WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1942 111 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 Between The Lions With DON DAVlS—Sports Editor 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111illi111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 Belated Farewell Most of, this paper's columnists have already keyed their farewell comments. We seem to !be the last. There have been too many ads on the sports page for the last few days. At least that's our excuse. We cannot think of a time we would rattier end our trick as Sports Editor than now. Now with sweet victory over Syracuse still fresh in our mind, and the prospects of an even sweeter win this weekend ,over the University of 'Pennsylvania'smuCh praised and touted grid squad. Penn State played-an entirely different , species.of football Satur day'than 'we have seen all year. -Our -offensive was , .not the feverish .shaky affair that was-used in the Colgate game. 'lgor was it the list .less _running. and .passing • used against -Bucknell , and 'Lehigh. 'We .won't mention West Virginia, and it-was impossible - to•judge a team's merits Tat rain soaked - Saturday's Stars • - Against Syracuse we saw a well-poised team that knew where it was going. For the first time this year we saw ite Nittany Lions move down the•field in sustained drives. Time and again they moved down the field. Fine work by (the quarterback kept our running and passing plays well mixed and clicking. Joe Colone lived up to all our hopes. For an all-around player he's tops for our money. And then there was Sparky Brown turning in some more of -his now famous running. We're referring to his amaz ing ability to keep his feet. He cuts, jumps and leaps and still comes down on his feet ready to move on. •We can't mention stars without including Bob Davis one of the best ends on any man's team. Whenever you see 'a man shoot through the line for an opposing ball carrier and drag him down far behind the . line of scrimmage, four times• out of five it is Bob Davis. He's not exactly a slouch when it comes to receiving passes either. -We're going down 'to see State meet' a favored - Penn squad this weekend. 'Several things make us confident that 'State will again pull an upset over the Quaker City lads. One of the main rea sons is that Joe • Bedenk is scout ing the game. If anyone can fig ure out Penn's weaknesses it's Joe Bedenk. Final -Words • Then of course there's the fact that State is always way up for the Penn game. And this year will be no .exception. We strongly recommend a student send-off for the team behind Old Main Friday morning at 10 a. m. But I guess we've said enough to reveal our feelings. With this our parting thought continue to hold. .its present posi we turn over the reins to the new tion of ability and respect in the sports editor, Ben Bailey. Being Intercollegiate field with this custodian of Between The Lions parting thought we hand over the for the last year has been a lot of reins. Good luck Ben, and re fun. We've made mistakes, learn- member-- lot,- and managed to break PENN STATE WILL BEAT :TOO with our football predictions.. PENN SATURDAY ! ! ! Blue Key Men Elect Watkins-President At a , banqtltrtheld last night in the Nittany Lion Inn, initiates of Blue Key Sbciety elected sopho mores John T. Watkins, president; J. Richard Cope, vice-president; Richard D. Collins, treasurer; and Wayne G. LaPoe', secretary. After inforffial initiation Mon day night, 62 sophomore men were sworn into the' society at the 3rd Party • rn banquet. Watkins succeeds Ben F. Leaman '44, former president of Blue Key. _ - At tonvention .• Order :Invitations .Now(Continued from Page One) • Frank R. Flynn, chairman of Commencement invitations and announcements committee, asks seniors to order their invitations and announcements at Student Union by Thursday noon. The future of intercollegiate sports at Penn State is very dim right now. But as long as they do 'COPPER An average door pull contains enough copper to make ONE SHELL CASE for a 37iu ln. anti-tank gun THE DAILY COLLEGIAN Mac Smith Returns To Daily Workouts For Harrier Meet Out of practice for four days with a cold. Mac Smith, veteran Junior cross-country runner, re turned to daily workouts last night to bolster Penn State's hopes in next Monday's all-important IC4- A cross-country meet in New York City. Smith said that he was "okey" and would be ready for next'Mon day's test unless something else turned up. He did not feel very good before last Satu•rday's time trials and Coach Chick Werner ad vised him not to participate in the Rain forced the harrier squad in side last night and the workout was devoted to conditioning and tapering off for the annual classic. Chief among the contenders for the individual crown in the IC4-A meet will be New York Universi ty's outstanding freshman distance runner, Frank Dixon; Jr. In the recent intra-city collegi ate harrier run on the Van Cort landt Park Course—the same one that Monday's race will be run on —Dixon covered the five-mile dis tance in 26:33.4, which is more than six seconds under the time of Leslie Mac Mitchell when he won the title last year. Another top individual is Rob ert Nichols, Rhode Island State captain, who finished runner-up to Mac Mitchel last year. Yale's Leroy Schwarzkopf, who was timed at 26:41.2 over the same course in Saturday's •Heptagonal meet, will also be"a favorite to 'share in one of the top three places. to make use of that strength by coming out to vote." Robert M. Faloon (C), his oppo nent, stated that "Penn State stu dent government must justify its existence, and everything in our power will be toward that end if Jack Grey and I are elected." Smith, plugging his Victory Ticket, was first of the All-College presidential candidates to speak. After the initial announcement of the war-borne 'group, the third party politician presented a plat form which included the establish ment of a 'cooperative student bOokstore and a 'campaign to or ganize a student labor union. Second of ,the threepresidential candidates to address the almost vacant auditorium was Jack R. Grey. The Campus clique nominee stressed that his party has given the students good government, and is willing to serve them in the fu ture. He termed politics "probably one of the very few things which we will be able to cont inue throughout the war," and urged united action Without the ,continu ance of political ties after elections. Finale of the evening's lineup of speakers was Donald , Kulp, Inde pendents' All - College candidate. Kulp promised, if elected, "only to meet the issues as. they come— coolly and impartially—realizing at all times that it took the entire student body rather than any small political group to bring about our election." Eighty-eight ,members of the Blue Band and the entire squad of Cheerleaders were also present at the convention, as part of the pro gram planned by the Elections Committee in an effort to insure for Penn State a replica of the "big time" political conventions. IC•sanro.m...oao-mn........m........-•• %........m. , 1.••••...m.,•en , 0ar0ami..mr.:• 1 4 I • • ) p . , Jr. _)eniamin ct. ....41exant I er 0 i . • Eyes Examined. 0 Hours 9 to 5, Evening by Appointment 137 West Bzzive: eve Gridders Scrimmage In Mud For Penn Tilt Weitzel, Perugini Recover From Injuries On a muddy practice field some what reminiscent of Cornell's sta dium of three weeks ago, the Nit tany Lion gridders held theirifirst scrimmage of the week last night. The mire, however, dampened none of the spirit that has been arising for the Penn match Satur day. At last it looks as though ,Hig gins' reserves are coming into :their own. Against Syracuse, Higgins used an entire reserve team to re lieve the regulars without any ill effects, and those same reserves triode things tough for 'the regulars in last night's scrimmage. As it has been all season, vir tually every position must be earn ed this week, and many of the re serves are making a strong bid for starting spots. Jeffrey Durkota, who has turned in some outstanding play as a sub stitute wingback, is pushing Jack 'Banbury, who recently replaced Cliff St. Clair, for the starting 'as signment. Bob Perugini and Bob Weitzel, out of the Syracuse tilt with in jured arms, both returned to prac tice yesterday. Orient Martella was another Lion taken off the injured list. Perugini, however, will prob ably give way to Nobile again -this Saturday, while Weitzel and Mar tella will be welcome reserves at the fullback and center positions respectively. Against Penn, a team that has resorted to passing only occasion ally in their last four contests, the Lions will be without one worry that has been• bothering Higgins. The Blue and White's pass 'defense has been nothing to cheer about, but Saturday its biggest job will be stopping the highly-rated Penn ground 'attack. To this end Higgins concentrated on line defense work during 'the scrimmage. Before the session, backfield men took part in a half hour tackling drill, for Stiff, Walsh and company -are no slouches when running from scrimmage. Outstanding in the defense de partment last night was Nobile and Suhey who were playing at the first string in the absence of Jaf furs. Appropriations (Continued from page one) our statement about Penn State's inbred faculty. An inbred faculty is one recruited from within the College's own ranks. We stated further that "inbreding inevitably leads to inferior stock." . In an attempt to refute that charge more figures were present ed showing that 29.4 per cent of the College faculty possessing bachelors degrees only are in bred. Classified according to schools the figures follow: Other . School P.S. Colleges Agriculture 61 96 Chemistry 29 46 Education 3 62 Engineering 34 48 Liberal Arts 24 116 Mineral Ind. 15 32 Phys. Ed. 8 17 Of those faculty members pos sessing masters and doctors de grees, 28 per cent are graduates of Penn State. Figures do not show, however, who are the men in the top posi tions who write the texts and plan the courses. Optometr6t S:at Phon a 43 75 PAGE THREE Brown Asks To Pass From End Zone, But Higgins Says 'No' To the 11,000 fans who won dered what important message Sparky Brown had for Coach Bob Higgins when Syracuse had the ball on the Lions' two-yard stripe Saturday, Coach Bob offered a word of explanation yesterday. With Syracuse in possession of the ball .with two downs and two yards from a touchdown, the 'Hig was squirming on the edge of the bench, hoping that the Lions could hold out. At this point Sparky Brown got a brilliant idea. Never for a mo ment fearing that the Lions could n't bold the Orange, Sparky de cided that once his team took over the ball, a pass would be just the thing—from the end zone, too! Sparky doesn't like to take chances without the coaches knowing it, so with the perfection of a ißarrymore, he faked an in jury and trotted to the sidelines. "Say, coach," he asked, "is it al right if I pass from a fake punt play as soon as we get the ball?" Higgins' reply, according to Hig gins, was a very terse "no." With a look of utter chagrin, the stocky tailback sauntered back on the field, leaving Higgins in a daze, and the spectators - Avondering how the officials missed the conference. -MI Tickets On Sale Tickets for the annual Mineral Industries Student - Faculty Ban quet to be held Tuesday. Novem ber 17, may now be purchased from Miss Emmerick, MI Librar ian, Miss Rowe, secretary to the dean, from departmental secretar ies and officers of the school's so cieties. Mr. Richard Maize, Secre tary of Mines, will act as toastmas ter while the main speaker will be Dr. William M. Lewis, president of Lafayette College.
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