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-
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what’s cooking at
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TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY
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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
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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.
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vf. DECEMBER 14 1948
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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.”
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