PAWS TWO 'IRE DAILY COLLEGIAN "For 1%. Better Penn State" Fmtablishe. , l 1940 Sacee_mor to the Penn State Collegian, established 1904, and the Free Lance, established 1887. Published daily er.cept Sunday and Monday .during the regular College year by the students of The Pennsylvania State College. entered as second-class matter July 5, 1934 the Post-office at 31:11:e College. Pa., under the act of March 8, 1879.. Editor Bus. and Ads% M. Boss Lehman. '47.. ' James McCaughey Editorial and Budineda Office Downtown Office 313 Old Mahn .111dir 119-121 South Frazier St Phone 711 l'hone 4372 Women's Ed Um.- iv! C. Stites : Managing Editor— ...Th.lin A. Baer '42 ; 5p.)1114 Ed iter—A.. Pat Nagelberg '42 Feature Editer —Willi lnx d. McKnight. '42: News Silber— Stanley J. PeKenipner '42. ; Wunten'4 Feature Ed itor Id, Murray '42 ; Women',Sp•trt< Editor--ft. Helen Gordon '42. Credit Man r —Poet M. Goldberg '42; Circulation Man• ager—ThomasW. Allt4ou '42 ; Women's Husines4 Manager Margaret L. Embil ry '42; Office Secretary—Virginia Og•ien '42; Assistant, oft ice 3'N:rotary—Fay E. 'Reese. '42. Managing Editor Thi:; News Editx)r Titt.; 11:3U0 - - - ,Women ' s Editor Tili3 Issue Graduate Counselor Tuesday, October 7, 1.941 An .Unfinlished Story It is not the policy of the editorial staff to dis cuss sports in this column. That is left to the ~ports page where it rightfully belongs. But this is an exception Behind the game—behind the story, there is always another story, sometimes more revealing, more human, and more interesting than the game itself. This story is like that. It began. last Saturday' morning before game time in a little hotel room, The room was crowded with football players, some sitting on beds,-some on chairs, most of them on the floor. Captain Len Krouse was in the center of the .group. • No coaches were present. -Captain Krouse had called this meeting secretly, and managers and coaches were excluded. But, what Was said at this short . bull 7 session .(and no player will reveal exactly what was said) was responsible for the Magnificent showing of an underrated Penn State squad, outweighed. by at least 10 pounds per man,. at the. Colgate football game that .afternoott. : What Krouse might have said was : that the 'l\l'ittany Lions were. called' "clawtess" by leading sports columnists this year . . . that their gradua tion-riddled. squad was overwhelmingly under dogs . . that over '7,000 students, faculty, and coaches recognized this . . . that 5,000 of those students, believing that the deficiency in tem& reserve could be replenished by team' morale, staged a mammoth pep rally last Thursday night • . . that these students, win or lose, were looking 'to the Nittany Lions to show their claws to the' Colgate Red Raiders . . that football victories are not always taken by the team which has the .best blocking technique, the more-skilled players, the stronger squad, the better plays . . . that plain 'gilts" and •fighting spirit . offset the most carefully-laid plans : . . that the Nittany Lions, backed by '7,000 red-blooded, spirited students, could . turn the table's on a more confident eleven. What happened in their 7-0 defeat has all of Buffalo's sports writers and . enthusiasts still dumbfounded. Instead of talking about the Col 32,rate victory, after-game "bull-sessioners" and papers, were lauding the . fighting, slashing attack of a Penn State football team, wnich was handi capped by everything in the football books, even the breaks, hut still outfought and out-guessed the Red Raiders. They talked about the weary, 60-minute play ers who waved their 'fists with the bench-sitters .who ran out to the edge of the playing field and .shouted encouragement as the Nittany Lion eleven changed goals for the third quarter. The story doesn't end here, it's only the be ginning. _ Recognizing the never-say-die spirit, the best .exhibited by any Penn State team since the 1939 Pitt game, student leaders on campus called •every fraternity house, hat society representa tive, and dormitory group to welcome 'home a, team which in defeat earned more than a moral 'victory. The climax of the story? The Nittany Lions came home licking their wounds after a hard •lought battle only to find that the students who .3 few days before had sent them away with a definite purpose, pere no longer interested in 'taking care of the defeated—bUt still uncon quered. Only a handful of students, 15 or 20, turned out to welcome them home. • However, the story is still tinflnished. The final chapter cannot be written until the final game is played. By then, some students may understand the rare phenomenon of a team.vhich may lose all of its major games—but still win Richard S. Stebbins ___Cordon L. Coy __Louise M. Funsa Louie tl. Belt THE DAILY CQLLEGIAN 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 1 11 1011111111111111111111111 . 1111111111111 THE CAMPUSEER *4*‘,.\‘ iummulumumommumnummumninmnimumuommumumumma Knocking Around In Buffalo:. • Practically all of Penn State's male representa- - tives at the Colgate-Penn State fracas went in for nature 'study and the higher things of life during their stay in Buffalo; chief observer of the higher (and lower) things was lambda chi Bill Murphy who sat in the front row at the burley-cue. Fif teen members of the Blue Band and. fourteen kap pa sips made up the greater part of the lovers of stage and theater who paid their - shekels so Hindu Wassau wouldn't go barefoot. The Old Story: Once - again we hear the old line of "secret" promises of claSs presidency and dance chair- - manships being quite, freely distributed by frosh political aspirants; and once again twe are sorry to see) there is the same number of suckers gob bling up whatever the "politicians" shovel out. Guess the "political promiser" is one tradition that Penn State will have with it always; 'as long as Barnum's sucker is born every minute, anyway. Campus Snapshots: Jane . Parsons is going to be with the FBI short -1 . . Dick Cramer back to see Marge Sykes .. . Mary Jo Powell, r pining foia date fOr days, finally got three offers in one day. Registration Lamentation: . Every year the College must refresh its failing' memory and ask its some 6,000 inmates those venerable questions regarding your religious pre ference, date of birth, and whether you are a he or a she. We know of one ,unfortunate who 'start ed registering at 3:30 one afternoon and got so in volved with his little paCket of cards and blanks that he had to call it a day and go out for supper. He finally wound up the affair to the satisfaction of the superx . dsors at 10:30.the next• morning. May I dedicate this little ditty to you who have flound ered in the mire of registration: Adviser, Adviser Come . quick as you can, • - • And tell me .how To get out of this, jaint How many times • Have I written my name; How many blanks That are all just the'same? Dante's inferno Can never compare, To what .I've been,through Experience rare! Though far I may roam. And high . be my station, I'll never forget My first registration! Letters to the Editor— The Ed Blushes In His Mud Bath To The Edith' • In your issue of October 2, the humorous editor "dubs" the writer by calling him a "Bible Slinging Burgess." I just wonder if the ed itor realizes how much good came from that Bible in comparison to the millions of law books. I sincere ly believe that we had some very good Len Krouses in 'catching of. that Bible. No doubt the 'Pittsburgh Press will correct this-editor regarding the filling of the pews, for their clairn•was that the "Culprits were sent to Sunday 'School rather than to pews so that they - would not go to sleep." Thank goodnesS that he didn't use the word "mud" for I cannot handle mud as well as he does. Cordially, Eugene H. Lederer '42 Thespian Candidates To Tryout Tomorrow Tryouts for the Penn State Thes- 7 P. rn.' pians fall. show, a musical revue Thespians' tryouts- in Little scheduled for productiOn on House- Theatre, Old Main, 7 p. m. party Weekend, will be held in the "Cider Feed" ior all electrical Little Theater in Old Main at '7 engineering students, especially o'clock tomorrow night. freshmen, EE building, 7:30 p. 'm. As it was decided at "the TheS- PSCA freshman project com pians! meeting Sunday night that a mate& meets, 304 Old Main, 4:15 mixed glee club, would 'be. used in P. , m the show, many singers of both sexes will he selected •in the . try outs. All students interested in any phase of show production -should report tomorrow night. LA Council Meets The Liberal Arts Council will hold its first meeting this year for organization purposes in 305 Old Main at 7:15 p. m. today, it twbs an nounced by Williom O. Meyers '42, president of the council. '~):ti~:• ~: i':j::ii:•y:; ~i:iii::.:' L.: iJ}}i., ~~ ~.}, ... How in one easy lesson Treat yourself and others to wholesome, delicious Wrigley's Spearmint Gum. Swell to chew. Helps keep breath sweet, teeth bright. The Flavor Lasts: TUV,SDAY, OPTOBER' 7, 1941.1 miniffilillllllllllllfillanOuplitionqumintit CAMPUS 'CALENDAR 111111111111111111111111111111111111:1111111111111111111111111111111 Civilian Defense Training group meeting, Armory, 7 p. m. Col. Edward D. Ardery will' be the speaker. Meeting of Senior Sponsors, 318 Old Main, 7 p. Important meeting - Of qophb 'more Collegian business candi dates, 312 Old Main, 7:30 p. m. Rehearsal, College Choir, 10 Sparks, 7 p. m. Freshman Council, 304, Old Main, 8:15 p. m. Freshman Forum Worship Com mittee, 304 Old Main, 4:15 p. m. Tennis club, 2 White Hall, 6:30 p. m. • Druid initiation Meet in front of Old 'Main' at 7 p. m. before leaving for ski trail. Active and inactive - members invited. Concert dance group meets, Rhythm Room, White Hall, 7 p. PSCA freshman worship com mittee meets, 304 Old Main, 4:15 p.m. • TOMORROW • Rehearsal, Glee. Club, 10 Spark's, SELECTED BROADCASTS Bob Hope will the star of tonights variety show - at 10 p. rn. onKDKA. Benny . Goodman plays for WOR at mictnglit and Glenn Miller is at the Mike of WCAU at 10 p. m. The music fans will en: joy Mozart piano concerto No. 23 at 8 p. m. on WQXR. , Swing, news commentator will speak from WOR at 10 p. m. . 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