Princeton Optimistic Over Winter Sports Prospects

This is the third of series of seven articles on winter sports prospects of members of the Eastern intercollegiate League.)

Up and coming Sophomores are making Princeton's winter sports picture a little brighter this year. All three of the teams engaged in formal league competition--basketball, hockey and swimming are counting on good newcomers to fill the gaps left by departed athletes.

Baketball, for example, has Paul Busse, a six-footer who learned the game at Newark Academy, ready to step in and replace Giles Scofield, Princeton's captain and high scorer in 1939. In fact Busse, a good hall handler, a fine shot and a digger for forty minutes, already has won for himself the pivot sport, making him the only Sophomore on the starting five that has been used to date.

Four Veterans

Bussc has started both games the Tigers have played thus far, with Bob Stewart and Dave Lloyd up front and Dan Carmichael and Captain Ed Green at guard. All of his mates are veterans from the team that tied for fourth place in the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League standing after coming along fast at the end.

The Tigers are definitely expected to be better this season, particularly since they have absorbed more thoroughly since they have absorbed more thoroughly the system of play of Franklin Capon, the coach who came from Michigan to take over the Tigers in 1939. They will be tall, as they usually are and certainly more skillful.

Two Sophomore Stickmen

The hockey team, which finished sixth in the 3-1 League and third in the Quadrangular League in 1939, has at least two outstanding Sophomores. The first is Bill MacCoy, who never played before he arrived at Princeton but who is going to be a great player before he is through, in the opinion of his coach, Dick Vaughan. The other is Dan Stuckey, from Exeter, former Freshman captain. MacCopy is a defense man and Stuckey is a center.

In addition to them, Princeton has a forward line which has played together for three years in Bob Hordley, Horatio Turner and Ralph Wyer. The first two of these currently are on the injured list but are expected to return in time for the start of the league campaign next month. Two veterans are available for the defense posts, Dick Purnell, captain, and Ben Fuller, while John Coleman and Lowrey Kammer are veteran goalies. Other men being counted on are Al Fuller, Senior wing; Al Lane, brother of Princeton's former football captain, and Dick Faxon, Sophomore center.

Seimmers Face Problems

The swimming team will find it harder to make replacements, but it is ready for a good try at it, says Howin Stepp, the coach. The Tigers lost Dick Hough, their record-holding breast stroker, but Ned Parke, who competed in the freestyle events last year--and did very well at them, too--may be rushed into the breach. He originally was a breast stroker, holder of the national interscholastic title at 100 yards while at Lawrenceville. But there are also two Sophomores ready for this event-Bill price and Stewart Pach.

Captain Al Vande Weghe, intercollegiate back-stroke champion, is back, but it is likely that he will be shifted to the free-style events, being replaced in the back by Mark Follanzbee, a Sophomore from Mercersburg, and Scott Scammell, a veteran.

Bernard Griffin looks like the best of the Sophomores in the sprint events and he will be aided by Charles Boozan, Jim Green, Art McClure, all veterans, and Tom Sullivan, last year's Freshman captain.