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Sports Thrti
The Lion's
By JAKE HIGHTON
Collegian Sports Editor
With all but a few outlying "All-Everything" gridiron precincts
still to be heard from, King Football is abdicating to Prince Basket
ball which returns to power in the Nittany Valley this weekend.
Friday in Rec Hall the Lion cagers will officially swear in a season
which presents quite a problem to Coach Elmer Gross. According
to a Latin proverb, not to go forward is to go backward. But how
can you improve on last year's excellent record of 20 wins and only
four losses in regular season play? How can you better an NCAA
playoff berth?
Of course there is a possibility to better last year's mark.
But to win 20 games in two consecutive seasons is an awful lot
to hope for. The best teams in the nation are glad. to make off
with 20 victories in one campaign, let alone twice in a row.
The situation was well summed up by the taciturn Lion mentor
when he was asked if he thought the frosh star Jess Arnelle would
improve: "1 only hope he does as well as his nearly 20 points per
game average I,ast year." The same can be said for the whole team
centering on veteran returnees Herm Sledzik, Ron Weidenhammer,
Ned Haag, Jack Sherry, and Joe Piorkowski—doing as well as last
year will be pretty "deadly."
Mentioning improvement, the present team has already shown
plenty. Prior to Saturday night's 69-63 practice win over St. Fran-
Cs, the Frankies had trimmed State by 24 points. Of course the
return of footballers Sherry, Arnelle. and Bob Rolland may have
had plenty to do with the reversal. (The grid trio tallied 27 points
among them.)
Another cause for the form re
versal was that the Nittany zone
defense was much tighter than
in the first practice - tilt. As a mat
ter of fact, Gross attributed much
of the Nittany rout to the fact
that one of he defensive guards
was two steps out of position—no
wonder Elmer is a coaching per
fectionist.
Somewhat of an oddity in to
day's increasingly jazzed up fast
break, man-for-man style of play,
the zone—even outlawed by the
pro loops—requires such perfec
tion. One man out of position can
lose ball games.
'Gross' 3-2 sliding zone—sliding
because the defense shifts at all
times in the direction the ball is
passed—lines up with the two big
gest men under the boards. (Cap
tain Sledzik, 6-4, and Arnelle, 6-5).
Up front as "wavers" and "chas
ers" are the shorter and faster
men. (Haag, Sherry, Weidenham
mer, and Piorkowski).
Oftened questioned about changing his defensive setup, Gross
replies with the perfect squelch, "It has been successful at Penn
State." Gross sticks to the zone because he wants to "teach what
he knows best." (Elmer learned the zone under the old master,
Gentleman John Lawther, present assistant Phys Ed dean whom
Gross succeeded as head coach).
One of Gross' loudest moans about the zone is the length of time
it takes to teach it. As he said during the clinic Saturday, "It can't
be taught in three days."
Gross was heard to murmur after St. Francis ace Maurice Stokes
left town Saturday that he "hoped he didn't have to meet his likes
again." (Stokes was a fabulous rebounder, tapper, shooter, and team
passer en route to getting 30 points. One of the few rival stars to
live up to clippings in Rec Hall).
The test opener with St. Francis showed the Lions plenty
ragged at times—against a team which was hitting less than
20 per cent of its shots from the floor—but with the distinct marks
of another winning season.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
Eye
ELMER GROSS
(Happy to do as well)
6 Lion Gridders Picked
On AP All-State. Squad
Penn State's Nittany Lions have placed six men on the 1952 Associated' Press All-
Pennsylvania football squad.
The- Lions dominated the two-platoon squad by placing on the offensive team back
Tony Rados, end Jesse Arnelle, and center Jim D'ooley; and on the defensive unit, end
Don Malinak, tackle Roosevelt Grier, and linebacker Pete Schoderbek. Only Pittsburgh
Jeffrey Gets Mail
From Fan Who
Wants to Referee
Bill Jeffrey's soccer fan mail
now embraces women enthusiasts
in his adopted country.
His latest correspondent, Mrs.
Elfriede M. Crampton, writes
from Lawton, Okla., for informa
tion on how she may gain ac
ceptance as a referee in American
soccer competition.
Mrs. Crampton, wife of a GI
stationed at Fort Sill, points out
that she was referred to the Penn.
State coach while working in the
Special Services Branch of the
U.S. Army in her home country of
'ermany.
Still another young woman, in
Tew Jersey, learned of Jeffrey's
access in intercollegiate soccer
through a magazine article and\
wrote to inform that she came
from his home town in Scotland.
Since acknowledgment of the
letter,\ the veteran Lion coach has
received 50 Easter bulbs and a
half dozen rose plants from the
young lady with instruction on
how to plant them.
"Soccer," muses Jeffrey, "at
tracts only nice people."
WRIi Results
Basketball
Theta Phi Alpha, 25, Beta Sigma
Omicron, 14
Mac Hall 11, 20, Atherton West, 14
Zeta Tau Alpha, 50, Alpha Epsilon
Phi, 21
Gamma Phi Beta, 29, Kappa Delta,
17
Ping Pong
Alpha Xi Delta forfeit winner
Phi Mu over Beta Sigma Omicron
Kappa Kappa Gamma over Alpha
Delta Delta
Delta Gamma over Theta Phi
Alpha
3augh to Retire
\her Eagles Game
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (IP)
Sammy Baugh, rated among the
greater passers in football his
tory, announced today he would
retire as a Washington Redskins
player after one more game. •
Baugh will play against the
Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday
and then quit after 25 years as a
p;ayer. This is his 16th year in
the National League. That's long
er than any other player ever
I.asted.
JOSEPH COTTON
TERESA WRIGHT
"THE STEEL TRAP"
A WAR STORY WITH A
NEW TWIST
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'with five selectees, tackle Eldred
Kraemer grabbing two places, of
fensive and defensive, seriously,
threatened State's supremacy.
Quarterback Tony Rados, who
broke just about every Penn State
passing record in the book, led the
Nittany Lions to their best season
in four years. Rados has another
year left to plague next year's
State opponents.
End Jesse Arnelle, State's rec
ord-busting pass receiver, led the
voting by capturing 30 out of 40 ,
first-place br lots • for the offen
sive end slot. Arnelle caught , 33
passes this year while only a soph
omore.
Malinak a Defensive Fck
Senior center Jim Dooley was
the unsung hero of the Blue and
White offensive platoon. Dooley's
bone-crushing blocking gave him
a large majority of the sportscas
ters' votes for the snapperback
position.
End Don Malinak was the fifth
man in the opponent's backfield
for the Nittany gridders all sea
son Although Malinak, a junior.
was picked on the defensive team,
he saw a lot of action for Rip
Engle as an offensive terminal.
Schoderbek Key Man
Tackle Rosey Grier was a real
double-duty man this past season
at State. The gigantic sophomore
tackle was a standout on defense.
according to the sportwriters.
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10,, 1952
Middie linebacker Pete Schod
erbek seemed to be on the bottom
of the. tackle on almost every
ground play this year. Sensor
Schoderbek was the key man in
the Penn State stubborn ground
defense.
Penn's Ed Bell was the only
other player, outside of Kraemer,
to be picked on both •platoons.
Eight positions were filled by
Penn State opponents. Gettys
burg's mighty mite at 167 pounds,
Bill Ewing, was the smallest mem
ber of ,the squad at the offensive
guard post.
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E. J. Neil Plaque
NEW YORK, Dec. 9 (iP)—Heavy
.veight Champion Rocky Marciano
today was named winner of the
Edward J Neil Memorial Plaque,
awarded annually by the. Boxing
Writers Association to the fighter
of the year
The first heavyweight ever to
attain the title without even a
draw to blemish his record, the
23-year-old Brockton. Mass., blas
ter was chosen by acclamaton.
Not one other boxer was men
tioned seriously .as the writers
paid tribute to the sport's most
dynamic figure.
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