• ..„ /1 ~.k I y . . ,Se:m-.1.11 .. • e/ COMPLETE I . .. • , „., :R...2.... COVERAGE CAMPUS ' II - ..., - 1: ..2...... )., , 1.1 e • • II R :, ' k c. :..„ ,„....,./:.,,,,,-• , ~,--, ?c) -, ..., •• ~855... • • .... Volume,3sL . -Number 12 Lio.olloeoTolleet . Letitti Before 2,000 Alumni Wake up, Alumni! IN PUBLISHING TH•E CARTOON on tile right and this editorial • ' the COLLEGIAN is attempting to place clearly in the minds of the alumni - Of Penn State the true conditions of athletics here and the hypocrisy and rotten unfairness of Hugo Beidek's plan for the non-subsidization of athletes. What started out to be a system of "decency and progress mall athletics" has been converted into an intolerable and unjust exploitation of athletes, coaches. and alumni. This "decent and• progressive policy" has been shoved down the throats of alumni and students for five years, while the candid facts of the situation . have been buried under a 'landslide of wishful words, such as "Athletics for All" and "fair play and good sportsmanship." These words may • smell nice in a metropolitan paper, but. they raise a stench here, where their camouflage will no longer cover a crying injustice. Candidly and frankly; the football players here are being exploited by an'Athletic Association that pays them nothing foi four hard hours "a day and.yet takes in gates which approach for mer. magnificence. Almost to a man, the players are not able -to finance their college education themselves, which, 'apparently, is a fundamental supposition of the Bezdek policy. Therefore, they've been forced to hunt jobs for theii room, board and fees. Du'ring football season approximately thirty players -get their evening meal, at a training table established' by the College. For their other tWo Meals a day they are forced to shift for -them selves. The only persons who have vitally assisted them in get ting the rest of their existence-have been Bob Higgins and Walter Kinsey '36, undergraduate football manager. Through the efforts of Higgins and Kinsey, practically all the men have been able to get jobs in fraternities and local res-. taurunts, washing dishes, paring potatoes, and waiting tables for their other two meals . a day. Some of them havebeep able to secure National Youth, Adruiniutration jobs which pay, them $l2 monthly to cover iheir roorrpren't.. BeCupse of:this system :;the hOiig Here is the schedule of,'one of the varsity Players: ." Gets up at 6:45' o'Clock, dresses and ,delivers milk til 7:30, and then studies for twenty.miriutes. 'At 8 he, goes to class where he remains until noon. He works for hiS lunch at a campus fraternity, and then has classeS until .4 o'clock. Then he returns to the hall 'where he lives and works at his candy store until 4:30, when he goes to football pr.4ctice. the time he eats dinner it is 8:30. He returns to his room and takes care of his store until 9, when he goes to the gym and works until 10 for his room rent. He returns to the hall, soliciting milk, orders for the next morning. After this he realms to his room and tries to study a bit. On the morn ings when he has several hours free he works on his N. Y. A. job. (Continual on page two) What They Get--- The following feature will show in cold facts just what Ate foot ball players here put oot order to put NMI, State back on the inte•- collcgiate athletic map. and just what theft receive in return for their "four hard hours and one meal a day." The names of the players whose octivitics arc quoted hers arc not printed but a glance through the blurbs in the'past two issues of the 'Beaver Field Pictorial, house organ'of the Athletic Association, will en able even the most amateur detective to perceive just who is who. WHAT THEY DO Gets up 'at 7 o'clock and studies until time to go to class at 8 o'clock. Has classes until noon. Works at a fraternity house for his noon meal. Has an hour off which he spends sleeping. Then has R. 0. T. C. drill far two successive hours which dur ing football season are spent in charg— ing McCaskey Hill in mock war. Af ter drill he goes to football practice, which accounts for his time until 8:30 o'clock, at which time he returns home and tries to study but is usual ly too tired and has to go to bed. On Zunday he gets up at 6:30 o'clock and at 7 goes to work in a gasoline station where. be remains .until 6 o'- clock that night. In fiis spare time he trys to 'get his N. Y. A. work done. Gets up at 6 o'clock and works un til 7 for his room, moppihg toilets and wash-rooms which pays for his room rent. Then, studies until 8 o'- clock when he goes to class and re mains there until noon. Works one hour at a local restaurant for his lunch. He returns then to his room in 'the hall where he tends to the candy store which he and his room-mate run. From 2 to 4 o'clock. he attends an It. • 0. T. C. class in which he charges McGaskey Hill. From 4 until 8:30 o'clock he is busy with football. And from 0 to 10 o'clock be again tends the candy store: He then tries to study. He gets his N. Y. A. work done when-. ever he can sandwich it in otf hours. With This Issue, the Circulation of the 'Colleglign l &Reaches 4,500,, the Highest in its History • - Editorial WHAT THEY GET "Tliis ... back looks a little fragile even in his football pads. But there have been All-American players just as light . . . he is fleet of foot and strong of arm . . . .he passes with deadly accuracy even on the run, and we predict that he'll play 'in plenty of quarters this season . . . despite his weight he is a little whirlwind . . his presence intensitio.4 interest in Penn State football .. he is the most accurate passer on the squad. —Beaver Field Pictorial +++ —Tackle—all he needs is exper ience and he'll be a great lineman— over six feet two and over two hun dred poundii—raw boned and rugged .one of several fine players from. G• on the .19:34 freshman squad. Alumni Ncws .Big' is a rough eustoma . r•on a football field—He towers above the average lineman (six feet four) and his size fifteen shoes arc hard . for opposing pitiyers to move when. he gots them planted on the line. &war Field Pictorial STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18; 1935 Nittany Gridmen Will Face Heavy Engineer's Squad Rooters Will Face Owls; Freshmen Will Run Against Cornell. Yearling Football Team 1 7i11,Engage Keystone Outweighed fifteen pounds to the the Penn State foot ball. team . will be out to collect its third straight victory from a Lehigh squad, claiming "This is our year; this is our game," on New Beaver field in the nual Alumni grid tilt tomorrow afternoon. Coach Bob Higgins, satisfied with the defense play, has been concentrating on getting the of fense to click. Scoring points have been noticeably lacking .in the past two games, :victory resulting from the forward wall's aggressiveness. Injuries will again keen two first stringers out of the starting line r up. Frank Smith, end, is in the hospital with a leg injury, and Cooper, full back, is suffering from a painful side injury. The ,fact 'that the Lions defeated Ithe, Engineers 33-to-0 last year, coup led with the ever present thought• of getting a erackat Pitt next week, the squad is . likely not to give lehighaill the: attention that it desprves.,',lfow : ‘: * . #ool 9s4 thltilfeiltrt'Cs7driligairitit*", 'far;:aata.:push-over .• — Streingthened by:-numerous transfer Students; Coach' Harineson- has • built up -a strong line, Bayer, guard, and Captain Scobey, tackle, leading the at tack. Statistics showing that' Lehigh gained Ig4 yards to Dickinson's 24 through rushing is evidence enough of the line's power. - The Nittany Lion's probable,start ing line-up will be: ends, Miller and Fry; tackles; Weber and Schuyler, guards, Barth and Wismer or Beene mos; Cherundolo or J. O'Hora will hold down center. F. O'Hora will be calling signals, with Owens and Do nato at the wing, positions; Kominie and Yett will fight it out for fullback. Lehigh's line-up will be somewhat shifted due to injuries. Starting are: ends, Mayshark and Walton;. tackles, Scobey and . Sterngold; guards,. Mc- Nally and Bayer:, center, Snyder. Pa- (Continued on Nig° three) Rev. Clausen to Talk At. Alumni Day Chapel The Rev. Dr. Bernard C. Clausen, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Pittsburgh, will speak on "Faith and the . Human Adventure" at the Alumni week-end chapel services in Schwab auditorium Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. Dr. Clausen is familiar to local chapel audiences, speaking. here for a number of years. He is also well known as a radio speaker, a current series of-talks being•broadcast by a Pittsburgh station. After receiving his bachelor's de gree from Colgate, Dr. ,Clausen stud ied at the Union Theological Semi nary and at the University of Syra cuse. He served as a chaplain in the United States Navy on board the U. S. S. North Carolina from 1917 until 1929. He has been in Pittsburgh since 1933. Among the books written by Dr Clausen are "Preach Against It,' "The Miracle of Me," "The Door TIM lies No Key," and a number of so• called pen portraits and pen pictures. Council Lifts Smoking Custom for Freshmen A decision to lift fresh Man smoking customs today was adopted by the Student Council at its meeting Tuesday, night. This action was taken' because of the • promise to lift certain re strictions gradually- if customs were obeyed. Ralph T. Irwin, '3G, was elected to serve on the combined Student Board. President Ralph D. Ha zel spoke , to the Council. "I CAN TAKE IT "—Hugo Bezdek Establish Boucke Scholarship Fund $5OO Anonymous 'Contribution Received by TrunMer 'l5 Vreeland '3l. As a result of the efforts of Dr. Max Tramper and Fred 7. Vreeland, two former pupils of the late Dr. Os wald F. Boucke, a scholarship fund in the latter's memory, has been es tablished. An anonymous contribu tion of $5OO has already been received. Dr. Tramper received his bachelor's degree here in 1915 and studied un der Dr. Boucke. A short time later they both' took graduate work at the UniverslV of Pennsylvania. At pres ent Dr. Tramper is a consulting clin ical chemist and industrial toxicolo gist, working in Philadelphia. Idea Started Last Spring Mr. Vreeland was, graduated in 19;31 and two years later received his master's degree, majoring in econo mics undei. Dr. Boucke. .Until a short time ago he was employed in Wash ington. Both of them returned here at the time of Dr. Douche's death last spring and determined to do what they could to establish a scholarship fund in his memory.... Both of them felt that there would be many addi tional pupils of Dr. Boucke who would make contributions if they knew Of tht existence of this fund. In order to facilitate such contri butions Dr. William E. Butt, acting head of the department of economics and sociology, has consented to act as a local representative of Dr. Tramper and Vreeland . 'and will ac cept cash contributions or checks for this fund. Any alumni who ,are- especially in terested can obtain further particu lars by consulting Dr. Butt, whose Office is in Room 10,' South Liberal Arts, or. by writing to Dr. Max Trumper, 020 Medical Arts building, Philadelphia. • School Head Lectures Prof. Marion S. McDowell, associate professor of home economics, and head of the nursery school gave a talk at the Shippensburg State Teachers' Col lege Thursday and Friday. Her speech was on child • development and par ental education. ' rgiait Between The Lions - By WALT FREUNSCH Athletics for all? Applesauce! What we want to see is a chance for some forty or fifty football play ers to go to school here under de cent living conditions. When this college takes care of the situation so frankly portrayed elsewhere in this paper, then we will talk 'or the success of the "Bezdek Plan," with its accent on intrannwals. We hold no brief for tramp ath letes, and those schools that enable star players to support their entire kin get no kind words here. But there is a happy medium, and the college-supported training table is it. It is not humane to expect foot ball players to work six or eight hours a day for room and board. spend two or three hours in prac tice, go to class, and then study properly. If - Penn State players were tak ing nothing but snap courses and minimum schedules, it would be another matter. But they are nut. Instead they are, for the most part, taking full schedules up to thirty seven and forty hours, and if this doesn't show that the boys aren't here solely to play ball, then in the name of athletic .purity, what does it signify? These fellows can't live on fine phrases in the Beaver Field Pic torial; tbere• is no surcease from hunger pangs because some paper calls Joe Plotz another "Carideo." What kind of a life is it for the • freshmen -who live on two-bit cold platters every day, that they might play football and perhaps collect in juries that might last a life-time? Would Penn State be tainted with the awful crime of subsidization if it took care of a few meals so that varsity players wouldn't need to raid the campus apple trees in order to satisfy hunger? We think not. Would it be too great a retrogres sion in the eyes of other schools, especially our not-so simon-pure opponents, if State frankly agreed that it would be desirable to sup port its athletes for less than three months 'in the interests of human ity? We think not. Will Penn State be able to take any more steps on the comeback (Continued on pogo three) Arrange Artists' Course Program Marquardt Announces Signing Of Symphony Orchestra For January 21. The National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, D. C. under the dir ection of Hans Kindler, has been con tracted as the first attraction on the 1935 Artists' Course, Carl E. Mar quardt, College ,examiner and chair man of the Artist's Course committee, announced Wednesday. This world famous orchestra is scheduled to ap pear in Schwab auditorium, January 21. Composed of eighty members, the National Symphony is larger than the New York Symphony, which, un der the direction of Nicolai Sokoloff, was the featured symphony on the Course last year.. Director Kindler, who is a noted 'cellist in his own right is one of the most distinguished sym phony conductors and acknowledged us a leading muscian throughout the world. Six Numbers Planned 1 Although definite plans are contin gent upon the quality and price of the, remaining numbers secured, Dr. l'arquardt. 'said that the Course would ' probably present six attractions of vhich the National Symphony Orch , :stra is the first. The .season and .ndividual number ticket price will I Aso be announced later. ' In selecting the National for the apening performance, Dr. Marquardt And the committee, considered several symphony groups, among which were ;he Cleveland and New York Orches tras. Commenting on the selection, Dr. Marquardt stated that in his opin ion, the National Symphony ,was as fine an orchestra as could be gotten for the occasion. Cars Burn After Crash John D. Sauter, grad Mite assistant in the department of physics, received slight injuries when the' automobile which he was driving collided with a beer truck on a. bridge at Boals burg Tuesday night. The impact broke one of the truck's gasoline tanks and set both the truck and the automo bile ablaze. Both vehicles were de stroyed by the flames. ESTABLISHED PRICE FIVE CENTS College Planning For Graduates' Annual Reunion Program of Athletics To Feature Annual Homecoming. Golf, Smokers, Dinners To Complete Program. From all over the State, about 2,000 loyal Aldmni are expected to converge on the College today and tomorrow, Edward K. Hibsh man, Alumni secretary,.estimat ed yesterday. A continuous round of social and sports acti vities have been planned for the visitors and every effort has been made to make this Alumni Week-end the most enjoyable in years. Following registration in the first floor lounge of Old Main, all day today, the week-end's acti vities will be officially begun with the Alumni Council dinner at the Nittany Lion Inn at 6:30 to night. Other events of the night in clude the Pep Rally in Recreation hall at 7:30 and a Varsity Club Smoker at the Centre 'Hills Country Club at 8:30. Tomorrow's calendar lists the Al umni Golf Tournament on the College course starting at 8:30 in the morn- , frig - frellibli . 6 - Irftdi'6'4ed.'- Graduates' who forgot their' clubs will have an' opportunity to visit the Schools and -departments of the College, or for those agriculturally inclined, the Dairy building houses the Horticul tural Show. Two sports contests are scheduled for the afternoon, the Nittany soccer team, playing the second game in '.their third successive undefeated sea son, meet the Temple Owls on Beav er field at 1 o'clock, followed by the football clash with Lehigh at 2:30. Tomorrow night, Alumni will be given an opportunity to visit with their fraternity brothers; for those who are unaffiliated with a fraternal organiiation a dinner in the Sand wich Shop, Old Main, is planned, with Professor and Mrs. John H. Frizzel as hosts; while Alumnae will have an opportunity to visit together at din ner in McAllister hall at 5:15. - The Cider Party in the Armory at 8:30, tomorrow night will be the oc casion for the presentation, by Prof. Burke M. Herman 'lO, of the history department, of a bronze plaque in memory of Lieutenants Levi L. Lamb 'l4, and James D. Bebout 'l5, who were killed in action in the World War. President Ralph D. Hetzel, af ter acknowledging the tribute, will turn it over to Hugo . Bezdek, direct or of athletics, to be hung in the main entrance of Recreation hall. Following the Penn State. Chris tian breakfast in the Sandwich Shop at 0:00 the program will be completed when Alumni will have the oppor tunity to hear Dr. Bernard C. Claus en, pastor of the First Baptist church of Pittsburgh, in the Auditorium at 11:00 o'clock. Hugo Bezdek to Talk At P. S. Club Meeting Hugo Bezdek, director of the School of Physical Education, and William I Jeffrey, soccer coach, will be the prin cipal speakers at the second Penn ' State Club get-together for all non fraternity men and .alumni in the Old Main Sandwich Shop tomorrow night at 8:15 o'clock. Director Bezdck, who Was one' of the founders and charter members of the organization, will speak on "Twen ty Years After." Bill Jeffrey's talk will be called "An Outline of Soccer." The meeting this week will he short er and less formal than the last, Wes ley C. Monkhern president, said. A Little German Band has recent ly been organized by the club and will play several selections. It is hoped to make arrangements for an All-Col lege dance held in cooperation with the Student Union Board. Invitations to attend the meeting have been ex tended to alumni who were nut mem bers of a social fraternity while in attendance here. Refreshments will be served at the close of the meeting.
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