PAGE SIX Lions Underdogs In Today's Meet By RON GATEHOUSE Penn State and Manhattan are perennially two of the nation's collegiate cross-country Gibraltars. This year the Jaspers—unbeaten in dual meets—are having another banner year. Penn State, on the other hand, is anything but on par. In fact, the Lions are experiencing their worst season since 1940. Chick Werner and his Centennial team left yesterday morning for New York City where they face the unblemished Jaspers this afternoon—in Gotham's massive Van Cortland Park. Today's meet is the final on the Lions' regular season card. Seven-man Traveling Unit Werner's traveling team—seven strong—includes Captain Doug Moorhead, Paul Roberts, Don Woodrow, Ron Lewis, Norm Shoup. Bruce Austin, and Al Jones. Although running in the shadow of the Lions' 0-4 record, Moor head has managed to cast a ray of sunlight for the '55 Nittanies. Running against a basket full of some of the country's best hill and dalers—Navy's Walt Meucow, Pitt's Arnie Sowell, Michigan State's Henry Kennedy—the Lion veteran has led the Lions in every meet and finished second each of the four times. Leads in Experience Too And ability isn't the only department in which the Lion captain excels. Another category in which he stands out and which is probably a great deal responsible for his fine performances this year, is experience. Last year, as a junior, Moorhead never finished below third. Werner has, on several occasions, credited him with molding the Lions into "a respectable squad" although they haven't been the best on paper. Against the Jaspers last year (Manhattan 25, 'Penn State 31) Moorhead finished second. One-half minute in front of him was the New Yorkers' Bob Sbarra. Sbarra is back to pace the Jaspers this year, and with him out front they've rolled over such formidable foes as Army. Navy, St. Johns, lona, and DartmoUth. Sbarra failed to• finish first in only one of those contests—a triangular meet including St. Johns and Navy. He was second be hind St. John's Don Townsend, but he finished in front Of Meucow who headed Moorhead in the Lion-Navy duel. Paul Roberts Frosh Test The Penn State freshman foot ball team will meet the freshman squad of Bullis Naval Academy at 2 p.m. today at Alexandria, Va. The frosh, who left University Park yesterday for today's en counter, will be trying to put their slate on the blue side of the ledger. The Lion yearlings have lost one and tied one in their two games thus far. Coach Earl Bruce's charges will depend heavily on the weather for today's struggle. A wet field Sbarra Leading Jaspers Again Don Woodrow Bullis Today could severely hamper the Lion attack since the frosh bank_ their offense chiefly on their ground gaining power. Today's game closes the 1955 season,for the junior Lions. They played a three-game schedule. & S Vending Company Lock Haven, Pa. P.O. Box 616 - TeL 6261, 5763 We install and service all types of automatic merchandising machines See and patronize our milk and ice cream vending machines in the residence buildings ALL UNIVERSITY PRODUCTS USED! THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Tribe Highlights 1M Basketball With 57-6 Win The Tribe highlighted intra mural basketball activity Wednes- I day night by scoring 57 points while holding its opponents— Dorm 40—to a mere 6 points. Bob Champion and Bob Devlin sparked the Tribe attacks by scoring 10 points each. The win ners led at halftime, 27-4. In other game s, Dorm 44 downed the Filthy Five 26-20 as Haydn Davis scored 12 points for the winners. Joe Greytok topped the losers' with eight points. - The Knicks defeated Dorm 31, 44-11. Jim Mogahan scored 17 points for the winners while Pete Mathews dipped in 10 for the losers. The Susies eked out a 22-18 win over the Baby Sans. Don Webb tallied eight points for the winners, but the Baby Sans' Bob Hoover was the game's high scor er with 10 points. -The Two Tens trounced the Western-boys 36-19. The winners, sparked by Tom Hitch's nine points, led at half time 19-7. The All-Stars took an early lead and never relaxed as they went on to humble the Fighting Eight, 37-19. Jerry Goodman had 16 points for the winners. Vince Kostovny scored 11 points in a losing cause. A strong Navy team turned back an aggressive Crusaders team to win a 27-22 victory. After leading by two points at the end of the half, 15-13, the Navy squad began to roll behind the 16-point effort by Phil Hodges. The Bullets barely by-passed the LB Five, 24-20. Nick Muslin led the winners with seven points while Ed Cooper and Stan Grilfe scored eight points apiece for the losers. Wayne Thomas and Ed Mover —each scored eight points—led the Nice Guys to a 31-21 victory over the One Tens. Don Davis and Jim Dearmes scored eight points each to lead the One Tens. Ron Lewis Jim DeLuca Plays Guard Jim DeLuca, younger brother of Dick, hopes to join the elder DeLuca on the Penn State foot ball team next Fall. Jim current ly is performing for the freshmen, Dick for the varsity. The two Mo naca boys are guards. Lineup Changes . . . End. Jim Caldwel Sophomore to start for North Moore, Brown Run Again But on Different Terms Continued from page one In the backfield, Bobby Hoffman and Milt Plum again lead the attack at quarterback. Engle, who has been using a roundhouse of mixtures in his- backfield has Bobby Allen, Joe Sabol, and Jim Hochberg in reserve for Hoffman, Moore, right half Billy Kane, and fullback Buck Straub. Syracuse, working off both * * Cagers Begin. Drills Penn State's basketball hope fuls, without the services of Jes se Arnelle"for the first time since 1951, already have begun daily drills. The Lions open against North Carolina State, at Raleigh, N.C., December 3. Illini on Mat Card Penn State, for the first time in its history, will oppose the University of . Illinois on the wrestling mats. JAM SESSION at ALPHA CHI RHO featuring Jerry Betters with Music in a Modern Mode Donation Refreshments Sun. 2-4 SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 5. 1954 Tackle Walt Maier Replaces Calderone; works with Law the - Wing T and straight T with I Eddie Albright at the , switches, has a two-way attack—in the air and on the , ground. Brown, halfback Mark Hoff man, and fullback Gus Zaso, will probably open, but Coach Ben Schwartzwalder has halfbacks Ed Ackly and. letterman Jim Ridlon on. the bench. He uses them. Ridlon also can handle left end; 'Don Althouse also at left end, right end Tom Richardson, and Ridlon, are three of Albright's favoiite receivers. Brown gets most of the work on end •sweeps and is an eligible pass receiver. Working the belly option; Al bright likes to hand off to speedy Hoffman or Zaso up the middle. Frank Patrick, Lion coach who scouted Syracuse, pointed out the Orange's dangerous threat on punt and kickoff runbacks. "Their downfield blocks are good. Hoffman and Brown are both dangerous . . . often good for 40 - and 50-yard runbacks," Patrick hinted. , On defense Zaso and Bill Brown, junior 195-pounder, back up the line. Brown has evidently solved two problems of Schwartz walder . . that of backing up the line and playing a capable center slot. • Syracuse's interior linemen tackles - Jerry ' Cashman (214) and Mike Bkill (190), and guards Cal Smith (188) and Rudy Farmer (210)—represent another heav y forward wall for co-captains Frank Reich,' center, , and Otto Kneidinger, tackle, guards Sam Valentine and Karl Shumaker, and tackles Mazur and Law to battle: This is nothing new for the Lions. They've met bigger lines, and faster ones too.,
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