Blue White Illustrated

GAME CONTINUED FROM 38 ban spring practice was defeated by a vote of 113-54. However, the NCAA did pass two items: a rule that restructured spring practice forever and a constitutional amendment that tightened financial donations. Spring football practice and preseason basketball practice were limited to 20 sessions in 30 days. Financially, all aid to athletes was required to be administered by the school, including funds donated by alumni. In 1952, Engle scheduled another Blue-White Game at the end of spring practice, and, again, there was another attempt to raise money for a scholarship fund. Because of the new financial requirement, the game was sponsored by the Athletic Association, which was then the overseer of all Penn State sports. Tickets were again $1, but this time football had competition from a Lion baseball game against Lafayette at the same time on the baseball field adjoining the stadium and from Olympic gymnastics tryouts inside nearby Rec Hall. Once again, the Blue team won, 186, but neither The Daily Collegian nor the Centre Daily Times mentioned the attendance. That evening, the finals in the Olympic gymnastics meet drew 4,500 fans, most of whom had sat through the Saturday afternoon competition, too. That brought an end to the fundraising for scholarships. From then on, Blue-White Games were free. In 1953 Engle decided to have a clinic for high school coaches in the morning, with the game following in the early afternoon. Once again, there was a baseball game at the same time. The weather was pleasant, and at least 200 coaches who attended the clinic stayed to watch the game, but the total attendance was not reported by the newspapers. The Blues won again, 12-6, and near the end of the CDT story was a sentence about a young running back up from the freshman team who scored the winning touchdown late in the game: ���Lenny Moore, a boy certain to be heard from in the future, broke over center for three yards to wind up a 35-yard touchdown drive.��� Yes, he was heard from in the future. Moore is now considered by many to be the best all-around offensive and defensive back in Penn State history. The coaches��� clinic continued in 1954, and this time a track meet against Navy preceded the football game on Beaver Field. More than 200 fans showed up on a muggy afternoon, and for the first time there was a tie, 12-12. By 1955 the Blue-White game had become a tradition, but the Collegian no longer made any reference to a Bucket Bowl. Perhaps they just ran out of water buckets. That year, the White team finally won with the highest score of all, 24-12, ending the losing streak for one particular young Engle assistant who had been helping coach the White team each year. Finally, 28-year-old Joe Paterno was on the winning side. PRATO CONTINUED FROM 57 ter a 10-14 finish in 1967 and 1010 in 1968, Egli was replaced by John Bach. Penn State has had 12 head basketball coaches since 1916, and Egli is the winningest of them all with a 187-135 record in his 14 seasons. That���s also the third-best winning percentage of the five men who coached 10 years or more. His 58.1 percent trails only the Nittany Lions��� first coach, Dutch Herman (66.7 percent in 15 years) and fourth one, John Lawler (61.6 percent in 13 years). That���s not too shabby for the coach of a team that a young, ingenuous sportswriter once wrote ���was not worth the floor it plays on.���

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