Lions Get Liberty Bowl Bid
VOL. 61, No. 49 STATE COLLEGE PA., MONDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 21, 1960 FIVE CENTS
—Collegian Photo by John Beane
JUBILATION T. ENGLE—Lion coach Rip Engle, game ball under his arm,,congratulates Lion cap
tain Henry Oppermann (89) after State whipped Pitt, 14-3 in Pittsburgh Saturday. Looking on
(l-r) are Joe Blasenstein, Dick Hoak, Don Jonas and Bob Mitinger.
Spring-Like Weather to Usher
Students Home for Vacation
Beautiful spring-like weather will provide excellent traveling conditions for thou
sands of students who will be leaving campus for the Thanksgiving Vacation today and
tomorrow.
Sunny skies, unseason
sections of the Keystone Sta
Campus To
Slow Down
For Holiday
The Thanksgiving vacation
officially begins at 9 p.m. to
morrow and will end Monday,
Nov. 28 at 8 a.m.
The Hetzel Union Building will
be open throughout Thanksgiving
vacation except for Thanksgiving
Day. However, the Lion's Den
will close tomorrow at 10 p.m.
and reopen at 2 p.m. Nov. 27. The
Terrace Room will •be closed
Thursday and Saturday, but will
be open at regular hours the rest
of vacation.
Vacation hours for the Pattee
Library are Wednesday, 9 a.m. to
5 p.m.; Thursday, closed; Friday,
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m.
to 12 noon; and Sunday, closed.
All residence halls will close
Wednesday at 12 noon; the last
meal served in the dining halls
will be breakfast Wednesday. The
residence halls will reopen Sun
day at 1 p.m. and the first meal
served will be breakfast on Mon
day.
Administrative offices will be
closed Thanksgiving Day, • but
will be open the rest of vacation
at regular hours.
The Protestant Meditation
Chapel and the Roman Catholic
Meditation Chapel will remain
open from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
throughout vacation though no
services will be conducted. Serv
ices will not be held in Schwab.
The program center at the Chapel
will be closed from Thanksgiving
Day until Monday, Nov. 28.
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FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
bly mild temperatures and light winds will prevail in most
e today. The lone exception .being the extreme northwest-
ern portion of the state where
cloudy skies and possibly a few
showers are. expected.
All major roads in Centre
County are in good condition ac-,
cording to state police.
During the last Thanksgiving
vacation four students were in
jured, one seriously, in Iwo sep-
arate accidents while traveling
home for the holiday. Two years
ago three students were killed
and one injured over the vaca
tion period as a result of auto
accidents.
Temperature readings, which
have remained consistently above
normal for the past several days,
show no indication of change dur
ing the next few days.
Consequently, afternoon mer
cury readings will again reach
the low 60's across the southern
border of Pennsylvania today
with 50's more general in the cen
tral and northern sections.
Cool readings are expected
tonight with temperatures rang
ing from the upper 20's across
the northern tier of counties to
the low 40's in . the south.
Tomorrow's temperatures will
be similar to those of today with
the exception of slightly cooler
readings in the northwestern part
of the state.
The State College area today
and tomorrow will be partly
cloudy and mild. High tempera
ture readings both days will be
about 58 degrees.
Generally fair and cool
weather is expected tonight.
The low will be near 38 de
grees.
The above normal temperature
trend will probably continue
through most of the week.
Precipitation should be well
scattered possibly occurring in
the form of showers on Wz.,.dnes
day.
HUB to Dispense Coffee
To Traveling Students
The Lion's Den in the Iletzel
Union Building will fill the ther
moses_ of travelers with coffee
free of charge.
Louis A. -Berrena, manager of
the Lion's Den, said the practice
of giving travelers free coffee be
fore vacation was instituted
about two years ago because
many students do not take the
time to stop on the way home. •
Students are asked to supply
their own containers.
Collegian Publication
This is the last issue of The
Daily Collegian before the
Thanksgiving recess. Publi
cation will resume on Nov. 29.
Liberty Bowl Committee Asks State
The Liberty Bowl selection if a visiting team from the West,
!had been selected yet.
committee formally extended] Oregon, Florida, Baylor, Rice,
an invitation to Penn StatelTexas, and Alabama were listed;
late last night to be the hostlasibiliti
oss • • • '
es for the visitingpberth.
team at the - ipso game on Dec.l team- Hal Freeman, Liberty Bowl
17 in Philadelphia. ;publicity director, said the Bowl 1
; committee was proud to extend"
A committee spokesman said oe in_,LlEl,__
N 'On to Penn State,
general chairman Thomas D. me-1
; "The committee feels that Penn
Closkey extended the invitation;State is frthe leading Independent
to Lion Athletic Director Ernestiteam in the East," Freeman said.'
B. McCoy. Asked about a return trip to
McCoy said he would try to
the Liberty Bowl, Lion coach
Rip Engle said, ."I'll do anything
get the team together today for 'the University and the boys
a meeting to discuss the bid. want. Last year we had a real._
Penn State was the host •in happy experience there."
last year's first game. The Lions Penn State and Syracuse had
defeated Bear Bryant and his
Alabama Crimson Tide, 7-0.
The spokesman would not say
Win Over Pitt
Record to 6-3
14-3
Ups
Penn State, seemingly out of the running for any bowl
bids four weeks ago, earned an invitation to the Liberty
Bowl Saturday by scoring twice in the last quarter to defeat
Pitt, 14-3.
State finished the season with a 6-3 record and four
straight wins.
Athletic Director Ernest B. McCoy confirmed reports
that the Lions had received the
invitation for a return trip to the
Philadelphia classic at 11:30 last
night.
"We have just received the in
vitation," McCoy said. "PI! try to
get the team together Monday
for a vote." State beat Alabama,
7.0, in the Liberty Bowl inaugural
last year.
While the outcome of Satur
day's game was pleasant for
State, it was an extremely bit-
ter pill for the Panther players,
coaches and fans.
Pitt finished with a 4-3-3 rec
cord far below what the pre
season prognosticators predicted.
Oddly enough the afternoon
started out on a bright note for
Pitt when State. halfback Jim
Kerr fumbled the opening kick
off and Chuck Reinhold recov
ered for the Panthers on the Lion
13.
Three plays later the Panthers
found themselves back on the
Lion 17 and Fred Cox lined up
for a field goal attempt.
The kick was from the 25-
yard line which meant the over
all distance was 35 yards.
A little more than two minutes
were gone when Cox's kick sailed
through the uprights to give Pitt
a 3-0 edge.
After that the Pitt Stadium
crowd ,of 45,023 watched intently
as the game developed into a
typical Penn State-Pitt battle
marked by bruising defensive
play and conservative offensive
maneuvers.
In the second period both teams
threatened, but neither was able
'to score. i Col. Joseph Mobutu, the Congo's
Early in the quarter with quar-iarmy commander and military
'terback Ed Sharockman and Cox ruler, would not support this
teaming up for most of the yard-'threat. He said, "it is no concern
age, the Panthers moved to the of mine."
Lion 23 where Sharockman letH
fly with a forth down Wachuku, who is Nigerian min
fly of economic development,
which was intercepted by D,ick
Hoak on the Lion 10. s._.aic:l the commission would hold
;one more meeting here today be-
After an exchange of punts, jfore
State drove to the Pill 19 only gathering in Leopoldville
!next Saturday. The members will
to lose the ball on downs. fly down individually, most of
With time running out
: .
first half, Pitt coach Johnny Mi-in theaem tomorrow and Wednesday.
1 The Assembly is expected to
chelosen sent Dave Walker, an
r seat the delegation, today or to
end who can throw farther than; <
morrow, over ,he opposition of
any Pitt quarterback, into the
game with' instructions to trythe Soviet bloc and part of the
a home run. for 'Asian-African group.
Pitt was son Its own 45 when!
Sharockman pitched to Walker be-IChess Team Wins, 3-2 . •
hind the line of scrimmage. Walk-I The Penn State Varsity Chess
er wound up and threw a beauty Team beat Carnegie Tech by
intended for Steve Jastrzembski!winning 3 out of 5 matches in a
on the eight. •;game played yester&!y afternoon
Hoak was defending on the ;in the Hetzel Union card room.
play but he interfered and the I Although Anthony Cantone
Panthers had a first down, and Richard Sommerville lost
There was time for one playltheir matches, Anthony Poulos,
and Sharockman fired a pass in-!Harry Mathews and
! Eugene
tended for Cox in the end zonclGrumer won tlwirs to give the
(Continued on page six) !team a victory.
been the top choices for the most
team berth, but the Lions ap-
parently earned the bid on the
See Related Story Below
By SANDY PADWE
U.N. Envoys
Defy Threat
From Congo
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y
(IP)—The head of the UN Con-
ciliation Commission for the
Congo said yesterday nothing
would keep the commission
from going there to seek peace
among rival political leaders.
Jaja WaChuku of Nigeria, new
ly elected chairman of the 15-
nation Asian-African commission,
thus defied a Congolese officials'
threat that 5,000 troops would bar
its members from . Leopoldville
airport, where they are scheduled
to arrive this week.
Talking with a reporter, he also
cast doubt on speculation that if
the U.N. General Assembly seats
President Joseph Kasavubu's
Congolese delegation, the com
mission may call off the trip.
Jose Nussbaurner, Congolese
commissioner for the interior,
said at a news conference in Leo
poldville Friday that 5,000 sol
diers would go to the airport
there to keep the commission
from landing.
strength of their 14-3 win over
Pitt at Pitt Stadium Saturday.
Earlier this year, Pitt beat Syra
cuse, 10-0, but Syracuse topped
:State, 21-15.
Army also beat Syracuse, 9-6,
but Penn State whipped the Ca
[(lets, 27-16 at West Point, N.Y.,
.Oct. 8.
Britain's Royal Rulers
Enjoy 13th Anniversary
LUTON, England UP) Queen
Elizabeth II and Prince Philip ob
served their 13th wedding anni
versary yesterday at the country
estate of Sir Harold and Lady Zia
Wernher in Bedfordshire. The
queen and her husband attended
morning services at the 12th
century Anglican church in
Luton.