•''HE FOtm Underdog Nattany Lions Face Powerful Spartan Grid Team The chips are clown, the cards are dealt, and now rival coaches Clarence “Biggie” Munn of Michigan State and Robert Higgins of Penn State will pick up their eleven-card hands and try to arrange them into a winning combination for Saturday’s homecoming fray. For the first time since the opening of the Nittany Lion season the Penn State squad will run on New Beaver Field as the underdog, ratea from five to 19 points weaker than the visiting Spar tans. Assistant Line Coach Jim O’Hora, who scouted the Green and White gri ciders against Mich igan, Notre Dame and Arizona, outlined to Head .. Coach Higgins the reasons for the high rating of Coach Munn’s 18: “fe • team. J “Their line is >• very strong and 4 JS& Mb there are equal- \ F Jam ly strong re placements for every position,” he stated. “In TAMBURO Warren Huey. their 200-pound end, Michigan State has a very aggressive charger and an excellent pass catcher.” GUERRE “As for George Guerre, he’s as good as his press notices and he excells in end runs and sweeps. They use a ‘T’ formation and shift into a single wing for most of their plays,” he continued. “When passing they stay in the ‘T’ and Eugene Click does the work from the quarterback spot.” “We’ll have to watch Guerre even on the defense,” the Nit tany coach warned. “He plays in the safety position and when he receives the ball on punts, he’s very dangerous.” Coach O’Hora described Lynn Chandnois as a fast runner on reverses and an excellent passer m. s. can mean "MICHIGAN STATE" or "MONEY , SAVED"^ ♦The money you save on Clothing at Factory-to-You-Prices SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY OFFER MEN'S 2-PANTS SUITS $2B Deluxe Worsted and Gabardine SUITS AND TOPCOATS $35. Pennshire Clothes PHILIPSBURG. PA. Factory Salesroom Open Daily 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. By Elliot Krane from the single wing. The Spar tans specialize in long running plays with Huey, Guerre and John Gilman, an end, doing the receiving. Coach Higgins will be shy two aces when he makes his opening jlay Saturday. Both Negley Nor on and Joe forazenovich will not start in the first crucial test of Mittany power. “We’ll use Dra- for limited service dur ing the game,” said Coach Hig 'ins. “but Norton won’t even get dressed.” “I’ll start Hicks and Tamburo at the ends, Don Murray and John Finley at the tackles, John Simon and Paul Kelly at guards and Chuck Beatty at center.” the Nittany mentor continued. “The starting backfield will nave Wally Triplett and Joe Co lone in it but the other two posi dons will depend upon whether we kick or receive.” In the Eastern Lambert Trophy ;rid race, the Lions moved up to within one point of top-place Army. The Cadets earned 984 noints in the poll conducted by writers, coaches and broadcasters while the Penn State squad col lected 983. Spartan. Harriers Favored Because of the large crowd expected at the football game, the time of tomorrow’s cross-country meet with Michigan State has been set forward to 11 a.m., Harold R. Gilbert, graduate manager of athletics, announced yesterday. Gilbert explained the action was taken to prevent the crowd from interfering with the progress of the race. The harriers will start and finish on the New Beaver Field track. The Lions, defending NCAA champions, will attempt to withstand the onslaught of the Spartan team which most cross-country authorities have agreed is the finest in' the nation, and which is favored to take this year’s NCAA title at East Lansing later in the year. Coach Chick Werner is frank ly pessimistic about his team’s chances against the Green and White harriers. “On paper,” he commented, the Spartans look like the best cross country team in the na tion. If we can upset them it will surprise not only me, but also most of the country’s other cross country bigwigs.” News from East Lansing cer- Take Your MEALS MARILYN HALL 317 E. Beaver Ave. WEEKLY RATES With or Without Breakfast Good Food Served Promptly at 12:15 and 5:30 BOARD & ROOM for Married Couples lWh«n Rooms Are Available) Reservations being taken to till vacancies as they occur this semester and next semester. Inquire at 317 E. Beaver Ave. Ask for Mr. Peterson or Mrs. Ellcartl. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA DELUXE SPEEDSTER As on e of the fastest starting backs in Michigan Stale history, husky George GuerTe will to morrow try to duplicate sensa tional feats of ‘46 against the Nillany Lions. tainly seems to give Werner ample grounds for such pessism. Two of Coach Karl Schlade men’s runners broke an NCAA course' record in time trials run last Friday to determine the Spartans who would make the trip for tomorrow’s duel. Bill Mack, former Drake Uni versity star who is now eligible to compete in varsity competition for the Green and White, raced around the four-mile course in the outstanding time of 20:49.3, cracking the NCAA mark by 13.7 seconds. Warren Druetzler, last year’s freshman mile sensation, also bettered the National Collegiate mark finishing in 20:58. Sopho more Tom Irmon was third in BREAK RECORDS Tennis Deadline All intramural tennis, first and second round matches are to be played off and reported to the intramural office before next Wednesday, announced Eugene C. Bischoff, director oi intramural athletics yesterday PiKA Defeats AGR'S in IM * With “Big” Jack Platt catching passes all over the gridiron, Pi Kappa Alpha easily defeated Al pha Gamma Rho, 18-0, on New Beaver practice field Wednesday night. Theta Kappa Phi knocked off Delta Chi, 1-0, and Alpha Chi Rho bounced Beta Sigma Rho, 6-0, in the other fraternity games. The Penn State Club defeated Trostle’s Hot Dogs, 6-0, in the independent battle. Led by the passing of Don Baker and Jack Sheehe, Phi Delta Theta boomed to a first-half three-touchdown lead over Alpha Phi Delta, then coasted to win, 19-0, in the third game at New Beaver practice field Tuesday. The Hot Rocks piled up 12 points and shut out Cody Manor in one'of the other games, but Sigma Chi and Theta Chi found the route into the third round a little rougher. Sigma Chi edged Alpha Tau Omega 1-0, and Theta Chi scored once to beat Chi Phi. 6-0. Monday, the third round begins .'.hen Sigma Pi meets Delta Up silon, Alpha Zeta tangles with Phi Epsilon Pi, the Dorm 40 Demons tackle p enn Haven, anti Tau Kappa Epsilon meets Alpha Epsilon Pi. 21:04, one second off the rec ord time. Besides the three boys men tioned, Jack Dianneti, who estab lished quite a reputation as both a miler and cross country run ner; Clark Athceson, Capt. Bob Sewell, and a pair of identical twins, Ed and Don Makielski, will be included in the eight-man Spartan contingent. Despite the heavy odds against the home team, the Nittany coach considers his team one of the country's finest. ‘This team is better than the one which annexed last year’s NCAA title,” he stated. “Our boys have yet to be beaten, and Michigan State will have to cap ture tomorrow’s meet before we’ll admit defeat.” FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1948 between The JByW Linns By TOM MORGAN Sports K'litor Crowd-Catcher We elbowed our way through the collegiate crowd on South Allen yesterday to see what the center of interest was. It turned out to be a Detroit Free Press clipping attached to Graham's window and was a provocative football piece written by Dick Peters about George Guerre, topnolch Spar tan back. Reference to “trembling Nit tany Valley fans previous to the invasion of Guerre and Com pany” stirred the fellow on my left to comment, “You’d think Penn State was gonna field elev en croquet players, the way that sounds.” Unknown to most of my colleagues vying with each other for a better look at the clipping, Peters preppep for his Detroit sports writing by heating out deathless prose as Daily Collegian sports editor in '4O-'4l. He’ll return to his alma mater to witness tomorrow’s fray. " Chumba" Returns Incidentally, the clipping was sent to Graham’s by John ■‘Chumba” Misiewicz, last year’s number-two Nittany center, who is now a student engineering trainee in Pontiac Division of General Motors, Pontiac, Mich igan. From Miss Lois Kreamer, of College Placement Service, we learn that "Chumba," who'll also be here tomorrow, "lakes an awful beating at work from his Michigan friends and may iust as well not return to work if Penn State loses." Guerre-Gary " “Little Dynamite” Guerre and his buddies will invade State College this afternoon and later retire to overnight headquarters at Lewistown, home of Bob Mc- Curry. Spartan captain. Fred Stabley, Michigan Stale publicity director and another Penn Slate alumnus, says Guerre's name is pronounced like the city of Gary, Indiana. From the Morg(ue) The score on Lion Guard Tom Smi th after the West Vir ginia tussle is—lost, one tooth: gained, one black eye. Over 300 radio stations are ex ceeded to carry tomorrow’s Spar tan-Lion clash. . . . Penn State blanked Syracuse, 9-0, during Clarence “Biggie” Munn’s one year term as Orange coach in ’46. . . . Forrest Evasheski, Munn’s assistant, also was on the Orange staff in ’46. John Nolan and Steve Suhey, Lion stalwarts of last season, found themselves opposite each other Sunday when the Boston Yanks tangled with Pitts burgh Sleelers. E WARNER BROTHERS ATHAUM MIP'TIGHT SHOW FRIDAY Doors Open at 11:30
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