PACE SIX Football To Click It’s «ak slow in coming but Penn State's football team is gradually taking on the look of a well balanced and well trained grid machine. The Lions’ offense, which had been anything but impres sive the past week, is beginning to develop the smoothness that is necessary for a good T-team. The offense, especially, had been a worry for Coach Kip Engle because of the injuries which have taken three of the first team backfield from action. Quarterback Tony Rados, half back Ted Shattuck and wing back Bob Pollard, all slated as starters for the Nittany Lions, are still unable to take part in any contact work. Begin To Click But with Bill Leonard taking over for Pollard, Dick Jones re placing Shattuck at halfback, and Bobby Szajna calling the signals, the offense is starting to show some life. The Lions still have not pro gressed to the point where they are ready to meet Boston Uni versity in the opener, Sept. 29. You can’t lose such men as Shat tuck, Pollard, and Rados and not feel it. Rip is still worried about the all - important quarterback position around which State’s wing-T is built. One Quarterback With Rados out, Szajna is En gle’s only quarterback. The re mainder of the quarterback can didates are freshmen. Both Szaj na and Rados are without var sity experience, although Szajna did play most of the scrimmage against Bucknell last Friday. It’s still not certain when Ra dos will be able for contact work. He was out throwing some short passes yesterday afternoon but stayed out of the rough stuff, for fear of reinjuring his passing arm. Pollard, Shattuck, center Joe Shumock and tackle Dick Cripps are not expected back un til next week. Blocking Good The Lions put in a full two hour session yesterday going through some pass plays, punt returns, and a short scrimmage. During the half hour devoted to punt returning, spectators watching the practice were es pecially impressed with the vi cious blocking given the Lion runners. Dick Jones, Chan John son, and Buddy Rowell did most of tire returning. Stew Scheets, defensive tackle, stayed on the sidelines after hav ing a tooth pulled yesterday.- New Grid Foe Penn State’s opening opponent in 1953, a football foe for the first time, will be the University of Wisconsin. IM Entry Deadline _ IM touch football and tennis singles entry deadline is 5 p.m. Tuesday, according to Dutch- Sykes, assistant director of intramural sports. Pigskin Pipe Dreams The Lion football team has accepted the challenge of the Collegian sports staff to predict top collegiate football games of the week. This week co-captain and offensive end Art Beits has agreed to match selections with the Collegian's Ernie Moore, sports editor, and his assistants, Dave Colton and Bob Vosburg. Each week a guest grid star and the three writers will attempt to pick the winners of ten top games played Saturday afternoon of that week. At the end of the season, the writers' overall average will be compared to the athletes. The top games this week are intersectional clashes between Texas and Kentucky, and Georgia Tech-SMU. All of the "experts" favor Kentucky to upset the Longhorns. Moore selects Georgia Tech, and the others predict an SMU victory. Moore Colion Vosburg Beits Ark—Oka. A & M Okla. A&M Okla, A&m' Okla. A&M Okla. A&M Calit.—Santa Cla. California California California_ California Ga. Tech—SMU Ga. Tech" SMU SMU SMU Ke. ucky—Texas Kentucky Kentucky Kentucky Kentucky Missouri—Fordham Missouri Missouri Fordham Missouri N.Cuv.—N.Car.Sl. N. Carolina N. Carolina N. Carolina N. Carolina Oregon—Stanford Stanford Stanford Stanford Stanford S.Carolina—Duke Duke ,’Duke Duke Duke S.Cali—Wash.St. So. Calif. | So. Calit So. Calif. So. Calif. Wash—Montana : Washingi'n V/ashingt'n Washingl'n Offense Despite Defensive Stalwart •• . V.v**v ' <• : .•.+ '■•■> '•»*■ >• s- ~ ♦ •••• ?y*\f Offensive Giant s •• t' l Basketball Candidates Candidates for the varsity basketball team are asked to report to Bee Hall at 6:30 p.m., Monday for the first night of practice. Candidates should bring their own shoes and equipment. All sophomores interested in second assistant managerships are asked to report to Bee Hall at 6 p.m.. Monday. Washtnrgi'n THE DAILY CTSLLEOIAN, STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA \ *1 ' • t Begins injuries Lion Tackles Will Average 215 Pounds This is the second of a series on Penn Stale's football team, examining the squad position by position to see just who will represent the Nittany Lions on the gridiron this fall. Today— the tackles. By ERNIE MOORE Opponent line plungers are going to meet a lot of beef when they slice into one of Penn State’s tackles this fall. The average weight of the 11 - 'Lion tackles listed on the roster is 215 pounds. Letterman and defensive tackle Stew Scheetz ups the average with his 240 pounds. Stew is the heaviest man on the squad. From there the weights range down to Jack Pfirman’s 198 pounds. 4 Veterans Back Four lettermen return to the positions to give Coach Rip Engle experienced men at both the of fensive and defensive Hoover, Dick Cripps, Jim Barr, and Scheetz are the returning veterans. Hoover will line up with Big Bill Hockersmith as the starting offensive tackles. Hoover tips the scales at 215 pounds and stands 6 feet 3 inches. Hockersmith is the Lions’ “big man,” weighing in at 235 pounds, standing 6, feet 5 inches. Hoover, Hockersmith Team Hover will be used almost en tirely on the offense, while Hock ersmith may see defensive action also. Jim Barr and Herb Raif snider back them up on the offense. ! Scheetz and Dick Cripps will probably team as' the defensive tackles. Cripps stands .6-1 and weighs 212. Most of the other tackles will do double duty, playing on both the offense and defense. And all of them will be back next year.- Andy Balakonis, a junior; Cy Brown, a sophomore; Amen Has sen, a sophomore; Jack Pfirman, a junior; and Joe Pascarella, a sophpmore, will give Engle depth at the two tackle posts. Pfirman saw action as a defensive guard in the Bucknell scrimmage. Brown, Hassen, and Pascarella played for Coach Earl Bruce’s freshman team last year. 3 Golfers Tied In Reading Tourney READING, Pa., Sept. 20 (TP) Three players tied today for the first round lead in the $15,000 Reading Golf Open Tournament. Jim Turnesa, of Briarcliff, N.Y., Doug Ford of Harrison, N.Y., and Jimmy Clark of La guna Beach, Calif., fired two un der par 69’s to gap 14'2 players. Turnesa, second youngest of seven golfing brothers, was one of the last to finish. He paired the first nine and came in two under on the back course, miss ing a hole in one on the 195 yard No. 15. Ford, a chunky scrapper play ing only his second year in the pro ranks, toured the par 35-36- 71 Berkleigh Country Club with five birdies. Two of the Best Two of Penn State’s 1951 foot ball opponents, Michigan State and Nebraska, are expected to rank among the top ten teams in the country. Of Penn State’s nine football opponents, two will be under new coaching direction in 1951. Art Raimo-succeeds his former boss, Jim Leonard, at Villanova,- and the boss himself, Tom Hamilton, takes over for the departed Len Casanova, at Pitt. Football Managers Sophomore men interested in becoming second assistant football managers should turn their names in to 107 Old Main as soon as possible. „ Early Harrier Drills Spells Hard Work Aches and pains. They are the only words Iron, the golf course training camp of Penn Slate’s 1951 edition of the defending national championship cross-country team. What’s, more, tedious training and hard work will be the only order-of-the-dajr for the harrier p: Bail Jeffrey Nearing 50th Year in Soccer By TOM SAYLOR According to Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary, the word synonymous means “alike or nearly alike in. meaning or sig nificance.” And for an illustration of syn onymous terms, one might take as an example Bill Jeffrey and soccer. For Jeffrey has been as sociated with the game since 1902, the year he first started playing. Two years later the amiable Scotsman took his first step, to ward soccer fame when he was part of a squad which nabbed the grammar school soccer title of Scotland. Arrived in U.S. “Later on, I played some junior •soccer. Junior soccer over there is equivalent to semi-pro here in the United States. After that, I came here to the United States to es cape professional soccer,” Jef frey recalled. “I went to Altoona to play for the Altoona Railway Shop team. As I recall, we made our first visit to the Penn State campus in 1925.” Evidently State officials liked what they saw for Jeffrey was hired the following year as head coach of soccer. And he’s done a bang-up job ever since. Over a period of exactly 25' years, Penn State’s soccer clubs have com piled the enviable record of 139 wins, 20 losses, and .24 ties.- The Midshipmen of Annapolis have inflicted one-quarter of these defeats. 65 in a Row At - one stage, 1932-41, Penn State was unbeatable in soccer. During that decade, the Lions were riding high with a 65-game streak. However, all good things must come to an end, and the winning streak was no exception. Army turned the tables when it blanked State, 1-0, at West Point. Pull soccer honors were be stowed on Jeffrey in ; the sum mer of 1950 when he headed a United States team that partici pated in the soccer “World Series” in Brazil. . ' Between the Lions Most athletic coaches will tell you that the breaks of the game even up over a season, or over the years, and that’s the way it was this week for Rip Engle and his coaching staff. ~ 1 Early in tlie week, the news came out of Lincoln, Neb:, that Bobby Reynolds,'the Cornhuskers’ All-American back had suffered a shoulder injury and would probably miss the Penn State game, Oct. 13. Wednesday, Boston Uni versity was cheered by the re lease of Harry Agganis from the armed forces. Agganis is the boy who was tabbed for All-East and possibility All-American quarter back honors before he was draft ed last season. His departure left a huge! vacancy in Buff Donelli’s backfield, The fall, agile ball-handler has been playing .... service ball ap'' will probably : port io Cot Donelli in fa shape. Undoul edly he will action in . Lion encounic next Saturday which raises *' Terriers chant for victory. Still another future Nittany foe, Pitt, was strengthened by the return to campus of two former varsity players. Paul Chess, and Bill Sitchko, two of the 'Marine re turnees, have had considerable playing experience. Chess, was a second string end in ’4B, but was Friday, 2i;^i rcwpects for at laaat another week. | - Work byword’ Work im the iiirword o£ the opening weeks of practjV.e. Coach es Chide Werner and Norm Gor don cannot votudbly teach the tricks and techniques of hill-and dale running until the runners are in shape to absorb them. But, Coach Chick Werner said yesterday, once the fallows .are in condition there will be smooth er sailing. The unusually excellent Sep tember State College weather has been a big conditioning-Help. It’s a safe' bet the Lions will be ready for Pitt when they arrive two weeks from tomorrow. . • By this opening date, Oct. 6, the blisters on captain Dud Fos ter’s feet should be hardened and the kink in junior Bob Gehman’s leg ought to Tie unraveled; • The Lions should be over the-con ditioning “hump” when Pitt ar rives. On the freshman side, -Coach Werner is going to simmer down a hustling crew of frosh over the ■weekend with less strenuous workouts. Many frosh have been staying right beside the varsity in their six-mile over-distance runs. A need for second assistant managers for the cross-country squad has arisen. Interested persons should report to the coaches after 4 p.m. on the golf course directly behind Rec HalL Clubs Throw Aces Today NEW YORK, Sept. 20—(im probable pitchers for tomorrow’s major league games (won and lost records in parenthesis): AMERICAN LEAGUE New York at Boston—Reynolds (15-8) vs Kiely (7-4).. Cleveland at Detroit Feller (22-8) vs Gray (6-14). (Only games scheduled) NATIONAL LEAGUE Philadelphia at Brooklyn (night)—Roberts (20-12) vs La bine (4-0). " - - Chicago at, St. Louis (night)—■ Hiller (6-11) vs Staley (17-13). (Only games scheduled) For Best Results Use Collegian Classifieds By DAVE COLTON Assistant Sports Editor shifted to fullback in the spring drills. He was slated for first string bucking duty last season and was publicized as the Panth ers’best back. - Sitchko understudied Bimbo Cecconi during the ’49 campaign but was running at first string left-half until he entered the Marine Corps prior to last sea son. With the addition of-these two, Pitt will have plenty of of fensive. power this fall. *** t ' Ted Shattuck's brother, Paul, is a 200 pound freshman tackle candidate. Someday Shattuck may lead interference for Shattuck. Tony "Pud" Constantino, for mer running sensation' at. Blairs ville High; is another gridder who sought “greener football pas tures” in another State. A sopho more this year,- he has been starr ing in scrimmage as a halfback at Miami University. y * * * Dick Tamburo, younger brother of State’s All-American end, Sain, will 'probably start as offensive center Sac Michigan State Prep for Pitt
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