Grieders' Slight - Favorites. 20;900 Fans LiopOrcinge Coach Rip Engle's :vastly improved Nittany Lions will be unveiled bffore more than 20,000 spectators today when they skirmish a slightly underdog Syracuse eleven at Beaver Field to inaugurate Penn State's four-game home stand. Kickoff time is set for 2 p.m. Only because the Nittany Lions are playing at home are they given a slight edge in .they pre-game predictions. Penn State is well-known for its outstanding performances on its home field. In fact, ,during its entire gridiron history Penn - State has dropped Only 28 games at Beaver Field. It has won 217 and tied 12. • In the scoring department Lion gridders have tallied 7009 points to their opponents 1204 points. Engle's football eleven, which was victorious for the first time this season last week when it downed Boston U., and the upset minded Orangemen go into the game with several records' at stake. They are: 1. Syracuse is unbeaten in its last 12 games against Eastern riv als. (Penn State handed Syracuse its last defeat in 1951. The Lions won, 32-13.) 2. Syracuse is undefeated in seven regularly scheduled games. (Not since 1931, when Syracuse won the first seven games of that season, has an Orange team ac complished this. 3. Penn State has. not lost to Syracuse at Beaver Field since 1934. Baton Champ Will Perform At Half-time Alta Burg, head drum majorette for the Syracuse University band, will perform during halftime ceremonies at today's football game on Beaver Field. Penn State's Nittany l Lion will wear his new suit for the first time at a home game. Gerald Goldman, seventh se mester animal husbandry major, will perform with the Lion and The weatherman calls for sunny and mild for today's foot ball game with Syracuse Uni versity. Temper4fures are ex pected to be six degrees above normal for most of the week end with cooler weather expect-. ed for Sunday night and Mon day. Frothy. He will ride a rodeo horse before the game and during the halftime program. Miss Burg, freshman liberal arts major from Red Lion, holds an international title for twirling in the United States and Canada. She has 'appeared. at Chicago Musicland and on the television program "Band of America." • Following its halftime routine, the Penn State Blue Band will ac - - company Miss Burg in her per formance. The Syracuse Univer sity band will not be here for the game. , The new lion suit, designed by Chenko Studios, New York cos tumers, was purchased last spring for $5OO. A total of $599.25 was collected for the new suit in a fund drive initiated by Alex Gre gal, who portrays the Lion. - The Lion appeared in his new suit for the first time at the Penn State-Army wrestling match in March. He wore the suit for the first . time this fall at the Penn State-University of Pennsylvania football game Oct. 3. Lion Party to Meet The Lion Party will meet at 7 p.m. tomorrow in 121 Sparks, Thomas Kidd, announced yester day. Frosh Customs to End Today By PEGGY McCLAIN Frosh may say farewell to dinks today when freshman cus toms end during half-time of the Penn State-Syracuse foo t b all ,game. The Freshman Joint Customs Board announced the official end to this year's custom period at a meeting Thursday ',night, Th e three-week program went into ef fect Sept. 21. Freshmen must wear clinks' to the game, the board said. Blue Key, junior men's hat society, will check frosh at the gates to Beaver Field. .0 ; -. TODAY'S WEATHEI h' ' lll‘ - SUNNY AND 44)) • MILD • - -..„ _ '7 Will Witness Tilt. Today By SAM PROCOPIO 4. Penn State has never lost to Syracuse two years in a row since 1935. (Continued on page six) Jordan Attack Rouses Britain . Against Israel LONDON, Oct. 16 (IP)—Britain accused Israel today of endanger ing Middle Eastern peace, by an ' "apparently calculated attack" on three Jordan villageS that cost 56 lives. She demanded that Israel' punish those responsible and com pensate the Jordanians. In Washington, the U.S. State Department was reported consid ering a public denunciation of Is rael. State Department officials said they were "very much con cerned" about the incident and were following all developments closely. Lincoln White, State Depart ment press officer, said Eric John ston, President Eisenhower's spe cial envoy to the Middle East now en route there, "will do what he can" to ease tension. The British protest on behalf of Jordan, Britain,'s closest ally in the Middle East, was the strongest London has delivered to any for eign government in years. The board lifted customs regu lations on Wearing name cards and bow ties, carrying student handbooks, and conversation with members of .the opposite sex, dur the second week of the program. Enforcement weakened on re maining regulations on wearing clinks, curtsying 2 an d doffing dinks, and knowing school songs, cheers and locations of campus building upon request by upper-, classmen, according to the board and student opinion. Temple Reynolds, seventh se mester forestry student, said that this was partly due to removing four regulations midway through the program and letting the re maining regulations "ride." The four requirements were lifted as an experiment, the board said. -Enthusiasm Becomes Weak Spirit of both frosh and upper classmen was high during the first week of customs. Large groups of freshmen sang and cheered fre quently along the east side of the Mall and in front of the Carnegie bulletin board. However, enthusiasm of frosh and upperclassmen weakened in the second week of the program, Baitg VOL. 54, No. 23 STATE COLLEGE, PA., SATURDAY MORNING, OCT. 17, 1953 FIVE CENTS 6 to Compete Of 'Mr. State' Syracuse Squeeze, 700 Join Funeral For Orange Eleven About 700 students gathered in front of Old Main last night to take part in a mock funeral for the Orangemen of Syracuse, The pep rally, sponsored by Skull and Bones, senior men's hat society, was dedicated to the burial of the Syracuse football team in Hort Woods planned for tonigh Ag Photo Proofs Due Agriculture seniors must return LaVie picture proofs to the Penn State the Shop today. Seniors in _the School of Chemistry and Physics may have their pictures taken until 4 p.m. Monday. and. came almost to a standstill in the final week. Two joint enforce ment days, one during each of the last two weeks, lifted spirit some what, but the program never re gained the support given during the first' week. Spirit Good at Pep Rallies Despite th e board's requests that upperclassmen, especially sophomores, enforce customs, hat societies, did the major part of en forcement. The board said that freshman class spirit •in general was good on such issues as attendance at I pep rallies and mixers. Tony Cline, third semester arts arid letters student, voiced th e only disagreement to this state ment, and, said that frosh spirit was poor at pep rallies, especial ly the Boston game rally: Thirty-three violation charges against frosh women and about 30. charges against freshman men were handed in at the Student Union desk during the thr e e weeks. Seventy-five women and approximately 60 men w ere charged with violations during dining hall raids by hatmen and hatwomen. FOR A BETTER PENN STATE By MARCIE MacDONALD Masters of ceremonies Donald Herbein and Gordon Harrington, clad in black, read an original, cheerful poem concerning the fate of the Orangemen today. Songs and cheers were led by the cheerleaders, with musical as sistance from the double-timing Penn State Blue Band. Although Syracuse team members were not present as expected, their drum majorette, Alta Burg, and band president Ray Austin were intro duced by Blue Band director James Dunlop. Miss Burg and Austin addressed the crowd briefly, after which the cheerleaders, led by head cheer leader Bruce Wagner, gave a short yell Syracuse. When Miss Burg expressed her confidence in a Syracuse victory today, Dunlop told her to "wait and see," which brought the ibud est and longest burst of applause throughout the rally. About 20,000 are expected to watch the game this aftetnoon, according to the Athletic Associ ation. It will be broadcast over WMAJ starting at game time, 2 p.m. Syracuse Game Films To Be Shown Tuesday Movies of today's Penn State- Syracuse football game will be shown at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in 119 Osmond. The movies, taken by Ray M. Conger; associate professor of physical education, are spon sored by Androcles, junior men's hat society, and th e School of Physical Education and. Athletics. Totirgiati in Finals Contest By ANN LEH Six finalists in the Mr. Penn State Contest, as announced late yesterday afternoon, are Robert Carruthers, Edgar Feh nel, Phillip Greenberg, Rich ard Lemyre, Gerald Maurey, and Alan McChesney. Mr. Penn State will be crowned by Mrs. Milton S. Eisenhower at the Belle-Hop Ball, from 9 to 12 tonight in Recreation Hall. Six were named, because a tie resulted in picking the fifth fin alist, Harry Gilbert, president of the Penn State Hotel Greeters Association, said. The finalists were chosen from a field of 22 contestants by a committee of 15 faculty and staff members. The men were scored on character, popularity, and service to the College, on and off campus. The winner will be chosen dur ing intermission on the basis of audience applause. Judges will be Donald Myers, a graduate of the College and manager of the Auto port Restaurant; Richard M. Bow er, professor of hotel administra tion, and Robert Koser, assistant to the registrar. Another judge, Everett Allen, executive secre tary of the state Hotelmen's As sociation, will be unable to at tend the dance, Gilbert said. Carruthers, sponsored by Sigma Alpha Epsilon, is a seventh sem ester journalism major from Hav ertown. He is a member of Alpha Delta Sigma, advertising honor ary, Androcles, Sigma Alpha Ep silon, and is local advertising manager of the Daily Collegian. Greenberg, Phi Epsilon Pi nom inee, is a member of the men's de - - bate team, Pi Lambda Sigma, pre= law honorary, Androcles, the Lion party, Skull and Bones, and Hil lel. He is president of the Business School Council and a member of All-College Cabinet. He is a sev enth semester business major from New Castle. McChesney, a ninth semester architecture major from Swarth more, is - sponsored by Phi Kappa Sigma. He is a member of Blue Key and Parmi Nous, Thespians, Chapel choir, and the men's de bate team. Last year he served as head cheerleader. All-College President and for mer junior class president Lem yre was nominated by Sigma Chi. He is a seventh semester metal lurgy major from Merrick, N.Y., and a member of the wrestling team. Lemyre is a member of Druids, Androcles, Skull and Bones, and Lion's Paw. A seventh semester animal hus bandry major from Nazareth, Fehnel was named by Alpha Zeta. This past summer he served as chairman of the student encamp ment at Mount Alto. He is a member of the Coaly society, the glee club, was co-chairman of last year's harvest ball, master of ceremonies for the Ag Hill party, and a member of Lion's Paw. Maurey, Co-captain of the wrestling team and president of the Athletic AssoCiation, is spon sored by Delta Upsilon. A sev enth semester arts and letters ma jor from Templeton, he is on All- College Cabinet as president of the Athletic Association, Skull and Bones, Lion's Paw,' and is vice president of Delta Upsilon. Mr. Penn State will receive gifts valued and $125 and the fraternity sponsoring the winning contestant will receive an en graved trophy. Prizes will also be awarded the four runners-up. Lee Vincent and his orchestra will play for the informal' dance, sPonsored by the Greeters Club. Congressman to Talk James E. Van Zandt, Republi can congressman from the 20th district, will address the engineer ing 2 lecture, 4:10 p.m. Monday, in 110 Electrical Engineering.
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