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Show bonder flbn With One Leg Is Star College Athlete 26-Year-0ldLaw Student Sets Amazing Record in Sports OXFORD, MISS. A one-armed, one-legged law student at University Univer-sity of Mississippi continues to amaze everybody with his unusual athletic prowess. Don Ryback lost his left arm and his left leg in a railway accident when he was 11 years old. At the age of 26, he has behind him an amazing record despite his handicap. Now a sophomore law student in the upper third of his class at University Uni-versity of Mississippi, Ryback already al-ready holds one degree from Temple university in Philadelphia. A star athlete, he is a nimble participant in handball, tennis, soft-ball, soft-ball, football and swimming. . Ryback is a realist. When he suffered suf-fered his childhood injuries, he made up his mind not to let the loss of his limbs get a psychological grip on him. He worked hard and adapted himself to conditions. Developed Arm. Not particularly sensitive about his missing members, ' Ryback has developed the remaining arm ana leg to a remarkable degree. And probably most important he has developed his mind to keenness. When he was graduated from Temple in 1945, Ryback enrolled at the law school of University of Pennsylvania. Forced by illness to withdraw, he turned to the South and University of Mississippi. There he won respect and has earned the good-natured kidding of his mates, a fact he grinnlngly interprets in-terprets as a sign he's accepted as one of the boys and not as a freak. He gets around with aid of a crutch, a support which he wields with amazing dexterity. He can boot a football, for distance, straight through the uprights while balanced solely on the single crutch. Fvnpls In Rwimmins:. In swimming he's at his best. Using a lunging stroke, Ryback cuts through the water with a speed and endurance that made many a two-armed and two-legged swimmer give up. Just to add frosting to the cake, he can do a complete back somersault off the high diving board. Ryback is no slouch on the wrestling wrest-ling mat either. Weighing around 150 pounds, he figures he'd tip the scales at about 200 with his other arm and leg. But, despite his difficulty, dif-ficulty, a lot of the campus boys who consider themselves strong Aiva him a wi rip berth in the grap- ticuny, a iul ui uit who consider themselves strong give him a wide berth in the grappling grap-pling ring. A member of Phi Delta Phi, national na-tional honorary legal fraternity, Ryback Ry-back even has overcome that final bugaboo of most law students he's learned to type with one hand, banging bang-ing along at a respectable rate of 30 words a minute. Sponsored, according to the requirements re-quirements of Pennsylvania law, by Justin D. Girolanio, a Bethlehem attorney,. at-torney,. Ryback plans to return to Pennsylvania next year to take his bar examinations and start his final apprenticeship as a law clerk. |
