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VOL. 50 -- NO. 59
Soccer Lions Deadlock Frisco 2.•-2
Little Boots
Crucial Point
As Time Ends
Knot Called Official
On Coaches' Agreement
By George Vadasz
Had a soccer fictionist intended
to use what took place in the
nation's first collegiate , soccer
bowl for his plot he would have
been more-than-pleased with the
2-2 thriller between Penn State's
booting forces and those of the
University of San Francisco in
St. Louis on New Year's Day.
Time was running out on the
gallant horde of Nittany battlers
—in the closing seconds of the
struggle the Jeffrey-coached boys
found themselves at the short end.
of a 2-1 count.
But in the final minute of play
the continual barrage at the Fris
co goal, one which was little short
of the famed London Blitz, reaped
rich dividends. In an attempt to
step the Lion onslaught, Don Full
back Rosendo Diaz handled the
ball with his hands, thus calling
for a penalty kick.
•
Penalty Kick
Diminutive soccer-giant, 135.
pound Harry Little, was selected,
to step to the penalty mark.
...and then it happened. With
ten seconds remaining until the
final whistle, their 14-game un
beaten skein on the line and de
feat but moments away, Little
calmly booted one past Goalie
Angelo Carmassi to 'earn the
Nittanymen the 2-2 , deadlock. The
penalty kick was Little's second
marker of the afternoon and the
sixth such kick he tallied this
season.
With it this tricky 'lil scooter
earned himself an odds-in spot on
the 1949 All-American soccer
team which will' be, announced
next week.
Mit it was difficult to single
out any individual stars in a bril
liantly fought contest which often
times brought the more than 4,600
Sportsmans Park viewers, to their
feet.
Definitely Clarence "Buzzer"
Buss played the game of his life
and All-American Ralph Hoster
man well lived up to bis title in
bowing ,out of collegiate soccer
competition. For the Dons. Olu
funmi Osibogun, the son of a
Nigerian noble family, was the
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News Briefs
"Independent" Staff
Staff of the "Independent" will
meet in 8 CH at '7 o'clock tonight
to plan the next issue.
Symphony Orchegtra
Rehearsal for all members of
the Symphony Orchestra will, be
held in 117 CH .at 4 p,m. tomor
row, Prof. Theodore K. Karhan,
director, announced 'today.
Balfour Ainfard Winner
Terrell L. Ruhiman, Sigma Chi,
won the , Balfour Province Award
for .the West Virginia-Pennsyl
vania Province and placed fourth
for the Balfour National Award.
This award is given on the basis
of scholarship, student activity,
personality, and fraternity ser
vice.
Med School Exams
Medical College Admission Tests
will be given to med students who
expect to enter medical college in
1950 in 302 and 210 Buckhout
from 9-12 and 2-5 on January 16.
"FOR A BETTER PENN STATE"
STATE COLLEGE, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 5, 1950
FRISCO ATTACK—University of San Francisco center halfback Bill Lee (facing ball) sends a boot
toward the Penn State goal in the nation's first intercollegiate soccer bowl game in St. Louis on
New Year's Day. This shot went wide, but two other USF attempts were good as the Lions and the
Dons battled to a 2-2 tie. The Penn State.men in the picture are goalie George Lawther (26), half
back. Will Kraybill (6), fullback Bill Yerkes (facing Lee), and fullback Chuck Margolf.
Congress Hears State of Union
Bora, College
Study Plan for
Public School
Committees of the College
Board of Trustees and the State
College School Board are study
ing a proposal that the borough
and the College ' co-operate to
set up a public school here.
A joint committee recently
completed a study of how other
colleges and communities have
been• co-operating under similar
progrUms, but their report • has
not yet been made available.
No definite policy concerning
the .proposal has been made yet
by the College, Wilmer E. Ken
worthy, executive assistant to
the president, said recently.
The proposal was brought for
ward last year by the borough
school board, which is seeking
expansion of its school facilities,
according to Kenworthy.
Because tax sources are scarce
in the borough, the school board.
has found it difficult to obtain
money for expansion and thus
turned to the College with its co
operative plan.
Under the proposal, the school
would meet needs of both the
community and the College by
providing education for town
children and 'serving as a. train
ing center for practice teachers
from the College. The schdol
would operate in co-operation
with the School of Education.
Roger W. Rowland has been
named chairman of the trustee
board investigating the plan.
Mrs. A. K. Anderson, of the
school board, and P. C. Weaver,
assistant clean of the Education
School, were heads of a commit
tee which recently surveyed op
erations under the program else
where and reported back to the
school board and the trustees.
Howard Lamade and George
Slocum, in addition to Rowland,
ire rerreqenting the trustees in
the matter.
Truman Prosperity Formula. Includes
Taic Changes, Rent Control, T-H Repeal
Poet To Speak
Wednesday.
Tickets for Carl Sandburg's
lecture next Wednesday night
are now on sale at Student Union
in Old Main, Jo Hays, chairman
of the ticket committee for the
State College Community For
um, announced yesterday.
Sandbtirg, outstanding p o e t,
Lincoln biographer, and collector
of folksongs, will s p e a k. in
Schwab Auditorium on "Ameri
can Folksongs and 'Tall Tales."
Carl Sandburg is not a stranger
to the College. He appeared here
July 15, 1937, and presented "An
Evening with Carl Sandburg," a
program that packed Schwab
Auditorium. Folding chairs were
set up 'in the front row and on
the stage, and many people stood
in the aisles. Fire regulations,
now in effect, would prohibit a
crowd of this size from hearing
the talk next Wednesday.
Sandburg's program of wit,
humor, philosophy, and song will
have strong audience appeal. • It
will be of a murth lighter vein
than the discussions of atomic
energy by Dr. Harold C. Urey
and . Hanson W. Baldwin which
opened the Community Forum
series for this season.
With his guitar uncles his arm,
Sandburg is expected to center
his program around folklore in
the background of Abraham Lin
coln, joined to the exploits of
such living American creations as
Paul Bunyan, SteaMboat Bill,
Casey Jones, and Pecos Pete.
The single seat tickets will sell
at $1 including tax. Fraternity,
sorority, or other groups desiring
to buy blocks of , tickets may do
so while tickets are available.
Today's Weather: Colder with
F'now Flurries.
Shortly
went out on
team might
before the Christmas vacation a campus publicatio
the limb with a statement that Penn State's basketball
once again come under the big-time collegiate court
spotlight this year.
A step toward that prophecy
was made a week ago at Raleigh,
North Carolina. where a handful
of courageous Nittany cagers
fought into the finals of the Dix
ie Basketball Classic before bow
ing to a superior North Carolina
State team, 50 to 40.
Was it luck or was it skill
which enabled a team which had
won only seven out of 17 contests
the previous year to emerge
heralded by newspapers through
out the land as • the surprise of
the Dixie Classic?"
Gross For Mayor
WASHING T 0 N President
Truman gave Congress his for
mula for a prosperous nation yes
terday in his annual 'State of the
Union' address.
He urged what he called a
moderate amount of new taxes,
but did not go into details. Warn
ings were made by the president
against crippling cuts in the bud
get. However, ,some lawmakers
already have predicted that Con
gress will not appropriate all Mr.
Truman asks.
While the figure has not been
announced as yet, House Speak
er Rayburn says Mr. Truman's
budget for the coming fiscal year
will be nearly two billion ,dollars
below this year's.
Also among the major points
of the president's program were
the continuation of foreign aid
and rent controls, repeal of ,the
Taft-Hartley law, expansion of
social security, a system of medi
cal insurance, passage of the
Brannan farm plan and the civil
rights program.
R.R.'s To Cut Service
WASHINGTON The Inter
state Commerce Commission has
ordered a one-third cut in pass
enger service on coal-burning
railroads. This measure, which
was taken to conserve coal, will
go into effect Monday.
The 'United State Steel Corp.,
meanwhile, has joined a group of
coal operators in complaining to
the National Labor Relations
Hoard, chafging John L. Lewis
with unfair labor practices.
Phone Strike Seen
NEW YORK A nation-wide
telephone strike has been threat
ened by the CIO Communica
tions Workers Union. A union
spokesman said the tie-up will
come ufliess the Bell Telephone
System meets the ClO's new con
tract demands.
ourney
ops First;
mance Cited
Anyway, all a jubilant Coach
Elmer Gross had to say on his
return to State College was "I
was both surprised and pleased
over the boys' showing. When we
went down South we weren't ex
pected to do much but we played
hard, aggressive bail and had a
will to win that couldn't be
stopped."
Joe Tocci was signaled out as
the tournament's second most
outstanding player. He ranked be
hind North Carolina State's Dick
Dickey. Following Toeci was the
Wolfpack's smooth Simmy Ran
zino.
Heroes? According to State's
new cage prexie, Gross, and his
`aide de camp' John Egli, "They
all were." But even above all the
hullabalo surrounding the trip,
names like Joe Tocci and Lou
Lamie stuck up as outstanding.
Tocci Outstanding
In ' the • initial battle against
Duke, Tocci, a 5-foot 5-inch, 150-
pound mite, stole the show .with
his alert floor play and accurate
tosing. It was field goals by Jay
McMahan and 'Toed in the
waning minutes of play that paid
off against the Dukes.
The scoring breakdown reveal
ed Laurie as the team's top point
producer in the three game series
with 32 points. Gross pointed to
Lamie as the team's most im
proved player since the Lions °
opening encounter with Susque
hanna. Lee - Schisler, who came
through with the pressure on, ac
counted for 25 tallies, while. Marty
Costa notched 20.
Storer. Scores 19
Below these were Toed and
Jack Storer with 19 apiece, Mc-
Mahan, with 17, and Panapolis, 6.
Dec, 27—The Nittany Lions
arrived in Raleigh and began
preparations for their initial
tilt in the newly constructed
gym of the North Carolina
hosts.
Dec. 28 Coach Elmer
Gross' underdogs swept past
one of the tournament favor
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Today . . .
' The Nittany Lion Roars
FOR the Lion soccer and
basketball teams which kept
Penn State in the sports lime
light during the vacation per
iod. The soccer team climaxed
an undefeated season by tying
a powerful San Francisco team
2-2. Coach Elmer Gross' basket
ball team advanced to the finals
of the Dixie ,Classic in Raleigh
before losing to undefeated
North Carolina State 50-40.
While most students traveled
home to turkey, these two
teams traveled west and south
to bring back the bacon.