FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1943
Gridders Meet Bisons
In Season's First Test
• (Continued from. Pape One) Bisons Sharpen Offense Cornell less than two weeks away,
Brown, Cenci, and Jaffurs who Following last week's
_close 7-6 .Penn State's soccermen are rapid
are in college pending call to Off- defeat by Cornell at Ithaca, Coach 1y approaching top form. Daily
scrimmages, tilts with the Naval
icers Candidate School. Johnny Sitarsky has been sharp- 'ensigns, as well as a series of
Brown was the Nittany Lions' ening the ground offense of the games between V-12 players and
Standout ground gainer last sea- Bisons in preparation for tomer- the remainder of the squad, give
son when he piled up an averagepromiSe of a soccer team well up
row's encounter with, State. The
of, 5.7 yards per try froth his half- to Coach Jeffrey's usual high sten-
Big Red line allowed ;only 29
badk position. A consistent line dards.
bucker, Sparky was a touchdown Yards from rushing and the Buck- Ineligibility doesn't present as
threat to -opposing teams account- nell team was unable- to score a 'great a hazard to the booters as
ing for many of State's longest _single first down on the ground. 'to the football squad, since fully
gains. • half of the group are regular sttt
' Timing and precision drills have ,_ , _ _
. Serving- his final season as the - dents. Sam Schnure, Jim Atherton,
been the order for the past week.
first
.string quarterback is Aldo and Bob Clauser, halfbacks; Jose
Cenci, 230 pound blocking back Spearhead of the Bucknell off- Lombana, - Stauffer, and Andy
*hose talents in backing up the ense is 170 pound Gene Gubka, Gaber, linemen, as well as a host
line. have thwarted • offensive swift• tailback, whose specialty is of freshmen, show the 'civilian's
thrusts for three years. • the open field. Hubka never had a side of soccer.
• Johnny Jaffurs attracted atten- chance to open up in the Cor- Not to be neglected is a group
as• a capable •guard in his nell game since.plays in which he of V-12 trainees who are fighting
sophomore year and merited- All- carried the ball were consistently hard for berths' on the starting
American honorable mention as smothered at the scrimmage line. eleven. John Wrynn and Tubby
a . junior. The coaching staff is Other mainstays in the Bison 'Crawford keep the goal well
counting on him to provide much backfield are George Lefkandinos guarded, while Mark Frederick
of the line power until he leaves and Bobby McDaniel. Lefkand- and Ted Reichwein are fullbacks
at the end. of this term. inns, 175 pound halfback performs hard to beat. Dick Schmodel, Jim
A probable second team- would as either a passer or a runner Heinold, and Jim Wollenhaupt
include Dick Trumbull and John and McDaniel is a light . weight form a fast trio of halfbacks, well
Misiewicz, . ends; Bill • Kyle and scat back who will 'bolster the suited to the charging V-12 line of
Marino Marchi, tackles; Jim Mar- offense if academic restrictions Bill Shellenberger, Frank Klase,
fades and Joe Berry, guards, Lar- which kept him out of last week's Red Kramer, Jack Bates, and Ivan
ry Davis or Mike Slobodnjak, game are remedied. Frey. -
center; "Frenchy" LaFleur, guar- Plays involving Elting Johnson
terback; Jim Graham and Cass and Ray Tyler who alternate at
Sisler, halfbacks; and Allen Rich- fullback were also emphasized in .Knee Injury Benches
ards, fullback: this week's drills.
• • Charley Stapel, 178-pound fresh-
Harvey, Ex-Distance Runner Irian halfback from Avalon High
School who impressed the Lion
• . • . • • coaching staffas a valuable ball
Replaces Coach Conger • . - c ti a c r e rie s r e . s f s r . o o m ns th, e.sstsatritnointuhresinpr;
wrenched knee and will be out of
. George Harvey, ex-Penn State distance runner, now- of -the phys- action for at least two more weeks.
ical edUcation department, has replaced Ray M. Conger as coach of the Eager to play, Stapel• has been
cross-country team. Conger will take a year's leave and supervise hovering around the field at Prac
recreation at the Arm Strong Cork Co. at Lancaster, Pa. . tice each night although he is not
•
Harvey states that,,due to wartime schedules, it is difficult to have ' Permitted to don a uniform and is
wavecL off theffield by. the coaches
his entire squad at any one praCtice session. There are a few runners 'when he even attempts to pick up
who have been working out since August, and one -rapidly approach- a football.
ing . top cross - country shape.
The outstanding men to date are
Dennis Crimmohs, ex-star of St.
John's of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Cecil
Defitschle, John Hernhanies, and
bon Stott . who have been -stand
outs on the track team of the past
.
seasbri. Newcomers who show ex ;
cePtional promise are Bob Polan-
ski, Phil Jones, and Bill Riess
A new feature of the team is ,a
'running coach and running man
ager. George Harvey, a foremost
.distance runner in the late 1930'5,
frequently dons spikes and shows
the felloWs "the correct way to do
it." Managed Stu Block, an ex ,
.arninfer Who has been out with a
knee injury, also assisis by. run-
ping With the scivad and keeps the
boys on the move.
The schedule includes a meet
with Muhlenberg at State College
'October 9; Cornell at Ithaca on
OctOber 16; Colgate at Hamilton,
N. 9., on October 30; and the sea-
gnale at New York in the Iri-
tercojle`giate C-hanipionships
Lions;Out For 23rd Win
Over Bothell Gridders
,
- f! - ;, When—Coach ~ -J ohriny, Sitarsky
leads his Bucknell BitotiS into
town tomorrow. Morning for
,the
first. time, in his coaching career,
he will be atteniptirig to break the
jinx "whickhas hovered over the
Lewisburg gridders since 1939,
when they started a losing streak
to the Nittany , Lions which hap
extended over the past four years.
The last game that Bucknell
won . - before they • began scoring
points in red. ink, Was in 1938,
when they pushed a 14-0 win ov
er. the Higgins' squad. Prior to
this season, they had lost but two
games since 1927.
As the tWo schocils enter •their
33rd meeting'since . lBB7,•when the
; . Bisons walloped Pehn State, 54-0,
,the ]edgers stand with 22 wins for
the Lions, against but•lo defeats.
over• a half century of cornpe-
Aition, there has never been a ite
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V-12 Trainees, Veterans,
Freshman Booters Train
For Initial Soccer Tilt
With the season's opener with
and Stamps
Between The Lions
Probably you•can blame this on
the war too, but undoubtedly this
is the first football season at Penn
State that Coach Bob Higgins has
had to worry about Avagadro's
Hypothesis, British Thermal Units,
specific heat, the law of cosines,
the Beaufort wind chart, occlusion,
and the like.
We can see the team huddled
together in the dressing room now.
Higgins is charting a play on the
gnomonic projection, but is hav
ing trouble figuring out what wind
resistance will be present. in the
Bucknell line if a heavy sheet of
stratiform clouds is covering the
town tolnorrow morning. It is also
very possible that a cold air mass
may come in some time tonight,
bringing with it a sky covering of
cumulonimbus clouds.
One of the managers gets out
the sling psychrometer, and finds
that the air has a temperature of
76 degrees, and there is a wet bulb
depresSion of 18 degrees. One of
the ends then figures out that there
will be too much water vapor in
the air to attempt the pass plays,
so all attention is directed toward
a game that could be played in a
continental tropical zone, provid
ing there are some fair weather
cumulus in the sky.
"Hig," says one of the backs,
"suppose we try that XYZ forma
tion we used against Penn last
year."
"Young man," grimly answers
the Lion coach, ".you must remem
ber that we encountered a team
that day that forgot that every ac
tion is accompanied by an equally
opposite reaction. We will have no
such luck with these men coming
up from Lewisburg tomorrow."
The embarrassed p igSk inn er
hangs his head in shame, and re
solves to study his physics a little
better before the next game.
Suddenly a third string tackle
(he has . been studying five weeks
preparation • for this game)
blurts out Newton's law of univer-
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sal gravitation, with the idea that
since the attraction between n
body and the earth is directly pro
portional to weight, only men un
der the weight of 118 pounds
should be used, thus making it
harder to knock a little man to
the ground than one who weighs
over 200 pounds (90,718 grams).
Before' one of the assistant
coaches has a chance to explain
that this is very true, but you must
take into consideration that there
is a force against the man before
he is tackled, so gravitation doe.'
not play too great a part in the
matter, the phone rings, and a
graduate chemist, who has been
working night and day on the com
position of the ball, tells the gym
nasium technician that the men
will be required not to sweat dur
ing the game since the football is
too porous and will absorb so
much •of the perspiration that it
will become topheavy.
After he hangs up, the assistant
coach continues with his explana
tion of the gravitational law, •ex•
plaining that since a force is ex
erted against the gridder, equaliml
the pressure times the area (PXA),
it would be better to use bigger
men since they would be able to
knock the opponents down easier.
It looks like the head linesman
is going to have to have a doctor's'
degree in physics, the referee a
master's in mathematics, and the
umpire one in meteorology before
next season. And we won't be- at
all surprised to have scouts sent to
Franklin Institute and Fels Plan:-
etarium before the -Pitt game.
Killed-In Action
Li. McGowan '43, a U. S. Ma
rine Corps flyer, was killed in ac
tion at the Battle of Munda. 'Mc-
Gowan was enrolled in the de
partment of journalism and was
an active member of the Campus
Patrol. Although word of his
death was recently received, the
exact date is July 7.
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