Evening star., 1952-10-09
By Bill Fuchs

Wilson Teachers College is doing
so much with so little.
The schools athletic facilities
would make a grammar school in
structor vince, yet the Owls have
a full-time. all-embracing sched-
ule. Included are varsity teams in
football. basketball. baseball and
tennis; intramural competition in
touch-football, softball, basket
ball and volleyball, and individual
courses in tennis, badminton,
archery. swimming, bowling, table
tennis, golf. shuffleboard. weight
lifting. field hockey. tumbling and
horseback riding.
The physical education staff
consists of Phil Fox, former Roo
sevelt High coach; Miss Myrtle
Park and Miss Augusta Kriener.
Locker rooms are about as spa
cious as living quarters on a sub
marine and the only outside field
of play is a hard-surfaced area
next to the school.
"Yet we have one of the finest
physical education programs Of
fered in a college," DR.. Walter E
Hager, president, says. Fox does
a wonderful job. You know, he
could drop all intercollegiate
sports tomorrow and it wouldn't
affect his status one Bit"
Boys Eager to Play.
"I can't drop them" Fox say.
smiling. "The boys won't let me
I don't think a sandlot football
team has the disadvantages W.
have; yet these boys want to play
so badly. they don't care whar
they have to put up with"
One player walked up to Fol
after last weeks game at Ship
penSburg (Pa.) Teachers and re-
marked: "You know, Mr.. Fox
those Shippensburg players no
only have practice shoes; the!
also have shoes just to use il
games!"
Wilson. a District public schoo
which does not share in tht
athletic fund allotted by Congress
Tor the District high schools, can
afford such a luxury. In fact
the boys buy their own shoes
One boy, a first-string guard. i
hoping his last the season; he ha
them held together with tape.
The squad dresses in a room
that bulges with only a dozel
present. The lockers are so smal
the doors won't close on a com
Iplete football uniform. There ar
only four showers.
, Practice Infrequently.
Most of the boys work in thei
spare time, limiting themselves t
one and two practice sessions
, week. The team won it's opene
: against Naval Receiving Station
= then took a 800 pasting fror
/ Shippensburg. But the Owls ar
hopeful. They play at Gallaude
Saturday and have hopes of win
E ming the rest of their games.
D The top linebacker is Larr
: Colabucci. one of II men from a
original unit of 140 to escape
E trap in the fighting in Kore;
Colabucci suffered frozen feet
that ordeal.
Center Phil Cocimano is vetera
of action in Germany in Worl
War II; 29-year-old Gerald Grit
fifth, whose wife is an elementar
school teacher in Silver Sprini
is a Navy veteran. A defensiI
tackle. Griffith hasn't missed
practice Guard Eddie Thompso
served in Europe with the Ms
= rines. The youngest player
!. Harry Collins, 17-year- -old hal.
D. back from Tech. Quarterback an
passer is Joe Carr, who also supel
= visors the intramural program fl
:, e Fox.
: High School Stars on Team.
S Also on the team are Bob Mu
ray, 220-pound tackle from Eas
: ern Highs District public hif
Is championship team of 1850; Ell
Is James Dorsey of Eastern: !
S. Lasso. center and extra-poil
n kicker; Conway Perkins, 10
% pound All-High guard from Tecl
Bryant Hopkins, 205-pound tack