The daily collegian. (University Park, Pa.) 1940-current, September 22, 1956, Image 6

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Lion Gridders
In Light Drills
FoulLall Coach Pop Engle said yesterday that he will put
his squad through light drills fur the remaining seven days
befoie the Penn game because "1 can't afford any injuries
Engle said that practice sessions might he a "little rough'
an certain days hut as for scrimmages they're out. The Grey
Earle will stress defensive work
and try to correct the mistakes
made in the setimmage game
with Colgate last Saturday.
"MOST OF THE mistakes in
last week's Colgate game were
due to missed blocking assign
ments," he said. - and we have
to correct mast of these before
next Saturday."
The starling lineup for the
Penn game is unknown. but for
a week-in-advance prediction
the team could look like this:
ends. Jack Far/s. Romeo Pan
ozso, or Dough Mechling: tac
kles. Jack Calderone and W alt
Mazur: guards. Sam Valentine
and Dick DeLuca: center. Dan
Radakovich: quarterback. Milt
Plum: halfbacks. Billy Kane
and Ray Alberigi: and fullback.
Emil Caprara.
Engle is still undecided as to
who will start at the left halfback
spot, although Alberigi, according
to Engle, is the best all-round
player he has at that position.
OTH E R POSSIBILITIES are. • •
Bruce Gilmore and Dave Kaspar-1 Penn State, which will field its
ian, both sophomores. Both are 70th football team in 1956, owns,
considered green. but have looked !an all-time record of 343 wins,,
•exceptionally good in practice:lB9 defeats and 33 ties.
sessions. • •
Penn—in training at Hershey. Penn State's national champion-
Pa.. the past week—is bul- Iship soccer team is unbeaten for
warked by a splendid group of ,two straight years, and owns an
sophomores, at least 16 of whom 118-game win streak.
are counted on in Coach Steve 1 •
Sebo's season plans. Bob Leisher, of Chambersburg.
This added material has added 'Pa., captain-elect of the Penn
greater depth to a Penn team State basketball team, is the fa
which has its last 18 games•ther of two children.
in a row. And is probably the • • •
reason Seto seems more confi- Penn State gained an at-large
dent than at any time during the berth in the NCAA District Two
past three Years. !baseball play-offs four times in
WITH THE ADDED depth and the last five years.
a predicted tighter defense Sebr
believes that his squad is strong Penn States 1956 lacrosse team
enough to snap its losing skein. : was the first in the 43 years of
Early drills have indicated that t this sport to win eight games in
this is the best line Sebo has•one season.
O'Hora to Begin
As Nittany Lion
"A lineman's work often I
goes unnoticed" is a quote
around football circles which
has proven itself in the past
Sew grid sew: ens. Seldom does
the lineman's play draw the .
raves of the nation's scribes
ever that of the "All-American".
back.
If a lineman's play is over
looked, what ever happens to the
line coach who works so ozdu-!
ously and tediously with the
"brawn" of the squad? •
PENN STATE line coach Jim
O'Hora doesn't seem to mind the:
fact that he and his boys mint
take a back seat to the ball
carriers. "It's only natural for the
fans to follow the ballcarrier."l
he said. "because they watch the:
ball and do not think of the block-'
ing which made the run pos-!
O'Hora is beginning his 10th
season as Nittany line coach.
starting in 1946 under the vet- 1
eran Bob Higgins—his college 'Drazenovich, Pete Schroederbeck,
mentor- tand Rosen Grier—but he rates
He played four years of center this year's captain. Sam Valen
fer Penn State— 1932 through tine, with the best of them. He
1936 — af t er two Years of high 'praised Valentine specifically for
school ball at Dunmore, Pa. While his linebacking prowess.
in high school, he gained All- DURING the off-season, o'-
Scholastic honors at center MI
1930—his junior year.
HE TOOK his first "tackle" at
a head coaching job in Sept..
1937, when he served as head
football and baseball coach at
Roaring Springs High School. In
1939, he moved to Mahanny
Township High School where he
stayed until 1942 when he en
tered the Navy.
He returned to Mahanoy af
•ler he received an assistant line
coaching job at the University.
During his tenure here. O'Hora
has seen many outstanding line
men come and go—among them
All-1 4 —merican Steve Suhey, Joe
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
ever had to w•oik with since corn
ing to Pennsylvania.
In fact, it's the first time that
he has had capable reserves be
hind his regular first string
performers.
Saturday's lineup will have
only Iwo players—quarterback
Rich Ross and left half Frank
Reipl from last /ear's team.
which lost to the Lions, 20-0.
The game, to be played at
Franklin Field in Philadelphia.
will start at ]:3O EDT and will
be broadcast over radio station
AJ
Sports Dope . . .
I Penn State will play its first
two football games on the road
in 1956. Holy CrosL will be the
Homecoming attraction on Octo
ber 13. The Penn game at Phila
delphia and the Army game at
/ West Point will precede the home
opener.
In 10th Year
Hungry Braves
In Win-or-Else
Series With Cub's
MILWAUKEE, Sept. 21 (iP)
:—Today the pennant-hungry
, Milwaukee Braves came home
for a thrze- - ame, win-or-else
series with the Chicago Cubs
at County Stadium.
A 7-7 record on a two-week
road trip, in which they split ser
ies in each of five clubs visited.
'left them a full game behind the
Brooklyn Dodgers, plus a tw•o
game deficit in .the defeat col
umn. And they have only seven
games remaining on their sched
ule While Brooklyn has nine.
You couldn't find many Braves
fans who had lost hope, but the
facts spoke for themselves in this:
airtight National League fla g'
scramble.
If Milwaukee should sweep
its remaining seven game s—
four on the road after the sea
son's final home series with the
Cubs—the Dodgers could beat
the Braves by taking eight of
their nine and tie by winning
seven.
Manager Fred 1 - 1 a n e y wasn't
giving up. either. He insisted there
v.-as nothing wrong with his
Braves that some solid hitting
wouldn't cure.
"We're not tense or downheart
ed—just mad." Haney said. "One
game doesn't mean a thing in a
race like this. Brooklyn can't af
ford to let up for a minute. The
Dodgers have just as much pres
sure on them as we have on us.
"We're like the guy with a
bad cough. who walks past a
cemetery. There isn't a fellow
buried there who wouldn't like
to have the same cough. I know
six other managers in this
league who would like to
change places with me right
now. There's still a long way
to go. and we're not out of it by
any means."
Of Penn State's nine football
opponents in 1956, only Pennsyl
vania, Boston University and
North Carolina State experienced
losing campaigns in 1955.
10th Season
Tackle Coach
' Hora serves as a scout for poten
tial Lions in the hard-coal regions
;around Scranton and Wilkes-Bar
re. He played a prominent part in
obtaining the services of Dun
more's Owen Dougherty—captain
; of the 1950 team—and sophomore
' tackle Don Delmore am on g
others.
Commenting on the fact that
;coaching is a year-round occupa
tion. O'Hora said that it has to
be since the rules of the games
are changing constantly. Despite
the fact that it is a full-time job
and results in either gray hairs
or baldness. O'Hora seems per
fectly content with his work, pub
:hefty or no publicity.
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Out On a Li
A glance at the selections below reveals that no one has gone
"out on a limb" in The Daily Collegian's first football poll.
Farthest Jut on the proverbial limb is Vicious Vince Carocci
who sways from the general consensus in predicting wins for Georgia
and Virginia Tech over Vanderbilt and Tulane respectively.
Earl Bruce, picking for the coaches, chooses Texas over South
ern California as his lone departure from the consensus while
Lucky Lou Prato feels that the halfback combination of Duke
Hunter and Dick Christie should carry North Carolina State to a
victory over North Carolina.
Fearless Fran Fanucci fails to live up to his name and becomes
Kid Consensus this week as he sticks with the favorites all the way.
Pappy Lewis' 20th-ranked (by Woodward) Mountaineers and
Syracuse, tabbed No. 14, could make it hot for Pitt and Maryland—
and our -swamis.
Three of these teams, West Virginia, Syracuse,. and Pitt repre
sent future Lion opponents and bear close watching.
Although picking winners may look easy this week, it' must be
remembered :hat there are no "sure things" in sports, particularly
college football. Perhaps a few upsets today' would encourage our
combatants to test the limb even more in the future.
Pitt-W- Va. IPitt Pitt I Pitt • Pitt
Sy . -Ga. Tech Ga. Tech I Ga. Tech I Ga. Tech Ga. Tech
..___
Md.-Syra. I Md. I Md. ma. ma.
, SMU-ND IND I ND lyD NDI
Texas-USC ' I USC I USC USC I Texas
S. Car.-Duke I Duke I Duke Duke ;Duke •
- 1-
N. Car.-N.C.S. iN. Car. N. Car. I N.C.S. N. Car.
1 W &M-W. For. I* I
W. For. IW. For. IW. for. I
I W. For.
Cal.-Baylor I Baylor I Baylor I Baylor Baylor
, Vandy-Ga. I Vandy IG a. I Vandy Vandy
Tul.-Vir. T. 1 Tulane 1 Vir. T. I Tulare Tulane
Wash. SL-Stan. I Stan. ; Stan. I Stan. Stan.
Det.-Marq. .Marq. 1 Marg.
; Rice. 1 . ;Rice
Rice-Ala.
Kam-TCII
Girl Varsity Star
Paced Lion Netmen
By LIL JUNAS
There's always a first time, and
at Penn State it happened in 1935
—a woman on a varsity team.
She was Dorothy Louise Ander
son, who won six out of seven
matches as a tennis standout. The
startling part of the deal was that
her opponents were men—all who
were cited as the best college ten
nis players in the East.
Coming across the country from
California wh2re she learned the
fundamentals of the sport, Doro
thy was ineligible to play for a
year—a rule similar to the one
covering men's sports today.
Despite her height, she was
fast and graceful and perfected
a hard-hitting forehand.
She swept over Carnegie Tech,
Bucknell, Gettysburg, Johns Hop
kins, and Syracuse before being
stomped by Cornell. This defeat
did not mar her hopes, however,
because most of her male team
mates were also set back.
Although our female heroine
might have been the answer to
her coach's prayer, her sex caused
him trouble when it came time to
make traveling accommodations
for the team. Her coach, H. W.
"Dink" Stover, usually managed
to house her in a sorority house
or woman's dorm, but sometimes
ended up with a hotel bilL
Before coining to Penn State.
READ ABOUT
Penn State's New President
Dr. Eric Walker
in the
Sunday Inquirer
Magazine Section
SUNDAY, SEPT. 23
SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 22. 1956
Fanucci 1 Carocci I Praia I Coaches
Rice
TCU 1
Dorothy notched two Pennsyl
vania tennis championships. In
1934 with her partner. Mrs. Jean
Arizberber, she won the wo
men's doubles title of Western
Pa.. and in 193143„ she was
singles champ of 'Northwestern;
pa.
Dorothy taught at Butler (Pa.)
High School until she married in
1940. She then moved to Milwau
kee where she became the master
of women's tennis, capturing all
the championship in sight.
Since then Dorothy has settled
down to reporting and raising a
family.
Wettstone to LA
Gene Wettstone, Penn State
coach, will assume command of
the Olympic gymnastics squad in
Los Angeles on Oct. 15. The Lion
mentor anticipates a month with
Uncle Sam's team before board
ing a plane for the Olympics in
Melbourne.
Family of Rooters
Ken Hosterman, Penn State's
31-year-old soccer coach, comes
from a family of booters. Three
brothers preceded Ken in soccer,
and two of the three won all-
America attention. Ken's first
three teams won 22 games while
losing only 2.