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.