SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1950
Nittcmy Lion Soccer Team
Takes On Syracuse Today
Jeffreymen Seek
To Halt Win Skein
Of Uneaten Toe
By BUD FENTON
A new and strange situation
will confront the Lion soccermen
today when they meet Syracuse
at 2 o’clock on the Beaver soc
cer field.
This week it will be the duty
of the Jeffreymen to break a
streak instead of extend one—
as the Orange come to State Col
lege with a clean slate for the
season. The once defeated Penn
State team will attempt to end
the three-game string of the vis
itors.
Coach Art Horrocks will i\ ..l
what is touted as the best Syra
cuse team since before the war. A
double offensive threat in the
Goekjian brothers, Sam and Greg,
from Ethiopia, will have to, be
stopped if the • Lions are to be
successful in getting a new vic
tory string under way.
Buss—Offensive Ace
Clarence Buss will provide the
chief offensive weapons of the
Staters. He will probably start
at right wing, although he is also
exp'ected to see action at center
forward.
Ron Coleman and Harry Little
will perform the ball-handling
duties in the anticipated assault
on the Orange goal area. They
wil play inside left and right re
spectively. .
Gus Bigott will be at left wing
while Ed Smith gets the nod at
the center post if Buss plays .wing.
George Emig is expected to
continue his steady play at the
left halfback spot and will team
with Kurt Klaus and Frank Foll
mer on the halfback line. Klaus
"and Fdllmer will start at the cen
ter and right half slots.
Jay Simmons will hold down
the left fullback position and Bill
Yerkes will work with him in
front of the Lion goal which will
be inhabited for 88 minutes by
Ron Coder.
Lions Favored-
(Continued from page four)
can be expected that the Lions
•will be doing a little flinging, of
their own.
The West Virginia aerial screen
has been punctured for an aver
age of 146 yards per contest, while
the Lions have limited their op
ponents to 67:8 yards per game, to
rank sixth in the nation in pass
defense.
Backfield Changes
Lewis sent his charges through
a brief workout on Beaver field
yesterday afternoon and disclosed
that he plans three changes'in his
starting backfield. Allen will go
at quarterback for Bartgep, Al
Purello will spell Jimmy Corn
well at one halfback post, and
Bill Bryant will replace Len Bel
las at fullback.
Engle came up with one last
minute change, announcing that
Len Bartek would replace Tom
Pevamik at left guard. Andy Si
lock has been named to fill in
for the injured Pat McPoland at
defensive left end, while Engle
was still undecided whether to
start Con Brown or Dick Cripps
at defensive right tackle.
Manhattan, State
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The Manhattan team that has
dropped only one decision, a 27-28
defeat to Army, has improved
considerably since the beginning
of the campaign. The times turn
ed in when the Kelly Green
cross country team romped away
from the other New York schools
in the Met meet was by far the
finest chalked up by the East
ment crew.
Bill Lucas’ winning time o:
26:01 was 58 seconds better than
' the time turned in by the-five
State runners who tied for first
place against N.Y.U., on the
same Van Courtlandt park course.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
Lion Soccer Stalwart ...
Ronald Coleman
Medlar Reviews Athletic Feats
Amid the smell of wintergreen, perspiration, and the noise of
the-whirlpool bath, Chuck Medlar reigns supreme over the athletic
training room under the Beaver Field Stands
Thirty-one now, and still look
ing as if he could
without too
much’ trouble.
Chuck gets that
faraway look in
his eyes when
he talks of his
days at State
and his seasons
with the Detroit
Ti ger S’ farm
teams. Chuck Medlar
Charles “Chuck” Medlar, head
trainer and assistant baseball
coach, has been through the ath
letic mill. Hte was an athlete in
high school, prep school, college,
and. a professional baseball play
er/ He spent three years in the
Navy and just when it seemed
he was ready for the “Big Show,”
found the old flipper ailing.
The faraway look comes as he
recites the list of stopping places
on his tragically shortened pitch-
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Lou Boudreau Released;
AlLopez New Manager
Lou Boudreau' was out and A 1
Lopez, ex-pilot of the Indiana
polis Indians, was in as manager
of the Cleveland Indians, Cleve
land President Ellis Ryan an
nounced yesterday.
Lopez, 42, was a catcher in the
National League for 18 years and
played one year with the Indians
before being named manager of
the triple A club. He had held
that position for the past three
years.
Arrangements are “nearing
completion” for Boudreau, for
nine years the Tribe’s playing
[manager, to take another major
I league managerial job.
By GEORGE GLAZER
Ing career. He started in AA ball
with Beaumont in the Texas
League, a Detroit Tiger farm. He
moved up to Buffalo, in the
triple-A International League,
and then Uncle Sam beckoned.
It happened on a ship, this ac
cident that put an end to a career.
Chuck fell on his arm and found
that he couldn’t throw well. The
ligaments neyer healed correctly,
and even though he gave it an
other try at Buffalo after the
war, the mind was willing but
the body wasn’t.
Chuck was at State from 1938
to 1941. He played tackle under
Bob Higgins, pitched for Joe Be
denk,. and even played a little
freshman basketball. He was a
three-letter man in high school,
and played ball at Pennington
Prep before heading for the Nit
tany Valley. '
Talk Of ‘New Era’
Recalls Old Teams
By BUD FENTON
Every fall football moves into
the spotlight at Penn State and
builds up into a fever pitch of
enthusiasm as the weeks go by.
This year it promises to hit an
all-time high and the constant
talk is about the “new system”
and the “new era.”
This preoccupatiipn with the
“new” makes one think, what was
the old?
The “old” began in 1887, and
football certainly was not the
well organized sport it is now.
The boys on the first Nittany Lion
team were quite disappointed that
year when the Dickinson game
had to be cancelled. Why? The $4O
guarantee could not be raised to
give the Lions who were to make
the trip. A year later, the Buck
nell game had to be cancelled,
even after the $2O guarantee (plus
meals, of course) had been paid,
In 1946, Chuck returned to the
campus to complete school. A
Phys Ed major, Chuck got his
start with the arnica and heat
corps in 1941, when he injured
his knee. He helped Jack Hulme,
then trainer, while recuperating.
When Hulme died that Fall,
Chuck took over as head train-
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because the contest ended in a
fight.
There are some who say the
Englemen were pushed around up
at Army a short while ago. They
should have been with the team
long ago that was heroically hold
ing the onrushing Columbia A. C.
squad at the goal line. The home
town Washington, D.C. fans, dis
satisfied with the proceedings,
rushed onto the field, pushed the
ball-carrier over the line for a
touchdown, and then went home,
taking the team with them.
' Today the Lion squad is well
equipped and deep in manpower.
There is no danger of a recurrence
of the 1889 Lehigh game which
had to be played with nine men.
Many “grandstand quarter
backs” will wish for a turning
back of time when they hear that
it was not until sometime after
1900 that coaches were used. Pre
viously, the team lineup was
picked by aj:ommittee of students.
Roses To Unemployment
There was a Penn State team
that went to the Rose Bowl in
1922, but things went on a slide
after that. The next post-season
in which State saw action was the
Unemployment Fund game in
1931. (The record that year: 2 won
and 8 lost).
There were brighter days, of
course, like the 1920 game when
Lebanon Valley succumbed to the
College by a 109-7 score. In those
days they used to talk about the
’94 team that defeated Lafayette
72-0 and had seven schools re
maining on the schedule that year
immediately cancell its games.
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