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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
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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
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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
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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.-
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“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.'
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