FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1947 Dallas Bound Lions Leave Sunday for Cotton Bowl With scarce Cotton Bowl ducats feverishly changing hands now at several times face value, Penn State's celebrated 1947 gridmen will board Pullmans Sunday night to begin their long junket to the tap thing in football in many Nittany moons—the New Year's Cotton Bowl fracas with Southern Methodist, naw less than two weeks off. Billed in some circles as the "Democracy Bowl," this season's Cotton contest pits the first Eastern college against a South western foe since Fordham faced Texas A&M in the 1941 Bowl. The Nittany eleven will also be the first team with Negro mem bers ever to play against whites in Texas. Included in the Lion entourage will be two Negro players, wingback Wally Trip lett and end Dennis Hoggard. MIAMI Last year State cancelled a scheduled game in Miami with Miami University because of a ban against participation by Negro players. Lion Coach Bob Higgins, college officials, and many nationally-prominent per sons have indicated that they are acutely conscious of the pre cedent that will be set in the Cotton Bowl. Ike Gilbert, graduate manager of athletics, revealed yesterday that accommodations for the Nit tany squad have now been se cured at the Dallas Air Naval Training base; this has a football field which the Lions will use in their final week of preparation. THESE MUSTANGS Pacing Penn State in the New Year's football feature will be a team of fleet-footed, accurate passing, backs and stubborn, hard-charging lineme n. The Karver, Stone Vie In Sugar Bowl Run While the College students' focus of attention during the va cation will be on Dallas and the Cotton Bowl, Penn State will be represented in another bowl on Decer ..:er 28 when Jerry Karver runs in the invitational races during the New Orleans Sugar Bowl festivities. The Boyertown flash - , who ran with the Chick Werner's Na tional Championship cross-coun try team this fall, will make the trip with a former running -mate of his, Curt Stone. Jerry will run in the 1500 meter event and Curt, a Penn State alumnus who recently won the Middle Atlan tic and National A.A.U. cross country titles, will compete in the 3000 meter race. WRA Sports Last week's WRA basketball competition cut the number of undefeated teams to five. In Lea gue I Atherton and Kappa Delta are leading with three victories apiece. Gamma Phi Beta is still pacing League II with four wins. and Alpha Epsilon Phi and Tri- Dorms have Perfect percentages for three games in League Kappa Alpha Theta swamped Chi Omega. 52-25: Ath downed Co-op. 35-24: and Alpha Omicron Pi defaulted to Alpha Xi Delta on Tuesday night. Wednesday night's matches were close with Phi Mu snatch ing a 27-23 victory from Delta Delta Delta while Kappa Kappa Gamma lost to Delta Gamma. 24- 23. Gamma Phi Beta won by for feit from Alpha Chi Omega. Tri-Dorms conquered Delta Zeta. 56-28, and Zeta Tau Alpha forfeited to Alpha Gamma Del to Thursday night. Tri Dorms' Bess Kriner holds scoring , honors for the week with 23 points tallied in the game with Delta Zeta. Sally Brook. Kappa Alpha Theta's center, scored 22 Points against Chi Omega. Regular Army Berths Regular Army officers must serve one tour of duty with a civilian component, the War De partment has directed. The of ficers will help train Nationa: Guard and ROTC units in order to learn problems and psychology of civilian training groups. By Tom Morgan toast of the Southwestern Con ference, several SMU Mustangs are: 1 Tailback Doak Walker—lead ing scorer on the team and in the Conference (87 points), and a mainstay on virtually every major All-American team. Walk er is hailed as an outstanding signal caller, runner, passer, punter, blocker, tackle and team leader, all rolled into one. Tailback Gilbert Johns on— Walker's understudy whose forte is accurate passing. He com pleted 43 out of 78 passing at tempts for a net gain of 565 yards and a completion record of 55 percent during the past season. HALLIDAY Sid Halliday—stalwart Mus tang end who tips the scales at 195 and is the oldest man, at 25, in the starting lineup. He caught the touchdown pass in the last 20 seconds of the Texas Chris tian game that enabled SMU to tie the Frogs and remain unde feated for the season. Earl Cook—rugged 217-pound guard who is playing his fourth grid campaign with the Mus tangs. He was a regular for the past three seasons and gained All-Amercian honorable mention this year. IM, IFC Bowling Loops Kaufman Club Keglers Hand Beavers Defeat In the biggest upset of the cur rent season, Kaufman Club upset Beaver House in the matches held at the Dux Club recently. The loss. a complete shut-out, marked the first time that the league leading Beaver bowlers have gone down to defeat. Another record ,was established when Ath Hall notched a team score of 2809, the highest thus far, through the fine performances of William Rumberger, Ernest Sla dies, and Roger Bartels. The for mer took the high single game scoring honors of the evening with a 221. Other noteworthy performance s were given by Frank Stoner, Penn Haven, Robert Shannon, Kaufman Club, and Joseph Mits kavich, Hot Shots. W L Tot. 44 12 .786 Dorm 2 36 20 .643 7-11 Club ... 36 20 .643 I. T. K. 32 24 .571 Ath Hall 32 24 .571 Kaufman Club ....32 24 .571 Stellar Five 30 26 .536 Dorm 9 30 26 .536 Penn Haven 26 30 .464 Dorm 13 26 30 .464 Hot Shots 26 30 .4E4 Lazy Five 26 30 .464 Nittany Co-op 26 30 .464 Fletchers 18 38 .321 Hellions ..... 14 42 .250 P. H.'s 14 42 .250 Beaver House NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL REGENTS' CHARTER 1891—LEOISLATIVE CHARTER 1897 244 William Street, New York 7, N. Y. One Block East of Municipal Building Teleplawiet COrtlandt 7-2510 Day and Evening Classes leading to LL.B. and LL.M. Degrees No other law school occupies its own building and leases offices to active lawyers who will give employment and practical experience to law students. No other law school is located so near the courts, state and federal, where law students may observe practice and procedure as actually administered, or so near to New York's civic center, where the actual operation of public offices and bureaus of state and city may be noted. No other law Wiwi is so convenient to New York's transportation TWO YEARS COLLEGE CREDITS REQUIRED FOR ADMISSION 1948 Spring Term begins February 24. ApplicaUons for 1948 summer and autumn terms also being considered. Application Min and bulletin 01 information on request THE DAILI COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Next Obstacle Lawthermen Prepare For Pittsburgh Tilt Although Penn State students won't return to classes until Jan uary 5. the Nittany courtmen will have to cut their vacations short to Prepare for a battle wiith the Pitts burgh squad on Saturday. Janu ary 3 in the Smoky City. The Pitt Panther is again coach ed this year by Dr. H. C. Carlson, long an irate opponent of the Penn State sliding zone. Pitt's record has thus far been unim- Dressvie in its midwestern swing. Determined to correct the flaws in the ?loor play of the Lions dur ing the Bucknell game. Coach Lawther will begin his practices immediately after Christmas and continue until the day of the game. theta Chi Maintains First Place in lit Paced by Edgar Strickler and Robert Nein, the Theta Chi keg lers maintained undisputed pos session of Ist Waco in the IFC Bowling League as a result of the matches held at the Dux Club re cently. Strickler's single game score of 235 and Nein's three game total of 541 were the best efforts of the night in both departments, with Strickler also placing second in the latter high total column wiih a 534. Other noteworthy three game totals were turned in by Earl Youtz, Delta Sigma Phi, and Wil liam Shade, Delta Upsilon, with 516 and 512 scores respectively. Youtz placed third among the single game highs with a 220, fel_ lowed by Sam Zeiders, Lambda Chi Alpha, with a 213 score. Competition will be resumed on Monday evening, Jan. 5, with al teams scheduled, according to Lee McQuiston, league chairman. Theta Chi ....SO 14 .780 Delta Upsilon 42 22 .658 Alpha Chi Sigma ...41 23 .642 Delta Sigma Phi ...29 19 .604 Lambda Chi Alpha ..38 26 .593 Delta Tau Delta ....34 30 .530 Tau Kappa Epsilon..3o 34 .468 Chi Phi 28 36 .439 Delta Chi 26 38 .407 Alpha Gamma Rho ..25 39 .390 Beta Theta Phi ....23 41 .358 Kappa Delta Rh0....18 46 .285 DR. H. C. CARLSON SMU Grid Coach Matty Bell Pilots Team for Tenth Year FRED FUHRMAN Southern Methodist Univer sity's football team that meets Penn State in the Cotton Bowl has as its coach, Madison "Matty" Bell, dean of the Southwest Con ference coaches. Bell is now in his tenth season at the helm of the Mustangs and his twenty first as a head coach in the con ference. Starting his football career as a member of the original Pray ing Colonels of Centre College brought the affable Bell to the gridiron limelight. At Centre, Bell was a member of the great team that astounded the football world by upsetting mighty Har vard, then kings of the gridiron. After graduation Bell spent four years coaching at Haskell Institute and Carroll College be fore returning to his home town of Fort Worth as head coach at Texas Christian University. Dur ing the six years Bell spent at TCU the Horned Frogs were among the conference's best, win ning one title outright and tying for another. MOVES TO SMU In 1929 he accepted the post of head coach at Texas A&M where he remained until 1934 when he took over as line coach at SMU. In 1935 Bell became head coach at SMU and amazed the nation ( ' by fielding a national championship team that ranks among the greatest in Southwest history. After finishing off an un defeated season, the Mustangs were invited to Pasadena to play Stanford in the Rose Bowl. Stan ford won this game 7-0. The next two seasons Bell's Mustangs finished in the second division but held second place in the conference in 1938 and 1939. In 1940 they tied for the title Collegian Predicts Bowl Teams Rubin French Neiman Warker rum 1•111111•1111111111 WM - IMMO mar ismom assimumut Rose USC-Mic h. Mich. Mich. Mich. Mich. Sugar Ala.-Tex. Ala. Texas Texas Texas Cotton I SMU-PS Penn State i State State State Orange Kan.-Tech. Kan. Ga. Tech Ga. Tech Ga. Tech Gator Ga.-Md. Ga. Ga. Ga. Md. Delta Miss.-TCU Miss. Miss. TCU Miss. ____ Dixie W&M-Ark. W&M Ark. Ark. Ark. Shrine I East-West i West East East West IM:NM i i * y" ~j ) . %, 4 I A' . • (-) lA' il ( 1 1I) II • -,..:Vilr _ _ _ - THE ALLENCREST WILL BE CLOSED DURING THE ' HOLIDAYS BEGINNING DEC. 21 AFTER THE NOON MEAL UNTIL JAN. 4 THE TEO ROOM PAGE THREE with a strong Texas A&M eleven. Bell left Dallas in 1942 to serve in the Navy as a com mander. In 1945 the popular coach returned to the campus and built together a powerhouse that finished second to Texas in the conference. His 1946 edition started poorly, losing four early conference games, but finished strongly, whipping Baylor and TCU in important traditional games. Lennox Gains 2nd IM Title Fritz Lennox won his second consecutive intramural boxing championship by beating DU Bob Hicks as the Sigma Nu's walked away with both team and indi vidual honors in the finals in Rec Hall Wednesday night. In addition to Lennox, two oth er Siama Nu's TOMMY Halligan and Bill MacDonald, copped their weights. Halligan decisioned KDB John McCreary, while MacDonald won by forfeit over Tom Smith, Delta Upsilon, in the unlimited class. Phi Delta Theta claimed cham pionships in the 166 and 166 pound classes. Laird Robertson and Frank Mattern decisioned Jack Long, Sigma Chi, and Ed Hanford, 1046 runner-up, respec tively. Mike Kutsenkow, Sigma CM, won the 121 pound clash over Martin Davis, Phi Kappa Psi and Sam Greenlee, Alpha Sigma Phi, won over Don Roy, Sigma Nu, by forfeits. Chuck Hoyt, Chi Phi 145 pound er, won a clean-cut decision over Don Myers, Sigma Nu, in another
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