THURSDAY. DE<
:EMBER 5, 1957
A Glance at...
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M/S COLUMN GETS OUR GOATI
A PROFESSION
A 1 Clark, Sparts Editor of the Harrisburg Patriot-News, « anjvolved) the lightweight division ibehTncTHowever 0/ the five
avid follower of the Penn State football team. If any one writer!will lose much of its prestige. aspirants could wear N’odlnnd's
devotes most of iis column space to Penn State football, Clark is i Since 1950, the lightweights socks at the present time,
the boy. But, in the Dec. 1 issue of the Patriot-News, Clark wrote ajhave been honored with such out-. The situation is a little dif
column on Penn State football that we thoroughly disagree with, standing grapplers as Don and, f* ren l *1 137 pounds. Speidel
Clark'wrote that the Lion loss to the Panthers has caused j 1 Gerry Maurey, Bob Homan, Dick j that "lot "who
some rumblings a mong the Penn State athletic board as to the futurejkemyre, Lariy Fomicola. Sid ; tial to become Eastern champs
of some of Coach Rip Engle’s assistants. He names no names. Thejt'lodland and John Pepe. But this j —but you know how sopho
reason for this is that the Pitt loss eliminated the Lions from the (year only one man stands out in- are
possibility of a Gator Bowl bid. He writes: jthat division—c apt a i n Johnny ijGuy withTan* a'lft” ?1
"The defeat] rather the manner by which it was attained by [-Johnston, the two-time 130-pound! re cord 0 f 70-1 (he lost his match
a rock-and-sock Pitt team, pointed up Stale’s weak pass defensive j Eastern champ and defending 130- as a high school freshman), and
system and caused rumbling within the rank and file of alumni. ;P°und National titlist. Danny Johnston (no relation to
Th. * ii,=t .1 ■ However, Johnston, who has an. Johnny) who copped the Per.n
■The. result is that some members of the Penn s taie athletic board > a]most j ncred j We collegiate ca-jsylvania 130-pound state title two
will suggest a change m assistant coaching personnel . . . jreer record of 17-3, can’t carry .years ago, are the two sophs.
If there are rumblings about coaching changes for next year, ; the division alone. ! Says Speidel of those two men:
we haven’t heard, about them as yet. As far as we know, the same' — biggest problem facing ,‘Guccione and Johnston have a
-coaching staff will be back for another crack next season. And right-; where Sid Nodland -signed for I
fully so. The coaches were not to blame for the. Lion loss. 1 I
First of all, Penn State, as Clark later put it, “was reeling an d|p ftv/ _ | , D oi . om i IA/*m
helpless at the end of the game.” Pitt did score the winning touch-!*'®/®* I\6pBCITS Win
down on a pass, yes. But, we feel—and it was the consensus of the!|.- n_ I* Artinn
press box, too—that the Panthers would’ve scored again, even ifj*** DOWilflg /sCTIOrI
they were forced -to do it on the ground. ] Mel Royer, for the second
Because the Lions could not match the strength of the heavier ’straight week, took both personal
Panthers should not cast a reflection on the ability of the Lion scoring honors in Tuesday night’s
coaches. When a team is oulmanned. it is oulmanned and that's intramural bowling, and again
all there is to it. And if ever a team was outmanned. Penn Stale ! sparked his team to a sweep of
was by the Panthers. No coach can be held responsible for that, deague laurels.
Secondly, we’ll be the first to admit that Penn State was weak; Royer, of Alpha Tau Omega,
on pass defense this year. But, it was through no fault of the coaches, jwon high singles with a tally of
They knew who was making mistakes on pass defense—although:2o2 and copped high series with
they never singled out any plaj-er to us—and made all attempts 585 points. The ATO squad high
to rectify this. But, a coach can’t play for his players. scored with 847 points.
... I T ast seas ° n - Penn State had a stron S P ass defense - Was A Snatches were Alpha Tau
this because of the Lion defensive system? Not entirely. Last year, ga. Phi Mu Delta, Phi Delta The
the Nittanies had the players—Milt Plum, Billy Kane and Ray Al-jta, Kappa Alpha Rho, Theta Del
berigi, for example—who could handle the pass defense nattems|* a Chi and Alpha Zeta.
better than this year's club. Those boys learned the tricks to pass
defense and were tough. !
This year's lot didn't learn as quickly and suffered for it. 1
Bui again, it's a case of a coach telling a boy his mistakes and 1
showing him how to correct it—not playing the game for him.
If the Lion coaches made no attempt to rectify the errors, then ■
get on them. But, they did attempt to rectify the Lion errors. The,;
defenders weren’t quick to learn—why go after the coaches scalp’
for it?
As far as we’re concerned, the coaches did a creditable and
conscientous job this year. They, in our opinion, are qualified coaches
—and they’ll be coaching at Penn State come the 1958 season.
The second point we wish to call to Clark's attention is that
Les Wallers did not lose his chance tor All-America recognition
with his performance in the Pitt game. In the same column, Clark
wrote:
“A one-handed pass reception attempt by Walters, and it could
be that Les handled the play as he thought best, cost the Hershey'
lad a sure berth on the All-America. Had Les-taken in that ball—it
was a play in the open for all to see—he would’ve scored. That would
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OPENS TONIGHT
SPORTS
By VINCE CAROCCI
Sports Editor
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA
Lightweights May Lose Prestige
■i By t.OU PRATO the last three years. "V I can lot of potential but you can't de
-1 (This is the first of three : find the right 123-pounder, we P ei ' ci on sophomores, They have
articles on the prospects 0/ Peim might be in business." Speidel 10 Set baptism first. It’s a ion.;
|, State's 1957-58 wrestling team. says. i3nd difficult step from h:^n
Today the lightweights.) Three sophomores and two jur.- f^i 00 ’ ,y ;,
[ For the past several campaigns, ;iors—one a transfer student—are Uon ir down
the strongest division in the Penn, the top contenders for that berth. ~ - 00 homores " P
State wrestling ranks has been Sophomore Gordon Danks, a New
W lightest class-la n« ££bS ft!g'ZW'
|and 13«. But unless the unex--division but sophs Bill Gibson and ■
pected happens (and it usually;Bob Castagliola and juniors Joe ™
does when Charlie Speidel is in-iCrampjmd Jac *E Maher, a refugee
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