PAGE TE& 'Hutch' Shows Progress In Egß's Training Plan By JIM BUKATA (This U the second in c series on members of the 2962-63 Penn State basketball team. Next is Bob Donato.) Bob Hutchinson is a long way from being a great college ballplayer, but for a person who never touched a basketball until three years ago, his progress must be called great The Hutchinson story began to unfold three years ago when coach John EJgli was in need of a tall basketball player. Egli found a tall person in the registration. line, but quickly learned that he didn’t, know the first thing about playing the sport. ★ ★ ★ - All that "Hutch*,'had going for him was the fact that he was 6-B.' EGLI TALKED Hutchinson into coming out for the team apd immediately began a training pro gram: to try to mold the gangly freshman into a basketball glaysr “He couldn’t do a thing at first" Egli said. “He couldn’t even catch a basketball.” Egli and his assistants, Wally Colender and A 1 Stull, spent hours teaching Hutch how to shoot, pass, rebound, .play defense anything that might be needed on the basketball court. Hutphinson dr o p.p e d out of school at the end of his freshman year, but came out again the next year. ■ Things didn’t come easy for him. Eligible at the semester break, Hutchinson played in four games and tallied a single point. LAST YEAR, things took a turn upwards for him although his ability still left a lot to be desired. His rebounding and defense im proved vastly and at times last year, it looked like Egli's long hours of work were beginning to pay off. Hutch played one of his best games of the season in an opening round game of the Quaker City Festival. .He threw in' two points in the first'half and gathered in numer ous rebounds against a strong lowa team. Due . a great deal to his efforts. State went to the dressing room down only 27-26. Hutch fouled out early in the second half and without his re- Folley-Jones Sign NEW YORK (APl—Zora Fol ley, the No. 3 heavyweight box ing contender from Dallas, and Doug Jones, 25-year-old New York prospect, have signed for a 10- round bout in Madison Square Garden on Saturday night, Dec. 15. The fight will be televised na tionally. s BEAT MARYLAND DEANS WALK-IN (Comer of Pugh & Bearer) We Cash Student Cchecks LAST 4 DAYS M TDKituT >T- ctwrrß “'TAOS. Collegian Photo Staff Meeting FRIDAY 6:30 P.M. Attendance win be Mandatory : ALL INTERESTED PERSONS ALSO INVITED THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. UNIVERSITY PARK,. PENNSYLVANIA ' 808 HUTCHINSON ■k k k bounding strength, the Lions fell to shreads and were badly beaten. Later in the season against Duke, Hutch threw id ten points in a game that saw the Lions lose, 95-55. 7 j This season Egli is a lot more from Hutchinson. “His shooting has been good Bt practice and he’s getting the ball off the boards” said. Egli. “He’s really starting to look like a.-col lege ballplayer.’’ , , '-It has been only three years since Egli’s experiment started, but this year it looks like it may pay dividends. . . Then lend an ear to oar message! If being in -a business that can be built from your own ability and imagination sounds appeal ing, you should look into the possibilities of life Insurance tales and sales management The opportunities are limitless —and you can get started now, whSt you're still in college. Our booklet "Career Opportune teas”, will give you a good pic ture of what the life insurance business can mean to you. Just write or phone us. ~ fieerge A. Berosqite, Jr. Supervisor 103 E. Hearer An. AD 8-0544 State. College PROVIDENT MUTUAL Life Insurance Company of Philadelphia Cornell's Wood Named 'Back of Week' By The Associated Press The top individual performance in college football last weekjcame not from a'ny of the big name stars of the nation’s powerhouses but from a little known quarter back in thejlvy League —[Gary, Wood of Cornell. The 180-pound, 5-foot-ll junior quarterback! of the not-so-big Big Red put on! such a dazzling all around exhibition in his beam’s 35-34 upset victory over Princeton at Ithaca, N.Y., that he wqs the virtually unchallenged “Back of the Week.” ; | The honor is established! In a poll by Thd Associated Press. Wood,, tiom Cortland, j N.Y., completed 13 of 46 passes lor 212 yards and j carried the . ball 15 times for 125 more for a[ total effort of 337 yards, a record in the Ivy, League. I Of Cornell's five touchdowns. let Lots More from EM more body JtfSHlF 1 in the .blend more flavor - i c®X> more taste through the filter And IsM*s filter is the modem filter—all inside and outside—so onlypure wliite touches *your lips. ' „ '< « he. threw fot three of them; and ran for the other two—one of the latter on a 49-yqrd romp achieved vjjth a marvelous display of Kp swinging and open field fakery. SEVERAL. OTHER outstanding backfield performances electri fied football buffs from coast-to coast, but none .quite measured up to the one-man show put on by Wood. Roger Staubach, Navy’s sopho more quarterback whose name fa pronaunced “Star Back,” hit on eight-passes in eight attempts for 192 yards'and gained '2B yards on the ground in the Midshipnvn’s 32-9 triumph over Pittsburgh in the Oyster Bowl. Tommy (Gun) Myers had an other great day as he led his Northwestern teammates to a 36-6 victory over Notre Dame and the No. 1 national ranking in; the weekly polL He completed 11 of i J - , i in the smoke WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 31.1962 18 passes for >l6B yards and sic* counted for two of his touchdowns. -A devastating show was put by Gary Cuczzo of Virginia, who. scored one touchdown on a five yard run and passed for thrive others in a 34-7 triumph ovir Davidson. Terry Baker of Ore gon State passed for 177 yards and three touchdowns and gained 39 yards rushing in the 51-22*rout of west Virginia. Jerry Stovall of Louisiana State had gains of 65 and 77 yards with pass receptions in the-23-0 vic tory over Florida. Gayle Sayers of Kansas had runs of 69 and; 96 yards in ]a> total of 283 yards the 36-27 decision over .Oklahoma State. : : 1 Former Star Now Coach Lion cage coach John Egli wka a three-letter winner to r Penn State in the ’4o’s. i
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