Friday, Sept. 21. 1962 NITTANY NARRATOR By Dave Craley, NITTANY CUB Sports Editor Close your eyes and crank your thinker, Concentrate on bygone days; Frosh Week calls for reminiscing, Briefly, let us paraphrase: BASEBALL THE NITTANY CUBS OF BEHREND CAMPUS played three intercollegiate sports last year: soccer, basketball, and baseball. The latter was by far the most successful. The Cubs won three games and lost five, and one or two of those losses resulted from Behrend's in ability to field a second starting pitcher in doubleheaders or an able reliever at any time. Last year the Cubs played such teams as Jamestown Community College, Bryant-Stratton of Buffalo, Altoona Campus, and the Penn State Frosh. In basketball the Cubs won two games and lost nineteen. It was a woeful season. Dußois Campus and Cleveland's Dyke College lost to the locals while victors were: PSII Frosh, Jamestown Community, Ashtabula Kent, Dußois, Johnstown Pitt, McKeesport Campus, Bry ant-Stratton, Altoona Campus, Edinboro Frosh, and the Fredonia State Frosh. If the Cubs hope to gain any ground in the victory col umn this season, it is imperative that a few very tall freshmen go out for the team. The returning lettermen leave a good deal to be desired. Soccer looks encouraging. This year Coach Gallagher has set up the largest schedule in Behrend's short soccer history—five games. Although soccer at Behrend is still relatively in its infancy, the future looks good. The spirit and interest are obviously present in abundance, at least among the players. A victory or two would increase it ten fold. Two games last year, against the Fredonia State Frosh and the freshmen from Grove City College, resulted in Cub losses, both by 4-0 scores. This year things might be a bit different. It's an inter esting game to watch at any rate. O 1 Ili 3.8 l• Ikreiif : .3: (.114 IN 'E.ti.a: WORDS of Coach Gallagher, athletics is seventy-five per cent of the extracurricular activity on the Behrend Campus. It would seem, then, that about seventy-five per cent of the student body should turn out to support home athletic events; but that, sadly, was not the case last year. The Cubs were fortunate if they saw more than ten per cent present at home games. But that was last year. You—Freshmen—are now by far in the majority at Behrend. Your spirit is the dominant spirit. Your will is the dominant will. Can it be too inconvenient to attend a sports event now and then at what is now your alma mater? The female populace on the Behrend Campus is, this year, the largest in numbers in the history of the Campus. Surely there are among this congregate some cheerleaders. Last year's cheerleading squad appeared about halfway through the basketball season and went downhill from there. But it's going to be different this year, isn't it? So, sports-minded frosh, welcome to your campus. It's a great little campus—you'll soon find that out. You can't help but love her once you get to know her. And you can make its sports program jump with spirit. There are a lot of great times ahead for you—and you're running the show. The Spirit of Penn State in Song ALMA MATER For the Glory of Old State . . . For her founders strong and great, For the future that we wait, Raise the song, raise the song. Sing our love and loyalty Sing our hopes that, bright and free, Rest, 0 Mother dear, with thee, All with thee, all with thee. When we stood at boyhood's gate Shapeless in the hands of fate, Thou dids't mold us, dear old State, Into men, into men. BASKETBALL SOCCER May no act of ours bring shame To one heart that loves thy name, May our lives but swell thy fame, Dear old State, dear old State. NITTANY LIONS Every college has a legend, Passed on from year to year, To which they pledge allegiance, And always cherish dear. But of all the honored idols, There's but one that stands the test, It's the stately Nittany Lion, THE NITTANY CUB ==l Tom McAllister, goalie for last year's Behrend soccer team, seems to be having a tough time retrieving the ball from those nasty opponents. Croquet, anyone? The symbol of our best Chorus Hail to the Lion, Loyal and True, Hail Alma Mater, with your White and Blue. Penn State forever, Moulder of Men, Fight for her honor, Fight and Victory again. There's old Pittsburgh with its Panther, And Penn her Red and Blue, Dartmouth with its Indian, And Yale her Bulldog, too, There's old Princeton with its Tiger, And Cornell with its Bear, But speaking now of victory, We'll get the Lion's share. BLUE AND WHITE Where the vale of old Mt. Nittany Meets the eastern sky, Proudly stands our Alma Mater, On her hilltop high. Chorus Flag we love, Blue and White, Float for aye, old Penn State, o'er thee! May thy sons be leal and loyal To thy memory. When the evening twilight deepens, And the shadows fall; Lingers long the golden sunbeam On thy western wall. When the shades of life shall gather Dark the heart may be; Still the rays of youth and love Shall linger long o'er thee. FIGHT ON STATE Fight on State, Fight on State, Strike your gait and win, Victory we predict for thee, We're ever true to you, dear old White and Blue, Onward State, onward State, Roar, Lions, roar We'll hit that line, roll up the score, Fight on to victory evermore, Fight on, on, On, on, on, Fight on, on, Penn State! Elfll VICTORY Come now classrnen let us sing, Loyally support the team; We're here today with our colors gay. Ready to win the fray— Whether it be Pitt or Penn, Harvard or Cornell, Play the game, every man, And we will win today. Chorus Fight, fight, fight, for the Blue and White, Victory will our slogan be, Dear Alma Mater, fairest of all, Thy loyal sons will obey thy call To fight, fight, fight, with all their might, Ever the goal to gain, Into the game for Penn State's fame Fight on to victory All along the line (repeat chorus). page Tiu•ee
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