Between The Lions Bob Wilson One-word description of the Lehigh game: Slaughter I * Two-word description of'the same game Unmerciful slaughter! Summary of the same. Penn State heat hell outa Lehigh Uni "versify, 49-7 ' ' . •. From an arithmetical point of view that’s hll very nice But then what team of State’s calibre couldn’t roll up a similar score against a two-mouse-power eleven like Lehigh 9 The answer is painfully ob vious. ' • J 1 . j Proof that the victory over the Engineers Vas anything but a feather m Higgins’ cap was thoughtfully submitted last Saturday by five of State’s remaining six opponents. While the Nittanymen ware ciushmg poor little Lehigh on New Beaver Field, Cornell, whom the Lions face next Saturday, was smash ing Princeton, 20-7, Syuicuse was breaking Georgetown's 10-game win'streak with a 13-13 tie, Penn was upsetting Yale, G-0, Army was rallying to deadjock a Columbia eleven, G»G, and Pitt's mystery team was coming from behind to edge Duke’s Blue Devil i, 14113; Note to Spike Altei et'al The honeymoon-is over m ” Lehigh Game: Add 1 Notes jotted on the back of a Beaver Field Pictorial Bob Higgins ■ used 15 backs, ten ends, six tackles, eight guards and five centeis m Jthe Lehigh game Not one of. the six touchdown plays began within the 17-yard line Carl Kins’ fingernail,catch of Lurry Eigenrnuch’s 16-yard pass was the most spectacular play of the game Craig White aveiaged 16 yards per try against the-Engweers one! was good for‘a. pair of D’s, the fust on a 26-yard gallop and the second on a3l -yard jaunt . ’Pepper Petrella pioved his fast-minute touch down dash against Buehncll was no fluke by repeating the perform ! ance against Lehigh His 68-yard scoring sprint Saturday may be the longest Beaver Field fans will see this year . Fifty percent of State’s touchdowns so far this yeai have been scored via the air. “'Big Bill” Smaltz, triple threat sophomore back, continued to click as ace piojectile in State’s passing attack Smaltz completed three out of five against Lehigh, connecting twice for t&uhcdowns. (Continued on Page Four) doiLJi •.; I ?3 .W: NITTANY AVENUE . ML ROOMS WITH RUNNING WATER When In Doubt About "a Room - - - • Thermostatic Heat, s Qulet Atmo sphere and Scrupulously- Clean IT’S SWEEPING THE CAMPUS 9£ r BU !CHOC r WWV Such Good Food Bigott Stars i4s Hooters Edge Bucknell The Collegian Sports PAGE THREE Yearling Gridders Trounce Pitt 25-0 In Opener Here Saturday Ventresco, Brown Star For Lions As Panthersßow Out By BAYARD BLOOM “Penn State beats Pitt, 25 0 ” No. it’s not a Sahib Smailliw prognos tication. or is it a resin rection from the past It happened at New Beaver Field, Saturday morning ■when Penn State’s crack freshman football squad severely trounced the last Pitt * freshman athletic team which will take the field against a rival school Preceded by a pile-driving line, langy Ralph “Pep’ 1 Ventresco. 195- pound Lion fullback, punted and ran the legs off the anemic looking Panther eleven With legs pump ing like Diesel pistons, Ventiesco slashed thiough the Pitt line for first down after first down 1 Start^'Slow Starting cold, v>ith a punting duel the main feature of the first period, the Lions warmed to the /kill eailj ini the second quarter when they stabbed their first touchdown into the Panlhei with a lateral Ventiesco 'drove thiough center for 5 partis, then lateralled to speedy little Karl Brown who raced 51 yards for the seme Ventresco-place-kicked for the'extra point “Score, State 7, Pill 0 • Coach McAndrews used Pitt vai sity tactics as moie than f three complete* Green" and Silver uni fotmed teams saw action in the tilt The cub giidders showed the icsults'of good, thoiough coaching light down to the lowliest substi tute Ventresco Scores Ventresco made the second State tally in the third quarter Dash ing 38 yards behind the blocking of Paul,Weaver to,the one Toot ( line, he plunged. through centet.on the next play for the score Ventresco missed the attempted place kick conveision' The third Lion touch down came in the lastquartei af tei end John Bgli recovered a Pitt fumble on the Panthei s’ 31-yard line It was tliemthat Rice ran the ball oxer on that beautiful reverse Ventresco again missed the con veision Brown made the final touchdown for the yearlings late in the fourth period Statistics .of the game give the completeness of the Cub tiiumpli With '8 first downs to 5 for the Panthers, and a total yards gained of 250 to 53. they left little to luck Outclassed only in passing, with 0 yards to 5S for Pitt, the yeanlings topped the Pitt cubs in every other including punting Pos Penn State Pitt L E Davis Klotz L.G Marcus Balma L T. Perugini Martonelh C“ iTessieri Heistei R.T Hamilton Antonelli R.G. Schoonover Gurczenski 31E Egli Lohmeyei Q B ——•Weaver Wascovich L H. Brown ' Anania R.H. Hungerbuhler Vardaro F B Ventresco i. Malloy Score by periods. Pitt Frosh 0 0 0 0— 0 State Frosh 0 7 6 12—26 Touchdowns: Brown 2, Ventres co, Rice Point after touchdown Ventres co (placement) Substitutions ‘ Penn State Thompson, Payton, Shrom, Brooks, Rice, Steinbacher, Richards, Grace, Thorpe, Gramly, • Gales, Maslow, Adcssa, Fallon, ,Deidrick, Bailey, Palazzi, Kiatzer, Berime, Stabley, Marshall,, Hovanec, Scott, Fanus: Pittsburgh—Stetler, Hinte, Garl otti,, Schmitt, Adamchic, Dillon, Fox, 'lsaacson, Miketic, Walker, Emrich,' Gascaly, ' Officials referee,' Roth, Le high; umpire, Lehecka, Lafayette, head linesman, Milnor, Dart mouth; field judge, Kistler, Salem College , ' Grid Time dock Correct ‘ Jt’s ‘safe to trust the time'clock on the-New Beaver Field, score board those days iLost -veai it used to rim more or less on its own and-finished most games sev eml minutes ahead of the rpferee. Thls'ye'ar, however, itjs being con stantly checked with that, of, the official timer by telephone, from the control* booth, to the coaches’ bench Eugene H. 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What’s more, he’s good at them Craig White, junior wingback, scored.twice agalnst the Lehigh Engineers Saturday Qn just that type play, once sprint and again In the fourth • ‘ „ , i„ , perlod,on-a ( 3o^artl / dashl Petrella, White Lead Lion Backs In Average Gains By virtue of his two 1 long touchdown dasher in the Bucknell and Lehigh fracases, Pepper Petrella, sophomoie tailback, is leading the Nittany Lion ball-carneis m ground-gaming with an aveiage of 12 4 yards per attempt, while close behind him is Ciaig White, jumoi winfc bnck, with 11 yards as an average 1 ~ Sam Kopach, though haying an'average of 13 yards, has only carried the ball on one occasion Steve Rollins and Lloyd Ickes, semoi brickfield aces, follow Petiella and'White with aveiages of 5 5 and 5 yards respectively In the Satui day, the Lion*; led the Engineers in neaily eveiy depaitment State had 14 fust downs, 11 by rushing r two by passes, one by penalty, to the Engineeis five, four by rush ing and one by passing Lehigh’s kickers averaged 48 yards per Kick to State’s 36 yards Lions Complete 8 In the passing: depaitment, the Lions were successful m eight out of 19 tosses, while Lehigh complet ed seven out of 21 Penn State in tercepted four Lehigh passes. Total yardage gained by the Lions on the giound was 314 Ca’d Ydg Ydg Net Ball G'd Lost Avg 1 13 0 13 9 112 0 12 4 ... 9 101 2 11 115 90 7 5 5 Kopach ... Petrella White _J_. Hollins „.L_ Tckes Deblei Smaltz Peteis .. Bates __ 24 122 3 -. 7 30 3 10 60 24 10 66 13 -1 3 0 -1 2 0 3 10 2 0 8 Jigenrauch Kronse ... SPECIAL - PIPE DEAL ! $2 50 SNAP CLEAN PIPE and 25c f Package of Tobacco : • GRAHAM & SON 1 *ln)X a*m?b« 8 Established Since 1896 MAGAZINES Tuesday, October 16, 1939 Bill Smith Loses; Nittany Harriers Bow Second Time Michigan State Wins Hill And Dale Meet, 24-31 With Eastern Intel collegiate Champion “Wild Bill" Smith los ing by «i stttde to Michigan State’s Bob Fehr in an amanng upset, the Lion hill and dalets wete eked out bv the Spartans for their second successive setback, 11-24 It was the second time that the East Lansing com be lias ptoved disastrous to Smith, who was de feated in the National IC4A's theie ln«t yeai Saturdays loss dashed all hopes foi Bill’s undefeated dual meet cmeet Smith and Fein ran a “dog fight” race o\ei the fiat fom mile course with tho Lion junioi leading bv a few paces 50 yards fjom the finish Hue Fehr lelensing a desperate spiint in an effoit to overcome the slight margin, ciopsed the line a rneie step ahead of the Blue and "White champion Fein set a new course lecoid in accomplishing his upset vlctorv Time was 21*10 foi the four miles Captain Fiank Maule saved the Nittnnj cross countrymen from a too inglorious defeat by crossing the finish stiipe 17 seconds ahead of Kellet of Michigan State to gar net thiid place Mansfield and Mills of the Spar tans took fifth and sixth places with Len Henderson slipping into the se\enth slot for the Lions Two more Michigan State runners fol lowed H,endeison before the re ntaindei of Chick Wernet's crew* ctossed the line Times for the event wete 1 Fehi, Michigan State 21 10 2 Smith, Penn State 21 11 i Mattie Penn State, 21 35 4 Kellet, Michigan State 21 52 r> Mansfield, Michigan State 21 '5 fi Mills,' Michigan State, 22 7 Hendetson, Penn State, 22 11 5 Anderson, Michigan State. 22 IS 0 Mangan. Michigan State 22 .10 10 Olsen, Penn tate, 22 3S 11 Miller, Penn tate, 22 51 12 Thiel, Penn State, 2,1 13 Sn> tier, *Penn State 2.1 13 14 Smith Michigan State, 2i 54 Soose To Re-enter Ring At Scranton Bill} Soobe, foi mer Penn State boMitg stat will face Tackle Mint* lev, coal tegion middleweight king at Scinnton tomoiiow night in a lOtound windup bout This is Soose’s first mutch sttice lie lost a close decision to Ceotge Abiams of Washington, D C in the semi-final to the Billy Conn- Melio Bettinn light heavv weight title bout last month We Take Pleasure In Announcing For HAL KEMP and His Orchestra Semi-Formal NOV. 24th Lions Win 2-0; Take 3rd Battle By ED McLORIE Bucking up against the stiffest opposition this season, Penn State’s soccermen, Big ott and Co, chalked up vic toi y No 3 as they gave wai n jng to the nation’s best that the Nittany L'ion is still unde feated by downing powerful Bucknell, 2-0, Satui day aftei noon on New Beaver Field. , It was wirv centei forward Gus IBigott who dnectly saved the Lions ftom a tie Gus tallied both goals His first was nine minutes in the third penod when he followed up a comer kick and sank a hard shot in front of the goal Blgott's second shot was the xesult of a long pass from Don Duiain, who booted the ball fiom the left cornei A stiff wind and a stiong Bison defensive cheeked the Lions in then seoung attempts during the first half The -brilliant work of Bison goalie .Toe Diblin was gieat ly 'icsponsible foi holding down the Nittany team Diblin was kept plenty busv as the State hooters bammeied the goal posts frequent ly Schuler,* Lange Outstanding Outstanding play in the pinches by fullbacks Captain Bob Schuler and Dutch Lange stopped several Bison scoring thieats Obviously missing, howevei, were Schuler’s povvei kicks, which were hampered by the stiff wind blowing across the field , Next opponent on the Lion slate s Carnegie Tech Friday afternoon on New* Beavpr The game had previously been scheduled for Sat urday but has been moved up at the request of the Pittsburgh school The lineups Pos Penn State Bucknell G Laskarus Diblin (c) B F .—Lange Hamlm L.F J—Schulei (c) Mornson R.H Hosterman Schmure C H Megrail Rice L.H Green 1 Kessler 0 R. Hartman Shaffer I R King Higgins OF. Bigott Lewis, I L Corman Davis Q L ——Duram Kauffman SOPH HOP $3.85 Incl. Tax- Score by periods Penn State Bucknell - 0 0 2 o—2 - 0 0 0 o—o Goals: Penn State—Bigott 2 Substitutions Penn State —' Wodoek, Jones and Peifer. Buck* „neH—Garro and Johnson REVERSIBLES $10.95 & up TWEEDS romm's >osHc Old M,un - Suite College RECHALL |
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