Penn State VOLUME 11 NUMBER 11 PENN STATE NEEDS EVERY AVAILABLE ROOTER FOR CRUCIAL GAME OF SEASON Records of Both Teams Indicate That Close Battle Will Result. State Stronger Than For Any Previous Game of Season. Pitt Loses Captain. Penn State Band and Rooters Big Factors. Statistics of Teams Captain Tobin and Warriors in Great PhysicaleShape. Why Cant You Go ? The greatest mass meeting of the year is over and every effort has beem made to urge you to go to Pitt. Your college needs you more than ever and your excuse to stay home must satisfy yourself that it is good. The glee club is ready for the Wednesday night concert; the varsity club holds its first annual banquet and a big time is waiting. When the college cheer is given when the team trots on the field, rtf*'.’.' «jLy KRATT, Our Chon the Pitt rooters must be drowned out. Last year’s score must be wiped out and this is our chance. The coaches have worked faith fully and feel that they have finally perfected the best possible combi nation. The team will average 172 2-11 pounds; the line 177 3-7 pounds and the backfield 163 pounds. Pitt will average 172 8-11 pounds, the line 176 pounds and the backfield 167 pounds. Thus it will be seen that neither team will have any weight advantage. Captain Smith of Pitt will be out of the game with a sprained ankle while State will have not only her captain but in him a brilliant open field runner, a sure catcher of punts and a great general. Captain Tobin will play quarter. Dippe will play fullback in view of his recent great improvement, At front half, Yerg er because of his great defensive ability will find a place. At rear half, the reliable kicker and ground gainer Clark will fill the place.. It will be seen that Dan Welty has been omitted, and this fact alone speaks wonders for the back field. It is almost an assured fact that this great inspirer of fight will play no small portion of the game :e for All-American at some position. The same un changeable and almost unbeatable line will start with Morris and Hig gins at end positions. If Pitt can hit our line or round our ends with any degree of proficiency, she will show better football than State has seen this year. On the offensive State will have Lamb to score field goals while Hastings who stars for Pitt in this department has a broken hand. Pitt certainly has no better receivers, of the forward pass than Morris and Higgins. We believe the greatly touted Carlson will have his lustre dimmed by the playing of our ends. Pitt also has a great team. At quarterback either Williamson or Heil will start with the chances favoring the former, Williamson STATE COLLEGE, PA., NOVEMBER 25, 1914 is playing his second year and weighs 163 pounds. He defeated us last year by a 66 yard run and Cornell was defeated this year by a similar perf rrmance. He has just recovered from a dislocated leg and will probably not be able to play very long. His substitute is also a P man, and is playing his second year. Heil weighs 135 pounds and form erly played on the University of Kansas toam. Both men are good passers and open field runners, but Williamson is the better team director. A freshman. Fry, is first choice for fullback. He weighs 173 pounds, is a good line bucker and a fair defender. He is not sen sational but very steady. Collins will be his substitute. While at Cornell, this man gave Lamb his only defeat in wrestling that he has ever received. He weighs 189 pounds. / At left half, Pitt beleives they have the sensation of, the year in Miller, 164 pounds. Ua IV t schedule in the history of the col riege. The Pennsylvania League is composed of coileges having a high scholastic standing, and the de bates encoutittred in these contests are always of an excellent calibre. The debates with W. and J., Pitt and Westminster are on a different question from the league debates andconsequently at least four teams must be developed. We have an excellent coach, a man who is particularly adapted to this work. Last year, when Pro fessor Marshman was in charge of the debating interests of Ohio Wes leyan, the record of the season showed five victories out of six contests. And the colleges engag ed were of the calibre of Syracuse, Colgate, Oberlin and other places where considerable pride is taken in mental contests. But the coach can do nothing unless he is support ed by the student body. There should have been 200 men out in the trials and at the later trials that many should really be counted on from which the teams could be chosen. Five Debates