WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 7. 1962 Strong Offense Paces Lions To 24th Winning Log in Row The Penn State football team’s 23-7 victory pi er Maryland Saluulay in Beaver Stadium clinched the 24 1 h consecutive winning season for the Lions and the 13th stinight under the tutelage of Rip Engle. The Nittartles now own a 8-l‘record with three games to play. The last time the Lions lost-more than they won,'was in.. 1938. when their record, was-3-4-1... -i-..-... -.. The Lions have bpf n rolling Offensively to record their six wins thus far this season. They'have scored at least three touchdowns in each of their victories. The only lime they were held to less than three touchdowns they didn't get any at all and lost to Army, 9-6. On the plus side of the ledger the Lions have wins over Navy (41-7),oAir Force (20-6), Rice (18-7), Syracuse (20-19), California (23-21) apd Maryland (23-7). " THE NITTANIES hold an edge over their opposition in just about every statistical department. They lead in first downs (121-91), total yardage (2,179:1.80.1),nhd touchdowns (21-11). All-American.-lialfback_candidat« „Rogcr.._Kochman paces the Lions in most of the ground-gaining departments. Kochman lends the rushers with 88 carries for 437 yards, a 5.1 average gain per carry. He also tops the Lions in kickoff returns, punt returns and individual scoring. He has scored seven touchdowns, three on passes and four on thc'ground. .Fullback Dave Hayes, who didn’t break into the starting lineup until the Lions’ third game, is second in both rushing and scoring. Hayes has picked up 209 yards on 57 carries, a 3.7' average. He has yet to be thrown for a loss this season. Hayes has tallied 30 points on five touchdowns. Quarterback Pete Liske gained 80 yards in 15 carries against Maryland, exactly equalling his total in the Lions' first six games. The. junior signal-caller now has gained 160 yards to rank third among the Lion rushers. LISKE ALSO is the Lions' top passing threat with 63 completions in 113 attempts, a completion percentage of 55.8. He has thrown fof 666 yards and six touchdowns. The Lion quarterback has had only, two passes intercepted dll igason. Sophomore Ron Coates trails Liske in the passing statistics with 13 completions.in 29 attempts for 203 yards. He-has had three aerials intercepted. ' The Lions' leading pass receiver is little Junior Ppwell, the for gotten man of the team. Powell, who has 22 receptions for 208 yards, has been relegated to defensive duty with only brief offensive-ap pearances since the Syracuse game. He 'has' caught only one pass vjn the Lions'.last two games. -. ALL-AMERICAN end candidate Dave. Robinson is the Lions’ Northwestern, Southern California Head AP Grid Poll; Rose Bowl Clash Possible _ , By The Associated Press ' ' If the Rose Bowl football game were to be played this week, it could boast of being',an unofficial match for the national championship between the No. 1 and'No. 2_ ranking college teams Northwestern and Southern California, driving toward sible clash in Pasadena, are pace-setters in the weekly poll of Ihq Associated Press. Each has won six .straight games, Northwestern, which squeezed past Indiana '26-21 Satur day on a late passing drive by Tom Myers, retained top place in the standings with 24 of the 49 first place votes of the special panel of sports writers and broadcasters and a total of 442 points. On the basis of ten points for a first place vote, nine for second, etc., Southern California,' which hurdled a formidable obstacle in Washington 14-0, took over the No. 2 rung with 409 points. The Trojans’were picked as the nation's best of six of the voters: Alabama and Mississippi, boomed for a meeting in the Sugar Bowl, followed in the No. 4 and No. 4 positions, respectively, after receiving nine first place votes each. Alabama made Mississippi State its seventh victim of the season 20-0 while Mississippi finally: managed to beat Louisiana State, an old rival, 15-7. I Completing the top ten, which underwent a brisk shakeup, were: Taxas, No. 5; Arkansas, No.. 6; Missouri, No. 7; Wisconsin, No. 8; Louisiana State, No. 9, and Minnesota. No. 10. Lions in Running for Cotton Bid; Robinson All-East End Selection The Cotton Bowl announced to day that Penn-State is one of 12 1 teams from whom the visiting: team in the Jan. 1 classic willj be chosen. : Felix MeKnight. chairman of Army, as it did last week, got the selection committee, said to-! five first place votes with the re day that after this weekend the maining three going to State, list will be down to four or five, The voting had Dartmouth and teams. ; Pittsburgh tied for third with There are too many important! then Holy; games coming up in the next three;*-™ 53 ' ' illanova, Boston College weeks .howeyer, to make any defi- 1 * n “ Rutgers, nite commitments, MeKnight said.! 9 ave Robinson, All-America „ . , . , . . ..... . -end nominee for the Lions, was Schools contacted,on auiuuun to. a j n name< j t 0 (^ e weekly All-, § 8 football, team of theECAC, State, Georgia Tech Mississippi Robinson was cited for recovering Oregon. Auburn. Army, Miami., fumbles in the win over West \ lrgima, Maryland an “ Maryland Saturday. Paul Martha; Duke - of Pitt was named to the back- Penn State, meanwhile, kept a field. TONIOHT— ALARD QUARTET 8:30 p.m. Schwab By JOHN MORRIS Sports Editor firm grlp~on sccond place in the Lambert Tropty voting this week but failed to gain on first place Army as the top major college football team in the East. PRINTING letterpress • Offset Commercial Printing 353 E. College AO 8-3025 THESE THSEE LIONS left halfback Rpger Kochman (left), right halfback A 1 Guriky (confer.) and fullback Dave Hayes Join quarterback Pete Liske in Penn State's first unit backfiold. Thay give tha Nilianiei a powerful running attack. second leading pass receiver with 14 catches for 143 yards, Kochman and Gursky, who replaced Powell at right halfback in the Nittanics’'starting lineup, are tied for third in the pass re ceiving parade with 11 catches apiece. Kochman has 198 yards on his 11 catches whila Gursky has gained 102. ’f .The Lions have one of the nation’s -leading punters in Chuck Raisig. Raisig has averaged 42.9 yards for 26 kicks so far this fall. Raisig, the second leading punter in the country before the Mary land game, averaged 44.4 yards on five kicks against the Terps. Coates gives the Lions another capable kicker on field goals and extra points. IJe has hit on four of five extra point attempts and four of six field goal tries. The Nittanies Saturday’s game Without serious injury to any players. They should be in their top physical shape of the year for this week’s contest with West Virginia. Northwestern, No. 1," and Texas, No.'s, were the only teams to hold their positions from a week ago. Alabama dropper} a notch; Mississippi moved up from sixth place; Arkansas, 17-7 winner over Texas A&M, jumped two rungs; Southern Cal gained one, and, Louisiana State fell from fourth to ninth. Missouri, Wisconsin and Minnesota are newcomers to the list, rooting out Michigan Stfttc, Washington and Auburn, all of whom were beaten. NQrthwestern’s newly-gained station is in-jeopardy-this week! in the .with Wisconsin, which thumped Michigan 34-12 for Its fifth victory six starts. Southern Cal plays'Stanford, Alabama meets' Miami, Fla., Mississippi takes on Chattanooga and Texas faces Baylor. - Other games involving the top ten send Arkansas against Rice, Missouri against Colorado, LSU. against Texas Christian and Min! nesota against lowa. Hadnofs Basketball Fine OAKLAND. Calif. (AP) Jiml Hadnot, a., Democrat, cam- Hadnot; running for the Assembly! paigned against a wealthy GOP in Rhode Island, was fined $100; assemblyman, Frederick Lippit. yesterday by the Oakland pro ‘‘We wish Jim all the.luck in the basketball team management for election," Oaks GenerahM ana S er failure to show up here. ! Joe Anzivino said. "But we’ve got’ The 6-foot, 10-inch rookie on campaign of our own to win and Oakland team in the American'he figures in it." Basketball League, is a week' "But if Hadnot wins the election overdue because of politics. i the fine is off," Anzivino declared. No Senior pictures will be taken the afternoon \! of Nov. 8 and all day Nov. 9. —Thank you The Penn Stale Photo Shop Don't be a meat-head! Get Vitalis with V-7. It JH keejp# your hair neat nil day without grease. Naturally. V-7* is the greaseless grooming discovery. ftrVrM Vitalis® with V-7 fights embarrassing dandrvff, prevents dryness, Keqpsj our hair neat ail day without grease. Icy it 1 THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. UNIVERSITY PARK. PENNSYLVANIA ★ ★ ★ Hinges on RI Elections Bssaci#?' STATISTICAL LEADERS Rushing Ydn. Ru«Hn Yds. Ku»h Kivhnuin 86 4'i7 f».l >jay«« f»7 209 3.7 M«k* 38 Ifi<) 4.2 Powell 35 ‘ 14.1 4.1 Torrid -40 Jl6 2.9 Gursky 26 M 3.1 Stuckrath 47 4.7; ‘Hermhey - ____l7 37 2.2 Urbanik* M ' 34 2.6 Caum R p 2.4 KfimteiNmilh Passing 'v. .All. Comp. Int. Yd«, Liaka 113 fiJ 2 Cvru *