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Coaching Rumors
"I hear Mike Milligan is in line for the coach
ing job at State. Is that correct?"—So goes a
telegram to a sports official at the College.
"Will you confirm a rumor that Clark Shaugh
nessy is being considered as next Penn State
football coach?"—So goes a telephone call to a'
member of the Athletic Advisory Board.
OFFICIALS AT THE College are now swamp
ed with such calls about Milligan and Shaugh
nessy, and Earle Edwards, who was end coach
here for 13 years before resigning last year to
accept . a similar post at Michigan State. Nine
times out of ten, little or no firm basis exists
for them.
Such inquiries by individuals and news-
papers in every nook and cranny of the state
(the Collegian does it too) are pure, unsullied
speculation. They are a bald attempt to gain
a lead story for tomorrow's edition of the
Rural Junction Bugle, and everybody on both
ends of the telephone call or telegram' know
them as such.
These queries and rumors can conceivably be
detrimental to a coaching candidate's chances
and embarrassing to the schools•concerned, but
they are the rye and butter of newspaperdom,
a necessary tool for sports scribes.
IN THE MIDST of this bandying of coaches'
names and rumors that will cloud the sports
picture until a successor to Coach Joseph.,l3e
denk is named, a natural question is: HOW
WILL HIS SUCCESSOR BE NAMED, AND BY
WHOM?
The answer lies in machinery set up by the
Athletic Advisory Board, a student-faculty-ad
ministration-alumni group. Here's how it works:
1) On behalf of the Board, Dr. Carl P. Schott,
dean of the School of Physical Education and
Athletics, has already announced that the Board
will accept applications, and that applications
are already being received.
2) No coaches' names . will be divulged by
the Board, except perhaps in a case when Dr.
Schott may choose to deny or confirm a re
ported application if a coach's statement ap
pears in print that he has applied for the job.
3) The personnel committee of the Athletic
Advisory Board will meet soon to study and
screen applications for the job. Members of this
group are Harry D. Robb, chairman, prominent
alumnus and sports official; J. C. "Hap" Frank,
ex-Penn State football great; Howard J. Lam
ade, College Trustee; Hummel .Fishburn, head
of the departments of music and music educa
tion; Dean Schott, ex officio, and Harold R. Gil
bert, graduate manager of athletics, ex officio.
4) No coach will be approached, in terms of
possibly switching to Penn State, until the
personnel committee has performed this im
portant preliminary job. In a case where the
committee may be interested in a coach not
submitting application, protocol dictates that
the committee seek permission of the college
which employs him . before contacting him
personally.
5) After preliminary spadework, the person
nel committee will recommend a name to the
full Athletic Advisory Board. Members, besides
those already mentioned, are Prof. Burke M.
Hermann, Board chairman, history professor
and former Nittany basketball coach; Prof.
Franklin L. Bentley, head of the department of
animal husbandry; Prof. Norman R. Sparks, de
partment of mechanical engineering head;
James H. Olewine, professor of organic chem
istry; H. K. Cochrane, prominent alumnus; W.
K. Rice, prominent alumnus, and three students,
Ted Allen, all-College president; '3 ames
Gehrdes, Athletic Association president, and
Thomas Morgan, Daily Collegian editor.
6) If the Athletic Advisory Board agrees
with the committee's recommendation and the
coach named is not already on the Penn State
staff, Dean Schott will submit the recommen
dation for College Trustee approval.
6) If the recommendation involves only a
switch •in staff personnel already here, more
or-less routine approval of the President's Of
fice is necessary in place of both administration
and Trustee action.
7) THEN THE COLLEGE'S new football
coach will be revealed. Until that time, rumor
of any name being considered—as some have
already emerged—will hold no official sanction
of the Athletic Advisory Board, unless of
course—Dean Schott chooses to confirm or deny
certain applications for the job.
THAT IS HOW it works at Penn State.
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA +
ittle Man On Campus
er why the Sigma Phi Nothings can't learn to use
the phone like the other fraternities do!"
Juke Box Jag
Hoping I didn't look as worn as I felt, I wearily slid into - a booth
in a small restaurant. I had slouched over the typewriter half the
night before. My eyes burned, my back ached, and I still saw
blurred type' when I squinted. All I wanted was a quiet meal and a
few cups of coffee.
SUDDENLY MY NERVES were jarred out of their lethargy by
the banging , screaming discordance of "Twelfth Street Rag.' The
notes poured out of a large juke box and raged around my head like
a host of stinging hornets.
With a strained voice I gave the waitress my order, having to
repeat twice over the din. Suddenly, from my right, came the loud
:deceit° report of what sounded like a machine gun, followed by
jangling bells and gqngs. Some guy was wrestling with a compli
cated looking device, the like of which are found in almost every
tavern and restaurant in America; that fiendish creation made to
plague the irritable and designed to make neurotics of the addicts—
the pinball machine.
Now I consider myself a normal fellow and not obsessed by illus
ions of persecution, but I will strongly defend my right to be able
to enjoy a meal without wearing earmuffs to ward off the ear-split
'ting rendition of the latest bop or having to duck the flailing arms
of a sadist who knocks himself out putting body English on a steel
marble.
SURELY A MAN should be able to linger over a tall glass
of foam or cuddle a martini in a tap room without being forced into
a state of auditory confusion by clanging bells and jangling knells.
Places that feature the largest music 'boxes and loudest pinball
machines should cater to the trade that desires this uncouth form of
entertainment with their food and drink.
A friend has told me that he has noticed that eventually estab
lishments do get this select group, and people like myself seek more
peaceful sites. However, too often one is. forced, due to unfamili
arity with the city, to do business with these sources of nervous
indigestion. What's more, these breeding grounds for eyes that
twitch, and hips that jerk uncontrollably—from unnumbered hours
in the pinball crouch—are becoming more numerous.
Let me say that I have not always had such contempt for music
devices. In years past, I even tried my skill with the tilt machines.
But, I contend that flashing lights, clacking bumpers, and grinding
polkas should not accompany a steak dinner or a glass of port.
*
WHAT'S THE USE of kidding the younger generation? Why
not condition them to what they must face in later years? Let's bring
the phonograph and ten of the latest Spike Jones records into the
dining room, turn up the volume, and let the baby rattle a can of
marbles through the meal.
Now, I've tried to be fair and objective in my observations.
Apparently there are many folks who can quietly sip a Manhattan
or sell insurance over a dinner table while wallowing through the
gentle strains of "Slap 'Er Down Again Pa."
However, if I am to become the champion of a new lunatic
fringe, I take up the torch. Return the pinballs to the pool rooms and
let me listen to the snap, crackle, pop of my rice crispies instead of
the neighing of Beetlebaum and braying of Mule Train.
Attention Fraternities
Looking for MUSIC
or ENTERTAINMENT
For your dance, dinner, or
party?
Engage the
Duyer Quartet
an instrumental and
vocal unit.
Write—
W. R. Duper
309 Jordan Ave.
Montoursville, Pa.
Phone Williamsport 8203
by Bibler
-BILL DICKSON
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THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1950
Gazette . . . .
' Thursday, March 9
AMERICAN CERAMIC Society, Delta Tau
Delta House, 7:30 p.m.
FORESTRY Society, 3 White Hall, 7 p.m.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Organization 207 CH,
6:45 p.m.
NAVAL VOLUNTEER Electronics Warfare
Co, Naval Lecture, Eng E, 7 p.m.
NAVAL RESERVE Composite Group, Nayal
Lecture Room Eng E, 7:30 p.m.
PHILOSOPHY CLUB, 316 Sparks, 8 p.m.
WRA FENCING, 1 White Hall, 7 p.m.
WRA BADMINTON Club, Gym, White Hall,
4 p.m.
WRA. SWIMMING Club, Pool, White Hall,
7:30 p.m.
F•7IFW7qTPFT - 4' 7 7M
?nettle! information concerning interviews and Job placr
rents can be obtained in 112 Old Melt.
...Seniors who turned in preference *beets will be given
priority ht scheduling interviews for two days following
the initial . announcement of the visit of one of the com
panies of their choice. Other students will be scheduled on
the third and subsequent days.
GE Chem & Metal Division Mar. 9, 10. June
MS and BS grads in ChE, Chem, and Metal.
Single men are preferred. •
Duquesne Light Co.. Mar. 13, 14. June grads
in EE, ME, and CE.
General Electric'Co., Mar. 13 to 16. June grads
in EE, lE, ME, and Phys. for its test engineering
piograni. ,
Bell Telephone Co. of Pa., Mar. 13, 14. June
grads in EE and lE. The work consists of tech
nical and business operations, and engineering
planning. Applicants must not be over 24 years
of age and should have a 1.5 or better average.
Dupont Co., Mar. 16, 17. Men and women BS
and MS candidates in ChE.
Bell Telephone Laboratories, Mar. 14, 15. MS
candidates in ME, BE, and BS candidates in EE
who have specialized in communications. Bache
lors candidates must have a 2.0 average
. or
better.
Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co., Mar. 17. EE (power
majors only) and ME.
General Motors Corp., Mar. 20, 21, 22. June
grads in EE, lE, ME, ChE, Metal, CF for pro
duct engineering, prodUction operations, and
accounting. Applicants must have a 1.5 or
better average. Also PhD and MS , candidates in
Physics for research and development. '
Sears. Roebuck, & Co., Mar. 21, 22, 23. June
grads interested , in Retailing.
Boy Scouts of America, Mar. 22, 23. Julie
grads interested in professional scouting. Scout
ing experience is a prerequisite. Grads 24 years
of age or over are preferred. Will also inter
view sophomores and juniors Who are consider
ing scouting careers.
COLLEGE HOSPITAL
Admitted Tuesday: John Kalfas, Donald Att
wood, Aaron Hoffman, Curtis William Klaus,
Richard Myers, Florence Lauzar, Rudolph Val
entino.
Admitted Wednesday: Ruth Ellen Sher, Lewis
Stone, Joe Colone, James Barclay.
Discharged Wedneiday: Helen Jaskbl.
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