TUESDAY. OCTOBER 1. 'On The Ball' BY RAY KOEHLER Sports Editor It was an .elated Rip Engle who walked through the tur bulent, steamy Penn State shower room after his Big White's altogether surprising 34 to 14 win over the George- town Hoyas. "Congratulations—and thanks," he called to the members of his valiant, sweat-soaked band who had just opened his debut as Nit tany chieftian on such a concord ant note. And they, grinning hap pily at their popular boss, wished him the same and no doubt thought—"lt couldn't have hap pened to a nicer guy." Standing by after the rounds had been made, the white haired tactician said, pointedly, "Of course we're pleased mighty pleased—that we could start off with a win, but we're not satis fied. We are never satisfied—the team is not perfect now and won't be even at the end of the season. "We have a great bunch of guys, but we'll really have to ' get down to work this week," —and everybody in the room knew exactly what he meant —ARMY: Prior to the game the big ques tion had been—" Will Penn State be able to hold up under an ex pected Hoya aerial barrage?" Re viewing the contest in which his hard-charging Nittany line and alert secondary so aptly respond ed to the challenge, Engle observ ed, "Our pass defense has improv ed greatly in the past few weeks and we're all pretty happy about it." What he left unsaid remains ob vious. This coming Saturday's tilt with the Black Knights will prove just how efficient State's defense will be against a "big league" op ponent which utilizes both a grinding ground attack and a deadly aerial thrust with equal facility. Not wishing to appear overly pessimistic, it could be noted that two weeks ago, following the Lion-Cornell scrimmage at Ithaca, New York, Big Red coach Lefty James approached a Collegian reporter and lauded the Penn State defensive man euvers as the most "confusing" he had seen in years. Pointing up his defensive pla toon the Rip noted that if any praise is to be spread around it should fall upon State's defense men. "They got us out of quite a number of holes," he said. Notes written on the back of a Beaver Field pictorial . . . Earle (Scooter) Mundell gave the folks a large charge on two separate occasions but' only one of his feats went into the+ record books. Taking a Georgetown punt on State's 29-yard line WI Earle rambled some 70-odd yards only to have his TD jaunt recalled• for stepping out of bounds as he tightrope walked down the sideline stripe. Later Mundell—again on the receiving end of a Hoya punt —carried the mail for a 44-yard return. Shades of 1947—'48—Memories of Penn State's magnificent line play during the golden years of 1947 (Cotton Bowl team) and 1948 flooded back during the first half as State's '5O defensive version held its far heavier opponent, to a single skimpy first down. The disfiguring 12-yard long "G" which appeared almost magically in the center of Beaver Field was estimated by Campus Patrol authorities to have been burned in the grass between 6 and 8 o'clock Friday night. Also, the now well-scrubbed Nittany Lion received its second coat of paint within the week the same evening about 7:45 o'clock. With eight more football games to .go can you blame' him if the Lion starts to get a trifle thin skinned about the whole thing. We've finally figured out why the Blue Band always rushes through its parade rou tine. It's not that they are in a hurry to get back to their seats before same are appropriated by Gridders Win For Rip 112Xrj (Continued from. page one) yards for the score. Dick Haesler converted and at 2 minutes 50 seconds of the first period, Georgetown led, 7-0. After muffing one scoring op portunity by losing the ball on downs on the Georgetown 16 yard line, the Lions rolled 58 yards in seven plays. They were to score three times within B'' minutes. ~ • I i• O'Bara started the Lions goal ward bound with a 14-yard com pletion to John Smidansky for a first down on the HOya 44. Orsini, who gained 66 yards during the game, churned 19 yards to the 25, O'Bara hit Art Betts on the 3, sophomore fullback Ted Shattuck bucked to the 3-inch line, and Orsini climbed over a goal-line pile-up to score. O'Bara converted and it was all ever_ 7-7. A Hoya fumble recovered by tackle Stew Scheetz on the Georgetown 24 resulted in State's isecond six-pointer 4 minutes and 130 seconds later. Shattuck, who was the leading ground-gainer in his varsity debut with 72 yards, picked up a first down, and suc cessive passes by Koerber to Owen Dougherty and Smidansky produced the touchdown that put the Lions ahead permanently. This time O'Bara missed and the Lions led, 13-0. It took the Lions exactly two and one half minutes to add their third touchdown. Taking posses sion on the Hoya 42, the Lions Coal Crackers Absorb Ist Loss The once-mighty Coal Cracker touch football squad came to the end of the victory road last night as the Bees, an unknown in .in dependent ranks, put across a 6-0 stopper. The Crackers had won 11 games over a two-year period. In other first round battles in the independent loop, the Brown ies edged Nittany Co-op in over time, 1-0; the Aristocrats passed their way to a 13-7 verdict over Dorm 12; and the Newman Club crushed Hart's Haven by a count of 20-0. Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Delta Up silon, Pi Kappa Alpha, and Sigma Pi, all came through last Friday night with second round victories in fraternity league play. SAE took advantage of numerous breaks to wallop Acacia, 20-0; Triangle was the victim of the DU's, 13-0; Sigma Pi edged past Tau Kappa Epsilon, 7-6; and Phi Sigma Delta were overtime losers to PiKA, 1-0. hat men. The simple fact is that' they can't keep up with their lanky 6-foot 5-inch baton twirl er, Jay Lucas, who averages two strides per five-yard marker. See Us For: YARN (All Colors) STATIONERY Nittany Card & Gift Shop Opposite Atherton Hall STARLITE DRIVE-IN ON BELLEFONTE ROAD Shows 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday DOUBLE FEATURE "Don't Trust Your Husband" Fred Mac Murray Madeline Carroll —plus-- "Counterfeiters" John Sutton Also Selected Short Subjects THE C.7.'7.7.2'31: COLLE:I77, PENNSYLVANIA O'Bara Starts Drive scored in four. plays. O'Bara clicked to Orsini on the 30 and the slippery halfback squirmed his way to the 15 before beinq dragged to the turf. Shattuck smashed up the middle to the 3. Andy Takes TD Toss Andy Shock and went off left tackle on the next play for the score. O'Bara split the uprights and the Lioris led 20-7. Fake Field Goal Within 5 minutes and 15 sec- I onds the Lions scored their fourth touchdown, this one coming, on a beautifully conceive: and master fully executed faked field goal at tempt. O'Bara pretended holding for a 29-yard attempt by Toe Gratson, faded back and heaved end-zoneward to Betts, who ad ded insult to accumulating in jury by making a leaping one handed catch between two Hoya defenders. O'Bara's boot was per fect and the Lions walked off the field at halftime with a 27-7 bulge. Although the action slowed down perceptibly in the second half, the Hoyas made a comeback attempt and managed to beat En gle's boys to the punch, convert ing an intercepted pass into a score. Tom Hardiman passed 15 yards to Dick Losh for the tally and Haesler converted, to cut the State lead to 27-14. Johnson turned the fire on the Hoyas with a 32-yard pass inter ception that led to the Lions' final touchdown. The Blue and White moved to a first down on the Georgetown 20, but when three running plays failed to net any thing, Koerber located Andy Si lock in the end zone. O'Bara made it four out of five with a success ful conversion. thiel Issues hid Call For Frosh tacrosse Players WANTED: AN UNLIMITED NUMBER of freshmen to, play lacrosse for Penn State's freshman team. Good chance to earn a varsity letter inside of two years. 'ltmt go through short training period. Plenty of chances for advancement. No ex perience necessary. Apply for application at Coach Nick Thiel's office in Rec Penn State lacrosse coach Nick Thiel is issuing another call for freshman candidates for the frosh lacrosse team. Only 17 men anrovered the first call. Thiel believes that either the frosh have late classes and are under the impression that they can not get late meals, or that they are leary of trying out for a sport that is strange to them. Any student out for a sport can get a late meal until 6:15 p.m. if he signs out for one. Thiel especially wishes to point out that experience is not needed in order to try out for the squad. Nearly 95 per cent of last year's squad never had a lacrosse stick in their hands until they entered college. Three all-American lacrosse players from State, Jimmy Rid dell, George Ritter and Joe An duckitus had no experience what soever before coming to college. Lacrosse is a spring sport, but stick handling must be learned in the fall so that the short spring practice period can be given over to practicing offensive and de densive maneuvers and molding a team. Any freshman wishing to try out fo rthe team should report to Thiel in his office in Rec hall, or report directly to the practice field. Call For Wrestlers All candidates for the wrestling team are to report to Rec Hall at 4 o'clock this afternoon, ready and dressed for a special prelim inary instruction and workout. PENN STATE vs,. ARMY SAT.; OCT. 7th Avoid Traffic Congestion—Travel in Comfort via Scenic Steamer Route Special Steamer Leaves Ft. W. 42nd St. N. Y. C. 9:30 AM. Arrives West Point 12:45 Round Trip Steamer Fare $2.00 Parking areas available near Pier Hudson River Day Line Inc. New York City State Fields First Frosh X-Coun;ry Squad Since '42 Penn State will field this year its first freshman cross country team since the undefeated frosh aggregation of 1942. Freshman Coach Norm Gordon and varsity Coach Chick Wer ner are still in the process of scheduling meets for the coming freshman campaign. Since State's normal opponents continued freshman sports during the lapse on the Nittany campus, the diffi culty of scheduling has arisen. Gordon's freshman harriers will open their season against Pitts burgh, Oct.. 14 at Schenley Park in the "Smoky City". Among the outstanding pros pects reporting to Gordon's squad are: Oliver Sax, Gus Omrod, Pete Judd, Richard Grice, Robert Hon en, Carl Godshall, James Cress man, Don Bagby, Paul Sheaffer, and Herman Benninghoff. NOTICE TO PEPSI-COLA VENDORS If you operate a Roulette type machine and are in need of operative repairs contact— DICK HAUPT 318 Windcrest tel. 3906 Tune in WMAJ Every Tuesday al 9 P.M. RIP ENGLE MEW STORE'S Salute to Foothar expert analysis by 'RIP' ENGLE Penn State Football Coach weekly round-up br JIM COOGAN College Sports Publicist Dedkcated to Penn Stake Students by ATHLETIC STORE The Bookstore on the Corse PAGE
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