••• RAGE TEN
Star
Cronstedt
To Remain
In Finland
By RON GATEHOUSE
Although it’s months before
gymnastics will be entering the
Penn State sports scene, Coach
Gene Wettstone has already been
presented with an over-sized
headache. His captain-elect and
number one performer for the
pasrt two seasons, Finnish-born
Jan Cronstedt, has decided not
to continue his studies in the Nit
tany Vale.
He has enrolled in Karolinska
Institute, Stockholm, in search of
a medical degree. Although he
maintained a high average as a
transfer student at Penn State for
the past three years, in a letter
to one of his Beta Theta Pi frat
ernity brothers Cronstedt stated
that he would lose nearly a year
of schooling by returning to cam
pus. This is due to the rigid
scholastic schedule maintained by
the Scandinavian countries.
Last year the fabulous Finn led
his Nittany teammates to Penn
State’s second consecutive NCAA
gym championship by winning
top honors in four individual
events, a feat never before ac
complished.
Added Honors
He added more proof to the
fact that he was the greatest all
around gymnast in collegiate cir
cles, by excelling in the Eastern
meet at Temple and
in the NAAU tourney in San Fran
cisco.
During the past summer months
Cronstedt and Wettstone traveled
to Finland where both partici
pated in gymnastic action. The
Lion mentor taught gymnastics
—American style—while his ace
performer tried out for Finland’s
national team, which . was later
entered-in the world’s champion
ships in Rome. :
Indirectly showing a compari
son between United States and
European gymnastics at Rome,
Cronstedt was unable to place
higher than -tenth in any one
event, and finished No. 51st in
this all-around, .an event, in .which
he holds the collegiate title in
this country.
It is not as yet definite. as to
who will replace Cronstedt... as
■captain of this year’s team;. :
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Gymnast Will Not Return
Swegon Selected
Frosh Cage Coach
Don Swegan, former ■ three
sport star at three colleges, has
been appointed assistant basket
ball coach at the University.
Swegan, who will aid head
coach John Egli this winter and
will handle the freshman basket
ball team, played basketball, foot
ball, and baseball at Wooster Col
lege, Baldwin-Wallace, and Har
vard "during his college career’.
. Although he originally enrolled
at Wooster, admission to the Na
val ROTC program during World
War II took him to Baldwin-
Wallace and Harvard. He cap
tained the basketball team at
Baldwin-Wallace and the baseball
team- at .Harvard.
Following the war he returned
to Wooster where he again played
three sports and captained the
basketball team.
3 Former Coaches
teach Hail of Fame
Three former Penn State foot
ball coaches, Dick Harlow, Hugo
Bezdek, and Bob Higgins were
named to the Football Hall of
Fame in 1954 elections; Higgins,
who resides in State College,
coached the Lions until 1950 when
he retired.
Ironically Higgins played un
der both Harlow and Bezdek' as
an undergraduate and later joined
Bezdek’s staff as an assistant.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Gridders Will Fly
To Illinois, TCU
. Penn State’s football team will
take to the air for two of its road
games this season.
The Lions have tentatively
booked plane trips for the Illinois
game, Sept. 25, at Champaigne,
and. the Texas Christian encoun
ter, Oct. 23, in Fort Worth.
Penn State will also be on the
road for games with Syracuse,
Penn, and Pitt this season.
Four hold-overs, all of them
in the 200-pound class, give Penn
State its best , manpower in years
at tackle.
Reds Blast Dodgers, 9- 3
• BROOKLYN, Sept. 16 (AP) —Joe
Nuxhall, only southpaw to beat
the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets
Field, did it again today as the
Cincinnati Redlegs walloped the
Dodgers 9-3 and gave the second
place club’s pennant hopes a crip
pling blow.
Nuxhall fell behind by allowing
a run in the first inning but the
Cincinnati sluggers started pound
ing the ball in the second inning
and the lefty never was behind
again.
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Only 522 persons paid to see the
game, which was played in
cloudy, chilly weather on a Laid
soaked by rain for most- of the
past two days. The crowd was
augmented, however, by 508 "per
sons who came in on rain checks
from yesterday’s game, which
was witnessed by only 1169.
Ted Kluszewski, baseball’s top
home run hitter, hit his 49th of
the season leading off in the sev
enth inning for the visitors’ final
run.