THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1954
"New Sun in the Sky"
Sam's Sprigq,
By SAM PROCOPIO
Collegian Sports Editor
The surest way not to win friends and influence people
is to go out on a limb and name an all-American team. Where
ever the game is played on a big time basis, the fans have
their pet and No, 1 player;Naming football's all-team brings
upon the shoulder of any person a burden of arguments.
Striving to collaborate a satisfactory team is no prob
lem: the crisis, more or less, is agreeing with the sport fan.
During the last few years, many so-called experts have picked
their respective all-American teams. There have been teams by the
United Press, Associated Press, NEA, INS, Look, and Colliers, There
are others like the all-America Pipe Smokers, the all-America En
durance squad, the all-Lithuanian; the all-Catholic; the all-Chemi
cal. Engineering (with a 2' or better all-college average), and the all
star Academic squad.
Now there is a new one. The College Sports Editors all-
America football team, sponsored by two Pitt sportswriters—Russ
Franke and Carroll Cook. Last year we received in the mail a
letter from these promoters which stated:
"News services, daily papers, and outstanding magazines decide
who the best players in the country are. year after year. However,
there is one group of experts, probably the best informed, who never
receive the opportunity to state an opinion. They are the college
sports editors. This group is more equipped to pick such a team since
nearly every writer on every college paper in the country goes to
a football game every Saturday during the fall, regardless of wheth
er his team is playing at home or away.
"The Pitt News. representing every college publication in
the country, will try for the first time to pick an allrAmerican
team based on the opinion of college sports editors throughout
the country." the letter said.
One fine point these promoters bring out is having the editors
select their team after the regular season and bowl games have
been played. All news services, papers, and -magazines select their'
teams early to scoop one another. Then too, magazines pick their
teams before the season is half completed in order to meet their
deadlines. Is this fair to all players?
Newspapers Make their selections from pre-season nominations.
How are these pre-seasonal nominees created? A college is located
near a large city with several newspapers in that city and surround
ing areas which have a big circulation. Before the season is actually
underway, the publicity received from these papers has a possible
star who becomes an artificial all-American.
It Is one of the toughest problems to cite an all-American
team since we never actually watched every team in the country
play. But since we are asked to make such a selection, we solved
the dilemma (nicely, we think) by just choosing those teams, that
we have observed in action, including through the medium of
television.
The following, ballot is our top-flight 1953 gridiron„team, which
individually, has supplanted—either by a great.or narrow margin—
all others we have seen
Left End...
Left Tackle
Left Guard
Center
Right Guard.
Right Tackle
Right End ..
Quarterback,
Left Halfback LEROY BOLDEN
Right Halfback *JOHN LATTNER
Fullback ALAN AMECHE, .
'Selected as the Player of the Year.
Lions Host Swedes
Penn State's National champion
ship gymnastics team, originally
scheduled to open its 1954 cam
paign against Michigan State Jan.
30, will face a touring Swedish
team in an international duel Jan.
16 at State College.
, ...JIM GARRITY, ..
ROSEY GRIER, .
808 FLECK..
..TED KUKOWSKI.
MORGAN WILLIAMS
ART HUNTER .
....DICK DEITRICK.
TONY RADOS .
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Hugh Fullerton Jr., Associated Press sportswriter, calls Penn State and Pitt the key
institutions in at least three proposed college athletic conferences that are being discussed
in Cincinnati this week. And, writes Fuller ton, "Penn State and Pitt are acting very
cagey about the matter, waiting to see whether anything develops that is promising enough
to interest them."
The whole business of re-aligning the colleges into new, tighter groups still
discussion stages, but the r e is
enough talk to indicate that a
trend has started in that direction.
One proposed lineup would in
clude Penn State, Pitt, Army,
Navy, Penn, Notre Dame, Duke,
and North Carolina, while an al
ternate would substitute Okla
homa for one of these eight col
leges. Either way it could be a
conference that would make the
Big Ten seem small, the writer
said.
Ling Began
Sweden's
Gym Fame
According to a recent article
prepared and edited by Gene
Wettstone, Penn State gymnastic
coach and secretary of the NAA
GC, Swedish gymnastics enjoys a
world-wide reputation.
In his article, Wetistone gave a
brief history of the Swedish gym
nasts, beginning with the found
ing of the Royal Institute of Gym
nastics by Henrick Ling. Ling
originated the gym sport in Swed
en. The institute, founded in 1813,
soon became the Mecca of gym
nasts to which the whole world
flocked.
Ling's basic principles still hold,
but many have carried his work
further and modern gymnastics is
today an instrument of many
tones. Gymnastics, combined with
games and sports, is an essential
part of the educational program of
all Swedish schools, and the vol
untary gymnastic movement con
tinues on the ground thus laid.
Over a quarter of a million
Swedes of both sexes and of all
ages have regular gymnastic pro
grams in over 5000 sections cover
ing the wnole country. This activ
ity has alsc made its entry into
factories and offices where it is
an important an d stimulating
counteraction to the uniformity of
modern forms of work.
Gymnastics for the housewives
is one of the most notable features
in th e latest development of
Swedish voluntary gymnastics. It
was introduced in 1942 in Stock
holm on a small scale and can
now count over 30,000 regular
members from 20 to 70 years of
age. Gymnastics are held for
youngsters too, and many start
long before school age. At many
large offices a period of simple
gymnastics , provides a welcome
and healthy interval in the world.
In Olympic competition th e
Swedish women's team won the
1948 Olympics and in 1952 placed
behind the Russians although win
ning the team calisthentics event.
Sweden's men's teams were win
ners of the 1908, 1912, and 1920
Olympic Games and in recent
years have been displaced by the
Germans, Finns, and last year by
the Russians.
None of tiles reports can be
confirmed, and if the changes
take place, it won't be for a year
or two. Reports from reliable
sources at the Cincinnati meeting
say the East's Ivy group colleges
have a g.r ee d to inaugurate a
round-robin football schedule in
1956. This would virtually freeze
out Army and Navy from the
Eastern . football program.
Other unconfirmed reports say
that presidents of the eight Ivy
colleges met Dec. 18 and agreed
to play one another as soon as
present commitments are cleared.
With a nine-game schedule limit,
this would leave only two dates
open for other schools.
When, and if this takes place
Army athletic director Red Blaik
admits his team and Navy may
be forced to seek some conference
tie-up to get the kind of schedules
they like.
Pitt, frozen out in an effort
to join the Big Ten, still hasn't
been accepted by the old eastern
colleges. Pitt has a. huge, expen
sive stadium which must be filled
regularly. Penn 'State faces the
same situation in a lesser way.
Penn reportedly isn't too happy
in the de-emphasized Ivy league
setup. Dartmouth recently • called
off its scheduled games with Ar
my; Harvard did the same thing
a couple of years ago.
Several factors besides natural
rivalries are involved in setting
up any Army or Navy football
schedule. They have to play teams
from every section of the United
States.
For that reason, the service
schools are reluctant to say any
thing more than that they have
been "approached" with various
proposals.
Three Newcomers
Illinois, Virginia, and Holy
Cross are the newcomers to Penn
State's 1954 football schedule.
The Nittany Lions have again
booked a nine-game card.
Lions Topple
Syracuse
(Continued from page six)
Walt Scott began to hit from
around the key-hole.
Haag, scoring consistantly oat
driving lay-ups and fade shots,
kept the Lions alive. They held a
deflated- 50-42 lead at the end of
the period.
Scott cut the nets on a set shot
to open the fourth quarter and
the Lions led by six. Dave Ed
wards' jump shot and foul con
version increased it to nine and
then the Orange cut loose again,
When Manny Breland, and Scott
scored on successive steals, Bes
din added a two-pointer and foul
point and the Nittanies hung dan
gerously, 53-51.
At this point the Lions sud
denly found themselves again and
began to widen the gap once more,
with Arnelle, Edwards, Jim Block
er, and Jack Sherry sinking suc
cessive foul shots. Sherry's eight
points in the final minutes of play
provided the boost that carried
them away from the red-hot Or
ange. The final score read 77-63.
Summaries
Penn State fg f ti Syracuse fg f t
Weid'h'r,g 1 1-1 3Besdin,f 2 3-6 7
Fields,g 0 0-0 010asteffini,f 4 0-2 8
Haag,g 5 5-7 151Kilpatrick,f 3 2-4 8
Brewer,g 2 1-1 51Cegella,f 0 0-0 0
Arnelle,c 6 9-11 21INelson,f 0 1-1 1
Sherry,f 4 6-8 14IGillespie,c 1 1-1 3
Edwards, - f 2 5-5 9 Larned,g 3 2-3 8
Blocker,f 2 4-6 8 Scott,g 6 0-2 12
Marisa,f 0 2-2 2 Z immick,g 1 0-0 2
Rohland,f 0 0-0 01Bre1and,g 2 2-4 6
I Murrock,g 0 0-0 0
Vaskotg 3 2-3 8
Totals 22 33-41 771 Totals 25 13-26 63
Penn State 18 15 17 27-77
Syracuse
WRA Results
Table Tennis
Kappa Alpha Theta over Alpha
Epsilon Phi, forfeit.
Kappa Delta over Gamma Phi
Beta.
Phi Sigma Sigma over Tri Delta.
Zeta Tau Alpha over Pi Beta Phi,
forfeit.
Basketball
Alpha Gamma Delta 35, Alpha
Omicron Pi 12.
Delta Gamma forfeit winners, Chi
Omega.
Leonides 35, Tri Vi 13.
Kappa Kappa Gamma forfeit win
ners, Phi Mu.
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