I onchez abandons redshirt for 'suit of armor'
( ...or, "Well. someone has to write about Donchez now that
Sheeley's gone.")
By RAY McALLISTER
Collegian Sports Editor
Ah, yes, Tommy Donchez. A part time starter as a soph,
the blond running back was supposed to furnish a great deal
of the ground game the next year, to take up the slack Lydell
and Franco had left behind.
But a second knee operation crimped those plans a bit. So
Penn State, without the ground game it never did get until
John Cappelletti found out he could run over people, waited
around for Donchez to come back so he could run over people.
He never did, of course, though there was suspicion he
might near midseason, and thus one ground game was
redshirted for his junior year.
Well, Tom Conchez is back and this time, he says, he'll
stick around for awhile. One of the few veterans in the initial
three-day session of spring training, Donchez has taken two
scrimmages full of hitting and remains optimistic.
"I'm doing all right," Donchez said last night. "There's
been no problem at all, really. I've been hit a lot in the two
scrimmages we've had no one worries too much about
where they hit you and it didn't bother me.
"My knees are normal now. There's no cartilage left but
you don't really need cartilage for mobility."
Donchez, who'll be a junior football-wise in the fall, seems
to feel other things are back to normal now, too. For when he
talks of the other veterans at practice, he refers to them as
Voithofer
leaves for
Middletown
Casper Voithofer
resigned yesterday as
Penn State's assistant
basketball coach to return
to his old job at Middletown
High School.
Voithofer, who was head
coach for three years at
Middletown before a four
year stint as assistant here,
listed the reasoning behind
his leaving as being two
Baseball roundup:
MONTREAL (AP)
16irimy Hutton's two-run
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..arry Bowa's single.
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hem on Ron Fairly's first
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"First," he said last
night, "I've got a young
family a child 3-months
old, one 15-months and one
five years and I'd like to
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welcome that challenge
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Voithofer replaces John
McKendry, who resigned
earlier this month, after
cepcion's sixth-inning single
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"( he other seniors," before adding "the other guys who came
in when I did."
A season on the sidelines, it seems, might have some guys
itching to get into the pads, the uniform, the game. But for
Donchez it was quite a different story last fall.
"I enjoyed being red-shirted," he said, "I really did. I was
a free spirit for those couple of months, able to do what I
wanted to. I got my weight up about 10 pounds. It helped my
grades, too."
Evidently it didn't hurt Donchez too much in other areas,
either. Last week, under the scrutiny of prd scouts on cam-
leading his team to a third
place finish in the PIAA
Class B tournament.
McKendry cited undue
pressures in his
resignation.
In his last season with the
highly successful Mid
dletown program,
Voithofer took the school to
a 28-1 record and the Class
B state championship.
"They took me to a state
championship," he laughed
last night.
No successor to the Penn
State assistant has been
named as of yet. —RMc
tie-breaking homer off New
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yesterday night, climaxing a
three-run rally that propelled
the Baltimore Orioles to a 4-2
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'l'm just trying to get acquainted with football again
When you come back after being away so long, you feel
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'lt really is something to look forward to because
you get kind of tired playing pick-up games at Rec Hall'
Intramurals offer a cure for sporting
By JEFF YOUNG
Collegian Sports Writer
There are about 27,000 coach, Hugo Bezdek,
students attending this featuring basic sports like
University. Each of those football, basketball, wrestling
27,000 students has an itch, of and boxing. I-M Director
one kind or another, that C.M. "Dutch" Sykes
needs to be scratched from remarked that at this time,
time to time. For those whose tackle football was played.
itches take the form of As the years passed, the
athletic competition, and who program was revised and
don't have the talent to play improved. Cross country was
collegiate varsity sports, tried but the interest was not
there is an institution for there. Boxing was discon
scratching those itches known tinued when the Physical
as intramurals. Education department
Organized intramurals got discontinued formal boxing
their beginning at Penn State instruction.
Phils top
breaking single in the bottom
of the 14th inning gave the
Kansas City Royals a 5-4
victory over the Oakland A's
last night.
CLEVELAND (AP)
Oscar Gamble hit a t-'ple and
pus, he and everyone else were electronically timed in the 40
yard dash. Donchez' 4.97, in pads, was his best ever. As for
now, though, performance is not necessarily on his mind.
"I'm not out to set any Penn State spring training records,"
he laughed. "I'm just trying to get acquainted with football
again.
" When you come back after being away so long, you feel
awkward in a uniform. It's like a uniform of armor. But after
half an hour it comes back to you."
Though, as he said, "there's nothing fun about spring
practice," Donchez admits he's more than happy to be back.
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The program grew as the
University grew. A golf
putting tournament was
expanded to a medal play
tourney in which the con
testants played four rounds of
golf. Other sports such as
bowling, racquetball, and
volleyball were added to the
program when the necessary
facilities became available.
Today Penn State has one of
the largest and best in
tramural programs in the
country. Last year over 50 per
cent of the male students
participated in IMs, which
"I was looking forward to it," he said. "It really is
something to look forward to because you get kind of tired of
playing pick-up games at Rec Hall."
Though the confrontation is not immediately at hand,
eventually Donchez and Bob Nagle will be paired off in an
attempt to find a starting fullback for next fall. Nagle held
the position last year but actually it was Donchez' position he
was holding.
"I'm sure I'll be playing fullback but it might not be first
string," Donchez said. "I take it one day at a time right
now.
"The position is Bobby Nagle's. He's the fullback so I'm the
one who's challenging. But I'm not worried too much about
that right now. I'll just let the chips fall where they may."
ASTROTURF BURNS Defensive tackle Barry Crissman
has left the Penn State team, purportedly because coach Joe
Paterno indicated he would see little in the way of playing
time this fall. "I just couldn't see going through all the work
for what I was getting. It just wasn't worth the money," the
6-0, 225-pound junior said, before adding that Paterno said
"It's up to you." Crissman's four-year scholarship thus will
be cancelled at the end of this term.
The 60 or so players who have been practicing since
Saturday have finished for the week and will be joined this
weekend by 28 lettermen who were excused earlier. Sixteen
more practices, as allowed by the NCAA, is what they'll go
through before the annual Blue-White game May 19.
scheduled a total of 5,807
contests.
The program today in
cludes 14 different com
petitive sports, with tour
nament play in each. There
are three leagues; dorm,
fraternity, and independent.
Each year a champion is
declared on the basis of points
awarded for performances in
each sport throughout the
year.
Over the past ten years, Phi
Gamma Delta has won the
all-year championship five
times, while in the dorms,
where there is a much greater
turnover, Balsam House has
won three titles and Erie
House has taken two. Con
sistent contenders in the
dorm league are Balsam,
Lackawanna, Erie, and
Hemlock. The toughest frats
are usually Phi Gamma
Delat, Phi Delta Theta, and
Delta Upsilon.
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writing schedules, keeping
records, and handling the
fiscal end of things. All this
and more is taken care of by
Sykes and his staff of five
men. The job, says Sykes. "is
hours and hours of time and
work every night."
The future of Ibis holds in
store some changes which
will bring about the in
volvement of more and more
students, including women
At present, there are some
intramurals for women, but
the thing of the future, says
Sykes, is co-ed recreation
Sykes said he feels that the
number of competitive sports
need not be increased, and
that co-ed sports will be a
welcome addition to the
program
Is that so?
Penn State has finished in
the Top Ten and gone to a
major bowl game five of the
last six football seasons.
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