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Sports Thru
The Lion’s Eye
By JAKE HIGHTON
Collegian Sports Editor
Five times this season Nittany football Coach Rip Engle hollered
load and mournfully, “Wolf.” And five times his Lions chased the
wolves from Litt'le Red Riding Unbeaten. But with his gridders
unlikely to be aroused by a sixth cry of “Wolf,” the Ripper will
probably adopt a more, appropriate slogan to get his crew up for
Saturday’s affair with Michigan State’s top team in the nation—
“To the storm cellars.”
The East Lansing Cyclone, only a sighing breeze at the be
ginning of the season, reached the height of its fury during the
last two weekends with horror-filling annihilations of two excellent
football teams Texas A&M and Syracuse. These two elevens,
although not among the nation's top-ranking, had ball clubs not
too distantly removed from the Lions in comparative strength.
Yet. both suffered the same terrible' death from a gridiron steam
roller. The coroner's report: 48 to one touchdown.
This 1952 Spartan juggernaut suffered the extreme misfortune
to lose All-Americans end Bob Carey and tackle Don Coleman. But
who needs them? The current Spartan grid edition has an .unbeliev
able first team, an amazing second team, and a mighty good third
team—offensively and defensively among the country’s leaders. On
offense, Michigan State is more blessed than the 1924 Notre Dame
team. The Spartans aren’t content with Four Horsemen, but in three
backfields have Twelve Horsemen—and every one is “death.”
The Spartan death is sudden, too. Take last year’s Lion-Spartan
game A valiant Lion team was leading 14-13 at halftime, as other
of Michigan State’s last 19 straight victims have been. But in the
third period the Spartan ghost-runner Jim Ellis took a punt and
after phantoming his way 57 yards did more damage within 10
seconds than some teams take a whole quarter to do. Or to get
closer to present day reality, last week Ellis grabbed a Syracuse punt
and flitted 59 yards for the score. The guy could tally under one
hand touch rules. Such “five o’clock lightning,” as the scribes used to
call the Ruthian era Yankee home runs, makes one think the Spar
tans are invincible—which of course they aren’t.
One can'f help io be disturbed and pessimistic about the class,
the power, ahd the professional polish of Coach Biggie Munn's
thirty-three. Nevertheless, Penn Staters shouldn't be discouraged—
their team isn't.
★★★ ★ ★ *
chances against the Spartans suffered a rude jolt when
end Joe Yukica tore a ligament
from his right knee in the Ne
braska tiff. Fate could hardly
have dealt the Lions a dirtier dig.
For if there was one way to beat
the Spartans, it was largely
through one of the best Nittany
passing attacks in the history of
the school. Quarterback Tony
Hados has shattered the College
passing completion record
five games yet to play.
Yukiea and Jess Arnelle, with
15 and 18 receptions respectively,
have, or had, a good chance to
break the school pass receiving
record of 31 per season.
It’s no wonder that Engle said
Joe would be missed because “he
has been playing as well as any
one on the team.” You can’t dis-
agree with Rip. Yuk i c a has
been snaring nearly everything.
Now the Spartans can gang up on
Arnelle as West Virginia did
without having to watch a double threat like Yukica-Arnelle
Mentioning Jess, he looks more and more like a "fifth back."
He pivots, twists, ploughs, and drags tacklers along. Just before
Bill Leonard's field goal in the fourth quarter Saturday, Jess took
an end around and, although trapped way behind the line, ran
experily_ and stubbornly to gain the scrimmage line. In addition,
to catching and running, Jess has been blocking well. Probably
not All-American yet, Jess shows increasing signs.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
NEBRASKA POST MORTEMS: Both Nebraskans and Lions
were frequently helped off the field in the punishing, hard-hitting
play . . . The game was rough, but clean as evidenced by lack of
penalties ... It was only the second Nittany shutout since 1948.
That year Penn got the whitewash, 13-0. The other came in Rip’s
first year at State, 27-0, over West Virginia.
NAVYOPHILE: Seldom could a team have been so outplayed
as Navy's soccer team was Saturday and yet win . . . Slate took
36 shots to the Middies' nine, and the play was hardly ever in front
of Lion goalie Red Harris in the second half . . . You have to
admire the Navy spirit. It's wonderful ... a game incident doesn't
decrease your admiration of Navy. A Middie about to boot a free
kick from the sidelines saw a newspaper in his way and requested
a standee, "Move the paper, PLEASE.''
TIT FOR TAT: Last year it was the Cadets who cut short State’s
nine-meet cross-country streak up on the Hudson hills. Saturday the
Lion harriers replied in kind to snip the longest collegiate cross
country streak, at 15 . . . Lamont Smith certainly doesn’t show a
sophomore let-down from an outstanding frosh year. His 26:35
five-mile pace through a time-killing wind was mighty swift.
WRA Club Nets 5 Wins
The WRA hockey club won
five games last Saturday at Buek
nell’s Play Day while losing only
ojice.
Team one defeated Lock Haven
State Teachers College 1-0 and
Susquehannah 2-0, but lost to
Bucknell’s first team 3-0. Team
two won over Lycoming 2-0,
Bucknell’s second team 1-0, and
Lock Haven 2-0.
Members of team one were
Mildred McCowan, captain; Mary
Buchanan. Ann' Barker, Joan Jil
lett, Mirian Johnson, Barbara
Lewis, Babe Maron, Mabel Mar
pie, Louise Needham, Mary Ann
Spangler, and Sis Williams.
Playing on team two were Pat
Farrell, captain; Pat Colgan, Pat
Gilbert, Juanita Hudson, . Sandy
Hickman. Elizabeth Lloyd, Peg
Powell, Mary Lou Rank, Marty
Rojahn, and Howard Lichtendahl,
To Receive Award
NEW YORK (JP)— Rocky Mar
ciano, new heavyweight cham
pion, will receive the Ring Maga
zine title belt from Nat Fleicher
Oct. 31 at a luncheon meeting of
the New York Boxing Writers As
sociation.
Pinezich Is About Tops
Bill Jeffrey, veteran Penn State
soccer coach, tabs his sophomore
standout, Jack Pinezich, of New
York, one of the top players in'
the East. Pinezich already has.
established himself as the team’s
leading scorer.
a member of the German Olym
pic hockey team which played at
Helsinki last summer.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA
Rados Sets Mark
On Every Throw
. Every time Tony Rados has one
of his passes caught Saturday
against Michigan State, he will
be automatically setting a new
Penn State record for pass com
pletions in one season.
In completing 11 out of 20 pass
es against Nebraska last week,
quarterback Rados snapped the
all-time school record set by scat
back Elwood Petchel in 1948.
Petchel, now coaching North
Union Township High in Western
Pennsylvania, completed 48 pass
es in 100 attempts.
This figure stood until Rados
pitched a pass to end Joe Yukiea
late in the fourth quarter against
the Cornhuskers. It was Steelton
Tony’s 49th completion in 93 at
tempts.
En route to compiling his 53
percent average of completed
passes, Rados has been responsible
for 603 yards and six touchdowns.
(In ’4B Petchel, through a nine
game schedule, accounted for 628
yards and nine touchdowns.)
With five games left, former
Notre Darner Rados, figures to be
a good bet to wipe out both Petch
el’s yardage and touchdown
marks.
As of last week, junior Rados
was 10th among the nation’s top
flight passers such as Washing
ton’s Don Heinrich, Boston U.’s
Harry Agganis, and Cincinnati’s
Gene Rossi.
School Record 31
Unfortunately Rados’ efficiency
is liable to be lessened somewhat
with the loss of Yukiea for at
least the Spartan game and pos
sibly even Penn the following
week. Jumping Joe was second
in tlje team with 15 catches good
for 163 yards. Only Jess Arnelle
with 18 has caught more.
Both Arnelle and Yukiea stand
a good chance to break another
Penn State passing record—that
of most receptions a season. The
school record stands at 31 set by
Lenny Krause in 1942.
Otherwise statistically, Dick
Jones still is the team’s top
ground gainer with 245 net yards
for an average of 4.2 per try. Matt
Yanosich is second with 191 yards
net and Bob Pollard third with
122.
In punting Don Eyer still leads
with a 35.1 yards average per
kick even though he hasn’t booted
for the last two games.
In scoring Jones and Pollard
lead with three touchdowns each,
but placekicker Bill Leonard is
only one point behind with 14
conversion points and one field
goal. Bill attempted 16 PAT’s.
Keystone State Rivalry
Penn State and the University
of Pennsylvania will tangle in
football for the first time since
1948 at Philadelphia Nov. 1.
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OPEN AT 6:00
ANTHONY STEEL
DINAH SHERIDAN
"IVORY HUNTER"
Five Games Left
GENE KELLY
PIER ANGELI
"THE DEVIL
MAKES THREE"
TONY CURTIS
PIPER LAURIE
"SON OF
ALB BABA"
★ *
TONY RADOS, the Nittany Lions wing-T quarterback, shows
Trudy, his wife, the finer points in passing. Rados, in Saturday's
encounter with Nebraska, broke the Nittany Lions' record of com
pletions in one season. He has completed 49 out of 100 passes. The
previous record, held by El wood Petchel, was 48 out of 100 com
pletions.
Sports Briefs
Eagles Ask Waivers
PHILADELPHIA QP) The
Philadelphia Eagles of the Na 7
tional Professional—Football Lea
gue have asked waivers on Clyde
Scott, 175-pound halfback, a team
spokesman announced yesterday.
All Star, July 14
CINCINNATI (TP) The Na
tional Leagues’ schedule commit
tee today announced 1953 opening
day pairings and said next year’s
All-Star game would be held
July 14 in Braves Field, in Boston.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1952
Best in East
NEW YORK C/P) —Unbeaten Vil
lanova is rated the No. 1 football
team in the East by the board of
experts which annually presents
the Lambert Trophy for regional
supremacy.
Turpin Wins
LONDON (TP) Britain’s Ran
dolph Turpin won the Empire
middleweight championship at
Harringay Arena last night, out
pointing George Angelo of South
Africa by a wide margin in a
dreary 15-round bout.
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