Engle Named UP 'Coach of Week' Since Penn State’s Startling trouncing of Illinois over the weekend, the word has been going around that Eastern football is no longer to be scoffed at. In the minds of the sports divi sion of. the .United Press news service, at least one college grid mentor north of the Mason-Dixeh also deserves recognition for a job well done. The UP has named Rip . Engle coach of the week, for what the 48-year-old grid mentor has clas sified as the greatest victory of his coaching career. “But me—coach of the week? Gee", I don’t deserve that. Give it to the whole staff.” These were the honor-struck mentor’s words after hearing of the title bestowed upon him. sth Year at Penn State Engle is spending his fifth year in the Nittany Vale as' top man of the grid coaching staff, and in that time owns an overall record of 24 wins, 12 losses, and two ties. .Before coming to Penn. State, Engle was head coach at Brown, where he produced many fine teams. Besides stopping the nation’s sixth ranked team, Engle’s grid ders laid down what was reputed to be the fastest backfield in ma jor college ranks. The defensive performance put forth by the Lions was without a doubt the big factor in upsetting the Big Ten eleven. And it was the first time in his college career that All-American Illini back, J. C. Caroline, was halted so effectively that he was outdistanced by a rival back — Lenny Moore. “Did we set up our defense for Caroline?” Engle said, repeating a question. “Heavens, 1 no, we de fensed Illinois. With fellows like Abe Woodson and Mickey Bates around you can’t concentrate on one man—not even a Caroline. Your defense has to be balanced,” When the possibilities of a bowl! IM Football— (Continued from page six) touchdown apiece to account for the final score. In the final game of the night Sigma Nu scored two quick touch downs in the-opening moments of the second half and then went on to down Phi Sigma Delta. Phi Sigma Delta took the open ing kickoff in the second half but was unable to move and was forced to punt. Bobby Abbott of Sigma Nu took the punt ,on his own 30 and on a sensational pass play to Steve Haky, Sigma Nu, went 70 yards for the score. A few. moments later Dick Crum in tercepted a Howey Levine aerial and then passed to Don Hough for the' second TD. The final "Sigma Nu score came bh a pass from'Abbott to Haky. 67 Years on Gridiron Penn' State, which next year will observe the 100th anniver sary of its founding, has engaged in intercollegiate fbotball unin terruptedly for 67 years. Its rec ord for this period shows 336 wins, 137 defeats, and 33 ties. J. T. White, former Michigan player and coach; is the only hew addition to Penn State’s 1954 foot ball coaching staff. 3BF, T9TM RIP ENGLE may be the United Press' choice as "Coach of the Week", but to his wife Sunny, he gets the honor of "Husband of the Week." Here Rip and Sunny read a few of the many telegrams the Lion coach received after Penn State upset Illinois in the season opener Saturday. invitation entered one of his The Nittany mentor received post-game conversations, Engle numerous telegrams of congratu promptly replied, “That’s a lot of lations following the smashing foolishness. No one on this squad win, including ,one from Presi is thinking about anything but dent Milton S. Eisenhower, while our game next Saturday against on the. train returning to State Syracuse.” • College. - SERIES SIDELIGHTS ✓ A motherly-looking, grey-haired woman wearing a huge orchid beamed at “her Giants” today from a dignitaries’ box behind the New York dugout. Mrs. John McGraw was start ing her 15th World Series. “I’ve been here every time the Giants played in a Series since 1905,” she said, games at least three times a week, just as I did when Mr. McGraw was here;” “There’s only one team, of course,” she replied brightly. “As to the games, I don’t .know. We will win four out of seven. Maybe a little sooner.” Leo Durocher brought in Don Liddle in the eighth to pitch to only one man—Vic Wertz. The Cleveland first baseman hit ‘a tremendous 450-foot shot to deep center which might have been the game-winning blow had it not been for a miraculous run ning caich' by Willie Mays. "That Liddle's got Wertz* number," commented one blea ry-eyed fan dourly. The subway crush to the Polo YHf PAttY CGttEGIAW. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Grounds didn’t bother William G. Rabe, New York financier, and his guests. They came to the ball park by boat. Rabe and six guests boarded a 60-foot cabin cruiser at Wall Street, cruised up the East River, into the Harlem, and docked near the Polo Grounds. “I come to the Laraine Day. wife of the Giants' Manager Leo Durocher. walked bliihly up to the press gale as a force of habit and pre sented tickets .for herself and her guests. But she didn't get in—not there. She had to go to another gate where she 1 was ad mitted. Her guests included Spencer Tracy and Danny Kaye; Higgins Honored Bob Higgins, one of three form er Penn State coaches elevated to college football’s Hall of Fame in 1954, served under the two other choices—Dick Harlow and Hugo Besdek—as ' a player and later joined Bezdek’s staff as an assis tant. . 13,000 Readers See These Ads Catchy Homer Beat Tribe NEW YORK, Sept.'29 {/£) —“The longest out and the shortest home run of the season beat us, that’s all!” That’s how Senior A 1 Lopez, Cleveland’s smiling-in-defeat mana ger, summed up today’s opening World Series victory by the New York Giants over his American League champions. He referred to the sensational catch by Giant centerfielder Wil lie Mays of a screaming 450-foot drive off the bat of Vic Wertz, and the climactic 270-foot homer with whichi pinch-hitter Dusty Rhodes ended the game in the tenth. Bob Lemon, who pitched all the way, had little to say about the homer. “That’s the way it goes,” he said, “but I’ll have to admit it’s tough to lose on a hit like that one. I thought it was just an other out, and all at once the game’s over.” “We had a couple of chances to win the game in nine innings,” Lopez said, “but it just didn’t to give you faster, more efficient Car Service! GRAND OPEMIMG mu FREE GIFTS FOR CHILDREN Set of 6 - in handy car ry home carton with purchase of 8 gallons of gasoline. - VALUABLE Robert Hoover’s MOBILGAS SERVICE STATION 824 S. Atherton St., State Callage Work out. In the eighth with the bases loaded and one out Pope looked at a third strike, but it was a good, fooling pitch—a .fork ball. “And in the sixth when Wertz led off. with his single to.right and Mueller threw wildly trying to pick him off first Vic could have reached third instead of sec ond, but for an unfortunate thing. “He wears a protective shin guard on his right leg, and as he started for second after the ball got away from the first baseman and catcher, the guard broke loose and stopped him. It’s the first time the guard has ever ham pered him.” Abo Free A beautiful 32-oz. Libby Han desh aker to match your glasses for those customers who visit us on our opening and re turn within 30 days for a Certified Mobilubrication PRIZES ~ Phone AD 8-6211 PAGE SEVEtf
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