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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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