PA GE FOUR ns Top Lambert Trophy Race Win Bth Straight Over Midshipmen By TOM MORGAN Penn State has advanced to first place among contenders for the coveted Lambert Trophy. symbol of Eastern football su premacy. According to figures re leased last night. the Lions Dace the field with 982 points. Other grid powers. are: Penn. 981: Ar may. 980, and Column: ia, 970. Last week Penn topped the Nittanymen by two points. A power-laden nack of Nittany `dons clawed the Navy. 20-7. Sat irday and served notice to skep tical grid scribes and bowl corn tnittees across the nation that they can pounce with the same deadly results on a big league foe as on 'he so-called Larry Lavdowns which supposedly dct their sched le. It was triumph number eight :or State's grid giants. who, by ...irtue of Penn'. deadloz.k with Army. now rank as the East's lone undefeated and untied eleven and one of the country's four major teams boasting spotless records. They are Michigan. Notre Dame. Penn State and Southern Methu•- dist. Now only victory-starved Pitt bars the Lions from their first Perfect arid campaien since 1912. GROUND ATTACK In spite of n swamp underfoot. Coach Bob Higgins' vaunted Lion ground attack functioned with the force of a vile driver and sank Navy in a water-cloyed turf that was almost better suit ed for water polo. Twenty-five thousand fans defied the mud. cold and steady drizzle to wit ness the conflict staged in Balti more's Municipal Stadium. Amassing 228 yards by rush ing. the Lion,- garnered a total of 150 on three Plays which high- PAUSE FOR COKE HELPS MOTORISTS DRIVE REFRESHED PLEASE return empty bottles promptly plus lc BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OP THE COCA-COLACOMPANY Sy State Tax COCA-COLA 130 ri LING COMPANY OF ALTOONA 0 19 4 7 The Coco-Colo Company lighted their potent ground of fense. In the first. wingback Jeff Durkota skirted the weak side of Navy's line in the first period and streaked 47 yards to the end zone as auarterback Chuck Drazeno vich. tackle John Nolan and guard Steve Suhey executed deadly downfield blocks. The same play. a weak-side re verse hand-off from fullback Joe Colone to Durkota. fooled the Middies again in the third stanza and this time netted 43 yard. and State score. Durkota splashed over the goal line iust as three Navy backs. in mad pursuit, dived at him. A sparkling 6.0-Yard spurt by wing-footed taill ack Larry Joe set the stage for a Nittany touch down in the second quarter. Crashing through a wide hole in the left side of Navy's defeme. Joe eluded at least four wuuld-be tacklers before Middie fullback Bill Hawkins stopped him on the Navy 13 after chasing him 30 yards. WILLIAMS SCORES From there Taiba'ck Bobby Williams pounded methodically a stubborn Navy wall for six suc cessive plays before plunging to pay dirt from the 1-foot line on the seventh try. Navy, which paced the Higgins men. 11-5. in first downs. re bounded after State's initial TD to knot the count at 7-all early in the second period. Quarterback Bob Horne tossed 15 yards to Al McCully. left half. who snagged the ball on the Lion 31 and raced down the sidelines to score. Sophomore Jim Wills kicked his thirteenth extra point in as many attempts for Navy, while Ed Czekai bagged two more suz cessfill conversions for the Blue and White. The Lions' other try for an extra point misfired when Bcibby Williams' pass. intended for Halfback Wally Triplett. was batted - down in the end zone. Rolling from the Middie 40 where Chuck Drazenovich had THE DAILY COLLItGIAN. STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Congratulations! Co-captain Johnny Potsklan rates Collegian's rave notices for Player of the Week honors after his standout defensive work in Saturday's game with Navy. One of the best-liked players on the squad, genial "Potsy" has shared the team direction this season with Johnny Nolan. Whether his assignment is block ing or tackling, the big end per forms his duties in top form. Saturday's game with Pitt will mark "Potsy's" final appearance as a Higginsman as he will re ceive his diploma this summer. recovered a Navy Pura] le. the Nittanv machine thundered to ward what looked like its fourth TD of the fray in the third oer iod. but the offensive stalled in the quagmire that was Navy's 6- stripe. Top-notch punting featured the struggle. Colone's prime effort was a 67-yard boot which shamed dead on Navy's 23 in the first Quarter. while Middie center-cap tain Dick Scott. who doubles in 'Punting. kicked one 35 yard. to State's 1-line in the same stanza. Although suffering their sixth setback. the Midshipmen from Annapolis pierced Lion defenses for 217 yards. 122 of which were chalked up on the ground. This threw a plexus punch into Nit tanv hopes of bettering Santa Clara's all-time defensive record against rushing and Passing. set in 1937. Yielding 217 yards to Navy's attack caused State's defensive average to rocket from 61.6 to 81.0 yards per game, according to unofficial figures. This is about 11 yards higher than Santa Clara's all-time mark of 69.9. WOGss W, CoAov es 13attivre, Statosyclf. `Mee% MO Doe i lile-telesse s' . 4k , ',10,VM ,sr JOHN POTSKLAN KICKING Between The Lions Said Navy's great center and All-American Dick Scott, "We've never faced a tougher line all year, and that includes Notre Dame's." The Nittany Lion forward wall had done it again; helped out immeasurably by sixty minute Church Drazenovich, the Bedenk coached chargers had played their part and played it well, and the Blue and White ascended the throne of Eastern college football. Army helped out by tying a strong Penn eleven, and Penn State's national standing was further aided by the surging Alabama Crim son Tide's conquest over previously invincible Georgia Tech. With statistics hounds sleuthing in record books for past un scathed teams in Lion gridiron history, let's look at the Baltirmire contest. and to how well the Warriors of. Nittany stood up when it counted. This was to be the contest in which the Hig was to throw the book .. . wide open football with plenty of hipper -dipper . the spectators were to be in for a show. However, the field was soggy, and fleet Lion backs couldn't find the secure turf which was necessary for many of their trickeries. So the plays called were simple and routine, but every once in a while, the cat was let out of the bag . . . the deep reverse was called in and the Navy defense was penetrated. Statistics show the Middie the first down vic tor, but State had the point score, and State walk ed off of the field with the pigskin. The Lion was mighty and had prevailed! DURKOTA AGAIN It was the terrific blocking which sprung able Jeff Durkota loose those two times, and which sent Larry Joe off on his mad dash which ended C. Drazenovich just 13 yards short of paydirt. Eastern newspapers have been giving much deserved raves to the Blue and White defense, to Tamburo and Potsy, Nolan and Norton, Iron man Suhey and Joe D., "Shag" Wolosky and that stone wall Chuck Drazenovich. Big. Chuck, with two more years of play would stand more chance for national honor mention if the Penn State single wing would call for the quarterback's carrying the ball, and for more active contact with the ball. Quarterbacks like Johnny Lujack, Gene Rossides and others run and pass, and are therefore more prominent in the eyes of spectators and newsmen. Fairly early in the Baltimore tilt, Chuck D. brought many laughs when, after he had sprung up from the muddy sod, he drop ped back a few yards and washed off his hands in a nearby puddle of water. _ _ The Hig used the lowest number of substitutes this season, sending only twelve replacements into the fray. Suhey and Chuck D. both played the entire game, and a few others played far more than usual. Navy exhibited a very fine passer in Bobby Horne, who directed the Annapolismen when Reaves Baysinger, son of the the Syracuse coach, was on the sidelines. Horne's tosses were very dangerous, and on a dry field, would have been even more of a threat. Carry ing a towel in his pants, this aerial artist was seen to dry his hands off before nearly every play. LONG PRELIMINARY RUN . Wally Triplett's kick-offs were very efficient, and a factor in this may be his extra long run preliminary to booting the ball. From a point twelve to thirteen yards behind the ball, Wally begins his run. ' High-scorer Jeff Durkota not only was the game's offensive star, but was a very valuable man on de fense. Two or three times this senior wingback was the only man to stand in the way of a Navy runner and paydirt; they did not pass. Another important factor in the win was the in spiring kicking of fullback Joe Colone. The now famed Colone quick kick was again effective, and Joe outdistanced the Middie's Dick Scott. Scott, a center, did fool the Lions once when he ran the ball from a kick formation, picking up a neat eleven yards. Trying it again a little later, Scott was only able to advance the ball one yard, as the Nittany defense had learned its lesson. This contest marked the end of the five year Navy-Penn State series, with Penn replacing the Midshipmen on the '4B slate. Now only Pittsburgh has the chance to mar the unblemished record of the Warriors, and the Lions will be the heavy favorite over the Panther. But Penn State teams know better than to dis regard the Smoky Cityites, for the latter annually play inspired ball in this finale . . . the mountain is nearly climbed. Record 93 Entries Predict Rugged Court Competition Intramural cage competition gets underway tonight in what promises to be the most successful IM besketball season in the history of the College. A record ninety-three teams, twenty-eight more than were en tered last season, will vie for the coveted crowns won last year by Sigma Nu in fraternity competi tion, and Dorm 1 , 1 in independent league 360 Games The 360 game tournament, which will run thrpugh the month of February, is divided into two levels of competition, fraternity and independent, as was the case last season. Both the fraternity and independent levels will be subdivided into four leagues of eight or nine team s each. League champions will be de termined on a percentage basis, with each team meeting every other team in its respective league once. After league champions have been decided, a post-season tournament will be staged. The fraternity winner will re ceive a trophy emblematic o its TUESDAY, NOVEMBER le, 1441 WITH TED RUBIN victory in the interfraternity turnament, and all members of the championship independent cage squad will be awarded in dividual medals. Tonight's tilts and the respec tive courts on which they will be played are: B:4s—Beta Sigma Rho-Theta Xi, court 1; Alpha Zeta_Phi Kappa, court 2; Triange-Delta Theta Sig ma, court 3. 9:3s—Acacia - Phi Kappa Psi, court 1; Tau Kappa Epsilon -Pi Kappa Alpha, court 2; Alpha Chi Rho-Delta Sigma Phi, court 3. 10:05—Lambda Chi Alpha-Sig ma Phi Sigma, court 1; Kap pa Delta Rho-Phi Epsilon Pi, court 2; Phi Delta Theta-Sigma Phi Al pha, court 3.
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