PAGE FOURTEEN Halftime It was a long time before the door to Penn State's dress ng room was opened to visitors after the.2l-17 heartbreaker at College Park, Md., Saturday. Most 'of the 39,000 spectators had departed from Byrd Stadium, but little groups of people remained to talk over the game and feel sympathetic for Rip Engle and his fallen gridders. The sky was graying now, and a post game attraction' was taking place down on the lonely field. Half-a-dozen little boys, pretending they were Saturday's heroes, romped back and forth in the dusk, Outside Penn State's door one gridder stood battle•clad ski% slowly drinking a coke. A well-wisher walked up to Terry Monaghan and congratulated him on a fine game "Yea, but not good enough." Monaghan was sick. He moved around the side of the building. Almost 4S minutes had passed since State failed to score from the three yard line. The door to the Slate dressing room opened and despite the hot steam rolling horn the shower room, a cold chill rattled your bones. Bob Hart rolled on the rough cement floor while trainer Chuck Medlar tried to slip his knee into place. Hart is through for the season. He's due for an - operation at Geisinger Memorial Hospital in Danville Friday. One of . the best lineman on the team, he Played less than 3(1 minutes all rear. Dave Hayes lay on a bench staring at the ceiling, his swollen left ankle wrapped in tape and gauze. Buddy Torris. who played most of the game with a badly bruised arm after Hayes was hurl early- in -The second quarter, sat on the end of a table staring at the floor. It was Torris' bull-like 19-yard rush after apparently being stopped for a short yardage that set up State's second touchdown. Torris might have had a, touchdown a few plays later but, he collapsed almost from sheer' exhaustion on the one-yard line. Roger Kochman, a,much criti cized halfback earlier this year when he wasn't gaining 100 yards every game, took the ball in on the next play. Rip Engle stood in a little stairwell near the rear of the dressing room shaking his head. Except for a few words which he repeated over and over, Engle' didn't say much. "It was a tre-1 mendous - effort . . . we played a great game . . . we're proud of our kids . . . we're proud of our kids .." And then people come up to THE RIPPER you and ask in disgust, "What's wrong with Penn State?" And you wonder if it's worth it all. Maryland roach Tommy Nugent eased away from well-wishers after the -game to explain how the Terrapins e<Xploited a weakness in States defensive armor. "Their safety - men were playing deep and dropping to the out tide." Nugent said. "and the middle was wide open." But Nugent wasn't telling Engle anything he didn't already know. "We know what the trouble is," Engle said yesterday. 'We've Teen working hard on pass defense all year. even harder than usual. but we just don't have a Jim Kerr or a Dick Hoak back there to grab those interceptions. With either one of those boys playing Saturday we would have picked off two or three passes." Moth Kerr and Hoak starred for State last year. Kerr is a defensive specialist with the Washington Redskins and Hoak is a halfback with the Pittsburgh Steelers.) "We're using the same pass defense we've always used." Engle said. But with boys like Junior Powell (5.8) trying to defend against Gary Collins (6-3). what can you do?' After It's Over By JIM KARL Sports Editor THE DAILY` COLLEGIAN. _UNIVERSITY PARK. PENNSYLVANIA Virus From tissins CUT: Roger Koehn:am cuts sharply on a sissors play to move from the Maryland IS ! down to the 2 in second quarter action at Byrd Stadium Satur day. Two plays latex Kochrnan scored States first touchdown. , Fails. toi--.Stop . - : Collint - - Wrecking .LiOti,Defense Circuiation Staff MEETING TONIGHT 6:30 P.M. 128 Sackett Bring a Pen Cheeks will be Distributed COMPULSORY ALL-UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS at The Pennsylvania State University * Application forms may be obtained from.the Office of Student Aid, 218 Willard Building. * These scholarships are open to outstanding needy' stu dents who will have completed at least one term of study at Penn State by the end of the Fall Term. *All students need to reapply annually in order to be considered for these scholarships. *Completed applications should be returned to the Office of Student Aid, 218 Willard Building after the applicants have received their Fall Term cumulative grade averages, but before January 12, _1962.- By DEAN BILLICK Assistant Sports Edam Gary Collins,,a sure-fire bet All-American, had to be helped to, the Maryland .dressing room Saturday following a 21- 17 sqdeaker over Penn State, but , far 30 minutes of-play during the game, the 0-3 cirrus-catching end wrecked the Lions. It didn't seem tosmatter to Col tins that he had been in bed with la virus the day before the game, land that he: Wos so weak that) every time, he was, taken out of the game he was greeted.with an, foxy can mask,The only, thing that lithe big end could think of was "we gotta beat- Penn. State_" 'And ,Collins did his part,' even though he was able to play, only about half the genie. All the AB-American did was catcluaht posses for SG yards. punt Six', times . for an average of 42 yards.. scow on a seven yard 'pass. set- a new, Atlantic Coast ),Conference pass ritceiv ling record of lOU yards for a team'', .stop Don Caum on a roll-out, attempt for two extra points, and in .general come up with the big plays that put a damper on Slate's bowl hopes. "We wanted this game more than any other this season," Col lins said as two trainers wiped the sweat from his face and tried to cool him by handing him a Coke, "I'm so tired ndw, I can't even think," Collins said. "I have never been hit so hard in all nW life.. On that touchdown pass that I TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 7. 1961 caught, someone hit me so,hard I thought I was splitting in half. "On that last guanine stand I was so tired I couldn't even stand. I only weighed 199 pounds and I u su ally weigh 210.' . Maryland Coach Tommy Nugent had high praise for his kangaroo leaping end. "Ile kept us in the :me," Nugent said. "I Think it was probably his best all-around performance, especially his punt mg." Collins, however, didn't agree with his coach. "I don't think it was my best performance," he said. "It was a team effort all the way." Probably the happiest player in the Terp dressing room was quarterback Dick Shiner, whose passing and running in the first half kept State 'on the defense most of the time. "Now I can go back home with pride," Shiner said. The Maryland sophomore is a Pennsylvania boy and wanted to go to Penn State. 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