The daily collegian. (University Park, Pa.) 1940-current, October 23, 1957, Image 6
PAGE SIX Lion Booters Host Undefeated Rams By LOU PRATO Revenge-minded Penn State will be defending a 15-game home field winning streak when they clash with defend ing Eastern champion West Chester on the Beaver Field soccer turf this afternoon. Kickoff is at 2:30 p.m. The 1957 Eastern title and pos sibly the national honor. as well, could go to the winner of the skirmish—rated a toss-up by col legiate soccer experts. Both out fits are undefeated. The Lion hooters haven't lost - a home til2 since November 14. 1552 when Temple blanked Them. 2-0. Included in the skein is a 24 victory over Maryland earlier this year. However, this home field ad vantage means practically noth ing in the pre-game ratings. For the Nittarties were also riding on a winning streak when the two teams met last fall at West Ches ter. And almost everyone knows the, results of that disheartening en counter. The Rams held the Lions to a 'scoreless draw and stopped that 19-game streak—the longest in Penn State soccer lore. An top of .this• both teams cur rently own undefeated strings. Penn State has won seven in a row since a 2-1 loss to Navy last year while the Rams haven't been beaten in their last nine encoun ters. A 3-3 deadlock with Balti-1 more mars the West Chester mark. Three of the West Chester eon se cutiv• victories were scored this year. The Rams blasted East Stroudsburg. 4-0, Panzer College. 3-0. and Eliza bethtown. 3-2. The Lions, meanwhile, scored decisions over Bucknell, 10-0, Maryland, 2-1, Syracuse, 12-1. and Colgate. 2-0. Six veterans return from that West Chester team but the coach is different. Earl "Muddy" Waters —a name synonymous with Uni ted States soccer retired from the head job at the Chester school after 30 years of service. lie was replaced by Mel Lor back, a graduate of Brockport State Teachers College of New York. (B rockport, remember, shared the national throne with the Lions in 1955). Lorback tut ored at Panzer College last season and recorded a respectable 7-4-1 mark. However, he will have to go a long way to measure up to Waters' standards. West Chester dropped only one game in 1956-4 2-0 loss to Pennsylvania's State Teachers College champion. East Strouds burg—on its way to the Eastern Championship. They rapped Springfield, 2-1, in that title game. But back to the veterans. Three of the returnees are of all-Amer ica calibre, including 6'2" goalie Bob Rozonwski. The other two are co-captains Mark Kingsmore and Tom Fleck. Fullback Norman Frank, half back Dan Schaeffer and inside Da. , e Hubbard complete the mon otgradnut win o n i e e rs st . a F rs ra i n n k th a e n s d plriiunbg.- Intramural Bowling Act ion field title scrap and Schaeffer was tabbed the most improved! player al i i n e thietallp9hs6 Becker fea.son., who IResumes Normal Speed earned a starting role off his ; performance against Syracuse, Intramural bowling was back down to Alpha Phi Delta. 4.0. came down with the flu and ito normal Thursday night after, Alpha Chi Sigma had high team will not see action. Becker, in- score with 824. Dave Lynch, Pi , aeing temporarily slowed down cidentally, has not been scored Kappa Phi, was high singles bowl upon this season. Veteran Don by the general circulating illness er with °NI and Benjamin Amato's Dougald, starter in the Buck- and both Fraternity Leagues C:526 for Alpha Phi Delta was high nell and Syracuse frays, will and D rolled full 6-game schedules series for League C. defend the nets. :on the Rec Hall alleys. In D League , Delta Sigma Hostersnan will also have vet- Phi and Zeta Beta Tau scored In Lea ue C.Pi Kappa Phi and, eran inside Mike Stollmeyer g' 4-0 shutouts over Phi Sigma who has yet to see action in 1957AlPha Phi Delta scored 4-0 wins. Delta and Delta Sigma Rho in because of an ankle injury and' Delta Sigma Phi and Zeta Beta that order: Tau Phi 'Delta and raitairatory illness—in the lineup:Tau duplicated the shutouts in, Beaver House and Sigma Tau as well as halfback Gary Miller.:D League. Gamma and Phi Sigma Kappa who missed last week's game be Results of the League C matches' bowled to 2-2 ties; Beta Theta cause of the flu. were: Pi downed Phi Gamma Delta, The rest of Hosterman's start- 1 Alpha Chi Rho beat Sigma ' 3-1: and Sigma Phi Epsilon beat ing array will find Ralph Brower : Alpha Mu. 3-1: Lambda Chi Al- Phi Kappa Tau, 3-L and Tony Tremonte at fullback; pha won over Phi Kappa Sigma Tau Phi Delta took high game Walt Krauser and Howie Maeir-! by forfeit: Pi Kappa Alpha honors with 839. Two Beaver I%•affer at the halves; and Jim, tripped Chi Phi, 3-1: Pi Kappa , House men, Bede Bender and, Hedberg, Per Torgeson, Bill Fled- . Phi knocked over Theta Kappa 'Richard Giesecke took high sin-1 lee ano Lou Vanßafelghem on! Phi. 4-0: Triangle tied Acacia. Igles and high series with 222 and! the- front line. J 2-2: and Alpha Chi Sigma went 1569 respectively. 1 THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA * * * Don Dougaid he'll stop some scoring Illnesses Weaken X-Country Squads The winner of the varsity cross-country meet with Mich igan State Saturday may be determined not by which team has been strengthened the most by conditioning, but by which team has been weakened the most by illness or injury. The defending NCAA Champion Spartans have been plagued with the flu and leg in- * * * juries since practice began in September. An under-m ann e d Michigan State squad dropped its first meet since 1955 to Western Michigan, 27-36, in the Michigan AAU Championships three weeks ago Defending NCAA individual champion Henry Kennedy has shown great advancement after a long battle against the flu and is expicled to be in top con dition to run against the Lions at East Lansing. Sophomore Forddy Kennedy, Henry's brother, has shaken off a slight cold and is running at his normal pace. Spartan Coach }Carl Schlade man also expects junior Ron Wheeler and sophomore Jim Hor an to be ready for the Nittany engagement. Wheeler had a slight cold, while Horan returned to Practice last week after a week layoff because of leg injuries. After being free from illness and injury all season. all but three Lion runners—Ed Moran. Dick Engelbrink and Joe Thomp son—were hit by the wave of res piratory illnesses last Friday. Capt. Fred Kerr and State to run over a flat course College's Cl* m Schoenbeck like Michigan Stabs than to seem-to have recovered rapidly, run over the hilly University but junior . Chick King is not i golf COW'S.. yet fully recovered. King could , Other Lions on the sick list are be a big factor in Saturday's ;Sam White, Jack Williams, George meet because of his' greater Jones and Al Jones. By GEORGE FRENCH Clem Schoenebeck * * Bill Fiedler he'll do some shooting ... recovers rapidly •,,,, 4 4- ' ''Or '- ' - •.' '' - . '•. It ?...- ••. ... , : . 1 PENN STATE 'STUDENT' DOUBTS GRIDDERS"GUTS' The Penn State football team has at least one dissatisfied "stu dent" follower—and this boy is really dissatisfied. He quegtions the !gridders' "guts", as he put it. We learned of this dissatisfied student during a conversation ,with Lion Coach Rip Engle yesterday morning. He showed us a 'letter he had received from one of the student populace following the Lions' loss to Vanderbilt Saturday afternoon-at Beaver Field. Poor taste by the author, protecting himself under the signa i ture of a "dissatisfied student." prohibits us from printing 'the letter in context. But, here are a few excerpts from the letter: "Your halftime speech must be for the birds. Thus far this year every second, half has been nothing but shame for eVery past .Penn State team. ". . . I played football way back in Jr. High . . . but when I played we had a combination of guts and brains. You have brains but I haven't seen any guts se far . Where are the guts of the Penn State team?" Normally. we wouldn't waste our time and newspaper space answering a letter like this—ites no! the kind of a letter that de serves an answer. except for the accusation that the Penn Slate team doesn't have any guts. But. we feel that this boy should be straightened out and this is our humble effort. Because a team loses, does that mean it doesn't have any guts? Some of the heartiest teams in football_ took their share of lumps —a perfect example-is last year's team at Notre Dame. The Irish were whipped badly, but they never were accused of losing heart— lacking guts, as this boy puts it. Penn State has lost two games thus far. Unless some changes ; are made in the Lions' game, they probably will lose again. But, ; this is no indication that they are gutless. When players like Andy Moconyi, Emil (Babe) Caprara, Paul North and Joe Bohart, to name only a few, play the best they can despite their recuperating from an attack of flu, this is every indi cation that the Lions lack anything but guts. As Engle said alter the game. "Those boys (the Lions) gave 120% effort." And, if that's not guts, we don't know what it is. If anything can be definitely said about the four Lion perform ances to date, it's this: this team is not a quitter. It's been beaten, but it never quit trying. And when it quits trying, that's when it lacks guts. So, "dissatisfied student," as to your question of where is the enn State football team's guts, we 'say that it is clearly evident on the football field where the game is played—not in the stands where some fans second guess. If you were the football authority you suppose yourself to be—and you must or you would have never written the letter in the.first place—you would have recognized it and let it go at that. For the Penn State student body, we apologize to Coach Engle for the ignorance displayed by one of its members. Fortunately, the 'student fans have done a creditable job thus far in suppqrting the team. They deserve to be congratulated on their performance thus !far. We hope they keep up the good work. Again fortunately. Engle realises that the writer is not typical of the student fans. "The students are a great hunch, the hest anywhere ... this does'not represent the typical student attitude," he said. We'll not argue with that. Btit, let's not hear charges of "gutless" again because it most certainly does not apply in this case. And, before anyone goes off on a tangent to write a letter to Engle, sit down and think it over. If a student fan knows football better than the coaches, we're sure 'there would be a place on the coaching staff for him. But, we doubt if there is any student of this caliber on this campus—or most any campus, for that matter. So, use a little discretion and common sense here. If you have any complaints to make, do it via letters through this department. If we feel that the gripe is sound, we'll convey it to the coaches: They have enough bothers to concern themselves with without you adding to the load. And. fake this into consideration: the Lions were highly over rated ai the beginning of the year. Don't base your complaints on the preseason ratings because they have proved themselves to be worthless. _ JACK WIMMER says • C:r 7 '4O b - Let's try to get those anti freeze jobs in early enough to check the hoses, battery, and thermostat too. I'll save you moneys WIMMER'S SUNOCO 502 E. College AD 3-6143 WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 23. 1957 A Glance at . . . SPORTS By VINCE CAROCCI Sports Editor RUSTIC A rustic old tavern awaits you in Boalsburg. Drive out this week for a meal with old fashioned flavor. Steaks. chops, and sea food are served in three pleasant ,dining rooms. And you may start your meal with a cocktail at .the bar and lounge. Duffy's In Boalsburg, 4 miles 'east of I State College on Route 322 (turn sight at the Texaco Sta.)