IM Baseball Quints Stage Busiest Night of Season The largest intramural basketball program scheduled this sea son goes into action on the Recreation hall courts beginning at 7 p.m. tonight. Thirty-six independent and fraternity teams will battle in 18 games on the three available courts, games starting approximately every 40 minutes after 7 p.m. and continuing until after 10:05 p.m. The complete schedule follows: 7 p.m.—Pi Kappa Alpha vs. Kappa Delta Rho, court one; Ga zelles vs Nittany Co-op, court two; Foresters vs. Twenty Niners, court three. 7:40 p.m.—Dorm 28 vs. Dorm 27, court one; Dorm 3 vs. Interro gatives, court two; Dorm 21 vs. Dorm 24, court three. 8:20 p.m.—Watts Stars vs. Shrimps, court one; Golden Eagles vs. Warriors, court two: Team X vs. Century Boys, court three. “You'll be Home for Christmas" But just to make sure your girl and you have Christmas Din- ner together... here’s what’s cooking at THE ALLENCREST: TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY Ybere’U be a roaring fire to warm you aad Christman Carols to cheer yam IEfIRPOM 9 p.m.—Ramblers vs. Coal Crackers, court one; Kappa Sigma vs. Phi Sigma Kappa, court two; Lambda Chi Alpha vs. Beta Theta Pi, court three. 9:35 p.m.—Theta Xi vs. Delta Tau Delta, court one; Beta Sigma Rho vs. Theta Kappa Phi. court two; Alpha Chi Sigma vs. Phi Kappa Tau, court three. 10:05 p.m.—Sigma Phi Epsilon vs. Chi Phi, court one; Delta Chi vs. Sigma Nu, court two; Sigma Phi Alpha vs. Pi Lambda Phi. court three. The Annual CANDLELIGHT DINNER BOAST STUFFED TURKEY BAKED HAM 1 . i i:. W. vi 1.7 v Lions Leave for Capital Face Heavy Schedule Penn State’s basketball combine entrained for Washington, D. C., early this morning for two skirmishes that may make or Drcak them. The first encounter of a top-heavy card, which finds the Lions playing three games in five days, pits the State cagers against a tough American University outfit in Leonard Gym at 8:30 tonight, Tomorrow night State will op pose the always-dangerous Hoyas from Georgetown University in the National Guard Armory in the nation’s capital. Saturday the fatigued Lawthermen will stag ger on to the Rec Hall court in their home inaugural against Washington and Jefferson Col lege Lawther revealed yesterday, in a surprise move, that he will use his trump card, Milt Simon, in a starting role in the attempt to begin the week on the right foot. SIMON IN BAD SHAPE With Simon still in bad shape from a painful ‘charley horse,’ Lawther is banking on the psy chological angle that the sight of last year’s “peerless” leader on the hardwood will act as a spur to the rest of the team. The Nit tany warriors’ record shows a 40-33 loss to Pittsburgh in the Smoky City last Saturday. Simon, who replaces Carl Nordblom, will have husky Terry Ruhlman as a running mate at the forward positions. Although in action only a week prior to the Skyscraper U. game, Ruhlman showed much promise in coming through with six sorely-needed points. Marty Costa, who seems to im prove with each succeeding Eastern Conference Ruling Doesn't Affect Us—Hig Penn State football players will not be affected by the East ern College Athletic Conference’s rule of three years of varsity competition until they arrive on campus, stated Football Coach Bob Higgins yesterday. Saturday at the group’s annual meeting, the E. ~ - s .. C.A.C. ruled that all member col leges must re- , I turn to the stan dard of three** Wt years of varsity competition in any sport within " ' 4§f^Splr; a five-year span, gg|to2By i> ; with freshman > 4 and transfer stu- ffillfflßß«raig4.- dents barred from varsity sports game, will start at center and. together with Ruhlman. will bul wark the defense. STAR AGAINST PITT Will Parkhill, tall playmaker from Yeadon, and ‘Little Joe’ Tocci, midget ballhawk from New York, will set up the team’s strategy from the guard spots. Both Costa and Tocci were out standing for the State dribblers against Pittsburgh, scoring 11 points apiece. Lou Lamie, sophomore from Arnold, has caught the eye of the Nittany high command and will be given a chance to display his wares in the vital number six spot. Nordbloom, Ken Weiss, an accurate setshot, and lanky Syl ‘Stretch 1 Bazinski round out the first-string replacements. Last year Penn State took a 45-24 decision from the Amer ican U. hoopmen who have yet to record their first win over the Centre County collegians. Winning Streak The first extended winning sttreak in Penn State football his tory came between 1911-1913 when the team won 17 consecu tive games. until they had put m a year of residence. “Students at the teachers i col leges are not considered transfer students when they come to Penn State as sophomores,” said the Nittany coach, “and competition in teachers college athletic events is not considered as Penn State varsity competition. “I still don’t like the system of not having any freshmen ball players,” continued Coach Hig gins. “Of course the College can’t do anything about the situation at present, but I’ll be glad when we go back to having freshmen at spring football practice again.” Intercollegiate Sports Intercollegiate sports have been administered as a department in the School of Physical Education and Athletics since 1930. \ ■£s vf. DECEMBER 14 1948 ietween^^H^ By Tom Morgan SPORTS EDITOR To the Annals The news that Michigan State yesterday joined the Western Conference, alias the Big Nine, sent us scurrying to the Daily Collegian archives to discover when Penn State last played football with a Big Nine titan. (The Spartans will be host to the Nittany Lions next season.) In this pursuit countless oddi ties in Penn State history caught our attention and de layed us so much that, by the lime we had invaded Collegian annals as far back as 1930, we were ready to cry "Kamerad" and our printer was hollering for copy. But it was worth it. In the Penn State Collegians of Novem ber 14 and November 18, 1930 (it was semi - weekly 'then) we lea r n e'd when the Lion last tangled with the Western Colos sus called the Big Nine. The foe was lowa’s Hawkeyes, the site lowa City, and the un fortunate outcome was a 19-0 de feat for Coach Bob Higgins’ clan. Interceptions The account of the battle: "Holding a heavy lowa team on even terms for almost three periods, Penn Slate's eleven weakened during the last pari of Saturday's .game in lowa City, and finally succumbed to an alert Hawkeye aggregation, 19-0. "Four Lion passes were in tercepted by watchful Gold and Black players and this fact very nearly accounted for the Nit tany defeat. .. .** Edwards and End Playing his last sehson for Penn State in 1930 was a first string end, Earle Edwards, who is now Nittany end coach on the staff of his ex-tutor, Head Coach Higgins. However, Edwards saw no action in the lowa tilt be cause of injuries in a previous game. The skirmish with the Hawk eyes marked the last time the Penn Stale will have invaded the Big Nine bailiwick before next year's Spartan clash. Play-be-Play What caught our interest about the ’3O fray was that Nit tany students gathered in Schwab Auditorium the afternoon of the game and, through the medium of telegraphic returns direct from the playing field at lowa City, received a description of the game given by a College cheerleader. Also present in Schwab was the Blue Band, and a few "specialty acts" supplied by the department of music kept the fans occupied at halftime. Jim Coogan, then a student and now sports publicity director lor the College, tells us, “A dramatic radio recreation of a football game was quite a treat in those days..*Radio play-by-play broad casting hadn’t reached full scale yet, so we used to gather in Schwab for telegraphed reports of the highlights of the game.” "Bowl Bid" Also in the November 14, 1930, issue of the Penn State Collegian we came upon a note that College officials had turned down a post - season charity game with Gettysburg, proposed by a Harrisburg newspaper. We quote: "After consultation with Di rector of Athletics Hugo Bezdek, President Ralph D. Hetzel sent the following telegram: Athletic authorities have decided that post season game impossible be cause of unusually heavy sched ule this year and consequent physical exhaustion of boys and serious handicap to their aca demic work. Regret necessity for this decision but under circum stances it seems wise.” PRINTING Mulliliihing Addressograph Service COMMERCIAL PRINTING Olennland Bldg. Phone 6662
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