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All-America while at the Naval Academy,tackle Bob Reifsnyder has been traded
by the Los Angeles Chargers of the new American Football League to the N. Y.
Titans. • .Currently holding down the number one varsity fullback slot for West
Point is A1 Rushatz with two able replacements in John and Don Bonko. « .Bill
Neider of the Presidio of San Francisco set a new Olympic shot-put record when
he flung the 16-pound metal sphere 64 feet 6 3/4 inches. • .Due to a spinal
fusion operation, AF Academy end Bod Best won’t see action with the Falcon
eleven this season. * .Jimmy Boggs, a 230-pound tackle for Mitchel AFB,“N.Y.,
last year, has been awarded a grid scholarship at C. W. Post College, N.Y.. • •
Naval Academy grid coach Wayne Hardin is reportedly suffering from Quarterback
itis. His top field general for the coming gridiron slate, Hal Spooner, didn’t
see any action in 1958 and only 34 minutes of pigskin combat last year.
Two former members of last season’s underfeated Quantico grid squad, ! Don
Rhoda from Nebraska U., and Gerry Kirschner of Oregon U., each weighing over
240 pounds, will bolster the forward wall of the 3rd Marine Div. on Okinawa.. •
In just four seasons of varsity football, the AF Academy has played a total of
30 foes, indicating an average 75 per cent change in the makeup of the slate
each year during the "growing up" process. • .Guards John Williams and Jan
Powell, both members of the All-Navy grid team last year, are back with NAS,
Pensaco.la, Fla.. • .Maj. Bill Shivar of Ft. Eustis, Va., although unseeded, up
set seeded Bruce Sylvia 6-2, 6-4 at the Tidewater Invitational Tennis Tourney
held at Norfolk. Sylvia is the amateur singles champion of Virginia. • .Martin
Klein, All-Marine gridster last season is trying out for the aerial slot at
Camp Lejeune, N.C.. • .Winfred Fierce, two-time captain of the Wagner College
hardcourt team which twice-won the Middle Atlantic State conference champion
ship, now a trainee at Ft. Ord, Calif.
Eddie Crock of Ft. Campbell, Ky., a 165-pound middleweight, out-boxed
Poland’s Tadeusz Walasek to cop a Gold Medal for the United States at the Rome
Olympics. • .Curtis Kelpzig, 1958 All-Sea Service football guard who made the
third team last season is now battling for the same slot with the Norfolk Navy
Tars grid aggregation. . .Former world’s lightweight fistic champ Lew Jenkins
is a recent reenlistee at Ft. Ord, Calif. Jenkins held the lightweight title
in 1Q40 and last served in both WWII and Korea. • .Navy's only representative
on the U.3. Pentathlon team, Robert L. Beck, became the first U.S. pentathlete
to ever achieve the position of third place in individual effort during Olympic
competition. Beck earned a respectable 1,015 points in the gruelling sport
which comprises the 300-meter freestyle swim event, epee fencing, cross country
run, pistol shooting and the 5,000 meter steeplechase course.
QUOTE OF THE WEEK? When asked his biggest thrill in sports, Naval Academy
orid coach Wayne Hardin replied that it was at the Middies drubbing of West
Point 43-12 last year. The youngish coach explained this by saying, "How can
you ever forget a day like that one? Everything we planned worked. . .1 never
again expect to coach a game like that one."
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