PAGE SIX Engle Has Problem At Center of Line / By dick McDowell (This is ihe third in a series of stories which will examine the Penn State football team position by position—today ihe centers and guards.) The questionable status of co-captain Don Balthaser’s injured knee and the loss of veteran guard Sam Green has produced some trouble spots in the center of Rip Engle’s line. Balthaser, slated to open his second season as the Lions’ regular pivotman, has been sidelined for the past two weeks. Despite the fact that the injured knee is responding to treatment, it’s still a question mark as to whether the tough 190-pound center will be ready for the Illinois opener Saturday. Despite his lack of size Balthaser has been a spearhead in the line for the Lions. He moves fast from the crouch position and was a tough man both offensively and defensively l3St S6BSOII, - • However, Engle has a ready re placement standing by in the per son of junior Frank Reich who gained a lot of experience in the pivot slot last season. Reich, a strapping 6-2, 200 pounds, was a fine defensive ball player last year. The Lions’ left guard position appears to be pretty well set with lettermen Earl Shumaker, 5-9, 190 pounds, and Keith Horn, 5-11, 185 pounds, two-platooning port side duties. Both men, used extensively there last year, are aptly suited for Engle’s combination winged- T, split-T attack. They possess the desired speed for downfield blocking but still carry enough weight to make them rugged competitors in the line. The loss of Green on the right side has left Engle without .an experienced guard there and the race is wide open for the posi tion. Green and Pete Schoderbek shared the duties there last year. However, Schoderbek graduated and Green was dropped from school- due to scholastic difficul ties. Senior Chuck Sowers, 6-0, 200 pounds, saw limited action there last year and has the edge in ex perience. Sowers, along with scrappy sophomore Dick DeLuca, junior Sam Valentine and Pete Petroff, have all been working there in pre-season drill and En gle hasn’t settled on any one of them yet. Any of the four could get the job. DeLuca weighs 200 pounds, Valentine and Petroff 210. Words of Wisdo LINE COACH Sevor "Tor" Toretii hands out a few pointers to Penn State gridders during a Beaver Field practice session. Toretii, like the 'rest of Rip Engle's coaching staff is intent oh polish es ro u3 ^l edges before the Lions' tough opener against Big-Ten co-favorite Illinois on Satur daY- The game will mark Penn State's 68th season of intercollegiate competition. rfavcV uni icc I RAY'S RANCH DLA Y Cl\ nUUSt I 3ft Miles West of Slate College ~ ir« i _ H On Route 322 Good Food at Reasonable Rates B « urtu , u .„ ■ • HOMEMADE CHILI • ASSORTED SANDWICHES 329 E. Beaver Ave. I • HOMEMADE VEG. SOUP • PLENTY OF PARKING AD 7-7851 I And-Your Favorite Beverages Don Balthaser Injured Lion Center All-University Golf Tourney Opens Today Students interested in enter ing the qualifying round of the All-University golf tournament, may do so anytime between today and Saturday night, ac cording to golf coach Bob Rutherford. There will be an eighteen hole qualifying round. Entrants are asked to report to the golf shop behind Recrea tion Hall before starting play. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA 7 Freshman Sports Tilts Scheduled Seven „ athletic contests . will comprise the three freshman fall sports schedules. The first-year athletes will be visiting foreign soil for six of their encounters. The freshman football team, un der Earl Bruce, will meet Navy and Pitt away, and wind up its season against Bullis Academy at Beaver Field. Only one foe is scheduled to test the freshman soccer squad. Frostburg Teachers academy will offer the opposition at Frostburg, Maryland. Norm Gordon will send his frosh cross-country sprinters against Navy and Cornell in dual meets. The hill and dalers will end their season at New York City in the freshman IC4A’s. The junior gridders were the only team to carry a freshman schedule last year. Besides adding the aforemen tioned soccer and cross-country schedules, the athletic department enlarged the frosh grid schedule by one in an effort to boost fresh man athletic schedules. A rugged 25-game schedule has been booked for the 1954-55 Penn State basketball team. From TLSm mis Angle... A college football halfback who is already being classed in the Grange, Jim Thorpe, and Glenn Davis category; and. another halfback who could reach the same heights before'- he ends his college career, face each other across opposite lines this Saturday when Penn State opens its 1954 season against power-laden Illinois. Last year the name of J. C. Caroline flashed across the nation's sports pages when the fabulous sophomore made shambles of the records once owned by Grange, the legendary Galloping Ghost who once rampaged on the same Illinois turf. An unnoiieeable as a freshman, he ran wild for the Big Ten Co-champs last year and piled up an amazing total of 1670 yards.' 1256 from scrimmage, and went on a one-game spree that netted him 195 yards. Penn State’s Lenny Moore, also in his first varsity year, didn’t look that good on paper—but he was still amazing. Probably' the fastest, most dazzling back ever to grace a Penn State team, he. ate up 601 yards for ah average of better than five yards per carry. He returned.punts at the rate of 17 yards a carry and proved him self a demon as a defenseman in the Lion secondary. ■ Because he had two extra-fine halfbacks behind Moore—Dick Jones and Buddy Rowell—Lion coach Rip Engle rested him often during a game. And more significant, because of a super passing attack under Tony Rados, the Lions traveled primarily through the air. As a result Moore didn't get the work that a halfback of his calibre ordinarily would get. That, of’ course, doesn't mean that the fleet-legged tailback could have matched Caroline's amazing record, but it is an indication that 601 yards is not his absolute limit. The comparison between the two backs is amazingly similar. Both weigh 185 pounds and are almost identical in stature. And their styles are so much alike that they may look like twins, once hidden beneath pads and helmets. Both possess one distinct trademark—lightning fast legs, al though not overmuscular, that provide a fast start and tremen dous speed and power once in the open. Both have an extra ordinary sense of balance, which primarily accounts for their ability to shift and cut back with'such agility. It isn’t difficult, then to see why Engle and Illini coach Ray Elliot have pinned their 1954 hopes on these two swifties. Caroline was their key man last season and Mickey Bates packed the num ber two wallop up the middle. Caroline understandably has been named on virtually every body s pre-season all-American team and was a concensus pick last year( he was named on seven of ten major teams). "When these two meet Saturday something is hound to happen. Both runners are touchdown threats every time they get their hands on the ball a small opening, a good block and either might be on his way. The ironic paradox between . these two players may add a new :wist to a game that should carry -plenty of excitement on its own. Lemon is Greenberg's Choice for MVP Award CLEVELAND, Sept. 20 (VP) Bob Lemon is the pennant-win ning Cleveland Indians’ most val uable player—in the opinion of his boss. • . . The Tribe’s general manager, Hank Greenberg, today told the Cleveland chapter of Sigma Del ta Chi, national journalism fra ternity: “The selection of the most val uable player on any team is a matter of personal:, opinion. If .1 were making the award, however, it would go to Bob Lemon,” Greenberg also predicted the Indians would win the pennant again next season, “but won’t win as many, games.” Coach Wins Tickets To His Own Game RICHMOND, Va., Sept. 20 (VP) —The Richmond Quarter back Club today held its weekly draw ing for two tictkets to the Uni versity of Richmond’s next home football game. Today’s winner: Ed Merrick, head football coach at the Uni versity of Richmond. tiicSOAY. 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