PAGE SIX 'On The Ball' BY RAY KOEHLER Sports Editor (Ed. Note—Jay Barry ,sports writer for the Brown Uni versity Daily , Herald, takes over this column today with a lively, intimate glimpse into the career and personality of Penn State's new head football coach, Rip Engle.) When genial "Rip" Engle left Brown after six, years as boss man of the Bruin gridiron forces,, he took a record of 28 victories ,20 defeats and four ties with him. Not bad, you say? Well, for an Ivy League college the size of Brown, it is downright remarkable to have the books inscribed in black ink after a ix year period. Still, the relationship be ween Rip Engle and Brown was-not a one-sided one. He eft many, things behind him, and among them were mem wies of an era that will not ;oon be forgotten-on the ,Hill. When. we remember. Rip; we'll think c;f him as ; was when we firit 'net him ' in the summer of 1943. The . meeting was not. escactly a social-. one tor, as a 'war time freshman, we had to run the' -obstacle courlse that :adorned ' the' lower campus that' year, ,and it was .Rip, then. a ,backfiehl'. , coach under Skip- Staley; who saw than -. we, - prospective G.l.'s worked ourselves into the best 'possible shape . : ; for Uncle Sam. r_: When When Head Coach Skip Staley packed his bags,arid-left for the wars before the 1944 seasbn, Rip, took over.Alie.coach ing "reins. The material during the next few. seasons. Was not the best, since the majority of the, huskies who . would: nor mally be cavorting on Aldrich Field.-were,doing;, their. exer cises in France, Belgium - or the islands that - clot the Pacific. The boys came marching home . before the 1948 sea son and, by 1947, the Bearswere, ready once again to field; team that would be among the best in the Ivy' Circles. . Then, early in the year . Rip's' charges blew ~a tough, game to the Dartmouth Indians. After , leading 10.0 at , the half, Brown finally lost out by a 13=10 icoreon-an Indian touch down by Hal Fitkin with the clock showing just 10 sec onds to play. -We'remember Rip, a year later; sitting the.lobby of the ? ark Hotel in Plainfield, N.J., the night before the Rutgers game. This was the big one of the year for Brown. The Scar let had a fine team, one which had soundly spanked the Bear a year before. Rip wanted this one and as he \ sat there slouched in • a chair in the lobby, staring blankly off ipto space, no one could break through the Engle barrier. Rip was playing that game, all sixty minutes of it, "there in the hotel lobby. Oh, yes, the boys went out and beat Rutgers the next afternoon 20-6. ,All wasn't cake and ice cream through that '4B cam- ' paign, however. We remember sitting' at the top of the Harvard stadium on a bleak afternoon late in November, • after the Bruini had absorbed a surprise licking from John Harvard, and watching Rip weave his,way slowly across the crowded ' field . to offer congratulations to the Crimson coach. Head bent, collar turned up, he , shuffled along, but the next week he had, his team bounce back and swamp Colgate 35.7 to end the year'with a 7-2 card,. Brown's best since 1932. Last fall, the scribes_ were plugging Brown for a "9 for 9 in 49" season. Well, the team dropped an early season strug gles to the Princeton Tiger, but they came back to pick up all the rest of the marbles and end with an 8-1 record. Rip's "49" squad beat Harvard and this was the first Bruin win over the Crimson since 1938. Then, when the boys came from 19 points behind to de feat Colgate in the Turkey Day finale, we'll always remember the members of the team picking up•their popular coach and carrying him off the field on their shoulders. It was Brown's loss and Penn State's gain when Rip de cided to leave the campus' ivy covered walls and return to his home state to meet a .new challenge. Our last memory is of Rip Engle coming into the Brown Daily Herald office a few hours before he was scheduled to leave Providence. He just came around, to thank the boys on the paper for the help they had given him during the past six years. "I'm leaving Brown," said Rip, "but I'll never forget the college. There's something about the place that will stay deep within my heart no matter where I go." That works both ways. Those at Brown who knew him , will never forget Charles Rip Engle for he lef t.a part of him self here that will remain deeply entrenched in the tra dition of Brown University. Rips' Still Our Boy Say Grid 50,1 7 - • / • • Fans At Brown BY JAY BARRY Brown Daily. Herald THE DAIT.,Y COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Tri-Meet Ends Nittany Trackmen's Home Stand By JOE BREU Six members of Coach Chick Werner's Lion track team will make their last appearance before home fans tomorrow, ' The group is led by Ca . pt. Jim Gehrdes and includes ace sprinter Wil Lancaster, javelin tosser Wil.Bertrum, shot putters Chuck Drazenovich and Doug Shearer, and discuss throw er Max Schlienger. The six senior thinclads will not. however, be sounding taps on their collegiate careers. Probably all six will compete in next week's . IC4-A meet and Gehrdes and Lancaster, at least, will run in .the NGAA meet in June But Penn State fans will get their last look at the halfdozen V:ernermen .in . 'tomorrow's tri meet with Pitt and Wet Virginia. In. that meet;. the State forces will .be out to even their , slate in dual and triangular competition for the season. • - • • • Lions Paste Navy • The Blue and White tracksters won their . first meet of the sea son last week.,on Beaver Field by thumping Navy 75A to 554. Prior to that they lost a three way meet to Michigan State and'QT - ifo State and a dual meet • to: Michigan State. • The field events will start at' 1 p.M.'tornorrow and the track corn 13qtition; will bommence: . a., half hour later: .• •- • ' Of the : -two,., opponents, . Pitt, seems to offer' - the biggeSt.threat to State' hopes.— The Panthers• beveled, Oyer Miami, of 01 - j . io,' and: then-. proeeeded to N9tre- Datne, tough • • Fritts Tries For ',ReCord,. The meet .will have, several: in-: teresting One: be the, attempt of Fritts. offi 'cially ;top the 'F'epri state-record: in the, high jump Vic has:done it several • times-: iri • pradtiCe : " intereolle,giate • .competition, 'the magid•height:h,is th - Us-fr eluded • Another question of: more, than passing interest :will be- ,the:'o, tempt, of • Roderer to' 'repeat„ big last 'week's performance in the jaVelin. Ted tossed' the .spear `206 feet 8 inches for his ..best effort Gehrdes and, Lancaster's Swan songs - will be, watched- - with in= terest.. • Jurnpin' Jii i and Lane haVe been theleaders of the team for, the, entire season - and both have gained.: national ran:ie.. They will .be. .to :Make their home fare Well a- good- one. Two In One -• . Bob Ciolek, „Michigan • , State's football quarterback arid base= ball first baseman, combines ,the talents of two brothers who pre ceeded him. in Spartan athletics. Brother. Gene. was a•• football standout; brother Ed concentra ted On baseball..- 'Tomboy' E Is Busy Ath "I have two brethers,'so• I pose I developed: into the tomboy, type,',' said., Evelyn • ..Laning, junior in •the School . .of:F'hySical Education. • . • - • . '. And that's liyhy..s feetr• 3 1 / 2 inch Evelyn , is one Of the most athletic coeds. on ,the -Penn • State. campus; At the present time' she is en gaged .in only intramural soft ball, baseball and lacrosse, but she 'includes many other sports among her activities. Twenty-year-old EVelyn. also engages in hockey, her favorite sport, b a d m i n t o n, basketball; bowling, volleyball, ping pong, swimming • and •archery:" 'As a freshman at Millersville ...State Teachers College . she played women's varsity hockey 'and bas ketball. She also played, on . girl's Varsity . teams 'in' high -:school in New Jersey. ' ' • • Brunette Ist Baieman ' The pretty brunette plays right inner in hockey, forward in•bas ketball and first base in base-. ball. • As far as spectator sports are , oncerned, the athletic Evelyn •a3.rs that. she likes them—as long 'as it's men who are , playing. She is an avid fan of the Boston Red : - Sox, but she •has to admit that Joe DiMaggio is a -good hall play er. In fOotball, she• returns her By. CLARICE LIDICH 'PENN . STATE TRACK . FANS wi forrnances Of seniors'Sim Gehrdes time as' collegiate. runners on..th rows tri-meet. • The, aboire phOt: last . Saturday'S 100' yard 'diSh in at the tape. " • ~..11YV:Te'0)!14,111;:-. 'Second ::Round the -first °ppd, of intramural tennis 'has been completed, :,and second -round Play has • started; . -Wiriners,. in. final first round e• Jupink-Eichenlaub, , P . ll Tarpley-Nichols,. Lambda. Chi Alpha; ••: Bennett- . Coleman, Alpha: ~.Tau Omega; .Wallace-Welsh, Delta Tai Delta; . 'and Hallinan-Blac.k*; 'Sigma Pi... Winners in second ,play .thus' far ; are:- Tarpley 7 NiChols, . Lamb dii.-- Alpha; Fleming-Leib, Delta, Upsilon; Fader-Youngerman, Pi 'Lambda• Phi; Gainsburg-Wolfson, Zeta Beta '.Tau; "Wallace-Welsh;, Delta :Tau, Delta; McNees-Vadas7; iy Sophomore. Women's hat society; treasurer 'of Lakonides,,Wornen's Physical.Ediacation Honorary and keeper of records for '. Pi Lamb da Theta, Women's Educational Honorary. •In addition, she belongs to the Outing Club and Modern Danee Club, both.:WRA activities. Last semester Evelyn was a •member of, the, Spanish Club.. With . all these',Activities, she has 'main- FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1950 Fl in' Home, Photo', by Keh te'r 1 be seeking the wing-footediiiet-_'.:., (L)•and 7411 X.,ancaitei - fer the,last• 13eaver. Field - eirideis.in 1 \ was taken at the finidh-,li ne: ef,: Which Gehides niriped'Laridatter im.oolf.R.Otti,-01 - 0 . r0v01ey.,,,5101*.:,:,;1::: FOtirth. round play 'in. the In tramural 'golf. tournament:' •finds the following pairitig.s.fighting "it: out" to. determine 'the' .sElniiZfirial'- ' Phi • Sigma Kappa ancSignia; • Chi, Sigma Pi and Delta. Upsilon;'. Beta Theta Pi and Phi 'Delta Theta, and Delta : ,Tai Delta and Phi Kappa Tau. Clii Phi; . Manes-Sc,hmuckler;".Yli Sigma Delta: . Kink r llacktr Sigma Alpha: 'Atwood man-Black, 'Sigma Pi. tained a 2.52 All-college. •aVett" . age for her first five ':semesters. In spite of her small % Stature'. Evelyn still has the 166 . 0 f athlete with herlithe b6dy and' alert appearance. •SO •-until Other coed comes alonw.who' Can displace her e . Evelyn Laning-w4l, carry the title of: most , • athletic girl at Pend State: • -„ Photo. by ,Bovle~
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