FRIDAY. JANUARY 7, 1955 A Coach's Dream Blockson, Grier 'Push' Each Other Charlie "Blockbuster" Blockson and Rosey Grier get a lot of competition from shot putters on other teams, but they also give each other plenty to "shoot" at. This competition between Blockson and Grier has turned into a coach's dream for Nit tany mentor Chick Werner. Werner's two top weightmen have pushed each other to greater heights through their friendly rivalry. In last season's 'IC4A indoor championships Blockson eclipsed the Penn State shot put mark to place third with a 51' 3 1 / 2 " heave. Grier, who had set the Nittany indoor record a year earlier with a toss of 51' 1 1 / 2 ", finished fourth in the IC4A title battle with a 50' 10 3 / 4 " he.ave During the 1954 outdoor cam paign Blockson and Grier kept up their record-wrecking habits to help pace the thinclads to an un defeated season. Blockson erased another of Grier's standards when he • flipped the discus 157' 10" against Navy. The longest pre vious toss by a Nittany Lion per former had been 151' 4". But Blockson, a junior, was not the only one to cause revisions in • the record books. Grier shat tered his outdoor shot put mark of 52' 9 1 / 2 " in the, meet with the Midshipmen from Annapolis. His Charlie Bloc sensational 55' 8 1 / 4 " effort far sur passed any earlier Penn State showing, and led the way in the Lions' 68-60 victory over the Mid dies. Crouching Stance Grier consistantly heaved the shot past the 50 foot mark and earned for himself a rating as one of the best shot putters in the col legiate ranks. instead of facing toward the front of the shot put circle as do most crmpetitors in this event, Grier has adopted a crouching stance with his back to the toe board. When he is set to heave the 16 pound iron ball, Grier whirls, shoots his right arm out at an elevated angle and lets go with all the strength in his power ful 6' 4" 240-pound frame. This is similar to the method employed by Olympic champion Parry Co- Brien. It demands a sudden burst of explosive power and )erfect balance. This will be Grier's final season NITTANY CLEANERS -- equal to any occasion Our cleaning and pressing make a smooth pair that will meet your most discriminating taste ! By HERM WEISKOPF with the Lions. The giant senior is from Linden, N.J., and like Blockson, has seen a lot of action on the gridiron. Although Werner will be un able to use his two weight stars in several of this'season's indoor meets due to the fact that most of the action is held on an invita tional basis, he will definitely put them into action in a quadrangu lar meet at Michigan State and in the IC4A championships. When the time does come for Werner to insert Blockson and Grier into the lineup he will ance again be unveiling two of the top competitors in the sport—two ath letes who have been competing against each other so they will be better able io compete against others. LUCKY D OODLES ! LOADS OF WHAT'S THIS? For solution see paragraph below. AERIAL VIEW OF MARSHMALLOW ROAST Jim De Haas Michigan, State College EX-SHERIFF'S BADGE Norris Edgerton Virginia Polytechnic Institute 'Betten. -6;:t.g.te Ludi,es,. OA. T. Co. PRODUCT THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Grid Coaching Ethics-Cited is7EW YORK, Jan. 6 (R)—Col leg football coaches have made "substantial progress" toward im proving coaching ethics but still have to reckon with some abuses, Bill Murray of Duke said today. Murray, chairman of the ethics ccmmittee of the American Foot ba2 Coaches Assn., made his re port to the association meeting to da . Since the committee was formed two years ago, he said, sucl - practices as selection of weekly game winners by coaches, faking injuries, scouting oppon ents' practice sessions and listing false weights have virtually been eliminated. ~/ 00 RABBIT WATCHING BASEBALL GAME THROUGH KNOTHOLES Ann Antine C.C.N.Y. ROMAN FIGURE SKATER Michael Scoles U.C.L.A. 1%. t ) s IES TA EM.• ME , ...C.64tet Fled/Leafolootiteli • OF CliO c:4l/./dC•CM C3C - rete-CO-e1012•22if AMERICA'S LEADING MANUFACTURER GE CIGARETTES Big Ten Threatens NCAA TV Boycott NEW YORK, Jan. 6 (?P)—The Big Ten swung, the big club of a threatened boycott or secession over the NCAA today in an effort to bring about a change in the system of controlling football tele vision. In the strongest statement yet to come from this powerful con ference, H. O. Fritz Crisler, Big Ten spokesman at a NCAA round table discussion of TV, said the conference could not accept another control plan similar to the one in effect during 1954. May Reject Plan He indicated that if the 1955 NCAA TV Committee should pre sent another national game-a week plan, the Big Ten would reject it and then likely, would be forced to adopt a conference TV program of its own. This threat, partly implied and .partly spelled out in Crisler's lengthy speech, resulted largely from the pressure put on the con ference colleges by state legisla tures. - Leaders Jittery While Crisler left a number of loopholes through which the Big Ten Could continue to participate in a national program, the threat sent a wave of jitters' over the college athletic leaders gathered for the 49th annual NCAA con vention. Crisler's vigorous presentation of the Big Ten - case for regional TV was the high spot of a busy day in which members of the STUDENTS! EARN $25! ; Lucky Droodles* are pour- .• • ing in! Where are yours? • • We pay $25 for all we use, • and for many we don't use. . • So send every original • • Droodle in your noodle, ° • • with its descriptive title, to • Lucky Droodle, P.O. Box . • 67, New York 46, N. Y. • •DROODLES, Copyright 1953 STUDENTS ARE • ECSTATIC about Luckies. That's the word, straight from the latest, largest college survey ever. Again, the No. 1 reason Luckies lead in colleges over all other brands, coast to coast border to border: .Luckies taste better. They taste better, first of all, because Lucky Strike means fine tobacco. Then, that tobacco is toasted to taste better. This famous Lucky Strike process tones up Luckies' light, good-tasting tobacco to make it taste even better. So be smart, like the student in the Droodle above, titled: Lucky smoker swinging in hammock. Swing to Luckies your self. Enjoy the better-tasting cigarette . . . Lucky Strike. American Football Coaches Assn. voted informally by a 3-1 margin in favor of the 1954 type of TV controls and in which assorted committees cleaned up the pre liminaries to tomorrow's conven tion meeting. Unless there is a successful move to bring up the TV subject on the convention floor tomorrow, no further action will be taken, other than a vote on a resolution calling for continued TV controls and the appointment of a commit• tee to formulate a 1955 plan. Rookie Sensation NEW YORK, Jan. 6 (JP)—Bob Grim, who came out of the Ma rines last year to gain a starting job with the New York Yankees and proceeded to 20 games in his freshman year, signed his 1955 contract today. The 24-year-old righthander re• ceived an estimated $12,000 sal ary. CIGARETTES 'tag 70457479 bet' PAGE SF‘/EN
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