'WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1946 Between The Lions By ALLAN OSTAR A great many newspapermen ■Who covered the Navy game Liad never heard of State College or Penn 'State. They were quite startled to find that the Nittany (Liefdcimin®ted the '• natidh's nation’s sports pages on Sunday morning. A Baltimore paper car ried five different stories on Penn State’s sports . activities. Hum Fishburn’s Bltie Band put on a spectacular demonstration, expressly. for President Truman, but • unfortunately the Chief Ex ecutive left ihfe stands for a fetv minutes just as the baiid forrhed a gi)ind piano, and played' the Missouri 'Waltz, He returned, however,- iii time to see (them form a block "N" and sihg "Navy Blue* and Gold." * ' When asked what he thought of the band' and the game in general, the President replied l that 'the hand’s performance was superb, the Lions were playing a fine game, and that he wished to thank .the-band and the Penn State student body for the allow they put. on for him. Navy brass was' rushing all over ihe place Irving to keep President Truman from seeing a huge sign bearing the letters GOP which was hung from windows in Ban croft Hall directly opposite the President’s box. The sign, which actually saiid, "Grind Over Penn," but the letters were indistin guishable! frtim the sfaiidS. It Was torn down ' near the end oL the first period by chagrined ffdvy officials.;' # • * *!« The Lion victory gave the Middies their worst gridiron sea son in Naval Academy history. The (Blue and 1 Gold boys wanted the victory so badly they resort ed to every tactic ' they knew. They should halve concentrated on playing football. * iHt ' *Jc t Penn State's line, led by Leo Mobile, Red Moore, Johnny Nolan. SfeVe SiihSy aHd ’Bob Ruikowski, played . an outstand ing cjime Both dfteritiv'ely attd defensively. Quarterback Maiiny Weaver, in the bruising job of backing up the line',. played the IM Cage Entries Reach 74 A record seventy-fou r entries for the college intramural basket ball tournament have been turned in to the intramural sports office. ' Twenty-seven independent ana forty-seven fraternity trains nave indicated desires' to compete for tihe trophies to be donated by tlhe Cdd,leige. Play will begin the week of De cember 2, with round-rdbin . tour naments to, be scheduled. Cham pions in both independent and fra ternity (brackets will toe decided ■with the completion of play, ten tatively- siatedVfor early next se mester. ■ .. SWIMMING RECORDS The victorious Sigma Chi nata tors, winners of the recently com pleted intramural swimming pro M ™ RKIY at the *>■ CAMPUS RESTAURANT .4 ,: w . .. . . . - - •.,v-y\y: :v ;.v-i,;, • ... ,T: - ■ ■ -T . ■ ■ "* THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Plays 60 Minutes MANNY WEAVER full 60 .minutes of the game. - Lion rooters won’t forget Bal timore for a long time;- and Bal timore won’t forget Penn State. Although that oily has a reputa tion for being “wide open” it was the first time the residents ever beard “Hail to the Lion” at 3 o’clock Sunday morning. Cdihiiig hbriie frohi Baltimore, Red Moore and Dr. Griess, team physician, s’at Huddled over • a piece of JEtapbr discussing the anatomy Jof the arm. Who said fodibdll placers k'ndw nothing Optimistic? Now Tt’s tile Optimist Bowl. A UP dispatch yesterday re- • ported that Penn State was one of six teams 'undef con sideration to oppose the win ner of the East Texas State- North Texas' State game Sat urday in the Optimist Bowl December. 21. Just what the Optimist Bowl is was not ex plained. ■:!*'»; *if. gram, established redords in each of the four competitive races used in this tourney. Previous incom plete records have heen discarded, and these marks will b e the offi cial standards.. - Oiyde Bell reccsded two of these marks with his 41-secdnd triumph in the '66-yard backstitcke, and a 44-secohd tim e for the ffOiyarid backstroke. • Franklin Birchard ploughed through tbg Glerinland'pool water® to sdt the record 34.5-second, time for the 60-yard freestyle. With a I:i06:9 mark, the Sigma Cihi I'2o - relay squad, complased of Kirkpatrick, Chamberlain, Birch ard, and Schmidt, enabled their team to make a- clean sweep of tournament records. , Lions Eye NCAA Run Temple in Finale With Jeffreymen Temple’s soccer squad, led by Coach Pete Leaness, has high, hopes of an undefeated seaston. The Owls, who claim five wins l and a tie to date, wind up their •1946 schedule against, the Lions Saturday. ■ ' The Pen n State booters, with six victories against a tie, will be out to continue their dean slate. The Jdffreyiihen ar e gunning for their first undefeated season since 1946. With eight 1945 regulars on th e squad, the Owls had little diffi culty in disposing of Muhlenberg, 5-6, in their initial contest. Against Lafayette, Temple tallied 8 goals in th e first half to wallop the Leopards, 9-1. Center Woodsid e led the attack with four tallies. The Leariessmen racked up their ■setond shutout when they blanked F. & M., 6-)0. Against West Ches ter, they allowed a lone tally to chalk lip win number 4 in a 5-1 encounter, while Army held the Owls to a 2-2 tie last Tuesday. Veterans Bolster Basketball Team Penn State’s basketball team, scheduled to open its season Dec ember 4 against Susquehanna University, will be built largely around players from pre-war and wartime squads. Milt Sinrton, of Erie, is the only major hold-over. Back from the squad of two years ago, a wartime product, are hiighMscoring Sylvester “Slim” Bozinski, of Nariticoke, Les Szep esi, of Leisenring, and Joe Cur ran, of Hornell, N. Y. These three played together on the 1943-44 team. . . Prewar players Who are back after war service are Jim Law ther, soii of the . coach, elongated Dave Hornstein, of Aliquippa, arid sure-shooting Jack Biery, of Frarikldri. They were 'members of the crack 1941-42 squad. •. After the Susquehanna game, at Selinsgrove, the Nittany Lions play Georgetown and B.ucknell on* the road -before opening the home season against Washington & Jef ferson, December 14. BOXING ASSISTANTS Men interested in going out for assistant manager in boxing are requested to report to man ager. Ken Rumage at the ring in Rec Hall any afternoon, this week. For the second successive year, Pehn State fell victim sto Mioiu igan State in a 1 1 946 football lip sdt. . Harriers, 2nd in IC.4A, Out To Take First Place If .history repeats itself, Penn State will be the team to watch when the eighth annual NOAA cross-country run is held at East Lansing, Mich., Monday. It was four years a'go that the Nittany Lions 'finished second in the IC-4A run, then went West to win the Nationals. Out of 'championship competi tion since the 1942 season, Chick Werner’s barriers signalized their return by winning the individual title and capping secon r ] place in the team race at the IC-4A event Saturday in New York City. The indiviidual champ is Curt Stone, bespectacled senior who ran on the championship NCAA teaan in ’•42. ©tone, who was undefeated in dual, competition, and his veter an running mate, Gerry Kar.ver, had hoperi to finish one-twa in the IC-41A race but, an old leg injury forced 'Karver to drop out in New York after the first two males. A newcomer, Horace Ash enifelter, came up from nowhere to take third pla'ce for the Nit tany Lions. •'Stone, Karver, Ashenfelter, atfid another ex-serviceman, Howie Horne, all members of the team that won the NOAA title in 1942 except Ashenfelter, will spear head Monday’s .effort over the Michigan State course. Other members of the team, all ex-Gl's, are Don. Longenecker, 'Fred' Len nox and Mitch William's, who are iteming 'cross-country for the first ‘time this year. 1 Magazines—C andy Tobacco BOTftIHG COMPANY OF -ML 1 •Penn State has received a bowl bid from the Sun Bowl in Texas inviting the Lions to Houston tor a New Year’s game. The ■ Associated Press reported that Penn State was being consid ered as a possible bowl candidate lor the Cotton Bowl at Dallas, Texas, providing of course that the Nittany Lions beat Pitt Satur' day. cdtA-cdu CcWSWWV tir AUftaWtY <6t PAGE THREE Bowl Fever
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