PAGE SIX Lion Seniors Bowl Bid May Ride On Outcome r{•, r? ,rrr,rr, pi.Ve G'.(') bona, re tel%rd the Holy Crops (oritest. Penn State :-to( is rose a no,nt of 100 w:ii: the ic, - ailabilii:„ . of Q.iai terback Al Jacks, out .111(.1.f the Syiacuse game with a shouldei separation, and end Paul North, In a game billed as a battle between the "Proud (Penn State) who ;:uffeied a minor concui._!-ion against Holy Cross. and the Profane (Pittsburgh)" by one newspaper, the Lions and Both, however. are expected to , • the Panthers match claws in a game that could send Penn State , I see duty with Engle's alternate , ,to its first bowl since 1948—if the Lions win, that is. j unit. Jacks was the starting guar , The Lions vaulted into bowl contention with their 14-10 victory terhack until his injury while North has been a stalwart on the ; - , ',;'; ';• over Holy Cross one week ago. To stay there, the Lions must win . , 1$ . alternate unit since opening game. • -2 .z, g J 'if they are to have any hopes at all for a southern trip in December. -- -- Sophomore Richie Lucas will I It was the opinion of this writer at first that the Lions must handle the Lions' starting quarter backibg duties—as he has done Paul North Al Jacks i win impressively—by two touchdowns or more—if they are to go i. since Jacks' injury. Engle said, ... set their claws for the Panthers : anywhere this season. However, assistant coach Joe Paterno dis ihat Lucas won the lob during -- I agreed with us on that point. "If we beat Pitt by only one point." Jacks' absence and now it's up to Jacks to win it back. With both Ilm• -11- • • 10 n Harr i e r s See i Joe said, "it'll be an impressive win." ready for action, however, Engle I Don't get us wrong—we'll take a win over Pitt by as many I . can now boast of as strong a guar- i points as the Lions can get us. But, maybe Joe has a point. The ter backing carp as he did before 'Panthers, if taken individually, probably boast the strongest squad the Syracuse game. • The rest of Engle's starting line t National Crowil in potential - that the Lions have faced this seas vp will remain the same as that on. .The consensus has it that a win over Pitt would practically wnich he has used in the past four .. clinch a bowl bid for the Lions. Maybe so, but we still feel that the Lion encounters. His second unit The Nittany Lion harriers will seek their fourth national Lions will have to win impressively—one touchdown now after some will also be manned by the same personnel. collegiate cross-country title Monday at East Lansing. I thought—to get the - bid. We're looking for that touchdown victory today—despite the fact that the Lions are one-touchdown underdogs. Pitt's lineup is still a question Varsity Coach Chick W ad' erner will enter a 6-man squad And however. Coach John MI- And we'll go out on the limb by saying that if the Lions can .eheic k 3,en said in an interview with in the 46 - team field. Running for the Lions will be Captain . outplay the Panthers by a fair margin and come out a winner campus radio station WDFM Fred Kerr, Ed Moran, Clem Schoenebeck, Dick Engelbrink,! by at least one touchdown, they will get to go to the Gator Bowl Thursday morning that he does not expect his team to be in top Chick King and Joe Thompson. * * * . —al least that is the way we feel. physical shape. 'All are juniors, with the exception We feel, and this is strictly our own opinion, that at least one nk. who is a soph-f Engelbr 'i He said that All-America center o, Eastern team will go to the bowl this season. Right now, we can candidate Charlie Breuchman and.°rmre• see only three teams in serious contention for a bid—Penn State halfback Dick Bowen are not Last week the Nittany squad ' likely to play because of injuries. placed third in a field of 39 teams (with a victory today, of course), Navy and Army. Bruechman is out with a shoulder in the IC4-A Championship at I Army and Navy are prime candidates for the Cotton Bowl. separation and Bowen is down Van Cortlandt Park in New York i However, Army has already announced that it will decline a bid with a knee injury. City. The Lion performance in : if offered. Navy said it would not go to the bowl unless it beats Michelosen also said that half- the IC4-A meet may not have ; Army. So, for best results, hope for an Army victory or a tie in the back Joe Scisly, the team's l ea d- much bearing on what they do in ing ground gamer, is also a ques-' the national meet. Army-Navy game next Saturday. lion mark due to a knee injury. The Werner - coached team , Even if Navy does beat Army, however, all is not lost for the Scisly is not listed in the Panther won the national title in 1947 1 Lions. Again counting on that victory over Pitt we'll say that starting lineup. and 1950 and lied the crown in ', two Eastern teams were in the bowls last year—Pitt. in the Gator Pitt carries a 3-5 record into 1942. In 1950 the Nittany hay- ! Bowl and Syracuse in the Cotton Bowl—and there could be two the contest as opposed to 6-2 tee- tiers won the IC4-A crown, but , ord for the Lions. The Panthers failed to take the IC4-A title in again this year. have lost to Oklahoma, 26-0; de-, 1942 or 1947. LES WALTERS IS BEING OVERLOOKED BY THE SELECTORS feated Rose Bowl-bound Oregon, Defending champion Michigan Penn State end Les Walters, in our mind, is the best end in the in the last 15 seconds, 6-3; beat State will attempt to retain the East. Of all the teams we've seen play this season, we definitely Southern California, 20-14; whip- team title on its home course, but lied Nebraska. 34-0, and lost to the Kennedy brothers, Henry and feel that Les is by far the best end we've seen all year. Yet, the Army, 29-13, Notre Dame, 1377, Forddy, may not be enough to :selectors do not seem to go along with us. Syracuse. 24-21, and West Vir- keep the Spartans in the top posi- i The INS announced its All-East team this week and Les did guile, 7-6. lion. Henry lost his individual • 'not even gain a second team berth. The ends were: first team— Overall, the series record, dat- Fred Kerr IC4-A title last week to his brother ing back to 1893, stands: Pitt 31, .Dick Lasse of Syracuse and Pete Jokanovich of Navy; second team The University of Houston, after holding it for two years: ... to p Nittany contender , Penn State g" and three tics. One , —Jim Stansbury of Princeton and Dick Scherer of Pittsburgh. of those infrequent ties came last paced by Polish refugee John for the 5-mile title. Recently ! We saw Walters play against Lasse when the Lions and Syra year when the Lions deadlocked Macy. and met. In our mind, and most of the other newsmen covering the Panthers. 7-7. and the University of Macy ran a 2-mile cross-country 1 Kansas, led by former national race in a stunning 8:44. well 1 For the i past two seasons, the • • the game, Walters was far superior to Lasse — at feast on that day. Lions have had the opportunity to interscholastic mile record hold- below the national collegiate ; I Well, if Les was better than Lasse that day, he must have been knock the Panthers from Bowl er Tom Skulka. are top choices record for two miles. —, at least his equal on other days because he certainly outplayed contention but missed both chances. In 1955, the Panthers every opposing end he's met this year. Go down the line and we - romped to a 21-0 victory to go to doubt if you can find any end who made Walters look bad—or the Sugar Bowl. Despite last any end who outplayed him, for that matter. We didn't see any. year's tie, the Panthers went to the Gator Bowl. Georgia Tech 1 Coach Rip Engle put it aptly when, questioned on the LNS i beat the Panthers in both Bowl selections, he said: "Their selectors must be picking them from engagements. This year, the shoe i , abroad." Well put, and our sentiments exactly. Engle feels that is on the other foot. z—. ' Walters could play first team on any club in the country—he won't An individual sidelight on the When Mickey Bergstein says over your radio today, "... and the . get an argument there from any person who has seen Les play. contest could be the duel between Penn State coaches are pacing nervously along the sideline . Lion end Les Walters and Pitt end —you can bet it isn't Pitt they're worried about! i He'll be on any All-America team we pick. But, unfortunately, Dick Scherer. Walters, considered No sir! Their' chief concern will be ". . - how're SMU and lowa ,we don't pick too many—and when we do, it counts only as one'vote. by most football men to be one doing?" You see. if these two teams win today, the coaches will!It looks as though Walters is doomed to being overlooked. eff the best ends in the East, was draw even with Vicious Vince Carocci. currently leading our fast-' not even mentioned in the INS's fading grid poll. ' : All-East team, which was an- But then there's Lucky Lou Prato who just might get lucky itounced this week. Scherer gained for a change and regain the No. 1 spot. His choices differ widely Tinsman - Tops Keglers a second team berth. from Vince s, but this is no guarantee that he'll move either way: Walters, incidentally, will be, in the standings. ; Don Tinsman of Acacia high-.for a high single game of 201 and trying to tie or beat a Penn State. record today. He is within one of I Carocci Prato Mathews Coaches ; scored to double honors in Thurs Cal Emery of Beaver House for .567 i • day night's dual-league bowling.compiling a 3-game score of 546. Lenny Krouse's all-time Lion rec- . .583 - — .52 !-- _ . 567 —intranturals on the Recreation Hall In the other five matches in .ord of catching six touchdown SMU-Baylor Baylor Baylor SMU SMU , lanes. Rolling for frate r n i t r League C, Lambda Chi Alpha de passes in one season and 10 in his Fia.._Ga.T. Ga.T. Fla. Ga.T. Ga.T. i League C. Tinsman tallied a high ' Pi Kappa Phi, 4-0; Sigma c areer. single game of 204, and had a total Alpha Mu beat Alpha Phi Delta, The probable starting lineup 3: N --- -D- - lowa N.D. lowa N.D. lowa !of 540 points to take high series.:4-0; Triangle tied Pi Kappa Al- PENN STATE PITTSBUR"" CiU-Mi h. OSU OSU Mich. OSU 2-2; Acacia defeated Theta Walters ito;i LE Scherer 414 I C I League C team laurels went to,:Pha. __. Kappa Phi, 4-0; and Phi Kappa Watitturr 47 3 I IS Is itstwl 4;0 Va. -M d. Md. Va. Md. Md. ! Alpha CM Sigma for a high game Sib°, 467 t 3.1.; Cmit.. la, i Sigma beat Alpha Chi Rho, 3-1. Iltuttlas age 4 f.: ) C emnon ,es, Wisc.-Minn. Wisc. Minn. Wisc. Wisc. To of 824. To fill out the League D ached iodoiiiii.., ,64 p KG Wat.nx-vriki I. i , ' When fraternity League D took: IReAtart a::, ice 51cCusker ,:r„ Ore.-Ore.Sl. Ore. Ore. St. Ore-St. Ore. ule Tau Phi Delta won over Phi Earl* Mt RE Zama • st-1 --.-- i over the alleys, Beaver House,ule, tSig . ma Delta, 4-0; Phi Kappa Tau Lung, alai Qlt I:44liden il9 t Dart.-Prince. Prince. Dart. Dart. P r i nce. ;came on to do the Alpha Chi Sig _ ' defeated Beta Theta Pi, - • ig def d 3 1 S' - -- -- Ka•perian 44) 1.11 Hairy en, - - . - - Movnei)i tt 14 Theodore 422 i Wash.-N;ash.St. Carron. - }g Stark 446, - Syra.-W.Va. Pitt, an opponent 56 times since N.C.-Duke 1893, is one of Penn State's oldest TCU-Rice football rivalries. Curiously, last --- year's 7-7 stalemate was only the,CafSian• third of the series. The two teams N.C.S.-S.C. battled to scoreless ties in 1920 USC-UCLA and 197.1. i THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA * * * Pigskin Coin Flips . Out On a Limb Syra. i HEM 1 Sian. i N.C.S. UCLA UCLA I UCLA * * * Wash. St. Syra. 1 Duke 1 N.C.S. N.C.S. N.C.S. Final Game Olink 'yry t *~~ '~~ A VICTORY OVER PITT MEANS A BOWL ma team one better in the scoring,— _ A, Q-., - department winning the hi g h :ma Tau Gamma and Beta Si gnia Rho tied at ' 3 - 9 ; Phi Sigma Kappa of 831. .game of the evening with a score:defeated Delta Sigma Phi. 3-1; and Sigma Phi Epsilon won by Both teams won over their 0 1 3 - forfeit over Zeta Beta Tau, 4-0. !position by 3-1 scores; Alpha Chi: In the order of their standing, Sigma over Chi Phi and Beaver , House over Phi Gamma Delta. ' the league leaders are: C—Lamb da Chi Alpha, Acacia, and Alpha 1 Individual honors in League D;Chi Rho; D—Delta Sigma Phi, went to Art Ohl of Tau Phi Delta:Beaver House. and Beta Theta Pi. UCLA SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 23 1957 A Glance at . . . SPORTS By VINCE CAROCCI Sports Editor
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