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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
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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.
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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
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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.