THURSDAY. OCTOBER 27. 1P49
Harriers Meet
Michigan State
in Vital Meet
Spartans Rated
Best In Nation
By JOE*BREU
The best cross-country team in
the nation! ,
That’s all that stands between
the Penn State cross-country team
and victory when the Lion Har
riers face Michigan State at East
Lansing on Saturday.
There is little doubt that' the
Spartan team is the nation’s best.
Coaches, opponents and experts
all agree to that. The East Lans
ing crew is loaded .from stem to
stern with topflight talent.
EIGHT RUNNERS
Coach Werner has chosen eight
juniors from his seniorless squad
to make the trip to East Lansing
to attempt the Herculean feat' of
upsetting the Midwestern runners.
The eight men making. the trip
are the same eight that showed
their heels to the NYU and Cor
nell hill-and-dale teams. They are
Captain Bob Parsons, Don Asheri
felter, Bill Ashenfelter, Bob Free
bairn, Jack St. Clair, ,Al. Porto,
John McCall and Bill Gordon. The
group will leave, for Michigan
State Thursday night by train.
The Michigan State team has
had only/one meet to'date but the
results were such as to'turn gray
the .hair of the coaches of future
opponents. ■ ,
.HECORDBREAKERS
■ The Green and White harriers
trounced Purdue, 19 to ' 44, cap
turing eight of the first nine
places. Bob Rodibaugh of Purdue,
took second. That feat in itself is
not overly impressive but the re'aT
story of the meet lies in the times.
The first six men to: finish better
ed the course record of-22 minutes
and 23 seconds'. The winner, War
ren Druetzler, covered the dis
tance in 21:51..
Druetzler is the top runner 1 on
the Michigan State team and is
highly thought of by his coach,
Karl Schlademan, who predicts
future greatness for the 20. year
old junior.
VETERANS
:In addition to Druetzler the
Green and White boasts of such
runners as Bill Mack, Jack Diar,
rietti, Bob- Sewell,, Don Makielski,
Walt Atcheson, Frances Carey and
Maurice Maloney, nearly all vet
erans of last year’s great team.
■ Another indication of the Spar
tans strength is their feat of win
riing all three events in Cross-
Country’s triple crown 1 the
IC4A,-the NCAA and the'NAUU
which they did last year. It is
the only time in the history of the.
events that one team has' won all
three. .
; All' this, of course, leaves one
.with the feeling that Penn State
'might-“just as well stay home.
However, such is not the case. For
the Nittany harriers have not been
■standing, idly-.by. Coach Chick
Werner’s forces have soundly
trounced NYU and Cornell, the
'latters by q perfect 15 to 50 score,
and"ih ' so doing turned in very
impressive times. The Lions are
: not to be underrated.
■ One factor to be taken into con
sideration in the case of Penn
State is'the fact that no one knows
how the team will , react under
pressure. In their 1 first two meets
the Blue and. White runners had
things entirely their own way.
Such, will not be the case on Sat
urday.;
An interesting sidelight of the
meet will be Don Ashenfelter’s
attempt to remain undefeated in
' intercollegiate competition. Don
/never ran in college before this
season and in both the Cornell and
NYU meets he finished in front.
■- The Michigan State .course is
four miles long and is completely
flat, unlike Penn State’s five mile
up-and-down course. ’
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Gridmen Stress Rushing
For Orange Air Circus
Penn State’s line, faced) with relearning its “rush the passer”
lessons after slipping up at Michigan State, is practicing charging
tactics in spot scrimmages this week as “Bernie Custis Day” draws
closer.
The only trouble is that many of the players who were to be
called on to stop Custis, Saturday, have to watch, instead of work,
for injuries have hit the Lion eleven hard
CUSTIS
Custis (and this is. probably be
ginning to sound repetitious to
Lion coaches), one of the top
passers in the country, threatens
to fill the air with plenty of leath
er. If Bedenk and his assistants
can field a charging front wall
like the line that throttled Boston
College and Nebraska pitchers, the
Lions -may stop Syracuse. If the
passer has as much time as A 1
Dorow of Michigan' State, how
ever, Penn- State is faced with a
rough afternoon.
Bedenk, not satisfied with any
phase of his team’s play, con
tinues to work the squad on every
thing. Offense, he figures, must be
drilled until the team is able to
take advantage of any breaks.
The defense against ground attack
will have to be solid because
Custis can run as well as pass,
and the Orange has other ace run
ners in George Davis and Bob
Young,
Fiacco Back
Early word .from ' Syracuse re
ports that Jim Fiacco, ace center
for the Orange who 1 has out
with injuries since the opening
game, will be back in the starting
lineup for Saturday. 1 The Syra
cuse squad is thin and lacks speed,
but neyv. Head Coach Floyd (Ben)
Schwartzwalder can field an al
most all-veteran eleven that
boasts 25 returning lettermen.
Saturday’s meeting will be the
sixth of the season for both
elevens, and: both have been beat-,
en three times. It’s the first time
since 1945-that the Lions have
tasted three defeats.
CLOSE SERIES . '
Penn State and Syracuse will
lock horns for the 27th time, a
series in which the Nittanies have
come up With'eleven wins against
Syracuse’s'ten. Not' since 1937 has
the Orange downed the Lion, but
the indications this season are for
a more wide-open battle than’ the
two elevens have produced in
some time. Penn State will be
favored. '
Saturday’s game, the last on the
Beaver Field schedule, will be the
final home appearance for nine
seniors on the. Lion eleven. Three
games,; at V(est Virginia, Temple,
and Pittsburgh, remain before Joe
Bedenk rounds out' his first year
at the helm. ... ■
Fast Runners
, Syracuse University’s cross
country team has not been beaten
in dual meet competition since
1946.
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Rumor Untrue Concerning
Recall of Wally Triplett
The rumor that had been floating about for the past several
weeks,', that Joe Bedenk is recalling Weavin’ Wally Triplett from
Detroit for reasons of pass defense has been squelched.
The squelcher? None other than “Big-time” Bo McMillin, head
grid coachfof the professional National League Detroit Lions and an
outstanding' purveyor of football
talent.
To those uninitiated in the lore
of N'ittany- football, the name
Triplett was one which threw'a
various mixture of fear and con
fusion into • the heart and hands
of the most adept collegiate -ps(ss
specialist.
, DEFENDER
Weavin’ Wally was, during his
college tenure,, and continues to
be in his first season of pro fire,
one‘ of the greatest pass defend
ers. in football today. He has an
uncanny knack'of sensing a pass
in the making and then getting
their fustest with the mostest.
To say that Bedenk could use
him, especially after losses to
Villar> , ~' ' Ar’" 'd Mich:'
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Syracuse Joins
MD's Grid Team
Penn State’s fbotball squad is
not the only team hit by injuries.
The scheduled game between
the Syracuse and Penn State
jayvees for this weekend has
been cancelled because of an
"unexpected” shortage ,of man
power in Syracuse ranks. Some
of the jayvee men have been
moved up to the varsity to
strengthen the positions weak
ened by last weelds injuries. '
State revolving -mainly through
an awkward backfield coverage,
is not necessary. y
According to a recent letter
from Dick Peters, former Colleg
ian sports editor and now foot
ball writer for the Detroit Free
Press, Triplett is doing very well
in the play-for-pay league.
NO DOUBT
' "He’s, somewhat small for this
pro league, but Coach McMillin
likes his speed and believes he
will develop into a fine player in
a few years. Pro teams are limi
ted to 32 players and it’s pretty
hard to make the grade if you
aren’t a good, all-around lad,
but there has been no doubt
about Triplett from the start.”
‘ The sight of Wally in pass-de
fense action is a sight to bring
sighs from even the Baughs and
Thompson’s. Now you can see
Why the Motor-city prexie can
smile while his opponents ,are : in
possession of the ball.
■ “McMillin-'has been using • him
strictly on defense, although he
carried the ball against the Phili
delphia Eagles once for three
yards.”
ALSO RUNS
But Trip can carry the leather
if the-going gets hot: Against the
Los Angeles Rams in the opening
game, he returned a punt for 52
’yards which set up a Detroit
touchdown. He also played a
great game in Scranton against
a minor league, club during a
pre-season exhibition.
A former Cheltinham High
Navy Drillers
Will Perform
At Grid Game
A pre-game demonstration by
the Naval Pre-Flight drill team
of Pensacola, Fla., will.be an add
ed attraction at Saturday’s foot-’
ball game between Penn State
and Syracuse.
The 57-man team, composed
of naval aviation cadets and mid
shipmen from the U.S. Naval
Pre-Flight School, will arrive at
Black Moshannon Airport -by
■ plane Saturday morning and
march on the football field at
1:40 p.m. for a 10-minute demon
stration.
Saturday’s appearance will be *
their fifth of the year at a college
football game. The team already
has won wide acclaim for its in
tricate drill routine, and will ap
pear at three more stadiums be
fore concluding its 1949 schedule.
Most of the young men on the
team have been enrolled at Pen
sacola under the naval aviation
cadet program, which requires
two years of college or its equiva
lent. Most of them have been in
the Navy less than four months,
and in a little more than a year
will have earned their wings and
will be flying Navy fighters and
bombers.-
For this and other appearances,
the party is being flown in one
of the Navy’s giant four-engine
transports piloted by two vete
rans of the Berlin Airlift. • Lt.
Cmdr. Thomas Slusser, former
Penn State athlete .and senior
physical director at Pensacola,
will accompany the party: to
State College for Saturday’s
demonstration.
backfield whizz, Triplett is the
latest Pehn State gridder' to
make the pro grade. "Other alum:
ni luminaries who are engaged
in the great American bloodlet
ting are: Bob Davis, an end, All-
American guard, Steve Suney;
and Bill Moore, all teammates On
the Pittsburgh Steelers. * -
Sam Tamburo, last year’s All-
American end,' and Johnny -Nd
lan are both with the New, York
Bulldogs and Larry Joe, speedy
halfback, has joined the Buffalo
Bills.
Engaged on the coaching lines
with Pitt is the old Nittany Lion
center, Chuck Cherundolo.
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