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Maierhofer Lost for Season
Leg Claims
Captain of Boaters
Broken
By SANDY PADWE. Collegian Sports Writer
Calamity has hit the Penn State Soccer team for the
foul th time in a week!
All-American halfback Howie Maierhofer broke his leg
In a scrimmage Wednesday night. He will be lost for the
season
Earlier, the Nittany Lion
Lou Van Rafelghem, Ralph Beck
er, and Ihor Chyzowych. All were
lettermen last season.
Last season Maierhofer gained
honorable mention honors for
the H.C.A.)I. all-American soc
cer team. He was rated one of
the best all-round players to
don the blue and white in the
last decade. Maierhofer was an
offensive threat as well as a de
fensive standout.
The circumstances under which
Materhofer was lost brings to
mind a similar story of II years
ago.
1947 was the year that Lion
coach Kenny Hosterman was be
ing counted on to lead the Nit
tany Lions to the national cham
pionship.
He had led the Lions in scor
ing in 1946. After leading the
Looters to victory in their first
three games, Hosterman broke
his leg in practice. This broken
leg ended his active career.
Maierhofer's sudden loss fur
ther complicates the Lion soccer
situation.
One week ago Coach Hosier- '
man was casting covetous eyes
on a national championship.
Now Hosterman is going to
have a tough time fielding an
experienced team.
The previously happy halfback
situation joins the fullback and
goalie positions on the critical
list. Hostcrman's problem doesn't
lie in lack of candidates. The
problem is that they aren't ex
perienced.
To help alleviate the personnel
problem, Hosterman has gone
back to playing checkers with his
men. Gary Miller, who has been
moved everywhere, is now slated
Panthers' Wide Open Offense
Feared by New UCLA Coach
LOS ANGELES OP) The late,
UCLA football coach, Red Sand
cis, had many interesting thenl
ries about coaching.
Red used to say, for instanced
That he'd rather have an under-'
coached rested team than anl
over-coached tired team on the!
field.
Big George Dickerson, who I
tepped up as head coach when
• anders died of a heart attack
ast month, has the same theory,
.nd he has left unchanged most
, f the Bruin training routine.
So Saturday UCLA will field a.
uad at full strength, with nary'
n injured player, when the Bru
s open the season here against'
ItiSbllrgh.
As for the Pitt engagement,'
rickerson observed:
"We'll be flying blind. They areill
of using the same attack they
red to. We have no scout reports!
r movies on them.
"We'll have to diagnose them ash
e game develops."
Pitt Coach John Michelsen
id indeed revise his offense.
e opened it wide in spring
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
booters lost the services of
Howie Maierhofer
... breaks leg
to be shuffled back to his original
halfback slot.
Tony Mattel. a native of Italy,
is taking a fling at center for
ward. "If this move works out
it will help a lot." said Hosier
man.
When asked to comment on
the bad luck his team has had
this year, Hosterman replied:
"The losses will definitely hurt
us. But this is the type of thing
one has to expect in sports. You
Can be sure the boys won't give
up. The scrimmage at practice
last night proved that."
practice. using a spill end and a
wingback on almost every play,
and emphasized th e passing
game.
They Will All Get a Chance
Kochman,
Speed for
Speed has been one of the out
standing lacks in Penn State
backfields of recent vintage, so
it is not surprising that freshman
Coach Earl Bruce has come up
with one of the fastest backs in
the state.
The athlete in question is Ro
ger Kochman who played "third
man" on the championship Wil
kinsburg eleven . The 6-1, 185-
pounder was the WPIAL sprint
champion but "ONLY" the sec
ond fastest man in the state last
year.
In the PIAA's he finished
second in both the 100-yard
yard dash and the 220. Another
dash and the 220. Another odd
ity about this comparatively
unpsoiticised star is. with all
his speed, ha played fullback.
Bruce has been working him at
halfback during the first four
days of drills.
Kochrnan played in the Ameri
can Legion All-Star game: in Eas
ton as his only post-season recog
nition. He joins Wilkinsburg
teammate Al Maiello, a guard.
, on the Lion frosh.
Coming from the same district
(Duquesne) and lust as highly
touted, is fleet-footed back Mike
Daniels. The 6-foot, 180 pound
speedster was named to the usual
amount of all-district squads.
Fullback Al Gursky worked
ihard enough at Governor Mifflin
thigh School to be named to the
:Big 33 All-State squad. Gursky.
who goes 6-foot, and weighs 185
pounds, also played in the All-
State game at Hershey.
On the small side of the six*
chart, but still the big end of
the talent line, stands Allen
Brewster. The Ridley Twp.
quarterback hits the scales at
ISS pounds and stands 5-9 ac
cording to Bruce.
Brewster, whose father is the
Pitt Charter Plane
Flies Into Trouble
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (GP) —I
A four-engine TWA Cionstella-'
lion airplane, identical to a Penn
Stale football charter. with Piirs,
41-man football squad developed;
engine trouble Thursday and was'
forced to land here.
The aircraft was carrying the
team to Los Angeles for its sea.
son opener with UCLA Saturday.
Daniels Give Froth
Co►rting Grid Season
* * *
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Roger Kochman
. . . speed at kist
baseball coach at Ridley and a
Penn State grad, was named to
the Associated Press All-State
eleven_
Galen Hall is another top quar
terback prospect for the frosh.
Hall, who stands 5-11, and weighs
185 pounds, was named to the
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Big 33 All-State team and also
was a standout on the state
championship basketball team at
Williamsburg. .
Harry Finkleston, 5-10. 170
pounds, is another top aspirant
and, according to Bruce. is one
of his best punters. Finkleston
learned his football under a
former Penn Stater, Joe Yu
kica.
Service veteran John Cino, 6',
180 pounds from Carbondale;
Robert Hart, 6', 190 pounder from
Morrisville; Bob Kline, 6', 180
pounder from Easton; Bill Peters,
6', 185 pounder from Meadville;
Nixon Stuart. 6', 180 pounder
from Bala Cydwyd; Ron Wilson,
5-10, 190 gpunder from Hillside,
N.J.; Werner Marshall, 6-1, 170
pounder; Tom Bundy, 6-1, 185
pounder from Sagertown and
Tony Wayne, 5-7, 155 pounder
from Higgins, Mass., are also top
backfield candidates.
The best advice we heard
from the coaches went like this:
"Tell all the freshmen without
the press clippings that the
back who picked up the most
yardage for us last year didn't
even have one high school foot
ball honor. but he got to play
for Penn State." He was talking
about Dave Kasperian.
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