The daily collegian. (University Park, Pa.) 1940-current, November 12, 1948, Image 6

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    PAGE SIX
Hig Recalls Mudfest,
Starts Top Lion Team
Remembering last year's narrow victory over a poorly-rated
Temple eleven, Coach Bob Higgins will inject the same high-powered
attack into tomorrow's game against the Owls that was used to bring
the Nittany gridders' undefeated streak to 16 straight contests last
week.
In last year's close call, the Lions were listed as 20-point favorites
to crush the weak Philadelphia team, but the handicappers didn't
allow for Jupe Pluvius who turn
ed the field into a quagmire.
A "sleeper" play in the first half
lmost netted the Owls a touch
own, but the Lions held the Tern
lars scoreless. Not until the third
uarter was the highly - favored
'enn State able to scrape together
9 yards in 16 plays for the only
larker of the game. Bobby Wil
ams scored the TD and Ed Czekaj
'f'ked the point.
YARDAGE
Should the weatherman give the
)od to the Nittany team, the Penn
tate backs will have a chance to
lie up additional yardage to their
'ready heavy tallies.
Little Elwood Petchel leads the
arade this week with 632 yards
. 1 total offense, while Wally Trip
-At paces ground gainers with 390
ards.
Blockbusting Fran Rogel picked
ip 75 yards and two touchdowns
n last week's victory over Penn
o boost his season's total to 340
- ards. Tailback Bill Luther with
' 67 yards and 'Captain Joe Colone
•pith 107 yards complete the list of
he top five offensive leaders of
he week.
Although he dropped from his
arly October average of almost
5 yards per try, Triplett still av
crages 8.3 yards on every carry to
I^.ad the Nittany backs in that de
partment. Pet chel averages 5.8
yards each time he handles the
ball and Rogel and Luther average
a little over four.
PERCENTAGE
Throwing nine scoring passes,
Petchel completed over 50 percent
of his tosses for 560 yards in 75
Attempts. With one scoring flip and
:wo - thirds of his passes hitting
'heir marks, Bill Luther gained
L 5 yards for the Lions in their first
iix games.
The team as a whole has march-
11 SPOTLIGHT on SPORTS
By HUR'S MEN'S SHOP
NICKNAMES IN FOOTBALL
Do you know your "names" in
football? Most everyone remem
bers some, like the Four Horse
men of Notre
lame—Jim
Crowley, Harr y
Stuhldreher, El
mer Layden, and
Don Miller. The
famlus num
ber 77 was worn
by the Galloping
Ghost—Red
Grange. The
Fordham line of 1936 was called
The Seven Blocks of Granite. Do
you remember "Automatic Jack"
—Jack Menders? How about Lit
tle Boy Blue (Albie Booth) and
riloomy Gil (Gilmour Dobie)?
!snow you'll guess this one: Mr.
Tnside and Mr. Outside Doc
illanchard and Glenn Davis of
Nrmy. "Bed News" was George
Cafego of Tennessee.
Some of the later day greats
are to be remembered by such
names as Slingirr✓ Sammy Baugh,
Pitching Paul Christman, Whiz
zer White. Waddy Young, and
many others.
Coaches, too, are well remem
')ered by their nicknames. There's
Glenn "Pop" Warner, "Biff"
Jones, Leo "Dutch" Mey e r,
"Hurry Up" Yost, "Buck" Shaw,
"Doc" Stevens, and many others.
Names like these add much to
the color of the sport and the
memory of its great players. How
many more greats can you name
by nickname?
Can you name the nationally
advertised brands of merchandise
that you'll find at the Hur's
Men's Shop? There's Society
Brand Suits, Worsted-Tex Suits,
Adam Hats, Nelson-Paige Shirts,
Wings Shirts, to name a few.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
808 ROSS
Lion Tackle
ed up and down the gridiron for
1877 yards in six games, 1223 yards
on the ground and 658 in the air.
Holding opposition to a total of
1179 yards, the Nittany eleven al
lowed its six opponents 611 yards
on the ground and 568 yards in the
air.
DRAZ
Running interference for the
string of ground - gaining backs
will be 60-minute, 214 - pound
Chuck Drazenovich, who played
120 minutes in the crucial Michi
gan State and Penn Battles.
The line that held Penn to 28
yards last week Sam Tamburo
and Bob Hicks at ends, Negley
Norton and John Finley at tackles,
John Simon and Joe Drazenovich
at guards and Chuck Beatty at
center will line up against the
Owls in tomorrow's encounter.
Slated to see action in the de
fensive backfield will be Larry
Cooney and Rip Scherer, while on
the line, ends John Smidansky and
Dennie Hoggard, tackles Don
Murray and Bob Ross, guards
Paul Kelly, Joe Sarabok, Tom
Smith and Fred Felbaum, and
centers Ken Bunn and Ray Hed
derick are listed for relief duty.
Take Your
MEALS
' at
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
When Rooms Are Available)
Reservations being taken to fill
vacancies as they occur this
semester and next semeateT.
Inquire at 317 E. Beaver
Ave. Ask for Mr. Peterson
or Mrs. El!card.
Ski Call
New candidates for the ski
team are requested to register
in 107 Old Main immediate
ly and call Bob Boedecker at
4957.
Phi Ep's Break
Relay Mark Again
A. spectacular Phi Epsilon Pi
:clay team, competing against
time as well as opponents, raced
to another record in the 120 yard
relay at Glennland pool yester
day.
The new mark, 1:02.3, clips an
'ther .3 second off the mark set
by the same team Wednesday,
and is a full second shorter than
the record last year.
Allen Goldenberg, Jerry Wei
ser, Murray Rozetsky, and Dave
Magaziner collaborated to set the
new record as Phi Epsilon Pi ov
erwhelmed Phi Gamma Delta, 27-
14. and moved into the finals
scheduled for 5 p.m. Monday.
The other finalist, Pi Kappa
Phi barely edged its way into the
Monday meet. The Pi Kap's won
aver a tough Sigma Pi outfit, 21-
20.
Yadasz Picks 7 & 3;
Morgan Leads Yogi
Although George Vadasz luck
ily picked seven of ten winners in
the Daily Collegian's grid yogi
contest to pace the four prognos
ticators for the week. Sports Edi
tor Tom Morgan with six right
and four wrong paced the seven
week-old contest with a .716
average.
Elliot Krane also picked six
and four to deadlock with Vadasz
for second spot with a .703 aver
age while Red Roth batted .500
with five and five to hang on to
the bottom rung of the ladder
with a .604 average.
Football Forecast
Joe Harris, football predictor of national standing, foresees Penn
toppling Army in one of this week's best games. His accuracy per
centage last week was 83.7, which was 3.9 per cent better than his
record over the season.
Selections follow, with probable winners listed at the left
Oregon - UCLA
Villanova - Georgetown ....27- 7
Boston C. - Wm. & Mary ...20-13
Brown - Harvard 20- 7
California - Wash. State ....27- 0
Colgate - Syracuse 7- 0
Columbia - Navy 27-20
Cornell - Dartmouth 14- 7
Georgia Tech - Alabama ...27- 7
Georgia - Auburn 34- 7
Kansas - Kansas State 40- 0
Kentucky - Florida 20- 7
Michigan State - lowa State 34- 7
Michigan - Indiana 28- 0
Minnesota - lowa
Mississippi State - LSU ....27-14
Mississippi - Tennessee ....20- 7
North Carolina - Maryland..2B- 7
Notre Dame - Northwestern 27- 7
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Booters Seek
;Sixth Win;
Meet Cornell
A seventeen-man contingent of
booting Jeffreymen will be gun
ning for its sixth triumph in
seven outings when it faces off
against a much improved Cor
nell soccer unit at Ithaca, N. Y.,
tomorrow afternoon.
Early in the season Cornell
scored a 2-2 deadlock against
Navy, a team that routed the
Nittanymen by a 4-0 count. Last
weekend Cornell narr ow 1 y
squeezed by Colgate, 1-0, while
two weeks ago the Jeffreymen
triumphed over Colgate, 4-2.
STARTING LINEUP
The Lion s' versatile soccer
powerhouse will field the same
starting lineup that has inaugu
rated the last two soccer battles.
At the halfback position Jef
frey is standing pat on the trio
that has started all six campaigns
this season. Diminutive Ralph
Hosterman at center halfback
will be flanked by Bill Kraybill
on the left and speedy Dick
Hanna on the right.
Handling the offensive chores
for the soccer Lions will be hard
driving Clarence Buss at center
forward and accurate-passing Ted
Lieb at outside left. Veteran Hal
Hackman will flank the other
side of the forward line at out
side right.
Dapper Dean Witmer, scorer of
two goals in last week's contest,
is slated for inside right duty,
while accurate-shooting and of
fensive-minded Harry Little will
fill in at inside left.
MARGOLF, TAUCHER
Chuck IViargolf will handle one
of the fullback positions with
the hard-booting Frank Taucher
receiving the nod at the other
defensive spot. Goalie Ed Taggert
will wield the big defensive toe
for the Statemen.
Ohio State - Illinois 20-14
Oklahoma - Nebraska 27- 7
Penn State - Temple 34- 0
Penn - Army 20- 7
Princeton - Yale 27- 7
Purdue - Pitt 20- 7
Southern Cal. - Washington 20-14
SMU - Arkansas 27- 7
Texas A & M - Rice 4..27-14
Texas - TCU 20- 7
Tulane - Baylor 20- 7
Virginia - West Virginia ....20- 7
Wake Forest - Clemson ... .20-13
Chicago Cards - Pitt Steelers 21- 7
Phila. Eagles - Boston Yanks 28- 7
Cleve. Browns - San Fran. ..24-14
Movie Magnets
Taking play-by-play movies of
all Nittany football games this
year are Lacrosse Coach Nick
Thiel and Ray Conger, director of
recreational activities. The mo
vies form an integral part of the
coaching staff's weekly program
for the football squad.
WESTMINSTER FOUNDATION
Cabin Group This Weekend
Sign list on Bulletin Board.
Return after luncheon Sunday afternoon.
Recreation Worship Corporate Sharing
of Christian Fellowship.
Student Department
Sunday, 9:30 A.M., will meet in the Fireside Room.
Shirley Peet, leader in worship.
Westminster Fellowship ,
Fireside Room.
Sposker Curtis Stone, member .of the 1948 Olympic
Team will tell of his impressions, followed
by question period.
"I live in a small house but my windows
look out on a very large world."
—Chinese proverb.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1948
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Wide Open
Coach Ra y Morrison, who
brings an underdog Temple elev
en to State College tomorrow,
was the instigator, more or less,
of the wide-open brand of foot
ball that is associated with the
Southwest.
His greatest success was achiev
ed at Southern Methodist, where
he developed a passing game that
set the style for all Southwestern
teams and brought about,the ulti
mate. development. of. Sammy
Baugh, Davey O'Brien, Doak Wal
ker, Bobby Lane an d other
thread-needle chuckers in the
Lone Star State.
Morrison, who had gone to
SMU from Vanderbilt, showed
football-minded fans, as well as
the coaches in that section, that
it was much less work and cer
tainly more spectacular to score
touchdowns on long passes.
Duby Does It
He has a player on his Temple
squad who, they tell us, can hold
his own with any passer when it
comes to uncoiling his arm and
letting the ball go for 50 or SO
yards. He's Paul Dubenetsky,
who is not nimble-footed else he
would play regularly.
Instead he's a spot performer,
and whenever the situation calls
for a long-distance aerial tomor
row, we look for Dubenetzky to
show. According to the official
"drum-beater" for Temple, he
tosses the pigskin as if it were a
baseball.
Variety
Morrison, by the way, has re
turned this year to the single
wingback style of attack, He em
ployed it successfully over the
years but dropped it several sea
sons ago because the "T" forma
tion suited his material better.
But he hasn't tossed the "T"
out completely. He also gives his
quarterbacks instructions to run
some stuff from that, too, in ad
dition to the winged-"T." The lat
ter combines features of both the
"T" and single wing, so dear
knows what we'll see tomorrow
on the New Beaver stripes.
Faux Pas
We confess, after viewing mo
vies of the Penn-Penn State fray.
We were one of those press-box
creatures who were caught with
their glasses down when Francis
Rogel bulled through Penn for 44
yards and a touchdown.
Films of the game leave us red
faced in showing clearly that
"Punchy" bulled ,through—n o t
Chuck Bednarik—as we thought
but a couple tacklers on the
strong side of the Quaker line.
Bednarik backed up the weak
side, and was completely out of
the play.
We draw a paltry picayune of
solace from the fact that we
weren't the only one to commit
the faux pas.
1111%'M X
By Torn Morgan
SPORTS EDITOR