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Daring Young Man.
SWINGING AND SWAYING from ihe Old Main lower, a work
man undertakes a repair job 150 feel above the plaza in front of
the building. Safely ropes keep workmen's insurance rales down,
as they repair ihe dome and add transparent waterproofing to it.
It's ihe first repair job on the lower since Old Main was re
constructed 25 years ago. The lower is 80 feel tall.
Campus
Summer
Campus workmen were busy throughout the summer with a
series of remodeling and repairing projects while still more are
planned for the near future.
The largest project was the renovation of the cafeteria and
kitchen in the Home Economics Building. Both rooms were re-
painted and a new cafeteria coun
ter and ceiling acoustics tile in
stalled.
Grandstand Painted
The Beaver Field grandstand
is being painted. The work is ex
pected to be finished for the first
home game with Virginia, Oct. 9.
The White Hall gymnasium was
repainted, as were the General
Extension Building, Wo m a n’s
Building, and Temporary Class
room Building.
Post Office Built
Hi the Nittany.-Pollock area, a
new post office was built and the
athletic field improved.
, A new classroom is being in
stalled on the first floor of En
gineering C.
The parking area near Whit
more Laboratory was resurfaced.
DelSeDonne—
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Lutter had been k proposed. All
three declined.
Miss DelleDonne said she would
accept the post if the group
wanted her as chairman. Secret
ballot was taken.
The elections code- to go before
cabinet tonight specifies that the
party clique chairman is to be
elected at an open clique meet
ing. The party constitution calls
for election by the council.
McMeekin said:
“Considering the new code was
adopted unanimously at encamp
ment, I want to go on record that
I am not in favor of the closed
meeting tonight.”
“But, rather,” he said, “I am
in favor of an open meeting Sun
day night. This would have al
lowed everyone present, whether
past clique members or not, eli
gible to vote for the clique chair
man.”
Lutter concurred with McMee
3kin, saying that to hold an elec
tion at that time was to go against
Sie wishes of both the majority
of student leaders and the admin
istration.
Other officers elected were
Janet McKee, secretary; Rita
Baibrow, secretariat; and James
SEace, treasurer.
Miss DelleDonne said a fresh
anta-i clique meeting will be held
Bt 7 p.m. Sunday in 10 Sparks.
ÜBA IS STILL OPEN TODAY
Undergoes
Face-Lifting
The parking area behind Grange
Dormitory will be enlarged to ac
commodate Hetzel Union Build
ing parking and the entire area
given an asphalt coat.
A new,-parking area will be con
structed on the lawn behind
Woman’s Building and between
Pond Laboratory and Burrowes
Building. The area will accommo
date 36 cars.
Two Japanese Yew shrubs have
been planted in front of the HUB.
Additional landscaping has been
done in the area around the Nit
tany Lion Inn. The complete
planting program will begin next
week.
CLASSIFIEDS
FOR SALE
ONE CUSHMAN motor-scooter, 1949
mode], A-l condition. Price $B5. Phone
AD 7-4432.
HAYNES FLUTE in excellent condition,
priced reasonable. Call AD 7-3946 at
noon or after 5 p.m.
1947 CHEVROLET 4 dr. sedan, R&H, 5
good tires, very good mechanically, clean.
$3OO. Pollock 14-20 ext. 274.
$2O SET of Dietzgen drawing instruments,
never been used. Will consider any
reasonable offer. Call ext. 2303.
ENGINEERING DRAWING set, complete
with board and T-square, also Zoology
disecting kit. Phone AD 7-4752 evenings
5 to 7.
EBONITE Selmer Clarinet. Call AD 7-4702.
REVOLVER—Smith and "Wesson 38 calibre
4% inch barrel, recently purchased. Re
cently married, must sell. Phone AD 7-4720,
UNIFORMS. Ideal for Home Ec students
or waitresses. Newest fall styles in da
cron, nylon, poplin. Call AD 8-6239.
1941 INDIAN Motorcycle, new battery,
good tires, good running condition. Must
sell. Call AD 7-7705 after 5 p.m.
PICKETT AND Eckel Slide Rule, model
800, like new. $lO. Inquire Robert Hen
derson, 414 S. Pugh St. '
1949 CHEVROLET 2 dr. sedan. Heater,
good tires, new seat covers, excellent
condition, $595. 1949 Ford V-8 2 dr. sedan,
R&H, seat covers, like new, $595. Can
be financed—private. Phone AD 7-4712.-
CHEMIST’S SLIDE Rule, $22.50; Dietzgen
drawing set, $10.00; Gladiator coronet,
$30.00. Phone AD 7-2595.
IS YOUR typewriter giving you trouble?
If so, just dial AD 7-2492 or bring ma
chine to 633 W. College Ave., State College.
NOTICE
NEXT-TO-NEW Shop, 315% W. Beaven
Come here for second-hand goods. Just
arrived; drawing sets, T-squares, drawing
triangles. Open 9-12, 1-4; Closed Wed.
p.m. and Sat. Phone AD 7-7169.
RIDE WANTED
FROM PHILA. to State—Wed., Sept. 29th.
Call 341 Simmons or leave message at
Collegian office.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA
AIM Discusses
General Plans,
Co-operation
The Association of Independent
Men last night discussed general
policies for the coming year.
Loa Joan Packard, president of
Leonides, gave a report on the
makeup of Leonides, and asked
for closer co-operation between
AIM and Leonides.
Reports were given by repre?
sentatives from ■ the West Dorm
and Nittany areas on dates for
resident hall elections. b er t
Dennis, president of AIM, gave a
report on the National Indepen
dent Students’ Association, held
this summer.
Dennis also announced that he
would hold office hours in. 129
Waring from 8 a.m. to noon on
Tuesdays and Thursdays, and
from 8 a.m. until 11 a.m. Satur
days.
AH AIM judicial cases will be
heard in 127 Waring Hall, it was
announced.
James W. Dean, assistant to the
Dean of Men, in charge of inde
pendent affairs, asked that repre
sentatives from the Nittany-Pol
lock area present parking recom
mendations, in order to combat
the traffic situation when the ice
skating rink opens.
Prof to Discuss Novel
On WDFM Tonight
S. Leonard Rubenstein, instruc
tor of English composition, will
discuss his recently published
novel, “The Battle Done,” on
WDFM program, “Just Out,” at
8:30 tonight.
■ The book concerns a German
prisoner of war camp in South
Carolina. Rubenstein is a grad
uate of Rutgers University with a
journalism degree and holds .a
Master’s degree in fine arts and
creative writing from the Univer
sity of lowa.
“Just Out” is a half-hour show
dealing with recently released
records, books, and magazine
articles.
Few Froths Available
Froth, campus humor magazine,
will remain on sale today at the
Student Union Desk in Old Main.
All but a few copies of this
month’s issue have been sold.
Jack Rose, director of circulation,
said yesterday.
PIANO MAN and string bass man for
local dance band. Phone AI, AD 7-2939.
STUDENTS EARN up to $1.50 per hour
on a steady part-time job. See "Perry”
at Dux Club. 128 S. Pugh.
MALE STUDENTS wanting rooms in
dormitory, please call AD 7-4332, im-
,
ROOMS FOR RENT—Local—State College
area. Contact AD 7-4979.
AFTER OCT. 7, large double room, private
bath, new beds, towels and linen, fac
ulty home. In State College. Men only.
Phone: EL 5-4741. Ask for Mrs. Buck.
ANYONE INTERESTED in horse-drawn
hayrides contact Lynn Mothersbaugh.
Phone EM 4-1544. One or 2 wagons avail
able.
FOR YOUR next party, would you like
your fancy sandwiches or cookies to have
a professional look and homemade flavor?
Call Mrs. Garner AD 7-3996 and order.
BOWLERS—THERE will be a meeting of
the A.I.M. League Mon. Sept. 27 at
7:30 p.m. at Beaver House. A captain* or
representative from each team should be
present. New teams welcome. Any indi
vidual wishing to join a team should also
attend. 329 E. Beaver Ave. Phone ADams
7-7851.
TENNIS "FANS’*: It’s Hassinger for
racket stringing the no-awl way. Prompt
service. Guaranteed work. Longer life to
string and racket. R. T. Hassinger, White
Hall or 514 E. Beaver Ave. after 5 p.m.
PARTY COOKIES, canapes, and other
hors d'oeuvres, birthday cakes and other
cakes, excellent fruit punch. Frida Stern,
122 E. Irvin Ave. Phone AD 7-4818.
FOUND HANDKERCHIEF "Donna Ma
rie” ; Box 539 Hamilton.
NAVY BLUE suitcoat taken by mistake
at Delta Sigma Phi party, Sept. 18.
Call AD 7-4151.
HELP WANTED
?OR RENT
MISCELLANEOUS
FOUND
LOST
'A Million Millers /
Mumbles Marsh
The name is Miller.
Charles R. Marsh, assistant pro
fessor of electrical engineering,
called the roll for his first class
of an engineering 1 section.
And when he called Miller,
nearly half of the class replied.
A check of the- names revealed
that seven of the 16 students in
the section had the same last
name—and the name is Miller.
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FOOTBALL THROUGH THE AGES
The football frenzy is upon us. But let us, in the midst of this
pandemonium, call time. Let us pause for a moment of tranquil
reflection. What is this game called football? What is its history?
Its origins? Its traditions? These are not idle questions, for when
we have the answers we will-appreciate even more fully, enjoy even
more deeply, this great American game of football.
First of all, to call football an American game is somewhat mis
leading. True, the game is now played almost exclusively in America,
but it comes to us from a land far away and a civilization long dead.
Football was first played in ancient Rome. Introduced by Julius
Caesar, it became one of the most popular Roman sports by the time
of Nero’s reign. The eminent historian Sigafoos reports a crowd of
MMCLDDXVIII people at the Colosseum one Saturday afternoon
to see the Christians play the Lions.
With the decline of the Roman empire football fell into disuse.
The barbaric Huns and Goths preferred canasta. However, by the
Twelfth Century A.D. football had emerged from its twilight and
risen to its rightful place in the firmament of European pastimes.
The eminent historian Sigafoos reports that the whole continent
was in the grip of wild excitement in the year 1192 when the
Crusaders, under Freddie Barbarossa, journeyed all the way to
Damascus to play the Saracens in the Fig Bowl game. The Crusaders
squeaked through, 23 to 21, on a field goal by Dick Coeur de Lion
in the closing seconds - of the game.
October 21, 1512, will ever remain a red letter day in the history
of football. On that day Leonardo da Vinci, who has often been called
'“The Renaissance Man” because of his proficiency in a hundred arts
and sciences, was painting a picture of a Florentine lady named
Mona Lisa Schultz. “Listen, Mona baby,” he said as she struck a
pose for her portrait, “I keep telling you—don’t smile. Just relax and
look natural.”
“But I’m not smiling,” she replied.
“Well, what do you call it?” he said.
“Gee, I don’t know,” said Mrs. Schultz. “It’s just an expression,
kind of.”
“Well, cut it ont,” said The Renaissance Man.
“I’ll try,” she promised.
And try she did, but without success, for a moment later the artist
was saying to her, “Look, Mona kid, I’m not gonna ask you again.;
Wipe that silly grin off your face.”
“Honest to goodness, The Renaissance Man,” said she to him, “it’s
no grin. It’s just the way I look.”
“Well, just stop it,” said Leonard testily and turned away to mix
his pigments.
When he turned back to Mona Lisa and saw the smile still on
her face, he became so enraged that he seized the nearest object
a casava melon, as it happened and hurled it at her with all his
strength. Showing great presence of mind, she caught the melon and
ran with it from the studio until The Renaissance Man’s temper
should cool.
This was, of course, the first completed forward pass.
Another date dear to the hearts of all football fans is September 29/
1442. It was on this date, according to the eminent historian Sigaf oos,
that a sixteen year old lad named Christopher Columbus tried out
for the football team at Genoa Tech. He failed to make the team
because he was too light. (He weighed at that time only 12 pounds.).
And why, you ask, is this date September 29, 1442 so dear to
the hearts of all football fans? Because young Columbus was so
heartbroken at not making the team that he ran away to sea. And
if that hadn’t happened, he never would have discovered America.
And if Columbus hadn’t discovered America, the world never would
have discovered tobacco. And if tire world hadn’t discovered tobacco,
football fans never would have discovered Philip Morris which, as
every fan knows, is the perfect companion to football. As Sigafoos,
the eminent historian, says, “Land’s sakes, I can’t even imagine
football without Philip Morris. I’d, sooner go to a game without my
raccoon coat than without my neat, rich tobacco-brown snap-open
pack of mild vintage Philip Morris Cigarettes which come in regular
or king-size at prices young and old can afford. Land’s sakes!”
The end of football in Europe came with the notorious “Black Sox
Scandal” of 1587, in which Ed Machiavelli, one of the Pisa mob,
paid off the University of Heidelberg Sabres to throw the champion
ship game to the Chartres A. and M. Gophers. It was a mortal blow
to football on the continent.
But the game took hold in the American colonies and thrived as it
had never thrived before. Which brings us to another date that
remains evergreen in the hearts of football lovers: December 16,1771.
On that date a_' British packet loaded with tea sailed into Boston
harbor. The colonies_ had long been smarting under the English king’s
tax on tea. “Taxation without representation,” they called it, and
feelings ran high.
When on December 16,1771, the British ship docked at Boston, a
semi-pro football team called the Nonpareil Tigers, coached by
Samuel (Swifty) Adams, was scrimmaging near the harbor. “Come,
l a ds cr i e d Swifty, seeing the ship. “Let’s dump the tea in the ocean!”
With many a laugh and cheer the Nonpareil Tigers followed Swifty
aboard and proceeded to dump the cargo overboard in a wild, dis
organized and abandoned manner. “Here now!” called Swifty
sharply. “That’s no way to dump tea overboard. Let’s get into some
kind of formation.”
And that, fans, is how the “T” formation was born.
©Mar Stallman, 1954
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THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 23. 1V54
ASAE to Hold Picnic
The student branch of the
American Society of Agricultural
Engineers will hold a -picnic at
6 tonight at Sunset Park.
Cars will be leaving for the
park at 6 p.m. in front of the Ag
ricultural Engineering Building.
Donovan Reappointed
George L. Donovan, director of
associated student activities, was
renamed as regional representa
tive of the Association of College
Unions yesterday.
(Author of “Barefoot Boy With Cheek? etc.)
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