LfItIIIMIIIMtIMHMaiMIMIMMUIIIMMMMMf | Sports ! FiiiiiiiiiiimMiimniiiimMiMicMiimiiiP. VOL. 62. No. 3 Penn State vs. Navy NAVY'S PROBABLE STARTING LINEUP: Bottom Row (L-R) Greg Mather. Larry Graham, John Hewitt, Steve Hoy, Vern Von Sydow, Ron Testa and Ed Gill. Top Row (L-R) Jim Stewart, Ron Bell, Ron Klemick and Carl Fink. Middies To Test Nittanies Rating By JIM KARL Sports Editor Today Rip Engle finds out just how good his football team really is. Ever since Penn State ripped Oregon 41-12 in the Liberty Bowl in December, football “experts” have been fighting to get aboard the Lions’ bandwagon. Virtually everyone picks Engle’s veteran squad as the top team in the East and one astute observer lists State as the No. 1 team in the nation, Bui 100 often football predictions "become as sounding brass and tinkling cymbals" before the season is too old. Engle prefers to hear the crack of helmets on the field of battle before making any brash com- ments, He will hear just that this afternoon at 1.30 when the Lions and Navy meet head on at Beaver Stadium. Hardin Begins Third Season Navy’s Wayne Hardin at 34 is one of the youngest head coaches In collegiate football. Hardin is starting his third year as head coach after serving for four years as backfield coach. His 1959 squad posted a 5-4-1 record and last year Navy was 6-2, including a 21-14 loss to Missouri in the Orange Bowl. In two engagements with arch rival Army, the youthful coach has scoured wins of 43-12 in 1959 and 17-12 in 1960. His ob jective is to even the series with the Cadets , which now stands at 30-26-5 with Army in the lead. Hardin went to school at the College of Pacific where he won 11 varsity letters, the greatest number ever won by an individual in COP’s athletic history. He came to Navy in 1955 as a defensive backfield'coach and was mainly responsible for the fact that the Navy ended the ’55 cam paign as the No. 2 team in the nation in pass defense. In 1956 he switched to the offense. Hardin received several nomina tions for ‘‘Coach of the Year” after the 1960 campaign, laily 0 inUrjt STATE COLLEGE. PA.. SATURDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 23. 1961 A warm, sunny day and a crowd ot close to 40,000 is expected for the kick-off. As predictions go, the early line on the Lions is well founded. Engle has 15 lettermen return ing from last year’s team that won its last five games in convincing fashion. Only one non-letterman—right guard Harri son Rosdahl—is on the starting unit and he prob ably wouldn’t be there if Bob Hart hadn’t lorn some ligaments in his knee in pre-season drills. Engle has a rugged, hard-hitting line, a game tested backfield and Roger Kochman on the sec ond team. , Kochman is the 190-pound halfback who bolted through the whole Syracuse team on a 100- yard touchdown jaunt two years ago, then sat out last season with a knee injury. Kochman is eager to play and doesn't think the year layoff will hurl him. "I'm really looking forward to playing," he said, "I've been hit harder in practice than I ever was in a game." (■Continued on page twelve) FOR A BETTER PENN STATE CHARLIE SIEMINSKI State-Navy Lineups PENN STATE Pos. Robinson LE Sieminskl LT Blasensiein LG No. Wt. 80 220 77 245 62 200 51 205 67 230 74 222 86 215 25 195 43 200 14 195 34 205 Huffman Rosdahl Smith Mitinger Hall Gursky Jonas Hayes TIME: 1:30 p.m. PLACE: BEAVER STADIUM WEATHER: Sunny and Warm STARTING LINE AVERAGES: Penn State (220); Navy (199), STARTING BACKFIELD AVERAGES: Penn Stale Navy (179). NEXT WEEK'S OPPONENTS: Penn State at Miami, (Fla.)j William and Mary at Navy. SERIES: Navy leads, 14-9-2. CAPTAINS: Penn Slate (Smith); Navy (Hewitt). OFFENSE: Penn State (Multiple-T); Navy (Flanker-T). EXPECTED CROWD: 35,000-40,000. PENN STATE: Schwab (88). Anderson (85), Tieljens (70), Farkas (76). Galardi (66), Baker (68), Saul (52), Liske (24), Kochman (46), Wydman (11), Torris (32). NAVY: ‘Kellner (80), Kilpatrick (82), Fleming (72), Fitz gerald (75), Optekar (68), Krekich (63). Pierce (54), Hecht (11), Meyer (22), Sal (48), Merritt (33). *Navy has three teams which it alternates—a two-way team, an offensive team and a defensive team. The two-way team is listed as the starting leam. A backfield composed of Abel (15), Meyer (22), Teal! (49), and Markoff (34) alternates with the two-way line. 4*4/* More i yiT¥ Headline News j On Page 20 { I ■—( n)I« ; l;i n ly Jri’.u it tiller ROGER KOCHMAN . . . rockets into orbit STARTING LINEUP RG RT RE ALTERNATE UNITS FIVE CENTS 1 >t' t i *i.*! i.' ;f.l! r i i '.fs-! r t-t , j< ! Ti it* r. s <: »*J ’.«*•* 1 j* *' f** .•' *« ♦ i »;.'■ - NAVY Wi. No. Gill 180 89 Testa 209 71 Von Sydow 207 61 Hoy 197 Hewitt 183 Graham 203 Mather Klemick Fink 212 196 179 168 r 171 Stewart " , 5 ■ J : 'f^f 25 21 „ 30 (199);
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