TUESDAY, NOVEMBER
Pitt
BOWING OUT AT PlTT—These 12 seniors will close their collegiate football careers Thursday when the Lion battle Pitt in the 85th game of the
grid rivalry. Front row, left to right, guard Willard "Bull" Smith, end Maury Schleicher, center and captain Steve Garban, guard Chuck Ruslavage,
and guard Bill Wehmer. Second row: halfback Bruce Gilmore (who was sidelined for the season with a knee injury), tackle Joe Bohart, quarterback
Bob Scrabis, fullback Andy Moconyi, quarterback Al Jacks, halfback Dave Kasberian and halfback Fran Paolone.
Lion Runners, Nation's 2nd Best,
Face Nation's 3rd Best Defense
By MATT MATHEWS
Associate Sports Editor
With a possible Gator Bowl
bid hanging in the balance
Coach Rip Engle's 1958 grid
iron edition will have addition
al incentive to beat the host
Pittsburgh Panther Thanks
giving Day. The Lions are one
touchdown underdogs.
Both teams hai 5-3-1 records.
Of course the Lions don't need
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to worry about bringing home the
"Coal Scuttle"--,--it's already here.
"Old Ironsides," which is another
name for coal bucket, is symbollic
of supremacy between the Lions,
Panthers •and -the West Virginia
Mountaineers.
The Panthers have retained pos
session of the bucket since 1955
—mostly by default. They won it
in '55 by defeating both the Lions
and Mounties and clung Ito it in
'56 when they and the L ons de
feated the Southerners Then
both tied in the finale.
Again they retained osses
sion last year when eac team
won one and lost one. Th s year
Skyscraper U.' has th edge
again via a win over the !Moun
ties while the Lions were held
to a tie. A - Penn State w n will
'legally" keep the iroph here.
"If we • can get .our s are of
the breaks," Coach - Iti , angle
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Gridders Favored by TD
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Coach Rip Engle
.. • holds 4.3-1 edge over Pitt
said, "We have a great chance of
winning.
"They (Pitt) can be licked and
still be good," he continued, "be
cause they are a real fine team.
I feel this is about their best team
in the last 10 or 15 years."
"They have one of the best de
fenses in the nation and a very
adequate offense. They are a good
passing team and have a hard
running game to balance it.
"Riddle, Haley, Scisly and
• Toncic are all good backs," En
gle said, "but the one I fear
most is Kaliden. - "He's murder
against us."
Kaliden, who will be operating
behind first string quarterback
Ivan. Toncic, was Pitt's main gun
in defeating the Lions last year,
14-13. He threw the long TD pass
that' won the: game • in the final
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period besides ruining the Lion
defense with his running on the
option pass.
Kaliden continued his effective
running rollouts this year against
Notre Dame as he scored the win
ning TD against the Irish with
only 11 seconds left in the game.
Running with Toncic on the
first unit will be fullback Fred
Riddle (who gained 75 yards in
17 tries last year against the
Lions), Bill "The Comet" Haley
(Pitt's leading offensive threat).
and Curt Plowman (who is con
sidered Pitt's hardest runner).
Except for• Plowman's 4.1 yard
per run average, Haley is the top
PENN STATE NTT
83 Neff • LE Ditka 89
78 Stynchula LT Montanari 78
67 Ruslavage LG Guzik 65
53 Garban - C Craf ton 50
64 Popp RC blichaela 62
79 Muiraney RT Lindner 75
80 Schleicher RE , Gob 83
33 Lucas CB Toncic 14
46 Kaaperian Lit Raley 20
41 Kerr RR Plowman 35
31 Builds FG Riddle 45
Panther in the running statistics.
H'e also leads in punt and kickoff
returns and scoring with six TDs
and two extra points.
The Panthers boast thet third
toughest • ground defense in the
nation, yielding an average of 90.0
yards per game. They are sixth
in total defense with a 195.4 per
game yield.
Against this the Lions will pit
the second best running offense
of 258.4 'yards per game. (Okla
homa leads the nation with a
266.6 average.)
Engle will start what - has
been his most potent offensive
backfield (when not injured).
Richie Lucas will quarterback.
Tentative Starting Lineups
Pat Boiula will be at full and
Dave Kasperian and Jimmy
Kerr will run off the halves.
Only two injuries on the line
mar the Lion's near perfect
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'lndians,' Blue Band
To Perform at Pitt
A band of cross-wielding Penn State "Indians" will invade
Pitt Staliw - n about 12:30 p.m. as part of the kick-off of Pitts
burgh's bicentennial celebration.
Later, the Blue Band, under the direction of James W.
Dunlop, will salute the old and the new of the Steel City at
halftime of the Panther-Lion grid
contest.
At the request of the bicenten
nial committee, 20 of Lacrosse
Coach Ernie Baer's stickmen will
appear as Indians, 'replete with
loincloths and feathers, in an ex
hibition of bagattaway—the In
dian form of lacrosse, prior to the
adoption of the present form of
the game by the French settlers
in Canada.
The "indians" will play for
about five minutes during the
half-hour performance depicting
early Pittsburgh.
At halftime, the Blue Band's
first formations will be 1758,
marking the date of the begin
ning of Pittsburgh; 1855, in hon
or of the year - of Penn State's
inception; 1958, marking the
present day, and 200, in recog
nition of Pittsburgh's 200-year
history. During the period, the
band will play the "Nittany
Lion" and the Penn State "Alma
Mater".
Following the 200 formation,
the Blue Band will break up and
form the outline of the triangle
and the routes of the Allegheny,
Monongahela and Ohio Rivers as
it plays "01' Man River a n d
"Beautiful Ohio".
The band will then form a little
schoolhouse to salute the "old"
as it plays "Little Red School
house", followegd by a formation
outlining the Cathedral of Learn
ing to the strains of "Hail to Pitt".
Next, the Blue Band will hon
or Stephen Foster with a banjo
formation and "Camptown Ras
ces" and "Oh' Susanna". The.
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By GEORGE FRENCH
East-South
Game Sought
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ed anyone. The calibre of the
opposition is' very important.
We know you have won by big
scores but who ha v e you
played?"
Other teams being considered
by the Gator Committee include
Texas (6-3), South Carolina (5-3),
Mississippi (8-1), Georgia Tech (5-
3-1), SMU (5-4), Vanderbilt (5-1-3)
and Washington State (7-3).
"We would prefer an Eastern
team with a Southern team,"
Wolfson said, "but we won't pick
an Eastern team just for the sake
of picking. The team will have to
win decisively. We want to male
our bowl as good as the others."
The Gator Bowl is the newest
of the major post-season grid
games. It has been in operation
since 1946, but only in the last
four years has it gained national
stature.
Pitt is the only Eastern team
ever to participate in the Jack
sonville affair. That was in 1956
when they lost a 21-14 skrim
ish to Georgia Tech.
Tennessee edged Texas A&M
3-0 last year in a game in which
$85,000 was paid to each team.
However, with a new five-year
TV contract with CBS just signed,
the 1958 participants could ex
pect $lOO,OOO each.
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