PAGI: SIX
The Nittuny Realm
Athletic Advisory Board's
Influence Felt In East
By 808 SCHOOLEY
With the Athletic Advisory board raising all kinds of a rumpus
in Eastern football circles it's about time we set down our views on
the matter.
Recently, INS Sports Editor Harry Grayson, said that Penn State
was on the wrong side of the fence in trying to stop the platoon sys
tem and abolish Spring football practice.
Grayson, whose column is published in newspapers throughout
the country, said that the colleges with mucho football players should
have Spring drills; and further: he suggested that these teams
should, in his opinion, have several teams. He proclaimed that a
college; he cited Notre tame as an example, should have an A, B,
find C team and each team would be playing on any given Satur
stay. Personally, we think that Mr. Grayson is a little off the beam
pn this score. Could you imagine picking up a Sunday paper and
ceading accounts about two or three different teams from one school?
We think that the proposal by Grayson is just a mite too fan
tastic to swallow. One thing that worries us is, does he really mean
tt?
The Athletic Advisory board has been getting responses from
Eastern colleges favoring the plan. They generally go along with
the idea that over-emphasis of football is "injurious to the general
health of college athletics." The board has sent out letters to the
91 members of the Eastern College Athletic conference through Dean
Schott's office. Schott is head of the School of Physical Education and
Athletics.
We will go along with the Athletic Advisory Board all the way.
With big-time college football now in vogue, it is very possible that
college football teams will be subjected to scandals just as college
basketball was last year.
I suppose you might say we're being mighty naive and old-fash
ioned about the whole thing, but there is no satisfaction in scores
such as powerful Army rolled up against little Davidson and New
Mexico last season. Colleges that can't or won't subsidize football
players have no business playing football, the way the game is being
played today
And the teams that do give their football players everything
from tuition to convertibles are finding that the price is too high to
pay. Most of them are losing money every season. It is true that foot
ball pays the freight for almost every other sport at many colleges,
but we can't see how they are going to pay the tab for these sports
when they are going to be losing money on their major sport.
Present-day football is exacting too high a price, financially and
scholastically, and we think that the Athletic Advisory board has
taken a step in the right direction in leading the way to the abolition
of the spring practice and the platoon system
Over 50 Enter
The summer sessions golf tour
nament has already started with
a total of over 50 golfers entered.
Bob Rutherford, in charge of
the tourney, said that all 50 links
men have qualified for the tour
nament. The best qualifying
rounds was turned in by Ray Artz
and Jack Harper. They both had
scores of 71 for the 69 par course.
Artz was on the College golf team
last year while Harper is a former
Central Counties golf champ.
Sherm Fogg, Penn State tennis
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olf Tourney
coach, qualified with a score of
72.
Rutherford has divided the
golfers into three flights of 16
each. He said that the first match
for each golfer would have to be
completed by Saturday.
The golf tournament is open to
faculty and student divot diggers.
Rutherford said that some very
good players were participating
in the tourney this year.
The winners and runner-ups in
each flight will receive ball prizes
for their efforts.
Each Day
4:45 till 7:30 P.M.
THE SUMMER. COLLEGIAN, STATE :.q...LEGE, PENNSYIVANIA
High Scoring Games In
Summer Softball League
Old American
Game Finally
Comes Of Age
Lacrosse, the grandaddy of
American sports, has finally come
of age on the college campus.
Nick Thiel, twice named "the
man who did most for lacrosse,"
is authority for the statement that
the old Indian game has arrived
as an intercollegiate sport.
Thiel, former all-America play
er at Syracuse University and
Penh State's head coach for the
last 17 years, believes the transi
tion, which has been underway
since 1945, became , complete in
1951.
For support, he points to the
sensational postwar growth of the
sport, increased attendance, high
er scores, and better coaching.
In 1945, the United States In
tercollegiate Lacrosse association
listed 20 colleges on its member
ship rolls. Today the number is
40, not including a comparatively
new group of 25 colleges which
adopted the sport only within the
past year or two and now play
full schedules.
Lacrosse Grows
In 1945, the United States' In
tercollegiate Lacrosse association
listed 20 colleges on its member
ship rolls. Today the number is
Lacrosse Grows
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The Summer Session softball league got under way last
week with high scores the order of the day.
The Rockets heat Mu Lambda, 19-9, and later in the week
slugged out a 25-5 victory over the Woodchoppers. The Wood
choppers had lost previously
40, not including a comparatively
new group of 25 colleges which
adopted the sport only within the
past year or two and now play
full schedules.
Whereas the cream of the col
lege crop once was concentrated
in the "Big Five" consisting of
Army, Navy, Johns Hop kin s,
Maryland, and Princeton, the
elite of college lacrosse now in
cludes Duke, Virginia, R.P.1.,
Washington College, and Loyola.
And the field of national title
contenders is growing steadily.
The North-South all-star game
was started in 1940 as an experi
ment and, since 1946, has become
an annual fixture and within re
cent years has attracted crowds
as large as 10,000.
Satisfy Thiel
Because the South, notably
schools in the Baltimore area,
long have dominated the game,
the North's success in rec e n t
years has been a source of satis
faction to Thiel and others who
have worked for years to win ac
ceptance of the sport by Northern
institutions. The South has won
only one game of the series since
1945.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1951
o the Beaver House by a score
of 13-8. In other league compe
tition, the Doodlers beat the
Wonders, 11-5.
The softball league will con
tinue action this week with
games to be played on the golf
course field.
In other summer recreation ac
tivities, tonight another outdoor
movie will be shown. The fea
ture production is "Great Guy"
starring Jimmy Cagney. The film
is slated to start at 9 p.m. on
front campus at the Pugh street
gate. So far all of the movies
have been shown in Schwab aud
itorium because of rain or threat
ening weather.
Fun Night A
Friday night will be the first
Fun Night for the summer ses
sion. It will be held in Rec Hall
and will feature volleyball, bad
minton, dancing, ping pong, and
cards. The r e is no admission
charge, C. M. "Dutch" Sykes, rec
reation director, said.
Saturday night from 9 to 12 a
square dance is scheduled for the
TUB. Fred Hartsl,vick will be the
call e r and admission is free.
Sykes said that all dances at the
TUB have been well attended.
He estimated that between 250
and 300 people attended the dan
ces last week.
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