~ Basketball Tilt Batlg 4 Tottragi WEATHER tt Game 11 . Partly Cloudy and Tonight as i ,_ • Slightly Colder VOL. 46—No. 50 Commerce Club Banquet Plans Set The program for the Commerce Club's testimonial dinner for Penn State's football team was drawn up at a committee meeting last night. John Henry Frizzell was chos en to give the invocation to open the affair in Recreation Hall Monday at 6 p.m. Guy Woods of the College will provide an organ interlude and Frank Gullo, also of the College staff, will lead singing of Penn State songs. Following the dinner. Chester L. "Chet" Smith of the Pitts burgh Press will take over as toastmaster. The "Inside of Sports" program dedicated to Penn State by Bill Brandt and talks by Dick Harlow of Harvard, Steve Owen of the New York Giants, Bob Higgins and Matty Bell of Southern Methodist will follow. In between the speeches, pre sentations by various groups will be made. College students will be admit ted to the dinner at the start of the speaking program. One addition to the program may be made, it was announced by E. J. Reilly, committee chair man. Reports were received on tic kets, decorations, and food from members of the committee. Late AP News Courtesu Radio Station W MAJ Duff Names Fred Waring New College Trustee HARRISBURG Governor James Duff today named the noted band leader, Fred War ing, ac a trustee of Pennsylva nia State College. Waring, a former student at Penn State, was appointed to succeed Mrs. Clara Phillips of Washington. Pa., whose term has expired. At the same time Duff named Frank Denton of Pittsburgh a member of the College board, succeeding Harry Moses. also of Pittsburgh. who resigned. 'State of the Union' WASHINGTON—President Tru man last night put the finishing touches on his "state of the union message" which he will de liver in person this afternoon to a joint session of Congress. The President called a special meeting of his Cabinet yesterday and White House sources say the Pres ident's message lq going to hit congressional Republicans right between the eyes. Lion Fans Select Top Ranking Back, Today students of the College as well as Centre Countians will have their chance to select their favorite lineman and back on Penn State's 1947 undefeated grid juggernaut. Ballot will be printed in to day's Daily Collegian and the Centre Daily Times and only votes cast on these official bal lots can be counted to determ ine these two players. The contest which originally was scheduled for the last week in November but was postponed when the all-victorious Higgins men received an invitation to the Cotton Bowl classic so that no dissension or jealousy would arise within the team over the winners of these awards. Deadline Saturday The balloting was actually started when both the Daily Col legian and the Centre Daiy Times published ballots after the Pitt game. All of these votes which were then cast have been tabu lated and saved and will be add ed to the votes cast this week. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 7, 194&-STATE (:=LM3UIE, PZNNA. Fifteen Letter Error Makes 'Red' Roth Very Red It was only the 15-letter dif ference between an "a" and a "p" but it disrupted a class and raised one of the reddest blu.3hes of the season on Wilbur Roth. Roth had received a post-card telling him to report in 304 Sparks at 9 o'clock for an English Usage test. So at 9 a.m. he showed up in 304 Sparks where Prof J. Paul Selsam was lecturing on Euro pean history. Several curious stares followed him as he sought a comtfortaible seat in the rear of the room. Then slightly bewildered by references from the lectern to an "Intellec tual •revolution" he approached Profesor Selsam and proffered a post-card. A blush that put Roth's flaming hair to shame greeted the an nouncement by the professor that the card said 9 p.m. not 9 a.m. As he departed from the room abashedly the remark was heard that though there were no more freshmen to provide humor, the sophs were doing a Pretty good job of taking their place. $5,000 Goal Set for Hetzel Memorial All-College Cabinet, sponsor of the Hetzel Memorial Fund, to day begins a two-week drive for funds to establish a memorial li brary in tribute to the College's late president, Dr. Ralph Dorn Hetzel. The proposed library, for which a goal of $5OOO has been set, will contain books concerning a va riety of subjects including ad venture, philosophy and psy chology. The campaign will extend to students, faculty. and alumni. Each fraternity, sorority and campus organization is asked to contribute. The Alumni Associa tion has contacted :7,000 grad uates through the Cotton Bowl edition of the News Letter, and over 30,000 alumni will be noti fied of the drive in the next is sue of the alumni magazine. Pub licity is being given the cam paign by newspapers throughout the state. Individual contributions may be placed in boxes at Student Union, the Corner Room, Rath skellar, diners, girls' dormitor ies, and other places in town. The library, which was insti gated by Interfraternity Council, is an attempt to express the gratitude of t'. who realize the heights to which "Prexy" raised the College. All the ballots must be turned in by Saturday in order to have them tabulated in time for the testimonial dinner at Rec Hall on Jan 12. Ballot boxes will be DAILY COLLEGIAN CENTRE DAILY TIMES AWARDS TO THE OUTSTANDING PENN STATE LINEMAN AND BACK My choice for lineman is My choice for back is Ballots should be mailed or taken to CENTRE DAILY TIMES, Box 89, State College, or COL LEGIAN OFFICE, Carnegie Hall, Campus, or dropped in any convenient ballot box in Bellefonte or State College. Higgins, Nolan Request Of 'Dissension, Griping' :.:: 808 HIGGINS Let's Stop Talking • • . And Look Ahead (An open letter to the Daily Collegian from Coach Bob Hig gins and his staff and Co-Cap tain Nolan and his teammates.) To All Good Penn Staters: • We know you've heard a lot of talk about team dissension since the Cotton Bowl game. Some of what you've heard is true. Most of it is not. We know because we've heard a lot of it bouncing back in completely distorted form. Let's just say that both of us made mistakes—the coaches and the team members. We're hu man and we err; and we're be ing honest about that. But the important thing right now is not the past it's the future. Both of us agree that there is absolutely nothing to be gained by further spreading of what happened in Texas. Thare Slate Gels $66,453 From Cotton Bowl DALLAS, Tex., Jan. 6—Penn State's share of the largest mel on in the 12-year history of the Cotton Bowl was $66,453.59, Game Director James V. Stew art announced today. Southern Methodist received $61.453.59, since the first $5,000 of the home team's share auto matically goes to the Southwest Conference. A sell-out crowd of 45,507, in cluding 5,886 student tickets at half price, paid a gross gate of $189.388.53. placed at the office of the Daily Collegian, the office of the Cen tre Daily Times and Student Union. The trophies which will be pre- JOHN NOLAN history, as far as we're con cerned. We want to forget it, and we'd appreciate it if every body else would. Remember there's a Commu nity Banquet coming up in a few days for the team. Towns people and others have poured plenty of time and money into it. Let's not do anything to sour it and to shake their confidence in Penn State football. Instead, why can't we make the banquet a starting point for an era of cooperation and good fellowship? We had a wonderful year, you must remember, and have been talking about another fine year in 1948. So wen, shaking hands all around. W. hopeand know— that you'll get into the spirit of the thing, too. Thanks a lot. Very sincerely. Bob Higgins, (For the Coaching Staff.) John Nolan, co-captain, (For the ENTIRE team) French Film Showing Tonight al Atherton Two , French films entitled "La martine" and "Comedie Avant Moliere" will be shown in the northeast Atherton Hall lounge at 7 o'clock tonight. The Office of Cultural Relations, a French government agency, has furn ished the movies. The film on Moliere deals with the writer's ties with the past and "Lamartine" depicts scenes famil iar to Lamartine's life and in cludes excerpts from his poetry. Anyone interested is invited to attend. sented to winner of the polling are now on display in the Ath letic Store window. Each trophy is a statue of a miniature football player; the linesman trophy is finished in silver while the tro phy for the favorite back is of copper. Both are mounted on a mahogany base. Every member of the Penn State football team is eligible to receive votes. In the votes already received 18 players have been mentioned. All students as well as residents of Centre County are eligible to cast ballots selecting their favorite back and lineman. It is expected that student vot ing will be heavy because of the tremendous interest shown throughout the year at pep ral lies and grid games. County vot ing so far has been heavy too— most of it being mailed to the Centre Daily Times office. The Centre Daily Times and the Daily Collegian which are the co-sponsors of the balloting and the trophies are doing it solely fur the purpose 01 giving added FIVE CENTS Stoppage Rumor By ALLAN W. OSTAR Head coach Bob Higgins, rep resenting the coaching staff, and co-captain John Nolan, spokes man for the Lion football squad, last night signed an open letter indicating their desire to bring to a close discussion over team coach dissension. Nolan signed for the squad since the other co captain, John Potsklan, has not returned to campus from his home. The letter which is printed on this page was submitted through the efforts of the Daily Collegian to clarify reports of dissension on the Cotton Bowl trip. These re ports have received widt pub licity. Nolan said last night that he was "sorry the situation had gotten so far out of hand. Everything is too distorted for anyone to be lieve anything." Higgins said that statements which had been attributed to him by press associations and news papers throughout the state were entirely erroneous. Some• of these statements quoted Higgins as in dicting the whole squad for bick ering and dissension. He denied singling out wingback Jeff Dur kota as a ringleader and trouble maker. "I realize that mistakes were made both by myself and the squad, but don't forget that we were inexperienced in making bowl trips. Things would be done differently if we had to do it over again," Higgins said. The trouble arose over gripes by team members over such things as no laundry service after it had been promised, poor food which was served in the Dallas Naval Air Station where the team was quartered, the denial of suf ficient privileges to permit the players to visit Dallas, and the lack of entertainment at the base. As a result of these complaints the players jumped the fence surrounding the air station and went into Dallas without per mission. As for Durkota being singled out as the main troublemaker, Nolan and other players stated that the big wingback didn't do anything that the other 39 members of the squad didn't do. Wally Triplett, Nolan, and other players took exception with the statement in yesterday's Cen tre Daily Times which said that a minority of Penn State football players apparently were not will ing to make sacrifices for their Negro teammates. The players stated that their rooms at the air station were excellent, but that they weren't given enough free dom to visit Dallas. Lineman recognition to the Penn State grid team and its players. Coach Bob Higgins, who guid ed the '47 grid combine to nine straight victories and a 13-13 tic against a favored SMU elever in the Cotton Bown has en dorsed the idea of the balloting Says Higgins: "I thin:: it is a fin( idea if it is handled right." When voting for the players students are asked to consider outstanding play throughout thi entire season and not just on( or two games. 0,1. opinion: should be expressed and not som( newspaper columnist's. The choice will be a hard on, as Coach Higgins stated: "On m: squad of 40 players, one felluv performs just as well as the next It is difficult to single out an: stars on my squad." Final results of the voting wil be announced at the Commerc-. Club-sponsored banquet at Hoc Hall next Monday night and re sults of the balloting will b published in next Tuesday's Col. legian as well as in the Ceittrs Daily Times.
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