PAGE SIX Records Don't Mean Anything to Mounties By SANDY PADWE The, old saying "anything goes and usually does" really fits tomorrow's Penn State - West Virginia game in Mor gantown. The Lions and Mountaineers have been battling for 25 years and past records and point spreads hover mean a thing The Lions take a six game win streak and a national rank ing into tomorrow's game so you can bet that the Moun taineers will stop at nothing to knock off the high-flying Nit tanies. Puppy Lewis' clew has been having Its troubles this fall with a 3-3 record. They lost to Syra cuse, 44.0, last weekend But the week before the Moun ties played their usual unpre dictable game and pulled one of the big upsets of 1959 when they beat Pitt, 23-15. Their other two wins were, over Richmond and Geor g el DANNY WILLIAMS 'Washington and they have lost! to Maryland and Boston Ifnivei-f ... Mountie Star * it sity * West Vngima will rely main., fete at West Virginia in the ly on the versatility of quarter-; last 25 years and is the south- back Danny Williams and the' ern conference 100-yard dash ' speed of halfback Ray Peterson' champ. to stop the Nittanies. i He broke loose for touchdown , Williams, the alternate unit ,runs of 44, 60, and 65-yards as a: quarterback last fall, has been •sophomore two years ago. His , having a tine season. !inability to uncork any "He's a real good quarterback," said Penn State coach Tor Toretti who scouted the Mounties for the , last three weeks. "He passes well and is a running threat. lie and Peterson give West Vnginia good backfield." Williams, the mastermind of West Virginia's wing -t offense, has completed 20 passes in 57 at tempts for 233 yards this fall and in the rushing department he has a 3 5 average in 22 carries. Peterson is the fastest ath I+~~ ~' LICENSES FOR '59 -- '6O AVAILABLE NOW i METZGER'S 111-115 S. ALLEN ST. 352 E. COLLEGE AVE. THE DAILY C.: 4 _LEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA * * * , t .• , • ... run last year was attributed to, poor blocking, Peterson is West Virginia's top!, ground gainer this fall with 194 j yards in 51 carries, an average' of 3.8 yards per carry. tif His running mate at halfback,! John Marra, has the top rushing,Hornsby Will Instruct average, but hasn't carried as! CHICAGO . 14)—Freddie Fitz- often as Peterson Marra has picked up 179 1 yards in 38 carries, for an aver- ' age of 4.7 yards a carry. 1 Junin• Bob Benke, a bruising , 205 pounder, is the Mountaineer `fullback and is the power man in the West Virginia offense. The Mountie line which Tor- Ati describes as "good-sized and !ast" has plenty of lettermen. Co-Captain Ben McComb from ;ewickley, Pa., is West Virginia's cop end. He's rated as one of the Mountie's best defensive ball Mayers and Is Williams' favorite :argot. Sophomore Dave Hess is the they end but he is being hard weqced by junior Ray Borlie. At tackle West Virginia has two big veterans in 220-pound Carl Dannenberg and 215- pound Glenn Bowman. West Virginia line coach Russ Crane calls Dannenberg the best blocker he seen in years. Co-Captain Bill Lopasky heads the guard brigade. Pete Tolley, a converted tackle, is the other guard. A host of highly-touted sophomores are on hand to back up Lopasky and Tay. Two Pennsylvanians—letter men Joe Wirth and Charley Lanasa—split the duty at cen ter. Lanasa from Etna, Pa., played guard last year but has adjusted to the change quite well. Wirth, from Pittsburgh. was the starter much of last year. /... a After watching the Mounties in then• last three games, Toretti feels that they'll give Rip Engle and the seventh-ranked Lions a tough ballgame. "The game should go right down to the wire and the team that's toughest the longest will come out the winner," Toretti said. 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The Army Cadets, both players and non-players, are giving the coming game the same serious thought and the secret drills re served in the past only for such vEnerable foes as Navy and No tre Dame. Don Usry, an end, put If this way: "We have plenty at stake and so do they. After this game they'll be comparing the best team, the best service and even the best academies. We don't intend to lose our prestige and if we should, we'd never live it crown through our military ca reers." Capt. Bill Carpenter, Army's lonely end, had this to say: "This is a big game for us— our biggest so far, and just as big as the Navy game. We're ex cited and want to win this as bad ly as we do the Navy game, par ticularly since this is the only 6.9 ilockteti T-Shirts •HAND The most respected, creative name in underwear is Jockey brood. It stands to reason, then, that Jockey brand T-shirts are unmatched for quality as well as styling. 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Allen St. "ALL IS NOT GOLD" Seems like everybody hod a crock at this piece of homely philosophy, but the 'originator seems to be Geoffrey Chaucer, in "The House of Fame", Book I: "Hyt is not oil gold that gkrrettr" "COUNT 10..." Was there any limit to the talents of Thomas Jefferson? Statesman, scientist, architect—he oho authored this admonition: When angry, count ten before you speak; ii very angry, a hundred." * • •
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