PAGE SIX Nittanies' Second Unit Boosts Team's Prestige By JOHN MORRIS Sportz Editor The emergence of Penn State’s Reddy (second) unit in Saturday's 34-6 victory over West Virginia may make the 1962 football team the greatest team ,in Rip Engle’s 13 years here. Engle has said ail season that the first unit was the best he has had since coming to State in 1950, but until Saturday the silver haired Lion mentor had deplored the lack of size and experience of State's second unit . . Saturday the Reddy unit came of age and this signals nothing but woe for the Lions' next two rivals Holy Cross and Pitt. • “Our second team gave us their best performance of the year,’’ Engle said after the Mountaineer dash. ‘‘They are not big, but but they are beginning to get some experience.” -West Virginia coach Gene Corum called State's second unit the difference in the game. ' “THEY HAD two good teams to <tur one.” Corum said. VThis is .one of the best first teams I’ve ever, seen at Penn State, but against us the second team was belter.” t The second team has improved steadily m recent games and now is a consistent threat if the Blues falter Tnv present Reddy unit consists of isiic sophomores, three juniors and two ,«eniors -- hacking up Engle's assertion about the lack of experience. j. Bud Yost and Bill Bowes, a pair of talented sophomores, are the ends. Bowes, a converted quarter back, and Yost, a former half back. were in the same buckfield at Lock Haven High School. Cramp Shattered Harriers'Hopes For '6l IC4A Cross-Country Crown By JOE GRATA At tl e four-mile mark of last year's IC4A Cross-Coun try Championships, State’s harriers had th* moot sewed up! But over the last mile of the rugged Van Cortlandt Park course, disaster struck more swiftly than the infamous Johns town flood of 1899. Colin Grant sophomore cross country standout was listed as a doubtful starter yesterday for Monday's JC4A Championships - at .Van Cortland Park in New York City. State coach John Lucas re ported that Grant is suffering from inflamed tendons in his legs. The distance :runner was examined yesterday and will undergo treatment immediate ly- The Lions, then IC4A defend ing title holders, wen! running ahead of a strong Michigan State contingent. Now graduated Gerry “fn&K r • - ! "MIXER" i TIM - ATHERTON i j - : . ] ■ ; i Records H i ■ 1 j , i j Free Refreshments » i , « i• • ; r TIME—6:3O-8;00 THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. UNIVERSITY PARK. PENNSYLVANIA Bowes caught a touchdown pass and Yost recovered a fumble on West Virginia’s IG-vard line m Saturday's congest. Sophomore Sandy Buchan and senior Gerry Farkas are the ta- kies bn the Reddy unit. Buchan j-moved up from the third unit, I replacing Ron Tietjens early in the season. Farkas has been in i the starting lineup, on several oc | casions ; this year, : but has been | replaced by Terry Mon.tghan in recent games. The: guards are .-junior Bemie Sabol and . sophomore Glenn Kessler. Sabol is an excellent line backer and Ressler has taken over for fellow sophomore John Simko as the Reddies’ defensive middle' Norman was pacing the State harriers in second place, followed by Howie Deardorff in third. Steve Moorhead in 14th. Ernie Noll in! 25th and Lionel l Bassett in 29thj j State s distance runners, then under the reins of, Charles (Chic) Werner, had completed j the ’6l season :wrth a 4-J - record. The only loss, came at. East Lansing, Mich... where the Spartans edged the. Nittanies, 27-23. ■ But \yilh less than a mije to go in the IC4A race, jiisaster, struck. Deardorff developed a cramp and was forced to stop ta recuperate. "It was only a few minutes rest." Deardorff, j still sounding dismayed, explained recently. “But it seemed niore lik* 10 or 15 minytes.” , i ; ! Once i Deardorff got started again. ; he was unable,to maintain his former pace and, finally fin ished '’in 48th place,. Assuming that.such misfortune hadn’t be fell thejLion harriers.!State would have raptured its feebnd consecu tive. IC4 A crown. However. MSU topped i State jn the official tallv, 82-90. ! . : ; i f i:,' '-j rt. vj u*- ■ y ; r us. -'ate. : ARKAS GERRY guard. Simko has been bothered by an' infection and saw only limited action against West Vir ginia. Ralph Baker, who plays with the first unit on defense, and Jim Williams are the Reddy unit centers. Both men are juniors. The backfield | has sophomore Ron Coates at quarterback, sopho more Frank Hershey as the left halfback, junior'Junior Powell at right half and senior Buddy Torris at fullback. Junior quarterback Don Caum has been operating as a regular on State’s first defensive unit and junior fullback Ed Stuckrath has served well as a first unit line backer. State’s Norman, a native of England, finished second be hind Cornell sophomore Steve Machooka. the native of Africa who is not competing this year because of aeddemic difficulties. Colin Grant and Dick.Lamp man, competing in the { freshman run last year, finished sixth and seventh. This standout pair of sophomores, along'with Deardorff and Nichols, are the only Lion runners at all familiar with the topography of the “Bronx” park. the shave lotion men recommend to other men / NCAA, AAU Reach Preliminary Truce NEW YORK UP) The AAU and NCAA settled— sti least temporarily—their 2Mi-year war for control of track and field in the United States yesterday by forming a coalition group. Warring groups reached their agreemeAt after three hours of negotiating yesterday following a marathon session Monday at which they were urged by Attorney General Rob ert F. Kennedy to settle their differences for the . sake of ths United States Olympic team in 1964. , “Preliminary agreement has been reached by the parties involved to get up a track and field coalition embracing all quali fied organizations,” said ?u.s. Olympic Committee President Tug Wilson in a formal statement following the meeting. »»*r i j «* ■, vv^'\l j ~ - ✓ / \-:'IV v n *A i' &t \***'?f - > !-:: ‘The proposal is subject to rativ fication by the organizations in* volved. All these organizations will proceed with- their programs which will be coordinated under the proposed coalition. > •-' ■ *• - < * N "Details are to be 'worked out later." THE MEETING was held be hind closed doors =and the state ment still left unanswered the question of dual sanctions, the main point in the feud. The AAU has maintained that as the governing body of -track and field irg the United States, it alone had the authority to sanction open track meets. The International Amateur Athletic Federation backed the AAU on this. The NCAA-s po n s o r ed,U.S. Track and Field Federation, how ever, claimed it too could sanction open meets. - Asked if this meant either group was giving way, NCAA Executive Director| Walter Byers snapped: "That’s all I can tell you.” Presumr ,l T\_however, the AAU, will sar r Federation meets. And the oration in turn will withdraw its threat to keep all collegians from -participating in AAU-sponsored events. THE AAU would remain the sanctioning agent. Nothing was said or discussed concerning basketball and gym nastics. two other sports involved in the AAU-NCAA squabble^,How ever, one high ranking official said that the track and field pat tern probably would be applied to the two other sports. Both the AAU and the NCAA still must obtain the ratification of their member organizations or institutions. The ’ AAU probably will .decide at its annual meeting WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14. 1963 1.25 and 2.00 plus tax. ROBERT F. KENNEDY . . . applied pressure Nov. 23-Dec. 2 at Detroit.' The NCAA is expected to take a mail vote of its members. However, it foregone conclusion that there will be no difficiitly. Likewise, the coalition has evaporated the threat of any dif ficulty. concerning the 1963 indoqr track season. The federation hgd been threatening to conduct meets in direct conflict with' the estab lished AAU-okayed invitation meets around the country. The meeting was called by the Olympic committee in a last-ditch effort to settle the feud which haid been simmering since 1959. All that time the NCAA had main tained it had not been given the proper, voice in the conflict of track and field even though jt supplied most of the facilities and participants. ; Raiders Sign Agajanian ! OAKLAND. Calif. (AP)—A 43- year-qld place kicker, Ben Ag^i- ; janian, has' been signed by the Oakland Raiders of the American Football League.
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