P E.G7' Track Drills Start; Seek Candidates Veterans on the Nittany track squad began hard workouts this week for • the fast approaching cinder season but Coach Chick Werner could not emphasize enough the need for new candi dates, whether or not they have had previous experience. All new candidates, freshman and varsity, should report to Coaches Werner or Norm Gordon this week in Rec hall but are requested to do so as soqn as possible. Meeting Tomorrow Tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock there will be a meeting of both new and old candidates in the water tower behind Bea ver field. Werner is a firm believer that many a potential trackman like the flower in the poem "is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air" simply because the initial at tempt is never made. Take the case of the captain of the Lion's National cross country champions, Bill Ashen felter. Long-striding Bill never had run a competitive race in his life until his sophomore year at Penn State. All he had was the inspiration from a great run ning brother, Horace. Now look at him! Places For All Track and field teams have a place for all types of abilities and body builds. Strong men, for weights, jumpers, gymnasts for events like the pole vault, swift runners for the dashes and stamina-packed lads for the dis tances all find a place. The schedule of meets is: April 27-28 Penn Relays, 'Franklin Field, Philadelphia. May 5 Navy, Annapolis, Md. May 19 Pitt, West Virginia, Pittsburgh. May 26 -- Intercolle giat e s, Franklin Field, Philadelphia. June 5 Nationals, Seattle, Washington. Quarterback Quest Poses Grid Worry Under cloudy and rain-threat ening skies. Nittany Lion football Coach Rip Engle and his staff of assistants yesterday afternoon be gan a quest for a new quarter back to run the Lions' wing -T formation as spring drills opened. With the practices scheduled to last five weeks, Engle will drill the candidates in the intricacies of the wing -T and attempt to place the men in positions for which they are best suited. Engle emphasized, however, that funda mentals would be stressed throughout the period. Engle's ,big job will be to find a replacement at quarterback for the graduating Vince O'Bara. $64 Question "That's the $64 dollar ques tion," was the way Sever Toretti, line coach, explained the situa tion. Engle emphasized the impor tance of finding a quarterback to handle the tricky Penn State for mation. "You will never see a good football team that doesn't have a quarterback who has played a couple of years." he said. O'Bara Commended O'Bara turned in a fine job last season when Engle introduced the wing -T in the Nittany Vale, but facing the fact that O'Bara won't .be around to call the sig nals this year, Engle is looking for a . quarterback that he can count on for several seasons play. Last year, Engle's first at the helm of the Nittany gridders, Penn State turned in a record of five wins, three loses, and a tie— a much better record than was expected from a team riddled by graduation losses. JACK CHARLTO HAROLD IRVI N JACK KURTY BILL YERKES RON COLEMAN GEORGE EM IG RON CODER PENN STATE'S NATIONAL championship letic association extended the invitation through collegiate soccer team, coached by the veteran the State department College officials readily Bill Jeffrey, is now in the Middle East playing agreed. The team, which boasts all-American Iran's best on a rapid-fire tour envisioned by Harry Little of Dover, has been licked only the State department at Washington as an in- once in its last 24 American starts. Jeffrey, Mans ternational goodwill mission. The Iranian Ath- ger Neil See, and 15 players comprise the party. Troisi Is Found Ineligible; Little, Buss To Miss : aseball Opener By LOWELL KELLER Penn State's varsity baseball squad was dealt a severe blow yesterday when it was learned that Carmen Troisi, 1950's first string shortstop, will be ineligible for the coming campaign. Troisi, who is in the School of Agri culture, was dropped from .the nine because of an academic de ficiency., Troisi played in a number of last season's contest when. Chris Tonnery was hurt in an auto accident. Carmen hadn't been hitting too well at the start of the year, but when he finally dented the line-up, his average climbed considerably. He is a fiery-type player, always gab bing, and was one of the best fielders• on the squad. Coach Joe Bedenk said that "Carmen will be sorely missed this year since shortstop is a tough position to fill and he was one of two regular infielder re turnees from last year." _ With the season's first battle scheduled for April 7 with West ern Maryland, Bedenk now has an extra breach in his starting array. Two other positions to be filled are third base and catcher since Harry Little, of Dover, reg ular third sacker, and Clarence Buss, veteran backstop of Wat sontown, are currently overseas with the soccer team on its good will tour of the Middle East. The Lion conch has been try ing new sets of infielders all this week in an attempt to come up with the right combo. Guesses for the Troisi-vacated slot are Captain Bill Ondick, of Munhall, and Paul Mowry, the speedy in fielder from Meshoppen. Both Mowry and Bill Mihalich are still fighting it out for the keystone post. Chris Tonnery is tentatively slated for .the third-base position, while Stan Laganosky, of Eck ley, and Jim Pollard are contend ers for the first base job. Bill Leonard, of State College, and John "Gus" Vogt are vying for the backstop spot, while the opposite end of the battery is still extremely hazy. Football Managers Candidates for assistant managership of varsity foot ball are to sign up in 104 Old 'Main today. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA CARMEN TROISI HARRY LITTLE Shortstop Whiz Sidelined 3rd Baseman Now In Iran Ten-Minute Quarters Replace Halves For NCAA, AAU, YMCA MINNEAPOLIS, March 29 (EP) —College, AAU and YMC basket ball games will be played in 10- minute quarters in 'the future instead of 20-minute halves, the joint rules committee voted to day. The change was the only one made in the code by the group which conrtols the playing of the game in both the United States and Canada. The committee is made up of representatives from the NCAA, or collegiate phase of the game, the AAU, YMCA, high schools and of Canada. The high schools will continue playing eight-minute quarters. The interval between the first and second quarters and between the third and fourth quarters was cut to one ,minute. Previously the high schools had been given a two-minute rest. All quarters will start with a jump ball. The law makers, who had been asked by the coaches not to tam per with the rules, also said that some -games in the Big Seven * * ELLIS KOCHER JAY SIMMONS JOHN PINEZICH CLARENCE BUSS FRAN FOLLMER KURT KLAUS GUS BIGOTT * * conference would be played un der an experimental rule that would prohibit the waiving of the free throw. If the toss is made, the offended team would retain possession but if the throw is missed the ball would continue in play. The Pacific Coast conference will try another version in some of its games. In the west the waiving of the free throw also will be prohibited and all person al fouls in the final three minutes will be two-shot affairs. Penn State's team victory in the 1951 Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling association champion ships was its tenth in 33 years. Freshman Baseball Candidates for the freshman baseball t e a in should report to Coach Oggie Martella on Beaver field between 3:30" and 5:30 o'clock this afternoon., FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1951 Lion Mill Entries Await Nall Test Penn State's four entries in the NCAA Boxing tournament at East Lansing, Mich. next weekend stand a good chance of-piling up enough points to make the Lions a power to be reckoned with in, the final standings. That's by way of saying that the current entries might even do as well as la:st year's group. At that time Chuck Drazenovich took the national heavyweight title and Pat Heims finished run nerup in the•lss-lb. class. Of the four Lions making the trip, two have had previous ex perience in the national tourna ment. Frank Gross, 135 lbs., and. John Albarano, 145 lbs., partici pated in last year's NCAA. tour ney in Rec hall. Lou Koszarek, 165 lbs., who fought six bouts at 155 lbs. last year, did not take part in the tournament. Heims, representing Penn State at this weight, was the surprise of the tourney, winning two bouts be fore bowing to Eli Thomas, of Gonzaga university. Although Koszarek and -Sam Marino, 125 lbs.; will be new to national competition, neither will lack ring experience. Koszarek, along with Albarano, is a current Eastern champion, and a veteran of sixteen bouts. Marino, in his first year of collegiate competi tion, took part in all seven dual meets, and one bout in the East ern tournament. SCOOP... Collegian Sports Editor Since arriving on the Penn State campus in 1998, Ray Koehler. the Daily Collegian's lanky sports editor, has achieved several noteworthy "firsts." While assisting in • the editing of the official AIM organ The inde pendent last spring, Koehler was pledged to Pi Kappa Phi, thus prob ably becoming the first fraternity man ever to edit an independent publi cation. He is also probably the only person in Penn State journalistic history to simultaneously assume the sports edit ing positions of three campus publi cations—Collegian, The Independent, and LaVie. Collegian Whlperacker Koehler's Collegian a:a cent was greatly influenced by Tom Morgan and Elliot Crane, former sports editors. Known variously as "Scoop" and "Mad Man Koehler," because of his personal driVe, the six-foot two-inch journalism major began his campus career by covering the varsity basketball and lacrosse squads. A two-letter man lb baseball and basketball at Wilson - high school in West Lawn, Ray, in his frosh term, directed the press relations of the Kutztown Teachers college. Last sum mer he was employed by the College's Department of Public Information. As a result of his association with the Nittany sports scene, Koehler has contributed numerous articles - to news papers and magazines. He is a firm advocate of pointing out the human side of athletics as well as translating the news peg. Ray Says I always try to drop into Grahams for a few minutes every day. I'm always sure to meet some of the boys who are making the sport headlines at State. PH be seeing you at Graham's the "Distinctive store" in State College. Make Graham's your sports head quarters too. Established 1896 Ray Koehler
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