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Underdog Lions Seek Upset
Good Running
Will Highlight
That fact, plus the presence of terrific running backs should
naturally put the emphasis on a running game. However, Rip Engle
has a set of extraordinary ends in Jesse Arnelle and co-captain Jim
Garrity, who despite a loss in valuable practice time due to a- knee
injury, is expected to see heavy action although he probably won’t
start. Garrity scored 44 points lash year as the leading pass receiver
in the east and did the Lions’ extra point kicking.
The other Lion captain, center
Don Balthaser, will also be, out of
the starting lineup, but will be
ready for emergency use. Bal
thaser has fully recovered from
a knee injury but the long layoff
will probably limit his playing.
Three other positions in the
Nittany starting lineup are un
certain and probably won’t be
known until kick-off time. Senior
Chuck Sowers and junior Pete
Petroff both have been named as
possible starters at left guard and
either Don Bailey or Bob Hoffman
will get the call at quarterback.
Either Gene Danser or Otto Knei
dinger, both veteran linemen,
will start at the right tackle Jack
Sherry or Bob Rohland will be at
left end.
The rest of the Penn State line
will show Arnelle at right end,
Rosey Grier at left tackle, Earl
Shumaker at right guard, and
Prank Reich at center.
The Lions arrived here by train
yesterday • and set up headquar
ters at the Urbana-Lincoln Hotel.
The squad worked out for an
hour yesterday afternoon.
Record
Set for
Ja&iQ&Mtsal athletics will open its lid Monday with over 1000
Tixam vying for championship honors. The IM tennis tournament,
whseh is growing in the number of entries each year, will start
SSocaday. Touch football competition will begin Tuesday.
Although expecting more than last year’s 77 teams in the foot
ball tourney, IM office officials
smiled with dismay, after count
ing a record total of 101 names.
“We had 94 teams entered two
years ago,” said Dutch Sykes, as
sistant IM director, “but this
year’s total is surprising. The fra
ternity and independent teams
that win will certainly have to
go through a lot,” the director ex
claimed.
The tennis schedule is already
in the mail to the different com
petitors, according to Sykes.
Matches are scheduled at the con
venience of the players and will
be played on any of the Univer
sity courts. Each match is a single
elimination affair.
“We’ll have about 135 tennis
entrants,” Sykes said after scan
ning the pile of entry blanks. Just
as he was ready to close shop at
the 4:30 p.m. deadline yesterday,
contestant number 136 rushed in
to the office—in time to enter.
Last year’s fraternity singles
champ, Ed Seiling, Phi Delta
Theta, will not participate this
fall. Seiling became a varsity ten
nis competitor after topping the
intramural field. With Seiling out,
James Quinn, Delta Tau Delta,
will be one of the early favorites.
Quinn was independent champion
in 1953.
Fifty-four teams entered the
independent football division and
47 entered the fraternity field.
With championship thoughts in
mind, independent teams will aim
to unseat the Fireballs, three-time
IM champion. The • defending
champs had but two touchdowns
scored against them last year and
copped their third crown by beat
ing the Monkey AC in the finals,
12-7. The latter is again entered
this year.
Acacia, like the Fireballs, had
but two touchdowns scored
against it last fall, and won the
title in the fraternity division.
The champs topped Delta Sigma
Phi, 6-0, to take the laurels.
Four football games will be
played Tuesday night. The first
game v/ill start at 7 p.m. and the
fir.'' 1 , ' orne will get underway at
9:15 p.m.
Braves Capture
Odd Twin Bill,
Set Record
MILWAUKEE, Sept. 24 {JP)~
Another first in Milwaukee’s fab
ulous major league history—two
victories over two different teams
on the same day—went into the
National League record books to
day.
The Braves nipped the Cincin
nati Redlegs, 4-3, in the resump
tion of their prtoested game of
last Wednesday, then beat the St.
Louis Cardinals, 4-2, in a regular
nihe-inning game. A crowd of 16,-
094 watched the unique “double
header” ordered by National
League President Warren Giles.
The protested game was re
sumed with two on and two out
in the Cincinnati half of the ninth
inning. The Redlegs tied the score
at 3-3 when Johnny Temple lash
ed a single through the middle on
the first pitch by reliefer Dave
Jolly, but George Metkovich saved
the day in the Braves’ turn with
a long single to left-center scor
ing Jim Pendleton from second.
Giles ordered the Redlegs to
make the 180-mile roundtrip from
Ch ; "o. where they windup the
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J '- : s •w" r> k , v"d. f or the fin
ish of the game. Manager Birdie
1 protested the de
ci*i the umpires which
b"”' • rx’-iVinal contest to an
abrupt end Wednesday with the
Braves winning, 3-1.
Nats Win 2 for Harris
BOSTON, Sept. 24 <7P) The
Washington Nationals, told by
Bucky Harris he was through as
manager as of the end of the sea
son, went out and swept a double
header from the Boston Red Sox
1-0 in 11 innings, and 6-4, today
to k'op alive il ’-jr hopes for
fourth place r~d a share of the
World Series money.
(Continued from page one )
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Backs
Game
Jack Sherry
Nittany Lion End
Mi kart Decides to Quit,
Devote Time to Law
MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 24 ( JP)
—George Mikan, the fabulous
giant whose scoring exploits
made the Minneapolis Lakers
the greatest team in- profes
sional ' basketball, announced
his retirement today.
Laker General Manager Max
Winter said the 30-year-old
center, holder of almost all of
pro basketball's major scoring
records, had decided to give
up basketball to devote full
time to his law practice here.
Gene Danser
Penn State Tackle
Nats' Owner
Bucks A's'
Move to KC
WASHINGTON, Sept. 24. (iP)—
Clark Griffith, owner of the
Washington Senators, said today
he is “absolutely” opposed to a
shift of the Philadelphia Ath
letics’ franchise to Kansas City.
He predicted a proposal to make
such a move would be voted down
by American League clubowners.
Griffith showed newsmen a
copy of a bulletin from Will Har
riidge, the league president, invit
ing club-owners to a special meet
ing in New York Tuesday to dis
cuss the Philadelphia situation
with Roy Mack, the Athletics’
business manager.
The bulletin said nothing about
voting on a Kansas City move,
but did advise the owners to have
someone present at the meeting
with “power to act.” At least six
of the league’s eight owners
would have to approve a fran
chise shift.
Griffith said he did not know
who else would oppose the trans
fer, but indicated he thought the
Baltimore Orioles and Boston Red
Sox also would vote against it.
A Chicago combine headed by
Arnold Johnson, 47-year-old in
vestment banker,, has made a firm
offer for the Atheltics arid would
move the club to Kansas City if
the A’s accepted the offer and
league owners approved.
Griffith recalled that Johnson
now owns Yankee Stadium and
said a league rule specifically for
bids. having a connection with
more than one team at the same
time.
Griffith listed three possibilir
ties which would meet his ap
proval: Toronto, Montreal. and
Buffalo.
Littler, Furgol Set Pace
In Golf's 'World Series'
WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 (£>)—
Young Gene Littler, who turned
pro after winning last year’s Na
tional Amateur championship, and
Marty Furgol, a husky, veteran,
set: the. pace today with seven
uhder-par 135’s at the halfway
mark in the $40,000 “world series
of-golf” tournament here.
Furgol was the only one of the
fiv'e -players tied, for the first
round lead yesterday with 67’s
who kept up the hot pace. The
T -c’-.ci!*, 111., pro shot a 68, three
under-par.
From
This
Angle...
Champaign, 111., the scene of some of football’s greatest mo
ments, has been reliving the days of Red Grange and Buddy Young
since dazzling J. C. Caroline joined the list of Illini greats last season.
The speedy back’s presence in Ray Eliot’s lineup tomorrow ap
parently is the main reason for the 14-point spread given the Illini
by the pre-game dopesters. <
Caroline, who averaged over 100 yards per game last year,
plus Mickey Bates, who scored 11 touchdowns, plus an amazing
newcomer, halfback Abe Woodson, plus the nucleous of a line
that provided the heavy work in winning the big-10 championship
(whew!), all ddd up to a pretty formidable picture for the Illini.
If this is enough to provide the offensive thfust that made
shambles of all save Wisconsin last fall (Illinois average was 25.7
points per game) then the writers and coaches may have been right
when they put the midwestern team in the pre-season winner’s
circle. '
However, Eliot is without the services of a quarterback com
parable to Ray Falkenstein who graduated in June. And he will
rely on two inexperienced ends in his line. A weak passing attack
could seriously hamper the running offense that provided the
greatest share of the scoring threat last season. Without a good
passing game, and a strong line, an alert defensive secoiidary can
bottle up the” ground attack.
But what about Penn State? Rip Engle, like Eliot, hasn’t been
able to find a quarterback to match the aerial artistry of Tony
Rados, but he has. several very fine flingefs. The important point is,
though, that in Jim Garrity and Jesse Arnelle, he has two of the
finest ends in the country. They could be the difference between a
mediocre, and a very dangerous passing game.
o~n the line Engle has veterans in all positions except left
guard, and that problem has yet to be tested. However, with
Garrity and Ar.nelle at the ends. Gene Danser and Rosey Grier
at tackles, Earl Shumaker at guard and Frank Reich, replacing the
injured Don Balthaser, in the front line ranks, the Nitianies will
be hard to move through,*
On the others side of the scrimmage some very reputable re
turnees bolster Eliot’s forward wall. Captain Jan Smid, a bulldozing
guard who will be earning his fourth varsity letter this year and
Don Tate, likewise in his fourth varsity season, form a very strong
core. Center Jack Chamblin and left tackle Roger Wolf also return
from last-year’s team. ~
If the Lions should win this one, it might be on the strength
of their depth. Engle has veteran performers behind eight of his
starting players. Sure-fingered Jack Sherry and Bob Rohlahd will
be on call at the ends and Dan De Falco and Otto Kneidinger- will
fill in the tackles. Keith Horn and Frank Reich-will, take care of
the right guard and center slots.
Behind Lenny Moore, Bill Straub, and Ron Younkers, Engle
will keep a second platoon backfield that can probably match his
starting trio. Blockson a pile-driving fullback is as good as most,
and Buddy Rowell and Bills’- Kane are terrific outside threats. Only
Kane is a newcomer. But he has demonstrated already that there
are great things to come in future.
Another Lion strong point could be the inovation of the splii-T
optional into Engle's winged-T offense. His backfield is made to
order for it. All three quarterback candidates—Don Bailey, Bob
Hoffman, and Milt Plumb—are fine runners. Add the fleet Moore
as the second man in the optional combination and the Lions have
a very real offensive threat.
Sheer unfounded optimism? Call it what you want, it’s still
tough to snuff out a feeling that Rip Engle’s Lions could surprise
the oddsmakers in this one. From this end the Lions look great.
But they’re playing in the best league in the country today and face
its top-ranking member. •
It's oh so tempting to label them as our pick for the winner.
But that's an awful thin limb for anybody to climb out on. Re
luctantly, we'll go along with the experts—but not by'more than
one touchdown.
However, if the predictions go haywire this afternoon and Engle
should bring home a winner, don’t say we didn’t tell you so.
Tentative Starting Lineups
PENN STATE ILLINOIS
Arneile RE Desenfanis
Danser or Kneidinger RT McAfee
Shumaker RG Tate
Reich C Chamblin
Sowers or Peiroff LG Smid
Grier LT Wolf
Sherry or Rohland LE Badal
Bailey or Hoffman QB Stout or Liiidbeck
Moore LH Caroline
Younkers RH Woodson
Straub FB Bates
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1954
By dick McDowell
Collegian. Sports Editor