THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1953
Sports Thru
The Lion's Eye
By JAKE HIGHTON
Collegian Sports Editor
Think you got. troubles? If you talk to Nittany football Coach
Rip Engle or take a look-and-listen at one of his practice sessions
on Beaver Field all your cares will vanish—except those for Rip.
Ifs only
.spring. The mountain-out-of-molehill magnifying
eyes of . the Ripper's see an interminable Amazon jungle to be
hacked through. with a single machete. before State's gridders
meet Wisconsin Sept. W. 1 Here is all the despairing eyes of the
Ripper can see:
(1) Absenteeism. "Too many boys who figure to play for us
next fall, are absent, to make our drills effective." Giant tackle
Rosey Grier is throwing hardware for track Coach Chick Werner.
'Quarterback Tony Rados is sidelined under doctor's orders to con
valesce his knee. Baseball is preoccupying wingback Keith Vesling,
guard Don Shank, and end Jess Arnelle,
(2) Ifs. Will Rados' "achilles knee" be all right in the fall?
How many key men will Slate lose to Uncle Sam this summer?
(3) Ordinary' troubles. "Nobody knows their plays." Yet, "you
can't teach 'em if you don't have 'em." There are late classes and
the team has to stop at 5:45 to make dinner. (Things were so tough
yesterday that only one center was available for most of the drill.)
Of course there are injuries. Hustling scrapper Dick Jones broke his
hand. Then too, the newfangled one-way football has to be taught.
Punters and placekickers will have to be developed from regulars.
And so it goes, ad infinitum. •
Spring is no time to talk to a football coach. The best thing
to do is to ostrich your head and wait patiently until Sept. 26.
Then Rip will tell you things look bad—but don't believe him.
He, Frank Patrick. Al -Michaels, Earl Bruce. , Sever Toretli, Jim
O'Hora, and Joe Paterno will have fashioned •an excellent grid
machine. Quite possibly as good or better than the 7-2-1 1952 team.
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GRIDBITS: Rip is so spirited, so conscientious, and so wrapped
up in his practice work that during dummy scrimmage and signal
drills he exhorts, "let's go. this is it." . . . Scatbacks Dick Jones and
Matt Yanosich on each other's shoulder could hardly reach the goal
post crossbar, but they certainly have a ferocity and competitiVe
spirit which is wonderful to behold. This corner practically wrote
both off the roster with the abolition of two-platoons. How ridiculous.
It's the heart size, not suit size that counts .
Don't shower too much praise on halfback Lenny Moore yet.
As Coach Patrick says, "he has a lot to learn." Nevertheless, don't
take your eyes • off of him. He runs, blocks, and tackles with
authoritative authority ... The guard slot figures to be the weakest
link in the Engle chain. However, a guard like Pete Schoderbek
won't harm one side of the line . . . Tackle will be thin behind
two standouts, Danny DeFalco and Gene Denser . . . End appears
most solid with Jack Sherry, Don Malinak, Jim Garrity, Bob Roh
land, Arnelle, and newcomer Otto Kneidinger, who Rip is high on.
•HIT AND RUN: Despite the fact that Pitt basketball Coach Doc
Carlson probably drew more boos from Rec Hall habitues than any
Other individual or team, his courtside presence always enlivened
Pitt proceedings. The Clown Prince, or the Count Dracula—depend
ing on your viewpoint, will be missed . . . Five of Joe Bedenk's
baseball starters against American U. yesterday were sophomores ....
Height of superstition? Last season during the District II base
ball playoffs Coach Bedenk had his haircut on opening day. State
won. So the next day Bedenk went back to the same barbershop.
sat in the same chair, at the exact same time, and had his hair
touched up, State won again. Samson should have been so lucky!
Ex-Nittany cross-country runner Jack St. Clair is improving with
age. Instead of the "mere" five-mile State golf course run, Jack has
advanced to the marathon class. Last Monday he finished 21st out of
158 in the annual Boston Marathon. Jack covered the 26 miles and
385 yards from "Marathon to Athens" in two hours and 48 minutes.
(In case you're beginning to feel old, take heart from the face 'that
sclarence. Demar, seven-time winner of the event, still finishd the
race Monday even though he carr.
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
Stickmen
Face Penn
Saturday'
Penn State's lacrossemen, dis
appointed but not downhearted
over their tough one-point loss
to Hobart Saturday, have been
hard at work these past few days
as they prepare for the Penn in
vasion on Saturday on the golf
course.
'lt's always tough to lose in any
sport when a lot of points are
scored—such as those 10-9 de
cisions in baseball when the
pitcher can't hold the lead. That's
just about the way Coach Nick
Thiel and his men felt about the
Statesman defeat. The offensive
punch which had been lacking in
the Swarthmore and Navy games,
finally appeared, but at the same
time, State's defense left much
to be desired.
Thiel thinks the fault lies more
with his defensive men than with
goalie Bill McCollough. "McCol:-
lough has looked very good at
times," Thiel said, "but we'll have
to find more strength at defense
to help him out."
A newcomer, Paul Asplundh,
who recently came out, has
pressed in recent workouts, and
Thiel is considering inserting him
into the lineup after he gets a
few more workouts.
As for Penn, the Quakers have
given indications that they are
a much stronger team than that
of last year, when the Lions won
out, 10-6. They recently turned
back Harvard, a team they lost to
last year. The Red and Blue also
dropped decisions to Swarthmore,
by one point, and a strong Yale
team.
Thiel is concerned with Penn's
strength at midfield. "They al
ways have rugged and hard
driving midfielders, and this year
is no exception," he said. "We're
going to have to do something
to strengthen our own second
midfield," he added. Hobart got
two quick goals when I put them
in Saturday."
But the genial mentor thinks
some of the team's
. "errors of in
'
experience," as he calls them, may
all be overcome Saturday against
the Ivy Leaguers.
Basebal
(Continued from page six)
to first, he committed three more
in a row, allowing three tallies
to cross the plate. Ironically, he
ended the inning as he accepted
his fifth chance—this time suc
cessfully.
In the sixth frame, the Bedenk
men finally began to produce
some base knocks after Cone was
able to find the plate. Singles
by Cerchie and Werner, along
with Weidenhammer's free ride
did the trick—the Lions had two
more.
State put together four hits in
the seventh, two doubles and two
singles, to tally three more, and.
led by Kennedy's long triple,
scored three more in the eighth
on three safties and two errors.
Box Scores
American
Penn State
AR R H
Griffith,ef 5 0
Faux,2b 3 1 1
Williams,ss 3 0 1
Richardsab 4 '0 0
Baer,3b '4 .0 1
Cone,lf,p 4 0 2'
Parker,rf 1 0 0
Lewis,c 3 0 0
Johnson ,p,lf 4 0 0
Eckbrethotx 1 0
AB R
Russo,2b , 4 2 2
Weid'h'rn'r,ss 3 2 0
Werner,rf 5 • 4 2
Cerchie,cf 3 3 3
Leonard,c 2 2 0
Rhoda,c 2 1 0
Kline,3b • 4 1 1
Bradley,lf 4 2 1
Kennedy,lb 5 1 2
Vesling,p 3 0 0
Krumrine,p 2 1 1
Schoe'kopf,x 1 0 0
Totals
g in sixth
in ninth
0 000 000— 1 5 V
5 232 32x-19 12 1
Totals 40 19 12
x—Batted for Veslini
xx—Batted for Faux
American 10
Penn State 10i
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