PACE SIX
Football
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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Dick Tamburo, younger brother
of State’s All-American end, Sain,
will 'probably start as offensive
center Sac Michigan State
Prep for Pitt