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Lions
Over
Penn State meets Army this
weekend with the hopes of
doing something to the Cadets
that a Lion football team
hasn’t been able to accomplish
on a gridiron for 56 years—
beat them.
The game with Army, which is
currently listed as the number six
squad among the nation’s top
grid teams by the Associated
Press, will get underway at Mich
ie Stadium, West Point, at 2 p.m.
(EST) Saturday.
Two-Game Road Trip
The Army encounter will be
the first of a two-game road trip
that will end Oct. 8 with Virginia
at Richmond for Engle’s team.
In the win and loss department,
Army holds a slim lead of two
victories to the Lions’ one, with
two contests ending in ties.
Penn State’s first—and its last
—wih over the Knights from the
banks of the Hudson was regis
tered in 1899 when it tallied on a
65-yard punt return to cop a 6-0
victory.
Army opened its 1955 campaign
by humbling Furman with an 81-
0 whitewash Saturday to regis
ter its highest total since the war
time offensive machine of Army,
topped by Davis and Blanchard,
trounced Villanova University,
83-0, in 1944.
7th Lion Whitewash
Coach Rip Engle’s squad, which
blanked BU Saturday to register
only the seventh
•whitewash tha'
an Engle team
has scored since
1950, last met
Army in 1950.
one easily 41-7
Army won that
one of the three
suffered
by Penn State in
Engle’s first year
at the helm.
In their second
contest in 1900
the two teams
battled to a 14-
14 stalemate. In 1939 the game
ended in a scoreless tie.
In 1949 and 1950 Army won eas
ily 42-7 and 41-7.
Bell, Vann Gone
At the outset of this season,
Coach Earl Blaik was struggling
with the replacement of Pete
Vann and Tommy Bell, Army’s
leading passer and runner of 1954.
Then he said that Army’s of
fensive efficiency would be great
ly affected by the 'oss of Bell and
Vann. Bell’s total offense figures
of 1125 yards passed the combined
efforts of Blaik’s ’54 returnees in
the backfield, Bob Kyasky, Cap
tain Pat Uebel and Mike Ziegler.
With experience and depth,
plus Don Holleder switching from
end to quarterback, carry in g
Army’s offensive hopes this year,
the Cadets quickly laid bare their
1955 backfield success against
Furman Saturday.
Reshuffles Line
Blaik’s complete reshuffling of
three of his four returning line
men has evidently proven valu
able with Ralph Chesnauskas,
Flay Goodwin, and Dick Stephen
son shifting positions inside the
front wall.
With a wealth of material re
turning plus several outstanding
men up from the plebj team,
Blaik could well be re-building
his defense. As it proved this past
weekend, Army intends to make
another bid as the No. 1 team in
rushing and total offense —a title
it earned in 1954.
Ag Hill 'Howdy Night'
To Be Held Tonight
Howdy Night, the Agriculture
Student Council’s welcome to
freshmen and new students, will
be held at 6:30 tonight in Hort
Woods. In case of rain, it will be
held in the Pavilion.
Free cider, hot dogs and coffee,
Tickets for Away Games
Football tickets are available
for the Army game at West Point
and the University of Virginia
contest in Richmond at the Ath
letic Association ticket booth on
the third floor of Recreation Hall.
Tickets for the Virginia game are
$3.50 and for the Army contest
$4. The booth is open from 8:30
a m. to noon and from 1 to 4:30
p.m.
Seek
Army
Soccer Star Forced
To Flee Homeland
A little more .than 11 years ago, just before World War II
came to an end in Germany, a group of war-weary Russians
left their homes, their friends, their jobs, and many memories,
with the hope of a new way of life.
That band of some 60 people, who jumped the Iron Cur
tain in a week-long ordeal, included a 12-year-old boy, who
now—presently a student at the University—has proved him
self a valuable cog to Penn State’s soccer aspirations.
And this year, he’ll return to
his halfback position to carry a
similar load of heavy duties as
Coach Ken Hosterman and his
soccermen defend their 1955 title
of National Champs.
His name—lhor Stelnyk. The
Russian-born- youth came to this
country in 1949. But before he
crossed the Atlantic to America,
he had seen and experienced
things that most American youths
of his age will never know. His
experiences were known only to
those who managed to survive
the demolition of Europe.
Stelnyk and his parents along
with more than 50 countrymen
made the eventful and perilous
trip from his Ukranian home in
Southwest Russia to Hamburg,
Germany, in a week.
Because the war broke out
when he was seven, Stelnyk’s
education was cut off and he left
the classroom for the fields of
Russia’s “bread basket.”
After only two years of school
ing in Germany, he came back
to the United States where he
went to high school. “My parents
helped me a great deal and it
was sort of a ‘home-education’
for the most part,” Stelnyk ex
plained.
Stelnyk, a senior, now speaks
five languages and plans to enter
foreign trade work when he
graduates.
As for soccer, Stelnyk can make
a soccer ball talk. When he was
a freshman he often amused and
awed his dorm pals with nightly
expositions of his unusual finesse
of handling a soccer ball —with
his feet.
Stelnyk came to Penn State in
1952 after contacting Coach Bill
Jeffreys, the Lions’ fabulous soc
cer mentor who was known
throughout the world. Ironically,
Jeffreys, who enrolled Stelnyk to
his soccer ranks, never had the
talented b o o te r on one of his
squads. Jeffreys retired in 1952
Entries Are Due
For IM Bowling
Entries for the intramural
bowling tourney are due in the
IM office. Recreation Hall, by
4:30 p.m. today.
Fraternities are allowed only
one entry, but there is no limit
as to the number of teams en
tering from a dormitory unit
or other independent groups.
The cost per team for each
match is $3.75. A $lO.OO deposit
is required before the season
begins.
The deposit will be returned
at the end of the season, less
any amounts deducted to cover
forfeited matches.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
First Win
Since 1899
Middy Don Holleder
Switches from End to Quarterback
By ROY WILLIAMS
Fled Russia
when Stelnyk entered the Uni
versity.
Last year as a junior he won
a letter, and this year his Coach,
Ken Hosterman, will be depend
ing on his speed, ability, and ex
perience for his backfield.
“He’s a fiery competitor and
a reliable player who’s always
alert," Hosterman said in praise
of Stelnyk.
Stelnyk learned his soccer be
fore he was seven years old from
his uncle, - one of the three he
lost in the war. But had it not
been for that decision of a small
brave group in May of 1944 plus
luck and faith, Stelnyk’s name
would never have appeared here.
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By RON GATEHOUSE. A««t. Sports Editor
...FOR BASEBALL'S TOP TWENTY
Professional baseball is, and probably always will be, the most
popular spectator sport in this country.
Young and old alike know that when the latter part of Septem
ber rolls around each year, familiar chants of, “I’ll take the Yanks
(or whatever the case may be) in four straight,” or, "The Bums will
slug those guys clear out of Fiatbush,” can be heard echoing from
the Rockies to the Atlantic seaboard.
In like manner, every now and then one of our more rabid
diamond fans comes up with some sort of poll'or method of rating
baseball's all-time greats.
And there have been oh so many variations as to these individ
uals’ means of rating and choosing who should have the largest in
scription under his name at Cooperstown, N.Y.
While glancing through tne October issue of Esquire (no com
ments please) we came across an article that gets our vote for the
most comprehensive and reliable poll of its kind that has-been seen
in print in quite some time.
Max Carey, who needs no Introduction to Pittsburgh Pirate fans,
has taken the time and effort to comprise a poll that includes just
about everything but shoe sizes,
For those who have mors faith in the Phillies or some other
major league club, and haven't kept up with the Pirate rooters,
Carey was the base-stealing fanatic who roamed the Buc's out
field during the late 1920'5.
Carey’s ratings defy all backers of Mickey Mantle’s 500-foot
homers and Willie Mays over-the-shoulder catches and his 51 home
runs of the current season.
The old master also goes against the idol of the past genera
tion, Babe Ruth, and many more—Ty Cobb, George Sisler, Joe Di-
Maggio, Lou Gehrig, Mickey Cochrane, Stan Musial, and Ted Wil
liams—to name a few, to weed out Hans, or Honus if you will, Wag
ner as his choice for the title of “Baseball’s All-Time Great.”
As sura as you can't play Bridge with a Pinochle deck, many
are going to let loose with cr ; es of. "Carey's biased, he and Wag
ner were both Pirates." "Why wouldn't he pick a man who was
a former member of his team/' etc.
It’s also a fact that this writer never saw the immortal “Flying
Dutchman” in action. For the records, the closest we ever came to
contacting him was a picture The Pittsburgh Press ran of a bronze
statue dedicated to the Steel City idol a little over a year ago.
However, after something more than a scan over nearly ev
eryone's number one all-time shortstop, and Carey's facts and
figures concerning Wagner, nothing further need be said to
sway this mind in his direction.
Reverting to Carey’s shoe size-to toothbrush method of analyz
ing a ball player, his diagram of the game’s 20 best goes something
like this.
The first big category, which seems most natural, is OFFENSE."
Two sub-divisions foIIow— BATTING and BASE RUNNING. Furth
er sub-dividing the categories, Carey lists power, hitting to all fields,
hit and run, bunting, hit for the club, Batting ,and run scor
ing, stealing, base running, sliding judgment, and Base Running
Total.
How's that for a pretty fair means of breaking down a play
er's "have's" and "have not's"? But. there much more to come...
We still have DEFENSE and something most pollsters omit,
INTANGIBLES.
Under defense we find throwing, hands, ground balls, flies,
speed, and Defense Total. As Intanglibles, Carey includes intelli
gence (a factor many seem to forget when considering an athlete’s
prowess), team play, fitness, unselfishness, hustle, and Total In
tanglibles.
Then comes the final GRAND TOTAL.
Carey's system is based on a maximum of 100 points for bat
ting and the intangibles, and 75 for base running and fielding.
His explanation for the inconsistency is that the former assets are
more important over a season's—or a lifetime's—play. And we
can’t see any reason for not stringing along with that.
Now, to get back to the facts—how Wagner rates, and how he
stands along side Carey’s remaining top 19.
Carey gives Wagner the most possible points in each case, and
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