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Harriers
Lions Finish Fourth When Smith
Collapses in Final Quarter-Mile
By the margin of the quarter mile Lamont Smith
still had to run in order to finish the National Colle
giate cross-country four-mile course, Penn State was up
set in its attempt to make a second consecutive clean
sweep of college cross-country honors. State finished fourth.
The Lions appeared on their
way to a repeat NCAA victory
to add to their two straight IC4II.
titles, yesterday at East Lansing,
Michigan, when coming around
the last turn with only 440 yards
left, State's sensational frosh col
lapsed and was unable to finish.
The fifth place Smitty repre
sented for the Lions was lost and
with it State's title chances since
ordinarily sixth man Jim Hamill's
score had to be counted fifth.
Syracuse, soundly trounced by
Chick Werner's harriers in the
IC4A championships last' week,
ran off with a bigger prize today
as they dethroned State from the
national crown with a score of 80
points.
Kansas, led by Herb Semper's
second straight individual cham
pionship winning effort, took
second with 118 points, Wisconsin
was third with 120 and S tat e
wound up with 122 points.
State's ace Bill Ashenfelter
sprinted ahead by the turn of
the first quarter mile and was
leading over the snow-covered,
wind-swept course. for three of
the four miles.
But Semper, pa cing himself
well on the slippery course,
spurted ahead after three miles
to win by 30 yards . over Swede
Alf Holmberg running for Ten . -
nessee. Semper was clocked in
20:09.5.
Ash still finished a respectable
fourth just • behind Syracuse's
fine soph runner, Ray Osterhout,
IC4A runnerup a week ago.
Smitty, forced out of the Army
dual meet earlier in the season
because of abdomen trouble,
probably had another attack The
18-year-old frosh, who has starred
in this the first x-country season
of his life, is• \ always in excellent
physical shape.
West Chester's
Prender Takes
State Scoring
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 26—(11')
—Fred Prender of West Chester
State Teachers College won the
1951 Pennsylvania collegiate foot
ball scoring championship with a
total of 85 points.
The final Associated Press
weekly survey showed Prender
scored 10 touchdowns and - kicked
25 extra points in nine games to
edge out Bucknell's touchdown
twins—Brad Myers and Burt Tal
mage—each with 84 points on 141
touchdowns.
Premier, who was second to
Talmage and Myers in last week's
tabulation, won the scoring title
when an error was confirmed by
the official. scorer at East Strouds
burg State Teachers' College. It
seems that Alex Neiman, who
held the ball all season for Pren
der's conversions, was inadvert
ently credited with the ext r a
points in the West Chester-East
Stroudsburg game.
West Chester's Earl Hersh with
78 points and unbeaten Susque
hanna's Rich Young with 77
ranked behind the leaders in the
scoring race.
Bribery Penalties
Stiffened by Senate
HARRISBURG, Nov. 26—(PP)—
Stiffened penalties against bri
bery in athletic contests in Penn
sylvania, was proposed in the
Senate today.
Sen. Joseph Barr (D-Alle
gheny), introduced a bill which
*would fix a minimum fine of
$5,000 against anyone convicted
of bribery in sports contests.
The measure also would es
tablish an alternate minimum
prison term of- eight• years ; for
bribery. It also would' increase
the pre , ent int- • lum jail term
from 10 to 16 years.
IC4A Title 6th
For Lions; 2nd
In Succession
By JAKE HIGHTON
By winning their second suc
cessive Intercollegiate cross coun
try championship a week ago,
Penn State harriers brought the
sixth IC4A team trophy to the
Nittany vale in the 43-year his
, tory of the college hill-and-dale
running . classic.
Only Cornell, with nine team
titles, has won more times. Michi
gan State has won as often as
the Lions.
Cornell hasn't won since 1921,
so the Spartans and Chick Wer
ner's Lions have reigned strong
est over the last 30 years.
Ashenfelter Sixth
Leading the Lions to their
squeaking 67-68 upset win over
powerful Army. was Penn State's
18-year-old freshman sensation,
Lamont Smith. Smi t t y took
fourth place ,and was the only
freshman in the first 25 places
of the varsity five-mile race on
New York City's Van Cortlandt
Park. '
Smitty's 25:42 effort, only two
seconds slower than habitual
team pacesetter and veteran Bill
Ashenfelter has ever run, could,
easily have won the freshman
race since his three-mile time of
the five-mile race, was faster
than the time which won the
freshman 3-mile race.
Hollen 15th
Bill Ash bravely tried to beat
the virtually unbeatable Dick
Shea of Army, and thus lost a
chance to repeat the runnerup
honors he won a year ago. For
one and three-quarter miles Ash
ran side-by-side with Shea. But
the Army express' pace—fastest
in IC history—was too much and
Bill withered. Too spent from his
early sprint, Bill pulled up sixth
in 25t55, second State finisher.
Nittany Soph Red Hollen, swept
home in an excellent 15th place
with the fastest time of his life
in 25:25. Red was running 18th
after two miles but he battled
ahead to get his consistent third
for State.
Foster Made Differerice
Jack Homer came home 20th
for State in 26:37, ahead of the
last two Army finishers.
But it was Captain Dud Fos
ter, with an assist from Assistant
Coach Norm Gordon, who made
the difference. Dudley was run
ning deep in the pack, as far
back as 30th, as late as 2 1 / 2 miles
but prodded by Gordon's exhort
ing, Dud stepped across the line
in 22nd place in 26:40. The four
places Dud put between himself
and Army's fifth finisher, pro
vided State's narrow win margin.
Select Group
The Lions' team victory
avenged an earlier dual meet set
back against Army.
Syracuse, with three men in
the top ten, but ruined by a fifth
man in 48th place, took third
place team honors. Michigan State
was fourth and Manhattan fifth.
(All six of State's dual meet foes
this season scored in the top nine.)
State Wrestlers
Meet Tomorrow
All men who have signed up
for varsity wrestling will report
on the Mats in Rec Hall at 5 p.m.
tomorrow, in wrestling gear for
an important meeting, Coach
Charlie Speidel announced' yes
terday.
Speidel also said that the
.vrestling team would now work
aut daily. The Dons will not open
this season until January.
TTT DAILY COLLEGIAN. § l tAtS ;:_.*W„itEelE PENNSYLVANIA
lJ pset
Gridders Close Season,
Lose to Pittsburgh, 13-7
Panther Goes for Short Gain
BOBBY EPPS, Pitt halfback, goes for a short gain around left end
in Saturday's contest against the Nittany Lions. Roosevelt Grier,
(68), Lion defensive tackle, comes over hard to make the tackle.
Pitt won the game, 13-7.
Rooters Tie
On Kocher's
Penn State's chances for a possible post-season bid to the Soc
cer Bowl on New Years' Day received a shot in the arm Saturday
when the Lions tied a highly regarded Temple club, 1-1, on the
baseball field.
On the basis of their record, the Owls still stand the i)etter
chance of going to St. Louis for the soccer bowl. The selection
Grid Conteit
Sees Writers
Finish on Top
The Daily Collegian sports staff
defeated the football team in the
"Pigskin Pipe Dreams", football
selections cont es t. The three
sportswriters had a final com
bined average of .656, while the
gridders finished with a .626
average.
Individually, Ernie M o re,
sports editor, and Bob Vosburg,
assistant sports editor, tied for
the lead with .667 averages. They
had 82 correct and 41 wrong
throughout the season. Dave Col
ton, assistant. sports editor, fol
lowed with 79 correct out of 123
attempts for a .642 average.
In the last week of selections
the football team's representative,
Bob Szajna, tied the writers with
11 right and 3 wrong. The Illin
ois-Ohio State game ended in a
tie and did not count.
1M Boxing Tourney
Gets Underway Today
The intramural boxing tour
nament will open' at -5 p.m.
today in Rec Hall. Sixteen
bouts are scheduled. .
Boxers are asked to begin
weighing in by 4:45. They will
not be able to weigh in after
5:25 .
The bouts will be fought in
a ring set up in one corner of
Rec Hall. The varsity ring will
not be used.
Glenn Hawthorne ; former
Penn State NCAA b oxing
champ, will referee.
in NGtionals
Temple
Goal, 11
By TOM SAYLOR
ommittee, however, could de
cide that Penn State merits the
bid because of its tougher sche
dule.
Temples' •eight victories have
been over such clubs as Dela
ware, Haverford, F. and M., La
fayette, Bucknell, and LaSalle.
The only two tough teams the
Owls engaged we r e Princeton
and the Temple alumni.
Beat Princeton
The tie makes Temple's record
read 8-0-1 while Penn State's
now reads 5-1-2. The, Philadel
phians have not lost a match in
two years. Their overall record is
14 wins and two ties.
Dunn Scores
The game itself was everything
expected of it. Brilliant ball
handling and passing were th
rule rather than the exception as
State and Temple showed the
fans how the game should be,
played.
It wasn't until the final period
that either team scored. Jack
Dunn, Temple's inside right, net
ted - the first goal of the game
from four yards out after a scram
ble in front of the goal.
Inside right Ellis Kocher tied
the game eight minutes later on
a long shot from 20 yards after
taking a pass from right wing
man Bill Norcik.
• Beat Gettysburg
Both clubs battled to a stale
mate in the two five-minute ex
tra periods that followed.
The contest had a Philadelphia
complexion, of Northeast High
School variety. The Owls boasted
three front line men from North
east, including Dunn, who tal
lied the lone Temple goal. The
Owls also had two other, players
hailing from Northeast. P e,n n
State's halfback trio of Frank
Follmer, Jack Charlton, and Kurt
Klaus 'also come from there.
On Nov. 17, Penn State chalked
up its fifth soccer win by over
whelming Gettysburg, 11-0, on
the baseball field.
TUESDAt, NOVEMAte I§sl
Bestwick's Passing
Leads Panthers;
Arnelle Sparkles
Penn State's gridders dropped
the curtain on the 1951 football
season Saturday, losing their tra
ditional game with rival Pitts
burgh, 13-7, but not before serv
ing notice that the Nittany Lions
are going to be a tough foe to
handle in a year or two.
Coach Rip Engle's eleven fin
ished the season with five wins
to its credit against the toughest
schedule a Penn State football
team has faced in many years.
In Pittsburgh Saturday, 20,145
spectators saw Coach Tom Ham
ilton's Panthers score a touch
down in the final minutes of play
to turn back the Lions who, just
a few minutes earlier, had come
from behind for the ninth time
this season to tie the contest.
Bestwick to Warriner
The Nittany Lions played their
best defensive game of the season
against Pitt but just couldn't stop
the passing combination of Bobby
Bestwick to Chris Warriner in the
crucial moments.
Bestwick passed for the Pan
ther's first touchdown and set up
the winning score with a run and
another pass to Warriner.
State's ground attack, which
had been the backbone of the
Lions' offense this season, was
bottled up completely by the
Pittsburgh line. Neither Ted Shat
tuck or Bobby Pollard could find
holes in the Pitt line. The longest
rushing gain of the game for Penn
State was a 12 yard jaunt over
left tackle by fullback Paul An
ders on the Lions' first play from
scrimmage. Shattuck and Pollard
were held to 18 yards apiece
along the ground as State could
pick up only
_7o_yards rushing.
Arnelle Sparkles
State's chances for an upset
were hurt when Anders was
forced out of the game early in
the first quarter. The Lion full
back, who ran only one play,
suffered a deep laceration over
his eye and had to remain on the
sidelines for the rest of the con
test.
The one bright spot for the
Lions in the ball game was the
fine play of freshman end Jesse
Arnelle. Arnelle caught five paSses
for 66 yards and scored the Lions'
only touchdown.
When the ground gain failed to
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