THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1947 Higginsmen Go To Quaker City For Temple Tilt Play Marks 500th Intercollegiate Game In what will be their 500th game of intercollegiate pigskin play, the Nittany Lions, a lead ing contender for Eastern foot ball supremacy, meet the Tem ple Owls in Philadelphia Satur day. The Blue and White will be well represented in the City of Brotherly Love come game time, since one complete side of Tern ple Stadium, goal line to goal line, has been reserved for Lion rooters• Four thousand tickets have ex changed hands through the AA window for this " game• Harold R. . • :Anitt4,..: • “ -Gilbert, gr a uate manager of •.* .. athletics, said ...• • yesterday. i•• -• • • Thegame lis the ninth in a ;Icor series started in 44k4lifff: ? 1931. Temple r• scored it s last victory in 1941, , and trails 5-3 in '' • the series. All 808 HIGGINS but three of the games have been played in Phil adelphia. LIONS FAVORED Coach Higgins will be sending his undefeated grid machine on the field as heavy favorites over the Templars, who have won only, three of six games played this season. In their three victories, the Owls breezed over N.Y.U., 32-7, and Bucknell, 21-0. They suc ceeded in barely nosing out a hot little Muhlenberg team, 7-6. Ray Morrison's Cherry and White sauad took decisive de- DID'S Submerge Lambda Chi 31-10 Displaying fo r m that may make them serious challengers for the intramural swimming cup now held by Sigma Chi, the Delta Tau Delta mermen outclassed Lambda Chi Alpha 31-10 to move into the quarter finals of IM swim competition. Delta Upsilon also gained the quarter finals by completely out classing Phi Sigma Delta 32-8, as Jack Forman, George Earn shaw, John Hogan, and Jack Lee led their team to viptory. Led by Jack Wallace, who captured the free style event in the fast time of 33.5 seconds, the DTD's scored firsts in every event. Bob Burns triumphed in the 60 yard backstroke, Ralph Fritts annexed the breast stroke vic tory, and Tom Bradley came away with top diving honors to pile up points for the Delta Tau's• The best the losers could do was to place second in the free style, back stroke, and breast stroke races. Bradley, Saling, Schwenk, and Wallace of Delta Tau Delta took the 120-yard relay. Tonight 'Kappa Delta Rho meets Delta Chi, and Phi Delta Theta faces Phi Kappa Psi, as second round competition comes to a close. Surviving teams begin quarter final eliminations tomor row. The championship match to determine the winner of the in tramural swimming cup will be held November 12. EFFICIENT QUICK PRESS SERVICE PRESSING WHILE YOU WAIT AND EXPERT ALTERATION AND REPAIR WORK QUICK PRESS SHOP DYEING and DRY CLEANERS Soccermen Face Syracuse Without Injured Graebner All-American Gene Graebner, soccer coach Bill Jeffrey's first string goalie, will be out of action for the Lion's sixth game of the season against Syracuse Saturday due to a head laceration suffered in .Monday's practice session. Graebner, who has started nearly every one a the soccermen's games during the past two years, sustained his injury in a collision with second string center forward Sam Axe while attempting to gain possession of the ball in front of ward Axe he goal Eye Witnesses According to first string inside stitches were required to close right Bill Shellenberger, who wit-Graebner's laceration and an x nessed the accident, Graebner left I ray was taken of Axe's knee. Despite the fact that the clamps his net post to catch a high goal can be removed from Graebner's line boot from downfield. Axe, 'njury on Friday, Coach Jeffrey streaking in for a head shot at 'ias decided not to risk his stand the goal went up in the air for the ut goalie against Syracuse with ball as Graebner left his feet for the crucial Army and Temple tiffs the attempted catch. scheduled for the next two Satur- A resounding crack echoed days. across the playing field as the two Either lanky Ed Watson of State booters collided, said Shellen- , College or husky Jim Doman of berger, and goalie Gene emerged Lancaster will fill in for Graeb_ from the melee with a laceration , ner at the goalie spot against the above the ear while center for-1 Orangemen. feats from the Holy Cross Cru saders, Syracuse, and Oklahoma A. & M. The Owls may have some idea of what they will be up against Saturday by just looking at the impressive mass of statistics piled up by the powerful Nit tany Lions. In their six games played, the Lions have yielded a total of 406 yards or an average of 67.6 yards per game. In rushing defense, due to superior line play, the Blue and White looks even bet ter. It has given up only 39 yards or 6.5 per game• The Higginsmen have gained 2077 yards on the ground, aver aging 336.1 yards per game, and, combined with passing, adds up to a total of 2562 or 427 yards per game. Black as it may look for the Templars, Morrison is priming at best, a good showing. He has NOTICE A LARGE BROWN BEAR has been reported in the vicinity of State College. If you should see him, please do not injure, or attempt to capture this beast. Although he may be dangerous, he has never hurt anyone to our knowledge; in fact he was the pet of the logging camp here until his recent flight. Any information regarding his ex- aot location will be greatly appreciated. HERE'S THE WAY Go to the Temple Game DON'T MISS THE GAME BECAUSE YOU CAN'T GET TO PHILADELPHIA . . . OUR BUSES MAKE DIRECT CONNECTIONS WITH ALL EASTBOUND TRAINS ! BUS 6:30 A.M. 10:45 A.M. 4 :30 P.M. 6 :45 P.M. RIDE THE BOALSBURG AUTO BUS LINE 4 THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Both men were immediately taken to the Infirmary where nine a team comprised mostly of two and three year veterans. SLOSBURG RATED HIGH One man who raises the ante on Temple's chances is Phil "S o n.n y" Slosburg, currently rated one of the best backs in the East. Until last week's game between the Owls and the Okla homa Aggies, Slosburg was far ahead of other Eastern backs in total offense and in rushing of fense. He had chalked up 723 yards in 140 plays for five games. In rush ing, Phil's lead may have been equaled by his runner-up, Rip Rowan of Army, by way of the 65-13 trouncing the Cadets hand ed Washington and Lee last week. In passing, Slosburg rated fourth in the East, com pleting 26 for 53. Another standout back whom Morrison will rely on Saturday is `•`lndian Joe" Nejman, who OLAF ANDERSON Sheriff of "TIMBER TOWN" TRAIN 7:51 A.M. 12:37 A.M. 5:59 P.M. 8:25 P.M. suffered a bruised Pigskin Forecast Collegian again presents Joe Harris' football predictions for this weekend's big college games. Last week, Harris picked 78 right and 10 wrong for an 80.4 percent accuracy. His season's record is 4178 right and 118 wrong for an averageof 80.2 percent. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1947 Boston College-Wake Forest 14- 7 Bucknell-New York Univer. 13- 7 California-Washington 20- 7 Columbia-Dartmouth 20- 6 Cornell-Syracuse 27- 0 Delaware-Western Md. 13- 6 Duke-Missouri Franklin & Marshall-W&J Georgia Tech-Navy Georgia-Florida Holy Cross-Colgate Illinois-Western Michigan 34- 0 Kansas-Nebraska 13- 8 Kentucky-West Virginia 14- 7 Maryland-Duquesne Michigan State-Santa Clara 27-13 Michigan-Indiana Minnesota-Purdue With Eight Touchdowns Durkota Leads Wingback Jeff Durkota, a rank ing scorer among Pennsylvania point makers, leads the Penn State scoring parade with a total of 48 points, via eight touch downs. Jeff added two against Colgate, and advanced two six pointers ahead of Fullback Fran cis Rogel who notched his sixth touchdown last Saturday. operates behind the center in the Temple T. Nejman, who was a first-flight fullback last year, has proved himself an excellent field general. On the line, as big as Ray Mor rison has had in his eight years at Temple. are capable wingman Joe Lee, center Tommy Skladany, and tackle Bob Callahan. FRATERNITY • CRESTED JEWELRY FOR BEAUTIFUL CHRISTMAS GIFTS L. G. BALFOUR COMPANY LOCATED IN THE ATHLETIC STORE - SALLY'S FRESH CANS OF PRETZELS AND POTATO CHIPS PARTY PUNCH Phone 2373 vifeeeri f who set the pace .• • 0 0 r .... .*P 6 ,., p ''''' 7 ' . /, Enjoy the lavish lather of s• ft -- lIL., , .. 4 , i l l rri the heather-fresh exhilaration of 11 ( 1 4 Seaforth Lotion. Try them—soon! College men 1 1, ..\ These and other Seaforth essentials... each packaged in handsome stoneware, only $l. Gift sets, $2 to $7. Seaforth, 10 Rockefeller Pkaa, New York 20, N.Y., PAGE rwz Mississippi State-Auburn 34- 0 Muhlenberg-Gettysburg 20- 0 North Carolina-N. Car. State 2 1 1- 0 Notre Dame-Army 27- 0 Ohio State-Northwestern 20- 7 Oklahoma A&M-Tulsa 13- 7 PENN STATE-TEMPLE 34- 0 Penn-Virginia 13- 7 Princeton-Harvard . 14- 7 Rice-Kansas 20- 7 Southern Cal-Stanford Xi- 0 Texas A&M-SMU 20-13 Texas-Baylor 27- 7 UCLA-Oregon State 14- 7 Vanderbilt-Tenn. Tech 34- 0 VPI-Wash. & Lee 14- 7 Washington State-Oregon 14- 6 Wisconsin-lowa Yale-Brown Lion Scorers Following is the list of scorers: NAME TD's EP's TOTAL Durkota 8 48 Rogel 6 36 Triplett 5 30 Czekaj 0 2 27 Gorinski 4 - 24. Luther 3 18 Hummel 2 12 Joe 2 12 Petchel 2 12 Colone 1 6 C. Drazenovich 1 6 Hoggard 1 6 Kyle 1 6 Nolan 1 6 Palmer 1 6, Weitzel 1 6 Safety (Fordham) 2 TOTALS 39 27 263
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