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Lions Prime for Penn Thriller,
Leave Today in Top Condition
in top condition and determined to blast the University of Penn
sylvania football team out of the national football picture, the Nit
tany gridders will leave State College this evening after a final
pre-game warmup on New Beaver field.
With the announcement that the stellar Lion tackle, Negley
Norton, is back in the lineup after a two-week healing period for
his injured shoulder, .the team will enter tomorrow's game at 11111
strength.
Avoiding heavy duty blocking
and tackling, Coach Bob Higgins
ran his charges through strenu
ous practice sessions Tuesday and
Wednesday nights and will taper
off with a light signal drill in to
night's final practice.
PENN
In the enemy camp, Penn Coach
George Munger, set to topping a
Higgins-coached team for the
first time gave his Quaker eleven
a heavy practice schedule for the
early part of the week. Empha
sizing the Nittany single-wing
offensive, Coach Munger also pre
pared his team for an aerial at
tack expected to come from Lion
passer Elwood Petchel.
In the eleven years Munger has
coached the Red and Blue, he has
never had a poor season. His
teams have won 60 games and
lost 20.
Coach Higgins will try to keep
Munger's record of never having
beaten a Penn State team intact
by sending against the Philadel
phia foes a one-two punch in the
person of Wally Triplett and
Elwood Petchel.
Averaging 11.7 yards per carry,
Triplett is the leading ground
gainer on the Nittany eleven. In
just 40 tries the fleet-footed
Lamott wingback has rolled up
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475 yards to lead the Lions in
total offense.
PETCHEL
Petchel is the kingpin in the
Nittany aerial attack with a rec
ord of 34 completions in 80 tosses
for 414 yards. Only three of the
"Flying Fragment's" passes have
been intercepted, while eight of
them went for touchdowns.
A sell-out crowd of more than
80,000 is expected to see the clash
this Saturday. Although the Lions
played in two bowl games prev
ious to this contest billed as the
"Coal Boal," the Franklin Field
audience is expected to break all
attendance records in Penn State
history.
Last year's Cotton Bowl crowd,
restricted to 47,000 because of the
size of the stadium and the ,1925
Rose Bowl audience of 55,000 are
both well under the figure pre
dicted for tomorrow's grid classic.
Ski Managers
Candidates for assistant mana
gerships for skiing are asked to
sign up at the Athletic office, 107
Old Main, as soon as possible.
to the point
Through the courtesy of Joe Harris, nationally-known football
predictor, we present his selections for this week's grid games.
In the country's top pairing of the week, Harris sees Penn State
defeating Penn, 14-7.
Predictions follow, with probable winners listed at the left
Cincinnati-Miami
Arkansas-Rice
Army-Stanford
Bucknell-Wash-Jeff.
California-UCLA
Clemson-Furman
Cornell-Colgate
Dartmouth-Columbia ....
Georgia Tech-Tennessee .
Holy Cross-Duquesne
Illinois-lowa
Maryland-South Carolina
Michigan State-Marquette
Michigan-Navy
Minnesota-Purdue
Mississippi State-Auburn
Mississippi-Chattanooga .
Nebraska-Kansas State ..
North Carolina-W&M
Northwestern-Wisconsin
Notre Dame-Indiana
Ohio State-Pittsburgh ...
Oregon State-Wash. State
MINERAL INDUSTRY & PHYSICAL EDUCATION
SENIOR PHOTOS
All 7th & Bth SEMESTER SENIORS in the Schools of
Mineral Industry and Physical Education
will have their picture taken NOVEMBER 8-13
for the 1949 LA VIE You are advised to appear
early in the week for your photo at the Penn State
Photo Shop. You must have your picture taken
during this week if you are enrolled in the Schools
of Mineral Industry and Physical Education.
ABSOLUTELY NO SENIOR PICTURES
WILL BE TAKEN
AFTER THIS SPECIFIED TIME
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Football Forecast
IM Games Monday
Semi-final games in the in
tramural touch-football leagues
will be played at New Beaver
practice field Monday night,
rring further inclement
weather, the intramural office
announced yesterday.
Phi Delta Theta and Phi Sig
ma Kappa open festivities at
the field when they tangle at
7:45 p.m.
At 8:15 p.m., Dorm 24 and
Penn Haven will replay the ex
tra period of last week's score
less deadlock The winner of
this game w remain on the
field to meet the Hot Rocks im
mediately afterward.
Lambert Race
T:le Nittany Lions, winner of
the Lambert Trophy last season,
are currently holding down the
runner-up position with Penn.
Both have a 980-point total as
compared to the 987 points that
Army's Black Knights have rolled
up to lead the Eastern grip
powers.
Dartmouth, boosted by its de
cisive Victory over Yale, was next
with 976 points while Pitt, the
Lions' opponent two weeks hence,
was fifth with 975 points.
Oregon-Washington 20- 7
Penn State-Penn 14- 7
Princeton-Harvard 14- 7
Rutgers-Lafayette ~. 20- 7
SMU-Texas A&M 34- 7
Temple-Syracuse 14- 7
Texas-Baylor
Tulane-VMI
Vanderbilt-LUS 20- 7
Villanova-Kentucky 20-14
West Virginia-Ohio
Nevada-Santa Clara 34-14
Chi. Bears-L.A. Rams 28- 7
Chi. Cards-Detroit Lions 31-21
Green Bay-Pitts. Stealers 17- 7
Phila.Eagles-N.Y. Giants 28- 7
Redskins-Boston Yanks . , 35-14
Buffalo Bills-Brooklyn ... 24-14
Cleveland Browns-Baltimore 35-7
N.Y. "anks-L.A. Dons . . 21-14
San Francisco-Chi. Rockets 28-14
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1948
Between
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The
Lions
By Tom Morgan
SPORTS EDITOR
Concerning Reality
Nittany Lion Coach Bob Hig
gins faces facts squarely. A re
port that an opposing football
team is loaded three-deep in po
tential starters is as real to him
as a sore thumb.
That's why he says. "They say
we're going to have to play bet
ter than we have in the past to
win over Penn. But I think
and the boys on the team do too—
that we can."
Gallop Better Gallop
Hum Fishburn, Blue Band di
rector, came up with a classic
quip at the Wednesday Quarter
back Club meeting. With one of
the country's biggest election up
sets assured an hour earlier and
a score of pollsters across the na
tion red-faced, Fishburn asked of
Coach Higgins:
'And what is Gallop's predic
tion on the outcome of Penn-Penn
State?"
Pads Are Key •
Through these last five weeks of
Lion football practices, we've
learned that the layman can draw
a fair indication of who's going
to be able to play in the week
end game by observing who is
wearing shoulder pads during
Thursday sessions on New Beav
er field.
For the first time since the open
er with Bucknell, Penn State will
be in something resembling top
shape for tomorrow's tussle. Al
lah be prilsecli
On Griessi Team
Which brings us around to Doc
Griess' team.
Among Nittany Lion gridders, a
player is said to be a member of
Doc Griess' team when he be
comes injured and is sidelined.
Too often this season this "team"
of Dr. Alfred Griess, Nittany Lion
physician, has grown until it
made serious inroads on playing
strength of the Higginsmen.
But, for the most part, no Lion
has spent too much time on the
shelf—except one.
He's Albert Peluso. injured Nit
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