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As most Penn St
reading their hometo
reprieve, the football
Rip Engle's 1957 grid
doings from this seas.
In almost all rat'
Lions rate no lower t
,in quite a few cases,
At any rate,. consens
or two in the race f
supremacy in most 1`
cerned. (Our opinion
up here at a later dat
Most of the exp!
complete Lion seconl
back Al Jacks, hal •
fullback Maurice Sc
This, plus the pl -1 tiful supply of able ends, centers and back
field reserves, made ost experts rate the Lions as high as they did.
And we agree—on paper the Lions look like real corners, a team
capable of taking all opposition over the coals with comparative ease
in most cases..
Being a football coach, Engle naturally tends to take these pre
season ratings with a grain of salt. Being a sportswriter in contact
with the, club, we tend to follow the same pattern.
Sure, it's nice to be rated as high as Penn State is rated this
season. It's easier to start on the'top and stay there than ii is to
start on the bottom and 'work your way up. That summarizes
. Engle's feelings on the subject, and ours, too, for that. matter.
But games aren't won by your ratings. Engle, his able assistant
and the team realizes this. There's work to be done—and the only
place it can be done is on the competitive field of battle.
Engle and Company are taking nothing for granted. Only
through work, and hard work at that, can the Lions retain their
preseason prestige. And work at it, they will. To put it in Engle's
words: "These kids want to play football." From watching the
Lions in practice the past three days, rusty as they might be right
now, we know he's right.
The Lions will be a hustling, aggressive ballclub again this
year, a club we expect will be similar in many ways to the sur
prising 1956 contingent.
But fans, and we're speaking to you, the Penn State student
body, let's not overrate this club. It's green in reserves at the guard
and tackle slots—vital spots_ along . the line. These two spots figure
to take a thumping in the early portion of the season. Don't expect
miracles—the Lions are not sure bowl contenders as the experts
might lead you to believe. Not yet, anyway.
The-weaknesses must be strengthened, - the errors corrected. And
all that takes time. Time, and time alone, will tell the story. We'll
all just have to wait and see.
Have high hopes, fans, because there is ample reason to have
just that. The Lions will be strong—how strong, we won't atteinpt
to accurately predict.
BUtothrowink ou\-selves out on a limb with the rest of the
nation's sportSwriters—and this, the first day, is the time to do it
—here's-what we see:
We feel the Lions will end the season with a record in the
vicinity of 6-2-1 or 7-2—give or take a game either way. Although
we don't feel that there is a complete breather on the schedule,
we look for Army, Syracuse, West Virginia and Pitt to be the
toughest Lion foes with Vanderbilt carrying the dark horse tag;
• That's our preseason thoughts on the Lion's 1957 season. Penn
State fans will have lots to cheer about 7 -the prospect is very bright
for another successful season. But, we're not going overboard—
hope you're not either.
Sports
Dope
Ken. Hosterman,
coach, says soccer-co
in Europe will give
new lift upon their
States.
Rip Engle, Penn '
coach, will be at th ,
Eastern eleven for t
Shrine game at San
1957. -
"Lighthorse Harry
mer Penn State an.
ball great, also play.
both institutions.
Penn State basketball coach
John Egli directed the Maya=
guez entry in the Pue.rto : Rican
League this summer.-
Penn State. in ; 70 years: of 'un
interrupted football competition
lost more games than it won only
13 times. The string shows)
18 straight seasons of winning ,
football. - -
1457
Glance at . . .
SPORTS
By VINCE CAROCCI
Sports Editor
BOARD WITH THE RATINGS
ito ..fan,s must realize by now, if - they were
I n newspapers during the summer scholastic
experts have cast rave after rave on Coach
squad—the boys in the orafession expect big
club and make no bones about it.
u - -
gs that we've noticed over the summer, the
an third among the eastern independents and,
get the nod over Pittsburgh for top honors.
has it that the Lions will finish either one
.r the Lambert Trophy—symbolic of eastern
:lie minds but a farce as far as we're con
in the Lambert Trophy ratings may be taken
rt's optimism stems from the fact that the
• team backfield from last season—quarter-
lacks Bruce Gilmore and Andy Mocoyni and
leicher—returns intact again this year.
Penn State
nscious • Gl's
the sport
eturn to'
! tate football
helm of the
,e East-West
Francisco in
' Wilson, for-
Army foot
d lacrosse at
THE. DAILY COLLEGIAN - STATE • COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Lion Harrier. Outlook Bright
For 1957 According to Werner
With the return of four vet- track and field competition. IHe also looked for better things
eran-juniors and one outstand-i This, plus the promotion of' from Englebrink, who, he said.
sophomore Dick Englebrink—thelimproved faster as a frosh than
ing sophomore around l.v_hi_chi brightest light on last season's any boy he's had under his tute.
o
to build the nucleus f lusifrosh cross-country squad—to the'lage.
cross-country team, Coa c h varsity casts a pleasant glow over With no major graduation
Chick Werner called his 1957 the harrier outlook for 1957. losses confronting him--1956
contingent "the best we've had "We can't predict at this stage. captain Don Woodrow was the
for some time." who'll be the best of the lot." only starter he lost—Werner
Werner's optimism stems from Werner said. However, he looks feels that juniors Schoenebeck,
the fact that juniors Fred Kerr,
for Kerr and Moran to have good Jay Kirby and Bob Thompson
the team captain. Ed Moran.
years because, as he put it,l hold the key to the season.
'Charlie King and Clem Schoene-I
"They've improved in each racel Although Schoenebeck was one
!they've run since they've been of his front-runners last season.
here." I 'Continued on page twenty-three)
beck all are back for another sea
son:
As sophomores, Kerr, Moran
and Schoenebeck formed the
backbone of last year's surpris
ing 44 team coming on the
heels of a winless season in
1955. King was
.ineligible" for
harrier competition last season,
but is expected to figure prom
inently in Werner's plans due
to the great potential he
showed during last spring's
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