FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 14. 1956
Infra oral Grid Game
Provides Fast Action
Touch football will kick-off the official opening of the 1956-57 Intramural program at
7 p.m. Monday, September 25 with a fraternity contest on the Beaver Field practice gridiron.
AFsistant IM Director Dutch Sykes has changed the rules of football to make this sport
one of the safest of all the 17 tournaments.
"Our game is a combination of football and basketball,
reads the IM touch football re
lease
IM rules include: blocking and
charging are not permitted; bas
ketball "screening" is the only
legal blocking permissible except
for unavoidable light contact;
nine men constitute•a team; every
player on the offensive team is
eligible to receive a pass; forward
laterals and passing beyond the
line-of-scrimmage is legal: un
limited substitution; four downs
to advance the ball 20 yards; and
two 15-minute halves to a game.
Provide Safer Game
- All these rules provide a safer,
more wide-open game of football
and an exciting spectator sport.
But there is one rule Sykes re
grets invoking: no cleats allowed.
Sykes claims that cleats pro
vide a safer game by providing
better footing on the de -covered
grass and reduces injuries since
there is a minimum of contact
involved and almbst no l
chance of
being cleated.
But the ruling was necessary
since certain squads obtained a
distinct advantage by "borrow
ing" varsity cleats for their teams.
Not only was pressure put on the
INC executives from teams with
out access to such equipment, but
also from the athletic managers
who had to account for the loss
of material.
Two Indies Tops
Two independent entries were
the most famous teams in IM
touch football history—the Coal
crackers who won the indie
championship two years running,
and the Fireballs who were indie
champs for four consecutive sea
sons.
The Coalcrackers disproved the
adage that it was all luck in win
ning a touch football champion
ship by taking the crown twice.
They also proved that the big
man has no advantage in this
Woodrow in Old Role Again
Not many men can boas
cross country teams, but Lion
Woodrow acted as playii
senior year and is about to beg
Perry's track team.
He has been competing with , '
Penn State track and cross coun-I
try teams since his freshman year I
in 1953. Today, he is the only
member of that freshman hill- 1
and-dale squad running with the
varsity.
Woodrow ran two years in both
cross country and track for Perry
High—his first taste of varsity
competition. Instead of entering
his usual distance events, he ran
anything from a 220 sprint to a
half-mile run. He also did a little
pole vaulting and 131.3 ad jumping
in high school.
After entering Penn State.
however, he began to run the
distance events, something he
has been doing ever since. Al
though he ran cross country for
the Lion varsity, he did not
compete in varsity track during
his sophomore year.
Before entering the University,
Woodrow had competed in two
PIAA track meets here, finishing
eighth in the quarter-mile his sen
ior year. He had . heard about
the fine Penn State track and
cross country record attained un
der Coach Chick Werner and that,
plus his curriculum choice, in
fluenced his pick of colleges.
Woodrow has a great deal of
praise for his veteran coach—
"l have never met any wiser
track man and more capable
handler of men than Werner,"
he said. "He may not always
have the material, but he cer
tainly succeeds 'in getting the
most out of what he has."
Commenting on this year's
team, Woodrow said that the four
star sophomores—Ed Moran, Clem
Sehoenebeck, Fred Kerr, and Bob
Thompson—definitely hold the
key to a successful season. •
game and the short, shifty ath
lete could find his place in foot
ball. They were quarterbacked
by little Sy Troyan who is called
by Dutch Sykes "the greatest in
tramural football player I have
ever seen."
Fireballs Win Four Times
But it was the Fireballs who
showed the mockers that it took
more than luck to be king as they
held - the top jewel in four suc
cessive tourneys.
Another unusual slant on the
Fireballers is that they were com
posed of freshmen the first year
they wore the indie crown. Upon
becoming fraternity men, they
maintained the independent Fire
ball squad end their eligibility
for the indie . .ourney by not com
peting with their various houses
in football.
Lou Schneider, Phi Kappa Sig
ma, again disproved the "all
luck" theory by having an instru
mental part in winning 'both the
indie and fraternity titles last
year.
Schneider and Guy Tirabassi
team to lead Phi Kappa Sigma
to the top spot and then Schnei
der coached the Navy ROTC into
the independent championship. •
Kicking has played its part in
lIVI football, too. Bob Little, a
soccer player from Pi Kappa Al
pha, booted a field goal from
46 yards out to equal the pro
football record for a 56-yard field
goal.
Defense Overlooked
According to Sykes, defense is
the most overlooked feature in
the game. Although the Coal,
crackers won the title while rack
ing up over 30 points a game,
the champs defense never gave
the opposition the opportunity to
retain the pigskin for more than
a few plays.
Fraternity points toward the
All-Point title are distributed on
a 5 point-per-win basis—plus 100
for the championship. The run-
By VINCE CAROCCI
of serving as captain of both his high school and college
harrier. captain Don Woodrow is one of those lucky few.
,ng head of his Perry High School harrier squad during his
'in his tenure as Lion leader this fall. He also co-captained
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Basilio-Saxton
Title Rematch
Miami Bound?
SYRACUSE, N.Y., Sept._ 13 (. - P)
—The world welterweight crown
again rests jauntily on the head
of Carmen Basilio, who is bound
to give Johnny Saxton a January
rematch, possibly in Miami.
Basilio tasted the sweet fruit
of his most satisfying victory to
day after last night's ninth-round
technical knockout over the man
he claimed "robbed" him in Chi
cago.
"I had to prove I didn't lose in
Chicago," said Basilio at a press
conference. "What could .possibly
mean more to me than winning
back my title?"
Basilio admitted, however that
he• "just didn't have it" in Chi
cago when he lost the hotly dis
puted decision to Saxton. He
claimed he didn't have his
strength back after a bout with
the flu that had forced a post
ponement.
The angular slugger said -he
wasn't surprised when Saxton
traded willingly in the early
rounds.
"We had an idea he'd come out
to fight and he did for three
rounds," said Basilio. "Then he
started moving back but he
couldn't move like he did in Chi
cago after the body• punches he
had taken."
nerup gets 50 in addition to the
5 points for every victory.
Varsity and frosh footballers
are ineligible for this tournament.
Yet last year 2594 other under
graduate males participated in
IM touch football.
Football, Tennis Singles
To Set Off IM Program
Intramural athletics for inde-; schedule tourney with only op
pendent groups and fraternities: ponents being listed on the offi
will get under way with tennislcial schedule, the playing dates of
singles and touch football leading the matches to be arranged by the
off the 17 IM tournaments. (competitor.
The deadline for football en- Tennis matches are played on
tries, indie and fraternity. is next the college courts while football
,
Friday, September 21. The en-i is played under the lights on the
trance fee is $1 per team. practice field at New Beaver Field
Entrants for the tennis singles beginning at 7:00 p.m.
tournament must also apply far Bowling will start Monday.
positions by Friday. The cost forjOctober 8. Details will be re
each indie or fraternity tennis ap- leased in The Daily Collegian.
plicant is 25 cents per man. Monday. September 25.
Although both sports have the Of the 17 sports offered, touch
same Friday deadline, the (rater- 1 football, golf-medal, swimminPl.
nity gridiron heroes open their' tennis-singles. bowling, and box
single elimination tournament' ing are run in the fall semester.
Monday, September 25 and the:Only tennis and bowling continue
indie gridders start Wednesday,i competition through the spring
September 27. Tennis is an open-Isemester.
Mintz' Protege Battles Jones
WASHINGTON. Sept. 13 (.P)—;alarm on the eve of the contest.
Wilfie Cleaves, the 19-year-old, It will be Greaves' bow to the
Canadian on whom Jake Mintz:television audience, which may
says he'll stake his reputation,lwatch the affair over the usual
Friday nigh, TV-radio. hookup
makes his bid for station in mid NBC 9 p.m. t , EST). With Jones
dleweight life against veteran as the opposition, it will be
Ralph Tiger Jones in the 10-round Greaves' toughest match to date
main event at Capitol Arena to-;and, by far, his greatest oppor
night. I tunity to gain the recognition
Although Jones has a wide edge Mintz contends is his due.
in experience, both as to quantityl
and quality, neither Mintz, the;
grizzled boxing pilot from Pitts-Pennßand Day, major attraction at
State, will be observed at
burgh, nor his blond fighter ex- the Boston University football
hibited the slightest trace of
.garne November 10.
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