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BY RAY KOEHLER
Sports Editor
Has "Little Joe" Tocci started a trend toward giving the little uy
hisjuit desserts amid the giants•of State's athletic whirl? Only 5-feet
5-inches tall, Tocci last year co-captained one of State's most success
ful basketball teams in recent years. With the completion'of the '5O
spring sports calendar two more 'Davids' were named to captaincies.
They are Phil Benedetti, lacrosse goalie, and Joe Durniak, a golfer.
Will the next trip to the patent office by lacrosse Coach Nick
Thiel and his handy aide, Ernie 'Bugs' Baer, be prompted by the
invention of a, small hip flask filled with milk of magnesia to
help his boys not only figuratively—butactually—"cream the
goalie" when in scoring posiiion? Now that Penn State's
gridiron board of strategy contains such illustrious names as Rip
Engle; Joe Bedenk, Sever TorettL Frank Patrick, Jim O'Hara,
Earl Bruce and Joe Paterno, won't Nittany fans be seeing more
talent on the sidelines than on the playing field?
• Since Engle is still at liberty to choose two additional coaches
to his staff (making it an all-time high of 9) will the College have to
set up a separate dining hall and training table just for the grid in
structors? . . Why wasn't Al Tkac, the rnainspring of Coach Joe
Bedenk's 1950 baSeball team, tapped by Majoe League scouts prompt
ly at the conclusion of the college season? High school kids are being
given large
,bonuses to sign and here's an athlete who has demon
strated his hurling ability in the college ranks and has clearly an
nounced his big league ambitions.
Now that soccer Coach Bill Jeffrey has traded his bagpipe
for a Brazilian ocarina will he also promote a bullfight as a pre
game special to lure some of Rip Eftgle's football patrons over to
the golf course, soccer ... Is it true that Thespians have
signed 'Silent' George Weber, former JV 'crosse flash, to play
the feature , role in "The Lives and. Loves of a Bengal Lacrosse
man"?
Owen Landon continue his rapid rise in the hot competition
Of Eastern collegiate tennis play—and do Nittany sport fans realize
what a star they have in their midst in the blond net captain who
makes his only mistakes in practice? . . . Why didn't Penn's Ben
Kreitz'berg "own up" after his disputed 100-yard dash "victory" over
Wii Lancaster, of . Penn State, in the Penn Relays. If a reliably re
ported conversation 'after the rice, in which Kreitzberg was clocked
first, is true—then the Perm- dashman expressed surprise over the
judges' close decision: He thought he hadn't won at all, and was in
deed surprised that the .judges picked him.
' Whom does Ralph Kiner, Pittibuygh slugger, have the most
respect for when it comes to tossing a hot rock? None other than
.yoUng Curt Simmons, Egypt; Pa.; hurler. Ralph said he wasn't a
bit ashamed of striking out twice against Simmons the other
day Is it true that "Luscious" Lou Lamie's picture, along
with a brief sketch of his basketball activities at Penn State (he's
captain this year) will appear in a national magazine late this
fall?
Do the gals who date Penn State's No.
_1 football hero, Fran
`Hunk 'a Man' Rogel, know that the 5-foot 10-inch, 205-pounder cares
not a whit for femmes who drink and smoke but would rather go out
With the home-lovin' type? How long are varsity and student
tennis enthusiasts going to have .to slip around on the sandy varsity
"clay" courts? They were supposed to have been resurfaced ages
ago. . . . When Penn State's grid team journeys to Syracuse, Oct. 14,
viililhey" find an all-Negro backfield, heralded by the , feather-like
passing of Bernie.Custis, waiting for them?
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What's the
Story?
Appearing a bit apprehensive before plunging into the Glenn
land Pool waters, Phyllis Fay, Janie Alexander, and Gloria Walk- .
ei (left to right) pose prettily for the cameraman at one of the-Sum
mer Recreation Department's coed swim parties held every Tues
day and Thursday nights.
U.S. Track Team ---
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ly cloudy. As is the case with
Stone, he is awaiting the Olym
pics and until that time he can
not obtain certain positions which
would classify him as a profes
sional and exempt him from the
Olympic picture.
Ashenfelter, while still a com
paratiVe newcomer to thei track at
Penn State, was helped consider
ably by the presence of veterans
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Stone and Gerry Karver on the
same squad. It was at that . time
that teammates began calling him
"Fearless Fosdick" because of his
willingness to run against any
body regardless of their reputa
tion.
KALIN'S MEN'S SHOP
OF NATIONALLY ADVERTISED
ALTERATIONS WILL
STATE COLLEGE
Georgetown Is Ist
Team To Test
Engle's Wing 4
Georgetown and Rutgers
are the only newcomers to
Penn State's nine-game 1950
football schedule.
The Washington, D.C. insti
tution will be a football oppo
nent for fhe first time, while
Penn State and Rutgers collided
in 1918 in their only previous
meeting.
Georgetown, coached by Bob
Margarita, former Brown Uni
versity and professional star,
will furnish the, opposition in the
opening game at State College,
Sept. 30.
This game will also, mark the
debut of Charles A. "Rip" Engle
as Penn State's first non-alumnus
coach since 1929. Engle coached
at Brown before accepting his
new post.
Rutgers, the other newcomer,
will help the Nittany Lions close
out the home season November
18. The Scarlet eleven is cloached
by the veteran Harvey Harman,
former University of Pittsburgh
star and former University of
Pennsylvania coach.
Black Knights Back
Back from last year's schedule
are Army, Syracuse, Nebraska,
Temple, Boston College, West
Virginia, and Pittsburgh.
Last year, Penn Staie suffered
setbacks at the hands of Villa
nova, Army, Michigan State, and
Pitt while rolling over Boston
Colle g e, Syracuse, Nebraska.
Temple, and West Virginia.
Another Ash
An'Ashenfelter will captain the
Penn State track team again in
1951. Bill Ashenfelter, younger
brother of Horace, is the newly
elected leader. Horace, who's •a
post-graduate student at his alma
mater, captained the 1949 team.
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