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Soccer Team Will Strive
For Eighth Unbeaten Season
Opener Scheduled Here
On September 26
Faced with a task that becomes
harder year after year—keeping
its undefeated record, now seven
years old, intact—Coach Bill Jeff
rey’s Nittany Lion soccer club will
begin drilling some time during
Freshman Week for its opening tilt
here against Gettysburg on Sep
tember 28.
•Last year the hooters won seven
straight contests, the only blemish
on the record coming in the last
game of the season when a deter
mined Temple Owl team battled
the local outfit to a scoreless tie.
For the seventh time the Lions
were awarded the Eastern inter
collegiate title, sharing honors with
Princeton.
Toughest job for Coach Jeffrey
will be finding a pair of fullbacks
to fill the posts vacated by All-
American Bob Schuler, 1939 cap
tain, and Dutch Lange. Other
losses because of graduation are
Howie Wodock, Harry Peifer,
Lionel Shaffer, and Bob Olmstead.
All-American Gus Bigott, flashy
Venezuelan, may be added to the
“missing” list because of ineligi
bility. He was out of school during
the second semester and his status
has not yet been determined.
Returning to the bacbfield will
be Captain Walt Hosterman, Don
Megrail, Gazi Green, and Goalie
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Mild Scot
Soccer coach Bill Jeffrey, the
mild Scot, will, be sending his
charges after an eighth undefeat
ed season. He sometimes thinks
the strain of winning is too much
and one time last year told his
boys to go ahead and lose a game.
They didn’t.
Zen Laskarus. The starting line of
Don Durain, Van Hartman, Bob
Ernst, Woody King, and Harry
Corman will be back intact.
Four boys are coming up from
the ’43 team with good chances of
breaking into the starting varsity
lineup. They are Bob Donaldson,
Allan Heck, Bob Seavy, and Stan
Prawdzack.
The schedule this year will be
almost the same as the slate which
the Lions faced last year. Additions
are Penn and Western Maryland.
Carnegie Tech and Lehigh have
been dropped.
Inspired by the interest aroused
by a soccer clinic held by a group
of Harrisburg newspapers last
Spring, the College will sponsor
two clinics of a similar nature this
month. Jeffrey will take a squad
of booters to Lancaster on Satur
day and the second clinic will be
held here one week later.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
X-Counlry Has
Bleak Outlook
“The competition will be tough
er and we’ll have a weaker team.
We shouldn’t win any.”
That’s the doleful prediction
issued by Coach Chick Werner as
he faces the task of guiding the
Lion harriers through one of the
stiffest schedules ever faced by a
Nittany cross-country team. It
sounds like the usual cautious pre
season prophecy but Werner really
seems to have cause for complaint.
“An awful lot will depend on
the. juniors,” he says. “If Herm
Goffberg, Alex Bourgerie, George
Harrison, Pop Thiel, Chet Snyder,
and Harold Olsen come through
we shouldn’t fare too badly but if
they’re not in top form we won’t
have a chance. Right now, Smit
ty’s the only one I’m sure we can
count on to be up among the lead
ers.”
On that point nobody should
find any reason to disagree. Three
years ago long-legged Bill Smith,
now Lion captain, carried off top
honors in the freshman IC4-A
meet. As a sophomore he proved
himself the standout harrier in the
East by winning the varsity run.
Last year he caught a stitch in his
side but managed to come in third.
In three years of competition
Smith has lost only three races—
the IC4-A’s, the nationals in his
sophomore year, and a dual meet
with Michigan State last October.
Missing from the lineup this
Fall will be a pair of familiar
thinclads—Frank Maule and Len
Henderson, senior .stars on the
1939 hiU-and-dale squad. They’ll
be hard to replace. So will Gra
ham Miller, Herb Nipson, and Don
Hostetler.
Swimming Tryouts
Begin September 25
Swimming Coach Bob Galbraith
.will call for candidates for both
.varsity and freshman squads on
Wednesday, September 25. Try
outs will continue until Friday.
Those selected as showing pro
mise will begin an intensive three
.week outdoor-conditioning period
on Monday, September 30, with
•the exception,of the divers, who
■will work out daily at the pool
.under Assistant Coach Bill Gas
kill’s tutelage.
As the sixth season for this sport
resumes with indoor practice on
October 21, Capt. Bill Kirkpatrick
will lead the best-balanced squad
■that has represented the College.
With the first of eight meets
scheduled for early January, the
coaches and their veterans are re
lying on early training to prepare
for tough competition from Penn,
Pitt, Carnegie Tech, Cornell, Syra
cuse, Temple, Rutgers, and W & J.
The frosh will tangle with Mer
cersburg and Tech. Several out
standing prep and high school
swimmers are registered and eager
•to match their natatorial skill with
that of their opponents.
Lacrosse Co-Capfain
Named All-American
George Ritter, co-captain and
center on Nick Thiel’s lacrosse
team last season, was named to
the 1940 All-A!merican lacrosse
team during the summer.
Co-captain Bar. Buser was
named to the third team. He
played first attack and with Rit
ter was named on the All-North
team that played the South in
Baltimore. '
Ritter’s appointment marks the
first time in five years that a
State man has been so honored.
FALL SPORT:
The Fall athletic schedule in
cluding intercollegiate competi
tion in football, soccer, and cross
country has been released with 36
contests scheduled for Nittany
Lion sport enthusiasts. This in
cludes for the first time a regu
larly scheduled junior varsity
football game with Cornell here
on October 12. Not to be outdone
by its big brother football, soc
cer goes out in quest of the eighth
consecutive year without defeat.
October 12 is one of the biggest
athletic days for the campus.
There are scheduled for that day
varsity foptball with West Vir
ginia, freshman football with
Bucknell, junior varsity football
with Cornell, varsity soccer with
Western Maryland, and varsity
cross -c ojintry with Michigan
State.
Another feature of the football
season will be an ■ intersectional
game with South Carolina on
Beaver Field, Saturday, Novem
ber 2. In addition to the Southern
ers, Bucknell, West Virginia, and
.New York University will appear
on the Lions’ stamping ground.
The complete atmetic schedule:
Varsity Football
October s—-Bucknell here, Octo
ber 12—West Virginia here, Octo
ber 19—Lehigh at Bethlehem, Oc
tober 26—Temple at Philadelphia,
November 2 South Carolina
here, November 9 Syracuse
away, November 16—NYU here,
and November 23—Pittsburgh
away.
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1940
S SCHEDULE
October 12—Bucknell here, Oc
tober 19—Colgate here, October
26—Syracuse away, November 2
—Cornell here ,and November 12
—-Army at West Point.
November 1 Navy at Anna
polis, and November 9 Pitts
burgh here.
Junior Varsity Football
October 12—Cornell here. .
Varsity Soccer ■
September 28—Gettysburg
October 12 Western Maryland
here, October 19—Bucknell here,-
October 26—Syracuse away, No-.;
vember 2—Navy at Annapolis, 1 \__
November 9—Army here, Novem-:"
ber 20—Pennsylvania, and No- ;
vember 23—Temple here;
Freshman Soccer
October 19—Syracuse -here, No
vember 9—Cornell at Ithaca, and
November 13 Army at West
Point.
November 16 Lock Haven
Teachers here.
October 12 Michigan State:
here, October 26—Syracuse here,
November 2—Manhattan at New
York, November 9 Pittsburgh
away, and November 18—IC4-A
at New York.
Freshman Cross-Country
October 26—Syracuse here, No
vember 9—Cornell at Ithaca, and
November 18—IC4-A at New
York.
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Freshman Football
Squad "B" Football
Junior Varsity Soccer
Varsity Cross-Country