FRIDAY. JANUARY 6. 1956
Time, Depth Major
Problems Facing
Indoor Track Coach
With a dual meet with the Cadets of Army just eight
days away, indoor track Coach “Chick” Werner is faced with
the task of solving his two biggest problems—lack of time
and depth—in order to gather a formidable squad for the
Lions first meet of the 1956 campaign.
The meet, that was scheduled shortly before the Christ
mas vacation, prevents the Nittany mentor from holding the
usual time trials to determine the nucleus of his squad.
“The meet comes so soon after
the vacation that it is impossible
to hold time trials from which I
may select my starting team,”
Werner said.
“With so little practice before,
and none during the vacation, it’s
impossible as yet to tell just who
will make the trip,” Werner con
tinued. “It looks as though the
team will have to be picked from
our (Werner’s and assistant coach
Norm Gordon’s) observations in
the next few practice sessions.”
Lions Lack Field House
Another handicap facing Wer
ner is the lack of a field house
for his charges to use. “That is
the least of our worries, though"
he said. “We just have to do the
best we can with what we have.”
Werner expects sprinter Art
Pollard, this year’s captain, and
hurdler Rod Perry to carry the
bulk of the team’s load in the
coming season.
. Pollard heads the list of Lion
sprinters and also is the top an
chor main on the team’s relay en
tries. “Pollard has been one of
our top performers in the past
two season’s and will again be
heavily depended upon this year,"
Werner said.
Pollard, who Werner said is one
of the best hurdlers in the coun
try, tied Harrison Dillard’s 50-
Golfer Berg
Named Year's
Woman Athlete
CHICAGO, Jan. (IP) Golfer
Patty Berg, 37, today named
woman athlete of the year for
1955, calls herself a “meat and
potatoes” player.
“By that I mean that last year
I was hitting the greens in regu
lation,” said the redhead who won
six major tournaments. “That’s
the meat and potatoes of golf—
the key to the game.
“Every winter down at my home
in Fort Myers, Fla. I give my
game a complete self analysis,"
she told a reporter. “A year ago,
I decided that my drives and long
irons could stand some improve
ment. So I concentrated on that
phase in practices. This winter
I'm going in for chipping and
putting.
Started Slow
“But I didn’t start out 1955 any
too well,” continued the little vet
eran of 22 years of competitive
golf. “At Jacksonville I was plenty
wild all over the course, and after
the first round was 13th in the
field.
“Then I got a long distance
phone call from my stepmother
and dad. I told them I didn’t
know what I was doing wrong
but it was something. You know
what they did? They began study
ing pictures they had taken of me
playing three weeks previously.
' Unusual Coaching
“They called me back and said
that those pictures revealed that
there was a flaw in my stance—
something I unwittingly'had been
doing. Well, I went out, got my
stance back in order and finished
second in the tourney. That’s what
I call remote control coaching.”
In 1955 she became the first
woman to take both the money
winning title ($16,492) and Vare
Trophy based on a low scoring
74.4? stroke average in the same
season. She polled 200 points in
the voting, beating out golfer
Babe Zaharias by 54 and tennis
player Doris Hart, who was third,
oy a whopping 107.
Pettit Solid Choice
NEW YORK, Jan. 5 </P)—Bob
Pettit of the St. Louis Hawks was
the only unanimous choice among
20 players named today for the
sixth annual National Basketball
Association AU-Star game.
By VINCE CAROCCI
yard indoor hurdles world’s rec
ord in. 6.0 _ seconds flat in last
year’s Inquirer Games. The speedy
junior from Coatesville also fin
ished a close second to Dillard a
few weeks later in Boston.
Hurdles Strongest Event
According to Werner, the hur
dles will be the team’s strongest
event. Along with Pollard, the
track mentor has Dick Winston,
Gary Seybert, and Bob Young to
select from.
Speaking about Winston, Wer
ner said, “Right now, he looks
better than Perry did when he
first came out.” Winston, a fourth
semester sophomore, was in
eligible for last year’s team.
Seybert, a veteran from last
year’s squad, has shown consider
able improvement in .the short
time that the team has been prac
ticing while Young has shown
enough potential to keep the top
hurdlers hopping.
Werner expects to choose his
distance runners one of the
team’s weaker events—from last
season’s cross-country captain,
Doug Moorhead, Don Woodrow,
newly-elected harrier captain, and
Paul Roberts—with one or two
others coming into consideration.
The Lion coach finds himself
without one of his top distance
"THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS SKIER." Ernie McCulloch, demonstrates his cham
pionship form in the slalom, one of the most demanding events in any sport. McCulloch,
who holds practically every important ski championship in the world, will he featured
In the Outing Club film. "How to Ski," being shown tomorrow in the HUB.
Outing Club to
The Winter Sports division
of the Penn State Outing Club
will sponsor a series of movies
titled “How to Ski” in con
junction with the course of in
struction in skiing being of
fered to its club members.
The movies will be shown in the
HUB auditorium at 2 p.m. tomor
row.
Selected Top Skier
The half-hour color and sound
films, will feature Ernie McCul
loch, coach of the Canadian Olym
pic team and director of the
world-famed Mont Trembiant ski
school;' McCulloch, United States
National and International Down
hill Champion in 1951 and 1952
and holder-of every major skiing
title in the United States and Can-
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
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"Chick" Werner
Indoor Track Mentor
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runners, Ted Garrett, who grad
uated last June.
Bruce Austin, a senior and a
veteran trackman, and senior Bob
Matz head the list of middle dis
tance runners. Both are also bet
ter-than-average relay men.
Charlie Bloekson, competing for
the first time without former
teammate Rosey Grier, is the
Lions’ top threat in the weight
events. The husky senior broke
the Lions’ indoor shotput mark—
formerly held by Grier—two years
ago with a toss of 51’ 3%”.
Highjumper Bob Findley has
impressed Werner in past work
outs. Findley, who jumped 5’ 10”
i while at Mercersburg Prep School,
has shown steady improvement
since his freshman year, Werner
said.
Two juniors, Harry Fuehrer and
Herb Hollowell, are expected to
be the leading candidates for the
pole vaulting and broadjumping
events respectively. Both men
have had, past experience in var
sity track, and are being counted
on to furnish a strong punch in
the Lions’ track events.
ada, was recently selected "The
Skier of the Half Century.”
The films are divided in three
segments, part one for beginners,
part two for intermediate skiers,
and part three for experts and
advanced skiers. - The movies give
an entire course of instruction,
from such fundamentals as walk
ing on skis through the difficult
turns and Christies.
Explanation to Be Given .
The techniques will be shown
several times at normal speed,
then in slow motion, and then
once more at normal speed. An
explanation on sound track will
accompany the demonstrations.
Part one of the film demon
strates and explains equipment,
the step-turn, walking, sliding,
methods of climbing and rising
from falls, and other necessary
fundamentals. The film is also
Swiss Gymnasts Arrive
Yesterday in New York
The Swiss gymnastic team, which will meet Penn State next
Saturday in an exhibition at Rec Hall, arrived in New York City
from Switzerland yesterday by airplane. The team is staying at
the Paramount Hotel.
A televised exhibition from Madison Square Garden tomorrow
night will inaugurate the 22-stop tour which will end midway in
February. The Swiss will journey
to Union City, N.J., Sunday where
they will pit their wares against
the Swiss Gymnastic Society,
once a dominant factor in send
ing men to the Olympic games.
The world famous gymnasts
will perform at West Chester
State Teachers College Tuesday
and at the University of Pitts
burgh Thursday. They will arrive
in University Park Friday after
noon
According to reports the Swiss
are placing the Nittany Lions on
the top of their “looking forward
to” list. This probably stems from
the fact that the Lions have lost
only one dual meet in the last
two years, and also boast of two
Olympic candidates in Karl
Schwenzfeier and Armando Vega.
Gym Coach Gene Wettsione
announced yesterday that there
are still a good share of $1 un- -
reserved seals available for the
Swiss-Penn State meet next
Saturday. -
And through the Swedish Gym
nastic team, which performed at
Penn State the last two years, the
Swiss learned that this is one
place where foreign teams are re
ceived with great enthusiasm by
the student body,” gym coach
Gene Wettstone said.
Probably the most famous of
the visiting gymnasts is Jack
Gunthard, captain and Olympic
gold medal winner, who recently
placed first in the all-around com
petition in the National Gymnas
tics Festivals in Zurich. Gun
thard’s specialty is the horizontal
bar.
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Show Ski
useful to more advanced skiers,
since they can use it as a refresher
and perhaps even pick up point
ers.
Part two features the proper use
of lifts and tows, and demon
strates some further advanced
turns. The final segment reviews
the most difficult turns—Christies,
step and jump turns, skating, and
then finally the downhill racing
techniques and McCulloch’s sla
lom techniques.
The Outing Club will also offer
an illustrated booklet, which is
coordinated with the movie, and
which features several action pho
tos featuring McCulloch doing the
difficult techniques. The cost of
the films will be fifty cents for
each showing, but those enrolled
in the skiing course will be ad
mitted free.
By FRAN FANUCCI
Film
Features Lifts, Tows
Lion Cubs
Test Cornell
Wrestlers
Wrestling fans will not only get
an opening season look at Penn
State’s varsity tomorrow night,
but will also have an opportunity
to see what Coach Charlie Spei
del will have coming up to his
varsity during the next four
years.
The double bill of wrestling
will feature the freshman mat
squad going against Cornell’s
first-year team in the preliminary
to the varsity match.
The Lion Cubs, unlike their
Big Red opponents, will enter the
meet with no outside competition,
and even less pre-season prac
tice.
Cornell’s frosh defeated Lehigh’s
freshman Engineers in a thrilling
14-12 result.
Speidel released a tentative
starting lineup for his freshman
team, but emphasized that al
though it was as accurate as pos
sible for the Cornell meet, it was
“definitely only tentative” for the
two future meets with Lehigh
and finally Navy.
With pre-season practice dras
tically affected by the two-week
holiday lapse, Speidel has only
had a glimpse of what kind of mat
material has turned up in the
frosh ranks.
Speidel said his probable line
ud would include John Logue
(123); Don Peters (130); Dean
Seltzer (137); John Evans (147);
Bill Labone (157); George Gray
(167); Bruce Gdmore (177); and
Clem Newbold, heavyweight.
According to Speidel, Evans,
Gray and Gillmore have been
promising prospects, but that he
may have a lineup change at 157
and 167 pounds. Frank Luzzo,
Speidel said, could.move in at 167
with Gray sliding into the 157-
pound slot. \
Freeman Still Ahead
In Scor!u| Parade
By The Associated Press
Ohio State’s Robin Freeman,
who was out in front of Furman’s
Darrell Floyd in the major col
lege basketball scoring race at the
end of 1954, came to the end of
1955 in the same position.
NCAA Service Bureau statis
tics through games of Dec. 31
show Freeman on top for the
fourth straight week with an av
erage of 33.5 points a game and
Floyd second with 31.4. They held
the same positions a year before,
but at the season's end Eloyd was
champion and Freeman finished
third. They're the only repeaters
in the top 10.
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