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
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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~