L•At.;l!.. Gridders Push Point Total Over 200-Mark The Nittany Lion scoring attack, partially held in check for the first six gridiron games, flashed past the 200-mark with Saturday's 47-point spree to boost the season's total to 212 points against seven opponents. It is the twelfth time since 1887 that a Penn State football team had surpassed the 200-mark in scoring. Largest total amassed by any Lion team was the 348 points recorded by the 1916 out fit in ten games. LEADER Fran Rogel took the scoring lead for the undefeated Lions with 42 points which include 71 yards on the ground for five touchdowns an d two scoring catches covering 20 yards. The smashing fullback's total of 394 yards in 96 carries gives him an average of 4.2 yards per carry in the seven games played so far this season Leading th e team in total offense with an average of 7.6 yards per carry, W a 11 y Triplett crossed the goal line si x times for 36 points Sprinting 54 yards against West Virginia, 46 against Syracuse, 28 against Bucknell and 11 against Colgate, the fleet-footed wing back scored four of his markers on the ground and also snagged a 9-yard aerial TD in the Buck nell contest. The longest' scoring run made by any member of the Nittany team was the 86 yard scoring Arrow ties can take it! EVEN IN LEAP YEAR! SILK REPP STRIP FOULARDS KNITS BOWS $1 to $2.50 YES SIR! One good reason college men like Arrow ties is the pure wool resilient lining that discourages wrinkles. When you need a few new bows or four-in-hands, see your favorite Arrow dealer for the best buys in ties! SHIRTS and TIES UNDERWEAR • HANDKERCHIEFS • SPORTS SHIRTS PRODUCTS in STATE COLLEGE Young Men's punt return chalked up by Trip lett against West Virginia. Place - kicking specialist Carl Sturges placed third in the Penn State scoring ' column with 24 boots clearing the crossbar out of 35 attempts. The senior special ist missed only one boot prior to the Colgate contest, but became erratic in that high-scoring game and has not returned to his early season form. However, in the crucial game of the season, Mich igan State, both his kicks split the uprights to tie the Spartans, 14-14. With nine scoring passes total ing 146 yards and three plunges totaling six yards, Elwood Pet chel, the tossing tailback of the Blue and White attack, account- s.:,••••••• * •• ed for three touchdowns and was on the throwing end of 54 points. Petchel's longest and shortest pa s ses landed in the hands of End • • ' •••" Sa m Tamburo One was a 42- yard toss in the Colgate game and the other was a two-yard pat (Continued on page five) ARROW EXCLUSIVE FOR ARROW 127 S. Allen St. I IF. i),‘ *-41 Ir; 01.1,r,CiE Petchel Shop IM Football This season's intramural touch football season capped by ex plosive flashes of brilliance last Thursday night when Phi Epsil on bowled over Phi Sigma Kap pa. and the Cy Troyan-led Coal Crackers walloped the Hot Rocks has gone into intramural records as one of the most dramatic IM football seasons to date. Eugene C. Bischoff, director of IM athletics, and his assistant, Clarence Slykes, have captured some of the color in statistics. 65 TEAMS When the season opened this year, 65 teams—an increase of 24 over last year—signed for grid iron action. The teams played 63 contests, none was forfeited, with 967 different men involved, 222 or 92.8 percent more men than in 1947. Counting the number of play ers, regardless of the number of games they played, the intramur al department reached into its Math Books and came up with the gure-1685 "man-games" of action this season, the total, of course, incorporating many men who appeared in several battles. TIE MARK The record number of points a team scored against its opponent n a game was tied this season when Delta Upsilon slapped down Sigma Phi Alpha, 33-0, in one of the first-round games. That record was also threatened when the Coal Crackers boomed, 32-6, over the defending inde pendent champion Hot Rocks in the finals last week. Phi Epsilon, winning the fra ternity championship two sea sons in a row for the first time in intramural history, and the Coal Crackers, who showed little mer cy in running up huge independ ent scores all season, went through the season undefeated, chalking up five wins apiece in their marches to the crowns. Bischoff Calls For IM Boxers Intramural boxing candidates must turn their entries into the TM office before 5 p.m. tomorrow, announced Eugene C. Bischoff, director of intramural athletics, yesterday. Contestants should indicate when they apply what weight di vision they will enter, and alo signify which date they prefer to take their required physical ex aminations. Champions from any previous tournament must move up at least one weight from that in which they won a championship, Bischoff said. A champion in the unlimited class may not defend his title. Announcing the Pitt Game Special The Boalsburg Bus Co. will rum special buses SAT., NOV. 20 to Pittsburgh ... Leave State College Hotel 7:35 A.M. for Lewistown. Connect with SPECIAL ALUMNI TRAIN for Pittsburgh. Train leaves Lewistown 8:50 A.M. Arrive 12:10 P.M. RETURN SAME DAY via BOALSBURO BUS Leave Pittsburgh 6:00 P.M. Arrive Lew istown 10:00 P.M. Reservations for bus and train can be made by the purchase of a bus ticket from the BOALSBURG BUS CO. at the STATE COLLEGE HOTEL before 1:00 P.M. WED., NOV. 17th. THAT'S TODAY—WEDNESDAY—SO ACT QUICK! Boalsburg Bus Co. —Reservations at State College Hotel— 'L;iti.vbt'LV'ANlA Niffany Passing, Running Attack Tops 2100 Yards When the Penn State steam roller collides with the revitalized Pittsburgh team Saturday in the Smoky City, the Lions will ex hibit a passing and running at tack that has piled up 2287 yards seven games. . Averaging 327 yards per game, the Nittany te am marched marched 1537 • • • yards on the • gridiron and sAtt• jr4 , gained 754 yards •• ' through the air- . . ways. Fifty-nine . passes have Luther been completed out of 113 attempts for an aver age of a little better than half hitting their mark. This represents an average of 63.2 yards per game less than last year's Cotton Bowl team roll ed up in nine games. To equal the mark set last season by the Nit tany team, this year's edition would have to amass 1170 yards in its last two games. Elwood Petchel's record of 562 yards for 42 passes leads the list of Lion aerial artists, while Bill Luther, with 72 per , cent of his passes hitting their marks, leads the passers in the accuracy de partment. PUNT RETURNS Returning four punts for 128 yards, Wally Tripplett holds the highest average of the Nittany squad in that department, while Elwood Petchel is second with 126 yards for eleven punts Captain Joe Colon e's 16 punts in seven games have soared 631 yards for an average of 39.5 yards per Petchel's 18 punts traveled 552 yards for an av- erage of 30.5 Triplett yards. Sam Tamburo far outshines the pass receivers with a total of three touchdown aerials, 276 yards and 15 completions. Four backs Roge 1, Tripplett, Dougherty and Blocking Back Chuck Drazenovich—follow Tam buro in the pass-catching depart ment with a total of 25 comple tions, and John Smidansky com pletes the top six with five catches for 46 yards. Tenth Coach Football Coach Bob Higgins is the tenth grid mentor in Penn State history. He has served long er than any. of his predecessors. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1948 Between The .77,1' Lions %42,-. By Tom Morgan SPORTS EDITOR About Exigiencies We have almost a daily crow to pick with something or some body—we're not sure what— when our daily BTL receives the murderous ax right in its middle. Occasionally, after leaving our humble column to the mercy of the printers and Fate, we are chagrined to discover in next day's Daily Collegian that our piece has been sliced in half, or that the "meat" of the discourse is suddenly non existent. Such was the case yesterday. Half-way through our column we had just got warmed up to our subject— Lion Halfback Johnny Chuckran —when the sports page space ran out. Consequently—with resigna tion and zeal—we take up the cudgels where we lef i them yesterday. Johnny Chuckran, Lion tail back who played havoc with Temple gridiron defenses in Sat urday's game, saw no action in '46 and a limited amount of same in '47 because of recurrent in- IMO Comeback This year he never showed signs of regaining his pre-war zip and bounce until Satur day's fiasco with Temple. Fans who followed Penn State first-hand in '44 could visualize the Chuckran-of-old when they saw Johnny jack-rabbit through Temple tacklers. His record this season in three games now is 78 yards gained in nine tries for a more-than-re spectable average of 8.7. All of which prompts one to commit mayhem upon a famous poem: "And there's great joy (Continued on page six) Cage Crews Compete Eighteen IM cage crews give added impetus to a new intra mural basketball season when they battle in the second night's games on Recreation Hall courts starting at 8:45 p.m. tonight, with other games at 9:25 p.m. and 10: 05 p.m. The schedule for tonight is; 8:45 p.m.—Ward 2 vs. Red Flashes, court one; Privateers vs. Jordan Hall, court two; Beaver House vs. Smooth Schnioos, court three. 9:25 p.m.—Speedsters vs. Ma tilda Chi, court one; Ceramics vs. Lions, court two; Architects vs. Ath. Hall Men, court three. 10:05 p.m.—Penn State Club vs. Berletics, court one; A. R. 0. vs. Worters Roamers, court two; Murgas vs. Cody Manor, court three. The intramural department re quests that all teams remain off the floor until after 8:30 p.m. Tonight's games round out in tramural basketball action this week. The next games are sched uled for Monday night. 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