PAGE TWO <Jaffurs, Cenci Get Egit'.,,':/:‘:''/est.Bid.-0 Nittany Courimen Face Lock Haven in Pre-Season Tilt In the third tune-up tilt for •the Nittany cagers before the start of the regular season against _the ".Nluhlenberg Mules December_ 4, the Lawthermen will' meet „the Lock Haven State Teachers', fiye in a return engagement on .the Rec Hall floor at 8 p. m. tonight. The Blue and White. court• squad beat the Lock Haven quintet, corn.= posed entirely of Navy and Ma yine pre-flight cadets 57-27 on the -Upstater's floor last Friday for their. second pre-season victory. The first came two weeks ago when they outscored the. Ensign 'five 40-27. Lawiher Comes Through • It's a tough job to produce a .winning combination out of a bunch of fellows who played en tirely different styles of ball un der differert coaches less than a year ago. It's not easy to mold a basket ball team that will outscore oppo nents in the short time allowed for practice sessions under mili tary restrictions. But John Lawther is doing just That. . The Lock Haven team of pre 'Righters was never in the ball game. The • Penn State combina tion, led by Mac McNary. at the pivot spot and Monty. Moskowitz on the backline, •took the lead at the start.. and maintained -it throughout. McNary, tall Marine trainee who ,played a good deal of basketball near the' Mason-Dixon line at 'George Washington University last .season, racked up 20 points against - the. Teachers to. give him a total .of 34 for the. two pre-season gam es. He sank 14 against the Ensign 'five in. the recent encounter. Monty Moskowitz, who does not measure up to the usual Lawther standards of •height but makes up for it in shooting and ball-hand : - ling, notched 15 counters against the Cadets at Lock Haven to put hiin secOrid to McNary in scoring. Line-up Change Unlikely . . The starting five for the Muh- Jenberg :game at . Allentown , may be the same one that started a r gainst. Lock. Eaven, according to the Lion mentor. Joe Curran, for merly of Canisius and Moskowitz, a Western Reserve product, were on the backline. McNary held down the starting center spot while Bud Long and Ray Burns, Marine trainee from Ohio Uni versity, saw action in the forward slots. t. Several reinforcements for the Nittany court 'squad have showed up' at - Rec -- Hall in the last week. Ed Czekaj, Al Richards and Frank Veneroso are all tentatively on the rcster, having traded a pig Skin for a basketball. Dick Schmadel, half back for the once-beaten soccer (Continued on .page eight) .7 kr , \. SANTA SAYS- Buy Your Gifts in State College . 25 Shopping Days 'til Christmas SEE PAGE 4 Back on: the Sports_ Page • TWO WEEKS.. AGO the sports staff put these pictures of Aldo Cenci and Johnny Jaf furs away in the files for life as they had play edtheir last game on New Beaver - Field. However, two days ago both Coach Houck Fights Agaiur- Surprises Boxing Candidates- • Leo Houck shattered tradition on Tuesday night, and at the same time officially decided that it was time to open the 1943 boxing Sea son, which is sure to be full of sur prises by present indications. First of all, Leo didn't have any assistant managers on the squad yet, and instead of waiting a few days for them, to come around he found a broom and went to work cleaning the ring, canvas, put up two heavy bags, a punching bag, unlocked a few dozen mitts, and put his sweat shirt on. • Then it. happened. He had five men out this first night,, and by simple mathematics saw that an other man would be needed to pair off with the sixth candidate. Open ing the locker with a gleam in both eyes, Leo pulled. on two 16-ounce gloves and began . working out in the ring for the first time in 1.9 years. His sailor opponent was no less surprised, and before many min utes spectators were jamming the ropes 'to' see. Houck in ,somewhat rusty action, although leaving every indication that when his boisterous friends begin talking_a bit rough . theY liaa better smile. The last fight which Houck had was back in 1927, when the Hunt ingdon American Legion Post de cided to put •on a boxing ,show at a smoker. Leo was a perfect man for half the job, since he was then coaching boxing in his first few years at Penn State after having retired from the ring a few years before. As an opponent, Hunting don Legionnaires picked a big, tough State Policeman by the name. of Al Vervecken, and al though it was not knoWn then, this was the last time Houck was to put on a pair of boxing gloves until November 23, 1943. Houck was feeling pretty good about his new ring venture last night but was more concerned over the -Lion squad for this year. He has found several hard-hitting, shifty men in the. Marine-Navy training group as a result of the All-Service boxing tourney held last summer, but expects some new material to turn up for instruction this month. Practice sessions are ready to begin, and training will be given to all men who report, regardless of their previous ring prowess. Fighting weights will range from 121 pounds to heavyweight, according to Houck. Although the V-12 unit has sprinkled men through nearly every weight class, the Lion mitt master is anxious to have any civilians who are in terested in the squad to report. BUY WAR. BONZS AND STAMPS THE COLLEGIAN Nittany stars received telegrams from Coach Andy Kerr to appear in the annual East-West classic in San, Francisco on New Year's Day. As a post-season recog nition, here they are• again. COLLEGIANj SPORTS, This_Marinelets.Arount Tubby Crawford, the Marine trainee, doesn't quite seem able to decide which. sport he likes best. , When he arrived on active duty here iri July, track coach . Ray Conger had high hopes, for at Ohio University Tubby was able to • pole vault 13 feet without brushing the„ hair out of his. eyes. Then Bill Jeffrey fOund him down in the goalie cage on the varsity soccer team for half a season. On the next stop in - the short period of weeks, Crawford went to the football team;. and ripped the. Temple line so hard- that ,the Lions won an easy •v . ictory . With . a hectic season over, Crawford . was _expected 'to retire. • from Sports for at least a few days, but now the for a spot on the Nittany .hockey squad. - Where's The Official? As Coach Bob Higgins scratch ed his head and' wondered what -he was going to do for players prior' to the Temple game, college athletic officials were sitting in the press box sratching their's a little harder, for it was time for the starting whistle, and no . ref eree, umpire, or head linesman had arrived. With little or no commotion, Stan Baumgartner from the Phil adelphia Inquirer sports staff, pulled the lid down on his type 7 writer, an& went .;out on : the field with an official's horn - Late in the first qUarter, the three breathless officials arrived. While enroute to the game from Pittsburgh, they overturned their -automobile three times near son, and were forced to rent a private car to speed-them to -their job. He Must. Love Itt Johnny Jaffurs the star Penn State guard is really in love with football, at least according to his record. For nine years he has played every season, beginning in the Wilkinsburg Junior High School, and continuing on up to the. Pitt game .in his old home town on Saturday. He gets another chance to start on New Year's Day, since he and teammate Aldo Cenci have re ceived bids to. play in the East West game in San FranciSco. The first ten' . Years of .Cenci's life, incidentally, Were spent `.near Rome, Italy, where. he WaS'borti: Represent Lions In Annual, New Year's. Day Classic. Home , Sweet Home. ' 1943 marked the fifth,year in a 'row that Penn State.hasom pleted• its football schedule at home without a. defeat. The. Nittany Lions have' de feated 19 out of • 20 opPonents sine 1938 This • year, Colgate played the Lion's to a score= less tie. Over this span Bucknell has bowed five times, West Virgin ia three times, Syracuse, Pitts burgh, and Lehigh- twice• each, and Maryland, South Carolina, New' York University, Temple, and Colgate .once each.. Lafayette, last team to de feat. the Lions at home, turned the trick by a 7-0 score on No vember 5; 1938'. Another Year Over-, And What A Year, In past years, a victory over Pitt alone would mean that Coach Higgins and-- his squad had done a --good season's work, but dur ing this hectic, almost frantic 1943, football authorities believe that the Nittany Lions fought a highly- nine-game schedule. .Higgins and his co-staff of Mentors were unable to' plan of fensive or. 'defensive *strategy ev en seven days iii advance, and in the aliening game of the season, san tring;; bulk of . his fits`t strin, were declared: eligible but 50 minutes before the kickoff. Even with servicemen, being transferred'; to other stations, most" Weekly, the scaring attack of the: 'war-scalped , Lioris . rolled over the _ enemy . . goal lines for 124 'points, while, the . Nittany heavy artillery was constantly holding the opponents at bay, 6halking.but '53 points in .the red column. Ed Czekaj, towering Marine end, ,led .the._ Tri-State area. in aonversions„ . with eight , _good boots.,coity.H,amilion from West Virginia -followed: a close second • . • CHRISTMM'CARDS Exclusive Lines Now on Display ; IKS for CHRISTMAS . . A complete stock now on, hand from which to •-. sereCt . . dhildren's Book Display in • our Basement Room. Keeler's FRIDAI: - NOVEMBER 26, 1943 12117 Seaman .Tom Wheatley Johnny Jaffurs • and Aldo. Cenci will . represent- Penn State in .tho annual Shriner East-West foOthall game• in • San' Francisco,. Califor nia New Year's Day. Featuring the cream of the Am erican gridiron crop; the gme, l benefit for crippled % children, 4 one of the• few post-season foot.: ball activities not erradicated by the war. Jaffurs, a potential All-Amer ican guard throughout his three years of varsity service; _and 'do Cenci, 230' pound quarterback and nucleus of State's -ground defenses for three seasons,- receli7. ed-their bids Wednesday in a wire from Andy. 'Kerr, Colgate 1 . 48.4 coach who.will guide-the Eastern. - gridders in the initial football fracas of 1944: Since .both .men are members. of the. Reieive . OffiCers Trainiro Corps- stationed-. here,. the. appro val of their participation.. by. Col. Edward D. Ardery which came yesterday : afternoon was. neceSsn ary before the gridders were per, mitted to join, the. squad, The consent' of. Dean 'Marion bue,. Education,. and:.Deari Sehott, Physical Education, b. 905,. of the. respective. schools of Cen7 ci ..and Jaffurs..:was.. also: needed, Details of . the journey ; to:th: West Coast will be sent - to,• the Nittany ,representatives .as soon as all the men who will make: up, the-Eastern sqpad are - entered on the roster. The.last Lion players to be 13.2nr, 'press .with .bids'.tol the .EaSt.+W.4:t game were Len Kroi,ise and go ; Smaltz, outstanding passing cona s i bination which, performed-in New Orleans in 19:11. • • enci's action, ill' . the'Tbackfield .arid, Jaffurs' talents on the- line - were the only consistent- fact Ors 'in Coach Bob. Eiggins 1943 team which was upset by militarY transfers, academic ineligibility 'and loss - Of players thrinigh nation. tivith seven potnts... - 80bby..W.47; ,hams 'also -took: honors, in Sec-. tional touchdown -scoring',. - I g. 4 .3: Select .Them Now! + + + $ '+ + STATIONERY Air Mail . . . V-Mail and Standard Sizes ++ ' 4 Cathaum Theatre,Bhig-.
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