PAGF Next Foe Toughest - Jeff ★ ★ ★ Lynn Thomann (Left Wing) Harriers Aim For New Win Streak Since their four meet dual win string was broken by mighty Michigan State last weekend, Penn State's cross-country run ners will undertake the difficult task of starting a new skein when they venture to New York City to race NYU Saturday. With the Army and Spartan meet now behind them, Coach Chick Werner’s forces have only this week’s foe, NYU, and Man hattan on the home course the following weekend with which to contend before they try their luck in the intercollegiate and national 'ournaments. Violets Victory Less To date the Lions boast a 2-1 iecord, having beaten Cornell and Army. For the first time in three weeks, the Nittany harriers won’t have to worry about clubs the calibre of the Cadets and the Spar tans. Depleted of their resevoir of distance talent, the Violets ai'C victoryless this season. In their opener with St. Johns last weekend, NYU suffered a devastating 15-50 setback. It was one of their worst losses in years as eight St. John thin clads crossed the finish line be fore the Violets broke into the -coring bracket. Almost Beat State But despite their poor showing against their neighbors, NYU has .< reputation of coming through when the chips are down. A year ago, for instance, NYU came closer than any other team in beating the Nittany hill-and rialcrs on their home cross-coun try course. Running amid extreme cold, raw wind, and a snow-covered course, the Violets came up with the best one-two punch that the Blue and White harriers en countered last fall in Howie Ja cobsen and Gordon McKenzie who finished second and third, re -pectively. State’s Bill Ashenfelter, syn onymous with home course tri umphs the past two campaigns, covered the five-mile route in 26:52.2 seconds for first place. Those members of this year’s harrier squad who were instru mental in the 23-26 conquest for the Lions were Jim Hamill, Red Hollen, Lamont Smith, and Cap tain Jack Horner. Frosh Basketball Freshman basketball prac tice will begin at 4 p.m. Mon day in Recreation Hall, accord ing to John Egli. freshman coach. Freshman candidates must report to Egli in 301 Rec Hall before Monday and secure physical examination cards. Physicals w‘ll be given at the Dispensary by team physician Dr. A. H. Gr'ess. Soccermen Play Army Saturdav In what Bill Jeffrey terms as the ‘‘toughest soccer game the Lions will have this season,” the Nittany hooters will attempt to capture their fourth match against power-laden Army Saturday. The match is scheduled to start at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Beaver Field baseball diamond. It will be the booters fifth and final home game of the 1952 season. Army soccer Coach Joe Palone, who has won 2 Ivy League soccer titles in his five years of coach ing the booter sport at West Point, is monotonous in his turn ing out good teams year after year. After a two-year lapse, Army last year rearmed to the Nittany Lion soccer schedule, and prompt ly whipped the Jeffreymen into submission, 4-1, to hand the Lions their first loss of the 1951 season. The Cadets’ defense so completely bottled up the Lion attack that it was only until the fading min utes of the game that Captain Ron Coleman kicked a goal. The Jeffreymen have the ad vantage of playing on their home grounds for the Cadet match which could very well decide the outcome of the game. Coach Palone’s booters, how ever, are riding around in high spirits these days, for last week they beat one of the country’s top teams, Temple, by a 4-2 score. This win temporarily puts the Cadets on top of the soccer world. Coach Jeffrey announced that Hap Irvin’s injured heal is heal ing rapidly, and that the tall full back should be ready to see ac tion against the Cadets Saturday. Irvin discovered that his blistered heal had become infected during the course of the Colgate match last Saturday, and it was feared, at the time, that Irvin wouldn’t be available for the Army game. Jack Pinezich still leads the Nittany booters in scoring with a total of 11 goals. Bill Norcik is runner-up with six, while Lynn Thomann is third with four goals. 2 Independents Enter Finals in IM Tennis Two independents, Dean Mul len and Jay Freedman, advanced into the finals of IM tennis-sin gles competition yesterday by posting wins. Mullen, who registered his fourth win of the tourney, had little trouble in eliminating Ken Williams by 6-1, 6-1 score. Freed man. on the other hand, found tough competition in defeating Gruber in two sets, 6-4. 6-3. In fraternity play Bob Green wait, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, en tered round four of flight one, downing Sam Mann, Sigma Alpha Mu, 6-3, 6-1. Fraternity net men who have advanced to the fourth round of play are: Flight one. Bill Wallis, Sigma Pi; flight iwo. Sam Lemon, Sigma Nu. and Vinton Ostrander, Sigma Phi Sigma; flight three, John Cleary. Pi Kappa Tau, and George Lynch, Beta Theta Pi; fl’ght four. Dick Lindfors, Phi Kappa Sigma; flight five. Paul Brobst, Triangle; flight six. Bob Stoup, Beta Theta Pi, and Lewis Landon, Sigma Pi; flighi seven, Thayer Potter, Phi Delta Theta, and George Crouse, Phi Kappa Sigma and flight eight, Mike Kirshner, Sigma Nu, and Louis Riggs, Sigma Chi. Hazleton ROTC Unit Wins Marching Prize The Penn State ROTC unit at the Hazleton center won a $5O prize for being the most uni formed marching group in the 15th annual Mummers’ Parade in Hazleton. An estimated 60,000 persons saw the parade, which lasted from dusk until midnight Saturday. TUB n-\TT,V rOT.T.FGTAN STATE COLLEGE. P! .V \, Two Indie Grid Teams Gain Semis Dorm 25 and the Mustangs swept their way into the intra mural Independent semi - finals last night with hard-earned, close-fought grid victories. The Mustangs came from be hind to drop the Nighthawks from the tournament with a 7-6 thrilling overtime decision. Dorm 25 also gained the gateway round to the finals with a stirring last minute touchdown drive which upended the Coal Crackers, 6-0. Phi Epsilon Pi and Alpha Phi Delta moved closer to the final round of fraternity play. Phi Ep dropped Acacia, 7-0, and the Phi Delts brushed aside Sigma Alpha Epsilon. 14-0. Following a scoreless first per iod, Dorm 25 and the Crackers still staved off repeated thrusts. Suddenly with three minutes left to play. Dorm 25 unloosed a sustained drive which was sparked by the passing arm of Tom Yingling. With only 45 seconds left to play, Dorm 25 stood on the Crack er 5-yard line. Here Yingling cut loose with a pass which George Magigian grabbed away from two defenders for the score. The Mustangs spotted the Night hawks a 6-0 halftime lead, then roared back to tie, 6-6, in the second half and send the game into overtime play. The Mus tangs punched across the Night hawk 50 to win, 7-6. Dave Lessler starred for Phi Ep with pass interceptions which repeatedly halted Acacia drives. Shortly after the second half with the frats stalemated, 0-0. Lessler grabbed an Acacia pass on his own 20 and set sail for an 80-yard TD gallop which gave Phi Ep victory. Tonight’s schedule is: 7:00 p.m. Fireballs vs Blue Streaks 7:45 p.m ATO vs DTD 8:30 p.m.—Sigma Chi vs Sig ma Nu 9:15 p.m.—DU vs Delta Sig ma Phi Grange Initiation Begins Approximately 15 new mem bers will go ’through the first phase of Grange initiation at 7 tonight in 100 Horticulture. The TAVERN ITALIAN SPAGHETTI, with Meat Sauce BAKED MEAT LOAF CALF'S LIVER & ONIONS MIXED SEAFOOD PLATTER PRIME SIRLOIN STEAKS ★ ★ ★ HAP IRVIN (Soccer Fullback) By ART BALEY ’ENNSYLVANIA Sports Thru The Lion’s Eye By JAKE HIGHTON Collegian Sporls Editor If a team gets licked 34-7 as Penn State did by Michigan State, the first thing the fan does—after figuring out how the game could have turned out otherwise—is to look for consolation. And there is lots of that in the Nittanies first loss: (1), To begin with, no one else has beaten the Spartans since Maryland in thh middle of the 1950 season .Thus, Penn State was proved to be mortal. (2), If you want to be downright catty about it, MSC stars learned their football in Pennsylvania. Passers Tom Yew cic, Conemagh, and Willie Thrower, New Kensington, threw four touchdown passes between them. Another New Kensington breed, Dick Tamburo, brother of State’s All-American Sam (1948), was virtually impassable backing up the stalwart Spartan line. (3), MSC players, who failed to make a stunning impression on Nittany gridders, knew they were in a ball game. The Lion forwards offen sively and defensively played some real fine football. (4), Finally, the Nittany caliber of play was such that Spartan Coach Biggie Munn only trusted 49 players in comparison to the 61 he used to rout Syracuse. What's more, half of 'MSC’s 17-jewel backfield didn’t even play. Nevertheless, it is Spartan reserve strength which weighs so heavily in their favor and wears down the opposition. (The Lions were plajdng for men both on offense and defense). Subs come in as good as, only fresher, than the guy replaced. Or, a third teamer like Gene Lekenta comes in during the fourth quarter, rips off 23 yards, and nearly goes all the way. It's senseless to continue crying over a spilled football game, but movies of the Lion-Spartan tiff show that Tony Rados did make the necessary feet for a first down in the second ouarter on a fourth down sneak. However, it proves that the officials never hurt a champion. Evidence: the questionable decision : n the first Joe Louis-Joe Walcott fight; or, the times when the baseball Yankees will get the benefit of close calls. -k k ~k ★ ★ k SPARTAN POST MORTEMS: MSC flashes varied attacks with keen double reversing deception . . . Tod Kemmerer’s punting was the best the Nittanies have gotten in one game all year . . . The Lions completed the mostest passes, 14 for 25, but the Spartans got to the goal fastest with long payoff scores . . . The Nittanies outdid the Spartans in another statistic with 141 kickoff yards returned to 19. Coach Rip Engle was righi when he said the Lions were fwo years away from playing in the same league with the Spartans. But does the Ripper mean the Lions will be playing in the pro loops in 1954? It was quite a coincidence that at the same time State’s Pete Sclioderbek was playing so outstanding a game against MSC Sat urday, his brother Steve was starring for Navy in its 7-7 tie with Penn. Pete joshingly says he taught Steve “everything he knows.” This may be true', but it seems that actually Steve picked up his split-T technique acting the part of Maryland’s “pro” Jack Scarbath the last two seasons. Steve didn’t make the varsity until this season and still won’t be in the starting lineup until this Saturday. Penn? They will probably be crazy Saturday night after seeing another Schoderbek. PATHS OF GLORY: Pill's grid menior Red Dawson wenl from "Coach of ihe Week" lo "Most Surprised of Ihe Week" in ihe space of Ihree days. Dawson should have consulted Engle before Pill's tussle wilh Wesl Virginia. The Mountaineers had every in tention of dealing a similar upset to the Lions and nearly did. UNSUNG HEROES: With the rise of Steve Schoderbek largely attributable to practice sessions, who knows the heights that can be reached by the current crop of Lion sophs who are bearing the difficult practice burden of imitating the opposition. Showing signs of future varsity ability by hustling scrimmage play are Norm Paul, quarterback; Bill Patterson, QB; Bill Biever, tackle; Ralph Wagner, end; Jim Eshbach, tackle; Paul Shattuck, tackle, and Larry Lan caster. center. GRID BITS: Until last week's iumbl'ng. the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania had four teams in the second ten football teams in the country. Penn was ranked 11th, Villanova 12th, Penn State 17th, and Pitt 18ih in AP polls. . . . Only seven major collegiate teams own unbeaten and untied records. The South has ihree— Duke, Georgia Tech, and Maryland, the Pacific Coast has two —Southern Cal and UCLA, the Midwest has one—Michigan State, and ihe East stands alone with Villanova. 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