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Volume 33—No. 14
Instead of Fighting
Lehigh, Lions Fight
Themselves and Lose
Engineers Outplay State Scoring Touchdown
On Long Forward in Third Quarter;
Extra Point Wins Game
By CHARLES M. WHEELER, JR.
Squabbling: among themselves like babies and playing listless and un
inspired football, Penn State’s 1936 excuse was thoroughly outplayed and
beaten in Saturday’s Lehigh game.
It was no fluke that sent Lehigh off to its first victory over the tremb
ling Lion since 1917; it was complete mastery. A student body’of 1600
mingled with.several thousand locals, many State alumni included, viewed
the debacle. • -
And what that crowd saw was a group of inexperienced but well-coached
youngsters with the love of the game in their blood take over a sluggish Lion
with its tail between its'legs. State acted as if it did not want to play foot
ball,- and if that was its aim, this is* ; :
a success story. T\ | rp ,
A Fighting Nature lliyCfS 1 ryOUIS
What fight there was in the team , -
Saturday was displayed by the play- Wpf 4-rkf* I flffldht
ers mixing it up \tith their team- kJwL IUI X
mates rather than with the common
foe. One thing led to another until
the only place that spirit was being
displayed was in the huddle. And
chief among the offenders were a
couple of guys that did nothing all
afternoon.
The score was 7-to-G and might
easily have been worse. Little did
anyone think that the Nittany Lion
would be battling desperately to
stave off Lehigh scores, especially
when in the “darkest years" State
had regularly beaten Lehigh. But so
it went. The end of the first half
saved the Lion from being, scored on.
Lehigh at that time took the ball
on O’Hora’s kick on its own 14-yard
line, and three plays later the half
ended with the ball on State’s 15. A
back -shovel pass to Peet who for
warded • to Walton took the ball
to the Lehigh 45. A pass, Pazzetti
to EUstrom, put the ball on the State
• 43, ‘and then Heller passed to Ell
stroni on the 15-yard line as‘ the be
wildered . State - defense wondered ,if
it were fish day. The answer is that
they were just suckers.
But don’t underestimate that first
half. The Lions made all three of
their first downs in it. Think of that.
Wait Until the Last Half •
It seems that the second half was
destined to see all of the scoring.
With ten minutes in the third period
gone the Engineers had the ball on
the State 41 after a punt. Wertz
dropped back, and taking his time
because he had plenty of it, threw a
long, high pass to Pat Pazzetti on the
5. He stepped over with the score,
and Ayer, who was rushed in, kicked
the winning point from placement.
State tried to get going after Tom
my (I’m a senior) Silvano had left
in favc-r of Jumping Joe Metro who
tried hard, at least, but had-no place
to go. They got a big break when
Waugaman recovered Heller’s fumble
on the Letflgn 10. Four plays netted
G yards, and Peet punted out on his
own 28, another break. On the first
play O’Hora threw State?s only com
pleted pass of the afternoon to Harry
Harrison in the flat, who eluded the
secondary and went down the right
side to score. Luther (Dick Merri
well) Barth came rushing in to tie
up the old ball game. After consid
erable treatment of the turf to set
the stage, the ball was passed back
and he almost raised it off the
ground.
There stood the final score, 7-to-6.
But what difference would it have
made if he had kicked it? A tie
score would have been little consola
tion. It might have gone down in
the records that State held Lehigh to
a tie, when as a matter of fact, they
didn't come close.
Cherundolo Hurt During Game
Most pathetic sight of the after
noon was Captain Chuck Cherundolo
standing out there and stopping the
Lehigh offense all by himself while
his teammates were crocheting. An
All-American center if there ewer
was one playing with the State Col
lege amateur stock company. What
support he did have came from Tor
Toretti and Carl Waugaman.
And Chuck was hurt in the last
quarter for the first time of his ca
reer but stayed in the game. Second
most pathetic sight was Dud Enders,
224 pounds of defensive aggressive
ness, with a heart to play the game
if there ever was one, sitting on the
bench all afternoon while the “var
sity” missed them on the right, on
the'left, and through the middle.
Where the vaunted passing attack
and the blocking that sent • Muhlen
berg helter-skelter was, is a matter
of mystery. From .the coaching de
partment comes the news that all
positions for the Cornell struggle on
Saturday are open. Which is exact-
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Directors Choose Five Shows
For Season of 1936-37;
Last Open Tryout
The casts for two Player produc
tions will be determined tonight when
tryouts for “Post Road” are conduct
ed in the Little Theater in Old Main
at 7 o’clock.
Prof. Arthur C. Cloetingh, of the
division of dramatics, who will direct
the Soph Hop week-end show, “Post
Road,” will select his cast from both
veteran Players and any newcomers
who- wish to try out. In addition,
Prof. Frank SI Neusbaum, of the
division of dramatics, will be present
and choose prospective actors for his
next production, to be held sometime
in January.
The tryouts scheduled for tonight
will probably be the last open to all
students interested in acting. There
may be another..one „in, the spring,.
However.
Year’s Shows Selected
Five shows have been selected by
the Players for the remainder of the
year, Professor Cloetingh announced.
“Post Road” will be the December,
production. In January, Professor
Neusbaum will direct a Greek com
edy, “Xysistrata.”
“Blind Alley,” a melodrama, will
be the first presentation of the sec
ond semester, to be held either in late
February or early March. Professor
Cloetingh will -direct. Professor Neus
baum’s spring show, “Tapestry in
Gray,” will be held in April. The
Commencement production will be
“Squaring the Circle.”
Cornell Invites Hetzel
President and Mrs. Ralph D. Hetzel
have accepted an invitation to attend
the football game between Penn State
and Cornell at Ithaca, N. Y., on Sat
urday. The invitation was extended
by Dr. A. R. Mann, provost of Cor
nell University, and chairman of the
1 executive committee of the Associa
tion of Land Grant Colleges and
Universities, of which President
Hetzel is a member.
‘Seeing Eye German Shepherd
Dog , To Lead Master To Classes
Within a few days, Penn State stu
dents will meet a graduate student
from Morristown, N. J. His name is
Rolfe, he’s two years old, and he’s a
graduate of the “Seeing Eye” train
ing school for dogs.
Rolfe .is a German Shepherd and
his profession is accompanying his
master, a Penn State sophomore in
the School of Liberal Arts, about
town and campus.
Rolfe is directed by oral commands
of. “right,” “left,” or “forward,’ but
it is the dog that leads, the sopho
more who commands. By means of
a leather leash and harness, Rolfe
will take his master to class, remain
until it is over, and will then attend
the next hour with his master.
The sophomoi’e acquired ' Rolfe
about four weeks ago from the “See
'ing Eye” school at Morristown. The
student took a four weeks’ training
course and then learned how to han
dle the dog. The instruction included
voice inflection and intonation, meth
ods of handling the dog, an dpractice.
“A great deal,” the student said,
“depends on the inflection I use in
giving Rclfe commands. The voice
must be cordial but firm. If the voice
betrays irritation or anger, the dog
notices it immediately and docs not
work efficiently.”
The sophomore asks only one favor
from the students and townspeople
STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1936
PSCA Campaign
For Funds Ready
To Start Monday
Will Continue Through
Friday, Benjamin
Announces
‘Goal is the Sky,’ Key
Note of Money Drive
The annual Penn State Christian
Association drive for funds will start
on Monday and extend until the fol
lowing Friday, according to Lester
M. Benjamin ’37, who is in charge of
the campaign.
The annual canvass of students
and faculty is to provide funds to aid
,in meeting the expenditures of the
oi’ganizution. The finances are need
ed to enable the P. S. C. ’A. to con
tinue the service it has been render
ing to students for the past sixty-one
, years.
Active in Many Ways
The association is one of the most
active on the campus. Among its list
of services are the publication of the
freshman Handbook, the sponsoring
of freshman mass meetings, seminars,
fireside sessions, the bringing of
famed speakers to the College, as
well as ’ the fostering of the student
counselor plan for new students.
Previous years there was always
a goal toward which the campaign
was directed. This year “the goal is
the sky,” Benjamin promised. He also
stated that every student is a mem
ber of the organization who partici
pates in its activities or conributes
toward its budget. These who do not
wish to pay their contribution now,
may have it added to their registra
tion fees next semester.
Leaders Carefully Chosen
Funds contributed by students and
faculty members go directly to the
budget while those from parents,
friends, and the College cover over
head" cxpenses---and~6eeretaries’ -sala
ries.
The student advisory committee to
aid in the organization is Frank A.
Osterlund ’37, Johnson Brenneman
’37, George M. Hacker ’37, Gene C.
Ziegler ’37, Jean B. Northup ’37, Ross
P. Shaffer ’3B, and Fes W. Tibbott
’39. Division leaders are being care
fully selected, as the success of the
drive depends much upon this' selec
tion. The first meeting for these
leaders will be in the Old Main Sand
wich Shop at 6 o’clock tonight. The
kickoff dinner to initiate the drive
will be held at the Nittany Lion Inn
at 5:30 o’clock next Monday. Mar
garet A. Wentzel ’37 is chairman for
the women and Benjamin will head
the men. A faculty advisor has not
keen chosen as yet.
To Attend Convention
Dr. Carroll D Champlin, of the de
partment of educations and psych
ology, together with Leonard M.
Brockman ’37 and Kenneth G. Brown
’37. will attend the national convention
of Kappa Phi Kappa, educational fra
ternity, at Birmingham, Alabama,
during the latter part of this week.
here: that they will not pet .or tease
Rolfe or try to assist them along the
street at crossings. “Seeing Eye”
dogs are so delicately trained that
any distracting influence tends to
break the line of rigid conditioning
to which they are subjected. Occa
sionally, when the dogs break train
ing consistently, they must be sent
back to the “Seeing Eye” for recon
ditioning in their profession.
It takes three months to condition
the dogs. First, they are taught
obedience, then, the principles of
guiding, finally, studied disobedience,
for the dog must disobey a command
which might lead his master into
danger. The trainers, who educate
the dogs and teach the students how
to use them, take a four-year course
of study before they .can become
qualified instructors.
Students are selected for dogs as
well as dogs for students. Upon appli
cation to the “Seeing Eye” school,
the student is picked on qualifications
which indicate that he will use the
dog to the best advantage. There
are now over 200 graduates from the
school. Rolfe was graduated last
Friday.
For several days, he and Rolfe will
make the rounds of the town and
campus so th (■> Rolfe can become
thoroughly familiar with the locality
in which he and the student will live
during the next three years.
Deadline For Syracuse
Tickets Today at 5 P. M.
The deadline for ticket ex
changes for the Houseparty foot
ball game with Syracuse is this
afternoon at 5 o’clock. Fraternity
and non-fraternity groups should
present coupon number G from the
athletic books at the Athletic As
sociation office, together with
money for any additional tickets
desired. ‘
Tickets for the Cornell game to
be played at Ithaca are
low available at the Athletic As
sociation window. • Reserved seats
in the Penn State cheering section
jn the fifty-yard line can be ob
:ained for $3.30. •
Enrollment Hits
New High Record
Latecomers Continue Enrolling
With 5564 Students Now
On College Lists i
With late comers still registering,
College enrollment this fall already
has reached a new high of SGC4 stu
dents, Registrar William S. Hoffman
announced today. j
The gross of 5623-for the school
year of 1935-3 G, a record up to that
time, was surpassed early in the pres
ent semester, he said. ''
Registrar Hoffman’s statitics also
show that the total for this year is
divided between 4597? men and 10G7
women, with women registered in all
seven schools of the College.
Total registration by schools fol
lows: Agriculture, 1209; Chemistry
and Physics, G4l; Engineering, 886;
Education* Gl3; Liberal Arts, 1526;
Mineral Industries/ ,245; Physical
Education, 182; Graduate School,
342. There are a 150.89 special stu
dents and 20 in the transition section.
Of the total enrolled, 50G1 students
are candidates for bachelor’s degrees.
A division of the!.enrollment by!
classes reveals ’ 932 students in the
senior class, 1031 in the junior class,
1639 173
two-year stuflentsTand SiTsp'ecials.
Outdoor Enthusiasts
To Meet Tonight
At Rec Hall
Moving pictures showing skiing ac
tivity here last year will be given to
night at 7:30 o’clock to outdoor en
thusiasts as they meet for the second
time in an effort to further interest
in the excellent facilities of the sur
rounding mountains. The meeting
will be held in Room 301, Recreation
hall.
In the first meeting last Friday a
group of over forty students discus
sed the various opportunities for hik
ing, mountain-climbing, and skiing,
and more than fifteen automobiles
went out to the range of mountains
near Boalsburg Sunday to view the
work being done there by forestry
students and other outdoor fanciers.
The discussion will be continued to
night.
Ski Trail Work Progesscs
Work on a ski trail for the coming
winter has been progressing and
much was accomplished on Sunday.
When finished, the trail will compare
favorably with others built by the
various New England colleges. In ad
dition to the worl;, for skiing being
done, a group is also constructing a
lean-to in the Boalsburg district.
The meetings and the work -will be
under the direction of Max-Dercum,
instructor in forestry, who-organized
the ski team last winter, and Ray
Conger, instructor-in physical educa
tion and Athletics. Ben Harriman, a
graduate student, is assisting.
Formal Tone Marks
1937 Issue of ‘Lavie’
The 1937 La Vic has chosen a
formal theme. Broad smiles on
faces of the men will be omitted so
that the general tone of the senior
section will conform to the formal
clothes worn.
Senior men are urged to take non
smiling pictures for their section of
the 1937 La Vic , so that it will cor
respond to the appearance of the rest
of the book.
Tuxedos are available at the Photo
Shop for those who do not have them
or find it inconvenient to wear their
own to the Photo Shop, but it would
be advisable to .wear one’s own.
If a senior finds it impossible to
come to the Photo Shop at the time
set on his appointment card, he
should come when he has time that
same clay or at the latest the follow
ing day.
Christy’4o Dies;
Injury to Brain
Cause of Death
Football Game Held As
Contributing To
Sudden End
Student Hurt in Class
Here Friday Morning
j A post-mortem yesterday afternoon
showed that the death of Joseph A.
Christy ’4O, who died at the College
Infirmary Sunday night at 11:20
j o’clock, was due to an effusion into the
icerebelluni, .together with a brain
tumor. Dr. W. R. Heaton, Centre
Coro*'" ndr id thr
County Coroner conducteu .ie inves
tigation, assisted by Dr. J. V. Poster,
local physician, and Dr. Joseph P.
Ritenour, College doctor.
The effusion affected the resph'a
tory nerve centers in the brain. It
came as a result of the diseased con
i dition of that organ. It had been j
; thought that his death was due to ani
injury that he may have sustained i
while playing touch football. The Cor
oner, however, stated that while that
may have hastened his death slightly,
it could not in any way have been the
actual cause.
Christy, a native of Wilkinsburg, en
rolled in mechanical engineering, had
been in good health according to his
friends. He complained of a headache
last Friday following a game of touch
football in his physical education
class that morning. He had fallen sev
eral times in the game but had not
been injured in any way.
Attendcd by Dr. Glenn
Saturday morning he felt worse and
his roommate, William Cooper '4O,
called Di\ Herbert R. Glenn, local
physician. Dr. Glenn examined Christy
that afternoon. He was not told of
the football game and diagnosed the
I ailment as an infection of the right
I frontal sinus. He gave treatment to
he student, and assured his friends at
Cody Manor on 301 South Allen street,
where" lived, that 'Ehere was
no cause for alarm.
There was no improvement in his
condition Sunday so Cooper and an
other friend carried him to the College
Infirmary where he -was admitted
early in the afternoon. Later in the
day ho was examined by Dr. Charles
Dietrich, College doctor. He too felt
that the case was not serious.
Arilicial Respiration Given
Sunday night the nurse on duty no
ticed that Christy’ was restless. She
called Dr. Ritenour. Even then it did
; not appear that the student was scr
iouslj* ill. Dr. Ritenour examined his
pulse and while doing that the pat-;
ient’s respiration suddenly ceased. Ar-:
tificial respiration was resorted to and
continued for nearly an hour, but at
11:20 the student died.
Christy was the oldest son of Mrs.
Flora S. Christy, of 623 AVhitney ave
nue, Wilkinsburg. He is survived by
two brothers and a sister. The fun
eral will be held there today or to
morrow.
Engineers Visit Here
Approximately seventy-live engi
neers from five different institutions
will visit the College Friday and Sat
urday for a meeting of the Allegheny
section of the Society for the Promo
tion of Engineering Education.
Want To Know The Low-Down?
9 Phone Operators—They Know
It’s an obscure office, the telephone
exchange in Old Main, but it is the
busiest and most necessary to the
College set-up. To quote: “It’s where
East meets West .to carry on a
friendly chat.’'
The operators there know plenty—
that the old L’Amitic house and Miles
street dorm carry on the longest con
versations, that Women’s building
gets the calls for a certain week, then
Grange has its hey-day, and ad ni
firjitum.
Over 5000 calls a day go through
the Old Main switchboard. The seven
operators work on two different
shifts: one from 8 a. m. to 12 noon,
from 1 p. m. to 5 p. m., and from
7:30 to 10 p. m.; the other from 7
a. m. to 12 noon, 5 to 7:30 p. m., and
from 10 p. m. to 7:30 a. in. There
are two and sometimes three girls at
work at all times except from 12 noon
to 1 p.m. and from 10 p.m. to 8:30
a. m.
The break in the busy day of phone
calls comes at 10 p. m., after which
time the College phones to the wom
en’s dormitories and fraternities arc
discontinued. The men’s fraternities
and dormitories Have all-night tele-
WCL
Four Political Parties
Will Offer Symposium
Thurs. Night at 8:30
Representative Speakers Will Address Students
On ‘What Our Party Offers Youth;’
Publications, ASU Sponsor
Penn State students will have an opportunity to hear what the Com
munist, Democratic, Republican, and Socialist parties offer youth when the
representatives of these parties gather together for the first political sym
posium in the history of the College in Schwab auditorium Thursday night
at 8:30 o’clock.
Speaking on “What Our Party Offers Youth,” each representative will
present his party’s youth plank in twenty minutes or less. After the last
speaker, the forum will be thrown open for questions from the floor.
Kroll Will Talk
To I. F. Pledges
PSCA To Sponsor 4th Banquet
At Nittany Lion Inn
On Sunday Night
The Rev. William E. Kroll 'l7 will
be a featured speaker at the fourth
annual Inter-fraternity Pledge ban
quet to be held at the Nittany Lion
Inn at G o’clock Sunday night,
Charles W. Cable ’37, chairman of
the committee in charge; announced
today. The banquet, sponsored each
year by the Penn State Christian As
sociation with the cooperation of the
Interfraternit.v Council, is given lor
the pledges of all fraternities par
ticipating.
Varsity Quartet Will Sing
Reverend Kroll, better known as
“Bill” or “Pop,” once had a brilliant
college career, numbering among his
activities positions as class historian,
associate editor of the 1917 La Vic,
member of the editorial staff of the
Collegian, the Y. M. C. A. Cabinet,
and class basketball team. He is a
member of the. Phi Delta Theta and
Alpha Zeta fraternities, Lions Paw,
the Forensic Council, and the Stu-'
dent Council. At the present timd
he is pastor of the Arlington Avenue
Presbyterian Church, East Orange,
New Jersey.
In addition to the speech by Rev.
Kroll, entertainment will be offered
by the Varsity Quartet consisting of
Richard W. O’Connor ’37, Charles W.
Tildcn ’37, Jack E. Platt ’37, James
P. Unangst *37, and Donald H. Dixon
’37, pianist.
Hal Spring to Address
College A.S.U. Chapter
Ilal Spring, regional organizer for
the American Student Union, will ad
dress a short meeting of the Penn
State chapter in Room 415, Old Main,
Thursday night at 7 o’clock. The
meeting will take place immediately
before the election forum and will
consist of a discussion of future
A. S. U. activities. ’
On Saturday night the Union will
conduct a social at the home of Prof.
Edward R. Van Sant, of the depart
ment of economics and sociology. The
program will include refreshments
and dancing and'admission will be
i twenty-five cents. All interested are
1 invited.
: phone service, but their calls amount
to about one-fifth of the total calls
to the women’s houses. Anyway, the
operators say, the men, especially
those in Irvin Hall, often don’t bother
to answer them.
One hundred and fifty lines are
handled in this office. In most cases
two women’s fraternities arc combin-.
cd on one line; there is but one line
to Women’s building, three to Mac-
Allistcr hall, and four to Grange for
the use of the students.
The telephone office of the old ad
ministration building was in Room
105 and was transferred to the Arm
ory while the new Old Main was be
ing built. In 1929 the operators moved
to their new office in the department
of grounds and buildings.
To prove this office is the busiest
and most necessary of all in the
building, the operators were the last
to move out of the old building and
the first to move into the new one.
The operators have perhaps the
hardest job of any in the College or
ganization of keeping a smooth flow
of communication between student
and student, student and faculty, in
structor and instructor, and campus
and town.
COMPLETE
CAMPUS
COVERAGE
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Ask Student Cooperation
•7. A. Sexton, director of research
in the State Insurance department
and former University of Pennsylva
nia instructor, will speak for the
Democratic party. Mr. N. Sparks, dis
trict organizer for Western Pennsyl
vania, will present the Communist
party youth program. Representa
tives of the Republican and Socialist
parties have not yet been named by
their State Committees.
An informal dinner will be given
for the speakers in the Old Main
Sandwich Shop at 6:45 o’clock. Im
mediately before the symposium, the
four speakers will draw lots for posi
tions on the program.
The symposium committee, consist
ing of the publications and the Amer
ican Student Union, is asking the
student body to cooperate by showing
each party the courtesy of listening
to its representative. The committee
has defined the topic as party prin
ciple and has requested each speaker
to present the issue only.
Coaches Select
Debating Teams
Benjamin,“Young Will Compete
Against English Students
Here on Nov. 18
Fourteen women and ninteen men
were selected for the College debating
teams, according to announcements
made yesterday by Clayton H. Sehug,
women’s coach, and Joseph F. O’-
Brien, men’s coach, both of the divi
sion of speech.
The selection of Lester M. Benja
min ’37 and Fred L. Young ’3B to de
bate with the two representatives of
the National Union of Students of
England here on ‘November 18 was
also announced. Their topic will be
“This House Prefers Wilson’s League
to Kellogg’s Pact.”
Team Members Listed
Composing the women’s team will
be Myra C. Cohen ’37, Kathleen E.
Gilbody ’3B, Lucille D. Hayes '3B,
Martha Marusah '3B, Feme L. War
ner ’3B, Ruth 11. Zang ’3B, Florence
E. Long ’39, Beulah F. Gcrheim ’39,
Lillian F. Marion '39, Elizabeth M.
Reyburn ’39, Harriet A. Ricketts ’39,
Florence V. Watkins ’39, Marjorie E.
Witsil ’39, and Julia R. Zubroff ’39.
Men who were chosen are Benja
min, Ralph N. de Camp ’37, M. Calvin
Cost ’37, Robert A. Cans ’37, Glen L.
Wetzel ’37, .Tames WiUeford ’37, J.
Edwin Matz ’3B, Young, Fred S. Carl
son '39, Jack R. Cobb ’39, Ray P.
Fishburne ’39, Dorothy D. Jeffrey
*39, Arthur R. Neary '39, Edwin K.
Taylor ’39, Dennis A. Weaver ’39, E.
David Cohen ’4O, Thomas D. Conway
’4O, James D. Lucke ’4O, and Jones
Kauffman ’4O.
P. S. Chib Will Hold
Second Annual Dance
The second informal Houseparty
Dance of the Penn State Club will
be held at the Nittany Lion Inn Octo
ber 30, Howard B. Frankcnficld ’37,
chairman of the dance committee, an
nounced after the Alumni Day meet
ing of the club. Frankcnficld stated
that a popular recording orchestra
would provide the music. The other
members of the dance committee are
George L. Donovan, John H. Hetrick
’3B, Robert W. Worts '3B, and Charles
H. Hugus ’39.
Worts, who is also chairman of the
dancing class committee, announced
that it was not too late to sign up for
the weekly dancing class which is in
charge of Miss Amy M. Fischer, of
the School of Physical Education and
Athletics. Tickets can be purchased
at the Student Union desk for the
second lesson, which will be given ut
Recreation hall Monday night, Octo
ber 26.