TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 26. 1961 Navy Coach Says Penn State Has Strong, Rugged Squad Penn State’s Nittany Lion didn’t roar as loud as expected Saturday, but that didn’t fool Navy Coach Wayne Hardin. “State has a fine football team and they definitely are going to get better,” Hardin said after the game as he watched his battered players peel off their equipment. “They were a rough, tough out J fit,” he said, “and as the season goes along they’ll improve.” However Hardin added words of caution. "State has got a long way to go if it wants to be one of the lop teams in the country. It has a lot of work to do," he said. At least one Navy player wasn’t impressed with the Lions’ 20-10 win. “They were out of shape out there today,’’ Greg Mather, Navy’s right end, said. "The line just didn’t seem to have that second effort,’’ he said. Mather, who set a Naval Acad emy record with his 45-yard field goal, said that he expected State to perk up when cooler weather hits the Nittany Valley. “It was awful hot,’’ he said in defense of the Lions. (The official game temperature ranged from 82 to 89 degrees.) game agreedwilh DO N 'T FIGHT OVER IT - FELLAS: Don Jonas (14), and Buddie Torris (32) stretch for a pass in state was definitely slow," he tended for Navy halfback Bob Teall (49) in the final period at Beaver Stadium Saturday. Pete said. "They will be real lough Liske (24) and A 1 Gurskv (43) move in on the play, though, when they get some of that'beef'moving in their line." wouldn’t buy tin’s reasoning.! “If we could have moved thaTon us three times and we would He said that Slate appeared as "They won the game in the fourth ball in the fourth quarter, Ijhave to score four touchdowns, slow as Pitt did in its first game quarter, didn't they?” Hardin said.jthink we would have won thejVou did score the equivalent of against Miami. Pitt beat the “So they couldn’t have been too game,” Hardin said. “We were ( tlnee touchdowns, but we didn’t Hurricanes, 10-7, but for three far out of shape. jyoung and made some our quota, quarters couldn't mount any : ~T . , j , • ! that cost us in the last quarter. ) “I felt our three platoon sys iyj?e of f| - an ° ffense ’ , , game and I wish them well." the “I was satisfied with our play, worked velry well,” he said The ofncial commented that the _ n , r y, hll * nn . ea ticfipH with the score ” In lact 1 “ link kt P l us as tlo * e State players weren’t carrying out- Navy coach said ’ but not satisfied with the sco e, jas Wfi were » He added that he their assignments “all the way.” ! Hardin and the Navy players \ Hardin said. I was atraid they t f e [t hi s whole squad did an “out- Although Navy players and the! took the defeat particularly hard j (State) might run over us, but theyistanding job” against “a rugged game officials agreed that the heat because they felt they had a jdidn’t. The relative score surprisedjopponent to lead off the season took its toll on State, Hardin good chance for an upset. me. We figured State would score ! against.” ’The Most Explosive Force in kit AND HIS INTERNATIONA FAMOUS ORCHESTR FRDAY, OCTOBER 20 THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA JUNIOR PROM REC HALL DANCING 9-1 S S.OQ PER COUPLE PAGE THIRTEEN Robinson May Be Out For Season FaLe stepped in where an gels fear to tread Saturday afternoon when Dave Robin son, one of the players expect ed to lead Penn State to its most successful season in years, was helped off the field with a dislocated shoulder. Robinson, a 6-3. 220-pound jun ior who anchored State’s defen sive line at left end and was one of the best blockers on the squad, will be lost for at least six to eight weeks and probably for the whole season. The injury occurred on the first play from scrim mage in the sec ond half “You just can't lose one of the best ends in the East and not be hurt," said end coach J. T. White yesterday. “Robinson only played four games at end and he was still learning but he n.»bi was lough defensively and a good blocker," White said. ; Robinson was a guard on State’s Reddie Unit last year until the Holy Cross game, when he W'as isw'itehed to end. He caught two I passes against the Crusaders and jwas a defensive standout in the '(Lions two remaining games , ! against Pitt and Oregon in the Liberty Bowl. This year Robinson teamed with (Mitinger to give State two of the ; finest ends on any one team in 'the country. Rip plans to move Jim Schwab up to the first unit with Cliff Davis, the top candidate to take Schwab's place on the Reddie unit.
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