TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1942 BETWEEN THE LIONS By BEN BAILEY Sports Editor That Pitt played its best game of the season "against State was the unanimous chant of every Smoky City sports . writer iri the press box • .folloWing .the 14-6 Sat urday . finale. . . According: to Alex Zelenski, sports editor of the Pitt Universi ty News, State 'normally, would have been several touchdowns bet ter than the , 1446 score indicated, but the • unexpected display of good blocking and tackling by the Panthers - not 'only- made a scrap of 'an otherwise.dull 'afternoon, 'but kept most of: Penn State's backs from even breaking into Sunday's newspaper stories on the game. That 90.Yarct second period touchdown •runback by Larry Joe was no half-time short order concoction as many fans • believed—who saw it, that is. • Actually it's an old standing ' play the Lions have had on stock for years. The last time it worked, many of you may remember, was in the 1940 N. Y. U. game, when Chuck ' Peters chugged 101-yards in . • much the same manner Larry . Joe did Saturday. Joe was merely !brought over 'to the center lane and shaken loose, making the Pitt tacklers, who were lookirii dOwn the side lines' for him as usual, appear like a gathering of rheumatic rabbits on the wet grass as he proceeded to lay on the coal. The cross-blocking by the team -at the beginning of the play was ''better than many of the illustra rtions you would find in any coach's • manual, and the bne I saw Cenci apply was sufficiently bruising to put any fellow like myself in a 4-F clasificatiim forthe duration. • _ The fact that "Wild" Bill Dutton—Pitts one man show until Saturday—gained a net yatdage of 2 yards for the af ternoon bears mute testimony to the brilliant-as 7 usual type . of playing don 6 by the Penn • State line—even Minnesota, • Indiana, and Ohio State and • others of the Big' Time had failed to stop Dutton before. • In(identally, Cenci made. his ...first touchdown in a Lion uni form. when he took Bobby . WU- Jiarns' bo over the shoulder in the !final period and trotted over for the final score. Outstanding linemen for State were undoubtedly Ken Schoon over and Leo Nobile. Schoonover ;_again proved that he is a good dashmah overtaking Saksa on the State ten to„postpone the inevit able Pitt. score. Nobile personally !took charge of stopping Dutton. About this bowl speculation— 'the team and the Blue Band are NOT under contract to appear in any . bowl anywhere yet. The play ers are NOT . shopping for surn 'meir., drapes :for sbuthein wear; they're just waiting hopefully the sarne . as all the rest of us. The College has. not ,received a boivl bid, and in all probability will not. Allhough Pqrin State has 4ne of the bast records. in.thq East. it is net tine ti!, those collegescurrentlyl;6lw con sidered ai. a bowl prospect, The A 0 , bays , , us as a possibility. VVe p4st happen to have a Idar_n good i team, 'bust isolated as we are, few others lc,..novv,it—or_ : want to 'know, whatever the. eii:eTriidy ' Only One collage eleven has def— initely,.6een booked for- a haWl; • and that is Boston College . Which s ' will appear in the ..Sugar -rht ! rest of the bowl Scramble is just •sO . Much soup so far-With', everybody stirring. Maybe the old process of elim ination will shove us up before the eyes of the boys who pick 'em. Anyway, • we're not out of Lion, Indiana Harriers Tie Lions Await Bowl Bid Panthers Gain Only 21 Yards, Dutton Loses 2 Watchful waiting & for a post season bowl bid keynotes Nittany Lion gridivon activ*es this week after the Blue and White's smash ing 14 . to 6 victory over a stub born. Pitt - - contirrant Saturday. • With unbeaten, Eastern teams a. rarity this year,_, and with the Lions •supporting ,a record sur-. passed -only 'by_'` o%ton College, Nittany gridders . 7.prid coaching staff • are : keeping fingers crossed in anticipation of one of the "feelers" that...have by-passed successful Penn State football teams during the last four years. By defeating the up-and-down. Pitt squad that;:-Vas • definitely "up" Saturday, the Lions brought the season to a close with a re cord that stands on par with the 1939, 40, and 41 seasons that saw the Lions win 19, lose only 5, while being deadlocked on two occasions. The, story of Saturday's game with Pitt is one, of great defensive football. Against a Panther squad that had averaged 220 yds against such teams as Minnesota, Indiana, Duke, and Ohio - State, the Lion forward Wall just wouldn't give ground. • . .Pitt netted 21 yards from scrim mage.,Bill Dutton, who was seek ing the all-tinie Pitt yardage re cord, netted minus two . yards. Five' . of Dutton ' s passes were in tercepted ,h_y Lion _defenders. All of Which adds up to defense par excellen6e! On the. offensive side of the ledger, Larry Joe's. brilliant 90 yard run-back of the second half klekeff Wag' probably the best piece of individual ball toting seen on New Beaver Field since Chuck Peter's 97 yard jaunt against NYU in 1940, Credit, however, must be extended to the entire Lion team for the blocking on the play, blocking that enabled. Joe to be clear of the last Pitt defenders before he crossed the midfield stripe. Perhaps the most gratifying play of the•game was the Williams to Cenci pass that netted the Liens their final and clinchin'g touchdown. The giant Cenci, who usually clears the way for the other backfielders, and who backs up a line like a McArthur arm ored division, scored the first touchdown of his career. Inauguration (Continued from Page One) Activities office. A new by-law was proposed by Richard S, Kurtz '43, president of the IMA, but was tabled because of 4 ,lack of - time for discussion. The by-law stated that the independent men's representative an All-Col lege. Cabinet be selected froth the four top ranking officers. of the IMA and the Penn State Club; both incoming and outgoing of ficers included. ' flier's Market THE DAILY COLLEGIAN Philly Club Awards tend Maxwell Trophy For Penn Game Work For his outstanding work against Penn a week ago, Aldo Cenci, Nit tany Lion quarterback was award ed the Maxwell trophy at a lunch eon yesterday in Philadelphia. The award is made by the Max well Club every week to the foot ball player who turns in the best performance on a Philadelphia district gridiron. In receiving t / ile award, Cenci became the second Lion footballer to be so honored in recent years. Johnny Patrick, who like Cenci, played at the blocking back posi tion, received the award in 194 b for his work against Temple. Cenci was accompanied to Phila delphia by Earl Edwards, Lion end coach. . Football Statistics First downs Rushing Passing Penalties Yards gained rushing 142 Yards lost rushing .. 24 Net yardage rushing. 118 Forwards attempted. 7 For Wards completed. 2 Passes inteicePteit ... 5 Yards gained passing 10 Punts—nuMber .... 11 Punts—total yards.. 408 Punts—average .... 37 Punts—runback yds. 23 No. of kickoffs 2 Yds. runback kickoffs 126 No. of finnbles 2 Ball lost—fumbles.. 1 Na. of penalties .... 1 Yds. lost penalties . X-Cauntry Statistics Team Scoring 1. Penn State. 4 6 7 11 29— . 57 1. Indiana ...2 8 10 13 24 57 3. Rhode I. 5..3 16 17 21 22 79 4. Mich. 5....9 18 19 30 32-108 . 5. Illinois ....5 20 26 38 45-134 6. Notre Dame.l 14 39 44 47-145 Individual Scoring I. Hunter (NTh 2. 'Mitchell (I) 3. Schwartzkopf (Y) 4. Nichols (R) 5. Gordon (P 5).... 6. Dunn (Ill.) 8. Twomey (W. Ill.) 9. Karver (PS) 10 Labotka (I) 13. Smith (PS) 32. Home (PS) 48. Beach (PS) 52. Williams (PS) Newly-elected officers will take over their duties next Monday at 7 R. m. at the Cabinet meeting scheduled for the Alumni office. For National After Beating Pitt Norm Gordon Paces Team With Fifth After ten years of cross-country teams that rated "just below the national leaders," Penn State as sumed a top spot in the har riers sport last Saturday. They,however, had to be con tent to share honors with the "Fly ing Hoosiers" from . Indiana as . the two teams tied for first place in the fifth annual National Collegi ate cross-country run at East Lan sing, Michigan. This tie for the title combined with the second place the Lions copped in the IC4-A meet Novem ber 16 places Penn State second to none in national rating in the thin clad sport. Penn State will, how ever, have to share the national spotlight with Indiana and Rhode Island State, who won the IC4-A team title. Paced lay Captain Norm Gordon, who grabbed fifth place, the Lions equalled the Hoosier's total of 57 points to far outstrip the third place Rhode Island State hill and dalers with 79 points. Four Wernermen finished in the, first fifteen medal winners of the meet. When Howard Home, lanky sophomore runner, crossed the line in 32nd place, the Nittany men had tied the Big Ten champs despite a second byEarllMitchell, Indiana number one man. Once again Penn State's "Big Four" finished close to the lead ers. Gordon, with• a fifth, placed first for the Lions followed by Curt Stone in seventh. Close be hind was Jerry Karver in ninth and Mac Smith in thirteenth. 30 11 406 37 119 Howard Horne turned in a great performance by gaining fifth for the Lions and 32nd in the race, which was the only hope that Penn State had of gaining first phice. Because many colleges did not enter full teams, their runners did riot count in the team point scor ing. Hence, Gordon got four points because Leroy Schwartzkopf of Yale, who placed third, did not enter in team scoring. Stone .coun ted six points; Karver, seven; Smith, eleven, and Horne 29; which makes a total of 57 points. Other Lions to finish were Joe Beach, who took 48th, and Rufus Williams, who captured 52nd. Individual winner of the meet was 011ie Hunter of Notre Dame, who set a course record despite the fact 'that he strayed from his course and had to run at least 250 20:18.0 20:49.0 20:54.0 21:00.0 21.07.0 21:11.0 21.13.0 21:15.0 21:15.1 21:23.1 21:17.0 22:55.0 23:15.0 FOR CHRISTMAS ... ORDER EARL'! FRATERNITY RINGS LG. 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Renton and Krug opened up with a barrage of power-packed blows as soon as they stepped out of their corners, but before the end of the third round both contenders were lying on each other. This mara thon to see who could stand up the longest was won by Krug. Catanoso almost met his equal last night. Whitten's lightning-fast left stopped Catanoso cold several times but lacked enough power to cop the evenly contested battle. Proving that a fight is never won until the sound of the final bell, Serago snatched a fight from George when he made a comeback in the last round to outpoint his boxing mate. 'Stealing the independent show for the evening, Wright trounced Stronko, by combining an excel lent offensive and defensive. Second TKO for the season went to Hean, Phi Kappa Tau's slug master. Driving Norton all over the ring and finally cornering him, Hean cut lose with a series of leth al blows that made the judges strip the fight. Gordon, 'fighting in the 121 in dependent class outreached, out slugged, and out-pointed his op ponent in a three round battle. Kappa Sig's Golden won the nod of the judges over Hirsh of SAE. Bache copped a close contest from Lehmen. TomorroW's Line-up: Independent-127 Wright vs Prave, 145—Krug vs'Ashenfelder, 155Muchlitz vs Lauri. Fraternity-135 Ridenour vs Shoemaker, 145—Maloney vs 155—Mattei'n vs Russel, 165—Good vs McCormick, 175 Borges vs Derbyshire. yards extra. His winning time was 20:18 for the four-mile course. 6 Just ahead of Gordon was Bob Nichols of the defending Rhode Islanders, whose sprint in the, last quarter mile beat the Lion Cap tain. Sandwiched between Norm and Stone was Clarence Dunn of Illinois and between Curt and Karver was Johnnie Twomey, lone 'Western Illinois Teachers en try. 109 S. ALLEN STREET PAGE THlttg Honors
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