THURSDAY', NPvEiPPR 2 _ 9 , 1951
The Lion's Lair
, Mark Twain once said, "Everybody talks about the weather but
no one ever does anything about it." If Twain was living today he
,might say the same thing about college athletics.
In the past twelve months there has been enough criticism made
on the state of college athletics, especially football and basketball,
to fill four volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Plenty of criti•
cism but what action? Hardly any. -
There have been committees,
panels, groups; and what have
you, appointed to "look into the
matter" but all.. • ••••••••
that seems t
come out o
these i s more
criticism in the
form' of "rec•
ommendations."
The rates.
"committee" i s
the one made up
of seven college
presidents. They
came out with the profound and
original statement, "something
must be done." Well, we're sure
glad they told us.
At least they didn't beat
around the, bush about it. In
New York last week, when five
. basketball players were sen
. tenced to jail terms and nine
others given suspended sen
tences, it took General Sessions
Judge Saul S. Streit 41 type
written pages to say the same
thing.
You can't pick up 'a weekly ma
gazine anymore without finding
an article on "the evils of college
football" or "why I quit coaching"
by some former college cqach.
Last week, while we were home
for Thanksgiving, we saw one
television program entitled "Edu
cation for a Fullback" 'and saw
the advertisement for a similar
program scheduled for, this week.
Both programs hit at illegal sub-
Stars, Foresters Record Wins
In IM Basketball Torunament
— The high scoring of the Stars
and tight defense of the Foresters
decided their victories in Tues
day night's IM basketball games.
The wins moved the two teams
into a two-way tie for first place
in League F.
The Stars rolled over the Lords
by a 35-8 score, while the For
esters dumped previously unbeat
en• Altoona, 13-9. The Foresters
and Stars each have won three
consecutive games without a loss.
" Other League F play found
G.F.0., with Charles Roth and
Steve Grozinski scoring 16 and 15
point s, respectively, handing
Samettes its third loss, 39-13. Jim
A - sh paced Dorm 27 to a 33-9 win
over Dorm 34 with 13 points.
Another' two-way tie occurred
in League G as the Wildcats and
Terrapins notched their third
straight triumphs.
The Terrapins led only by five
points at halftime, but pulled
away in the second half to whip
the Bagoonies,
.31-19. The Wild
cats piled up an 18-6 lead at inter
mission over the Globetrotters and
then coasted to an easy 27-14 vic-
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Collegian Sports' Editor
sidy of athletes. Incidently, in
"Education for a Fullback,",a few
action scenes revealed the "full
back" to be a T-quarterback.
Just recently students had a
chance to see 'Saturday's, Herb"
at one of the town theaters—a
movie about the same subject.
Well, we're impreSsed. We've
finally got it through our brain
that these critics have found
out something. There's some
thing wrong with college ath
letics. After 12 months of say
ing it week after week they've
finally reached us—and also
made us sick and tired of hear
ing about it.,
Right now we'd just like to tell
them all—"put up or shut up."
Everyone knows by now that col
lege athletics aren't what they
used to be. The question now is
what is going to be done about it?
We're beginning to" think that
the NCAA sanity code wasn't such
a bad idea after all. At least the
colleges had Something on their
conscience when they broke the
code. Now it's just a criminal's
utopia.
What's to be done? We don't
know. At least be honest
about it. But we would like to
point out to the responsible
people that if things keep going
a$ they are, the words "some
thing must be done" is going to'
become a popularly accepted
cliche.
tory. Joshua Lederberg led the
winners' attack with. 12 points.
In two other games in League
G, the Falcons overcame a 17-11
halftime deficit to. edge th e
Helots. 30-27, and the Colonial 5
squeezed by Penn Haven, 19-12.
Gerald Werner and Bob Shaub
each tallied 11 points to lead the
Falcons in their win. The wins
were the first registered by both
the Colonial 5 and the Falcons,
and the losses were the second
absorbed by Penn Haven and the
Helots.
The Dinks, trying for their
third consecutive win with Dorm
14 in League H, led at halftime,
13-12, but due to the accurate
foul-shooting of Don Thomas,
Dorm 14 staged a second half
rally to win, 32-25. Thomas fin
ished 'the night with 14 points,
six of them being made from the
foul line.
"Yankee Doodle" verses were
written in 1755 by Dr. Richard
Shuckburg, regimental surgeon
of General Braddock, who wrote
the words to accompany an an
cient tune.
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THE DAILY POTAEMPt,STATE P9IPLEGE PElsmytwolTA.
Army, Navy Footballers Prep
For Traditional Service Battle
Navy
ANNAPOLIS, Md., Nov. 28-1
(EP)—Navy,'s football squad brush
ed up its defense today against
the threat of Army spread for
mations. Also single wing, double
wing, straight T, split T, winged
T . .
"We're not anticipating one for
mation more than another," Coach
Eddie Erdelatz explained. "We
expect anything."
Maybe the Cadets will catch the
Midshipmen snoozing, but Erde
latz has been trying to figure all
the angles in preparation for the
struggle that will create season's
success or failure for either team.
Navy has won only one of
eight _previous contests ,this fall.
The .West Pointers, depleted by
their cribbing scandal, have tak
en two of eight.
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WEST POINT, N.Y., Nov. 28—
(il 3 )—A pair of unseasoned and
unsung tackles were'promoted to
vak-arcy status today , as Army
wound up its contact work in
preparation for its climatic game
of the season against Navy in
Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium
Saturday.
Howard Glock, a six foot 213
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Millvale, Pa., were the chosen
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Blaik is depending -on to stop
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Neither of the two gladiators
saw as much as a moment's ac
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Houston and Detroit. Then came
the Boston College game in a
city close to Nick's home.
Teammates said Nick took the
B.C. game very seriously. But,
despite the fact that Villanova
was expected to win handily,
Boston College enginered an up
set in th e traditional contest.
Other players said Nick took that
defeat hard and that his depres
sion was further heightened by
the team's humiliating loss to
Louisiana State.
Boston College officials ex
pressed "deep regret and sincere
sorrow" at the news of Liotta's
death.
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