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Lions
Look for
Fourth Win;
Straub Hurt
By dick McDowell
Penn State gets the odds
makers’ edge tomorrow when
it meets dangerous West Vir
ginia in the 21st game of the
colorful neighborhood rivalry.
The Lions, looking for their
fourth consecutive win of the
season, and seventh in a string
that began last year, have
been given anywhere from
a seven to 13 point margin for
the Homecoming tilt.
Head coach Rip Engle, however,
isn’t looking at it that way. He
figures the Mountaineers will be
plenty hard to crack tomorrow
and has been grooming the Lions
this week for what could be their
toughest game to date.
Straub Injures Knee
Engle’s chances for number four
received a severe blow Wednes
day when fullback Bill Straub,
scheduled to start against the
Mountaineers, injured his knee.
The hustling junior, who is aver
aging 8.5 yards a carry for three
games, will definitely be out of
action this week, according to
trainer Chuck Medlar.
In his place, Engle will call on
218-pound Chuck Blockson to
take over the fullback chores.
Blockson has been used extensive
ly this season in that position.
Outside of Straub, the Lions
will be in good shape for the con
test Guard Pete Petroff and half
back Bill Kane, who were side
lined by injuries last week, will
be ready to play.
One oilier change is antici
pated in the Lion lineup. Sam
Valentine, junior guard, will re
place Chuck Sowers in the left
guard slot.
Mo Other Change
The rest of the lineup will look
the same as last week. Jesse Ar
nelle arid Jim Garrity will be at
the ends, Rosey Grier and Otto
Kneidinger at the tackles, Earl
Shumaker at right guard, and
Don Balthaser at center.
In the backfield along with
Blockson, Engle will have Don
Bailey at quarterback and Lenny
Moore and Ron Youriker at the
halfbacks.
West Virginia is expected to ar
rive in State College this after
noon and will work out at Beaver
Field at 2:30. The Mountaineers
will set up headquarters at the
Penn Belle Hotel in Bellefonte.
Won First Two
Coach Art Lewis’ team, winner
of its first two starts, is ranked
second in the nation on defense
this week and sports a line that
will average above the 210-pound
mark.
The Mountaineers whipped
South Carolina 34-20 in its opener
and faltered last week in downing
George Washington, 13-7.
“We’re going to have- to play
some football this 'weekend to
make a good showing,” Lewis
said. “Penn State has a good team
and they’ve proven it by the way
they’ve played in their three
victories.”
Penn Ticket Sale
Starts on Monday
sale to students at 9. a.m. Monday
Penn game tickets will go on
in the Athletic Association ticket
office, 248 Recreation Hall.
No student may purchase more
than six tickets.
Approximately 3140 seats are
available in the lower stands .and
•temporary bleachers from the
west end zone to midfield. Tick
ets for these seats are $4 each.
About 1000 seats in the stands
behind the west goal posts will
be sold at $2.50 apiece.
The AA office hours are 9 a.m.
to 4 p.m. Penn game tickets will;
he sold until Oct. 27 Checks and!
money orders should be made out
to the Pennsylvania State Univer-:
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form he'll be using when the Lions tangle with undefeated West
Virginia Saturday at Beaver Field. The hard-charging back will
start in place of Bill Straub, (lower right) who suffered a knee
injury in practice Wednesday.
AL Can'f Force Mack
To Sell, Harr
CHICAGO, Oet. 14
ican League President Will Har
ridge said tonight that although
the way is clear for Roy Mack to
sell the Philadelphia Athletics to
a new home in Kansas City, the
league “can’t force him to sell.”
This was in reply to Roy Mack’s
surprising statement at Philadel
phia: he still had hopes of keep
ing the A’s there even though the
league Tuesday formally okayed
a sale to Arnold Johnson of Chi
cago and transfer •of the A’s to
Kansas City.
“We took up and disposed of
the matter of selling to Johnson
and the transfer to Kansas City at
Roy Mack’s request,” Harridge
said.
“We gave him until Monday
morning to make up his mind. At
the meeting he said he would ac
cept Johnson’s offer. If he changes
his mind, I suppose that is his
prerogative.
“There is nothing further to
say. We just have to sit and wait.”
Harridge emphasized in an earl
ier statement today that the
league action in approving the
sale to Johnson and shifting to
Kansas City included an affirma-
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tive vote by the Washington Sen
ators.
_..is was in rebuttal to an as
sertion by Calvin Griffith, Sena
tors’ vice president; that the
league vote was not official! The
vote was 6 to 0 with Detroit and
Philadelphia absent from the bal
loting. .Harridge said the record
of the meeting was “quite clear”
that the necessary six votes for a
transfer were cast.
If Roy Mack declines to sell to
Johnson, he must line up some
method of liquidating an indebt
edness of $1,900,000, either by sale
to another group or fresh financ
ing.
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dge Says
Boofers Open Home
Stand With Orange
Penn State’s undefeated soccer team —fresh from an en
couraging 5-1 victory over Maryland—will open a four-game
home stand tomorro/w at 10 a.m. when it meets Syracuse Uni
versity.
The Orange encounter will be the iirst of four home con
tests, with Colgate, Army, and Navy scheduled to meet the
Lions on the following successive Saturdays.
Nittany Lion Coach Ken Hosterman is expected to rely
on the same lineup he has used in the Lions’ last two victories.
Penn State rolled over. Bucknell,
14-1, in the season opener, and
then stunned Maryland on its
home field Wednesday, 5-1, to run
its string to two straight victories.
- Not only will the Orange have
to attempt to snag Penn State’s
forward wall, which has scored 19
goals in two games, but Syracuse
Coach Andrew Cocari will . have
to figure out how to penetrate the
Lions’ defensive net.
i Terps Score Only Once
Maryland managed to tally in
the first minute of play Wednes
day on a fifst-period attempt to
rattle the Lion defense, but in the
final three pehiods the Terps were
shut out Lion play.
“Paul Dierks played an out
standing game,” Hosterman said
yesterday in evaluating his de
fense. Hosterman said Dierks dis
played his usual aggressive game
by breaking into many of Mary
land’s pass plays to stop several
scoring attempts.
In the Bucknell contest, Hos
terman got an idea of the scoring
power harbored in his front line.
Defense Is Tested
Lions lop East
For 3d Week
In Grid Poll
For She third straight week
Penn State holds first place in
the Lambert Trophy ratings over
the top teams of the East.
The Lions gained two more
points over last week’s total. They
are only 11 points shy of the pos
sible 1000. Navy is a close second
with 988, followed by Army, 985;
Boston College and Boston U.,
984 each; Princeton and Syracuse,
982 each; Yale 980; and Pitt tenth
with 979.
The only major revisions in the
ratings found Navy moving into
second place and Army advancing
to third.
According to an Associated
Press release, the Lions are tied
with Duke for seventh place
among the nation’s toj tp
among the nation’s top teams for
“scoreboard defense” honors.
Both Penn State and Blue
Devils have yielded only 6.3
points a game to.opponents this
season. This puts them slightly
behind Navy, Colorado, Rich
mond, Georgia, Alabama, and
Boston College.
Band Day Nov. 6
Thousands of high school bands
men will converge on the Penn
State campus for football sea
son’s Band Day Saturday, Nov. 6.
Lenny Moore, fleet-footed Read
ing halfback, scored Penn State’s
10,000 th football point against
Fordham a year ago.
Of 261 home games since 1887,
Penn State football teams have
won an amazing 84 per cent ex
clusive of 12 ties.
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But the Maryland contest was
actually the first time that Hoster
man had an opportunity to see
his defensive team’s ability when
pressed. Although Maryland only
scored once, it outshot the Lions
in attempting' 17 goals, compared
to 14 for the Lions.
Hosterman praised the offensive
passing plays of his front and half
back lines. Captain Jack Pinezich,
although he did not score,, played
an important role into two of the
Lions’ tallies when he chalked up
assists with timely passes.
Gym Managers
Candidates for assistant man
agerial posts in gymnastics will
meet at 5:15 p.m. Tuesday in
the rear of the gym in Rec Hall.
requests
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eight-thirty o'clock
Recreation Hall