FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1942
BETWEEN
THE LIONS
By BEN BAILEY
Sports Editor
. Midst all the preparation for the
.grid tilt with Penn in Philadelphia
. tomorrow, I'd like to pause a mo
ment to drag in a few lines on the
cross-country team which enters
,the IC4-A championship race over
New York's Van Cortlandt Park
course Monday.
. Coach Chick Werner's harriers,
;many of you will recall, are the
boys who• are supposedly. .going to
:New York to .14ck• up -the trophy
- which a number of the sports
' writers have ,already conceded
them earlier in the Fall.
Strangely enough, most Penn
State sports followers tag along in
toting the same opinion, expecting
the Blue and White harriers to
Make a cake-walk of the affair
over such outfits as Yale, N. Y. U.,
Rhode Island State, and Dart
mouth.
Actually the boys face a contest
which should be every bit as tough
as last season's, when they pulled
up fourth behind N. Y. U., Man
hattan, Rhode Island State. Chick
Werner envisions a fourth or fifth
at best, for the boys—but of course
that's natural for a coach, other
writers tell me.
Werner bases his opinion on:
some very sound fact, however.
For: Y. U. has freshman Frank
Di?ccitc : who is favored to finish first
ins4l4,ineek. Recently Dixon ran a
26:f.'PSkint, which is- 23 seconds
beiter than the time of former
champion Les•
you rethember, is khe
chap - who took top honors in the
meet last year, finishing half a
County ahead of his- nearest com
petilion.
Bnode . Island State, • the team, peratde of -54 degrees was three
that took the championship last '.degree's • above.. 'normal for the
year over the same course, is again' month.
7.lntering:f_onrriatthat-priginakitl . e. 7 -:---Hain r which -lell,l-1' days during
win n - i n g "team. Yale's Leroy 'the month and. accumulateda total
Schwartzkopf has been burning up of 3.51 inches, was 0.60. 'inches
the 'headlines 'around the codfish above normal. The highest intensi
elm:ult.:With 'his string of- recent ty , of 1,12 inches for 24 hours was
victories. The other week he trot- registered on October 14.
ted to an easy 26:41_ win in the . Ten clear, 13' partly cloudy and
:New England Heptagonal Chain- eight cloudy days were counted.
pionships. The duration of Sunshine amounted
However Penn State boasts a to 150.7 hours or 43 per cent of the
standout four-man combination in astronomically possible,
Norm' Gordon, Curt Stone, Jerry Total solar and -sky radiation in-
Karver, and Mac Smith. Smith lost tensities, received by' one square
. rieariy a week of practice from a centimeter of the horizontal sur
bad; cold, and is currently, nursing face, were 6850.4 calories. This
a *re leg. Barring an attack of amount, received by the Borough
paralysis or an accident, however, of State College," would suffice to
he should easily keep 'his post with bring 1,700,000,000 gallons'of water
his three teammates. from room temperature (68.de-
The . key to State's' showing Mon- grees) to the boliing -temperature
day lies in the nerformance of its (212 degrees).
:fifth man. At the present ' time
Werner doesn't have another run- Mac Smith NOminated
'ner who can finish within shout
in
- McClain B. Smith is ag • distance of the first four. Joe ,candid a t e,
Beach has done it 'already, and
for president of the Athletic As
may do it Monday. If he can; State sopiation instead of Martin Smith
shopld make a strong bid for first as erroniously reported in yester
-aily. Collegjan. Smith is a
'place.,lf he can't, Werner is prOb-
day's D
'ably correct in looking for a fourth letterm4n in cross-country and
or a fifth. track.
I imagine Werner would almost BUY- WAR - BONDS •
give away a spare 'tire for a good AND • STAMPS
,fifth man right now..
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Lions Leave For Philly Today
He'll Block . . ,
Big Aldo Cenci, all 238 pounds
of him, will carry the burden of
the majority of the backfield
blocking against-Perm tomorrow.
Norma! October
Weather Observed
In spite of the fact. that most
students believed October
. to be a
relatively cold month as compared
to previous` -years, Dr. Hans H.
Neuberger, College meterolOgiit; in
a review of last month's weather,
states tli v ai the mqnthlY mean tem-
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Gridders Ai Top
Strength For Penn
At full strength for the first
time this season with the return
to playing condition of Bob Peru
gini, Bob Weitzel, and Orient Mar
tella, 34 members of the Nittany
Lion gridiron squad will leave this
morning for Philadelphia where
they will encounter the Quakers
of the University of Pennsylvania
tomorrow.
Spirit was high in the Blue and.
White practice session on New
Beaver :Field last night, as Coach
Higgins and staff had the squad
members engage in dummy drill
against Penn formations.
Although Higgins would not
verify it, indications seemed'to
point to the same starting lineup
- for Saturday's game -as started
against Syracuse last Saturday, ex 7
cept that Bob Davis will replace
Wilbur Van Lenten at end. If the
lineup remains intact.. Walters will
team up with Davis at end, Schoon
over and Moore -at tackles, Nobile
,and Jaffut`s at guards, and Palazzi
at center. The backfield will -be
composed of Cenci, Brown, Ban
bury, 'and Colone.
An announcement from Penn
late yesterd.iy stated 'that Coach
George Munger will start two new
halfbacks in the places of Bob
Odell and Jackie Welsh.' Joe Kane
will replace Welsh at wingback
and' Roy Pletz will take over the
tailback slot fornierly held by
Odell. •
MeMbers of the traveling squad
are as follows: Ends—Van Lenten,
Walters,• Davis, Baierl, Robb, and
James; Tackles—S ch o ono ye r,
Moore, Kerns, Sweitzer, and Pratt;
Guards—Perugini, Jaffurs, Mobile,
Suhey, McCloskey; Centers-L:-Pa
lazzi, Wolosky; Martella; Backs—
Cenci, Schroyer, Tuccerri, St. Clair,
Durkota, Shelihammer, Pearson,
Banbury, COlone, Weitzel, McFar
land, Brown, Joe, Williams, and
O'Karma.
Bela Theta Leads
Fraternity League
Beta Theta Pi took undisputed
possession of first place in the
Thursday night fraternity bowling
league by nosing out the second
place Alpha Gamma Rho five, 3-1.
. High singles game for the eve
ning went to Chuck Zeigler of
Delta Tau. Delta with a 203. Top
, three-game score, however, was
scored by Ralph Grey of TKE, who
was playing a forfeit match. His
total was 511.
Bair 162 154 196-412
Keeney, D. ...107 129 106-342
Webb% 148 128 186-462
Weiss 159 108 116-383
Lovell 164 129 121-414
Totals 740 648 625 2013
Delta Tau Delta
Locke 111 154 192-457
Burkholder ...131 123 154-408
Gryska 91 134 150-375
Rankin 100 120 134-334
Zeigler 135 130 203-468
Totals 568 661 833 2062
Alpha Gamma Rho
Cronk
Bower
Bosley
Hallowell .. , .116 123 179-418
Pringle 141 145 147—.433
Totals 662 748 730 2140
Beta Theta Pi
Detweiler ....125 121 149-395
Sutherland ...149 149 138-436
Christy 118 139 126-383
Stiner 140 139 191-470
Giles 167 197 131-495
Totals 699 745 735.•2179
Tau Kappa Epsilon
J. Schull 132 175 169-476
F. Stevenson..l26 156 166-448
S. Kin es 151 147 97-395
Al. S tenter ...118 131 136-385
R. Grey . ...164 151 196-511
Totals 691 760 764 2215
I'9
Alpha Sigma Phi
Acacia (A)
146 182 124-.452
132 166 147-445
127 132 133-392
. . He'll Run
Sparky Brown, the hero of last
week's Syracuse encounter, again
will start at the tailback spot to
morrow. Having shaken off his hip
injury, Brown will be called upon
to take care of the Lions' running.
Blue Band I.&aves At 11
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Winnet, Joseph Boscov, and Her
man R. Weed.
Baritones: Roy F. Rurnbaugh,
Robert E. Becker, Richard Crow
ers, and James Burden.
French Horns: B. B. Andre,
James.. A. McKechnie, Dwight C.
Hanna, Lawrence Rubright, Gil
bert Anthony,'and James A. Har
ter.
Clarinets: Frank Hess, Don
Sloviter, .Horace K. Shoenberger,
Robert D. Williams, Philip White,
Richard H. Pease, Vernon W. Ell
zery, David C. Skillman, Roscoe
0. Brady, Leonard Singer, Leon
ard P. Dileanis, and Robert Kapp.
David B. Robinson, Martin L.
Klein, Mark Davidoff, William
C. Humphries, Robert J. Craw
ford, Richard K. Beamer, Eugene
- Bowman, Joe Cannon, John J.
Perrige, James 0. Hertwig, Ern
est D. Rotili, and George F. Hed
rick.
Percussions: Albert R. Yackle,
C. R. Burge, E. Jack Walker,
Orvis R. Gulich, James D. Seltzer,
Hartley Lloyd,• Ross Rumbaugh,
and Mowry Goetz.
Oboe: Robert Apt.
PAGE THREE
Undefeated Harriers
Declared 'Ready' For
Annual IC4-A Meet
Declared to be in the best
shape of the season by Coach
Chick Werner, Penn St a t e's
cross-country team will leave
tomorrow morning for Monday's
E• 11- i m portant "jinx" IC4-A meet
it New York City on Monday.
In the light of recent perfor
mances of several metropolitan
teams, Penn State will enter the
race definitely an underdog. New
York track experts concede the
Lions a fourth or fifth place in
the annual classic.
Practice staged on the Centre
Hills Golf Course during the last
week have helped prepare the
Lion harriers for the rugged ter
ain that they will experience on
the famous Van Cortlandt Park
course Monday.
The New York race has always
been a jinx for Penn State cross
country teams. Four undefeated
Lion thinclad squads have enter
.ed the IC4-A meet in previous
Novembers only to place miser
ably.,
The best any of these teams
could d 6 was a fourth place. Fin- .
est showing of a Blue and White
harrier squad in the IC4-A's in
the last ten years was a third in
1939 one of the wor st dual
meet seasons Penn State cross
country teams have ever exper
ienced.
Making the trip for the Lions
will be the regular team of sev-,
en runners—Norm Gordon, Curt
Stone, Mac Smith, Jerry Karver,
Joe Beach, Rufus Williams, and.
Howard Horne.
l'avoitte for Monday's meet
will be either New York Uni-
N ersity or Rhode Island State.
Both have undefeated records for
the dual-meet season and have
impressive _times during the sea
son.
Led by Frank Dixon, Jr., fresh
man, distance star, NYU can be
counted on to place high in the
standings. Dixon has run the
IC4-A course at Van Cortlandt
Park in the amazing time of 26:-
17. This compares very favorably
with Leslie Mac Mitchell's time of
26:40.1 in last year's meet.
The New York City team also
has four other runners that have
finished second, third, fourth, and
fifth in many dual meets this sea
son.
Rhode Island State, defending
champions, has a veteran team
that should be hard to beat. They
have four of the five members of
last year's team returning. Out
standing runner for the Rams is
Robert Nichols, who finished sec
ond only to Mac Mitchell in last
year's varsity run.