The Nittany Realm - ■ J . 'v . • - ' !s■. ' . , To. the students who have been attending Penn State for a couple of years or so, and to-the'folks who once attended of are -familiar in other ways with the “Nittany and Nittany Lion” are.-familiar and meaningful terms; . * • ' \ ; But to the many freshmen and people who are unfamiliar with 1 - the history, of the-Penn State trademark, questions may arise as to, .J: „whaiit, means. . The Nittahy Lion emblem; iyhich has been treasured by. Penn State- students, throughout thei many years, dates back' to. 1906. :The State baseball team of that : year was playing Princeton bn the - latter’s ■ diamond - during the Com - mencement exer cises. Some/ the - .Penn Sta team, who wei . being shown round the Prince ton campus, n< ticed at. the en trance . of the gymnasium., tw/ tigers importe from PhiladelpJ upion. These Tigers, the. ■ traditional symbol. ol Princeton, suggested -to them the idea that Penn Stale should also have an emblem..-It also occured to them that since -the Lion is-more, formidable than the tiger, it would be a proper, emblem for the'. College. Since then the Lion has been the symbol of Penn State, and Penn State teams. 'The-,famous Nittany, Lion ‘ is. the variety of animal that inhabited the ■ Nit tany mountain which over-looks State College, and not the African variety. ‘' ' ' Soccer Must Wait While Klaus By TOM,SAYLOR Soccer will have to take a bach seat for 1 center halfback Kurt Klaus next. Saturday. - ' . On tliat date, Klaus will take the “big step” with Miss Joan Moore of Philadelphia. The affair promises to be a gala celebra tion as Klaus has invited the whole soccer teani. Until then, however, Klaus,.will continue to concentrate on soc cer, the only sport he has ever played, Halfback Duty From his high school days- in Northeast until the present, Klaus has seen nothing but halfback duty. At Northeast, he was chosen captain of the team in his senior year and was later picked on the Philadelphia . All-Scholastic team. This' team later played a! similar plub from New York, featuring Paul Dierks,. who now is Penn State’s regular right fullback. Klaus isn’t exactly sure why he chose'to "play center halfback ex cept that “there’s more action there and the plays seem to re volve around it.” , :At Swarthmore Center, where Klaus played before he came to State, the bridegroom-to-be play ed-along side several- of his pres ent Penn State teammates—Frank Follmer, .Gary Nugent, and Jack Charlton, Ironically, all four start ed'iat Northeast. Lighthouse Team Klaus’s soccer career goes even further than high school and col lege.., Klaus was a member of the Lighthouse soccer team of Phila delphia, which won the national junior, title for two years. Klaus believes that Coach Bill Jeffrey is striving for the type of soccer at Penn State that is played in Iran. ‘-What Bill is trying to do at State; is emphasize an acceleration type - of ball.' That’s. a short pass coupled with keeping the ball in motion at all times,” Klaus said. “Another idea that Bill uses is the idea ,of having all three half backs on the offence, instead of two?’ Klaus said. “Usually the center halfback will- play back with the fullbacks.” GOAL LINE GOSSIP: Klaus is a member of SigmaPi social‘fra ternity' and Phi: Epsilon,, Kappa, physical, education honorary.’ . . . He is/20-years bid, stands an even six-feet tall, arid weighs 167. . . . Klaus thinks that Temple will be State’s toughest match, ' BcwiViUaßCHra By BOB•VOSBUHG Assistant Sports Editor The class, of 1940 donated the Lion Shrine in' front of the water tower adjoining Beaver Field. ;It is a -splendid piece of statuary Sculptured by Heinz Warneke anc was dedicated with -appropriate ceremonies ;on October 24, 1942. It is a customary, though crude procedure for "hepped-up" stu dents .of visiting schools to ; give .the -Lion Shtihe a colorful coal ing of paint, usually the night be fore, a game. s' A...group of Villanovans, inci dently,' bestowed upon the Lion one of its baptisms of.paint, when before the 1949 • encounter,' they colored it a ghastly shade of pur ple.' ; . ' .'. For, fear that constant sandings, needed to return the Lion to its natural palor after the paint baths, would Reduce the shrine to vest pocket size in-the years to come; pledges, from various, fraternities have been placed oh guard at the shrine before game tipie in recent years.--'- ■*,£.- Well known as the king of beasts and chosen as a symbol of power, the Nittany Lion goes-with all - Penn- State' teams -in I’tfi'eir quest for “the Lion’s share.” Meets Homecoming Foe -Por the.third time in six years, Michigan State will be- Penn State’s Homecoming football op ponent\at State College, Pa., Oct. 20: Pete SarantopouSos Still Runs at Young Age of 31 Once every April 63-year-old Clarence Demar jogs 26-miles in 'the Boston Marathon. Therefore it shouldn’t be so unusual that Penn State’s Peter Theodore Sarantopoulos is running cross-country at the youthful age of 31. Yet the story behind the Lions’ smiling Greek is just as amazing as Demar’s annual exercise. When Pete left Carnegie Tech for the army after his freshman year in 1941, he didn’t do any further dis tance running until he ! entered Penn State in ’4B and reported to the cross l x-country .squad. Eight years previous Pete had been captain of a High harrier team which won the Pitts burgh area championship in his senior year. The interval found Pete an army lieutenant island-hopping all over the-Pacific with General MacArthur’s famed “Red Arrow” 36th division. He did lots of recre ation work but no running. Ready for Pilt . The long layoff put Pete in a rough position. He had to spend two difficult' years just getting himself ready'for this season. Pa tient Coaches Chick Werner- and Norm Gordon greatly encouraged Pete. Today Pete is ready and willing ,to race against his home town Pitt in the x-country season opener. . ... The road wasn’t easy. Pete ran continuously. He ran in snow and rain. He ran. as many as 1.6 miles a day:-'? This; Sfe'aSSh’iishbifld' find' re wards ftS: Pete’s tdfl. ' v o«!( y COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Jeffrey believes that Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil produce the best clubs in South America, while Spain, Italy, Yugoslavia, and Great Britain put out the best teams in Europe., .-In the summer of 1950. Jeffrey was in .charge of a United States team that journeyed to Brazil to participate in the soccer world which is -held every four years. The United States team was, picked from the best professional and - semi-professional players in the land. i-'Losi jo Spaniards ■ Even with the best professional players in the country on his team, Jeffrey’s crew lost to Spain, 3-1. “We had -them on the ropes for 70 minutes, but', they took us in the final ten minutes,” Jeffrey re called. Spain, however, lost to Brazil in its next match. Brazil, in turn, dropped the championship game to Uruguay before 200,000 people. By JAKE HIGHTON Yet the surprising thing about Pete is that he could have earned a- varsity letter, easier. A. three- State With United States Under Par In Soccer When it comes -to football, the .United States rates the top spot among countries of the world in producing topflight clubs. But when. it comes to soccer, a distant, cousin of football, the United States is pitifully low com pared with other’nations, accord ing’ to Coach Bill Jeffrey. “United States soccer is very lbw. compared with'that of South America and Europe,” the like able Scotsman said. “In fact, I wouldn’t -rate the United States in the first sixteen nations of the world.” . v Played AH Over World The-Pehn State coach,-- whose teams have won 139, lost 20, and tied 24 over a -25-year span, should know what he is talking about as he has seen soccer played in just about every country. f - (C&aiinued on page seven) Soccer Team Opens Bucknell Today Penn State’s soccer team will be seeking its 140th win over a 26-year span, all under the present Coach BilPJeffrey, when it faces Bucknell here on Beaver Field at 2 p.m. today. The match will mark the opener for both clubs. Coach ;ar for the Bisons in 1944, will er to State. If previous records have anything to do with the out come, State should win handily as the Lions have -yet to lose to Bucknell although the Bisons did manage to tie Jeffrey’s 1943 club. Good Lineup Joe Diblin, a former soccer st bring a club of unknown calibi Soccer Team Has Won 139 Since . soccer was started at Penn State in 1926, Coach Bill Jeffrey’s teams have won 139 games, and 86 of these came as a result of two winning streaks. From 1932 to 1941, Penn State was unbeatable. All opposition was swept aside as the Lions won 65 consecutive contests. j -The-, .streak: started' against Army, and, ironically, ended against the same club. Army de feated State, 1-0, at West. Point in December to give State its first loss in 66 matches. The second streak, which was, stopped last year by West Ches-; ter, 1-0, after State had gone.2l games without tasting defeat, cov ered three seasons—l94B, 1949, and 1950. The match was a thriller all the way with neither team having any district advantage. West Chester 'finally ’ pushed across a goal in the overtime to give itself a well-deserved win. “One of the main differences,” Jeffrey added, “between the American soccer - player and play ers from South America and Europe'is the method of kicking. The American boy has a tendency to reach, for the ball, as if he were' kicking a football, while the South American and • European boys kick from the knee.” CMfumm i DEAN MARTIN JERRY LEWIS "THAT'S MY BOY" sm ROBERT MITCHUM JANE RUSSELL "HIS KIND v OF WOMAN" MICHAEL CHAPIN ; EILENE JANSSEN "BUtKAROO SHERIFF of TEXAS" ~ '’ ' - \ By TOM SAYLOR Bill Jeffrey Against Bucknell, Jeffrey will use a lineup that could cause a lot of trouble before the season, ends. Up front, where Jeffrey has a wealth of potential scoring ma terial, Penn State will open with John Hess and Hap Irvin. Hess is an excellent ball-stealer while Irvin, who, never played wing until this year, is expected to shine because he has more room to operate. , . At the inside posts, State will no doubt open with Captain Ron Coleman, and Jack Pinezich. In Coleman, State has a very capable ball handler and passer while Pinezich .will probably do the Lions more good at inside right because he’ll be in the plays more often. Another Little? At the center forward spot, where State lost a prolific scorer last year-in Bullet Joe Lane, the Lions will use Don Shirk. Shirk is described by Jeffrey as - “having the makings . of- another Harry Little.” Three experienced men—Frank Follmer, Kurt Klaus, and Jack Charlton, will open at the half back posts. All three played soc cer at the* same high school (Northeast) Philadelphia, as well as playing together at the Swarth more Center. Klaus and Follmer were regulars on last year’s Soc cer Bowl, team while Charlton saw action as a reserve. . Frosh Regular Jeffrey will feature two big men at the fullback spots; Jay Simmons, and Paul Dierks. Sim mons, a regular last year, and Diei;ks,'. afreshman, are ..well adapt at kicking the ball out of danger.. At goalie, State, will use one of two inexperienced men. Dick Che skis and Jack Krumrine. will see action- against Bucknell although Jeffrey is not sure who will start. Beal Villanova r.:-., •. .. , .. • ■ ■ . WARNER. BROTHERS"' • MITTAHY ——————l ■ I■' ■■ ~ ■ i - MONDAY & TUESDAY Presented in Cooperation with International Film Club JOUVET Sonet StfcUaf "It's always a pleasure to wafch itte great, imperturb* °We look Jouvet." —A*, r, POST "Jouvet gives one of hk best LOUIS JOUVET eM&ke&e ( LOVERS ARE ALONE IN THE WORLD) Jafrod»cj*Q dany robin Music by HENRI SAUGUET "Uws Jouvet gives a cool, wbane porSroyoL" -Mr. mm "'Monetfe' wffl win a wm% —WOUD-Tti. a sun PACK
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