TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1351
The NiSteny Realm
- By 808 VOSBURG —-
. Assistant Sports Editor, ,
Looking once more to the growth of fob tb all as a major sport,
we find that President Teddy Roosevelt never got a chance to carry,
out his threat to outlaw football because of the rough manner in
• which it was being played. r •
The Rules Committee ,of Football in the winter of 1905-06 lega
lized. the forward pass, and thvjs at the start of the i 906 season
the game was-revolutionized. * |' =
’ At the start'few. schools used
the pass to any extent. They stuck
to refined line-bucking, plenty of I
end runs, arid a stepped-up field 1
goal attack. i
The drastic change which !
turned football into a razzle
dazzle, ball-slinging affair came ;
in the 1913 season. Army had a
gap in its schedule, and offered.
:$lOOO and expense, money to
footballisticaliy unknown No
tre Danm University to fill the
open date.'Notre ‘Dame ac
cepted, /•
The Nbtre Dame team of that
year included a. -
quarterbac:
named Gus Dor ;
ias afad .ein d!
Rnute Rockm
and a youn;
fellow namei
Pliska,
Now Rockm
arid Dorias ha<
worked, all th(
previous sum
mer together at
abea c h resort,
and, during their spare moments
they practiced and mastered the
forward pass. When they return
ed’ to school they took Pliska
aside and drilled him in the new
found art. .
■This hitherto unheard-of foot-!
ball team with a hitherto un
heard-of scoring weapon went to
"West Point that day, and, with
Dorias throwing passes to Rockne
—and to Pliska when 1 the defense
ganged up on Knute—not only
plunged Army into defeat. and
humility but, also awakened the
Soccer Team Scrimmage
Features Sharp Passing
Sharp passing was featured Sat
urday when the Lion “regulars”
decisively whipped, the “scrubs”
in a soccer scrimmage. .
Included ■in the regular lineup
were Captain Ron Coleman, Don
Shirk, John Hess, Jack r Pinezich,
Frank Follmer, and Jack Charl
ton. >.
Playing for the scrubs were Jay
Simmons, Paul Dierk, and Dick
Cheskis.
Pessimistic Coach Bill Jeffrey
said , that he expected a “fair
club that will look like a Penn
State team.”,
One Defeat In '5O
State lost - but one game last
year and that was by the narrow
est of margins, 1-0, to West
Chester in overtime., If State’s
team this year resembles last
season’s then-it r will probably go
down in the books as better than
a fair club.
Penn State’s forward wall for
the Bucknell opener Oct. 6 is still
in doubt. At present outside of
Coleman, Shirk," Hess,. Pinezich,
Hap Irvin, Ellis Kocher.and Bill
Norcikare. still battling for the
remaining four positions.
In scrimmages; Jeffrey has been
using Shirk-at Joe; Lane’s old
spot of center forward. The two
wing slots have, been manned by
sophomore. Irvin and freshman
John Hess, with Noreik, another
sophomore,- working''•with the
other squad. Pinezich- and Kocher
have seen most of their action ,at
one of the inside" spots.
Fullback Spots ,
The fullback spots seem to have
been mailed'.down by Jay Sim
mons, a regular last year, arid
Dierk. - ,
Three other positions that-seeria
to have been nailed dowri are.the
halfback posts. Follmer, -right,
Kurt Klaus, center, and.,Charlton,;
left, seem to be .tops-here.' Ray
Dutrow arid Gary; , Nugent .will
be on hand for' reserve duty. .
The. goalie ''.spot,handled so
successfiidly ,by Ron Coder' last
football world to the potency of
the,forward pass. '
. Pitt was the first school to
- "step up" its football,program.
It hired Glen "Pop'* Warner to"
coach the Panthers., in 1915 or
16, arid the "oleTgrads" began
scouting the. high school foot
ball fields for talent.
After 1917 football gained in
standard play and attendance and
with the aid of publicity has
grown greater and greater- until
reaching the spot it holds today
as one of America’s favorite spec
tator sports.
Grid Odds 'n Ends: The great
est succession of football teams
ever assembled wepe Fielding
Yost’s Michigan teams of 1901-05.
Their only defeat came in 1905
when one of their halfbacks was
pushed across the goal line by a
Chicago player for a safety. The
final score was Chicago 2, Michi
gan 0.
The longest run on record was
by W. Y. Terry of Yale who
scampered 115 yards from behind
the goal against Wesleyan in
1884. Bri,ck Muller of Cali
fornia threw the longest pass on
record, 70 yards to H.' W. Ste
phens against Ohio State in 1920
J.- Haxall of Princeton kick
ed the longest place kick, 65
yards, in 1915 against Yale
The record dropkick was record
ed bjr Mark Payne of Dakota
Wesleyan when he sent the ball
63 yards between the uprights
against Northwest -Normal in
1898.
year, is still a wide-open battle
between frosh Cheskis and Jack
Krumrine.
Giants Win 4-3;
Trail by 214
Little Eddie Stanky, one of the
most valuable players in the'ma
jors, cracked out a ninth inning
single to give the New York
Giants a dramatic 4-3 win over
the Boston Braves yesterday, the
Associated Press reported.
This “must” victory slashed
idle Brooklyn’s lead over/the New
Yorkers to two-and-one-half
games. The Dodgers still heed any
combination of four wins or four
Giant defeats to clinch the Na
tional League pennant. >
Brooklyn has seven games to
play/ the Giants only four. The
Buiris play four in Boston, then
finish with three in Philadelphia.
New York plays at Philadelphia
,today and tomorrow and finishes
at Boston Saturday and Sunday.
Young ,Chet Nichols had an,
eight-strikeout game going into
the ninth. Don Mueller' singled,
moved to second' on a sacrifice,
and scored oh. Stanky’s two-out
single.
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Quarterback Candidates
TOP CANDIDATES inn State qua. . position are ,<iy js, isky.
John MacAvoy, arid vob Szajna. Rados and Szajna are sophomores while Dubinsk/ and . .acAvoy
are freshmeri. At the moment Rados and Szajna are the leading candidates for the starting role
against Boston University, Saturday. MacAvoy is still on the sidelines with a shoulder separation.
Quarterbacks Key
To '5l Grid Season
This is the fourth in a series of articles on Penn State's football
team, examining the team position by position to see just who
will represent the Nittany Lions on the gridiron-this fall. Today—
Quarterback.
Penn State’s hopes for a successful football season can rise and
fall with the Nittany Lion quarterbacks, depending on how fast Tony
Rados and Bobby-Szajna can gajn the experience needed to field
general the Lions against some of the best teams in the country.
As was the case last -season', Coach Rip Engle is without an ex-
perienced wing-T quarterback on
whom he can rely to lead' the
Nittany Lions on the field.
Both Rados and Szajna are
about to enter their first season
of varsity ball. Rados, a sopho
more, was ineligible last season.
Szajna quarterbacked Coach Earl
Bruce’s freshman squad.-
Lack Experience, Only
, Both men have the potential
to become good T-quarterbacks.
Tall and slender, possessing rifle
like passing arms, both have the
physical qualities. But that valu
able asset, varsity experience,
which can only come through ac
tual playing, is missing.
Rados looks to be the leading
contender for the starting role,
but after Szajna’s showing in the
Cornell scrimmage Saturday, it
will be a fight right until game'
time.
Rados Consistent
A smooth ball handler and
good Rados Seems to be
the most consistent of the two.
At times, Szajria looks great, but
he has a tendency to hit streaks
where his passing is off and he
sometimes has trouble spotting
receivers. A few games under
his’ belt might do wonders.
After Rados and Szajna, Rip
must, dip into the freshman ranks
to find another quarterback. The
brightest prospect seems "to be
John MacAvoy. But he is out
with a shoulder separation . and
probably won’t be available un
tiL mid-season.
, Other freshman prospects are
Don Bailey, Renault DeSalle, John
Dubinsky.. Pete Fuhrmann, and
John Levy.
65th, Grid Campaign
Penn State, now iri its 65th
year of intercollegiate .football,
play*ed the game uninterruptedly
over this span-of years.
Soph Ball-Handlers
Tony Rados and Bob Szujna,
both sophomores, will handle the
all-important, quarterback .chores
at Penn State this fall; .
By ERNIE MOORE
'Lopez Limited '■ Stalls
May Not Be Home at A
Sept. 24—(£>)
—For more than a month, the
Cleveland News has been run
ning a drawing of the “Lopez
Limited” on the top of the
front page. , '
It was the picture of a train,
steaming the Cleveland In
dians speedily towards the
pennant. A banner was draped
over the train, saying: “We’ll
be back Sept. 29 on top—we
hope!—Al Lopez.”
Today, the News again car
ried the drawing, but the train
was a mass of wreckage. The
banner read: “We’ll be back
Sept. 29—we hope!—Al Lo
pez.”
Mu seal Sure Bet
For Batting Title
NEW YORK, Sept. 24— (JP)—
Stan' Musial is almost a sure
thing to win his fifth National
League batting championship
with a .358 average and only
four games to play.
TERRIFIC
Remember*'49
' Penn State will be seeking re
venge for a 1949 shellacking
when it confronts Villanova at
Allent n, Pa., Oct. 6.
His 19th Year
Charles (Chick) Werner wil!
field his 19th cross-country team
at Penn State this fall. He also
doubles as track coach.
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