THURSDAY; OCTOBER 23, 1952
MSC Harriers May Cause Trouble
How will Penn State’s undefeated. cross country team
stack up against, a strong, veteran Michigan State squad
Saturday at East Lansing, Michigan?
If one is judging the teams on the basis of their seasonal
records, there is little to choose.
Thus far this season Coach Chick Werner’s forces boast
a clean slate. They’ve beaten a mediocre Cornell combine,
15-44, and last Saturday turned
in a hard-earned 21-35 .'victory
over a game Army club.
In beating the Cadets, the- Blue
and_ White harriers broke a 15
straight dual meet winning string,
and also kept their. own victory
skein intact. To date the Werner
men have won two and also<sport
a four meet dual winning record
which dates ' back to -.last fall.
Michigan State, on the other
'"hand, hasn’t been as successful.
In their opener with Wisconsin,
-Oct. 11, the Big Ten 'defending
champion X-country, team fell
victims to a 27f-28 ,upset. ■ Last
weekend the Spartans were idle.
If one selects to evaluate- the
opposing squads on the time fac
tor, a. distance factor must be
considered.
Time Not too Fast
When the Lion ran against Cor
nell at Ithaca, they were running
over a 5.1-mile course. State’s first
two placers—Lamont Smith and
Red Hollen—covered the hilly
route in 28.49 seconds. The Nit
tanies also won, the next three
places, with a 41 second spread
between the first and fifth man.
How do these times rank in
cross country maneuvering? Al
though it was good enough to en
able the Lions to romp to an easy
win, it wasn’t too fast.
The State harriers could prob
ably have run much faster, but
the lack of pressing opposition
caused them to .let up and coast
most of the way.
Smiiiy First Again
The next weekend against the
West Pointers the times showed
improvement.
For the second successive week,
young Smith crossed the white
finish line first. His winning time
, was 26.35.4. Junior Hollen- and
1 sophomore Jim Hamill weren’t
too far behind. The required dis
tance was 5 miles
Smith’s Army performance'was
a definite improvement over the
weekend before and is a concrete
example of how a hill-and-daler,
the calibre of Smith, can bring
his time down , when he’s being
pushed.
Up at East Lansing the distance
is a. mile shorter and, thus, the
times vary considerably.
State's Course Hilly
The Spartan distance men run
over a very flat 4-mile course.
It’s the type of . course where a
thinclad has to stay out front or
else risk the chance of being left
behind.
Over a hilly course like State’s,
for example, a runner can save
his strength until he reaches the
crest of one of the hills and then'
pick up speed while he’s going
down the other side.
Consequently, this week Wer
ner’s pupils have been concen
trating on speed workouts to give
them the feeling of a steady fast
pace.
The only time the Wernermen
ever ran a four-mile race was in
a time workout several weeks ago.
Chillrud Has Slipped
- In that particular’ clock session,
three men—Captain Jack Horner,
Hollen, and Smith —ran under 21
minutes and two—H ami 11 and
John Chillrud —weren’t too far
away.
Such a performance can’t be
depended upon too. heavily, since
it was held over three weeks ago
and the five men might never run
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Enter Round 4
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, Nine net men advanced to the
fourth round of intramural fra
ternity and independent tennis
singles competition yesterday.
One fraternity man entered the
third round play by capturing his
second win of the tourney.
In independent play Ken Wil
liams defeated Ron Walker, 8-6,
6-2.' Jay Freedman eliminated
Ralph Cristiansen, 6-4, 6-2. John
Gruber captured his third win of
the tournament when he. won
from'Bernard'Evans, 6-2, 9-7.'
Bill Wallis, Sigma .Pi, , felled
Martin Shuwall, 6-1, 6-3, in the
fraternity flight one league. In
flight two Sam Lemon, Sigma Nu,
had little trouble in beating Ed
Makarewicz, Theta Xi, 6-2, 6-0.
John Cleary, Phi Kappa Tau,
entered the- fourth round by de
feating Anthony Owoc, Sigma Chi,
6-1, 6-1, in- flight .three. In flight
four, Dick Lindfors, Phi Kappa
Sigma, went three matches be
fore downing Herb Cheskis, Zeta
Beta. Tau, 4-6, 6-2, 6-3.
Paul Brobst, Triangle, also went
three matches before winning
.from Arnold Leider, Zeta Beta
Tau, 6-2, 6-8, - 6-3, in flight five.
In flight six, Gordon Stroup, Beta
Theta Pi, posted his third win, de
feating Fred Millard, Sigma Phi
Sigma, 6-2, 6-4.
Lew Landon, Sigma Pi, entered
third round play in flight six.
He edged Dick True, Delta Chi,
6-3, 6-3.
Spartans Always Tough
Penn State owns only one win
over Michigan State in their six
games since 1914. The Lions, who
oppose the Spartans at East Lan
sing Saturday, won the first game
and achieved a 14-14 tie in 1948.
Michigan State won last year’s
game, 32-21.
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The Lion’s Eye
By JAKE HIGHTON
Collegian Sports Editor
• It has been said that “there can be no great advance without
controversy.” If -this is true, Penn State’s School of Phys Ed and
Athletics is only going forward in the future. For in the short time
that Ernest McCoy has been dean in the Nittany Vale his presence
has been quite strikingly felt even if on controversial terms.
Perhaps the dullest roar arising from the hustling Dean's plans
is occasioned by his proposals to change the Rec Hall seating setup
at winter indoor contests. In McCoy's eyes it is basically a problem
where 10.000 students must be fitted into a space for only 5800.
Thus he reasons the splitting of game privileges with AA bodies.
As to the allocation of 300 reserved seats behind the basketball
cage for faculty, grads and townspeople, from this quarter it appears
to be only fair to the townspeople and the alums to have a chance
to see the -Nittany boxers, wrestlers, and basketballers who they
support directly or indirectly. This, mind ■ you, is from the strictly
unmercenary viewpoint.
Perhaps ihe biggest .reason behind McCoy's "reform move
ments is his background. Michigan U. alumnus McCoy has just left
the Big Ten, or Western Conference, where he has seen such mea
sures in successful operation. At Wisconsin, despite a field house
capacity of 12,500. ihe Badger students have to split their tickets
three ways. • Indiana and Purdue operate similarly with two-way
split AA books.
But the intent is not to support or blast the arguments just as
McCoy’s chief aim is not Phys Ed
already well established at
State. Rather, McCoy is chiefly
“interested in the advancement
of intercollegiate athletics and
recreation.” This too is a carry
over from Michigan where Mc-
Coy . served as assistant director
of athletics under the well-known
Fritz Crisler. At the Ann Arbor
campus, as in the rest of the Big
Ten, a faculty board .of control
handles the intercollegiate ath
letics and has little to do with
the Phys Ed department.
Immediately one asks, with 16
intramural sports served up by
Gene Bischoff and Dutch Sykes,
how can the recreation program
be advanced? Well, the silver
haired Dean has in mind the ex
pansion of intramural programs
so that sudden-death eliminations
which prevail in football and swimming can be avoided.
Talk of expanded intramural activity quickly brings one para
mount idea to the teeming brain of McCoy. He says, “the greatest
need is for a sports building for student and faculty recreation alone.”
McCoy goes on to explain the setup at Ann Arbor. The Michigan
sports building is run strictly by the IM department. It is open from
8 a.m. to 10 p.m. every day. It has 12 volleyball courts, four basket
ball areas, and individual rooms for handball, wrestling, boxing,-
anjl squash. (State’s Rec Hall has much the same but largely for
either class or varsity use.) The IM programs at Michigan are run
only at night or Saturday afternoons so the “workers-out” have the
premises all to themselves.
Dean McCoy
McCoy’s plans to revive the defunct sports like swimming, fencing
and skiing? The tall, distinguished‘ looking McCoy sees little hope
for their restoration —and even fears future cuts. As he explains it,
football is the team which must support all others because of Beaver
Field’s facilities and Rec Hall’s “smallness.” “During the depression
years of 1930, all intercollegiate sports came to’a virtual standstill,”
says McCoy, adding that it could’ happen again.
Maybe you can't agree with some of McCoy's ideas—as many
Penn Staters feel—yet you will not only "defend to his death the
right to say them," but feel almost certain that such initiative and
"life-instilling" qualities as McCoy's can mean only good for Penn
Slate.
P/itTE SEVEN
Sports
Briefs
Cage Question
NEW YORK (TP)—'The Ameri
can Professional Basketball
League, oldest of the minor cage
circuits, will meet today to settle
three big problems which may
bear on its continued operation.
They are:
1. Whether to accept as a mem
ber the Jersey City, N.J., club
which plans to feature three play
ers who were involved in col
legiate basketball' scandals.
2. Whether to permit the El
mira, N.Y., club to use Bill Spiv
ey, former University of Ken
tucky All-America star who is
under indictment.
3. What to do about the resig
nation of the league’s long time
president, John J. O’Brien, who
is horrified at the thought of
using athletes _ whose records are
in any way tainted, and to find 3
successor for him.
Gopher Ball King
NEW YORK (fP) —Little Murry
Dickson of the Pittsburgh Pirates,
whose only deficiency as a pitch
er seems to be serving home run
balls, and Cleveland’s big win
ning Early Wynn are the 1952
leaders in allowing enemy bats
men to reach the fences.
If Dickson could keep his slants
away from the batters’ strength,
he might rank with Allie Rey
nolds and Robin Roberts. This is
the second year in a row the min
iature righ hander has won the
uncoveted gopher crown. *
Averages 300 Yds.
NEW YORK, (/P) —Any team
which can outgain its opponents
by nearly 300 yards a game ought
to win. And that’s, just what
Bucknell’s Bisons have been do
ing in four games this, season to
run their football winning streak
to 17 straight games.
Bucknell is first in total of
fense with an average of 482 yards
a game, first in rushing offense
with an average of 401.3 yards
and third in total defense, allow
ing its. opponents an average of
209 yards a game. That figures out
to be an average difference of 273
yards a game in the gains of the
Bisons and their opponents.
Back of Week
NEW YORK Of)—ITed 1 Ted -Kress, a
20-year-old Michigan Junior who
blasted his way to a new Big Ten
rushing record, was named back
of the week yesterday by the As
sociated Press in a poll of sports
writers and sports casters.
The hard driving halfback,
picking up momentum as the sea
son progresses, chugged and
churned in a dazzling display of
running strength last Saturday
while spearheading the Wolver
ines to a 48-14 victory over North
western at Dyche Stadium.
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