'BEAT PITT . . . - sucn'eisor to . . 07:14i -- • B. [ ' the Free Lance, Established 1887 4s. t . - - iii'.—inti , ; ,. \ . -1• 11 .• ' f . ' Vii s C ' ' , ' \ 9' 6. 1 : - .371, 1 4 y 1, "• --5 k,.5,.T.P 6 ' , v u VOL. 37—No. 50 Lions Invade Panthers' 7,260 Enrollment Breaks All-Time Col New Figure Is 60 Over Last qear's Total A new all-time record enroll ment of 7,260 students was report 'ed yesterday by William S. Hoff- I man, registrar. The new record, surpassing the previous high of 7,200 „set last year, was achieved in spite of the dis continuance of one of the five un dergraduate centers maintained by' the •College. The combined enroll ment of the .remaining undergrad uate centers at ~ A ltoona,' Dußois, Hazleton, and. Pottsville is 481, as compared to a total of 556 for five centers last year. With all but one class showing an increase•over last year, the stu dent body, exclusive of under graduate centers, special studerits and graduate students, totals 6,033 this fall. The graduate enrollment is 550, a gain of 38. The freshman class, numbering 1,965, is the biggest in Penn State history and tops last year's by 64 students. The sophomore and jun ior classes, numbering 1,862 and 1,314 respectively, likewise show increases, while the senior class, with 1,194 students, is 72 smaller than last : year. . • ' • _ The total enrollment of women students is 1,688, or slightly less than one-fourth of the entire stu dent body. Detours Listed For Fans Driving To Pitt Game Lion football fans traveling to Pittsburgh for the game tomorrow are advised to avoid the William Peon highway west of Bla,irsville because of a number of strecthes of one-way traffic. Motorists can switch to the Lin coln highway from the William Penn by turning off at Armaugh, Blairsville, or New Alexandria, or can strike•the super-highway near Bedford by leaving the William Penn at Duncansville. Toll is 7"5 - cents from Bedford to Irwin. -BEAT PITT CoMmitteemen Explain Series Prior To Artists' All campus fraternities, dormi tories, and sororities have been contacted by members of the Ar tists' Course Committee or its re presentatives to explain the ser ies before the date of the student ticket sale, Wednesday, Decem ber 4. Requests were sent to the com mittee from the heads of the var ious groups inviting them to ad 'dress the respective organizations. In addition to the campus resi dences the committee has also ap proached town groups who have made similar requests. Purpose . of the talks - is to make the students, conscious of the fact that the series, is intended pri marily for them. "We don't want any person deliberately buy ing student tickets for someone who is not entitled to a student seat. By so doing he deprives some other student of his ticket," Dr. Carl E. Marquardt, chairman, explained yesterday. Tickets will be on sale at the ege Record 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 1 111111 1 1 1 Finnie To Speak Sunday In Regular Chapel Service Dr. George .. F. Finnie. of Nor ristown, will speak at ,the Sun day Chapel services, on Noyern-., ber, 24 as previously' 151;irilied.',.: according to Chaplain- Frizell. Professor 'Prix.ell:- urges the students remaining in: State College over the weekend, to attend the services as Dr. Pin riie has graciously shifted his appointment to conform with our Thanksgiving vacation. Due. to the lateness of the de cision as to the Pitt half holiday, Dr. Fintiie was not asked to cancel his visit. He will speak in Schwab Auditorium at 11 a. m. on the topic "An Old For mula For New Days." lIIUIUUIIIhIIIIIIIUItU!UUfUIWUUIUUUUWUIM UIIUtIU Finance Confab Convenes Today More tharr2oo_assessors, tax col lectors, treasurers and other county and municipal officers from all parts of Pennsylvania will open their fifth annual meet ing at the College today. After a get-together luncheon at 12:30 p. m. and a general session on tax delinquency problems at 2 p. m., the delegates will divide in to three sections to consider ques tions of interest to different branches of local government. , A highlight of the evening se - s - - - sion will be a speech by T. Cole man Andrews, of the Municipal Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada, on the topic, "Finanbial Management —the Key to Success for Demo; cracy." Tomorrow morning breakfast, to be held in the Sandwich Shop, will be served separately to the differ ent groups of municipal officers present. Ticket Sale Athletic windows on the first floor of Old Main. Seats may be se cured at $5.00, $4.50, and $3.50 for the entire series. "Recreation Hall has at various times received the attention of the committee as a prospective, auditorium for the Course num bers," said Dr.. Marquardt, "but it is really impossible for us to use that building in its present /condition. In addition to the acoustics problem there are many other major objections. There is an intimacy lacking in a big hall like. that which is Very necessary to the. successful performance of an accomplished artist." • "The committee is not un conscious of •the inconveniences imposed by the 'present method of selling tickets," the chairman stated. "The whole matter has again received thorough discus sion, and where methods promis ing improvements have been sug gested they have been speedily adopted?' OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 22, 1940, STATE COLLEGE, PA 5,000 Cheer Lions Al Gigantic Rally Simultaneous with the signal of the fire whistle to begin the pa rade and pep rally last night was the release of a stored-up enthu siasm as oixer 5,000 milling, shout ing students honored the Nittany Lion football eleven, which leaves for Pittsburgh today. "I believe we can win," said Coach Higgins when speaking be -fOrosthe huge crowd, "but we'll ;:ha4 - ,ito play better football than wellave played all season." t • Led , by the Blue Band and cheer . leaders, - the crowd paraded through town, adding students to its ranks along the way. At the Jordan Fertility Plots, the huge bonfire was lighted, and as, the roaring flames sprang high into the air enveloping the 15-foot Pitt Panther effigy, a deafening cheer arose from the ranks of the foot ball-mad crowd. Cheers led by the cheerleaders and songs led by the Blue Band assumed a tremendous volume as evidence of the greatness of the "Beat Pitt" feeling that prevails throughout the community. After the preliminary cheers and songs, Bill Jeffrey, varsity soccer coach, was introduced by George L. Parrish '4l, master of ceremon ies. Jeffrey expressed his genuine entlitrsiasm /or. the - t e - . 311 and wish ed them the best of luck. Walt Hosterman, captain of the varsity soccer team, wished the f6otball eleven great 'success on behalf of the •soccer eleven.. The crowd's attention was then drawn to the infirmary, where, leaning from a window and watch ing the fire and rally, was Captain Leon "Gates" Gajecki. A special cheer and tribute was accorded Gajecki as he waved from his window. A separate yell for each senior on the Lion team was led by the cheerleaders as a tribute and as thanks for the honor they have brought to Penn State. Coach Higgins was then called upon to speak. "Your being here," he said, "shows the confidence that you have in the team. The Penn State-Pitt game Saturday will be one of the closest games in the East. The boys will have to play 100 ner cent football to beat Pitt." The students gave a special cheer for President Ralph D. Hetzel as appreciation for the half holiday he has granted. After the singing of the Alma Mater, the huge and enthusiastic crowd broke up into small con tingents. One crowd attempted to break into the infirmary to get to Captain Gajecki, but to no avail. 'Massing again at Co-op Corner, many of the students marched up and down College Avenue. A huge sign of whitewash letters appeared high on the walls of the First Na tional Bank on College Avenue. The sign read: "Knock Hell Out of Pitt." BEAT. PITT 27 Shopping Days 'til Christmas See Page 8 rgian Lair Tomorrow Pitt Is Last Hurdle For Unbeaten Gridclers 30,000 Will Witness Remembers 1919 'Coaoh:Bob Higgins will lead a band of:undefeated Penn State football 'players to Pittsburgh to morrow to seek their first victory over Pitt in Pittsburgh since 1919..Zhat year, as Captain Bob, he made an 85-yard run that won the game. Smoky City Ready To Welcome Fans Students following the unbeaten State team to Pittsburgh and re turning alumni will find plenty of entertainment awaiting them in the Smoky City over the weekend. Opening the activities arranged by the Pittsburgh alumni chapter will be the pre-game smoker at the Hotel Schenley at 8 p. m. to day. The Blue Band wil furnish the musical ammunition for to night's round of festivities, ably abetted by lavish entertainment, refreshments, and speeches by Head Coach Bob Higgins and his staff. All who will attend the game are planning to attend the smoker.• Radio listeners will have the op portunity to hear Fred Waring and Continued on Page 6 IMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIWIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII Late News Bulletins 11111111111111111111111111111111111111U111111111111111111111111111111111 Athens The Greek army took the city of Koritza late yesterday afternoon according to reports from Athens last night. The re treat was called a complete rout as the Italians carried out a gen eral evacuation of the city. The Greeks gained many war supplies and it was reported that several prisoners were taken. The Ital ians were aided in their retreat from th city by, a heavy mist and fog which hindered the Grecian air force from bombarding the long trains of beaten fascits. Eng land' aided Greece yesterday by striking at fascist strongholds in Albania. Several hangers were torn to shreds and ships were des troyed as 'they docked when the RAF bombers struck at the stra tegic positions. Washington—Martin Dies, head of the renown Dies Committee, in troduced his "white paper" 'yes- BEAT PITT Weather— Generally Fair and Cool PRICE THREE CENTS Pitf-Stafe Battle By PAT NAGELBERG PITTSBURGH, Pa., Nov. 21 Smoky City, the most complacent football spot in the east, has been aroused out of its doldrums for the first time since the mighty Panther fell from the gridiron throne. As rumor of the prowess of the unde feated Nittany Lions began to per meate the University of Pittsburgh campus and wherever football fans gathered, this town was rapidly working itself agog over the 40th traditional battle between those two arch rivals, 'Penn State and Pitt. It will be an appreciative crowd of over 30,000, therefore, that will greet the roaring Lion team when it charges into 'Pitt Stadium to morrow afternoon ready to unleash all the power and razzle-dazzle at its command in an effort to keep the 1940 record unblemished and give the Blue and White its great est season in two decades. When Penn State's gallant cap tain, Lepn .Gajecki, leads his team in the titanic struggle, he will be fighting a jinx of 20 years standing, as well as one of the most under rated elevens in the nation. Not since 1919, the year Bob Higgins won his niche in the Lion hall of fame, have the Nittany gridders vanquished the Pitt Panthers in their own lair. It is the same'Bob Higgins, more . nervous over tomorrow's game than any in which he starred as an All-American, who has moulded together the greatest fo o t b all eleven to represent the Blue and White since the Lions' golden era in' 1919, 1920 and 1921. More than any of his players, he knows just how tough Pitt, is going to •be, fighting with its back against the wall to salvage the remains of a disappointing season. "State can win," said the veteran Lion mentor today, "but the boys will have to play football tomor row as they did in the Pitt game last year. Coach'Bowser has a great team, one that will offer the Lions the sternest competition of the sea son." No thought of losing this grand finale to a perfect campaign has Continued on Page 6 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 terday. The 500 page research bulletin made charges against groups .in the United States accus ed of carrying on "unAmerican" tactics. He stated that these groups worked out of eight cties throughout the naion and asked for charges to be made. In a statement to the press, Dies said, "The G-Men are hopelessly behind the times." Rome British Air Vice-Mar shall 0. T. Boyd., with six mem bers of his crew were forced down as their plane was accosted by Italian chaser planes. over Sicily yesterday afternon. Boyd, recent ly,appointed head of the British Air Forces in the Near East, was on his way to take over command. It was reported last night that Boyd shot six times into the gas tank of the large bombing plane with his revolver and set it on fire so important plans of attack would not fall into the hands of the Nazi.
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