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The Daily Collegian's football
predictors seem to have found
the answer to the problem of
picking grid games in advance.
The combined average for this
_ last weekend's games was .708
with George Vadasz coming
through with 11 successes out of
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12 games chosen.
Vadasz was followed by Sports I
Editor Torn Morgan and Elliot . '
Krane, each with eight right and .
four wrong. Red Roth brought up
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As a result of his foresight (or
luck), this week's selections en
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Morgan. They both sport a .711
average, having 74 wins and 30
wrong choices. Krane is second
in line with 70 and 34 for a .673
average. Roth is still at the bot
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Harrier's
Place 4th
In NCAA's
Coach Chick Werner's cross
country squad finished fourth in
a field of 30 teams at the 10th an
nual running of the NCAA varsi
ty cross-country championship at
East Lansing, Mich. yesterday.
Favored Michigan State cap
tured the team title, scoring a low
total of 41 points. Wisconsin with
69 points and Syracuse with 93
trailed the star-studded Spartans.
Rhode Island State's Robert
Black scored his second individu
al triumph in a week, breaking
the tape in 19 minutes 52 seconds
for the four mile course. Black
annexed the IC4-A individual
crown last Monday.
"Hard Luck" Horace Ashen
feller more than lived up to his
name. The Lion captain injured
an ankle after the first mile and
limped across the finish line a
poor 35th. Until he suffered the
injury Ash had been among the
leaders.
Ashenfelter's poor showing
probably cost the Lions a chance
to finish among the leaders. Syra
cuse, the team that placed third
yesterday, was two places behind
the Lions in the IC4-A meet last
week. In that race, however, the
Lion star placed second to Black
for the individual title.
Yesterday's mishap helped the
Collegeville speedster retain his
reputation of being "always a
bridesmaid, but never a bride."
Last week the lanky Ashenfelter
finished second to Black in the
IC4-A's at New York, and just
one year ago in the same
. NCAA
competition he was runner-up to
Jack Milne of North Carolina.
Don Longenecker led the sev
en man Lion aggregation across
the finish line, placing 24th in
the 131-man field. Longenecker's
time was 21:09.
Other Penn State finishers were
Jack St. Clair, 27th, 21:12; John
Bates, 32nd, 21:20; Mitch Wil
liams, 33rd, 21:22; Al Porto, 44th,
21:39; and John McCall, 55th,
21:57.
COURSE
The course was a fast four
miles on flat terrain. The Spar
tans, running on their home
course, maintained their unsullied
record rather easily. It marked
their second major cross-country
title of the year. Last week they
paced a field of 27 Eastern uni
versities to emerge victorious in
the IC4-A varsity meet.
Yesterday's event closed the
season for the Nittany Lion har
riers. It also was the last corn
(Continued on 'page six)
UESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1948
Between
The
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Liens Dom ``
By Tom Morgan
SPORTS EDITOR
Epitaph
Here , lies the gaunt Nittany Lion,
Laid prostrate with bitter pain,
Victim of a stubborn Panther
Once mighty, now mighty again.
Here lies the 17-game streak,
Nurtured with sweat and toil,
Engulfed by a Panther upsurge,
Now buried in Pittsburgh soil.
Here lies the coveted trophy,
Cut off from the Lion's paw
By a great unbridgeable chasm
Dug deep by the Panther's claw
Here lies the bowl-gamc bubble,
Inflated with anticipation,
But punctured by Milligan's
cohorts,
And deflated by subjugation.
Here lie the sons of Nittany,
Moody and prone to fret,
Shocked by the plight of the Lion
Prey of a Panther threat.
Blue Monday
On this bluest of Blue Mondays.
what can one say? It was an in
spired Pitt team which did it
again revived a troublesome
jinx which has haunted Penn
State too often when the Lions
enter the Smokey City for a foot
ball game.
Many a Nittany fan stood
stupefied and speechless in Pitt
stadium long after the whistle
had sounded, some were even
moved to tears, other if they
didn't show their anguish out
wardly felt a great weight of
bewilderment burdening them.
This same weight was evident
after the game in the Penn State
locker room, where a brooding
silence reigned. The Lions had
played hard they knew it. The
bruised eye of Guard Joe Drazen
ovich, the diagonal scar across
Fullback Francis Rogel's face,
and a host of other marks of the
battle were mute proof.
Stymied
But it had been a battle of
frustration. Two teams with al
most identical offensive tactics
and both were stymied by ex
cellent scouting jobs.
As Head Pitt Coach Mike Mil
ligan explained after the struggle,
"We sat up all night Monday
night in the Cathedral, trying to
figure out how to stop State.
Everything we figured out work
ed."
Pitt Defense
One Pitt defensive stratagem
was reportedly to assign Half
back Bobby Lee the title of
"rover backer-up" with the ex
press duty of keeping an eye
peeled for Lion Blocking Back
Chuck Drazenovich. Pitt coaches
reasoned, "Where Drazenovich
goes, so follows the ball carrier
every time."
Although Milligan claimed suc
cess through the "stalling" tactics
of his guards, who "refused to be
mousetrapped," we hesitate to
agree. If Panther guards refused
to rush in to a Lion trap, they
allowed more time for Fullback
Rogel to generate steam and eat
up yardage while plowing into
them.
About Rogel
Pottering in the embers' of the
Nittant loss, one cannot help but
come upon at least one shining
emerald Rogel who was a
hero in defeat. In the desperate
third-quarter push to win the
game, Rogel battered the Pitt line
to the point that he bordered on
exhaustion. It seemed that Penn
State possessed nothing else to
pit against the stubborn Pittmen
except Rogel, as more than 50,000
fans witnessed one of the most
outstanding fullbacking j obs
th,ey'll ever see.
Not Earthshaking
An encouraging thought, after
the shock of defeat is over is that
the world has not reached its end
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