WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1950 Gridders Begin Spring Practices With Temporary Coach at Controls Stealing a page from the College administration, which for two years ran without the leadership of a president, Penn State's foot ball team yesterday began Spring practice without a full-time head coach. In charge of the first session was Earl Bruce, named to the post when JOe Bedenk resigned March 5. For the past four seasons Bruce has been head coach at the. Cali fornia State Teachers College, where Nittany freshman football talent has been "farmed out." Assisting Bruce in his temporary job are Al 'Michaels, Jim O'Hora, Sever. Toretti, and Frank Patrick, all members of Bedenk's staff. OLD TIMES Old acquaintances Were renew- , ed yeiterday when Bruce stepped out into the practice area behind Beaver Field to inaugurate the six-week drill period. Among the 80 candidates for varsity berths were numbered no less than 24 of his former players at California. Included among the 24 were 9 of the 10 lettermen Bruce will have to work with. Owen Dough erty, captdin of the 1950 squad, is the only one of the ten letter men who did not spend his fresh man year at California under Hruce. The other monogram win ners, backs Vince O'Bara, Tony Orsini, Chan Johnson, Len Shep ard, and Johnny Podrasky. and linemen John Smidansky, Chuck aodlasky, Jim Barr, and Ken Bunn, all served their apprentice ship under Bruce BIG JOB Facing Bruce and his assistants this spring is a task• of •rebuilding that has been brewing as a result of the necessity of having fresh men located at off-campus centers. 'Up until now, Bruce explains, State has not felt the pinch of football material because of the influx of experienced war vet erans. The vets have kept the school well-supplied with football Material during the post-war yeirs, he says, making up for the limited number of freshmen being prepped•; at the centers. Most of the Veterans are -gone now, and for the first time since the war, State will feel the, manpower shortage. • , This unhappy 'situation will be alleviated, it is hoped, by the ac ceptance of freshmen on the cam tiis in the fall. -Until the fresh man program starts working, however, Bruce and the man named to succeed Bedenk have their work' cut out for them. 3 IN 22 Among ' the lettermen, only Dougherty, the team's leading ground-gainer, O'Bara and Smid ansky were listed among the first 22, although Bunn received' sev eral Starting assignments late 'in the season at the center. post. The others saw less frequent action. Dougherty, incidentally, is a mem.; bet of the baseball team and will not participate in the drills. halt the workouts come to a halt on April 22, Bruce will also heck an additional 20 or so mem berg of the 1949 varsity who saw only limited action. Among theni are back Earl Mundell, and line nieti Ed Hoover, Ralph DeLucia, and Joe Shumock. GOOD J-V's In addition• there are a flock of junior -varsity boys who looked good enough last year to merit 4ttetitioti. Aniong them are backs V1'1(50 McCourt, Pete Klocek, and ANY • STUDENT PICK UP AGENCY Will Send Your Wash To The "Launderette" 24 Hr. Service State College, Launderette 210 W. COLLEGE AVE.' Individually Washed in Soft Water -- Special Soap By MARV KRASNANSKY Nittany Wrestlers Almost Repeat Championship Performance of '42 By ED WATSON , Penn State's wrestlers came about as close as possible to winning the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association's team trophy at the 46th annual tourney, at Princeton, N.J., last weekend. The Lions came nearer to being the East's number one team for the first time since 1942, when the Nittanies, with Assistant Coach Charlie Ride nour copping a title, won .the championship. That 1942 tournament was held in Recreation Hall, and since the 1951 run-off is also slated for the Lions' indoor arena, fans are looking forward to next year. Syracuse won its second straight title with 32 points, while Lehigh followed with 29. The Nittanies placed third with 28. Dutch Brong, • and linemen Bill Waters, Bill Barber, George tar van, Bill Slabonik, Pete Twaddle, and Andy Silock. • Approaching his task with the knowledge that he faces gaping weaknesses "everywhere," Bruce looks for some help • from his frosh. Among the better-looking prospects at the farm were backs Bob Pollard and Ted Shattuck, and lineman Don Barney and Tim Dooley. There is even, hoWever, a weak link in the pre9ent California set-up. Because of limited space facilities at the College, no spring drills will be held there. With the exception of Michigan State and Villanova, both of whom have been dropped from the schedule, State face the same slate this coming •season as it did in 1949. Georgetown and Rutgers are the newcomers on the nine-game card, while Army, Syracuse, Nebraska, Temple, Ros ton College, West Virginia, and Pitt are the holdovers. The only difference is that such stalwarts as Fran Hoge'. the Drazenovich brothers, Bob Hicks, Neg. Norton, Bill Luther, Don 'Murray : Chuck Beatty and Ray Wedderiek will all be gone. GREET SPRING ► With "New As Spring" Color Guitar° .. The Non-Smear lipstick .4.4.i.JAA,,e) A Featuring Eight Paris-Inspired Shades $l.OO phut tax at REA gt IM Wrestling All men competing . in the intramural wrestling tourna ment must report for weigh ing in between 8:30 and 7:15 on the night they are scheduled to compete, Gene Bischoff, IM director, announced yesterday. The rest of the field was strung out, with Navy copping the fourth spot with 14 tallies. Lehigh followers cheered loud ly for Penn State's Mike Rubino in the 175-pound final. If Rubino had beaten Syracuse's• George Gebhardt and Heavyweight Ho mer Barr had lost to Lehigh's Gus LaSasso in the unlimited class, the Engineers would have slipped past both Syracuse and the Lions for the title. TIE POSSIBLE The Speidelmen could have also tied for the title with the Orange men if Rubino had won. But Mike fought his best bout of the season even'though he lost a 3-2 decision. Gebhardt's points were awarded --one for locked hands by Rubino, and ticio for, an automatic take doWn because Referee John Engle said Rubino was stalling. It was a tough loss , for Rubino to take, especially since the Nit- tang, light-heavy 'tossed ,Gebhardt it will in the first period, but both wrestlers were off the mat each time. The verdict was easily the -most unpopular one of the two-day tourney. Penn State hit .1000 per cent in the awarding of referee's de cisions. In the quarter-finals, 155- pound Bill Santel was given the nod over Brown's Marc Rowe , after the two fought to _a 6-6 stalemate. Captain Jim Maurey kept the record intact by being picked as the 145-pound cham pion after he, and Lehigh's John Mahoney • were tied, 0-0, after three periods of wrestling. DERICK Four Cage Teams Go To IM Finals Sigma Pi, Theta Chi, Dorm 14 and the Eagles won playoff games in their respective IM basketball leagues Monday night and ad vanced into the championship flight of the tournament. The fraternity League A toga went to Sigma Pi when it edged Alpha Chi Sigma, 19-18, in a thrilling ball game. William Lock hart paced the winners with six points. After a close first half in which both teams showed some erratic play, Theta Chi pulled away from Alpha Gamma Rho and post ed a 27-22'victory for the League D title. Herbert Kurtz had 11 points for the winners but his scoring efforts were eclipsed by AGR's James Clark who dumped in .15, big markers. Dorm 14 grabbed the title in independent / League C by dis poSing of a listleSs Dorm 39 crew, 22-7. The flrat half was fairly close with Dorm 14 leaving the floor with , a slim three point lead but it proved enough as Dorm 39 was unable to score a point in the final canto. Strauss was high man for the winners with seven. The• Eagles noched a playoff position by dumping the Timber wolves, 10-8, for the League championship. Morris and • Tom Strike were almost the whole show for the victors as each tossed in six points. Strike also played a good game on the boards. • Switching Sports Nick Thiel, Penn State Lacrosse coadh, expects football player Joe 13razenovich to develop into a top-flight lacrosseman this Spring. The Brownsville grid star took tip the game for the first time a year ago. SAVE TIME ?4:ei and 4.. p. MONEY at Or. The -,Largest • Automatic Laundry In Central Pa. .Plek-up I;Ervice Is•now offered by Mar shall's Automatic Laundry—simply call Student. Cleaning Service-4956. Your laundry wilE be ricked up, ,washed. dried. end delivered ... 9 lbs. of It for a mere 80e. C.all 2956 today 1 1 ! MARSHALL'S Automatic o'7ch3. Laundry Ave. 454 E. College NOW! At Your Warner Theatre adman Barbara Stanwyck Wendell Corey "THELMA JORDAN" State Shelley Winters MacDonald Carey "SOUTH SEA SINNER" /litany Richard Conte Valentina Cortesa "THIEVES HIGHWAY" PAGE MI:mo Five Veterans Boost Stock Of Net Team Nittany tennis coach, Shertnad Fogg, is looking forward to a promising season this year es four lettermen returned in the first practice sessions held last week. A fifth letter winner, George Lawther, is practice teaching and will join the squad in two weeks. The other veterans are captain elect Owen Landon, Jerry Gear hart, James Howells, arid Spence Boyer, last year's JV captain. Also sharpening their form for the April 19th clash with Bucknell at the home courts are Dick Wie lend, Bill Walls, Harry Kauffhian, arid Mark Borland. The former two are transfer students front Murlenberg and Temple, re spectively while the latter two are intra-mural champs. The first three matches will be held here where the racquetmen will vie with Bucknell, Lehigh, April 22, and Washington and Jefferson, April 26. Other honie matches will be played against Georgetown, May 6, Duquesne, May 17, and Colgate, May 27 to finish the season. Hitters Return Of Penn State's six .300 hitters last year, four will return to the baseball wars again this Spring. The returnees are Clarence BuSs, of Milton; Jack Kurty, of Ludleitr, MaSs.; Captain Dick Wertz, of Newport; and Bill Bair, of Wil liamsport. Buss and Kurty are both catchers. STUDENT OPERATED Coffee and Doughnuts at the PUB 15c STUDENT SUPPORTED BEGINS FRIDAY
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