PAGE SIX Bucknell Hosts Rooters Today; Lions Seek 13th Penn State's soccer team, riding high after its 14-1 victory over Syracuse Saturday, meets the Bucknell Bisons, a team which has never beaten the Lions, at Lewisburg at 3 p.m. today. The 17-man squad will leave from the Corner Room by station wagon at 12:30' p.m. The Lion hooters will be seeking their 13th straight win and their fourth of this year. The streak dates back to 1953, when the Lions defeated Penn in the final game of the season. Last year they went undefeated in eight contests. The Bucknell game appears at a peculiar spot in the schedule, following Syracuse, because the scoring record tied on Saturday against the Orange was set last year against the Bisons, when they were handed an unmerciful pasting at the hands of the na tional champs. Odds Fayor Lions And the odds against the Bi sons are probably as overwhelm ing this year as last, mainly be cause the Nittanies have regis tered impressive wins over two Eastern powers in Army and West Chester. And in the Syra cuse game the Lions displayed an offense which seemed as po tent as any that has been fielded in a number of years. But, this year Coach Henry Peters hopes he has the right combination to beat the Lions. He will be banking mostly on Herb Christenson and Herb Kopp, two senior halfbacks, to stop the offensive power of the Lions. Christenson. Kopp only Seniors Christenson and Kopp are the only seniors in the starting line up, with the remainder composed of eight juniors and one sopho more. This shows that the Bisons are young and probably inexperi enced, but one thing cannot be denied them—they have been playing as a unit for two years and this alone makes any team rough. So far this year the Bisons have played one game and have lost it 2-1 to Temple. The Owls have always been a soccer power, and the low score could be an indica tion of the Bisons' strength. Start Same Lineup Lion coach Ken Hosterman said he will start the same lineup as he fielded against Syracuse. At outside left will be Don Shirk, flanked by Dick Matacia at in side left. Dick Packer will patrol the center forward spot, with Tommy Nute and Jim Hedberg at inside right and outside right respectively. The halfbacks will be Ward Hill, Ihor Stelynk, and Steve Flamporis. Bob Little and Ralph Brower will cover the fullback territory and George Geczy will be starting goalie. The booters will return home tonight and will journey to Col gate on Friday. The Colgate con test will be played Saturday afternoon. 2,224 Homers Hit in '55 NEW YORK, Oct. 18 (iP)—Ma jor league sluggers utilized Brook lyn's Ebbets Field and Kansas City's Municipal Stadium to good advantage in setting a high of 2224 home runs in 1955. Ebbets Field was the favorite target of the National League hit ters, who slammed 204 four-bag gers there. Associated Press fig ures revealed that the Dodgers collected 119 at home and the op position 85. Municipal Stadium was the scene of 180 homers, but Kansas City belted only 70 as compared to 110 by the seven oth er clubs. Wolverines Top Poll; W.Va. is Bth The Wolverines of Michigan in creased their lead as the nation's number one collegiate football team according to latest AP sta tistics. Following Michigan--a 14-2 vic tor over Northwestern—in the poll are Maryland and Oklahoma in that order. Both were victor ious in Saturday's grid action. The Mountaineers from West Virginia—Penn State's next foe— jumped up two notches in the standings, moving from 10th to eighth. The Mountaineers easily disposed of William and Mary at Morgantown last Stturday. Navy, a 34-14 conqueror over the Nittany Lions last Saturday, moved from eighth to fourth in the poll. Duke, a 20-14 upset winner over Ohio State, is fifth in the poll, followed by Michigan State. The Spartans walloped Notre Dame Saturday, 21-7. The Uclans from UCLA hold down the seventh spot, while Au burn is in ninth place with South ern California rounding out the top 10. Notre Dame, Georgia Tech and Wisconsin dropped from the first 10 to the second 10 due to their losses on Saturday. The standings: L Michigan (76) 1609 2. Maryland MO 1467 EIBM2MIM 2. Oklabooa, (29) _ 4. Nary (71 997 5. Duke (15) __ 1 907 6. Michigan State ( 4 ) eel IMMIIMMMrI MIME 3 MMI2MMIU MMMI 9. Auburn (5) 10. Southern Cal 11) ___ Time Seeeeil ie 11. Metre Dame _ MEEM2IMU 12. Texan la. Georgia Tech 14. Colorado _ LC Wisconsin _ 1.4. Baylor MMOMINIIMM 20. Holy Cross Doris Hart Retires MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Oct. 18 (4)—Doris Hart, the current American champion and winner of all the world's major women's tennis titles, quit the amateur ranks today to become a teacher of the game at a Miami Beach hotel. All told National League bats men found the range for 1263 homers, shattering the record of 1197 set in 1953. American League sluggers accounted for 961 circuit blows. Washington's Griffith Stadium was the toughest park in which to hit for the distance. Only 45 hom ers were smacked in Washington. Forbes Field, Pittsburgh, re mained the toughest park for Na tional League home run swingers. The home of the Pirates produced 82 in 1955, an improvement over the 64 amassed there the previous season. THE DAILY COU.EGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA By ROW OATEHOUSE, APL Sports Editor . . . FON DIVA AND DATA As for Navy, they could have at least had Billy XIV pay a return visit. Could be he took a liking to the Vale. Otherwise, no comment—for the present. Bill Oberly and Karl Schwenzfeier, Lion wrestling and gym nastic headliners the past two years, are getting a jump on the '55 season tomorrow night. The duo is scheduled to make a Pre teason appearance in New York's mammouth Madison Square Garden. Purpose for the trip is to aid the Amateur Athletic Union's fund-raisingi stunt for next year's Olympic festival in Melbourne --ma all-sports show. Oberly's old nemesis from the Naval Academy—NCAA heavy weight champ, Pete Blair—will furnish the opposition. once again. In case you've•been wondering, the strange animal situated in that out-of-the-way corner of Rec Rail near the entrance to the main floor is a newly-purchased automatic pitching machine. Lion baseball coach Joe newly -purchased was impressed by reports of the good use the machine has put to both in the major leagues and on other college campuses, so the University purchased the never-tiring pitcher for the Lion baseballers. Main argument in favor of the machine is that its moving "arm" can work faster than the pitchers before Lion batting prac tice hurlers are in shape during pre-season practice. And it throws all strikes! sack to Ea : Although Welsh ft Beagle. Inc. led the Middies , in outdoing ths. Lions. 313-111 in passing yardage. Ms Lion grid den did manage to bold their own on the ground. In black and whits the ground yardage roads: Peso State. 107: Navy. 116. And, from fear of setting off sparks that would surely result in a blaze of alibi cries, we say only: Navy DID concentrate on stop ping our ground offense. Two very good reasons for Eddie Erda letz's defensive strategy were: 1. Lenny Moore dressed. for the game; and 2. the Lion quarterback trio of Hoffman-Plum-Hockberg combined to attempt only 14 passes. They completed seven. The latter reason brings us to another point of intermit. Why. whoa in the- red for nearly three quarters, did thii Lion bench hoop its' signal callers from taking to the air? Figures on the Lions' first four games show thoy'v• done I well the spars* number of times they've taking to this air. ~Why not throw a bit more. and if the percentages remain the same— lo and behold, we have a potent passing attack. In four games. Penn State has passed 56 times. And of those 56, the Lions have completed 31—that's better than a .500 percentage. Good? Good enough that the Penn State passing attack shouldn't be disregarded. TIME OUT... IMIAIIIIDAY. OCTOBER 19. 1955 Dicky Moesfle, Ail-America half back at Rice, was named his home town's "Outstanding Citizen of Be.lives in Taylor. Tex. Reich Named nsung Hero' Lion football 00-captain Frank Reich is one of three , defensive signal callers selected by the Eastern Intercollegiate Football Association this week as the "un sung heroes" of the week. The Nittany captain, back in the lineup for the first time since he broke his hand in the Army led the Lions in their :ttfgr e aefense against the Navy ground attack. Reich. along with fullback Bill Straub, covered the linebackers' position so adequately that • the Middies were forced to rely on the aria of their All-American tgeaLterback, George Welsh, in 34-14 win over the Penn State gridders. H T O R F S I T U 0 WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 19
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