PAGE SIX Gridders Show Progress In Scrimmage with Cornell After making a good impression against Cornell Uni versity in a closed scrimmage Saturday the Nittany Lion football team went back to hard practice last night in an attempt to smooth out the rough spots before the opener with Boston University this Saturday. Playing in their second scrim mage game of the fall season, the Lions displayed a surpris ingly strong offensive game against Cornell, capitalizing oh every break the Big Red team would give them. But Coach Rip Engle was quck to point out the good breaks the Penn State team received. 'Lot of Breaks' “Some people are jumping to conclusions about our showing against Cornell. We received a lot of breaks we wouldn’t ordin arily receive in a regular game.” Rip was just as quick to point out the progress the team has made since the scrimmage against Bucknell the week before last. “The boys are progressing fast. Our offense is beginning to come along fine, and we’re getting bet ter blocking up front on the line,” Rip said. Szajna Starts Bobby Szajna did most of the quarterbacking in the scrimmage contest, although T-ony Rados, who had been sidelined with an arm injury all week, did see limited action. Football coach Rip Engle and his staff wish to thank the College and the student body for their cooperation with the Cornell scrimmage Satur day. Cornell officials were pleased with the way the game was handled. Szajna was particularly im pressive during the time he was in the scrimmage. He connected on two long passes. Rados’ p.ass ing was held to a minimum be cause of his injured arm, but he did a good job of ball handling the short time he was in action. Backs Sparkle Dick Jones, Pete Shopa, and Buddy Rowell sparkled in the backfield for the Nittanies. Shopa was the running star of the day, eating up one long gain. after another through, the Cornell line. Rowell rnd Jones also proved good ground gainers, as both con tinually broke into Cornell’s sec ondary for good sized gains. Rowell was the only injury for the Lions. The speedy freshman suffered a badly sprained ankle. Trainer Chuck Medlar said he would have to wait a few days before he could determine how soon Rowell would be back in action. Shephard, Graison Impress Defensively, Engle was espe cially pleased with the line back ing jobs turned in by Co-captain Len Shephard and Joe Gratson. The two seniors continually bot tled up the Cornell running t tack by closing the holes in the Lions’ line. • Engle started a offensive lineup of Cq-captain Art Betts and Joe Yukica at ends, Ed Hoover and Bill Hockersmith at tackles, Tom Pavarnik and Len Bartek at guards, and Jim Dooley at cen ter, Szajna at quarterback, Bill Leonard at wingback, Dick Jones at halfback, and Paul Anders at fullback. Defense The defensive team was com posed of Pat McPoland and Char lie Wilson at ends, Stew Scheetz and Tom Pfirman at tackles, Or ville Haldeman at. guard, Shep hard and Gratson at the line backing posts, Joe Schumock, and Chan Johnson at halfbacks, and Wayne Wolfkeil at safety. Ted ShattUck, halfback, Bob Pollard, wingback, and Dick Cripps, tackle, did not play be cause of injuries. . ‘ Ferris Fain Boosts American Batting Lead CHICAGO, Sept. 24—(JP)—Fer ris Fain of Philadelphia picked up six more points last week to boost his average to .347, far in the lead for the A ican League batting championship. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN,. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Three Football Foes Triumph; B.U. Defeated William & Mary 34 BOSTON UNIVERSITY 25—Despite the fine play of quarterback Harry Agganis, BU went down to defeat in its first game with William & Mary, 34-25. Agganis, who was just discharged from the Marines; last Wednesday, scored a touch down, passed for two more, and kicked an extra point to spark the Terriers’ offense. MICHIGAN STATE 6 Oregon State o—The highly vaunted Michigan State team failed to im press in its opener with' Oregon State even though the Spartans won a 6-0 decision. The Spartans’ TD came when a fumbled hand off in the MS backfield was pick ed up by Don McAuliffe and carried into the end-zone. Jim Ellis was a standout as the Spar tans defensive safety man. WEST VIRGINIA 20 Waynes burg 9—The Mountaineers had to depend on two freshman backs to avoid 'being upset by little Waynesburg iii the season opener. Trailing 9-6, frosh halfbacks Carl Norman and Bledsoe scored consecutive touchdowns in the final ten minutes of play to give West Virginia a 20-9 victory. PITT-RUTGERS—In a scrim rriage Saturday morning, Pitts burgh’s Panthers scored a 16-7 win over Rutgers University. Both are future Lion opponents but neither team will open the season officially until this Satur day. Lou Cimarolli and Bill Rey nolds scored TDs for Pitt. Jim Manahan scored Rutgers’ lone six-pointer. Paul Blanda kicked a field goal for Pitt. SYRACUSE 19 Temple o—On Friday night; the Orange of Syra cuse successfully opened the 1951 season by whitewashing the Tem ple Owls, 19-0. Villanova, Nebraska, and Pur due, all future Penn State op ponents, -will not open the season until this Saturday. Villanova meets Army, Nebraska plays Texas Christian, and Purdue meets Texas. Not A Movie Star But . . . Ron Coleman Has Talent By TOM SAYLOR This' is a story about Ronald Coleman-, not the Ronald Cole man of film fame, but one who is just as talented in his own par ticular field. And the field is soc cer. Coleman’s soccer career resem bles Coach Bill Jeffrey’s in one respect. Both men started playing soccer as far back as grammar school. But that’s where the re semblance ends for Jeffrey play ed in Scotland, while this year’s Lion captain started in St. Louis at the St. Matthew’s Parochial school. Coleman could, however, fol low in Jeffrey’s footsteps. There is nothing he would like better than to coach the sport after graduation. Difficulties might en ter here though as Coleman will be graduated in June with a ma jor in journalism. Even so, he would like to con tinue the game in some manner. Near his hometown of St. Louis, there is a soccer major league. jßon has his eye set on that if he is unable to obtain a job as a coach. - As far as his college soccer goes, Coleman started as a center half back at the Edinboro State Teach er’s college. When he came to fM Grid Play Begins ; Entry Deadline Today Today is the deadline, for Fraternity ' and • Independent groups who plan to enter into intramural touch football and tennis singles, Dutch Sykes, assistant director of intramur al sports, reported. He also announced that IM football will begin tomorrow night. lFour games _ will be scheduled each evening,'Mon day through Friday, between hours of 7 and 11.. All entries should be in at reation Hall, at 5 p.m. Entry fee for touch football is $1 per team while tennis singles fee is 25 cents per man, he said.: The College tennis courts and the lighted practice area at New Beaver Field will be the sites for the tennis and football contests. Spoi-fswriters s Lead Gridders In Contes!" The Collegian sportswriters cap tured the lead over the football team in the first week of the “football pipedreams” selections contest. Football writer Ernie, Moore and assistant sports editor Bob Vosburg had sevens winners in the, ten games to garner a .700 percentage. Co-captain Art Betts gave the gridders a .600 mark with his six correct guesses. Dave Colton, assistant sports editor, lowered the writers’ average with a lowly .600 score. All four missed the Oklahoma A&M game: They must have read the same football book for- all predicted a win for the Aggies, who were walloped 42- 7. Moore garnered 'some glory .for his bold selection of Georgia Tech over Southern Methodist. The Ramblers ’ downed the Mustangs, 21-7. All missed Texas’ 7-6 win over the Kentucky Wildcats. Vos burg scored on Fordham’s mild 34-20 upset of Missouri. Each week the writers and a member of-the football team will match selections on the top ten games of the week. Only Satur day afternoon games will be se lected and no games in which future Penn State gridiron foes are participating will be included. At the end of the season the combined sports staffers’ percent age will be matched with the Ron Coleman State, however, Jeffrey was quick to realize his potentialities as a good ball -handler and • passer. Thus, the crew-cut speedster was installed at. his present-day post of inside left. . , ' . This season, the. Lion' captain thinks that the team “won’t be up Harriers Approach Condition for Pitt After having been .punished with three, seven-mile over-distance workouts, last week, the Nittany cross-country team" dropped down . to the standard- five-mile run in a workout on the golf course yesterday. . ' ■ Still sore from the hardest pre-season - pushing Coach Werner has done in one week for the last ten years, the team welcomed the shorter distance and .turned in a respectable showing. , ■ Pacing, the workout and rolling over the five-miles in fair time were, • Pete Sarantopolous, .Jack v Horner, Red Hollen, and Bill Ashenfelter. , Saddler, Pep End Training For Title Bout * NEW YORK, Sept. 24—(/P) — Featherweight champion Sandy Saddler and. challenger Willie Pep wound up training today for Wednesday’s fourth, edition' of their title series at the Polo Grounds.. Saddler, winner in two of three previous meetings,. remained _ a 2 to 1 favorite to do it again in this 15-rounder. , . __ . Pep prepared to leave his Hart ford, Conn., home for New York tonight after his final foUr-round drill. The 25-year-old champ, four years younger than the challeng er, also boxed four rounds at his Summit, N.J. camp. He will do road work tomorrow, breaking camp Wednesday morning. _ The two 126-pounders will weigh in at noon Wednesday at the of fice of the New York State. At hletic Commission. Overshadowed by the Sugar Ray Robinson-Randy Turpin fight two < weeks ago, the contest has not generated as. much excite ment as their earlier scraps. It may catch on in the final days. A gate of between $75,000 and $lOO,OOO-is expected by the Inter-, national Boxing Club which has a profitable movie and theater television deal on the side. The movies will bring $lOO,OOO and the -theater TV rights from 17 theaters in 13 cities outside of New York represent $lO,OOO. If Pep overcomes the odds and wins back the title, he will be come the first boxer ever to hold the same championship three times. Wily Willie, a master 'box er, held the crown from 1944 to Oct. 29, 1948 when Saddler knocked him / out in the fourth round to score a tremendous,up set. Pep outboxed Saddler to win it back, Feb. 11, 1949. They didn’t get together again ‘ until last September when Saddler de throned Pep on a TKO in the eighth. Pep retired with a should er injury although leading on most scorecards. It was the gen eral impression that Saddler was coming on strong and might have caught up with Willie, injury or ..no. to the standards of the past two years although we’ll have a good team' as usual. BiH Jeffrey’s a great coach and he’ll get the most from what he has, you can bet on that.” Coleman believes- that Army and Temple will give the boot ers the most trouble this year. The last time the Nittany Lions played' these clubs, .they came out on'the long end both- In 1949, State edged out the Phil adelphians, 2-1. In 1948, the Lions "downed the Cadets, 2-0, at West Point. - ' “My greatest thrill,” Coleman recalls, “was when ■ I went to Iran. It wasn’t so much from the soccer standpoint, but that ,we were representing the United States in a .good will policy. But I’ll, have'to admit they gave us a lesson in soccer.” CAPTAIN COLEMAN: Ron packs a solid 168 pounds over his five-foot, 10-inch frame . . . He is 21 years old and a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity Coleman has also played football and baseball in high school and at one time was . even thinking- of going to some, small college to play 'football.,. ' TtJESD AY,~ SEPTEMBER 25,'1991 5 Miles Easy At- ; ,the conclusion one of the runners - thought the “five' miles was easy.”'By comparison with seven miles it probably wap. The good,part of the statement is that five miles is the farthest a guy will have to go in a meet and if it feels easy now the team is surely coming around . toward season condition. - ; Ever-cautious Coach Chick Werner is neither too hot nor too cold, toward, the squad' at .this early, date but he is certain that the team will be ready for its opening test with Pitt Oct.’ 6. Team About Ready With almost, two weeks yet to pet sharp, the workout gave in dication that the team would be ready. ~ There has riot been'any forcing of the individuals as yet,, so no definite tearii positions can -be named with any degree of cer tainty. „ In fact, the ground has still-been too hard for the coaches to. insist on the runners using cross country spikes." 1 Yankees Near Winning Third Straight Flag NEW YORK," Sept., 24—(/P) Casey Stengel was close to his third straight pennant today with only one .300 hitter and no ,100 RBI men oirhis New York Yan kee club. Actually the Yanks were near er to the clinching than Brooklyn,, practically conceded the National League flag in mid-summer. The New York Giants continue to give the Dodgers fits down the stretch while the Yank opposition falters. Magic No. 3 ' Needing only three more wins or Cleveland defeats to nail it down, Stengel rested his. Yanks today for the final six-game dash to the wire. \ • Bob Kuzava (11-6), used only in relief since Aug. 9, was named to face Philadelphia’s Bobby Shantz (17-9) in a stadium battle of left handers tomorrow. Stengel hesi tated to take Kuzava out of the bullpen for he has been his most effective fireman. He’s 1-0 against the A’s since he was traded to New York by Washington Jude 15. ' . . ' Shantz Troublesome The Yanks expect trouble from Shantz, a five-foot-seyen inch toughie who has beaten them three times. Manager Jimmy Dykes was prepared to. shoot the works with Morris Martin (11-4) if Shantz was off form. . Cleveland, with only three games to play, faces Chicago in a night game at Comiskey Park to morrow with Early Wynn,- .(20-12) to face lefty Billy Pierce (14-14), another toughie. - Boston, .five games behind 1 and practically eli minated. plays a night game at : Washington tomorrow. PENNANT RACES AT A GLANCE NATIONAL LEAGUE : v W L" Pet. GB GL Brooklyn 93 54 .633 ; . 7 New .York .92 ~ 58 .613 2% 4 . Remaining games: - Brooklyn at home away (7) Bos ton, Sept. 25 (2),-.'26, 27: Phftadelphia, Sept. 28. 29, 30.' . ..New York at home.(O); away (4) Phila delphia, Sept 25, 26 : Boston, Sept. 29, SO. AMERICAN LEAGUE New York 93 - 55, -- « Cleveland 92 .59 .609 2% 3 ■ Boston' 87 59 - .596 5 8 -> Remaining- games: • -- New York—at home (6) Philadelphia Sept. .25; Boston,: Sept 28 '{2l, Sept 29 (2), Sept. 30, away (0). -1 Cleveland —at ' home (2) Detroit, Sept. 29, .30- Away {1) Chicago, Sept. 25. R o3 ton —at home (o).' Away. (8) Wash ignton, Sept 25, 26, 27; New York, Sept. 28 (2). 30.
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