41 Russell__• Sage said : "Your real estate will make your old age comfortable." State Collegian. Vol. V, No 13 Front row—left to right, Hirshman, Ballou, Fiolett, Smith, McCleary (Capt.,) Vorhis, Gray, Cyphers. Second row—Mess ner, Fuhs, Weaver, Johnson, Riddle, Mosser. Third row —Postlethwaite I Mgr ,) Harrington, Hippie, Brown, Barr, Watson, Hermann, Golden (Trainer). THE FOOTBALL SEASON The Pittsburg Victory Ends a Stren uous Schedule. Never did a Penn State eleven play more consistent football than did "Bull" McCleary's warriors this fall. With five long tiresome jour neys to make and a schedule which called for seven games of the hard est kind, our eleven suffered its worst defeat at the hands of the In dians who made three field goals and had but a seven-point margin to spare. The score against Cornell and STATE COLLEGE, PA., DECEMBER 17, 1908. THE VARSITY SQUAD, 1908 the wonderful showing against both Penn and the Redmen, coupled with our Thanksgiving victory over the U-iversity of Pittsburg, places Penn State in indisputable possession of third place among the colleges of the Keystone State. W. and J. is prob ably the only other college which has any claim to such a title, but as the red and black has never won from the white and blue in any branch of athletics and as our record with the big eastern schools was far better than that of W. and 3 any unbiased critic would undoubtedly Price Five Cents give our own eleven the preference. Thus Pennsylvania and Carlisle are the only two teams that can be rank ed above State in this Common wealth. The inauguration of the Indian game at Wilkes-Barre was a good thing, since the crowd there outnum bered any Williamsport audience that has ever attended a State—ln dian or a State—Dickinson contest. At Philadelphia and Pittsburg the returns were satisfactory also and the management is to be congratulated on its wise and profitable arrange-
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