SATURDAY. JANUARY 6. 1462 '
al Rates 'Most Underrated' Label LSU ilele3cos Dietzel;
Galen Hall, hero of. Penn
State's 30-15 Gator Bowl vic
tory over Georgia Tech, was
college football's most under
rated q4arterbaclr in 1961.
So says Joe Paterno, Penn State's
offensivelbaddield coach. and he
should know. In addition to Hall.
Paterno has produced some bril
liant field generals. including Milt
Plum. Tony Rados, Al Jacks,
Richie Lucas, and Dick Rook.
'Hill is underrated because too
many people judge college players
by what possible professional fu
ture they might have, and this is
wrong," Paterno said. "College
and professional are twa entirely
different games. Hall wasn't draft-
Lion Riflemen
Seek Seventh
Victory Today
By .FRANK QUIGLEY
• The Penn State rifle team
;,hopes to continue its undefeat
ed wayi today when it enter
, tains the Villanova and West
Point rifle teams. The Lion
shooters have built their 6=o rec
ord• on the strength of single match
victories over Pitt and Lehigh and
a first place finish in a five-team
meet with Cornell, St. Lawrence
University, Canisius College, and
Clarkson College.
The sharpshooters are paced by
five lettermen returning from last
year's i squad-captain Richard
Gogolkiewicz, Charles Hutchison,
Bill. Shaffer, Dennis Brumbach.
and Bill Kipple. Gogolkiewicz
broke both the Penn State and
Pitt rifle range record in the
match fired at Pitt earlier this
year.
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Army has a record, losing
to Yale and defeating Canisius and
Providence. The Cadets will pro
vide one of the stiffest tests of
the year for the Libn marksmen.
Sgt. Oscar Gallmen; coach of the
Army team, is confident of a vic
tory although he said "the long
Christmas vacation may have hurt
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Nittany rifle coach! Sgt. Joe Wat
son a.;so was hopeful of a triumph.
"The bOys would like to win this
match because of thb rivalry built
up beVween, the two schools and
becausp Penn State has yet to de
fehtlArmy in varsity rfile compe
tition,n he said. j
Villanova is not 4xpected to be
as strong a seither Army or Penn
State.
The match will 61 fited at 1 p.m.
on the Rec Hall rifle range.
Gymnasts to Open
Against .Springfietd
Six dual meets are slated for
Penn f State's gymnastics team.
The ;Nittany Lions, defending
national champions, will open
Jan. 20 with a home meet against
Springfield.
Coach Gene Wettstone's team
will be headed by Greg Weiss.
who ,last year won the national
and 'astern all-'around titles and
Eastein champiOnships in parallel
bars, still rings, and long horse
vault and by Tom Seward, who
captured the Eastern free exer
cise title.
'The schedule: Jan. 20, Spring
fieldl 27, at Temple: Feb. 3, Navy;
10, at Army; 17, Syracuse; 24 at
Pittsburgh; March 2-3, Eastern
Championships at West Point;
29-30-31 National Championships
at Albuquerque, N.M.
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ed by any of the pro teams, but he
was a great college quarterback.
"Hall was as valuable and ha
portant to our team as any
quarterback we've had." Paler
no said. "He was a fins passer.
a c hlis runner. an excellent
bell handler and faker, bus mast
important of all. he was a bril
liant field general. Ha was a
leader who inspired cm:Adam
in •our other players. Ha peeved
in the Galax Bawl. whore he
*.ailed_ ovary play, what Rip
Engle meant when ha said that
'having Hall at quarterback was
like having another coach on
the held.'
Hall's bowl record furnishes
further proof of his value to the
Lions. In Liberty Bowl victories
over Alabama and Oregon and the
Gator Bowl victory over Georgia
Tech, Hall completed 17 of 35
passes for 240 yards and four,
touchdowns and rushed for 48
yards in six carries.
His one pass completion in six
attempts was good for 17 yards
and the game's only TD in the
's4' win over Alabama. In that one
he was subbing for All-American
Lucas: In the,'6o Liberty win over
,Oregon, Hall, alternating with
Hoak, completed four of seven
passes for 47- yards. He saved his
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best effort for the Gator BOwl win. T ® Sign as' Army Coach
completing 12 of 22 passes for 175 i
yards and three touchdowns..
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While Penn State's football
losses through graduation will be
tight numerically. -be se
vere in terms of key players.
Included among the nine ptay
ars who'll depart are soda Bob
named to the Coaches
All-Americen team and to every
All-East ' squad. and Jim
Schwab, States leading pass re
! calve: in lir tackle Jim Smith.
a two-year startral centers Jay
Huffman and BW Saul. called
by Rip Engle. the two best cen
ters on any: one team in the
East; and quarterback Hall. hero
of Penn States 30-IS Gatos
Bowl victory over Georgia Tech. t
Graduation also will take half
;backs Don Jonas, the team's field,
(goal and extra point specuthst, i
and Tony Wayne, and guard Dick
Wilson, a starter since the middle
tof his senior year.
These players led the Nittany
'Lions into three post-season bowl
}games in as many years and vir-;
;tortes in each one. During their;
three-year varsity 'careers, Penn'
,State compiled a regular-season
'record of 21 victories and only;
eight defeats.
BATON ROUGE. La. (a) Coach Paul Dietzel, Lottisi
ana State's "golden boy" who said he'd never leave for an
other coaching post, got his release yesterdayto accept '
Army's
glamorous top football job. ' •
The 37-year-old Dietzel. whose Tigers roared to pinnacles
of avec:4ls for the past few sea -I "
sons, had been the center of a ; Adams, Army athletic director,
smouldering sports controversy said he was "'elated" at the news,
for a week. Adams said he expected Dietzel
It ended yesterday when ,thei;° coarse to West Point t o " , ' l e
LSU Board of Supervisors unani-:" 3 "" nw '
mously voted to let Dtetzel out of Army. which fired Coach Dale
a five-year $11,500 contract. It had; Hall after the 1961 season, told
four years to go. Dietzel bed have to eel his
Earliec the walking papers from LSU be
boar cloakl asasioo. defeated 11-3 - - - him nn.
a move to reject Metiers apish- i Diet.tel's Bayou Bengalis copped
cation foe a release. Some quer- ;the national championship in
tars In Louisiana felt the board ;and won the 1262 Orange Bowl
should bold hint to hi* contract. :game after a *-1 season.
Dietzel told an alumni banquet. Athletic Director Jim" Corbett
a few months ago: said finding a replacement for
•Dietret might take some time.
"I love and I'll never leave.
for another coaching job." Dietzel. who gave the name
Chinese Bandits -his defensive
LSU signed Dietzel seven years' "
squad--to football, too k the Tigers
ago when he was an assistanti to three bowls—the sugar in 1052
coach at Army. and 19611. and the Orange in 1141
At West Point ; Col. Emory S. His over-all record was, 42-24.1
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