PAGE SIX O'Hara Expects Tackles To Improve Steadily (This is the third in a series of 1 /articles on the positions on the Penn Stale football learn. Today the tackles.) "We'll get better as the sea son progresses," were tht words Coach Jim o'.Hora used to describe the tackle situation for the 1957 Penn State foot ball team. O'Hora, who concentrates chief ly on the tackles and defensive adignments for the Lion coachtni staff, said that there was no w..a at present to measure the strengti of the tackles. "We have no wa. to measure' their effectiveness ex• cept against ourselves," he said The Lions had no scrimmag , against an opposing college thi: year and (Mora readily admit that intersquad scrimmages are not the "bestmethod to use in judging team talent. Inexperience seems to be the main weakness among th e ; tackles from lasi year's 6-2-1 1 Seam—Walt Mazur. Jack Cald- crone and Clint Law—only jun ior Bill Wetuner is ]eft among th e experienced tackle re tuznees. Wehmer worked as the number toJ tackle on last year's second; team and, in the words of Oliora.l "did a good job." O'Hora added t'.at he expects Wehmer to be thel leader among the tackles because' of his varsity experience. Behind Wehmer, O'ffora has juniors Jae Bohart and Frank Urban, both. , of whom ran with Four Changes Made last season s third unit. They, how ever, do not have very much a competitive experience since they' • saw only limited action in 1956. ' Right now, Wehner and Bo- n IM GrLd Rules bart are listed as the leaders for The first team berths. Weh- : Four major changes will be in-. lug yardsticks up and down the sorer at left tackl e and Behart i troduced this season which should field -it right. 'Urban, because of his inject added interest and action ; Kickoffs will be made from the erersahlily. is the fop replace- ' %tient at either tackle slot. in the intramural touch football kicking' team's 20 (instead of the 40), while the receiving squad .As for the sophomores, O'Hora,P f° g ra rn' lines up behind the midfield listed Charlie Janerette, Tom Ntul-1 The 1957 tournament will be stripe. In order for a free ball reany, Andy Stynchula and Mike;conducted on a round robin basis.'to be called, the kickoff must Bomigh as the leading aspirants' !travel 20 yards rather than 10. lor the ( varsity. However, he with fraternity and independent ad- ; teams broken down into leagues,? Other key rule changes include miffed that they are still a little !rather than the single elimination:an additional allowance for charg behind because of their lack of past years. Each clubling and blocking and a limitation ability to consume all that the i Pa .stem o cesallt t he others in its division,lon forward passes and laterals. coaches are feeding them. fa the_ emerging winners then! Li' nl - -- will ' He said he expected them to, -perform creditably once they con tinue io gain varsity experience. lie said it will be a fight among these sophomores for the number two tackle post on the second unit. In the way of a prediction for the role the tackles will play in the Lions' 1957 future, O'Hora said: 'Ws have a willing group boys who are all agile and sound football players. If we (the tackles) get the techniques down before Penn. we'll make a good showing. "They won't hurt our football team because they'll get better sts the season goes along," he said. "We're making fewer mistakes now than we were in our opening scrimmage . . that means we're showing progress." Mat Manager Candidates Sophomore students interested in becoming v. vestiing managers are requested to sign their names immediately in the Athletic Of fice, second floor, of Recreation Ball. Three to Graduate Penn State will lose only three players from its unbeaten base ball learn of 1957. The three who will be graduated are pitcher Ed brapcho. of Clarence: outfielder and captain Jim L,ockerman, of Cheswick• and shortstop Guy Tir tlbassi. of Ebensburg. They played three :NCAA, District Two, play offs. Speidel Receives Award Charley Speidel, dean of Penn State coaches, was one of three Eastern wrestling coaches voted to the Helms Hall of Fame for achievement in the sport. The others were Billy Sheridan, for mer Lehigh coach, and Bay Swartz, of the U.S. Naval Aca demy. Of Penn State's three Eastern champions, only 130-pound John ny Johnston will be back for the 1957 wrestling campaign. * * —Dail! Colletian Pheto by Bab Themt»on LION TACKLE AND defensive Coach Jim O'Hora is seen instruct ing center Charlie Ruslavage in a finer technique of the grid game. Tackle Andy Stynchula (1) and end Norm Neff (r) lend an ear to The conversation. ine play will show a notice 'meeting in a series of playoffs. 'able reversal of the no-contacti I This system gives all clubs en- i . euling. An offensive player may (opportunity in the tourney an equallnow make every effort, short of !opportunity to compete and maylltard contact or elbow-tossing, to', lead to a marked increase in en-:say between rusher and passer. tries. lln turn, a defenseman may at The coming seasons sees the IM itempt to shove the blocker out' scene shift from the practice grid-iof his path without charging di iron at Beaver Field to the new recl l 3 7 into him. lighted fields on the lower end l The wide-open style of play of the University golf course. In witnessed on the touch gridiron r addition, the playing field has before Ibis season will be great been shortened from 100 to 80 Iy toned down by the new re yards. a change which involves striations on passing. No for several technical variations in) ward passing is allowed beyond play. the scrimmage line. while 1/11- The offensive team must move limited throwing is permissible the ball beyond any of the three only on punt and kickoff re -20-yard stripes for a first down. turns. In previous seasons, a first 1 The use of laterals will be lirn clown was chalked up only by a ,ited to interception returns, with 20-yard gain in a series of incomplete laterals resulting in downs. The new plan elimi- the return of the ball to scrim flees the need of linesmen to mage. FALL OPENING ,t. z„, ~ ---- Nr ~ I . i of another "Spot" ~cc 4,01 4,r THE TASTY SPOT ACROSS FROM ATHERTON HALL ifeaturing Pastries Dairy Products Ready-made sandwiches Soft Drinks THE TASTY SPOT W. College Ave. Partially open for business now THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA A Glance at .. . * * THE CATCH-ALL CAMERA AND FOOTBALL Did you ever hear of the old saying, "Nothing ever escapes the magic eye of the camera?" Well, we did but it wasn't until we had the pleasure of watching a few minutes of last Saturday's Lion !scrimmage film while waiting to talk to one of the grid coaches that we realized just how true that statement is. Nothing does escape the magic eye of the camera. And, with the camera filming their actions, football players are almost as sured that no mistakes will escape the trained eyes of their coaches —that can apply to almost any major college team in the country. As we watched, we were amazed to hear coach after coach point out mistake after mistake as the scrimmage progressed. These were mistakes which would have been missed by the ordin ary football fan or an apprentice reporter such as ourself. But, with the magic eye on hand, nothing went-unnoticed to the coach. Engle and his staff of assistants are as efficient as any coaching staff can get when they view films of Lion combat. Nothing goes untouched—plays are re-run and re-run again until they are certain that nothing has been missed. We-feel safe to say that by the time they are through with each film, little, if anything, was missed. But the camera is not for the coaches use alone. Often times, various squad members will be found reviewing the films with one of the staff, picking out deficiencies here and attributes there. They, too, receive the benefit of the magic eye for it is easier to cor rect a deficiency after seeing it performed themselves than by ,simply receiving verbal instruction from the coaches. Each coach has ready for his use at his desk in the Rec Hall football office, a smaller projector with an approximately 7x12-inch screen. These projectors are the workhorses of the Lion grid camera family. Seldom a day goes by without at least two of them being put to use. It is here That The specialists are at work. picking out faults and deficiencies in their own position assignment. The 'memos taken here are accumulated and passed on to The squad in a skull session. After seeing the magic eye in practical work, we'd venture to say that a coach can tell more about his team by several hours of watching films than he could in a comparable length of time of , practice with no pictures. Now we can understand why a gridder, returning to the bench in a recent scrimmage, sounded so worried when he said: "I missed that block . . . and this is on film. sure hear about that." He knew how deadly the magic eye is. We didn't realize it at the time but now we can appreciate his plight. We're just glad that we're not being filmed when we're sitting down to write—it would get us awfully nervous. ASSORTED FOOTBALL NOTES-- After reading about the shakeup in the professional Pittsburgh Steelers' football roster, we can't help but picture Coach Buddy Parker as anything but the Frank Lane of football. He shakes 'em up more than the nearest soda jerk fixing a malted . . . Froth is ,out today and in it you will find a football preview with captions by this writer and cartoons by the magazine's editor, Ron C.asseralla. 'Please don't hold us to the predicted scores ... it was all done in fun and,there's not a word of truth in it . . . Keep your eyes on ticket manager Ed Czekaj—he may be pulling a rabbit out of his hat , , . probably in the form of an Army chair at Beaver Eield . . . Two-Sport Freshmen Two football players—Earl Penn State •and Illinois have .(Bud) Kohlhaas, of Mechanics i contracted for a football game in burg, and Sam Stellatella, of Nut- Cleveland Municipal Stadium on N.J.—bosh won rumerals in October 24, 1959. The Nittany freshman wrestling. 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