PAGE TEN DU, Burke AC Capture IM Grid Championships By DEAN BILLICK Delta Upsilon and Burke AC each recorded shutouts in Nvinning the IM football cham pionship playoffs Sunday afirmoon on the TM field. DU won the fraternity cham pionship by downing Sigma Al pha Epsilon, 13-0, and Burke cap tined the independent crown by squeaking past Westmoreland Howe, 6-0 In winning the covet ed title DU and Burke smashed by seven opponents with a defeat All four teams reached the championship tilts after going through league play and play offs with unblemished records. The victory for DU was its first 1M grid title since 1946 when it defeated Tau Kappa Epsilon, 13.0, to win the trophy. "That football trophy will sure look nice in our trophy case," beamed Jack Melchior, Delta Up silon's sharp shooting quarter back Melchior had just passed his team to its thrilling 13.0 win over SAE "It w.is a long time coming," added smother DU player "but we finally made it" And make it they did %-ith the pas'dng of Mel chior and the teeming of Larry: Bentley clicking as tt did all sea son long. Melchior passed for 12 , completions in 19 attempts DU's first score came after a Melchior interception of a Pete Moran pass moved the ball to the SAE 23-yard strive. Mel chior fired a short pass to Dave Young and the ball lay on the 23. On the next play Lairy Beighey streamed up the middle, cut to the right and Melchior spiraled a Player Gets 'Tagged' In Grid Win By JIM KARL Bob Kulick, hard-charging middle guard for Burke AC, played a stiff price for his part in his team's victory over Westmoreland for the Inde pendent IM football cham pionship. Midway in the second half Kulick spotted a member of the campus patrol tagging his car, which was parked across the field and blocked an enhance to the Foods Building. He began running toward the patrolman, but after a few steps turned and walked slowly back to the line of scrimmage. "What's more important." he seemed to be saying to himself, "a five dollar fine or victory?" He shrugged his shoulders and dug in for another charge. Vietmy was very important to the four teams who competed on the IM grid field Sunday for the two championships and the pres tige that goes with winning them. "We play for fun" said Don Davie., varsity trackman and of t mire end for Sigma Alpha Ep silon before their clash with Delta Upsilon for the fraternity league championship. Once the game started, how. ever. it looked like both teams were playing for blood. S.A.E.'s defensive line of Bob Robert son, Bob Rutherford and Scott Charlton charged like demons, applying constant pressure to DU quarterback Jack Melchior. Three times in the early mm tiles of the game Melchior's pass es were batted to the ground be fore they traveled five feet and twice he was tagged before he could get rid of the ball. But Dii's line stiffened in the (Continued on page eleven) Get your MIL BALL Tickets TODAY thru Thursday THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA * * * . •V't , •7*,,"; O. • e ", 4 " t• .1•^ 4. 4 4 e1 4 #474 ,1 k1 ' 1P; ' fltr. tp,A.,11„ - -1 1 4 74.10kAit hre , ..74. 4 * t —Collegian Photo by Wane Benjamin ED ROBERTS, Westmoreland quarterback, fires a pass dining independent IM football championship contest Sunday. The pass was batted down by Burke AC defenders who allowed only three completions in 27 attempts. * * * * * * beautiful aerial which Beighey,on only 3 of 28 attempts gathered in unmolested on the 5 Tom Durbin led Burke in its and waltzed into the end zone for 6-0 triumph as he intercepted four what pr3ved to be the winning, Westmoreland passes, one of score. Beighey split the uprights: - on the f>x tra point attempt and, 'hick seemed headed for touch- DU had the lead, which it never down territory. surrendered. The most important score in With 1.45 remaining in the game, Independent action all season Melchior threw a strike to Bud. came as a result of a mixup in Albright who fought off three de signals in the Westmoreland fenders for the game clinching score. Beighey missed the extra backfield. Ed Roberts took the point which mattered little since snap from center, faded back the victory was now safely i n , and threw a bullet straight the "bag." . down the middle intended for Joe Byers. Byers, who had gone Sigma Alpha Epsilon took the 1 down the middle but then cut champions right down to the best 1 for th 4. sideline, was no where wire and has one of the passers in the IM league in Pete i near the ball. Moran. The "Chief" as Moran is ! Dick Lacey gathered in the pass called, completed 7 of 16 passes for Burke AC on the 20 and out and. twice had his team knock- raced i Roberts to the coffin cor ing on the goal line door only 1r...r of the end zone for the game to be denied admission to pay- i winning and championship clinch dirt. • ing touchdown. Defensive secondary "dandies"; Westmoreland House lost its might ne the term to apply to the chance for victory when Dick almost invincible pass coverage by!Ansbach dropped a Roberts pass Burke AC which stopped the pass-;that hit him in the chest and ing of Ed Roberts, Westmorelandlbounded harmlessly in the end House quarterback. Roberts, who:zone. Westmoreland came close to all season long had led his team:another score when Rich Urian to victories was able to connectimissed a 15- and field .oal. State Once Boasted Top Ice Hockey Club * * While ice hockey has long been one of the top sports attractions throughout the United States and Canada, few current students realize that Penn State was once a contender in the Eastern Collegiate Hockey League from 1939 to 1947. When ice hockey was first inaugurated as a varsity sport at Penn State in 1939, no one thought that its existence would were forced to travel to Johns be as short-lived as it proved to town and Hershey for the major be. For in its away games, the; ity of their practice sessions. On Lion puck squad sold out arenas , !their own rink on Beaver Field, and in the lone home game, spe-i 'mai bleachers had to be built to ,the puckmen had to compete with contain the fans. !a skating hungry student body. Several Practice sessions were I However, in 1947, due to in- held at Whipple's Darn when the I clement weather conditions and ice was in condition. lack of an artificial rink, the ' Nittany pucksters were forced However, despite the lack of to disband and withdraw from practice, the Nittany team E.C.H.L. After this setback, the toured the eastern circuit and beat some of the best teams in hockey squad was never again able to reorganize. i this section of the country. I i Dr. Arthur Davis, in charge of In fact, their initial season in health education in the College 0f'1939 proved to be a winner as !Physical Education, was largelylthree straight victories over La , responsible for ice hockey at Penn'fayette, Lehigh, and Carnegie 'State. He devoted much of his,Tech established the Lion puck- Imen in second place behind Penn !spare time to ice hockey in the , winter seasons preceding the for-1m the E C.H.L. 1 ,mation of a regular team. When; The Lions turned in their best ; a hockey team finally became a 'season record in 1941 when, with reality, Davis was given the job little or no practice, they compiled :of coaching the Nittany pucksters !an impressive card of five wins ! The first time in Penn State's'against one loss. !athletic history that a regulation! In 1943, prospects were dismal ;ice hockey game was played on,for the Lion puckmen as decreas the Lions' home ground occurredimg enrollment, gas rationing and ion January 27, 1940. A make-shiftlnoor weather forced many col- Irink, constructed by flooding sev- leges to drop ice hock'y for the !era' tennis courts adjacent to Bea .j duration of the war. However, the ver Field and allowing them to Bea-;duration did manage to set up two !freeze, made up the playing area. games with Drexel Tech, the team In addition to the rink, bleach- ' that had been Pennsylvania Inter -1 ers were set up to seat 300 fans. ;collegiate Ice Hockey Champions ! In this first and only home 'the year before. Igame, the Nittany pucksters f The Lions' inexperienced, lin , were cut down, 6-1, by a strong i prepared team went against this • Hershey Junior Bears team. I highly polished Drexel squad While the majority of the Lioni and trounced them twice. 4-0, squad was made up of average') and 4-1. ;Players with little experience,! Ice hockey was discontinued Larry Lightbody, a goaltendelfor the remainder of the war, but !who played from 1939 to 1942. made a comeback in 1947 under ;made a showing in the nets that the tutelege of Lion football coach, !could easily have made him All-'Jim 07-fora. ll=l East. In a game against Prince ton, Lightbody stopped the puck 43 times to set a Penn State rec-I ord. His game average in savesi spanning the• three seasons was, in the high 20's. The Lion players, called the "drvi i ice boys" and "iceless wonders"; .because of their lack of practice,z By BILL BARBER TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1959 However. due to inclement weather all season, the Nittany puckmen were limited to four games. 4 rink was constructed under the East stands of Beaver Field, but was never used as a playing arena as the games were usually cancelled because of the weather.
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