PAGE TWELVE Lion Eleven Opens at Missouri Tomorrow's Game Rated As Tossup By SANDY PADWE Sports Editor En route to Missouri with the Lions Faced with what Coach Rip Engle terms “the toughest opener in years,” Penn State kicks off the 1959 football season tomorrow against the highly touted Missouri Tigers in Columbia Missouii hasn’t won an opener in 12 years but the oddsmakers si ill rale the game a tossup. The two squads are almost per fectly matched. Penn State has 18 lettormen back while Missouri has 19 and both have outstanding quarterbacks. State has Richie Lucas, an All-American candidate while Mizzou has pitchin Phil Snow den. the top signal caller in the Big Eight a season ago. Add veteran backfields and liner, and a great afternoon of football is in the making. Missouri finished with a 5-4-1 record in 1958 and because so many leturnees are on hand the Tigers are being picked to give Oklahoma a run for Big Eight conference laurels this season. Tomorrow’s game should be a wide open affair with the Tigers attacking from Coach Dan De vine’s multiple offense while the Lions will run from a wing-t. Observers feel the game could very well turn into a duel be tween Lucas and Snowden. Lucas, acclaimed as the best all-around player in the nation by the usually reserved Engle, can do everything. He's a good passer, an excellent running quarterback and handles the - punting. Snowden, who completed 53 per cent of his passes last season, has been the starting quarterback College Grid Teams Swing Into Action Purdue, voted the team most likely to succeed this year in the formidable Big Ten. leads off a big weekend of college football tonight against UCLA, once one of the powers of the Pacific Coast. The game is one of the highlights of a weekend which secs almost half of the nation’s top title contenders, including de fending champion Louisiana Slate, in action on far-flung fronts The Boilermakers, a season ed team with 24 returning lol termen, rule a 13-point favor ite over the Bruins of Los An geles, who get a chance to re turn to the Rose Bowl after three years on probation- The game is in Los Angeles. Other games have Florida at Tulane in a Southeastern Con ference opener; George Washing ton at Detroit and San Jose at Denver. The hulk of the weekend pro gram Is scheduled tomorrow top ped by the meeting of Louisiana State and Rice in Baton Rouge. This is the national television offering of the week, being pre sented over NBC starting at 4:35 pm., F-DT. LSU is favorite to repeat in The Associated Press pre-sea son poll. Rice was Tunnerup last year In the Southwest Conference. LSU is a 14-point favorite. Other headline games send Clemson against North Carolina in a battle which may ultimately lead the victor to the Atlantic Coast championship; Texas goes against Nebraska, Mississippi against Houston, Texas Christian against Kansas; Southern Cali- Penn State has appeared in eight N.C.A.A. District Two base ball playoffs in the past 10 years. Including 1959, the Nittany Lions won the District title three times. at Missouri for the last two years and Devine says this should be Phil’s best. Snowden will face a real chal lenge when he takes on the Lion pass defense which led the coun try in interceptions a year hgo. Jim Kerr, who is slated to be Penn State’s starling right half back, was the individual leader By Tho Associated Press fornia against Oregon State; and Georgia Tech against Kentucky. Mississippi, with one of the na tion’s best passers in Bobby Franklin, is rated No. 8 in the preliminary AP poll. Purdue is No. 11: North Carolina No. 12; Texas Christian No. 13; Southern California No. 14, Texas No. 17 and Clemson No. 18. Nittanies Seek 21st Winning Grid Season Penn State will seek its 21st consecutive winning football sea son this fall. The Nittany Lions last lost more grid games than they won in 1938, when the record was 3-4-1. fogg is Tennis Coach Sherm Fogg has been Penn State’s tennis coach since 1947,, His best season was in 1954 when; the Lions finished with an 8-2-1' record. ! George Softer Quintet SAT., SEPT. 19 9:30 to 12:30 THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA ★ ★ ★ * * SIGMA ALPHA MU presents the ★ ★ * , , ¥ ¥ ¥ with five steals good for touchdown and 122 yards. The Lions also will have to set up their defenses to slop Missouri's hard running back field composed of halfbacks Mel West and Norris Stevenson and fullback Ed Mehrer. West and Stevenson are speed sters and Mehrer is a “grind-em- Coe Wins Match In Amateur Golf COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (/P) —Charlie Coe, the razor-sharp defending champion, knifed through numbing cold, fog and rain yesterday on the way to a 4 and 3 victory in the fifth round of the U.S. Amateur Golf Tour nament. The Oklahoma city thin man’s triumph over Ted V. Gleichmann. Ventura, Calif., sent Coe into the, quarter-finals over the 7010 yard par 71 Broadmoor course. Harvie Ward, a two-time win ner like Coe, was experiencing trouble in weather reminiscent of a rainy, winter day in his na tive San Francisco. David (Spec) Goldman, 50, Dal las, built a 2 up lead over Ward with par golf on the front nine. Although he slipped three over par on seven holes of the second nine, Goldman held a 2 up lead through 16 when their match was suspended temporarily. Basketball was the first indoor sport to be played at Penn State. jThe first game was played in 1 1897 only six years after Dr. James ;Naismith originated the game. BOWLERS Taka a bowling break at Downtown Dux Club Open daily to general public from 6:30 to 12 p.m. Reason able rates. 128 S. Pugh St. out runner.” West wound up as the 12th lead ing ground gainer in the nation as a sophomore last year and Mehrer had Missouri’s best rush ing average (6:4 yards per carry). Missouri’s line is lighter than State’s but it has plenty ot vet erans. Co-captains, tackle Mike Magac and center Tom Swaney, give the Tiger forward wall four years of varsity experience. * ' * 1«. y! J The ends are well taken care of with All- Big Eight choice Danny Laßose at one terminal and senior Gordpn Smith at the other. Junior letierman Bucky J Wegener is slated to start at 1 left tackle where he was a solid performer last season. At guard, the only sore spots for Missouri, Devine has junior Rockne Calhoun, and sophomores Paul Garvis and Paul Henley fighting for the opening assign ments. Graduation claimed his all-con ference guards—Don Chadurck and Chuck Rash. The 'Lions will match Missouri in the starting lettermen depart ment. The backfield will be Lr"as at quarterback, Dick Hoak at ieft halfback, and Kerr at right half. Pat Botula, Penn State’s captain gets the nod at fullback. The line from left to right reads like this: Henry Opper man at left end, Charley Janer etle at left tackle, Earl Kohl haas, left guard. Jay Huffman at center, Frank Korbini, right guard, Tom Mulraney, right tackle and Norm Neff at right end. All are lettermen except Opper man and Huffman. Since Engle, substitutes units, his alternate squad is expected to see a lot of action. Sophomore Galen Hall will quarterback the number two group, but Engle has hinted that Lucas might see action with both teams. Dick Pae will be the second unit left halfback and Ed Caye or Jack Urban will be the right half. Sam Sobczek will be the fullback. The line has Dave Alexander, John Bozick and Bob Mitinger at ends, Andy Stynchula and Stew Barber at tackles and Bill Popp and Dick Butterfield at guards. Dick Wilson is the center. This will be the second straight year the Lions have opened with a -Big Eight team. Last fall they traveled to Lincoln, Nebraska and were upset by the Cornhuskers, 14-7. Following tomorrow's gams the Lions return to the Nit fany Valley for two consecu tive home games. V.M.I. comes to Beaver Field next Saturday and Colgate plays the Lions the following week. GRID NOTES— -A host of Lions are still nursing minor injuries but the medical department says none are too serious . . . Guard Sam Stellatella, who turned his ankle in practice Monday will not make the trip . . . Denny Schaef fer, sophomoie fullback is taking running exercises ... he dis located his shoulder in the first scrimmage . . . He’s expected to be ready for Army . . . The Lions will work out this afternoon at Columbia . . . 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