Between The Lions Bob Wilson Mr. Higgins — Please! ‘ 1 firmly believe that-there Is a Santa Claus, that a broken mirroi means «even yeais bad luck, that the moon is made of green cheese and that Penn State has the most beautful coeds in the world So ‘you see, I’m no skeptic' / ‘ ~ There are a few‘things, however, that I positively refuse to be ' lieve, for example, that a certain Penn State football coach can dis caid the huddle system of offense with the abandon of a schoolboy tossing pebbles into a creek and still expect maximum results ‘That 'simply doesnt sound like Bob Higgins ' Of comse, Mr. Higgins may have some very good‘reason foi adopting the,signal system of attack It may be that his v plnyers aie arguing m the huddle It could be that those'same players are wasting time in the huddle computing notes on the Kappas, the Thetas or the Chi Omegas * ' 4 jfj Theie is some small talk, too, that Mrs. Higgins may have read something m hei husband's horoscope that has prompted the change, I hardly believe the Higg is as superstitious as all that To any end, the lepson must be a darned good one else the Higg, a dyed in-the-wool conseivative, would have written prognosis negative on the plan when it was fiist submitted < v ' But let’s get light down to brass tacks I have listed below, in •Very neat oidei, my reasons why the huddle plan* is supenoi to the signal system , ' ' , 1. In the Jiuddle system signals cannot be'stolen >■" 2. The moral angle" A team huddles to talk things over Inform? ijlon of the you hit-’em high, I’ll-hit-'em-low nature can be‘easily passed m the huddle. - ' _ j > 3 ; Oiiginally designed as a type of shift, tKe huddle provides cover for every formation It enables the offensive team to set up or diagnose ihe play f 1 4- There Is too much going on In a football game to allow the play ers to decipher the signals perfectly every play _ i b 5 The huddle provides a rest tor the team tlVat It would not get otherwise * . - * C In the signal system too much is'dependent on-the judgment of 6ne man—the 1 ■* 7 ' Successful teams use the huddle system.; * And so it goes If left to the huddle system, Penn State’s football „ Lions, I believe, will do right by their alma-matei If, subject to the signal system, on the other hand, I am very much afraid those same Nittan'y Lions will make historians forget, there ever was a Tetreat from" Moscow 1 „ • The Sahib Stumbles ' : { Sahib Smailliw,, who was hired last week as exclusive sportscas ‘tei for the Collegian, failed so miserably with his first batch of predic tion that the'poor old fellow has lost face to the degree that.would dnve a Japanese to han-kati j ' In attempting the ten biggest games of the week, the Sahib picked only four winners Despite this disastrous beginning, Smailliw will ,tiy again this week And I have warned him that unless he shows a ’decided impiovement over last week, his name will be Smello—not - ' » i READY FOR FALL SOCIALS? 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ALLEN '• ’ ' WALTE R' N EILLY - M4,\ Prop ' Booters Trample Gettysbur. - . • 1 The Collegian Sports > / , _ , PAGE THREE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN OCTOBER 3, 1939 Beaver Field Stands Enlarged To Seat 14;800 Enlargement of the East stands of the New Beaver Field grid ii on, &n increase in the size of the press box, and other .mprove ments sround the field are being finished up this week As enlarged the East stands non duplicate the West staiids, and. the tot it seating capacity of the stadium has been brought fiom 1’,500 to 14,800 In the en largement. room for‘l,2oo persons was sacrificed to increased com fort when the f width of all seats in the stadium was increased from 16 2-3 inches to 17 5-8 wdhes. The stands will be coaled with a new sand treated paint which was given,a successful tesr in some «pots on the East stands last year It was found that the paint stands up rhuc/i better that that previous ly used Othe> improvements include a 32-foot increase in the length of the press box on the West stands Because of this, no bo\ was erect ed'on the other side The additional space in the press box will be used to provide a box foi President Hetzel and his guests, and a quarters foi scouts The electric scoreboard has been painted and a new curbing has been placed around the cinder track. The addition to the East stands has reduced the length of the baseball diamond right field To make up for this a wiie screen will be erected at the back of the stands and'it is expected that play mg wiP not be seriously affected Tomorrow Final Date For Fall IM Entries. , Because of the small number of entries in deadline,' intramural reg*' Istration'will be" kept open until >5 p. im. tomorrow, Eugen C ' Bischoff, Intramural,director, has announced. Entries 1 and fees should be submitted at Room 213, Rec Hall. Fall sporta* to be conducted and the entry fees" are Foot ball, $k per team, cross-country, 25 cents per man, horseshoes, 25 cents per man; swimming, $1 per team; and golf putting, 10 cents per man. . Second Co-ed Swim Party Set Friday Calling the first co-recreational swimming party a success m spite of the fact that boys attending far outnumbered the girls, Recrea tion 'Director Ray Conger an nounced another swim party will be held again this Friday night in Glennland Pool from 1 7 to' 10. The party will'be-conducted along the same lines as last Fri day’s except that prizes ..will be given to race winners. -The 'first 75 girls and the first 75 boys to ap pear will be admitted, although Director Conger said he was rea sonably stire couples would be as sured admittance. - Girls need only their matricula tion cards to be admitted, while freshmen and sophomore men need their recreational swim tick ets Junior and senior men may purchase recreational swim tickets at the Bursars' office Lion Varsity Eleven Trounces Frosh Spuaq In Muddy Practice Game, 50-6 SPORTOGRAPHIES— Two Fall Captains ‘We’ll Take PUt,’ Captain Alter Says *‘So you won’t make a predic-. tion on the season, Spike’” ‘‘Well—l-I, that’s sort of put tin'me on the spot but you can say that we'll get the most trouble irom Syracuse, Penn, and Army ’’ ‘‘You left out Pitt, didn’t you’” "Yep This is our yegr to beat them 1 worked with four of their fellows this summer, and they don’t feel so good about their’ chances” Sid Alter, rugged Lion football capfain, speaking And he wasn’t tooling about Pitt For the first time in 20 years Penn State is go ing to beat Pitt, he says, you can put that in your book, even though it is a Pitt without Jock Suther land, Goldberg, Stebbms and the boys There's a lot more about Sid—by his own word he has no girl inends here or at home m Pitts burgh, i e. "steadies” got his biggest thrill two years ago when he went back to his home town and caugjit a pass on the goaf lme to score against mighty Pitt got out of Fifth Avenue High m Pittsburgh in January, 1933, then spent three years for a florist, butcher, and a hardwood ‘floor company . tired and hitch hiked around the country nine months * th«*n Tommy Slusser Loss Of Arm Overcome By ’43 Gridiron Candidate Having pio\en to his high school associates that a physical (Us ability is a handicap to omy the weak in spiiit, Howaid Wnlkei ’43 is out to piove the same to Penn State Although his light hand wan am-4 ; putated at’the wrist in an accident with a meat-grinding machine when he was 16, Howard played first stringv guaul 'on the Upper Meiion High School team last year as well as playing tiumpet in the school bnnd He Is out for guard on the Freshman' football team heie and liis big handicap Is his weight—l6s—not* his disability. Rather tall, Howaid is a seiious minded, good-natured boy It is not hard to see why his classmates elected him class president for foui years noi vvhy he was editor of his school yearbook , ' He came to State with the inten'- tion of majoring in Phys Ed, but changed to Liberal Aits when lie was told it would be difficult to obtain a job after graduation Al though still interested in Phys Ed. lie Is more interested in showing his fathei that a college education is valuable Naturally light-handed, Hon aid lmd to relearn to write and play the trumpet with Ills left hand His main ambitions llglit now are to make the Fieshman football team and Blue Band He sow* consider able service in the varsity-frosh game Satui day, and according to Coach McAudrews has been show ing up well in practice. Frosh, Varsity Swimming Candidates Meet Tonight 'of boys 'interested in trying out fdr‘ either varsity or freshman. swimming teams will be held at the Phi_ Sigma Kappa bouse at 7 o’clock to night. 1 Coach Bob Galbraith announ ced try-outs will be held at 4 p. m tomorrow and Thursday at Glennland Pool. Rogers’ Work Shown In College Library , An unusual collection of books, pictures, sketches, engravings, tltle'pages, and * book plates" illus trative of the work of, Bruce Rog ers wlio has been'characterized fls the of books oLour time," and was put ’on display in ,the £ibraiy yester* day and’ will continue to .October 1. The'exhibition is, being shown In the first and second floor lob bies - ' , It came' to Penn State from the Americanlnstitute of Graphic 'Arts and Is being shown at a num ber of the prominent libraries of the country.. ■Cross-Country Captaip Is Photography ‘Butf "Nuts on photography,” (m his own words) is Penn State's cross- captain, who spends some some of his happiest hours in a darkroom He also collects stamps, runs varsity half-mile and mile, sparks the harriers, holds down two jobs—and goes to college Frank Maule’s track career started in grammar school at Media, Pa, where practice teach ers from West Chester urged him on His biggest thrill came in ’36, when he tore off a mile in 4 28<to set a new state high school record —after being sick in bed the week before ' After a summer spent m caddy ing at Rolling Green country club, the diminutive speedster is ready for his best season he’s been varsity on both harrier and track 'teams for three years was beat en out by two feet in the indoor lntercollegiates at Madison Square Garden last year “Thank the Lord,” Frank has been heard to say, “I won’t be run ning against Johnny Woodruff this year He’s the most invincible runner I ever saw ” Vital statistics weighs 130 •is a C & F’er thinks cross-coun try “much more fun than track” belongs to a first day cover club you can see him at Metzger’s (adv) Women in Sports | By EDYTHE RICKEL Foui o clock hockey, as tradi tional as scones and tea to oui British cousins, began its 1939-1940 season jesteidaj New' inles is sued bv the Intiamuial Boaid are as follows 1 In oider to plav inteiciass hoc kej evei> glil (lieshman women and transfers excluded) must have an hitinmuiai card from the dispensaiv stating site is phvoJcallj fit t 2 She must hare pmticipated in font 'piactices in oidei to play in scheduled games 9 M,ondnj tlnough Thuisday, un til OUohei .'> will be piactice periods (hi cuse of lain, prac- lice will be'held in Whit? Hall) 4 Games’ start at 4 15 p m and will be defaulted at 4 20 if the full team is not present A prac tice ,must be played instead At long fast—a new way to win fi lends and influence people Join the Hobby Lobby—suprise feature of White Hall’s WRA-sponsored Open House on Octobei 4 Call* Bnibara Claik about your hobby today. According to latest reports the tennis club threatens to challenge the men's varsity tennis team Good hick gals, and ou for bigger nnd better worlds to conquer. Calling all co eds There’ll be a mixed swim paity at the Glennland swimming pool from 7 to 10 p m Filday Bring your bathing suits and matric caide Come on in— .the water’s fine. First ROTC Parade Cancelled; 2 Remain The first of three scheduled sophomore ROTC parades bas been cancelled and the beginning of freshmen parades bas been postponed till next, spring,* Col Ambrose R. Emery,* commandant of the department of military science and tactics announced yes terday. The., cancelled parade was to have been held next Monday The two” sophomore parades remaining are planned for October 16 ?nd 23 subject to cancellation, if ; weather is Bad Reason for dropping the first parade xtas that the classes have ■not yet had tiihe to learn the new drill-for fo&t troops which this year is replacing the old clpse or der drill. ** ' ’43 Team Scores Lone Tally On Recovered Fumble BY DICK PETERS Whether jou were on the thou* ««and-odd fans, one of the vaisity or freshmen football players or wheth er you w'ere one of the several foot balls which were used in Satur day's practice game the situation can still he sized up in one brief statement —it was wet and muddy Respite the teirifle downpour and the slippery condition of the playing field, the Nlttnny L’ion var sity squad tinned on a stream of their own,'a stream of touchdowns —eight id all—to sink the fresh men gridders, 50-6 Tlfe lone freshmen tally was rung up by Harry Thompson, yearling end who fell on one of' the numerous varsity fumbles over the goal line It didn't take the .varsity long to make first score ‘After the yearlings bad' fumbled on the 15 yard stripe, Pepper Petrelia and Lloyd Ickes smashed to, the 1 vard line, from which point the iatter went over Patiick’s try for con version was good. In a few minutes it was Toni Vaigo, regular end, who punched across on an ehd-around play Pat rick came through again with* an extra point After the freshmen had tried a few plays following the third kick-off. Petrelia put on the best show' of the day hy re turning a punt CO vards foi an other tallv Ickes came up with the fourth touchdown on a nice piece of run ning soon after—a 35 yaid off tackle jaunt to bring the score up to 26 0 Following each of the next three fieshmen punts the varsity eleven drove down the field to tally thrice more, with Bill Smaltz and Hank Day on the scoring end, Smaltz hitting pay dirt twice. Thompson Scores It was with the score at 44 0 that Thompson covered a vaisity bob ble in the end zone for the McAn drews-coached bovs’ only counter The scoiing festivities ended a lit tle later when Larry Eigenrouuch tossed a strike to Paul Kinns’m the end zone foi the Hjgginsmen’s last touchdown With conditions as bnd as they were and the number of substitu tions that were made, it is diffi cult to point out any paiticnlai men who were outstanding Day and Petrelia did line woik In the \arsit\ backfield, while Len Frket icli and Captain Spike Altei were doing theii bit in the line Freshmen who looked like pos sible material next yeai were the two ends, Thompson and Boh Davis. Toe Marcus at gnaid and Bob Perugini at tackle BUI Bailey’s punting was outstanding when the elements are considered," while Chet Adessa (a brother of Joe) and Ralph Ventrisco were other yeailing backs who stood out A NEW SANDWICH SERVICE All We' Ask is a Trial — ' , . Then You’ll Be Convinced! • Sandwiches 10c ' • College Dairy Products • Leading 5c Cakes & Candies / Wholesale Candy and Milk for Fraternity Concessions—24 Count Candies, whole or ~ split box 75c. | t h JUST LET OUR MAN PAY YOU A VISIT—WE ASK NO MORE Heiirick’s Sandwich Service s ' CORNER PUGH & NITTANY AVE. v PHONE 4034 * rfrt, In Mud, 4-1 Sophomores Pace Lions To Triumph Soccermen Tally 46th Win Without Defeat Sophomoies led the way as Penn State’s miraculous soccei team launched its 1939 season in a driv ing lainstoun and muddy field on Saturday When it was over, the Lions had turned back Gettysbuig, 4-1, to make a successful start on a e eventh consecutive undefeated season It was the 4Gtb straight contest without defeat plaved by Coach Bill Teffrey’s hovs since 1932 The rain and mud failed to ham per the clever footwork of the Lion eleven Short, perfect passes, com bined with powei boots which meant scoies, gave State the up per-hand throughout Although sophomoies five of them—held the key positions on the Eastern Championship eleven —there was no noticeable lack of efficiency on the Lion teamwork The lesult of the contest was never m doubt All foui Penn State goals were contributed by sophomoies playing m their first varsity game Don Megi ail, voungei brothei of last year's scoring leader, accounted foi two, Ga77y Green, a State College High pioduct, came through with one and the fourth was supplied by Ned Corman, an other younger brother of a form ei stai,'w f ho hails from Zion by way of Hublersburg High The lineups Penn State Gettysburg G Leskaras Zimmerman R P Lange j. Menoker L F. Schuler Millet R.H. A Jones Cox C H Megrnil Muhlenberg L H Green Zell 0 R Hartman Coleman King Spangler Ernst Henrickson Corman F Muzell Durain H. Muzell I R CP... I L OL_. Score by Quarters Penn State 111 I—4 Gettysburg 0 0 1 o—l Goals—Megrail 2, Green, Cor man, F. Mu7ell Referee—Bob Boyle, Pittsburgh. 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