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Between
The Lions
With Elliot Krane
Sports Editor
Cold Reception
There was no “southern hospi
tality” in the reception given to
the Penn State team at Saturday’s
football game. The West Virginia
coaches and officials tried to
make the team’s stay as pleas
ant as possible, but the weather
man wouldn’t co-operate. Icy
blasts of wind whipped across
the Monongahela River and into
the Mountaineer Field horseshoe
throughout the game.
Soon after the final whistle,
the West Virginia Weather De
partment showed its displea
sure by hurling a short but
heavy sleet storm at the backs
of the departing Niitany team.
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A young, acrobatic cheerleader
attracted the attention of the
Penn State fans who made the
trip “down South.” His actions
looked distinctly familiar—they
were, for the boy leading the
homecoming crowd at the game
was Bill Bonsall. a Penn State
alumnus.
Bill, a member of. Gene
Wettslone's gymnastics team
last year and an Olympic per
former in 1948, is an instructor
at West Virginia. He is organiz
ing a Mountaineer gym team
and expects to enter his squad
in intercollegiate competition
next year.
Just Looking
Football players sometimes
wonder what the game looks like
from the stands, but Chuck Beat
ty decided to satisfy his curiosity
Saturday. The Lion center start
ed to chase a Mountaineer toward
the sidelines at the fifty-yard
line. But after knocking him out
of bounds, Chuck found that he
couldn’t stop his forward motion
and hurtled a five-foot concrete
wall into the stands.
' When he landed on the lap of
a startled young lady, who
promptly screamed, he decided
it best to view the rest of the
game from the field, and re
turned to his regular position
backing up the line.
Button, Button
Early in the second period, the
Lions fumbled and the 12 men
nearest the ball dove on it. An
official poked at this one and that
in search of the missing oval. As
he continued to unpile players,
someone tapped him on the back.
He turned around and was amaz
ed to find W. V. tackle Kereazis
Konstantinos holding the ball in
his outstretched hand. The. tackle
had recovered the/ball and work
ed his way out from the bottom
of the pile while the other play
ers were fighting for a ball that
wasn’t there.
Fancy "T"
Jimmy Walthall pulled a
clever "T" play in the second
quarter. Penn State called time
just as the two teams lined up
over the ball. West Virginia
continued to run the play while
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Gridders Smash W. Virginia, 34-14
Few on Injured List
As Team Preps for Owls
Penn State’s Nittany Lions settled back this week to hard work
and the usual grind of scrimmages, signal sessions, and blocking
and tackling rigors. The team is shaking off its elation over that
booming 34-14 victory over West Virginia, and concentrating in
stead on preparing for Temple.
The gridders went about thei
however, because of their success
jinx. It was the first time since
the Mountaineer-Lion series be
gan in 1904, that State was able
to score in the West Virginia
stadium.
MINOR INJURIES
Equally good was the news
from the training room. Only
minor injuries were reported.
Chuck Drazenovich and Jack
Storer suffered charley-horses,
Ken Bunn turned his ankle, and
the squad is stiff and sore from
bruises; but all of these after
effects should be adjusted by
Temple-time, according to trainer
Chuck Medlar.
As drills got underway, the
coaches showed a hint of satisfac
tion over the improved Lion at
tack that punched out a total of
373 yards and five touchdowns
through a big Mountaineer line.
They were also happy about the
way the Nittanymen coped with
their seventh passing problem,
West Virginia’s Jimmy Walthall.
Walthall capitalized on lapses
in the Lion pass defense to pitch
two touchdown aerials. Except
for these instances, State was
master, both offensively and de
fensively, in rolling up its fourth
win in seven starts and slapping
the hillmen with their fifth loss in
eight- games.
PASSING ATTACK
Early in the first period, the
Lions opened with a passing at
tack, led by Bill Luther and Owen
Dougherty, that completely upset
the Mountaineers’ defensive plans.
The first pass to Jack Storer made
37 yards to the Mountaineer 18,
but a fumble there ruined State’s
chance to score.
A few moments later, Storer
took another for 30 yards to the
West Virginia 15. Then Fran
Rogel, fully recovered from his
ankle injury, plunged for a touch
down two plays later and Joe
Drazenovich added the first of
four successful extra points. The
Lions used Rogel and Dougherty’s
pass to Bob Hicks to rack up an
other score just before the period
ended.
The Mountaineers struck for
their first touchdown on the run
ning of fullback Pete Zinaich and
the passing of Walthall. Little
Gene Simmons, the Mountaineers’
the Penn Stale players stood
up. The Mounts' center passed
the ball to Walthall, who faked
it to one man and then slipped
it to another coming from the
wing spot. But the "player" was
the referee, who took the ball
and then informed the Virgin
ians that lime was out.
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expert dropkicker, made it 13-7
the half ended.
West Virginia used that same
Zinaich, Walthall, Simmons com
bination to add another seven
points late in the fourth period
but in between those two home
team touchdowns the/Lions,
switching to their ground game,
had sewed up the decision with
three more scores.
Rogel and Luther sparked a
march from the State 47, with the
former carrying over for the TD
2 minutes after the half began.
Dougherty scooted around left
end on a fake-kick handoff for 31
yards -to set up the next touch
down for Luther, who toted the
ball over the final stripe from
three yards out. Rogel and Vince
O’Bara rolled up yardage from
the State 34, with O’Bara going
through right tackle for the last
Lion TD in the final stanza.
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FINAL TALLY
DU, Dorm 7, Altoona Enter
IM Football Quarter-Finals
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Delta Upsilon scored a first/ half touchdown and went on to
defeat Delta Sigma Phi,' 7-0, to qualify foA the semi-finals of fra
ternity touch football competition under the lights of Beaver prac
tice field Friday night. Delta Upsilon will face the winner of last
night’s Theta Chi-Lambda Chi Alpha game tonight in one of four
“ 'semi-final contests.
IM Teams Near
Swim Finals
Phil Kappa and IJhi Delta Theta
will face each other in a quarter
final fraternity intramufal swim
ming meet in Glennland pool this
afternoon as a result of victories
Friday afternoon. Sigma Chi and
Phi Sigma Delta will meet in
another IM quarter-final. .
Phi Kappa moved into the
quarter-final by trouncing Kapp.a
Sigma, 26-15, while Phi Delta
Theta advanced by defeating
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 23-18. The
wins were • Phi Kappa’s third
straight and Phi Delta Theta’s
second in a row.
Phi Delta Theta’s Dick Wilson
was the individual star of the af
ternoon as he turned in a triple
victory to account for 15 of his
team’s 23 points. Wilson won the
60-yard freestyle, the 60-yard
backstroke and the diving. He
copped the freestyle in the near
record time of 32.3, seconds, while
his 42.1 seconds timing in the
backstroke was one of the fastest
of the season.
Danny Kline, Lynn Mcllvaiiie,
Jack Murray and Jack Walker
teamed in the 120-yard freestyle
relay to record the fastest time of
the season in winning in 1:03.9
for Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Murray
took top honors in the 60-yard
breaststroke. He was clocked in
44.1 seconds.
■ Ki O’Malley and' Jack Lavin
were the individual winners for
Phi- Kappa. O’Malley took the
freestyle in 33.6 seconds and La
vin topped the field in the breast
stroke in 44.5 seconds. Ernie Sals
bury gained victories in the back
stroke and diving for Kappa
Sigma.
Led Rushing
Against seven opponents so
far this season, West Virginia
has rolled up a net yardage of
720 in 184 attempts. John Mur
phy and Bobby Arnett led the
rushing department' with 197 and
184 yards respectively.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER ,8, 1949
Independent Play
Dorm 7 blanked Riverside, 12-0,
and Altoonai won an overtime
contest from Dorm 14, 1-0, to en
ter the quarter-finals of inde
pendent play. Dorm 7 clashed with
Dorm 30 last night and will face
the winneY of last night’s Coal
CrackerS-Perin Haven fray in one
semi-final contest. Altoona met
the Eagles last night for the right
to do battle with Dorm 25 in one
of tonight’s semi-final games.
Sigma Nu and Alpha Chi Sigma
meet in the other fraternity semi
final game..
DU's Win
Rusty'Leib,' Don Parris and Jim
Dougherty teamed up to provide
DU with its margin of victory.
Leib pitched to Parris in the fiat,
the ' latter 1 . tossing 35 yards to
Dougherty in the end zone for, the
only score of the game. Leib pass
ed to Mike Deßone for the extra
point., , ,
A 1 Zaniecki was the star of
Dorm 7’s 12-0 win over Riverside.
Zaniecki passed 35 yards to Ed
Gridsavage' for the first touch
down late' in the first half. He
guaranteed the victory midway
through the second half when/he
lugged On inside reverse 35 yaipds
for a TD. .
Making Yardage
In-12 games last year/ includ
ing the Sun Bowl affair .'seven
West Virginia halves rushed for
1,299 of '2,237 yards/ yic -Hopfiji
at right halfi, led the entire,- bqclfc
field with 535 yards. //. ,
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