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tate's IM Card Gets I'm All In The Act
WHATEVER HIS favorite sport, handball to horse
shoes, at Penn State a man can kick up his heels in
practically any game devised by simply signing an en
try list and donning a uniform.
This once-in-a-lifetime chance at recreation is offer
ed to students by Penn State's vast, but effectively
run, intramural program. Directed by Eugene C. Bis
choff, of Oberlin, Ohio, and his assistant, Clarence
"Dutch" Sykes, of Dußois, the department schedules
activity in 17 different sports, the year 'round. There's
something for everyone interested!
This Fall men students will turn out in record num
bers to compete in IM swimming, touch football, and
tennis singles. They switch to indoor sports—basket
ball, boxing, wrestling, handball singles and doubles,
badminton, and volleyball in the Winter. In the
Spring everyone goes back outdoors for competition in
track, softball, soccer, golf, golf putting, horseshoes,
and tennis doubles. In each of -these "sports there's a
tournament for fraternity men and one for indepen
dents.
BISCHOFF and Sykes draw tin complete schedules
for every tourney, they supervise play (with the aid of
physical education graduate students who act as offi
cials), they make awards, and compile accurate and
complete records.
Bischoff took over the intramural reins in 1934 from
Hugo Bezdek, then director of athletics at State, who
had started the program three years earlier. At that
Although the male is by far the predominant sex at the
College, the so-called weaker members, the women,• haven't
left everything in the way of sports to the men.
In spite of the fact that there
are almost no intercollegiate
sports for women here, they man
age to have a complete intramur
al schedule which includes al
most all activities except football.
Under this set-up, many females
have been able to make a name
for themselves as athletes.
Any girl, regardless of her
curriculum, is eligible to parti
cipate in intramural sports if
she receives an 0-K from the
medical department. From that
point she is on her own to se
lect any and all sports which
suit her fancy or ability.
Women's Rec Hall
For several weeks before each
activity begins, there are sheets for
registration on the bulletin board
in the White Hall locker room.
If you girls don't know where
that is now, don't worry. Before
you leave this campus you'll be
able to find your way blindfolded
around that hallowed women's
sanctuary.
We have lamented that there
are almost no intercollegiate
sports for girls. On occasion there
are telegraphic swimming and
rifle meets. This setup allows the
girls at the College to go ahead
with an activity while, at other
colleges, more girls are doing the
same thing. Later, the results at
Fraternity Men Tee Marling Line
In Race For ingramural Point Award
With the opening of the 1950-51 intramural season at the
College just a few days away, the all-year point award cham
pionship will soon be the goal of all fraternities. Last year's
honors fell to Delta Upsilon which compiled a total of 951
points.
The DU's captured the boxing,
wrestling, and handball doubles
crowns, while runners-up, Phi
Delta Theta finished with 765
points, winning both the soccer
and horseshoe pitching 'titles.
The fall IM sports will be touch
football, swimming, and tennis
singles. Eugene C. Bischoff, direc
tor of intramural sports, reminds
all independent men and frater
nities to get their applications in
as soon as possible so that play
in all sports can begin next week.
Last season's fraternity touch
football champion was Sigpla Nu
with Theta Chi the runner-up.
The Coal Crackers captured the
independent crown and set two
records when they scored 34 and
40 points in two of their contests.
Sigma Nu's manpower loss from
last year's team has been negli
gible.
Delta Tau Delta is the defend
ing champ of the 1949 swimming
Sports a la Fern
By CLARICE LUNCH
each school are circulated by
telegraph. Winners are determin
ed by comparing the results.
These activities
,generally at
tract few spectators and do not
interfere to any extent with . the
gate at the Lions football` games.
For the girls who are not so
athletically inclined and who pre
fer to get their sport thrills vicar
iously, there are the grid Lions.
Get Out The Rulebooks, Girls
Football will be the first ac
tivity featured in the fall sport
spotlight, but before you spend
your first Saturday afternoon at
New Be.aver Field it might be a
good idea to brush up on your
gridiron knowledge.
A basic foundation in the sci
ence of the game can add greatly
to your enjoyment, and it's al
ways nice to know why you're
yelling yourself hoarse. Besides,
the days when a women was fash
ionably ignorant of anything con
nected with sports are as out
moded as the good old five cent
nickel.
Then, too, you newcomers
want to join the conversation
in which the old guard is dis
cussing the changeover from
the Lion's long established
single wing to Rip Engle's split
T formation.
events. The DTD's finished sev
enth in the final point awards.
Mark Borland, Phi Gamma
Delta, was the tennis singles
champ last year. He beat out Paul
Hallman of Sigma Pi in the final
match. The independent title was
won by Dick Wieland.
Indie Bowling League
There will be an organization
al meeting of the Independent
Men's Bowling League at the
Beaver House, 7 p.m., Monday.
New teams are requested to
:end representatives to the meet
ing. Students wishing to join
teams are also asked to attend. '
Syracuse University's football
ers i.vh , ) open the 1950 season in
Archbold Stadium against Rut
gers, Sept. 23, have never lost to
the Scarlet in eight previous
games.
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time there were just nine sports. With the help of his
sidekick, Sykes, the new director has built up the pro
gram each year until today it threatens to burst at, the
seams.
The two men schedule as many as 1715 different
contests during the course of a school year. The num
ber grows annually. In sports like basketball' and
volleyball, games almost anyone can play, the direc
tors often sign up as many as 1300 men or one-fifth of
the college's male undergraduate enrollment.
Last year the IM cagers, divided into 136 separate
teams, played a total of 438 20-minute contests. This
season, with the schedule now including freshman
courtmen, the IM directors predict over 600 games.
Over four months of activity five times a week will be
needed to decide the basketball championship.
A GLANCE at last year's other IM sports shows 815
men played softball on 66 teams, soccer provided activ
ity for 370 individuals, and swimming 346. Even box
ing, rough and often avoided by students, last year
showed 132 men fighting for the division titles.
Besides offering recreation and conditioning for
those students unable, for one reason or another, to
compete in intercollegiate athletics, the intramural pro
gram serves other purposes. Varsity athletes have
found the IM sports a sure way to stay in condition
during "off" season. Also varsity coaches watch IM
contests to discover new talent for their teams.
Track Coach Chick Werner, for example, found Don
Lion Vignettes
This is the first in a series
of articles about members of
the 1950 football team, de
signed to acquaint the school
with Penn State's gridiron
representatives off and on the
field.
BY GEORGE GLAZER
He sings, plays baseball, bas
ketball, runs track and is one of
the mainstays of Rip Engle's
backfield corps this year—one of
the few good halfbacks in the
country who will play both off
ense and defense. Who?
Football Captain' Owen
;Onions, Red, Doc) Dougherty,
athlete extraordinaire.
As a tenor, and a real Irish one
at that, Doc has no peer. He
specializes in hillbilly ballads.
A straight lefthander all the
way, Doc spent last Spring play
ing rightfield for Joe Bedenk,
and then running over to Beaver
Field for practice session's With
Engle when the Lion nine was
not engaged.
His biggest thrill—being named
captain of the Nittany eleven for
this year. Other outstanding
highlights in his career—a 15
letterman in high school—four
each for baseball, football and
track, and three for basketball;
captain of the football and track
teams; an undefeated miler for
four years; played in two Ameri
can Leagion All-Star games (`46,
`47) in Shibe Park, in Phila
delphia; named as an All-Scho
lastic gridder in Scranton area
C 46) and third team All-State.
Played three years of "T" foot
ball and one year of single wing
in high school.
He has a natural flair for show
manship. His roommate last year
at Kappa Delta Rho—Francis
"Punchy" Rogel—might have
helped.
Vital statistics — . 5'9". 18 8 -
pounds, 21-years-old on Sept. 14.
Comes from Dunmore, Pa., near
Scranton. Single, has,no steady
girl, and is not a veteran.
Owen Dougherty
Ashenfelter, younger brother of the great Horace-Ash
enfelter of Penn State cross-country fame, cracking
records in IM track two seasons ago.' Last year, the
Collegeville youth led the Penn State harriers to a
highly successful intercollegiate season.
VARSITY TENNIS picked up three intramural per
formers—Owen Landon, of Williamsport, Jim Howells,
of West Hazleton, and Bill Aiken, of Pittsburgh. Soc
cer's Coach Bill Jeffrey nabbed an equal number—Joe
Lane, of Baltimore, Bill Yerkes, of Buckingham, and
Ron Coder, of Conshohocken—all of whom ,helped the
Lions register a tie, 2-2, with San Francisco in the
nation's first Soccer Bowl game last January at St.
Louis.
Bischoff and Sykes are most interested, however, in
giving, students a chance to play the games they like.
To keep competition fair, they rule out varsity men
from any sport in which they have won a letter. Thus,
the untrained players are often able to show-up touted_
football, basketball, and soccer stars in IM games like
track, softball and handball.
But no matter who wins the awards, the two men
behind Penn State intramurals are happiest when IM
participation is booming, the play is spirited, and a
tournament is roaring toward its finale.
Which is just about all the time.
The preceeding article was written by Bob Kotz
bauer, former Daily Collegian sports writer and now
sports editor of the Lock Haven Express.
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winners of the country's big games each week.
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staff swamis. This week's guest swami is Ed Watson, sports editor
of the Centre Daily Times.
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