ti /\ r^r> Head Coach 8008 HIGGINS ’4B Lion Gridmen Strive To Uphold Top ’47 Record Showered with rave notices from the leading critics and football prognosticators in the country, Coach Bob Higgins is rehearsing his cast of “Penn State Grid Capades of ’4B” for the opening performance against Bucknell October 2. Nineteen letter winners from last year’s Cotton Bowl squad are cast in the main roles while 41 other candidates are vying daily to find a place on the team listed by one sportscaster as “ . . bowl-bound on a rollicking schedule.” Unbeaten in ten games last year, the Lions have a wealth of backfield material to bolster last year's record of 363.8 yards per game through land and air. El wood Petchel, who picked up 581 yards in last year’s encounters to lead the Lions’ offensive thrust, heads the list of luminaries. Cap tain-elect Joe Colone, a phenom enal punter, will lead the smash ing single wing attack from the fullback spot, with Francis Rogel and Pete Gorinski taking turns at grinding the opposition into the turf. The tailback position is flush with speedy, shifty ball carriers. Along with the “Flying Frag ment” Petchel. Coach Higgins has wing-footed Larry Joe who was credited with last season’s longest run, a 95-yard touchdown jaunt against Bucknell in the opening game. Another scoring threat in the tailback spot is Bill Luther, 175- THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA Line Coach .. >*«. : la tL- JOE BEDENK nound gridder from Osceola Mills. Luther averaged 4.5 yards on each run last year, completed six of twelve passes, and ran a total of 186 varrls on 41 tries to share ground-«aimng honors with Petchel. and Rogel. In the wingback nosition two lettermen, Larry Cooney and Wally Triplett, will handle the side sweeps and reverses that helped raise the Nittanv gridders to the top bracket of national football last season. Triolett. who snared the tving touchdown nass in the 1948 Cotton Bowl thriller, is noted for his delusive play in the secondary ranks. Also outstanding in the Cotton Bowl fray, Larry Cooney, a Pittsburgh product, is exoected to repeat his snarklmg performance in this year’s battles. Clearing the oaths for the run ning backs will be the duty of 215-pound blocking back Charles End Coach EARL EDWARDS Drazenovich. “Chuck.” who is listed as the iron man of the squad, went 60 minutes against Navy in the 1947 battle and missed less than a minute in the Southern Methodist tussle. During the winter Drazeno vich joined the boxing team and "'on the Intercollegiate Boxing Association’s h'-.-w'weight title. LOSSES Graduations slashed into the forward wall of the 1947 Lion team and only three of the seven “Nittanv Mountains” answered the 1948 roll call. Biggest gao in the line is the tackle nosition where John Finlev. Don Murray and Rob Ross will trv to fill the snot left by John Nolan. Neeley Norton is slated for the other tackle post. The guard position vacated by All-American Steve Suhey is eagerly sought by five solid can didates including lettermen Paul Kelly, from Erie, and John Simon, from Brownsville. The other guard post is re served for letter-winner Joe Dra zenovich. Chuck’s brother and a perpetual headache to the oppos ing team’s runners. Acting as an understudy for John Woloskv last season. Charles Beattv will aim for the center slot this year. Beatty is a rugged first-team gridder but Coach Hig gins is groomin< T Ken Bunn, Ray Hedderick and Bob McCoy as re lief men for the bruising posi tion. A strong point on the Lion raster is the end position. Three nass-snagging, hard-hitting ter minal men returned from the 1947 first and second teams and at least a half dozen others are trying to find a spot on the first eleven. (Continued on page five) Wleetcka at Ifefore classes slarl and after that first 8 o’clock, meet your date at If & D’s . . . “Your handout” for food ’n’ fun. Gather ’round— the place is yours for the asking. REA DERICK'S Backfie/d Coach Ass't Line Coach Predirtions As it did last year, the Daily Collegian will present through out the football season the weekly forecasts of Joe Har ris which appear in newspap ers in 28 states. His initial pre dictions will appear in Fri day’s issue. Grid Ticket Sale Begins First public sole of tickets for the Penn State-Bucknell football game will open tomorrow at the Athletic Office, first floor, Old Main. Harold R. Gilbert, graduate manager of athletics, announced that only Bucknell tickets will be olaced on sale at this time. The Athletic Office ticket win dow will be open daily beginning Thursday from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p. m., and reserved seats only will be sold at $3 each, tax included. Students will be admitted to all Nittanv home football games by presentation of Athletic Asso ciation ticket books. Season football tickets, inaugu rated this year for faculty and staff members at the College, have been completely sold out, Gilbert said. Pitcher Hurls No-Hit Game In the Summer Sessions soft ball tournament, Don Baldwin, member of Pi Kappa Alpha, hurled a no-hit, no-run game for his fraternity team. In defeating Beta Sigma Rho.. Baldwin exhibited near-perfect control as he issued only one walk in seven innings and allow ed just one opposing player to reach third base. Three Beta Sig batsmen reach ed the base paths by virtue of PiKA errors. Baldwin is now a graduate. Facilities! In the late 80’s the gymnasium at Penn State consisted of some rings and parallel bars in the woods back of Old Main. •» • WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 22. 194$ JIM O'HORA Between Liens ESslffi’ By Vom Morgan Sports Editor Whiskers “Even though we’re in the mountains, we don’t have to look like mountain boys!” —That’s one of a storm of ver bal broadsides being hurled at Charles (Chuck) Drazenovich, of Brownsville. Nittany Lion block ing back, by his coaches and football teammates. He’s sport ing a splendid catch of chin whis kers and the three - week - old brush gracing his chin is draw ing fire from all sides. Yielding to the pressure. Chuck is reportedly going to shave off the forest today,- al though he mav wait "until I get around to it." Incidentally, the rug a e d Lion's back has been bother ing him, and he pulled a leg muscle or two in early calis thenics on New Beaver Field. Nothing serious, though. Woes On the current infirmary list as a result of Blue and White pre season football scrimmages are the injured Lions Lloyd Amprim, end; Albert Peluso, center (who had just recovered fully from a broken wrist); Ray Hedderick, center; Jack Storer, end, and Pete Chiesa. guard. Charles "Jiggs" Bealty, num ber-one center for the Higgins men. is Sidelined temporarily with a briused thigh. Beatty, by the way, reported for' pre season grid drills 20 pounds under last year's weight, 210, but is steadily gaining and is now crowding 200. Well , You Here Too? On the roster of the Boston Yanks, National pro football outfit, are two guys who were at each other’s throats as oppo nents in last New Year’s Cotton Bowl. John Nolan, ex-Nittany Lion tackle, and Earl Cook, ’47 SMU guard, are now battling for the same team, under Coach dinner Smith. Smith plugs Nolan as a pos sible "Pro Rookie of the Year." Also a Boston Yank is Frank "Moose" Muehlheuser, 30, full back from Colgate. He saw ac tion against the NBlany Lions last season and had a year of collegiate eligibility left before jumping to the pro ranks. Smltttj and Jdowdy P„Jui That the turtle neck pullover will be a 8.M.0.C. on the campus this year and a favorite of the hatmen and coeds alike. The Young Men's Shop has them in gray, yellow, blue, green, and white, at the low price of 2.95. YOUNG MEN'S SHOP 127 S. ALLEN ST. v&'&v&iS
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