FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1953
"Don't Blame Me"
Sam’s
By SAM PROCOPIO
Collegian Sports Editor
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Football coaches get gray hair if they don’t have a win
ning season and a heart murmur if they have a triumphant
year, but' now these mentors are being plagued with the
sport’s past misdeeds—football’s fatalities.
In a recent article the newly installed substitution rule
and'ihe coaches were named at fault to the fatalities reported in
collegiate football. As odd as it may seem the coaches are taking
the most blasting.
After the first several weeks.of the revitalized one-platoon game
—just when the fans and the players had begun to enjoy it—death
cast its shroud over the game, the magazine stated.
Why is it that the critics charge the new ruling? Wasn't the
one-platoon used before? Did fatalities result in such quantities
that the trend is quite noticeable?' The only noticeable year we
find is in 1920. Every pileup and tackle produced extreme awe for
the fans and coaches.
Although the magazine doesn’t blame the new rule entirely
(which would be wrong anyway), it steps out of .bounds when it
places the fault before the coaches.
With the present equipment and rules, each'serious injury is
classified a freak or else laid directly at the feet of the coach, the
magazine read. The article says "It is a poor coach who does not
have his men in lop physical condition prepared io play 60 min
utes if necessary."
As we understand football training programs, the coach only
spends several hours a day with his players. Once the player leaves
the ball field, conditioning is placed into his own hands. Maybe the
magazine writer expects the coach to travel with each player. Say,
60 of them?
Harry Garyson, NEA sports editor, told us at the West Vir
ginia game "I wouldn't coach for $100,000." Now, if is understood
why.
SPORTS' KINSEY REPORT
The greatest thing since Kinsey hit the sports world yesterday.
Norman Werking, writer for AKLsports, made a list of nine sport
stars—eight past and one present. The list was then presented to 12
and 13-year-olds who weire to identify the celebrity. Some of them
follow (with answers):
GENE TUNNEY—Boxer, 24; movie star, 15; singer, 2; actress,
1; ton of fat, 2; what a doll, a movie actress, 1; wrestler, 1; actor, 1;
don't know, 17. MAN .O'WAR —Horse, 47; hourse; 3; hoase, 1; rash
hours, 1; horse-race, 1; football player or boxer, 1> .don't know, 7. '
WILLIE HOPPE— Billiards, 12; plays pool, 4; actor, 4; football
bailer, 1; golf, 1; baseball, 1; don’t know, 40. BILL TlLDEN— Tennis
player, 1; swimmer, 1; newscaster, 1; announcer, 1; wrestler, 1; news
paperman, 1; don’t know, 57.
He then checked io see if there were more ignorant about
sports than about anything else. This time he listed non-athletic
names. Result?
ENRICO CARUSO—Singer, 29; actor, 4; car dealer, 3; don’t
know, 27. AL CAPONE—Gangster, 15; gambler, 5; criminal, 1; gun
man, 1; actor, 1; baseball player, 1; star, 1; cowgirl, 1; don’t know, 37.
MAHATMA GANDHl—lndian, 8; ruler of India, 6; gambler, 3; mil
lionaire, 1; Prime Minister of England, 1; religious faster, 1; don’t
know, 43. TOM MlX—Cowboy or radio star, 63.
Mr. Werking's conclusion? "Either that the public schools are
wasting too much time on basic fundamentals or that the modern
little scudder. dandled on Daddy's knee at bedtime, hears about the
latest housing project (with garbage disposals) instead of mopping
up such essential information as the fact that Bill Tilden won seven
U.S. tennis singles titles."
Diamond Squad Repeats
In 1953, for the third time- in
five years, Penn State was a par
ticipant in the NCAA District
Two baseball playoffs.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 19 (£>)—Roy
Campanella, Brooklyn’s chunky,
veteran catcher, today was voted
most valuable player in the Na
tional League for the second time
in three years.
When reporters finally tracked
down Campanella—who was cele
brating his 32nd birthday—at his
Harlem liquor store, he grinned
and said, “It makes a man feel
pretty good. I can’t ask for too
much more in life. I guess.”
The vote by a 24-man commit
tee of the Baseball Writers Assn.:
of America, three from 'each lea
gue city, was decisive. Campan-[
ella drew 17 firsts and piled up!
297 points, highest point total
since Stan Musial of St. Louis won
with. 303 in 1948.
Campanella became the fourth
man to be named most valuable
in the National League more than
once. He had won in 1951. Musial
is the only three-time winner with
victories in 1943, 1946 and 1948.
Carl Hubbell won in 1933 and
1936 and Rogers .Hornsby in 1925
and 1929.
Eddie Mathews, the home run
hitting third baseman of the Mil-
RONALD HART, Harry Bray,, Louis Landon, and William Ziegler
(1. io r.) are the University ping-pong aces. Bray is the All-Uni
versity champ. He outpointed Landon who copped fraternity
honors. Hart is the independent runner-up and Ziegler is fraternity
runner-up.
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and so on down to one for a tenth.
Duke Snider, Brooklyn’s slug
ging center fielder, nosed, out St.
Louis’ Red Schoendienst for third
place, 157 to 155.
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Two-Platoon Era
LONDON, Nov. 19
can football —minus the free sub
stitution rule—goes on display be
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Nov. 28.
The London area Rockets of the
U.S. • Air Force meet the to-be
determined championship team
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