Penn State collegian. (State College, Pa.) 1911-1940, June 09, 1920, Image 4

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VARSITY TEAMS HAVE
HAD SUCCESSFUL YEAR
Only Eight Defeats Met In Fifty-two Contests
With Championships Gained In Football
Wrestling And Track
Finn Suite teams.. tliln yeat. have
had tli« most successful of athletic
NCttNUtIH ill UlO IllStolV of SPOItH 111
this Institution Success in companion
with the best of uthleth teams in thin
louiitii has not only come In single
Hjimtx, but lm» b. cn n locognivAl fea
ture of even spoil piitlclputud in
thin >rut Wbethel the spoils hive
been major or mlnni in clmi tclvt, thc\
have nil been tcpicsenlcd b\ the pltk
of Blue mill White athletes in thili
villous degm*. om.li pci forming to
the bent of hi** ability, ill fm the
Kloi> of the Alum Muur Tin ntbli*
tie stasons thin ycat have ilone n
great work in placing l’<nn s*tuu
amoiiK the foi c most schools in the
land ami especially in the cunt, mul
pudictlons niimnlly foltoxv fm an
vuually {.teat yeat whin college opens
next Septembir
Fenn State will lone thiough grid
uuliua some \ cry excellent athletes,
men whoso places it will be illftluiU
to fill, ami men who have given tlieli
best nt all times Mmij of them hive
been men who ntuimil to college to
«omplete their education following
pcvcinl >ears absence, spent fm the
most pint In theli count! ys set vice
However. *ll spite of these losses which
every Institution in the countiy I*
likewise facing, tin v.irsltv teams
next yuu will he evirv hit the same
eallbie us they have been In the p ist,
by \little of the fact that many ex
cellent players have been ihvelopeil
through placing with those who wcie
Just a Utile bcttei than tiunvulvos
Tile Great lootlmil Season
Seven vlctoiles out of eight con
tests played maikul the Itlue anil
White's most lomarkahle football sea
son The fact that the vaisltv lost
one contest did not prevent the most
pi eminent ciitics ami followcis of the
sport In the eountiv fimn giving Fean
State the linnoi of having the last
gihllrim team In the* east Penn. Le
high. Cornell ami Pitt .ill fell hefoie
the 1 scathing scythe of the Itlue ami
While leutitrs D irtmouth alone emi
(lueictl, n victory which 1 une at a
time when the vmslty wis going
through a period of tiansitlon mil he
foie they teallv became a champion
ship team it is safe to sav th it hid
the big CSixson team been met neui
the close of the flcison, a different
story might have been told
Tho season opened nt home with
Gettysburg, n team coached by a foi
mor varsity star, "CHI" Wood The
battlefield colleglniv* fell Jicfoixv the
belter wotk of tho varsity, ns did
Buckncll, the following Satindty The
third contest was with Dntmnuth, a
team entirely too strong for the Bine
and White to meet that eaily in the
season. Itowevei, it was not without
the most teirlfic snuggle that the vm
slty was downed, "Pie" Wny starred
In this contest, but the tnisin lost
heenuso the lino was unable to with
stand the onslaughts of the big green
team Then the transition came
Penn wns the next opponent ami with
tho conclusion of tho Penn gnmo the
varsity's supotioritv was never doubt
ed Penn State won, ten to nothing.
In tho host played game evei seen on
Pianltlln Held Cornell, Lehigh and
When in Bellefonte
visit the
City Bakery
Ice Cream,
Cake and
Candies
Harry E. Cievensdne
Proprietor
PUt followed, the undaunted Blue and
•VMiite t« 1111 fencing them time anil
again behind the goal posts which In
fornui ycirs wcie so well guuded
Tho tables this year were reversed In
all but one case Indications point to
a rev oral of that score next fall when
the lliinowiltts plav on New Beaver
Field
'1 he foothill card'for next season
Is the hudest a varsity team has
had to faie for >oirs Onlv three con
tests will b< plav oil aw iv fmm home
The usual umtest“wlth Penn and Pitt
will he plav.'d it Philadelphia and
Phishing)) as has been custonmiv In
the pist, and Lehigh, who was met
on Ntw Buivor last fatl will oppose
tho varsltv at South Bethlehem next
fall In addition to these gruelling
emit) sts Muhlenberg. Gettysburg,
Dirmmuth North Carolina Stale. Lob.
iiiinn Valiev and the Unlversllv of
Veinaska will luj mot at home, the
I uter contest being a feature of Penn
svlvnnla I)n 'while tho Dartmouth
Kime will be 1 big pirl of Alumni Dnv,
October ninth While the vandtv
n.'Xt veat will ho minus the services
of Higgins, Cubbage Comivei and
Hobb u winning cnmbln itloti Is o\-
picted fiom the mnterlal which took
slnpe this sci«on Captain lless will
l>e n gtcit milnstav In the hiekflehl
uni will be üblv nslsted In such men
, is Williams, KilUngti, Haines. Wav
Snell, with numerous voungei men.
I while the line will piohahlv be built
> up of Beik Hills thlfflth. Brown,
md numeiotis others
(.realist Cnge Team In Years
The Blue and M bite passers like
wise wen* pi evented ftom miking
tlifh season one with a clean slate bv
losing a single contest the one with
P<nn nt width time, pi eminent crlt-,
!(s a\eu<d the most beautiful game]
~1 hiskctlull and the fastest evtr wit-!
1 m ss<d In Welglumin Hall was dls
plmsl The vaisltv this v/«i would
; have hid an even greitcr season hid
itlxv had 1 few mote difficult oppon
ents to play As It was, they played
'tilth host iw iv from homo Juniata
Dickinson M A I, Lilnnnn Villev,
I all fell hefnte the vnrsltv hi the first.
lof the home sales The • astern trip
Ivv is the hnrdi st of the vuu The four
. home g imes had furnilitd little real
VARSITY TRACK SQUAD
Take the Yellow Bus
SERVICE
Emerick Motor Bus Line
opposition to the Blue and White and
conseiiuently thrfy vvoro ,nqt suffic
iently prepared to moot teams of
Penn's calllno However, Lafayette
uas easily disposed of and Sivarth
innie defeated by' Multan's sensation
al goal In the Inst second of play.
Penn won on having a greater num
ber of fouls to shoot than did the var
sltv, the Blue and White having engod
more field gouts Ilian the Rod and
Blue In the next set of games, Oeorge
Wishlngton, West Virginia, Pitt twice,
Lehigh and the Alumni nil wore for
ex d to bow to the varsity's great work
The varsity this year wns composed
of four veterans. Captain Wolfe, Mul-
Inn. Killlngcr, Cnptaln-olcct for next
youi. and Replogle The latter how
ever, did not develop into a star until
Die middle of the season, and then It
wis that his work really boenme
grout lie has boon acclaimed the
best centei In collegiate circles. For
Kllllngyi, a suitable running mate
wis sought and found In "Hlnky"
Hallies. Haines proved his woith in
the past season, his play ns n ntn
tlunaiy guaid being exceptional nt
times Mullnn, tills season's high scor
er and wonderful fold should will be
the only man ’lost fiom tho team
Ills place Is expected to be filled by
Wilson "12, while Rills and Ritncr,
also Sophomores, will make hard trvn
fm bet lbs.
Thrice Inlercolloglnte Clmmpn
This ycm ""Doc" Lewis' matmen re
po ited theii performance of the past
two years, and while having been de
feated by the Navy by a veiy few
points, the varsity undoubtedly was
the bebt wrestling aggregation In this
country among intercollegiate teams
Lehigh. Penn, Cornell, Princeton, nil
,vveie foiced to bow to the superior
| work of the Blue and White Yale,
i the onlv team not met dining the sca
. non. proved no groat obstaclo In the
I final gi out colkgo tilt of the year.
1 Bv giaduation. the varsity will lose
. several of Its best men Shirk and
I Garhei will be lost in the light weights
and Blown, the 175 pound wiestle)
. and into) collegiate champion of never
: a I yeais ago will also be lost Hotv
> ever of this year's team. Captain-elect
* Dotur. Mills, Movvier and Farley will
1 he looked on foi members of next
FOR
PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
PENN STATE’S VICTORIOUS NINE
McCallum, Mgr Llghtncr Bnuhtit/ Thomas Brsdek, Coach
Ullery - Mullan Ivor!) Memkk Brumbaugh Killlngcr
- Znller Grubb Crumley llalnes
year's team while Sptuiglcr. .Jones,
Williams and Tecgnn me also expect-
ed to make bids foi berths for the
vmslly With the amount of opposi
tion furnished next year the same us
the men received this past season in
the trials for meets, the Blue and
White should again be icprcsented
by an aggregation of athletes who will
bo looked on to capture* the big col
lege tltio for the'fouith time
Boxing Makes Dig Strides
Never has n sport arisen In popular
ity at Penn State In such a shot t lime
as has boxing This yeni the varsity
took part In three gient meets, in two
of which they were victorious Penn |
was the first opponent to he met, tho
Red and Blue team ireviving a terri
ble lacing la the Armory before it
large and enthusiastic audience. .In
the second contest the Navy was met
at Annapolis but the midshipmen
proved too far superior for the Blue
and White flsleis However' in tho
third and last meet, the pi Ido nf Cana
dian colleges, the University of Toi
onto team, Intercollegiate champions
of, Canada, w-ns defeated, winning but
a single bout
The Ponn.State team was the same
throughout*'tho season with the ex
ception oC the 146 pound nud-henw
weight classes, the men In these class
es being' constantly uhiftod mound,
•l»e to no, .proper man being had .for
the latter ■, class -In all meets tho
men gavfF'tho best accounts possible,
showing tho Penn State fight and spir
it of falc'ploy-always. Captain Mc-
:'i ' *
r .
- T U
j
Fadden Is the onlv man to be lost
ihiough giaduation, tbe othcis being
expected to show up to advantage
next year. ICuhlcv was made Captain
; for next venr and under Ills lendei
shlp the Blue and White is expected
1 to hnvc a gient vcm
Soccer Amt Lccrwae
The Soccei team this ycir went
through the season undefeated,•’meet
ing the teams of Lehigh and Svvnrth
moie on their eastern trip and also
winning from Lehigh nt home on
Pcnnsvlvunln Day Sndcoi* Is becom
ing moie and more popular and a
lengthened schedule Is expected year
aftei yen ns. the Intel est Increases
While several men will ho lost by grad
uation. enough experienced-men will
he had. in addition to the training
which nufheioua uti\k‘iclassmen have
tccolvod duilng the Intorclnsn series
Lnciossc Ims but a brief utuv this
1 venr and yet it was longer than sea
sons have been fot a number of,
vems Maryland State and Nuvy
were mit on the lone trip of the year,
the fanner being defeated In a close
contest, while the championship work
of the middles had the effect of giving
the varsity a severe. lacing. White
l'enn State men kicked teamwork and
coopei alive play, ns n icsult of the
incxpciience of all on the team, the
individual play and stnmlim proved a
great aid in playing It Is expected
that in u few wars this sport will oc
cupy a - prominent position* among
Penn State's athletics
MURAD
THI TURKISH CIGARETTI
ettes cost a trifle' less, sometimes
appeals to one’s pocket, but never to
one’s taste. %..
Murads are 100% pure Turkish —.the
world’s most famous tobacco for cigarettes.
Don’t wound your pride or scramble your taste for
a trifling saving.
Murads are warth mare than tkey coat—and you
dan’t hava to snoak the paakage in and out <W yottr
pocket in any company—you know what we mean.
Judge for
Yourself — !
Best Track Team In Years
Favored by the return of collegiate
conditions to normal, strengthened by
tho icHumption of his duties ns
coach by "Bill" Muitln, and of ex
ceptional calibre both In respect to
icgutur membcis of the present four
classes and the many fortnei athletes
who have come back to finish their
couihcs after serving In the war, the
Penn Suite Tiack Team Ims enjoyed
an unusually successful term Tho
vuir in the track world Is divided into
Hue.' periods, the full cions country
season, the winter Indoor season, and
in all of these the wearers of tin
Blue and White have shown up espec
ially well.'bringing bonois and prom
inence to their Alma Mater From
the beginning of the college year, with
the retuin of such men as "Larry"
Shields, the Captain, Kroll, Dmory.
Hemming, Wny, Cubbage, Newcomer,
Morrill. Tnyloi, Patent, Ottibb. Hock
er. On. Romlg. and other stats, it
• was evident that the cinder sport
would be of no little inteiest, both loc
ulh and In the uthlctfc wot Id nt large
Flflj-flve In Cross Conntry
-When Conch Mm tin called for can
didates for the cross country siiund
eat Iv last fall, a number of excellent
runners repotted These long dlstanco
performers included such men as Cap
tain Shields. Romlg, Or, Knhley, Max
well. Sny del and Foster The fit At
race on the schedule was held with
Penn during the Penn State—Penn
football game-In Philadelphia on the
Hocnnd of November. The Quaker
FROM Bagdad to
Frisco, men in every
walk of life greatly
prefer pure Turkish
cigarettes.
The fact that “ordinary" cigar-
AVeflnesday, . June 9, - -1920
City runners proved to bo-too fleet for
the NUtany aggregation and thoy won
by >tho ncoro of 33 to 22. The out
come was tlic other way around In tho
case of tho race with the Lehigh liar-,
rlortt held during the Lehigh—Penn
Stutn gridiron content on Pennsjl
vnnla Way. The Bine and Whlto run
ners had little difficulty in allowing
their heels to the Bothlehemltos with
U score of 34 to 21 la their favor. Cap
tain Shields vvn» flic fiiat Shite run
ner to finish In both races nnd Romlg
was always a close second
Two Boil, One Lest, Is Wlnlor Story
Tho winter season consisted of par
ticipation In llnco Indoor meets, ull
of them of national Interest nnd Im
portance Most of the running done
In these contests was In the form of
medley relay races The' first moot
was the Junior A A U. .Track and
Field Championships \\hlch_ was held
lit the Seventy-foui th Regiment *Ar
moi > In Buffalo on February this
twenty-first The Penn State tcum,
competing with some of the faatost in
the country, captured first place In
tho fast time of seven minutes and
forty-five seconds The quartette of
Centre County Collegians which ran
away with this femme event of tho
meet was composed of Taj lor. Grubb,
Newcomer and Morrill The following
butuulny the team Journejcd to John
Hopkins, where it took pnrl *lu that
institution's fifteenth nnnunl indoor
tmek meet Demmlng. Taj lor, Mor
■ 111 and Captain Shields, wearing the
Blue nnd Whlto defeated
In a very close medley relay race. In
the remarkable time of seven minutes,
thirty-eight nnd four-flttl'g... .seconds _
breaking ull college records and com
ing within two-fifihH_of a second of
the wmld’s record in that event Two
weeks Intel the name "quartette took
part in the medley iclny race at the
Senlm A. A. U. Championships, held
in New iork City on Murch the tout
teenth. The chances looked excellent
for u fhlrd straight victory until Cnpt.
Shields suffered a stitch In his side
near the close of the mile run, elimi
nating him 'from the race and losing
the event to Milhnse A C of New
Yoi k City
rmiuenl B Inner* On Spring Track
Almost Immediately after tlic close
of the wlntei season. Conch Mai tin
called out all candidates for positions
on the varsity track squad and out
door practice commenced In n slioit
while Fiom the very outset, pros
picts foi a fuvoiable mason were
bright, and these propcots partially
materialized when the team left, In
earlv April, for Its southern trip. Two
goad dual meets were held, the first
with Washington and Lee University
on April the seventh nnd the second
with Vhginln Polytechnic Institute
two dnvs later In both contests the
Penn State team showed Its super
lot 11>, defeating the’ Presidents by’ a
score of G 5 to 52 and Virginia Tech
by a score of 71 to S 3. Aftei the re
turn from the southern tilp ull Intel
est couteied In the dunl contest with
Lehigh and the Penn Relays Tho
meet at Bethlehem uns very one-sided
nnd Dint Institution ’was sv amped to
tho tune of 81 to 31. From* Bethle-
(Contlnucd bn Pago Five)