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Ri#ger,s HCli*l4, Priddoes'TOcjay
Lions to Buck
Even-Tilt Hex
In Scarlet Game
By ERNIE MOORE
W BRUNSWICK, N. J.
Penn State's football team will be
out to equal its victory output of
last season when th e Nittany
Lions try for their fifth wi n
against Rutgers University in
Rutgers Stadium this afternoon.
Kickoff time is 1:30.
Coach Rip Engle's gridders will
also be out to break the "even
game jinx" which has prevented
the Lions from winning an even
numbered game this season. To
day's game is the Lions' eighth.
Penn State will go into the
game a 14 point favorite to turn
back Coach Harvey Harman's
Scarlet gridders, who have won
four games while losing only two.
Rutgers has beaten Lafayette,
NYU, Fordham, and Brown, los
ing to Temple and Lehigh.
Expect Ground Game
The Nittany Lions have a four
wins, three lost mark, holding
wins over Boston University, Ne
'\,braska, West Virginia, and Syra
cuse. Villanova, top-r a n k i n g
Michigan State, and Purdue a re
the Lions' conquerers.
Rutgers is expected to throW a
strong ground game \ against the
Lions this afternoon with full-
back Jimmy "Mighty Mo" Mona
han and halfback Bob D'Amato
the spearheads in the attack. In
its last two games, against Pord
ham and Brown, Rutgers has
thrown only 14 passes—seven in
each game.
Two in Row
The Scarlet's passing quarter
back last season, Walt La Prarie,
who completed 46 of 97 passes,
has been seeing most of his ac
tion on the defense this season.
Sophomore Don Dreier has taken
over the quarterback reigns in
Rutgers' T-attack. Whether the
Scarlet will stick to its ground
attack or switch tactics and take
to the air against the Lions is
a question which has been bother=
ing the Penn State coaches all
week.
Currently, Rutgers is sporting
a two game winning streak, hav
ing defeated good teams in Ford
ham and Brown on consecutive
weekends, and appears to have hit
its stride. Harman's team was
picked as one of the East's better
teams before the season started.
With 30 men back from last
year's squad, which won four and
lost four, Rutgers will field prac
tically the same team which put
up a terrific fight against the
Lions last season. Penn State won
that game 18-14.
Engle's tea m, however, also
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Grid Coaches
Have Worries
NEW YORK, Nov. 16
Coaches of the nation's undefeat
ed, top-ranking college football
teams will find that sleep comes
very slowly tonight.
They know that, on the law of
averages, at least one of their
select number probably will get
axed by some fired-up "have not"
tomorrow, and the thought of all
that New Year's Day bowl money
going down the drain will not
be conductive to slumber. •
Highest on the list of worryers
figure to be Ray Eliot of Illinois
and Chuck Taylor of Stanford.
Dutch Meyer of Texas Christian,
though not numbered among the
undefeated elect, probably will do
a little floor-pacing, too.
As Michigan State is not eligible
for a New Year's Day assignment,
Biggie Munn, the Spartans' men
tor, is under considerably less
pressure than his, fellow geniuses.
Still, it would not be surprising
if he experiences a twinge or two
before tomorrow's joust with low
ly Indiana at Bloomington.
Pitt Finally Favored
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 16—(W)—
The University of Pittsburgh is a
19-point faVorite to halt a seven
game losing streak at the expense
of thrice-beaten West Virginia to
morrow on the school's 44th grid
clash.
7 Harriers Race in IC4A Meet Monday
Records Mean Nothing
When State-Pitt Tangle
It isn't necessary to warn the Nittany Lion football team about
the Pitt Panthers whom State plays in the season finale at Pitt Stad
ium, next Saturday. For this contest is a traditional battle between
two long-time rivals, and the record books can be thrown away.
Despite the comparative records of the teams, the Panthers
will probably be slight favorites because of their tougher schedule.
Although Pitt has lost seven straight this season, and has a two
year ten game deficit, they should snap their winless -play today
against West Virginia. The Lions meanwhile will have at least four,
and possibly five victories, depending on the Rutgers outcome.
While State has played one of
its toughest schedules in recent
years, it still can't match Pitt's
bac.k-breaking assignment. Th e
Panthers have played some of
the best teams in the country.
They have lost to Duke, Indiana,
lowa, Notre Dame, Michigan
State, Rice, and Ohio State. But
they have a,young teary). which
has improved throughout the,
season, as evidenced by their last'
three games.
They led Michigan State, 20-19,
at halftime. They held a 13-7 lead over Rice until the final four min
utes of play when the Owls scored twice. Against Ohio State, the
clock ran out to prevent from overhauling the Buckeyes' 16-14 lead.
By comparative scores against the only similar foe, the Lions
should rate the favorites. Michigan State edged Penn State, 32-21,
but rallied in the second half to swamp Pitt, 54-27. But the Panthers
scored more points than any Spartan opponent in the last two cam
paigns.
The Panthers are in their second year of T-formation football:
This year Athletic Director Tom Hamilton took over the coaching
reins after Len Casanova resigned. Hamilton has been using a fresh
man and sophomore dominated team.
Pitt's strongest department has been its offense. Quarterback
Best Wick, a defensive player his sophomore year, switched 'to the
T last fall and developed into
.a great passer this season. He is 13th
in the nation in forward passing and has completed 73 of 133 at
tempts. He has already broken five Panther records, including total
yards and most completions.
The Steel City team has three outstanding runners; halfbacks
Bill Reynolds, and Lou Cirnarolli, and fullback Bobby Epps. Rey
nolds, a junior, plays both offensively and defensively, and was one
of the country's leading pass intercepjors last season. Cimarolli, a
sophomore, was a star for the undefeated freshman team last year.
He only weighs 165 pounds, but is fast and a good breakaway run
ner. Epps, another sophomore with great days ahead, weighs 190 and,
has speed besides power.
Service Returnees
Senior Jim Campbell, and Marine returnees Bill Sichko and
Paul Chess are other backfield threats.
The Panthers. have a good pass-catching duo. Chris War4ner,
senior terminal, has established several Panther receiving marks,
and rates as one of the best in the East. Right-end-Dick Deitrick,
is another outstanding receiver.
At tackles, the Panthers have their usual big men with Bob
Brennen, 215 pound senior, and Bill Gasparovic, a 205 pounder. Rudy
Andabaker, 185 pound senior, and Joe Schmidt, 205 pound junior,
see lots of action at guard. At center John Dazio, 205 pounds, and
Gabe Gembarosky, a 200 pounder from Donora, are the mainstays.
Hamilton uses a , lot of freshmen on 'his defensive team, Henry
Ford, a great passer in high school, plays safety man. Ray Ferguson,
a,. sophomore from Jersey Shore, and frosh Dick McCabe play regu
larly, along with Reynolds in the defensive backfield. Bob Wrabley
and Bill Ewing have also done yeoman work at linebacker spots.
Dukes, Dorm 4 Move to Top
Of IM Basketball League D
The Dukes and Dorm 4 moved
to the top of League D as a result
of Thursday night's IM basket
ball action.
The Dukes, unbeaten in three
starts, dumped the - previously un
defeated MiSfits by a' surprisingly
easy 32-15 . score. At the half, the
Misfits were trailing by only one
point, 10-9,:but .tha'fast-breaking
Dukes proved too much for the
losers in the second half.
Dorm 4 won its third straight
game b y defeating Edgewood;
31-17, when Jim Brewer and
Charles Stroup accounted for 25
of the winners' points with 13
and 12.
Other League D play saw once
beaten Warren gallop the Fords,
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN,' STATE COLLEGE, -PENNSYLVANIA
By DAVE COLTON
Pitt Young
27-12, and 'lrvin Hall use a big
second half to whip the Oilers,
20-14.
The only League C game found
Avalon's , -,second half rally fall
short as it lost to the Terrors, 23-
21. .
FoUr games were played• in
League "E . and 'action was fea
tured by Trace A.C.'s 36-17
thumping of Dorm 29 and the
Eronies burying the Iron Men,
31-13.
In the other games, the Junior
Rovers trounced the Lions, 27-14,
and the . Comets won over the
Clippers, -20-10, with Dino Dal
mas leading the scorers with' 6
points.
State One of 40 Colleges
Participating in 5-Mile Run
Seven Penn State cross-countrymen will jockey with 250 am
letes from 40 different colleges in the IC4A x-country championships
at 3 p.m. Monday. The Lion harriers will attempt to retain the team
title they won' last year.
Van Cortlandt Park in New York City is the site of the five-mile
hill-and-dale struggle, the first big collegiate championship test of•
the season.
Although the Lions have won
the team trophy five times, they
have had only one individual
champion. Bill Cox won in '27
and '2B. Horace Ashenfelter took
runnerup honors to long-legged
Bob Black of Rhode Island in '47
and '4B, and Bill, last of the great
Ashenfelter family at State, fin
ished second last fall
EXpect 3-Way Battle
'Monday's race appears as a
three-way fight among Army,
Syracuse and the Lions. The
Cadets are unbeaten in dual meet
competition since 1949,. and this
season snapped a nine-m ee t
streak of Penn State's with a
sound 22-35 triumph.
Syracuse has only lost once
'this season, a close 27-29 decision
to ArMy. Coach Chick Werner's
Lions own a good 5-1 record with
the most notable victory a 19-41
trouncing of Michigan State.
The West Pointers, who fin
ished second to team titlist Penn
State last fall, in addition to rul
ing as 1951 title favorites, boast
of an even' more top-heavy in
dividual race-winning favorite in
Dick Shea. The indestructible
"Pony Express" has won the IC
title two years running, and is
easily capable of a 25 minute .flat
five mile effort. He has turned in
a 24:54 clocking which is the fast
est _ever run on Van Cortlandt.
Ash Threat To Shea
State's runnerup last fall, Bill
Ash, will try again to beat the
fleeting Shea as will a host of
other outstanding college run
ners.
Syracuse's fine sophOmore, Ray
Osterhout; Georgetown's Charlie
Capozolli; •S t . Johns' Johnny
Johnson; Penn State's Lamont
Smith;, Pitt's Bernie Luterancik
and Frank Kuzma; Manhattan's
Bill Lucas, Army's Lou Davis
and Bob Day, and NYU's Gordon
McKenzie will all be chasing Ash
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.Y; NOVEMBER, 1951
and Shea for the top .15 runnerup
positions. ,
Lacking the depth the '5O na
tional champion Lions possessed,'
the 1951 State harriers neverthe
less have five good men who once
this season ran faster than any
other Nittany five-man team,
Hollen, Horner Consistent
In addition to Bill Ash and
Smitty, Red Hollen, Jack Homer
and Captain Dud Foster are the
top Lion point scorers. Hollen
and Homer have run consistently
third and fourth all season and
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