TOtSDAY, SEPTEMBER 33, IM7
Head Coach
Higgensmen
Lion Single Wing Meets
New Cougar Double T
By JIM NEIMAN
According to advance reports, the Lions’ opener with the Wash
ington State Cougars will be a sell-out affair. The game, to be played
at the Herahey Stadium, is scheduled as an arc-light show on Satur
day, September 20. Tickets sell for $3.60, including tax.
A Cougar {raveling sauad of 37, including coaches and officials,
is expected to arrive in Harrisburg September 18, bringing pros
pects for. a better season than the last.
Loyd A. Bury, graduate manager of Washington State athletics,
notified Penn State o<Ti"inls that the trip East will be made by com
mercial airline and will inaugurate a regular program of flying for
Crimson and Grey football teams
Two other flights are planned
gars oppose the University of So
and {he University of California,
at Berkley.
Phil Sorboe, Washington State
coach, says the 1947 club will be
stronger as a result of the valu
able experience gained last year
by his fre»hm*>« and sophomores
'46 RECORD
The 1946 gridders, who were
young in the ways of tough, big
time football, displayed a re
markable amount of offensive tal
ent but cracked under pressure
on the defense, Cougars last
year lost six games, winning only
one and tying one.
The Washington State line
shapes up as a powerful aggrega
tion spearheaded by Andy Lazor,
outstanding center of the last two
years. Francis Bacoka, a fine all
around end will be winding up
his final varsity year. Laurie
Niemi, 225-pound tackle, likewise
has shown great ability the last
two years and should rank with
the best on the Coast.
Sorboe’s backfield will possess
unusual offensive ability built
around his double-T formation.
This variation of the standard T
involves both the quarterback
and the fullback instead of only
the quarter.
According to Lion coach Bob
Higgins, the Washington State
formation affords a greater vari
ety of plays than does the stand
ard T. Sorboe developed it by
accident late in the 1&46 season
and used it to great advantage in
his last three games.
RAVES OVER LIPPfNCOTT
Jerry Williams, a fast break
away runner, alternates at left
half with Bill Lippincott, All-
Coast conference star two years
ago, who is a powerful runner
alone with being a good passer
and kicker.
Lion line coach Jim O’Hora,
who scouted the Cougars against
Michigan State last year, states
that Lippincott will be the man
to watch.
He is the type of runner,
passer and all-around ball han
dler that a team has to be on its
toes to stop," O’Hora said.
Don Paul looks like the leading
prospect for right half. He’s big,
fast and a fine pass - catcher.
Chuck Eckert, a heady little per
former 205-pound Gordy
later In the season, when the Cou
uthern California, at Los Angeles,
Brunswick may alternate at
quarterback. Brunswick, who ex
cels at forward passing and kick
ing, may play at his usual full
back position, however.
The Cougar backfield will be
missing 1946 Captain Dick
Abrams, but Bob George, power
house on the offensive, is being
groomed to take over the fullback
spot.
FILM EXCHANGE
Since it is the first game ever
played between these two schools
and was arranged so late in the
year, both Higgins and Sorboe
agreed that it might not be a bad
idea to scout each other via the
movie screen.
When they agreed to exchange
two sets of 1946 films, the Wash
ington State coach chose the
Michigan State and Pitt games,
both matches in which the Nit
tany Lions were beaten.
Higgins returned the compli
ment when his turn came and
named the University of Wash
ington and Michigan State games
because Washington State also
was on the short end in these two
engagements.
The 1947 meeting, first of a
home-and-home series which will
take the Lions to the coast in
1948, will be played under the
lights and will mark only the
third time in more than 50 years
of inter collegiate competition
that these two teams have played
under artificial ravs.
NIGHT GAME HISTORY
Penn State played its first noc
turnal affair against New York
University at the Polo Grounds,
New York, in 1041. and last year
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
Line Coach
Open at Hershey
Blue and While Builds '47 Hopes
Around Nucleus of 26 Leltermen
The Nittany Lions will enter the 1947 grid season with high
hopes built around sixteen 1946 lettermen and 10 war-time mono
gram winners.
With a tough nine-game schedule ahead, Coach Bob Higgins is
priming his squad for the first hurdle of the season, Washington
State. That is the one to worrv about, according to Higgins
“Other teams,” said the Hig,
“that we’ll really have to be on
our toes against are Pitt, Navy
and West Virginia.
Last year Pitt was one of the
two teams to nut us on the short
scoring end. They looked good
and were good, with a mountain
of exnenVnce gained nl ayinr? rug
ged Birr Nine teams. The ’47 club
from the Smoky Citv has lost
practically none of its material
and should prove a formidable
foe
MIDDIES. WKST VIRfUWJA
Navy, although losing eight out
of nine last season, showed poten
tial strength in its last frame
against migbtv Armv. Coach Tom
Hamilton will have few losses this
vear. and the team is determined
to reverse its 1946 reeord.
We't Virginia is as a
dark horse that will relv on a
host of regained armv veterans.
“The Mountaineers are loaded and
are going o’>t for hig game this
met Syracuse University at Syra
cuse, N. Y.
Whereas the Nittany Lions
won both games, walloping
N.Y.U. by n 42-0 score and Syra
cuse by a 9-0 count, Washington
State was on the short end both
times.
The clash at Hershcy Stadium
will be only the beginning of a
lone, hard season for both teams.
After the Penn State test,
Washington State will meet
Southern California, the Univer
sity of Idaho. Michigan State,
the University of California,
Montana. Oregon. Oregon State,
and the University of Washing
ton, in that order.
Penn State’s opponents, after
Washington State, will be Ruck
nell, Fordhnm, Svracusc. West
Virginia. Colgate, Temple. Navy
and Pitt.
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DENSITY quality
are timilabU in six
decrees.
End Coach
season,” said Coach Higgins.
This year’s sauad may be the
heaviest football team fielded by
Bob Higgins in his 18 years as
Penn State gridiron mentor. Of
the ton 50 candidates, there is only
one lineman under 185 pounds
and only two backs under 170
pounds.
TAILBACK CHUCKRAW
Johnny Chuckran, star and cap
tain of the 1944 team, who won
recognition as one of the nation’s
outstanding plebes, has been slow
to shake off a leg injury sustained
last Spring and mav not be ready
for combat until after the start of
the season.
. He recentlv underwent a ton
sillectomy and thereby lost an
other week of needed condition
ing. Doctors recommended the
operation in the belief that infec
ted tonsils were at the root of his
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troubles, and they expressed hope
that the surgery would hasten his
recovery from a persistent case of
"shin splints.”
Also on the list of injuries seri
ous enough to keep them out of
the starting game are Harold
Elicker and Bob Urion, the latter
nursing a recurrence of a knee
injury sustained in last year’s
Bucknell game.
Other war-time standouts who
have returned to don the Blue
and White are Bill Luther, pros
pective triple threat, Negley Nor
ton. who handles his 215 pounds
well at tackle, and the Drazeno
vich boys, Joe and Charles.
Larry Cooney, who caught the
coaches’ eves when he was a 16-
year-old freshman, is back with
some army experience under his
belt. A promising wingback, Coon
ey played in the American Foot
ball League of Japan while serv
ing with the Army of Occupa
tion.
SURE BETS
Come what may from these
younger gridders. Higgins is con
vinced that he will get good foot
ball out of the more seasoned
players like guard Steve Suhey.
co-captains Johnny Potsklan and
Johnnv Nolan, end and tackle
respectively, and wingback Wal
lace Triplett.
Other veteran players who turn-
Contirmed on page twent-one