MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1953 12 Varsity Sports Set For '53:54 Twelve varsity sports will be offered by the ,College during the coming school year. Freshmen, however, will be unable to com pete in varsity competition be cause of the NCAA ruling put into the books last year. One con solation for freshman athletes is many of the sports) will field frosh squads. First to get into action this season will be football. Following. in close or der will be cross country and soccer. Basketball, wrestling, boxing, and gymnastics will provide thrills for the indoor season. Baseball, track, lacrosse, golf, and tennis will take the limelight when warm weather moves in. Due to economical reasons, four sports had to be dropped from the College's schedule last year. They are fencing, skiing, swimming, and rifle. Golf had also been included in this ' list, but was reinstated in time for the start of the cam paign. Captains and co-captains for varsity sports are as follows: Football, Don Malinak and Tony Rados; soccer, Hap Irvin; cross country, Red Hollen; basketball, Jack Sherry; wrestling, Jerry Maurey and Dick Lemyre. Gymnastics, Albert and Frank Wick;'baseball, Keith Vesling; la crosse, Dave Arnold; golf, Rod Eaken; and track, Dan Lorch. Backfield-- (Continued from page sixteen) kica. Other losses due to scholar ship or selective service are Bob Szajna, Orville Haldeman, Don Shank, Matt Yanosich, John Dub insky, Ray Pottios, Leßue Stellfox, Larry Lancaster, Fred Burgeson, and. John Thomas. These losses have cut a scar deep enough to hurt anyone. Still, the Nittany Lions will do as well as their backs do. High Jump Champ Jim Herb, of Easton, capped his college career by winning his first outdoor IC4A high jump title. The Penn State jumper had previously won two IC4A indoor titles. Band Day Planned Thousands of high school bands men will visit Penn State Nov. 7 for the College's third annual Band Day. Fordham will be the football attraction. COMPLETE ONE - STOP Washing Drytleaning Tintex Dyeing FREE PARKING IN REAR OF STORE - ':,....,. Sam 1 •t:.-...., ~..t...,..,,,..: S. • ong ',., ti .:..,.. , ,,,,,,,,:-,..„. i ,:„.:...,,,,: , , ; - : .g.„.....:,•., ~,,-...,..... "Is it is or is it ain't" If there were in existence a National Collegiate All-Sports title, Penn State would have been a strong contender last year. The Nit tany Lions not only posted a .658 winning percentage (79-41-3), but established unbeaten records in wrestling, gymnastics, and golf and eastern and national titles in the former two sports. Not since the war years when mighty Navy went unbeaten match. after match has any team predominated wrestling as Coach Charlie Speidel's matmen did last year. Going through 29 con secutive matches without a loss, winning the Eastern Inter collegiate and the highly regarded National Collegiate titles, the Nittany Lion matmen claim the year of 1953 as the "Year of Penn State". The greatest victory of all was the Nationals. This triumph was the first ever posted by an eastern squad. In fact, out of the 23 national championships, Oklahoma A & M and Oklahoma have shared the crown 19 times--=the Aggies winning 16 of them. 'Hud Samson, who provided the' winning punch in State's 9-0 log, was NCAA 191-pound titleholder. Speidel's chances for con tinued success are better than_ good. Coach Gene Wettstone's gymnasts climaxed their 6-0 season by sweeping team honors in Eastern and National Collegiate com petitions—the first since 1948. Jean Cron.stedt added to the two titles when he gracefully took the National All-Around individual hon ors. He will be a junior this year. Penn State's golfers copped second' place honors in the Eastern Intercollegiate Golf Association tourney—only two strokes • behind the 599 scored by Yale's championship team. Since Coach Bob Rutherford will have every regular back except for Captain Hud Samson, he will have little rebuilding to do to repeat his 9-0 per formance. Recently appointed soccer coach, Ken Hosterman, will have a 7-1-1 record to match or better, Under Bill Jeffrey the Lions have had a better than 70.0 winning percentage. The booters almost suc ceeded in 'being named National champs; instead, Franklin & Mar shall won the title. Cross-country and football have turned in creditable records and should be as good this year. The harriers won four out of five. Coach Rip Engle had his best 'winning season since he came to State in 1950. The Nittany .eleven were included in the Orange Bowl talks last year (7-2-1 log) until Syracuse was nominated. Joe Bedenk's diamondmen, runner-up in the NCAA District Two play-offs, carried a fine record of 14-5-1. State's bid to the NCAA play-offs was the third time in five years. Elmer Qross has guided his basketball quintet through its fourth straight winning season, 15-9. Included were three team and one in dividual records: a new team total in scoring with 1613 points in 24 games; a new high in a single game with 105 tallies against Ithaca; a string of 25 straight victories on home territory; and Jesse Arnelle's two-year scoring total of 900 points which broke Lou Lamie's three year high of 666 set 1949-50-51. Of the losing sports Sherm Fogg's tennis squad has had the most respectable—a 5-6 record. Boxing and lacrosse didn't touch the win column until their final tilts. Eddie Sulkowski's mittmen defeated Catholic U, while Nick Thiel's lacrossemen upset Loyola of Baltimore. Penn State's track team will be stronger this fall at almost every position and should improve its 1-4 log. Chick Werner had a record-breaking freshman duo in Charlie Blockson (discus) and Art Pollard (220-yard dash). TEAM *Wrestling Golf __ 9 0 0 •Gymnastics ___ 6 0 0' Soccer 7 1 1 Football 7 2 1 X-Country ______ 4 1 0 *Eastern alvl National Collegiate Champions -30-- e Back! Why take less than the best? "If it's not becoming to you ... It .should be coming' to us!" THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA By SAM PROCOPIO Collegian Sports Editor The season's record follows W L T 9 0 0 ‘Aeire s t'oe ?Vice! LAUNDERETTE 1% 210 W. College Ave. Drying Shirt Service Repair and Alterations 14 5 1 --____ 15 9 0 5 6 0 1 6 0 1 7 0 1 4 0 Baseball Basketball Tennis __. Boxing Lacrosse Track Total __L 79 4i SERVICE Phone 4785 Intramural Sports Offered to Students By DAVE BRONSTEIN Penn State's intramural (IM) sports program reached new heights during the 1952-53 school year with well over 3000 in dividuals participating. Unlike varsity sports, where perfection is a prerequisite, the IM department only requires of the competitor raw skill and a knowledge of the game. . . Men students are eligible to enter competition in any sport in which they have not previously won a college varsity letter, ac cording to Director Gene Bischoff and Dutch Sykes, assistant direc tor of the IM program. Touch-football will lead off the 17 IM tourneys for the 1953-54 year. Included in the vast sched ule are soccer, basketball, boxing, wrestling, badminton, swimming, track, volleyball, tennis singles and doubles, handball singles and doubles, golf medal and team play, and horseshoe singles and doubles. To make competition close, all intramural sports are divided into fraternity and independent di visions. Each division will have its own champion. In some inci dents, arrangements can be pro vided for the two champs to meet to decide the "campus champion." The latter provision is not a sea sonal "habit" because IM offi cials are confronted with a sched uling problem. Some sports over lap Many notables of Penn State fame have at one time or another participated in the program. Larry Joe, of football fame, the Ashenfelters of track history, and more recently Jack Sherry, this year's basketball captain, were participants in the program. Intra mural competition has proven good hunting grounds for varsity coaches. What makes so many students take time out from studies to play in intramural sports? It's not only just good, clean, honest comp& tition, but it gives those students -unable for some reason or an other to participate in the varsity sports—an opportunity to play their favorite sports. 11111 111.1.1.m.—_ Sears Retail Store State State College 9.0 Vi• College Ave. State College. Va„ State Colle%e, pa ' m . 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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 to students who are physically unable to take the reg ular course. Students participating in an intercollegiate sport will be ex cused from their phys ed classes only when that sport is in season. Any student planning to go out for a varsity sport this fall must report to his first phys ed class scheduled. New students will take swim ming classification tests this week. Non-swimmers and beginners will be scheduled for swimming this semester. Students scheduled for phys ed or swimming must 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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