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Penn State May Discontinue "Red-Shirting"
By JIM KARL
If Eric A. Walker and three
other presidents of eastern foot
hall powerhouses approve a re
cent report drawn up by their
athletic directors, “red-shirting” j
of athletes may jio longer be
practiced at Penn - State, West
Virginia, Syracuse and Pitt.
Ernest B. McCoy, athletic di
rector at Penn State, said that
President Walker has been given
a copy of the report along with
the presidents at the other uni
versities. Sometime in the near
future the four prexys will get
together to make a decision on the
issue. i
“RED-SHIRTING" IS openly
practiced by most collegiate foot-:
ball' and basketball powers, al
though a crack-down has been
In evidence for several years how. 1
The practice entails holding an
athlete, usually in his sophomore
year, out of actual game competi
tion for a year but permitting him I
Weiss, Seward Compete
For All-Around Crown
, Penn State gymnasts have fallen into a rut, a*habit that
was started a decade ago and doesn’t seem likely to : be'
broken this year.
Tonight Greg Weiss -and Tommy Seward will, do their
best to see that a Penn State gymnast ’is crowned Eastern
Intercollegiate Gymnastics League * * *
champion lor the tenth straight
season
The winner of the title wiill be
decided tonight at West Point and
winners of the individual events
will Be decided tomorrow. There
is no team competition.
The all-around consists of free
exercise, side horse, still rings,
lons horse vault, parallel bah and
horizontal bar.
"EITHER WEISS or Seward
should win the all-around.” Lion
coach Gene Wettstone said before
the Nittanies left for West [Point.
"I don’t think anybody else has a
chance."
Weiss won the title last year,
picking up firsts in the parallel
oars, still rings and long horse
vault along the way.
Steward is the defending east
ern champion in the free exercise,
but the .stocky junior lost to Pitt’s
Earl McConnell in the Lions’ last
dual meet.
Wettstone figures that the Lions
will' have strong entries in,all the LARRY YOHN
regular events except the long
horse vault. There are no Penn * * *
Staters entered in the four-special i Williams and Larry Yohn will
events—tumbling, flying , rings, have to battle Temple's Sheldon;
rope climb and trampoline. Mittman and Army’s Will Worth -
SEWARD FACES strong com- Llf™* 0 ' P lf e B
petition from McConnell and hnnn« ar^ h ° rS€ |
Corky Voas of Syracuse jin the ca " d,dat / fo^° p honors '
free exercise. ! ‘ Army/ and Syracuse are ex-]
Weiss and Ray Grima di a re;Pectefno dominate the long horse;
expected to vie for top honors on VBult in 11118 year’s competition,
the side horse. The Nittany cap-1 ‘Weiss, Seward and Navy’s Cecil
tain was undefeated in the event ; Tune are the top choices on the
during the regular Reason, edgingiparallel bars and the two State
the Syracuse star, 283-276., stars are among the favorites on:
Lion still ring specialists Bud'the horizontal bar.
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This gives Him a 'year of ex
perience
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An NCAA
states th;
j letes hav
: years in which to
.coniplete four chtrik si»»imki
years of eligibility, including one
jyear of freshman eligibility.
The plan proposed bv McCoy
and the three other athletic di
rectors Frank Carver of Pitt
iLou Andreas of Syracuse and
i Robert Brown of West Virginia—
istates that, with certain ex-
By JOHN MORRIS
Assistant Sports Editor
• >fc urtfui vvoxcum/mv. UNIVERSITY PARK. PENNSYLVANIA
Iceptions, a player must complete'
four y.ears of eligibility in four 1
years.
THOSE EXCEPTIONS would
include a player who was injured
and had to sit out a year, or a
player who dropped out of school.
It’s common knowledge that
Penn State has “red-shirted” play
ers for some years, to a much
greater extent in football than in
basketball.' ‘ !
But the Lions have not carried:
the practice to excess as "have
some other football powers.
“We played a team three or four
(years ago that had ‘red-shirted’
over 20 players,” McCoy said.
S The Lions currently have seven
Iplayers who, if they return to 1
school for a jfifth year next year,!
will be considered “red-shirts”.
TWO OF THE SEVEN players,
tackles Charlie Sieminski and
'Gerry 'Farkas, have stated that
| they will not return unless they
tare given special consideration.
Broken Board,
16-16 Deadlock
Mark IM Swim
By FRANK QUIGLEY
A broken diving board and
aL-iied-meet, highly unusual
occurrences in their own right'
combined to give last night’s 1
IM swimming competition a
bizarre twist. ;
However, before the evening
was over,, everything was
straightened out and Phi Mu
I Delta, defeated Phi Epsilon Pi,
116-12; Delta Chi overwhelmed
[Delta Upsilon, .27-4; . and .Phi
Delta-Theta, squeezed by Acacia,
17-16.
The diving board was broken by
divers practicing before the meet
Because another diving board was
not available this event had*, to
be cancelled. '. ' :
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In the tied match and
Phi Delta Theta were deadlocked
16-16 after the four regular events
were run off. Phi Delta Theta
idinched the victory by winning a
! special 90-yard medley relay. The'
[victors were led’by Chuck Yartz,:
who won the freestyle and breast
stroke. A • victory in • the relay]
event and Bill Barber’s win tin■
the backstroke gave Acacia it’s;
two firsts. ■ |
] Delta Chi copped' first place
finishes in every event to elim
inate DU from the tournament,
Don Butcher in the freestyle, Ed
Hinojosa in the backstroke, and<
Steve Sulzbacher in the breast-'
stroke took firsts for Delta Chi.
. Phi Mu Delta's victorious relay:
team made' the differerice in a
come-from-behind victory over]
Phi Epsilon PL .
Fresh Baseball Meeting [
Frash baseball coach Bill Spieth
will hold a meeting for freshman
baseball candidates at "5:15 Mon
day in 241 Rec Hall.
Le., a waiver of spring practice!
and enough financial aid to
cover their fifth year of school.
The) other five players, Roger!
Kochman, Bob Kline, A 1 Gursky,'
Bob Hart-and Cliff Davis, have!
indicated they will return next
year. ! * i
I Kochman’s case is a .little dif
jferent than the other four, and it
points up one of
If he {exceptions
which McCoy
said Were includ
ed in!the report,
i Kochman suf
fered a knee in
jury and had to
sit out an entire
year, j thus be
coming an auto-
Jmatic "red-shirt”.
The Big 10 and
the Ivy League
have rules govern
ing “red - shirt- Otnr
ing” and McCoy believes that
eventually the practice will clis-
Moran Will Run 1000 in
Ed Moran, former Penn State Penn State records. As a junior
track great, will compete in the in 1958, he set the 1500-meter
1000-yard run in the,New York mark of 3:43.2, and in 1959'he
Knights of Columbus Meet at set records of 4:01.7 id the mile
Madison Square Garden tonight, and 1:49.5 in the 880-yard run: ,
In-.1960' Moran won the Co- Also in 1959,‘ Moran ran with
lumbian Mile in the K of C meet, ' . , . j- .
but he lost last year to Istvan record-breaking relay teams
Rozsavolgyi of Hungary. —the distance medley, mile relay
Moran holds three individual and four mile relay:
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appear completely.
’ "It’s been on the floor at the
NCAA convention for two or three
years now," McCoy said. ‘'lf we
can make ourselves clear regard
ing nomenclature, I think most
people will go along with the rec
ommendations of the Council, which
in essence is that an athlete should
complete his athletic eligibility
within four years of his enroll
ment” !'■ .
McCOY SAID IT shouldn’t mak«
any difference whether Penn
State arid the' other three schools
decide to quit “red-shirting/’ while
other .‘hools continue the practice
and produce better football teams.
"God forbid we lose the desire
to win,” McCoy said, “but let's
Snot forget that that, is not the
main purpose of intercollegiate
athletics. Intercollegiate ,athletics
has its! part in the educational
[scheme[ of things. But when it’s
overemphasized, then we, leave
Ithe door open for criticism.”
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