main. First Assistants Within two weeks following. the completion of the season of each sport, three first assistant man agers are chosen to serve for the following years. With • this ad vancement more responsibilities are delegated to the first assist ants, including the supervision of the second aasistant candidates and the accorripanying of the team on away trips. • ' ' One head manager is choien from the :three first assistant managers. • The head manager serves in that capacity, his senior year while the two defeated first managers are considered asseci ate managers in that sport the succeeding year but they are. in active. As manager of ari athletic team one holds an enviable" and re spectable position' on campus. Full responsibility in every, line of service to a team' during prac tice sessions, on a: trip and , at at home games is delegated. to the head manager. ' Athleticawards are, given to the head inanager and asiociate managers for each.. sport. With football considered the major sport at the College, both the var sity letter ,Winners : and the head manager receive eight-inch block letter "S". For all other sports Narsity let ter winners and head managers receive ,sik-inch. block letter `,`S". Associate' managers in all sports are awarded 4141-inch _block "S" letters. . All award winners receive sweaters with their. awards. Grad uating seniors, besides their let ter, : receive a gold- award and also an• engraved certificate of the let ters that were awarded to them • and the year they received theip. In• the past, student managers have rendered 'a great service to Penn State's athletic teams in the fulfillment of their duties, accord ing.to Gilbert. Thiel Issues Lacrosse Call ' 'Although' the first ganie is over half a year off, Coach Nick Thiel has Issued a call for lacrosse can didates to report to : Room 221 in Recreation Hall on October 3. "You. don't have to know any thing about lacrosse to be able to play it," said Thiel. "Only one man on last year's team, Ed Bel field, had ever played the game before coming. to Penn State. Everyone else on last year's squad knew nothing about the sport and ,picked up everything they knew in fall and spring practices." .. Fifteen lettermen have left via the graduation route and with just five men returning from last year's team, Coach Thiel must begin.. building •from the bottom this fah. • All 'sophomore men interested •in trying out for the team should •take ; their athletic 'physical. ex in *t they same time they ;take :their `* 4 4,414'' entrance phYsica• REngs WHAT PENN STATES FOOTBALL STADIUM will look like when work Is completed on the new all-steel stands at the North end of the field. Addition of new stands will boost the permanent seating capacity from 14,700 to approximately 28,000. The new stands will be ready for occupancy when Valency va opposes the Lions at State College, Pa.. Saturday. September 24, In Penn State's opening game. Basketball Team Gets Invitation Daring the middle of August when the Professional baseball teams were in the midst of pen nant fights and football coach Joe Bedenk was planning fall grid practice, basketball stole the spot light for a day with the an nouncement that the Penn State Court team was selected to play in the Dixie Invitational Basket ball Classic at Raleigh, North Carolina December 28-30. H. R. 'lke' Gilbert, graduate manager of athletics, who made the announcement, said that North Carolina State, one of the East's top court powers, will be host , to the three-day tournament. Other teams enrolled in . the tourney are Rhcde Island State, West Virginia, Georgia Tech, Wake Forest, 'University of North Carolina ' and North Carolina State. •The tournament, which will come early in the Lions' schedule, - will be held at North Carolina State's ' new Coliseum, which seats 13,000. • Competition The lour visiting schools will be. paired against the four . North Caxolina schools in the first round of . play, and then will play to a tourney as- well as a consolation championship. Games will be played afternoon and night on all' three days. . . Although prospects are not .ex ceptionally bright for the . Lions this winter. Elmer .Gross, in. his first year as head coach, will have a handful of last year's starters with which to work. - • Tocci • Heading this. season's quintet will belittle Joe Tocci, fast-dribb ling senior, and his lanky pivot teammate Martin Costa. Ken Weiss will also be back for his second year' on the Lion varsity, A Real Back To • , • •• . College Special Penn State Students are being offered a "Welcome Back" special in this 7- • smartly designed, money / ..S' • saving fountain pe n. • - Factory close-outs per mits r • this pen to sell at low cost, yet it retains c qualities of a high priced , /e / . .43 " pen. Simulated gold trim in five attractive colors- 4 grey, maroon, black, blue, green Each - beautifully boxed, 43c NOW AT ,- • ~, G. C. MURPHY. CO. . THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLV Nittany Fo"otball Stadium To Seat 30,000 Fans Expansion of Penn State's football seating capacity will release an estimated 10,000 tickets for public sale, announced H. R. Gilbert, griduate manager of athletic& Heretofore, only a handful. of tickets were available to the gen eral public because of the limited seating capacity at Beaver Field. New . constrtiction now. has boosted the permancnt seating capacity fiom 14,770 to 28,000 and tempor ary stands in the South end zone, will raise the over-all total to 30,- 000. Houck Better After Illness Becoming ill while handling a boxing clinic' at the College, Leo Houck, venerable Penn State boxing coach, underwent: a• seri ous operation in St. Joseph's Hos pital in Lancaster last month and at latest reports his condition was reported, as "satisfactory." "Hej.s improving very - slowly," the hospital said," but he is still quite ill." After a brilliant career as one of the nation's leading middle weight boxers, Leo was appointed to the Penn State coaching "po r it December 13, 1922. During• his more than 200 professional bouts, he was acclaimed champion , ' of Europe and Cuba but never was recognized in the United States, despite his victories over middle weight champions of his era. An advocate of boxing rather than "slugging", Leo has de veloped many champions while serving as coach of the Istittany boxing team. ..'Several of hii proteges went on in addition to guards Lee Schiller and Jack Storer.' ' • • Gross, a star under John T. aw ther in his undergraduate day at the College, will be aided by his former teammate, John Egli, Nsrho coached Lion - freshman teams in Penn State undergraduate cen ters until this season. ' Work on the new all-steel stands soon will be completed, closing in the North end, horseshoe style, while. the addition of two new sections at the South end of the East and West stands will convert the stadium into a veritable bowl. The stands Will be ready for the season's 'opener against Villanova College September 24. An attractive home schedule, which will send the Nittany Lions against Villanova, Boston College, Nebraska and Syracuse here be fore the end of October, prompted the- decision to increase the seat ing capacity. Last year;. a new single game record was set when 24,000 persons overflowed the gtands to see the 14-14 thriller with Michigan State. Four Newcomers . .Penn State's first four football opponents in 1949 are newcomers to the Lion schedule. • • to success in the professional ring. Men like Steve Hamas, a heavy weight title contender of 20 .years .ago and , Billy Soose, who cap tured the world's middleweight crown over ten years ago were students of "Doctor" Houck. Cheer u! Welcome to all students • THE CORNER ROOM "unusual" Between co2p• r " • k,O 1 4 . \I ) fr The Lions With Elliot Krim, Sports Editor The chill fall breeze that whip ped across the campus yesterday brought with it a faint smell a burning leaves and a pleasant re minder that King football will take his throne once again in the lair of the Nittany lion. New students here at the Col, lege 'will be treated to a view of a team that has lost only . one game in the past two years—and old students will find that Pena State football, 1949 version, has undergone a face-lifting opera tion and is now modernized in line with the present trend to ward a wide-open offensive. For years an exponent of the single wing attack, the Nittany team this year will use the fast and flashy wing -"t" and straight "t" formation interspersed with solid, single wing plays. The new head coach, Joe 'Be denk, plus his two new assistants Sever Toretti and Frank Patrick, have transformed the slow but sure Penn State offense into ono that. can explode at any moment* into it high-scoring attack. Butyrith the new system comes a schedule that would • give any new coach a case of the chills. Opening with Villanova, the Lion team . tangles with top-ranking Army and then has to . buckle down for the following • week's clash with Boston College, a tough battle with Nebraska and then hit always dangerous Michig, gan State. Those five games plus the next four climaxed with the Pitt con test will provide enough grid thrills for the fans who look for a hotly contested contest every week. Yes, Penn State has other sports besides football, and we 31 run over the prospects for the 16 other major sports now, so that Joe College of an athletic bent, will be able to see where his ef forts can be utilized best. Fall Sports In the line of fall sporting goods, the College offers soccer suits, lacrosse uniforms and run ning logs. The soccer team has been practicing for almost a month' in order to prepare for the season's opener against West Chester, but coach Bill Jeffrey, is still looking for sophomore talent. Cross country practice will start Monday and Coach Chick Werner, with an all junior team, is always in the market for a boy' who is interested in running on the hill-and-dale team. (Continued on rage ten) PAGE NINE
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