PAGE FOUR Penn State Gridders Seek Revenge Lions Hope To Reverse Las! Year's 33-0 Loss (Continued from page one) Lansing yesterday on a special train and will make their head quarters at the Hotel Penn Alto at Altoona. • Coach Choi . Fi e Bachn - )ms charges and the Nittany Lions 4 have been opponents only three times but have been rivals fur more than a quarter of a cen tury. For the Higginsmen, the game will offer an opportunity to avenge last year's 33-0 shellack ing at East Lansing incl at the same time oven the .series between the two teams. Spartans Lead Series The Spartans have won two decisions aver the Lions in three games in the series started in i 1 12114. The home forces scored their only win in 1925. For this game. a must on the Michigan State program, Coach 1813121 - mor , 1 r.• - tett roe • - nsylvanians for his s tarting line-up. End Warren Huey of Punxsutawney has been appointed honorary team captain while Bob McCurry of Lewistown will start at guard- with John .Pletz of Turtle Creek at tackle. Injuries Hamper Cciach Bob . Higgins : will start Jeff Durkota at the .wingback slot in place of Bob Union who was injured in the Bucknell fray. Al, though Red Moore, tackle and team captain, had an old ankle injury aggravated in the Syracuse game last (week, it is expected he will be in shape tomorrow. 'The Penn State coaches have been stressing pass defense in an effort to avoid a repetition of last ydar's attack, when Russ Reader, Spartan candidate for All-American, tossed two touch down passes to Huey. Ace Passer Last year Reader completed 53 Of 1910 forward passes to atlnik among the nation's leaders dn that department He scored 35 of the Spartans' 120 points and tossed ethree touchdown pLysses,twei them to :Huey. Michigan State is expected to use everything in its ba•g of tmDcks in an effort to overcome the favored Nittany Lions. Win ning their first game with Wayne, Michigan State Harriers Open Season Against Undefeated Lions Blue and White Scored FirstWinOverOrange Michigan State opens its 1946 cross-country season when the Spartans journey erstward to meet Coach Chick Werner's un_ defeated harriers Saturday after noon. Spartan Coach Lauren P. Brown is out to reverse thq 1942 score when the Lions topped them, 24-32, over a muddy course at East Lansing, Michigan. Coach Werner released. the Penn State lineup yesterday. Starters Will be Captain Curt Stone, Horace Ashenfelter, Bob Auman, Howie Horne, Gerry ICar ver; Fred Lennok, Don Longe necker, Bernie Rudnick, Bill Shu_ man, Jack Stevenson; Mitch. Will 'lams, Bill Wills, and Earl Youtz: Spartan Coach Lauren P. Brown' is bringing 12 runners with him for Slturday's meet. Werner ex pects Michigan State to be one of the Lion's tougher opponents since the Spartans have always fielded a strong team. Michigan State has rmintained a cross_country squad throughout the war years and this year's team is made up of former half-milers. Running for the Spartans will be Captain Walter Mack, Walt Atchison,Jack Dianetti, Tom Freitag, Jim Gibbs rd, Kevin Hig gins, Heel) Kebsdhull, Ed Kic_ zenski, John Quinn, Bob Sewell, Adolf Weinacker, and Dick Zo bel. The runners will begin their' •five-mile trek ten minutes after the second quarter of the Penn 'Stalealichigan State football State - Michigan State football Beaver Field track, run one lap around the cinders, and then head THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Lion Blocking Back • ••••••...... Manny Weaver, • 205-poun4i quarterback, : will ; he backing up the Nittany Lion's defense when Penn State meets the Spartans from Michigan State. The Blue and White will be out to avenge the 33-0 shellacking they took at Michigan last sea- the Spartans have dropped two :J lassies since, the first with Bos ton College and the second last week to Mississippi, 6-0. The Higginsmen will be out to extend their undelleated .season to three wins. Both Bucknell and Syracuse have bowed to the Lions. Although `both teams will field a line averaging 202 pounds, the Spartan backfield, perhaps one of the fastest in Michigan• State his tory, averages 195 pounds. Bachman will employ his cele brated Flying Z offense which centers attention. on the fullback mov'ing with great speed and agil ity. Higgins uses the single wing formation with an unbalanced for the golf course. The than con tinues around the golf course and then back to the stadium to finish at the 50-yard line. Winner in cross_country com petition is the team with the lowest 'score.- Coaches select seven runners to compete but only the first five men from each team count in the final score. APARTMENT, TRAILER OR OTHER LIVING UNIT WANTED for veteran, wife, daughter until completion Of schooling next June. Notify BERNARD HOLZIyIAN, Building 10, Room 21, Pollock Circle. mums THE WORD Buy her a beautiful ChrysantheMum for the Michigan State Game Bill McMullen, Florist ExGI Owned and Operated 135 So. Allen St. Phone 2434 Coach, Star Under Pressure Coach Charlie Bachman Michigan State gridders will meet the Nittany Lions with a psychological advay.tage at New Beaver Field tomorrow afternoon. Both the Spartan coach and star backfield performer will he Out to repudiate various chargis hurled at them by the Michigan State student 'body. ditring - _ the past Week. ' : • Student groups have been bear ing signs .and circularizing peti tions at .the East Lansing campus demanding that Coach Charlie Bachman resign because he hasn't produced a winning team with what the students believe to be excellent material. School officials refused to re cognize the petitions and it is pot Smallz Resumes Studies, Coaches Juniata Team Bill Smaltz, one of the nation'S., top passers five years ago, will divide hi s time between the foot ball field and 'classroom on two colleg e campuses this fall. His e ducation interrupted by war, the Aliquippa youth will con tinue his quest for a degree at Penn State while filling the dual role of backfield coach and assis tant director of physical education at nearby Juniata College. 'Smaltz, whos e bullet-like passes to Len Krouse brought Penn State national recognition in 1941, will attend classes at his alnia mate r in the morning and then motor the 20 miles to Juniata, where football will occupy him until evening. The former Lion fullback had several opportunities to enter pro fessional football this fall, but shunned them in order to finish his eduCation. His wife, Betty Rank &Maltz, also a Penn State graduate, is director of women's physical education at Juniata. . 1 : hf .. ' ~ x.i...,:. . f: i ll .... 4 i,, ...:. i known how they were started or The students shouted that Read who instigated the campaign, er was laying down on. the job Russ Reader, Spartan ace half back and one of .the Nation's lead ing passers, was booed last week by the student cheering section as he left the Mississippi State game which Michigan State lost 6..0. Backfield Star Russ Reader WELCOME ALUMNI Surprise your collegiate relative or friend , with a . PENN STATE CLASS RING • Now on Sale Rea & Derick Inc. "Neit to the Bank Clock" . Follow the Lion to the Penn State Michigan State PEP RALLY Lion Shrine TONIGHT 7:30 O'CLOCK BLUE BAND MARCHES from Fairmount & S. Allen at 7 P. M. FIRILDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1946 and accused him otl "not trying.". Sports writers who witnessed the incident said that it was the first time they ha& ever heard a football player 'booed 'for , other than 'dirty playing. • • ' '
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