Semi-Weekly ~T~i fkmt (EoUwjt VOL XXII, No. 3 SPEED IS KEYNOTE OF LION DRILLS AS GRIDMEN IMPROVE Varsity Impressive in Subduing Reserves —Running Attack Gains Momentum INJURIES KEEP DELI* AND GREENSHIELDS ON lIENCII Brilliant Running bv Lungren And Roepke Is Feature ; Of Daily Rattles “You've prot to tear, boysl’i Coach Hugo Bezdek barked. As if in un spoken answer to his exhortation, el even jersey-clad athletes added a notch of speed to their already swift signal drill. Three lightning plays, a brief rest, another series and an other rest, endlessly, tirelessly the eleven moved as a unit up and down the turf [Wednesday afternoon on New Beaver field. Speed is the goal for which the coaches are striving. Line coach Conover has given individual instruc tion in pivoting, coming out of the line for interference, wheeling and breaking through opposing lines, em phasizing speed as the key to success. Delp, Grccnshiclds Out Dame Misfortune, conspicuously absent at -the Lion camp thus far. stepped out of obscurity to claim lion Grccnshiclds and George Dclp ns her hostages early this week. Delp, star end of last year’s yearling combina tion, donned moleskins after a brief respite only to suffer torn ligaments in his left ankle in scrimmage Tues day afternoon. He will be on the sidelines for ten days, according to attending physicians. Don Grccnshiclds, burly tackle who was being counted upon to fill a berth in the varsity line, developed a severe abscess under the muscle of his right ..fnrp-nrm Inst Saturday. nnH.wUf ho on the bench for a week or ton days. Varsity Continues To Improve Gaining with more consistency than heretofore, Coach Bezdck’s • first el even flashed the first real hint of its future power in clashes with the sec ond combination Tuesday and Wed nesday afternoons. Cy Lungren un leashed a running attack which com pletely submerged the reserves. Outstanding among the individual performers Wednesday afternoon was the brilliant running of Roepke, tow headed halfback. Johnny is fast de veloping into one of the best leather loters on the squad, besides being a dependable punter ami an accurate passer. Roepke has an elusive hip thrust and whirl which make him a hard man to tackle squarely. Lungren is piloting the team in good fashion and developing his na tural bent for dodging, while the fleet Bangcrfield is getting away for many end runs. Cowboy Greene lias shown real ability in interference am! line bucking, and much is expected of him. Linemen Powerful Drills with the bucking machine together with lengthy sessions with the tackling dummies have strength ened the driving power of the line (Continucd on last page) Former Varsity Boxer Is High School Coach After a successful year as a coach at Wlnber high school, Tom Zorbe *25, former 115 pound Varsity boxer, has assumed the duties of athletic di rector at State College high school. iThc former Penn State athlete turned out a consistent gridiron win ner at Windber last year, and in talc ing over the post of athletic director at the local high school succeeds Alex Wieland [25, former member of the Blue and White grid squad. Some Danced, Some Sang, Some Got Ducked—But Where Is The Bicycle? The annual imposition of disagree-1 able tasks took place Wednesday : night with those freshmen daring en ough to make the pilgrimage to Co op corner as the victims. They toe canccd, shadow boxed, warbled, play ed marbles, ran up Allen street, ran down College avenue, and performed other 'amusing antics. The evening was not without its intermittent cloudbursts. One freshman who put id an. ap pearance and later a disappearance put one over on his tormentors. He was asked to give his impression of a six-day bicycle race, and, being obliging, pedaled his bicycle through Tribunal Holds First Meeting Wednesday Student Tribunal will consider eas es of students who have reasons to he excused from customs at the initial meeting of the year Wednesday even ing. September twenty-second. Although early offenders against customs will he tried, principal attention will he given to those who have taken customs at other colleges and for this reason, wish to be releas ed from them here. YEAR BOOK CALLED BEST IN EXHIBITION 1927 La Vie, With R. I). Dundorc As Editor, Awarded First Prize at Geneva STAFF OF 1928 ANNUAL TO ISE ANNOUNCED SOON Penn Stale’s 1027 La Vie was given unprecedented recognition when it was awarded first prize in the inter national year book competition which came to a dose last month at Geneva, Switzerland. This news is expected to add considerable zest to the meet ing of this year’s La Vic officers who wiil convene next week to select a staif. Selected as the best college annual to be exhibited at Geneva, the Penn State La Vie won as a hist minute entry. When Editor R. D. Dundorc was at Kaglesmere this summer he noticed an exhibit of college year hooks at the Y. M. C. A. conference. The committee in charge requested that Penn State's be represented and as a result Dundorc sent two copies to the exhibit. The books were later forwarded to Geneva. • The World’s Student Federation picked the Nittnny year hook as the best annual and telegraphed its con gratulations to the 11)27 staff. A trophy is expected. Meanwhile the. 1928 La Vie’s,offi cers C. iierryhili, cditor-iii- : chief, and 1). 0. Lane, business man ager, are preparing the outline of the junior class publication. The complete stafT will be announced next week. Elected last April as asso ciate editors were J. R. Kershaw -anil I*. It. Smaltz, and as advertising man ager, John Ferguson. PROF. BONINE RETURNS FROM CONGRESS ABROAD Penn Stale Geologist Tojßesume Position—Secures Foreign Mineral Specimens Prof. C. A. Boninc, who has just returned from the fourteenth Inter national Geological Congress, will re sume his duties in the school of mines this fall. The-Congress was held recently at Madrid, Spain and was composed of more than eleven hundred geologists from all parts of the world. During the month’s dur ation of the Congress, three weeks were devoted to fifteen inspection trips to all parts of Spain and Mor occo; These were designed to meet the needs of the diiferent geologists. Papers of great geological value were printed in English, French, German and Spanish and distributed among the delegates. Later these are to be compiled in “Memoirs.” Many elobrations were given the geologists, including a reception .by the King and Queen of Spain at their palace. A notable collection of fos sils and ore specimens has been brought back by Prof. Boninc and will bo placed in the college museum. While in Europe Professor Boninc visited the Pyrenees, the Alps, the Pcchelhrun oil mine, where oil is be ing mined on a profitable basis, the great Lorraine iron district and many other places of geological interest. the Co-op loiterers‘and dashed ener getically up Allen street. When last seen he was nearing Lowislown. . Still another yearling, hailing from the hills of Kentucky, and possessing among ins friends an alumnus of ’95 wise, kindly and foreseeing, came to Penn State full of that big, broad, flexible vision. He had so much vis ion that he strapped a reliable look ing bowie knife to his leg, in order to deter those rough college boys of whom his benign advisor had cau tioned him. At a late hour last night there were as yet no notches in his bell. STATE COLLEGE. PA.. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER' 17. 1926 HOUCK CONSIDERED AS THIRD MAN FOR SESQUI TITLE BOUT Name of Penn State Coach Is * Rut Rcforc Pennsylvania Hosing Commission RACKED RY REFEREEING AND BOXING EXPERIENCE Claims Contenders Are Primed : For Rattle —Has Roxed With Roth Men That Leo Houck, Penn State box ing coach and former contender for the middle-weight title would referee the Dcmpsey-Tunney championship battle Thursday was a growing rumor this week among Philadelphia box ing solons. His name is being consid ered by the Pennsylvania Boxing Commission. Philadelphia newspapers arc unan imous In approving the proposal for Houck as the third man in the ring. Says the flccnrd: “Leo is a cool and determined fellow when refereeing, just as he was one of the coolest fight ers ever to don a glove. Nothing that would happen in the Sesqui ring would (Continued on last page) NEW SOCCER COACH CONDUCTS DRILLS William Jeffries Huns Players Through Preliminary Practice Daily FIVE VARSITY VETERANS TO STRENGTHEN LINE-UP Since the arrival of Coach William Jeffries at Penn State on Monday, the Blue and White soccer squad has worked out daily on Old Beaver field preparing for the first game with Syracuse here on. October twenty third. The group now reporting numbers thirty-live men. Coach Jeffries, who replaces R. G. Leonard as mentor of the hooters, has been running the players through kicking practice both to get them into shape after the summer interval and to gauge distance. In addition to kicking and dribbling, the backs have been booting from behind the goals. Heading the leather has also formed a part of the daily drills. First Scrimmage Following the lighter drills during the early part of the week the hoot ers met in the first scrimmage of the season last night. Although only five of the men on the field arc mem bers of last year's Varsity, the squad has been strengthened by the addi tion o£ several stars of the 1929 fresh man team. Varsity Men 1 Return In addition to Captain Lippincott the Varsity players from last season returning are Cherry, fullback; Pe eori and Griffin who perform at out side right and inside left respective ly, and Schnyder, goal. Horne, Mar shall, Repino, Shirk, James, Roiber and Semisch, last year’s yearling hooters, have also reported. Members of Faculty Serve at Exhibitions More Ilian ninety per cent of the fairs in the state call upon Penn State to supply judges of their various ex hibits. Practically every county in the state gets the benefit of the ex perl judgment of the college spec ialists at the fall fairs. Besides judging fairs within the slate, the Penn State men get many calls to tic the ribbons at big fairs in other states. JL 11. Havncr, head of the livestock extension work hero, will pick the winners at the-Eastern States Expositions and Ih'e New Jer sey state fair. F.L. Bentley, act ing head of the animal husbandry de partment, was one of the judges at the West Virginia fair. P. C. MaeKenzic, well-known sheep specialist, was pick ed to judge at the Connecticut state fair, the Eastern .States Exposition, and the Scsqui-CentcnniaL A. A. Borland, head of the Penn State dairy department, judged at the West Virginia State fair, and at Staunton, Virginia. R. R. Welch, ex tension specialist, also picked the win ners at the Staunton fair. E. B. Fitts, in charge of the dairy extension work in. Pennsylvania, makes the longest trip of all when he goes to Salem, Oregon, to choose the winners’in the Jersey and Guernsey classes at the stale fair there. . | Chapel To Begin j Sunday Morning I All students ■ expectins to nt | tend the College Sunday morn | ini? .chapel sendee are request- J ed to he present in the Auditor- J itim Sunday'.morning at eleven | o'clock, j Students who designated their | intention of attending a local j church should attend the church i of their denomination this Sun | day and fill out.„a church excuse | card with the/pastor. | As far as possible, all church | excuses and all morning chapel I excuses for working should bo i in the office of the Dean of Men j by Tuesday, September twenly- I first. It should be kept in mind | that work excuses will be issued I only when work, can be done at | the chapel hour and at no oth- I Seat assignment lists will be i i posted next week. . Further no- • | ticcs will bo given regarding [ I the beginning oE daily morning i chapel. * j PLEBE GRIDDERS START SCRIMMAGE Racks Show Speed While Line Displays Steadiness in Initial Clashes HERMANN SOUNDS CALL FOR NEW CANDIDATES Flashes of speed and plunging pow er wore revealed at the first scrim mage session of-thi* yearling gridders on New Beaver-Wednesday under the combined tutelage of Coach Dutch Hermann and Bas Gray. Three tem porary teams participated while fre quent changes in the lineups gave at least forty men .tveir-first sting of ‘ihe; molij&iK?: To whip the squad into mid-season form because of the unusually heavy schedule, Dutch has been running the candidates through snappy funda mental drills, dummy tackling, punt ing and three offensive plays for the past week. Dutch spends much of his time working with the bnckficlds while Bas is teaching the lines effective of fensive plays. To Cut Squad Soon An invitation to. report for prac- tice has been extended by Coach Her mann to all football prospects who have not yet nppeared on New Bea ver, despite his intention of making several eliminations within the next few days. Although the first team has shown a steady line and a speedy backfield, the second and third stringers are working anxiously for first team (Continued on third page) STUDENT COUNCIL MEETS TUESDAY IN LYTLE CABIN Silo Suggested To Acquaint All New Members—Memorial Completely Finished The Andy Lytle Memorial Cabin at Shingletown Gap will be the scene of the Student Council mecting'Tues day afternoon. The cabin, construct ed in honor of the man who helped build Penn State's- oldest building, Old Main,'is completely finished. Proper furnishings soon will be in stalled. Since many of the new members of Student Council arc unacquainted, S. L. Reeder, senior class president, pro posed that Student Council hold its next meeting on Tuesday,, at the Me morial Cabin. The trip to Shingle town will ; be made by automobiles. All Student Council members intend ing to be present Tuesday should get in touch with 'E. L. Spitler at the Chi Upsilon house before Monday noon. The Lytle memorial hr.s been the goal of many hikers’since construc tion was first started two years ago by the Y. M. C. A. It is considerably larger than the "Y” hut here and is located at a bluff's edge. To assist the college authorities in planning Father’s Day, a committee of G. M. Harris '27, R. P. Strickland, '27; J. G. Hesse '27 and A. J. Gares '29, was appointed at the initial meet ing of Student Council last Saturday. During the coming year it was an nounced that the rule that any mem ber: of Student Council missing two consecutive meetings without suffi cient excuse will 'be .dropped," will be strictly enforced. CHAPEL SPEAKER Outing Club Holds First Hike Sunday The Outing Club will hold its first hike of the season next Sunday after noon. The hikers will leave Co-op corner at two o'clock in the afternoon and will go to Lemont, climbing Mount Nitlany. The group will re turn in lime for supper. All new students interested in hiking arc in vited to attend. REVEREND KISTLER TO SPEAK SUNDAY Warren Pastor Will Address Chapel Audience in liis Sixth Appearance CHOOSES “A PROGRAM • FOR POWER” AS TEXT /;* The ..Rqyovend ,;?sy:v.r.p - nf the First* Presbyterian church,' War ren, Pennsylvania, will open the first chapel service next Sunday-morning at eleven o’clock when he will make his sixth Penn State appearance. After being graduated from West minster College and the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, Reverend Kist ler spent one season in travel abroad. He has occupied two pulpits in Pitts burgh and for five years has been pastor of the First Presbyterian church, Warren, Pennsylvania, which now has a membership of *1320 with annual contributions closely ap proaching one hundred thousand dol lars. » He will use as his subject, “A Pro gram for Power.” AGRICULTURISTS STUDY RECREATION FACILITIES Will Endeavor To Keep Youth On Farm by Creating Rural Centers How to keep the young folks "down on the farm” through a survey of recreational facilities there, is being undertaken by the department of ag ricultural economics, co-operating with the United States Department of Ag riculture. In a natural “bowl” in the moun tains of Columbia county lies Locust township, occupied by prosperous farm families, ten miles from a town or city. It was selected for a close study of farm social conditions because it is a typical rural community populated by an energetic group of representa tives of Pennsylvania farm folk. Because the movement of popula tion from the country to the city in volves farm youth to a marked ex tent, an effort is being made to de termine the effectiveness of rural or ganizations as social factors for cheeking this migration and for build ing up country life, Professor W. V. Dennis, in charge of the survey, said yesterday when telling of the project. It is said to be the first study of .the kind made'in the United States. The College sent L. I. Hug, grad uate assistant in agricultural econom ics, into Locust township where he spent over two hours with each family while a lengthy questionairc was fil led out. The results are being tabu lated'and additional'information will be gathered in rural communities of different types. In the end it is expected that the college will he able to recommend the most beneficial social contacts that may be made by Pennsylvania farm ers. The grange, the movies, radio, automobiles, boys’ and girls’clubs, the church and other phases of rural life are all taken into consideration in studying the situation.- MX. “Y” HOLDS RECEPTION FOR FRftilAN CLASS TONIGHT Introduces Leaders c From Booths— Heads Rea ] Collegian Calls I 1929 Reporters ! | All sophomores wisliinK to [ | join the editorial staff of the I j Penn State COLLKGIAN should j | report to Room 314 Old Main j j ■ Thursday night at seven o'clock. | GLEE CLUB BEGINS TRYOUTS MONDAY Will Offer Opening Concert at Freshman Reception—Plan Humorous Program SCHEDULE CALLS FOR THREE CONCERT TOURS Glee Club tryout 3 will he held Mon day and Tuesday evenings in the Auditorium at seven o’clock, it was announced by Director R. W. Grant yesterday. AH men interested in vocal music arc requested to be pres ent at that time. •Candidates for first and second .tenor will be tried out on Monday while baritone and bass aspirants, will be given the opportunity to dis play their talent on the following night. Graduation Loss. Felt Rehearsing. for.tUe\firab*iime). this year 7 the ’Glee ‘Club* evening under the direction of Prof. R. W. Grant. The loss of sixteen men through graduation chiefly from first tenor and second bass positions is the largest in recent years. At the Freshman Reception on the front campus tonight the club will sing several numbers of n humorous character. Attractive Road Tours For the coming season A. C. AHo way ’27, manager has arranged three attractive concert tours. The first will take the; club through central Pennsylvania and into New York as far as Courtland; the second through south-eastern Pennsylvania and Phil adelphia; while the final jaunt will he to New York City.' Plans arc un der consideration for joint concerts with Buckncll and Columbia univer sity Glee Clubs. 1 On Pennsylvania Day, November thirteenth, the club will make its first appearance at Penn State when it will appear before an assemblage of houseparty guests. Third Sawmill School Will Open Next Month The third portable sawmill demon stration to he staged by the farm for estry department at Penn State has been, set for October twenty-fith to twenty-eighth, according to an an nouncement by Professor J. A. Fer guson, head of the department. Pre vious “Sawmill Weeks” at the College have been successful. Several new features arc to be in troduced at the next, demonstration. Steam power units and industrial un its arc to be used for sawing, as well as gasoline engines and electric mo tors. Instruction is to be given in sawing for grade, in estimating wood lot timber for forest products, and in filling and fitting .saws. Experts in many lines of logging and milling will be at the college at that time to as sist in making the demonstration in teresting and instructive. Doctor Davey Returns From Chemical Clinic Dr. Wheeler P. Davey, eminent physicist who is a recent member of the Penn State faculty, and Dr. E. B. Forbes have returned from the con vention of the American' Chemical Society which opened at Northum berland in commemoration of the one hundred and. fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of oxygen. Both men were speakers at the convention. Who’s Dancing Saturday \ IPs All ■ AUoul Leo PRICE FIVE CENTS if Campus Activities ■Judge Mitchell .eiving Line The class of 1930 will doff its new ly-acquircd dink tonight to convene on the front campus as the guests of the Y. M. C. A. An annual alTair.at Penn State, tonight’s reception will be augmented by a feature that although suggested last year was postponed until this year for its inauguration. The new plan provides for the plac ing of booths on the campus which will be occupied by leaders in various college activities. One booth will be given over to athletics, another to publications and one each to music and dramatics. There will he a group of students distributed throughout the freshmen who will endeavor to make the yearlings acquainted* with the upperclassmen. Judge Mitchell To Speak As is customary, the band, glee club and Varsity quartet will he pres ent and each will be called upon to help furnish entertainment. The chief addresses of the evening will be given by Judge 11. W. Mitchell, head of the Board of Trustees, Hugo Bczdck, chairman .of the . Advisory Council.on Athletics and R.,1). Duii dore, president of the Y. M. C. A. After the entertainment'and intro ductions', refreshments'will he served by women faculty members at an im provised cafeteria behind the activi ties booths. There will also be a re ception lino, headed by Judge Mitch cil and including A. It. Warnovk, dean of men; Charlotte E. Ray, dean of women; R. D. Dundore, president of the Y. M. C. A.; Helen George ,’27, president of the Y.-W. C. A.; S. L. Reeder and 'Lillian Barker, presidents of the senior class; acting: chaplain F.; L. Pattec and Hugo Bczdck, coach' of Varsity.-f«t.»tball.-'j , • ?4V ‘‘ The affair is under the direction of. J. C. Belfield, *2B, chairman of Uic; Y. M. C. A. social committee. Engineering- Extension Gains Foreign Interest That the engineering extension department here is attracting ‘ con tinental attention is shown by the fact that the department has receiv ed letters from foreign countries such as Russia, Servia, England, Bel gium Congo in South Africa and Canada during the past week. “The better clement in Russia is suffering from a genuine thirst for improvement and education,” states Dr. Vera DanchkofT of the Timiriasoff Research Institute, Moscow, in one of the letters. Also that “The need of teachers is great, especially of the better qualified type, but there is a tremendous interest in education.” VARSITY HARRIERS GET ‘ ONLY LIGHT WORKOUTS Early Drills Consist of Short Runs—New Course Planned By Coach Carlmcll Because the opening Blue and White cross-country meet is still a month distant Coach Nate Cartmell, has been giving his proteges light workouts. It is unusually early for the hilt-and-dalors to start training but since the squad shows promise of developing into championship cali ber Nate desires to get them into con dition. Following short runs of from one to four miles across the golf course each afternoon the coach gives indi vidual attention to any weaknesses that crop out. When the runners become more conditioned the regular six mile course wil he used. Before the season is well under way Cartmell hopes to have a now and more difficult course in readiness. Only one member of last year’s field of runners, Barclay, was lost to the squad while a host of sophomores arc expected to bolster the team. Among the fastest steppers at pres ent are Captain Fouracre, Harvey Stewart, Bill Cox and George Offcn liauser. 1926 SOCCER SCHEDULE .* October 23—Syracuse—-At Home. Octohor '3o—Pennsylvania—Away. November 6—U. of Toronto—-At Homc November 13—Navy—At Home. November 20—Springfield college— * At Home.' Theta Xi.
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