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SPORTS PENN STATE STYLE
Welcome to Penn State and to the world of sports a la Nittany
Valley. The sports program at the University, including freshman,
varsity, and intramural schedules, is one of the best in the nation.
It might be helpful to note here that Penn State’s varsity ath
letic competition is governed by the Eastern Intercollegiate Athletic
Association and the National Collegiate Athletic" Association.
According to an NCAA regulation now in its third year, fresh
men are ineligible for varsity sports. However, the University has
been expanding its schedule by adding more and more sports for
the yearlings.
Penn State is blessed with some of the finest coaching talent
in America. One new head coach is added this year, John Egli, who
has been elevated from the assistant basketball coach’s slot to Elmer
Gross’ former position.
■ Gross guided the Nittany quintet to upset after upset in this
year’s NCAA playoffs, defeating, among others, Louisiana State
and Notre Dame, on the way to the number 3 berth in the tourna
ment. He resigned from his coaching job in order to devote his full
efforts to his teaching duties at.the University.
FALL AND WINTER SPORTS
Besides basketball, the sports schedule for this fall and winter
will offer competition in cross-country, football, soccer, indoor track,
wrestling, and gymnastics.
Last year’s cross-country team posted an unbeaten record. The
Lion harriers won three dual meets and one triangular encounter
and then finished the campaign by placing third in the Inter
collegiate Association of Amateur Athletics of America title run
and fourth in the NCAA run for the roses.
Chick Werner, cross-country and track and field mentor, is one
of the most highly respected men in the coaching profession. Down
through the years he has made Penn State one of the track powers
of the nation. He developed Barney Ewell and the Ashenfelter
brothers and has been on the United States Olympic coaching staff.
Football coach Rip Engle has been accused of using the “crying
towel” too much. This season he has good reason to use it. The
Nittany grid mentor no longer possesses the talents of Tony Rados,
the East’s top passer last season. Finding a replacement for Rados
has been no easy job, and whether the search has paid off or not will
not be known until the team takes the field and the action begins.
On the bright side, Engle can still count on the services of such
stars from last year as Jim Garrity, end; Rosey Grier, tackle; Charlie
Blocfeson, fullback; and Lenny Moore, halfback. ,
Soccer at Penn State ranks with the tops. Bill Jeffreys, former
Lion coach, was largely responsible for the Lions’ success in this
sport. He is now in Puerto Rico, spreading the popularity of the
head-and-foot game. His successor, Ken Hosterman, comes from a
family of famous Nittany booters. Hosterman did a fine job in his
first season at the helm last year, winding up with one of the
sharpest teams in the East.
Back to basketball again. Egli will be able to get plenty of aid
from Son Weidenhammer, Jack Sherry, and Jesse Arnelle during
the coming campaign. Weiderihammer is a classy ball handler and
fine set-shot artist. Sherry will graduate in February, and his
Jy one semester. Arnelle hit the
eing named to the all-tournament
services will be available for on.
spotlight in the NCAA playoffs, bi
squad and being recognized on
the Helms Foundation All-Ameri
ca quintet.
Wrestling has become one of
the favorite sports in the Vale
during the past few years. This
can be attributed largely to the
fact that the Lions came up with
a national championship outfit in
1953. Coach Charlie Speidel has
lost a lot of his top performers in
the past two years, but he can
still be counted on to come up
with a fine team.
Gymnastics Coach Gene Wett
stone is one of the most success
ful men in the sports world. His
team copped the national title in
1952 and walked away with the
crown again this year. The team
has good balance and should be
able to keep its winning ways
despite the loss of some of the
main stars through graduation.
Jean Cronstedt, exchange student
from Finland, has been Wett
stone’s pride and joy and is re
garded as one of the top gymnasts
in the nation.
Indoor track meets are not held
on. the campus due to inadequate
facilities.
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Lose Five Stars
Despite the fact that Penn State’s soccer squad is minus five
outstanding veterans from last year’s team, Coach Ken Hosterman
has a bright outlook for the coming season. And the youthful coach
—who is now piloting the Lions for his second season—has plenty
of reason for taking such a view.
Hosterman has 11 veterans returning tor action this fall, after
the Lions posted a 5-2 card in Hosterman’s debut as soccer coach
at Penn. State last fall. In addition, seven sophomores have moved
up from the frosh squad with
hopes of cracking into the first
string lineup.
Nevertheless, Hosterman will
still have a rebuilding job to do.
This season he will be without
the services of fullbacks Hap
Irvin and Emil Borra, and the
outstanding play of goalie Red
Harris. The graduation of line
men Hubie Kline and Bill Norcik
has also left a noticeable hole
in the Lions’ front line,
Gf the 11 men returning from
last year’s squad, six seniors will
move into their final season with
the Lions. On the front line, Hos
terman will have three seniors
and three juniors returning. Cap
tain Jack Pinezich, Charley Sny
der and Joe Maj ares—all seniors
—and juniors Dick Packer, Dick
Matacia, and Milt Springer have
seen action for Hosterman.
A major part of Hosterman’s
rebuilding job, however,. will be
in his backfield ranks. Return
ing . are senior halfbacks Galen
Robbins and Gerry Gillispie,
senior center halfback Paul
Dierks, and junior halfback Ihor
Stelnyk. •
In the goal tending position,
junior George Geczy will be re
turning after seeing limited ac
tion last season. But Hosterman
will have a careful eye scanning
such sophomore prospects as Ward
Hill, Tom Nute, Steve Flamporis,
Harold Walz, Dominic Tremonte,
Bohdan Guran, and John Law
rence to bolster his squad.
This season, Penn State will
play eight matches—one less than
last season’s card. Five games
will be at home, with three sched
uled for foreign fields. Bucknell
will visit the Lions in the sea
son opener, followed by a trip
to College Park, Maryland, on
Oct. 13. Then the Lions will re
turn home for a four-match home
stand against Syracuse, Colgate,
Army, and Navy. The final two
tilts will be played in Philadel
phia, first against Temple, fol
lowed by the season’s final game
against Penn.
By ROY WILLIAMS
Engle Has Hat Trouble
Only the kindness of a Danbury,
Conn., hat manufacturer keeps
Rip Engle from going bareheaded.
“It would take an iron hat to
withstand the punishment I deal
out during a football game,” the
Penn State coach says, “and
what’s worse, I lose two or three
chapeaux a year.” .
Kane Impressive
Sophomore halfback Billy Kane,
of Munhall, has been impressive
in early-season football drills at
Penn State. Coach Rip Engle says
the newcomer “can do 'more
things well than any sophomore
I’ve had in recent years.”
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Head Coach—Rip -Engle
Assistants—Sever Toretti,
Jim O’Hara, Joe ' Paterno, Earl
Bruce, J. T. White, Frank Patrick
SOCCER
Head Coach—Ken Hosterman
CROSS COUNTRY
TRACK
Head Coach—Chick Werner
Assistant—Norm Gordon
BASKETBALL
Head Coach—John Egli
. WRESTLING
Head Coach—Charlie Speidel
GYMNASTICS
Head Coach—Gene Wettstone
BASEBALL
Head Coach—Joe Bedenk
Assistants—
Chuck Medlar, John Egli
TENNIS
Head Coach—Sherm Fogg
GOLF
Head Coach—Bob Rutherford
Assistant—Joe Boyle
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