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Football Madness Here Again
soon reiLan
of the autumn's annual football madness when
scenes like the above will be repeated often:
the determined, jaw -set, stiff-arming runner
and the equally determined, grimacing tacklers.
Rugged Sche ule, injuries
Dim Nittany Grid I utiook
By JAKE HIGHTON
In sharp contrast to the spirited drive and enthusiasm shown by Penn State gridders
during the past two weeks of practice, a slight touch of gloom prevails over Head Coach Rip
Engle as his huskies begin their third week of fall drills today.
Rip, beginning his third year as Nittany mentor following a winning record at Brown
U., isn't one to wring tears from the "crying towel." But he does have more than the ordin
ary worries of coaches about the season which opens against Temple, Sept. 20 on Beaver Field.
Collegiate
Chatter
Don Coleman, Michigan State's
unanimous All-American tackle
choice last fall, will have his No.
78 football jersey retired perm
anently by the Spartan school. It
was - the first time any Michigan
State athlete has been given the
honor. (Mr. Coleman will NOT
be back this fall.)
The Spartans now have three
of their former NCAA boxing
champions in the professional
ranks: welterweights Chuck
Davey and Jed Black, and light
heavy Chuck Spieser. (Davey,
currently the more prominent,
nabbed National Collegiate
honors during all FOUR of his
College years.
Michigan State's end coach
Earle Edwards formerly held the
same position for the Nittany
Lions.
Eiti
Dick Tamburo, Spartan's
ace linebacker who WILL be
back, has inherent grid prow
ess. Brother Sam was an All-
American end at Penn State;
brother Harry is a current
teammate and father Tamburo
played professional ball years
ago.
for Minnesota's Golden Gophers
Short's: MS's Coach Biggie
Munn was an All-A:nerican guard
for Minnesota's Golden Gophers
during the 1930 and also the 1931
seasons . . . There's no question
about MS stealing out of state
grid stars; at least All-Americans,
b,cause the 11 Spartans so honor
ed were home grow.. products .
Clarke Scholes, Spartan swim
ming sensation, became the first
Michigan Stater to win an Olym
pic Gold medal with his triumph
m the 100 meters at Helsinki this
summer.
Family Affair
Dave Simon, of East Millsboro,
Pa., who looms as a defensive
standout at Penn State, is a bro
ther of John Simon. who filled a
guard ro . it;on on the unbeaten
1947 team. Dave is an end.
State's murderous, booby
trapped. 10-game schedule is
cause enough for Rip to reach
for Bromos. Ho we ve r, to the
schedule miseries, a plague of in
juries adds more woe to the Lions'
grid skipper.
Rados Hobbled
The rash of injuries which
broke out last week in scrim
mages, hit all but a few of the
probable big guns in the Nittany
offensive back field. Although
most of the sidelined footballers
will be ready for the opening
kickoff, they will have lost
plenty of valuable practice and
conditioning.
Of the backs which have been
forced to sit out full scrimmages,
Tony Rados, one of the keys to
the vital quarterback slot in En
gle's Winged-T. is badly hobbled
by knee trouble. At lefthalf,
Buddy RoNvell's bunged ankle
forced Engle to shift his south
paw signal-called Norm Paul to
left half. Fullback Bob Pollard,
converted halfback who made a
habit of spectacular touchdown
dashes last year, is nursing a bad
shine bruise. Also on the tem
porarily out-of-a ction- list are
halfbacks Ron Younkers, Tony
Frey, Wayne Wolfkeil and full
back Pete Shopa.
Only fullback Matt Yanosich—
looking great to date, halfback
Dick Jones and quarterback Bob
Szajna among the leading back
field candidates are able to scrim
mage.
Drill Twice Daily
Fortunately State's for ward
walls, with the 'exce e tion of
guard Dan Van Sickel, are in fine
shape.
For the past two weeks the 5.3 3
man squad has been drilling hard
and even overtime, twice a day.
Coaches Engle, Al Michaels, Jim
O'Hora, Earl Bruce, Sever Tor
etti, Joe Paterno and Frank Pat
rick have been hammering espe
cially on the all-important fund
amentals of blocking and tack
ling.
State has lost 21 lettermen from
last years' squad which won five,
lost three and tied one, but 20
big "S" winners are returning.
They are linemen: Bob• Smith,
Jim Dooley, Don Shank, Peter
Schoderbek, Carl Pfirman, Don
Barney, co-captain Stew Scheetz,
Rosey Grier, co-captain Joe Grat
son, Joe Yukica, Dave Simon,
Don Malinak and Jesse Arnelle;
backs back in harness are: Rados,
Pollard, Shopa, Ya:nosich,
Eyer and Bill Leonard.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENN,SYLVANIPs.
Penn State will open its season against Temple
University on Saturday Sept. 20. The Blue and
White will be attempting to equal or better its
5-3-1 record hung up last year. Head Coach Rip
Engle begins his third year at the Nittany helm.
Summer, 1952
Ernest B. McCoy replaced Penn State's retiring Dean of Physi
cal Education and Athletics, Carl P. Schott on July Ist. University
of Michigan alumnus McCoy will be aided by newly-appointed spe
cial assistant, Ralph Ricker, former Dickinson and Lebanon Valley
grid coach,
In the District Two baseball
playoffs last June, Penn State
bowled over Fordham 13-4 and
then Villanova 9-6 to cop Dis
trict honors and a spot in the
"College World Series" tourna
ment at Omaha, Nebraska. Joe
Bedenk's nine dropped Texas
5-3 and mighty Duke 12-7 to
earn third spot out of 8 in the
NCAA championships. Missouri,
tourney runnerup, edged the
Lions 3-2 and champion Holy
Cross walloped the Bedenkmen,
3-2.
The track world saw the result
of former Penn Staters' distance
running power during the Olym
pic summer. Curt Stone scored a
distance double in the . Olympic
tryouts with new American rec
ords in 5,000 and 10,000 meters.
Horace and Bill Ashenfelter, shat
tered the American record in the
3000 meter steeplechase event
while - finishing one-two in the
Olympic tryouts. Horace then
went on to pick up all the marbles.
The FBI agent smashed the Olym
pic record while winning Penn
State's first individual gold medal
championship in Olympic compe
tition. His winning time over the
almost two mile obstacle course,
8:45.4, was the fastest recorded in
history.
Quickies: Former Olympic gym
nastics coach, Penn State's Gene
Wettstone, served as one of the
two American judges of events in
Olympic gym competition at Hel
sinki this summer ... Chuck Med
lar, Nittany athletic trainer, had
to withdraw from his assignment
as a member of the Olympic staff
because of a wrist sprain . . .
Lion track coach Chick Werner
^erved as assistant to Olympic
Coach Brutus Hamilton and the
all victorious USA track forces
Sports Flashbacks
Engle
Year
Charles A. Engle, better known as "Rip," opens his 22d year of
coaching and his third at Penn State when the Nittany Lions kick
off the football season with Temple University a week from Satur
day on Beaver Field.
The 46-year-old grid master took over the Lion reins at the be-
ginning of the 1949 season following six years of producing winners
for Brown University. His Brown
elevens won 38, lost 20 and tied
one. Rip's two years at State
have nroduced a winning 10-7-1
record.
A native of Salisbury, Engle
graduated from Western Mary
land College (1930) where he was
a four letter athlete in football,
basketball, tennis, and baseball.
Captain of his football and base
ball teams, he won recognition as
all-Maryland end. The famous
coach of the Johnny Harvards,
Dick Harlow, was Rip's collegiate
coach.
Moving from college to Wayne
boro, Pa., as high school coach,
Engle hung up an 86-17-5 record
in 11 seasons. In 1942 Rip moved
on to Brown as assistant and then
as head coach in 1944. One of the
innovators of the Winged-T—reg
ular T with a single wingback—
Rip has successfully installed the
system at State. His 1950 team
posted a 5-3-1 mark and last year
Engle broke the win column five
times against four losses.
For the last three years, 1949,
'5O and '5l, the white-thatched
Engle has served on the North's
coaching staff in the annual Blue-
Gray football game played at
Montgomery, Ala.
The College abandoned a 20-
year tradition of alumnus, coach
es when Rip succeeded Coach Joe
Bedenk after the 1949• - campaign.
(It was during '49 that Engle's
Brown team licked everything
that came along except Prince
ton.)
. Centerfielder Sil Cerchie, will
captain the Lion nine next spring
. . . Last year's captain Bill Hop
per earned Penn State a spot on
the NCAA District Two all-star
team for the fifth successive year.
Penn State fielded champion
ship teams in cross-country,
wrestling, basketball and base
ball during th e 1951-52 sports
Hecr-..-quar ers
for
Useable Student Supplies and
Correspondence Needs
*Penn Stafe Stationery *Notebook Paper
*Composition Books •Notebooks
*lnks
*Pens and Pencils
•Index Cards
*Chit Chat Note Paper *Typing Paper
•Linen Finished Envelopes and Paper
G. C. MURPHY, Co.
Phone 4016 S. Allen Street
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, '1952
Starts 3d
at State
Frosh, Sophs
Must Take
Phys Ed
Indicative of the importance of
health, the• College requires all
freshmen and sophomores to take
physical education regardless of
curriculum.
Freshmen are required to take
four semesters while sophomore
transfers from Penn State centers
must take phys ed whether or not
they have had it before.
An adaptive course, .Phys Ed
10; is available for students who
are physically unable to take the
regular physical education course.
Students participating in an in
tercollegiate sport will be ex
cused from their phys ed classes
only When that sport is in season.
Any students that might plan to
go out for a varsity-sport this fall
must be sure to report to their
first phys ed class scheduled.
All new students will take the
swimming classification test this
week. Non-swimmers and begin
ners will be scheduled for swim
ming the first semester.
Students schedukd for phys ed
or swimming mus obtain a towel
ticket from the Bursar's office in
Willard Hall. The ticket will en
title the student to towel service
in Rec Hall. A $2 deposit, which
will be refunded at the end of the
year, is required. ,
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Rip Engl