PAGE SIX Lion Harriers Run Against Pitt Chick Werner opens his 19th season as head Penn State cross country coach today at 2 p.m. by . sending his harriers onto the Nit tany golf course against Pitt’s Panthers. Pitt comes here loaded with a veteran team while the Lions have only two members left from the national championship squad last fall. Before the varsity race at 2 State freshman and upperclass men who failed to make the start ing squad will stage a three-mile intra-squad race beginning at 1:30 p.m. The, race is five miles long and will start on the cinder track in Beaver Field. From there the har riers will run past Rec Hall and cross the road to the golf course. ' After one short loop about one half mile, the runners will go two long loops around the course of about 17/al 7 /a miles. After coming up the big hill on the second loop, the runners recross the road and finish up in the stadium. , The course record of 25:03.2 was set by Penn State’s Horace Ash enfelter in 1948. The Panthers will be clad in Blue and Gold and the Nittanies of course in Blue and White. Unbeaten in dual and IC-4A and NCAA titles last fall, the Lions will be trying to extend the out standing record piled up last year. ' On the other hand Pitt will be out to revenge a 17-38 defeat pasted on them by Werner’s har riers in Pittsburgh last fall. Two runners instrumental in that defeat, Bill Ashenfelter and .this year’s team captain Dud Fost er, will run against the Panthers today. But aside from these two vet erans, Werner will be using an entirely inexperienced squad. Among them are three letter win ners last fall, Pete Sarantopoulos, Bob Roessler and Dave Pierson. Also running for the Lions is Jack Homer, a fine prospect who was ineligible last fall. Along with Homer one other runner, Bob Gehman, is without a previous varsity race. Attempting a come back today is John Davidson who two years ago was ninth man on the Lion squad. Three sophomores have made the Lion squad and have a good chance of scoring today. They are Red Hollen, Pete Judd and Carl GodshalL State’s final entry but by no means least is surprisingly enough a freshman. Lamont Smith won the PIAA mile title last spring and has performed well enough this fall to get the only frosh starting role. , For Carl Olson’s Panthers, sea soned harrier' performers, Ken Mahanna, Bemie Luterancki and Frank Kuzma are the ones for the Lions to beat. Mahanna led the Pitt squad to In Midtown Allentown It's BETZ RESTAURANT Home of Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking ■ • i ' “No Better Food for the Price Anywhere" 726 Hamilton Sf. p.m., as an extra attraction, the Chick Werner their season opening win last week over Slippery Rock and Geneva while Kuzma and Luter ancik were not far behind. Luterancik in taking-third last year in the State meet was beaten only by Bill Ash. Soph Don Delligatti finished-up with Kuzma and Luterancik against Geneva so he too must, be rated a threat. Dan Somers, a soph, was right behind in fifth and will run today. , Other Pitt runners today are seniors Jack McMahan, and Ed Bermen. New runners in Olson’s lineup are Ron Sallade, Chuck Fritz, Jim Betts, Dick Weber and Charlie Winel. " Snapped Streak Until Villanova turned the trick in 1949, Penn State had not lost a football opener in 18 years. These two teams will meet for the first time since at Allentown today. A Delta Gamma ig ' m presents VIRGINIA " sale; Tickets $1.20 . in her “AMERlCANA’’Sketches ™ ind. . WED. OCT. 10, 8 P.M. mm On Sale at Corner Boom. SCHWAB AUDITORIUM OB Student Union and ‘ _ , t*rom Delta Gammas for benefit of DG Project SIGHT CONSERVATION AND AID TO THE BLIND ★ ★ OPEN 24 HRS. A DAY THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA ’ Today Penn State Had Strong Harrier Team Last Year Although Pitt can be sure of racing a good Nittany x-country squad today, it isn’t likely that they will ever again have to face so strong a Penn State team as they did one year ago. Coach Chick Wernejr will doubt less agree that his IC-4A and NCAA champion squad last sea son was the greatest in the his tory of the school. The thing that made it great— the Lions have had. better indi vidual performers than last fall’s team boasted —was the amazing depth it possessed. Nine runners all could romp five miles in as well as 27 minutes and most of them were better. Two or even three .runners could have the well known “off day” and.the Lions were still certain to score a rout. After whipping Pitt 17-38 to open the season, the ’5O harriers scored a perfect 15-43 win over Cornell The following week saw a strong Michigan State team drubbed, 19-43. NYU was next to fall to State’s “greatest,” again by the shutout tally, 15-48. The Lions closed their all-victorious dual season by hanging’ a 23-48 defeat on Manhattan. . Came the Intercollegiates and the State harriers won again by tallying the very low score of 44 points. The closest foe was Army with 79 points, followed by Man hattan, Michigan State and NYU. The following week saw the harriers “go for;' bypke” by com pleting a grand slam of collegiate x-country'titles. Michigan State succeeded in making it closte,. 53- 55, but the Lions were victors once again. Two Return To return from, the present past ★ v Beat Pitt' Allentown, Pa. Little 'Man On Campus "Don't forget now, we 1< and face the stem future, one finds only two of the champions returning: Bill Ashenfelter, . the leader of the Lions last fall, and this season’s captain, Dud Foster, On the- debit side, the other.five men who'helped to make the ’5O team so good are numbered amopg the missing. Don Ashenfelter, Bob Free- .Van Heusen / \ PRODUCTS 1 . 1 ;; exclusive with ■ . V® . • /' jylEN'S SHOP E. COLLEGE' 1 AVE. r STATE COLLEGE SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6; 1951, iem intercept THIS one," Lions On Road Penn. State’s football Lions go on the road for their next two games, facing Villanova at Allen town today and Nebraska at Lin coln October 13. bairn, Bob Parsons, A 1 Porto, and Jack St. Clair will be very, con- 0 spicuous by their absence today. Van Heusai^. Id's smarteit” riifrts NiwYorfcl.H.Yj
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