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Grid Injury
Keeps Growing
If Penn State manages to field
a full football squad for the Bos
ton University opener, Sept. 29,
a good deal of the credit will
have to go to Doc Greiss, team
physician, Chuck Medlar, team
trainer, and the rest of the as
sistant train e r s who've been
working with the Lions ~ almost
as long dnd hard as Rip Engle
and his coaching staff.
Putting the Lions through the
closest thing to actual games as
possible—intra-squad scrimmages
—in order to give the men prac
tical experience, Engle's practice
plans have all but been upset by
the ever increasing injury list.
Pollard Hurt Again
In Monday night's scrimmage,
Bob Pollard, No. 1 man at wing
back, suffered a contusion of the
hip as did guard Don Barney.
Defensive tackle Dick Cripps al
so was forced to the sidelines
with a muscle strain.
Pollard had just returned to
contact work after being side
lined for a week with a bad
charley horse. Both he and Bar
ney will be
,forced out of scrim
mages for another week. Cripps
should be able to scrimmage
again in a couple of days, ac
cording to Trainer Chuck Medlar.
List Grows
These three will join halfback
Ted Shattuck, quarterbacks Tony
Rados and John MacAvoy, center
Joe Shumock, and guard Pete
Schoderbek on the "unavailable
for scrimmage" list.
The injury problem is begin
ning to get real serious what
with a number of key men un
able to take part in any contact
work. With Shattuck and Pol
lard not expected back for an
other week and the Boston Uni
versity game just a week and a
half away, State's backf i e l d
punch might not be as sharp
as it, could be in the .season
opener.
Three Backs Out
Rados is expected to ready in
a 'few days but even ' that's not
certain. With Pollard, Shattuck,
and Rados out, that leaves only
Paul .Anders from the first team
backfield able to participate in
scrimmages.
Although the injuries have un
doubtably hurt the Lions' pro
gress, Engle reports that the team
spirit is still high and hopes it
will stay that way.
'We only hope that the breaks
will even themselves out as the
season progresses," Rip com
mented.
Writers Challenge
Lion Football Team
To Guessing Game
MEM=
The Daily Collegian society of
sorry swamis throws down the
gauntlet to the Nittany Lion foot
ball squad, and dares it to join
the scHbes. in putting its foot in
its mouth every Friday.
Each year four Collegian sports
staffers join to predict the out
come of the weekend's top foot
ball contests. Each 'year they do
pretty badly. Each year the ball
players have a hearty laugh at
the efforts of the sportswriters.
So this year the .writers chal
lenge. the football team to do any
better. They offer the Lions the
chance to send a man up against
them every week, to match his
forecasts againsts theirs. The per
centages of the writers will be
averaged and chalked up against
that of the ballplayer.
Here's your chance, Lions. Put
up or pipe down.
Nine-Game Card
Penn State's traditionally
strong soccer team will undertake
a nine-game schedule in 1951.
AIM Bowling League
The Association of Indepen
dent Men's bowling league
will have a meeting at the
Beaver House, 329 E. Beaver
avenue. at 7:30 p.m., Monday.
Non-fraternity students are
eligible to enter this league.
Only one representative from
each team is required to at
tend the meeting.
tHE DAILY'. COLLEGIAN, STATE PENNSVVITANIA
List
Injured Again
808 POLLARD
Allen, Stern
To Describe
Grid Games
A topnotch pair of announcing
"teams," Mel Allen and Bob
Stanton, and Bill Stern and Joe
Hasel wi 11 describe 19 college
football games televised this sea
son by Westinghouse Electric
Corporation, on NBC and affil
iated stations.
First video games on the West
inghouse-NCAA schedule are for
Sept. 29 when the Eastern states
will see the Pittsburgh-Duke
contest and the Princeton-Colum
bia game will be received in the
mid-west.
J. M. McKibbin, Westinghouse
Vice-President in charge of con
sumer products, said, 'We have
been sucessful in aranging a most
attractive schedule. We are also
happy that Westinghouse has
been, able to secure such out
standing announcers. These four
men represent 60 years of radio
and television football and will
add to the viewing of the na
tion's top games."
Allen and Stanton will - air the
Notre Dame - SMU, Oct. 13. and
Michigan -Ohio State, Nov. 24
games carried on NBC's full 52
stations. Stern and Hasel an
nounce the Illinois-Wisconsin Oct.
6 game to the full network.
Both "teams" will be heard
throughout the fall doing games
exclusively for eastern viewers
and others for western viewers.
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MAURICE EVANS
"KIND LADY"
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FRED' MacMURRAY
ELEANOR PARKER
"A MILLIONAIRE
• FOR CHRISTY"
JEANNE CRAIN
"TAKE CARE OF
MY LITTLE GIRL"
A Keyhole View of
Sorority Life
Freshmen Will Have Rough Time
Breaking
By JAKE HIGHTON
Of all the Penn State freghman
athletes eligible to compete on
varsity sport squads this year, it
is doubtful if any has a harder
path toward achieving that goal
than frosh cross-country runners.
For the naturally burly gridder,
husky boxer or skillful wrestler,
basketball or baseball player it
is still quite a feat to make a
Penn State varsity as first-year
man but nothing compared to
the achievement it would be if
one of the twenty-odd freshman
candidates for h e x-country
team made the grade this fall.
Five Mile Jaunt
No matter how "natural" any
of this season's frosh may be, the
fact that they are confronted
with a five-mile run for the first
time in their lives makes their
attempts to ma k e the varsity
most unnatural.
In high school, if th e frosh
runners ever did run x-country it
was never more than two and
one-half or thr e e miles. It is
probable that many of the bud
ding Penn State hill-and-dalers
Coleman Is
Sure Starter
For Booters
With a little more than two
weeks remaining before the op
ener against Bucknell, the Lion
soccer team now is rapidly round
ing into shape.
In the front line, where State
lost the heaviest by graduation,
Jeffrey has but one sure starter.
At the present time, Captain Ron
Coleman, inside left, is the only
one assured of a starting berth.
Soph May Start
At the wing positions,• sopho
more, Hap Irvin and Gil Hess
seem to have the inside track.
Irvin was one of two frosh who
made the now-famous Iran trip.
The other was Jack Pinezich, a
second semester freshman who
might open, up against Bucknell
at inside right, Harry Little's old
position.
The other forward spot, cen
ter, is a battle between junior
Ellis Kocher and sophomore Don
Shirk. Should Kocher receive the
nod come Oct. 6, then Jeffrey
might possibly shift Shirk to an
inside position. On the - other
hand, should Shirk start against
the Bisons from Lewisburg, then
Kocher might be moved over to
a wing position. Both men are,
nevertheless, good control men
and good ball handlers.
Another battle looms at the
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Friday Midnight Show
Doors Open 11:30, Seats 60c
into X -Country Lineup
never ran a race of more than one
mile in their lives.
With freshman x-country re
introduced here last fall after a
seven-year lapse, it gave the
you n g• runners a gradual step
before moving up to varsity five
mile competition as sophomores.
Freshman races were only three
miles.
No Frosh Squad
• But the frosh harrier sport is
again a thing of the past. Frosh
runners are faced with the Paul
Bunyan-like task of going two
extra miles before they are phy
sically developed for
_such a
grind. In x-country each succeed
ing mile gets mighty long.
Distance-running maturity
doesn't come until later in the
twenty-year age bracket. That's
the main reason varsity track
Coach. Chick Werner doesn't ap
prove of kids fresh from high
school running five miles.
In all the 19 years of Coach
ARROW PRODUCTS Featured at
THURSDAY, 20:" 1951
Werner's reign as head, Nitiany
track coach,. and most likely be
fore, there has only • been - one
man who could have madetlie
varsity if he had been eligible.
For that extraordinary :athlete
Werner harks back to 1937 - and
a Lion frosh Intercollegiate, x
country champion, Billy Smith.
Although th e silver-thatched
Werner would not commit him
self he did let a hint slip that it
was possible that by , the time
the third or fourth meet rolled
around and a couple of the frosh
had "found" the distance, .some
varsity men might be greatly
"surprised."
Who could possibly be an
other Billy Smith? It is not likely
that anyone will be. However,
the names of Tom Dembuski and
Lamont Smith ought to be tucked
away in a small corner of the
track fans brain.
130 S. Allen Street
May Be Surprised