THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1944
Age Doesn't Hinder Coaches
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COACH 808 HIGGINS
Pilaw Gridders
Num Maryland
'Scoring in every period, Nit
tany 'Lien gridders chalked tip
their
,sixth victory of the season
When 'they defeated the Univer
sity 'of Maryland, 34-19, at New
Beaver Field Saturday.
'AS: in 'the West Virginia game,
Coach 'Bob. Higgins' .freshmen got
off: to a - brilliant start when Tub-.
by Lang broke into the clear on a
fake i!everse).and galloped 65 yards
-to score. Harry Muckle, kicked
the extra point.
lElwood Petchel scored -the 'sec
ond tally when he plunged over
'tie goal line after Bob :Hicks had
. I.tigged a 44-yard pass from - the
Easton back to the two-yard-line.
Petchel repeated from the one
yar.d-rriarker after a .36-yard
drive.
The last two Lion scores were
the result of Petchel's passes to
Johnny Stoken after a • 62-yard
march and to Hicks after Muckle's
56-yard sprint had set up the
score.
Maryland scored early in the
second period when Charley Ry
an went over from the three af
ter Norm Gaetz blocked Petchel's
punt, recovering on the four-yard-.
stripe. Ryan went around left end
for : a 36-yard touchdown in the
third period and Frank Doory
booted the goal. Bill Greer pass
ed -113 yards to Duane Bates in the
end zone for the last score.
Outplaying the Terps statistic
ally; the Lions had 13 first downs.
accredited them to Maryland's, 4;
they gained 282 yards rushing to
88; -and they completed six•out of
10 pasSes to their opponents six
out of, 20 attempts.
Temple Boofeis Down
Lions in final Game
•?Coachaill Jeffrey's 'soccer team
ended the season with four de
feats. .'and -three victories when
they lost to Temple University,
4-1, Saturday. The Lion's only
score was on a center kick by
Hebb Mendt.
Turning back Bucknell, Col
gate, and Muhlenberg, the State
soccer squad bowed to Navy, Ar
my, Cornell, and the Owls.
Nick Martin, V-12er from Ken
tucky, replaced Joel Crouch as
goalie while first semester fresh
man Jack Campbell held down the
right fullback position in Sat
urday's fray. Frank Pepito, an
other newcon'ler, started as ,cen
ter forward. •
The remainder of the lineup
was as follows: Dave Binns, left
fullback; A/S Jess Hartman, Cen
ter halfback; A/S Elwood Stetler,
right halfback; Captain Ace Park
er, V-12, left halfback; Herb
Mendt, outside right; John Ham
iltori,-inside;Dight; IA/S Bill Mac-
Hale, inside left; and Karl End-
man, outside' left.
'Sub'stitutions'. , were: 'Mike Bedh
del, Folwell,••Clunies . Apple
/rani, and' Ditk Nicholas.
Rutherford, Jeffrey,
Houck, Higgins Top 50
Life really begins at 50—and
the activity of four Penn • State
coaches will prove it.
Golf coach. Bob Rutherford Sr..
at .63 years of age tops the list of
athletic directors over 50 who are
still leading Lion teams to Victory:
Rutherford has coached the golf
ers for 22 years, chalking up .107
wins out of 151 matches:
"Doc"
Leo "Doc" Houck-50. on his last'
birthday—has taught more than
2000 trainees and civilians to 'de
fend themselves in the ring since
the war's
..outbreak. Houck ' has
coached the .boxing •team° for 23
years, and his fighters 'have won
the championship of the Eastern
Intercdllegiate Boxing Associa
tion seven times.
Between 1907-23, before coin
ing to State, Houck put on the
gloves for 22. professional .games
and triumphed in three-fourths of
the bouts. Times knocked out?
. . . none.
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Doc earned the European mid
dleweight ' title in 19,12 and the
same championship in • Canada.
He walked off with the Cuban
light heavyweight title some years
later.
The "Hig"
,Last Saturday Bob Higgins, 51-
year-old football mentor, watched
his 'team sink its sixth foe this—
his 15th—season with the Lion
gridders.
;Until 'West Virginia nosed out
State this year, the Lions had not
been•beaten at home since Lafay
ette trounced them in 1938. Un
'der the capable leadership of the
"Hig," the Lions were smothered
only seven• times in the past gfive
seasons, with three defeats com-;
ing in 1943.
The coach's greatest thrill came
five years ago when the Lions
vanquished Pitt, 'after having lost
since 1919. The "Hig" is un
doubtedly hoping for another
thrill Saturday.
'Higgins -is looking forward to
the post-war era when approx
imately 50 of his star players will
be coming back to State.
Machinist
Fifty-one-year-old Bill Jeffrey
not only trains the soccer team,
but teaches military trainees to
handle drills and other equipment
in the electrical machine shops.
The soccer team has been man
aged 17 years .by Jeffrey, .finish
ing 12 seasons undefeated. Syra
cuse in 1932 and Army and Navy
this season handed Jeffrey his on
ly defeats on home territory. Thir
-ty of Jeffrey's players have rank
ed All-American.
Ironically enough, Jeffrey was
injured while playirig .soccer in
Scotland, so came to America to
escape the .game. 1n.1.925 he was
.asked to coach the Altoona Shops
Eleven, and has been playing the
game ever since.
.Which only • goes. to prove; you
can.% keep four good men Own,
even after They've reached the
ripe old. age of 50.
Druids Elect Winter J
Druids elected Charles Winter
president at their organization
meeting recently. •
Other officers of the men's soph
omore honorary are Harold Frey,
vice-president, and Ivan Kline,
secretary-treasurer.
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COACH 'BILL itttiitY
IFC Postpones
League Openers
Becauseof the delay in obtain
ing physical examinations, Inter
fraternity basketball games will
begin Tuesday instead of the past
week as originally scheduled, Bob
Gridley, chairman, said yester
day.
The. teams will meet .each .oth
•er in the schedued order but one
week later . •and the tournament
will continue until January 17.
Foul' new squads 'have entered
the league. They are Sigma Chi,
Lambda. Chi Alpha, Delta Tau
•Delta, and Phi Epsilon Pi who
will replace Delta Sigma Phi, Pi
Kappa Alpha, Sigma Phi, - and Chi
Phi in the lineup. ,
All players must have their
physical examinations before the
first game. Team rosters, and en
try fees should be in the hands of
Gridley before the first game
scheduled lo s r the respective
teams.
The schedule for next week is
as follows:
Tuesday-48:30 p.m., Alpha Chi
Sigma vs. Lambda Chi Alpha and
Delta Chi vs. Sigma Chi; 9:30 p.
m., Beta Sigma Rho vs. Phi Sig
ma Kappa and Phi Sigma Delta
vs. Phi Delta Theta.
Thursday-8:30 p.m., Pi Kappa
Phi vs. Delta Tau Delta and Sig
ma Phi Epsilon vs. Phi Kappa
Sigma; 9:30 p.m., Theta Chi vs.
Phi Epsilon Pi - and Triangle vs.
Sigma Phi Alpha.
Have a "Coke"= i Adelante con la musica!
(GET IN THE GROOVE!) .
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neighbors just as they do here at home. Have a "Coke" is an invi
tation of welcome as quickly understood in Guatemala as in
Georgia. In many lands around the globe, Coca-Cola has become
the same symbol . of friendliness that it is in your own living room.
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Higgins Eleven Tangles
With Strong Pitt Team
Nittany Lions will close the current football seasoit
when they encounter a strong Pitt eleven at Pittsburgh at 2
p. m. Saturday. This will be the 44th tussle between the two
teams since 1893.
While on the losing end in four of their last five meet
ings with the Lions, Pitt still tops State over the years With
24 victories to 17. Only two
games, those in 1920 and
1921, ended in deadlocks.
Denied Victory for 20 years, the
Nittany squad broke the spell with
a 10-0 win in 1939. The follow
ing year the Panthers came back
to smash an undefeated season for
the Lions, only to bow to Coach
Bob Higgin's eleven in the three
succeeding contests.
Johnny Chuckran, sneedy back,
who suffered a hip injury in the
Temple game two weeks ago, will
probably receive the starting nod.
Elwood Petchel, Easton frosh, will
share the left halfback duties
Fullback Floyd Lang, who was
injured in his 65-yard . touchdown
gallop in the Maryland game, may
not start Saturday. Harry Muckle
will share the 'tailback honors with
him. Dino Taccalozzi and Larry
Cooney will again start as quar
terback and right halfback.
Starting in 'the line will be Bob
Hicks and Don Miltenberger at the
ends, Howard Caskey and Negley
Norton as tackles, John Simon
and Jim 'Matthews in the guard
positions, and' Bronco Kosanovich
at center.
The Panthers will probably
field an all freshman backfield
with John Lozar at fullback, Paul
Rickards at quarterback, and
George Freese and Louise Yako
pec in the halfback positions.
Wingbacks Don Matthews and
Bernie Sniscak will also see ,ac
tion.
At the line positions will be Ed
Zimmovan and Bob Hawkins as
ends, Al Phillips and Mike Rous
sos •as tackles, and Ralph Cole
man and George Rainni as guards.
Either Ralph Hammond or Braner
will start at center.
FIRST .PLAYER BACK
First and only prewar gridder
to return to Penn State during the
1944 season was Nick Ranieri, re
serve back. He was tendered a me
dical discharge after two years in
the Army Air Corps.
Andy Pipa, Penn State's fresh
man "find," quarterbacked the
Kulpmont High school football
team last fall.
PAGE SEVEN
Bks. 26,36
Tie In Soccer
Barracks 26 with six' , \wins, two
ties, and two losses moved up to
share first place with Barracks 36
in the V-12 intramural soccer
league.
Barracks 36 which has six
wins, two ties, and one loss has
exactly the same number of points
as 26 unter the system of scor
ing which is used.
Actual play was limited this
week with Barracks 24 forfeiting
to 20, and 37 to 13 Thursday,
while Barracks 24 forfeited to 26
Friday. -
Wednesday's scores are: Bar
racks 26 defeated 37, 1-0, while
Barracks 9 and 20 arid. 36 and 24
fought to a 0-0 tie.
Thursday's games found Bar
racks 26 winning over 9, 3-1. Bar
racks 20 won by forfeit over 24 as
did 13 over 37.
Friday's results are: Barracks
13 and 9 tied at 1-1. The game
between Barracks 36 and 20 end
ed 0-0. Barracks 24 forfeited to
26.
In Tuesday's games Barracks 13
de'feated 24 1-0 while 37 bowed to
9 at the same score. Barracks 36
won over 26, 2-0.
Thursday is the only day of
play which remains. Barracks 26
will play 13, 9 will go out against
36 and 20 will meet 37. •
STANDINGS
Win Tie Loss
6 2 1
6 2 2
4 4 1
5 2 2
2 2 6
2 1 6
0 3 7
Barracks 36
Barracks 26
Barracks 20
Barracks 13
Barracks 9
Barracks 37
Barracks 24
All independent basketball
teams wishing to gain entrance
into the newly formed Penn State
Club intramural basketball league
should have a representative con
tact Art Bohard. Phone 2215. •
Leo Houck, one-time pro boxer
and no head coach of boxing at
Penn State, is 56 years old.
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