Huskers Arrive for Grid Tilt; Booters Visit Syracuse
Rushing Speed, Rugged Line
Will Carry Nebraska's Hopes
Penn State’s first 1949 intersectional football rival, the Corn
huskers of Nebraska, moved into Bellefonte today, and are sched
uled to practice at State College this afternoon in' preparation
for Saturday’s Homecoming tilt.
The Huskers, first Nebraska team to fly to a football game,
landed in Pittsburgh last night and made the rest of the journey
by bus.
Boasting a ground attack that
relies on the speed of scatbacks
Bill (Rocky) Mueller, Gerry Fer
guson, and Don Bloom, and the
power-running ■ and speed of
sophomore fullback Rich Yost,
Nebraska represents the first
Lion opponent this season that
plays State’s kind of football and
plays it well.
MORE "T"
For the fourth straight week,
Penn State will be forced to de
fend against the tricky “T” for
mation. Coach Jim Glassford, a
product of the Jock Sutherland
regime at Pitt, in his first season
at the helm of the Scarlet and
Cream has installed the popular
“T” with Francis Nagle, a trans
feree from the University of Mas
sachusetts, heaving from the slot.
Nagle has completed 18 of the
44 passes he has pitched, three
of them for touchdowns, and the
Huskers have picked up 274
yards off these passes. However,
when the Huskers - move, it’s usu
ally on the ground. Against pow
erful Minnesota, to whom they
lost 28-6, the Nebraskans rolled
up six first downs on the ground
to the Gophers’ three.
WORKHORSE
Workhorse, of the Husker back
field is Bill Mueller, who has car
ried 45 times for a total of 231
yards. Ferguson has rolled up' 107
and Bloom an even 100. Against
Kansas State, whom they defeat
ed 13-6 last Saturday, the Husk
ers drove for a total yardage gain
of 231 yards with 140 more yards
nullified by penalties.
- The Lions, in practice ses
sions this week, switched at
tention from passing defense,
which finally caught on against
Boston College last Saturday,
' and, worked primarily on stop
ping running attacks. No in
juries cropped up in scrim
mages.
Trying to erase a poor 1948
season in,which they won only
two games while losing eight,
the Corn Huskers have chalked
up two victories in three tries
this ■ year. They downed South
Dakota, 33-6, in the opener, then
lost to Minnesota but came back
to down Kansas State.
SOPHOMORES
Frank Patrick, who scouted
Huskers for Lion Head Coach Joe
Bedenk, reports Nebraska as a
football team on its way up.
Glassford is using his, sopho
mores freely and , Patrick says
they’ve showed marked improve
ment from week to week. Of the
veterans, he considers Tom No
vak an outstanding center, and
Art Bauer as one of the best
guards he has seen.
Novak, 5 foot, 10 inches and
weighing '2lO, won Big Seven
Conference honors in 1947 and
’4B and was twice named to
Notre Dame’s all-opponent team.
The duel between him and Min
nesota’s Leo Nomellini was
pointed to as one of the most in
teresting phases of the game.
LINE PLAY
Play of the Nebraska line has
been the most hopeful sign that
the Cornhuskers are on the way
back from gridiron oblivion. Out
weighed and out-manned against
Minnesota, the line made Bernie
Bierman’s men look sluggish at
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times. Helping Novak and Bauer,
at the frontwall will be capable
performers in Walt Spellman,
and Charley Toogood, defensive
brightspots.
Saturday’s game is the first of
four home-and-home engage
ments between the two schools.
Next year, the Lions go to Lin
coln.
DTD, Sigma Chi
Win IM Meets
Delta Tau Delta and Sigma
Chi gained victories in IM fra
ternity swimming meets at
Glenland pool Wednesday night.
Phi Kappa Psi' edged by Alpha
Chi Rho, 22-19, and Delta Upsi
lon trounced Triangle, 30-10,
Tuesday night.
Bob Johnson contributed two
firsts to Delta Tau Delta’s 23-11
victory over Delta Phi Sigma.
Johnson won the 60-yard back
stroke in the near-record time of
41.1 seconds and had- the highest
point total in the driving. He also
teamed with Bob Burns, Tom
Grifferty and Dave Timothy to
cop the 120-yard freestyle relay.
Mike Kurowski was a double
winer in Sigma Chi’s 33-8.. rout
of Sigma Kappa, while Rex
Lord contributed another first.
Kurowski won the 60-yard
backstroke in 47.4 seconds and
also walked off with top honors
in the -driving event. Lord won
the 60-yard freestyle in 36.2 sec
onds, and was on the victorious
120-yard relay team with John
Long, Tom Overdorf and Bob
Koelle.
DTD Wins
Double Winner
Outfits From THE ATHLETIC STORE”
4 Nittariy Rivals
Active Tonight
Four of the nine football op
ponents who appear on Penn
State’s ’49 battle roster will see
action tonight.
Topping the list will be the
West Virginia versus Boston U.
game. The Virginians test the
Nittdny Lions November 5.
Another top-flight attraction
brings Boston College to grips
with Mississippi. Villanova will
seek to continue on its unbeaten
path against Tulsa, and Temple,
traditional Nittany rival, will test
Bucknell under the arcs.
ATO, Sigma Nu Turn in Wins
In Second Round IM Football
Alpha Tau Omega and Sigma Nu, victors jn first round fra
ternity touch football games last week, registered their second
triumphs of the season .beneath the .arc lights of ' the Beaver
practice field Wednesday night.
Dorm 27 and Dorm 7 won their opening skrimishes in the
■tion.
independent half of the competi
A second half, pass from Hal
Cathermari to Bob Wilson gave
Alpha Tau Omega the margin
by which it bested Beta Theta
Pi, 7-0. Diqk Goodling heaved to
Bob Herstine for the extra point.
With Catherman passing for
one touchdown, ATO opened dts
season last week with a 12-0 con
quest of Phi Kappa Psi, while
BTP was inactive, having drawn
a first round'bye.
SIGMA NU'
Sigma Nu, a 13-0 winner over
Pi Lambda Phi last week, found
the going rougher against Alpha
:Chi Rho, and was forced to go
into overtime to eke out a 1-0
decision.
Bill Ondick’s pass to John
Kulp on the first of Sigma Nu’s
three overtime plays brought the
ball to the Alpha Chi Rho 35 yard
line, but ACR fought back and
brought the ball back to the 47
yard line on the last of its three
plays.
Under IM rules if a game ends
in a tie, each team is given three
opportunities to move the ball,
the pigskin changing hands at
the end of each play. The team
which is able to' bring the ball
across midfield at the end of the
six plays is declared the winner.
INTERCEPTION
An intercepted pass produced
Dorm 27’s only score in a 7-0 win
over Dorm 22. Sanford ; Gelb
snatched the ball out of the air at
midfield and unlimbered a 30-
yard heave to Earl Baker, who
took it on the 20 and raced the
rest of the way. Harry Parker
passed to Paul Barton for the
extra point.
Dorm 7 defeated 'the Little
Geniuses, 6-0, in another inde
pendent contest.
Tonight’s schedule pits Dorm
25 against Dorm 32 at -7 p.m.,
Dormi 2 against Dorm 44 at 7:45,
the Colonials against Dorm 11
at 8:30, and the Lions against
Dorm 10 at 9:15. ' /
Soccermen Seek 3rd Victory
From Unheralded Syracuse;
by GEORGE VADASZ
Tomorrow afternoon at Syra
cuse, N.Y., the Nittany soccer
forces receive their baptism un
der fire on a foreign battle field
when they tackle a supposedly
mediocre Syracuse team.
It is a proven team that Coach
Bill Jeffrey pits against the
Orangemen. (The veteran Scot
will depend on the services of a
baker’s-dozen of lettermen, plus
a host of other standouts; to at
tempt to run the season’s win
skein to three.
Carrying over an unbeaten
By MARY KRASNANSKY
Just Lions
ToppedHusk&rs
Penn State used only 12 men
to defeat'Nebraska', 20-0, in 1920;
the only other time the two
schools have met on the grid
iron’ and strangely enough, that
12th man was the hero of the
victory. , ,-L . i'-•-•»--
Charley Way, who went on’> to
win All-American mention' at
halfback, raced 57 yards for : a
fourth peripd,‘.-.touchdown that
sewed lip the win'. ,
Sidelined for three quarters,
Way- relieved. Joe Lightner ■ at
halfback in. the fourth period? and
on the first play roinoed 55'yards
to the Nebraska 35. No score re
sulted from that drive. ;
But a few minutes later,’ when
State regained the ball, .Way
broke loose and scampered! for
the touchdown that made ; the
score 13-0. Glen Killinger,’ who'
was to win All-American honors
the next year, tallied, another
touchdown before " the ' scoring
ended with Penn State on,; the
heavy end. , .
Swimming Candidates
Candidates for the swim
ming team and second
ant managerial posts, are fask
ed to attend a meeting' irii'3l6
Sparks on Tuesday;,' October
18 at 7:30. films
will be shown;
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string of seven from the 1948
campaign, State will se.ek to run
its unbeaten record to ten in to
morrow’s clash.
Records to date establish the
Nittanies as . favorites to cop the
outing. So far the men of Jeffrey
have shellacked .West . .Chester,
6-0, and trounced "Bucknell, 5-0.
SYRACUSE WINS
Meanwhile, Syracuse opened
its season last week, with - a 6-1
win over a non-heralded-. Union
College soccer outfit. ...
Last year, on Beaver field, the
Nittanymen scored an .impressive
5-1 win over Syracuse -on a
muddy field. . ... •
George Lawther, son of the
former Lionv basketball coach,
will guard the'nets with husky
Ron Coder slated as top rreliefer.
Relying on the smooth-func
tioning trio of halfbacks, Jeffrey
plans to start W i’ll Kray bill,
Ralph Hosterman and Dick Han
nah, Both Hannah and ..Hoster
man. were named to last .year’s
All-American team.
TOP-FLIGHT FULLBACKS
Trying to break up the Orange
men’s pass plays and, scoring
threats will he fullbacks Chuck
Margolf and Bill Yerkes.
Margolf has been one of the
most aggressive and best co-or
dinated .fullbacks ever to don the
Blue and White.’
, Two standouts, a Senior, Ted
“Utz” Lieb, and a sophomore,
Ron. i .Coleman,' will provide the
necessary!; scoring punch on the
left side of Penn State's ■ offen
sive-minded forward line.
FORWARDS
'> ,’Joe : Lane, the Baltimore flash,
will-lead the attack from his cen
ter forward position, while Harry
Little and Clarence Buss will
spark the attack from the right
side of’the line. ‘
New Wings
•, , When ■ the . Nebraska football
'team flies, east for this Saturday’s
game,'it ,will mark the first time
in Husker history that a Nebraska
..team .will fly to a football game.
'A- four ;7 motored plane will carry
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Q. ’.Who holds the highest
batting average compiled in
a World Series?*
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* A. Babe Ruth; .625 (1928)