NOVEMBER 6, .195;
Harriers Who Close Dual Season Saturday
COACH CHICK WE:. 11 and his cross-country • Van CortiaL___ _ . course in New ity.
corps take time out from their daily practice Pictured above (1. to r.) are Doug eiss, John
to pose for the above picture. The Lion harriers Chillrud, Bob Roessler, Ji m Cressman, Don
will close their dual me e t season Saturday Austin, Stan Lindner, Coach Werner, Captain
against Manhattan. On Nov. 17 the Nittany Jack Horner, Red Hollen, Lamont Smith, and
thinclads will defend their IC4A title over the Jim Hamill.
Smith To Battle Egan
For Harriers Laurels
Frosh Start
Basketball
Scrimmages
With the revival of the NCAA
freshman ruling, freshman basket
ball is back at Penn State. And
as of Monday, about 100 frosh
hopefuls have been working on
the Rec Hall courts.
Frosh , mentor John Egli has
been putting his group through
intensive scrimmage sessions in
an effort to single out the indi
viduals who will eventually make
up his squad.
At the present time, plans are
being made for an eight game
home . card for the cagers, but no
official schedule has been re
leased yet.
Ist Since '5l
Tentative plans call for six
games with other schools; an in
trasquad game, matching the
frosh against the varsity reserves;
and a game with the Fraternity
intramural champions. The games
will be played as preliminaries to
the varsity tilts.
The frosh quintet will be the
first seen at Penn State since
the 1950-51 season when Joe Toc
ci coached a fine frosh team to
an 8-3 season.
Frosh Look Good
Egli has a group of fine looking
prospects among the mass of can
didates, and will be cutting his
squad next week. Until his squad
is smaller, of course, Egli can
not organize to any ' extent, and
that will have to remain for the
future.
Elmer Gross, varsity' basketball
coach, naturally has his eye on the
proceedings. The products of this
year's .frosh squad will move on
to Gross next year, and the bright
er the outlook, the happier the
varsity boss will be.
At any rate, when the cage
season gets under way, Lion fans
should find themselves viewing
some very fine preliminary con
tests.
Now at Army
One-time Penn State Coach
Nate Cartmell now tutors Army's
cross-country and distance run
ners.
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Frank Egan or Lamont Smith?
As the 1952 cross-country dual meet season draws
climax, that's a question fans are asking themselves.
Viewed as perhaps the highlight of Saturday's
\-
mile race between Manhattan and Penn State over the
golf course is the battle for in
dividual honors between the Jas
per's Egan and the Lions' Smith.
The rest of Coach Chick Wer
ner's charges—Red Hollen, Stan
Lindner, Captain Jack Homer,
John Chillrud, Jim Hamill, and
Jim Cressman—should fig u r e
prominently in the scoring col
umn. But the outcome of the
Egan-Smith distance duel re
mains a big question mark.
Soph Ace
Captain Egan is the Manhattan
senior who, despite his • team's
unsuccessful showings, has been
their number one bright spot.
Smith is the State sophomore
distance ace who's one of the prin
cipal reasons why the Lions own
a 3-1 log.
The emphasis in Saturday's
meet is , not only on who wins
the individual honors, but also
as an inkling of how the two har
riers will stack up against each
other when State defends its
IC4A title Nov. 17.
On a comparative time basis
Egan appears to have the edge.
Slow Start
His first time out against lona,
he led throughout the five-mile
race andfinished some 100-yards
in front 'of lona's Jim Mahoney
with a 27:12.5 time.
Smith, on the other hand, didn't
turn in as impressive an early
season performance in his first
race of the campaign.
Up at Cornell Smith ran a 28.49
clocking over the 5.1-mile course
to win first place along with team
mate Hollen. State beat the Big
Red, 15-44, and the score was
indicative of the opposing compe
tition.
In a quadrangular meet (Syra
cuse, St. John's, Navy, and Man
hattan) at Van Cortlandt Park the
next weekend,' Egan ran second
to Ray Osterhout of Syracuse,
whose time was 25:25.6, the fast
est anyone has run over the VCP
course this fall. Egan's secbrid
place 26:18 time showed a mark
ed improvement over his previous
performance.
State's second meet was against
Michigan State and Michigan at
East Lansing, Mich. Since the
course was only four miles long,
P?i!TiT cPLTATO: PTATII COLLEGE, MIMNV4N*
By JOHN SHEPPARD
Smith's showing can't be con
sidered.
Against Army the next week,
the Kelly Green of Coach Ben
Eastman lost, 19-44, but Egan
managed to break into the low
scoring slots. He finished - second
to West Point's Bob Day with
a 26:06 time. Day was clocked in
25:56.
It was against this same Cadet
distance squad that Smith ran his
best and fastest race. He covered
the five-mile home. course in 26
minutes and 35 •seconds to cop
individual laurels. The same Day,
who beat Egan, finished fourth
with a '27:45 clocking.
Last w e e ken d at Villanova,
"Flin Frank," as he is called by
his teammates, wasn't up - to his
previous par. Consequently, he
finished third behind the Wild
cat's Fred Dwyer and John Joe
Barry. The winning time was
27:17.
Egan Metropolitan Champ
At NYU last week, Smith, along
with teammates Hollen, - Horner,
and Hamill, tied for first with
a 26:40 time. Lack `of competition
prevented fast times, as the first
four Lion harriers finished strong
ly.
Although St. John's dethroned
Manhattan in the 26th annual
Metropolitan Intercollegiate-cross
country championships at VCP
Tuesday, Egan did himself proud
by placing first. He won the five
mile race in 26:11.8, his fastest
time this fall.
Although Smith's fastest time
this fall was 26:35, as compared
to Egan's 26:11.8, the fact that
State runs over its own course
will determine how Egan runs.
In the past such thinclads the
caliber of Warren Druetzler and
Captain Jim Kepford of MSC have
been known to crack, after run
ning the tough State course.
Penn Captain Dropped
PHILADELPHIA, (JP) B o b
Evans, stellar lineman and the
first Negro football captain in the
hist or y of the University of
Pennsylvania, was dropped from
the Red and Blue squad today on
a scholastic eligibility ruling.
The Lion's Eye
What does a team have to do to get some recognition? When
Penn State's cross country team defeated Army to snap the Cadets'
15 meet winning streak four weeks ago, not one paper carried
a word about it. Of course the doings of runners, other than the
thoroughbred variety, have seldom been earthshaking news. Btrt
there. was a time in Nittany history when two trackmen were big
news nationally. The year was 1948 when track and x-country greats,
Curt Stone and Jerry Karver. were the most publicized athletes
in the nation next to the big man in thp football world, Johnny Lu
j ack.
Whether or not there are'•any Karver's or Stone's in the present
crop of Nittany harriers remains to be seen. But with three sophs
in the •top six positions on the varsity, who knows? See what you
think:
JACK HORNER, Sr.. 23, 5-10, 155, Johnstown—Horner is no
corner sitter. In six - dual meets laSt year he was never worse than
fourth so was rewarded with the captaincy . . . Coach Chick
Werner says he is "the most improved on the squad from the
standpoint of native ability as proved in practice, but he is a
beg'nner under stress of competition" . . . His inability to relax
and too much conservatism keeps him from being a champion
. Should improve last year's 20th finish in the Intercollegiates.
LAMONT SMITH, Soph., 19, 5-9, 160; Lehighton—An exact oppo
site of Homer. Smitty will be' one of Penn State'S greatest if he
can strike that excellent medium between his own recklessness and
Horner's conservatism . . . Werner called him "great but green"
after laSt year's NCAA run when he and Penn State's title hopes
collapsed 50 yards from the finish . . . He pulled the unbelievable
feat of winning the first varsity x-country race of his, career as a
mere frosh . . . Last winter he ran a sensational 9:18 in the indoor
IC4A's—still only a frosh . . . His fourth finish in the IC x-country
run last year was the highest any frosh had finished in the 43-year
history of the event . . . State's best hope against Syracuse cracker
jack Ray Osterhout in the Nov. 17 -IC's.
RED HOI4.EN, Jr., 19, 5-11, 145, Williamsport— Red's
coaches' dream. He is as sure to run well as night to follow day.
Ail athletes have bad days but Werner can't recall one for Red
. With lop natural ab'lity than some, Red has steadily improved
like wine with age ... If Red isn't ready for championship deeds
yet. Chick thinks it is because his mere 19 years are against him.
(Distanc... running Maturity is figured around 25 years.) .. . 15th
in the IC's last year, it isn't too bad a bet that Red will be in the
top five cn Nov. 17.
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JIM HAMILL, Soph., 20, 6-0, 160, Coatesville—Jim's best quality
is to get extra mileage from a body with lesser quality gasoline
than many . . . He is willing to be reckleSs and possesses lots of
guts and courage .. His biggest stumbling block is what he himself
calls a "middle-of-the-race hazard." Jim stays up with the big shots
for two miles or so. Then while he is convincing himself that he
doesn't belong there, he falls back where he thinks he belongs .
But keep a watch for his name in the future.
STAN LINDNER, Sr., 25, 6-0, 151, Philadelphia—Stan is the
Saich Paige of the harriers. He keeps rolling on and on . . . His
form is hardly beautiful, but he is a tremendous workhorse. This
constant plugging keeps him on the team—a feat Assistant Coach
Norm Gordon calls amazing because of Sian's lack of natural
abirty ... Chick likes his work which is an example to the team.
Hp also likes Stan's unselfish attitude in helping others . . . He's
so eager to 'learn that when Werner and Gordon pointed out a
hill running weakness the other day, Stan abandoned all else to
iron out the flaw . . . Stan's biggest trouble in Nittany x-country
is that the races are only five miles. Crazy? No, Stan likes a real
distance like the 26-mile Boston AA marathon he ran—all the way
—last April.
JOHN CHILLRUD, Soph., 19, 5-11, 155, Schenectady, N.Y.—
John has a fine "picture" running style and is by far the smoothest
on the Nittany team . . . His bugaboo is conservatism and lack of
confidence. Werner puts it this way: If John were to run a 4:20
mile, he would have to have the ability to run 4:10... Can he over
come in two years this barrier to being a champion?
JIM CRESSMAN, Soph., 21, 5-7, 130,. Kulpsville—lmproving
all the time ... Rtms too much within himself ... 808 GEHMAN,
Sr., 21, 5-9, 150, Hatboro—Primarily a miler with plenty of speed.
Bob cannot conquer the x-country' hills . . . Keen desire for self
improvement. Two springs ago Bob ran a half mile five seconds
faster than he had ever done previously, yet he complained to
Gordon about "running his first quarter too slow."
808 ROESSLER, Sr., 22. 5-10, 150—Although x-country has
since become an individual sport, Bob finds it useful for its original
purpose—condition for track . . . Captain elect of the track team
for '53, Bob is a balfmiler . . . May be the key to a flat course like
Michigan State's where the NCAA's will be run. SKIP SLOCUM,
Soph.. 19, 5-11, 140. Wyncote—Also a 440 and 880 man in track,
Skip is improving after two seasons of x-country . . . He can't
maintain a pace and thus has letdowns. Could be good in the hill
and-dale sport if he overcomes this.
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