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HIG TAXES A RIDE: Penn State fans carry Coach .Hob Higgins
after 'the Nittany Lions roared to a 29.0 irictory'oistr Pittsburgh at
Pitt Stadium Saturday afternoon. The triumph gay• Penn Slate iti
first. Veiled season• since 1912.
State. Conquers Pittsburgh;
Does City Little Damage
•
By Den French
r • Penn Slate took over the city of Pittsburgh last weekend.—
both figuratively rind - literally.
Yesterday the hotels paused t
surprisingly little. The Lion fans }
ducted themselves better than h
stated.
Hotels Slightly Damaged
The Hotel William Penn, scene
of most of the post-game cele
bration, reported a broken window
and a cracked elevator floor-indi
cator. Downtown police had
calmed two men' who they said
were squirting a fire hose down
the 11th floor corridor, causing
the major disturbance of the
weekend. The hotel declined to
prosecute.
The Webster Hall in the Oak
land section could only complain
that bottles and glasses were
hurlqd from windows onto a patio.
$ The Hotel Schenley had the job
of disposing of the Stadium goal
posts which were dumped on the
hotel's veranda.
The celebrating started Friday
night at the Smoker and Pep
Rally. held at the William ' Penn.
Lion studcnts, sensing that the
Hlgginsmen would be able to
Fans Cast Ballots Today
For Year's Fo
• Football fans will begin bal
loting today for their choice of
the outstanding Lion back and
lineman.
The °Metal ballot appears .on
page 7. Only votes entered on the
'official ballot can be counted. .
Due 'to the extra vacation the
balloting will be continued
through next Tuesday. Another
ballot will be printed In Tuesday's
Dauer. '
Ballot boxes will be plated In
most of the 'restaurants .and Col
lege dining halls in State College
for the convenience of the Penn
State' students and. State College
fans., and at the Bob Davis store:
Pe •Ro Dairy and Uhl's Smoke
Shop In Bellefonte.
Ballot boxes will also ,be of the
Times orices In State College
and Bellefonte.
Any person in Centre County..
resident or student, is eligible to
vote. and any member of the
(Cmtinued on page three).
Feb. 21, 1952
The Lion's Lair
Gymnastics Coach Gene Wettstone will give his new system of
flashing the score of each coinpetitor another try this Saturday
against Syracuse. . •
The new sysfem, which allows the spectators to see just what
score 'each judge is giving, seems far superior to the old telephone
system. Under the old system, spectators were only, given the total
score after it had been tabulated
Under Wettstone's system,
which will probably be used in
the Olympic tryouts and NAAU
championships to be held in Rec
Hall April 25-26, each judge's
score is flashed in full view of
the crowd. This way the specta
tors better understand the scor
ing system ,and enjoy the events
that much-more. Also, an inter
ested spectator may judge the
event and compare his score with
that of the three judges.
Wettstone is now knee-deep in
work preparing for the comina
Olympic tryouts.', '
Hundreds of the
r
f i est gymnasts * 74 '
in t h e country s?- , •
are expected, to -
participate in the \ = 1
two - day event
which will. also "(4.
include the Na- '•' "-,.;":,5x:,
lionel A m a tour ,
Athletic •Union ,
championships. -New
Sixteen of the top all-around
gymnasts will be picked to repre
sent t h e United States in the
Olympic games in Finland this
summer. To make the .Olympic
team you mutt participate in all
events, from the exercises to
tumbling.
Weftstone will enter a full
team in the NAAU champion
ships but only a couple mem
bers of the team will try for
the Olympic team.
Jean Cronstedt, Penn State's
hopes for NAAU championships
o survey their damage but found
ad made plenty of noise butcon•
ad been expected, hotel officialr
down the hapless Panti..ts tt
next afternoon, made their pres
ence known to sleeping Pa Pitts
burgh.
It was a quiet evening for co
captain John Nolan as he had
dinner with his parents, who wer
celebrating their 25th wedditm
anniversary by attending the
game.
Rooters Cheer Each Play
Next day, by the time the gam
was several minutes old, Lim.
rooters realized that the football
team knew nothing of the Stadium
jinx and let loose with cheers and
screams on every play.
A 30-foot long banner with the
inscription, "Roar Lions, Roar,"
was unfurled from one end-zone
Materials for the sign were pro
vided by • All-College Cabinet
with' Ferris . Thompson • painting
the yard-high letters. •
(Continued on rope seven)
tball Stars
Rally Draws 1000
Despite Downpour
• More than a thousand faithfaT
student surnsorters assembled
the rain bore Old Main ~t'noon
yesterday to•voice their•enthustas
tic approval. of the perfect grid
- ccord chalked: up by Coach Bob
'li!-telos and the ,Nlttany squad:
The Impromptu Victory Rally
asonsored by Hat Soc!edes Coun
cil, featured resPorlses by the vet-*
sran gridiron ' coach. and Carl
SchOtt. dean of the school of PhY
'cal education.-
' Coach Hiacins was wildly cheer
dd. when. he referred to a tele
nhnne call from -Dallas. Texas.
site of • th , ! Cotton ' Bowlarid
:•lar'c. Delia -Fchot` in • his re
(Continued on page three)
By ERNIE MOORE
Collegian Sports Editor
on the parallel and horizontal
bars will be ineligible for the
Olympic team because he was not
born in the United States. Cron
stedt is from Finland.
Laz LcMon, Penn' State's 156
pound boxer, really, put on a
show for the fan s in the first
round of his bout with Syracuse's
Vince Rigolosi Saturday. The way
Laz bobbed and weaved his way'
around Rigolosi reminded us of
another boxer—a fellow by the
name of Herb Carlgon from Idaho.
Carlson, by far the best col
lege• boxer we have ever seen,
won the NCAA championship
at 155 pounds when the nation
als were held in Rec Hall in
1950. He was also named "best
boxer of the tournament." '
Carlson would bob and weave,
around his opponent for three
rounds and in one fight in par
ticular his opponent hardly
landed a punch on him during
the entire bout. He did a lot of
swinging but Carlson just wasn't
there.
• • . •
The Collegian sports staff is
Thinking of declaring Jesse Ar
nelle ineligible from winning
the Athlete of the Week award.
Since basketball season has
started, the big fellow has al
most monopolized the award.•lf
he wins it many times more The
ACE is liable to rule over
emphasis.,
r at Cottcgialt
VOL..4B—No. 36
. . . . TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 25, 1947:—STATE COLLEGE, PENNA.
Students Call for Cottonlowl Game
As Nittany Lions Claw Panthers,29-0
Penn Staters Endorse
SMU As Next Opponent
By Alien Oiler
"On to the Cotton Bowl"
was the cry of the Penn State
students who braved . a cold
rain . yesterday noon to cheer
:"..oach Bob Higgins and the
.first Nittany Lion football
team to achieve a perfect sea"-,
;on since .1912.
• Since the Pittsburgh news
papers carried the news that Penn
state had a very good chance of
being invited to participate• in
the New Year's Day classic at
Dallas, Texas, enthusiasm has
reached a new high among • the
student body.
. 7'he streets of the Smoky City
reverberated until the early hours
of Sunday morning as Penn State
fans let it be known that they
wanted to add Southern Methodist
University to the Nittany Lion's
string of nine victories.
Some optimistic students went'
so far as to get timetables and
transportation costs to Dallas
from the travel agencies in Pitts
burgh. It costs $167.44 for a round
trip by air.
The only thing missing is an
official bid from the Cotton Bowl
Athletic Association, and this will
not be forthconiing until the
cowl officials hear in answer to
their "feelers," that Penn State
?light be receptit'e to such an
offer. .
Yesterday afternoon Coach Hig
;ins called a•meeting of the foot
',all players , and asked them if
- ley would be willing to sacrifice
"'ph...Christmas vacations to play
post-season game. The Lion
idders ,were enthusiastic in in
eicating their desire to play.
. Meanwhile Coach Matty Bell of
Fouthern Methodist said that his
' lam would have no objections to
-laying Penn State in the Cotton
'owl even though there are some
'legroes on its • team. The SMU
n•ridders, in a poll taken yester
lay. indicated that they would be
..:ery willing to play Penn State.
Speaking of the Nittany Lion's
Negro • players, Coach Bell de
-tared: "That's a problem for the
Cotton Bowl officials. We have
-to objections ourselves. SMU has
broken precedent before. We were
the first school of the• Southwest
Conference to play , against
Negroes in another section. After
all, we're supposed to live in a
democracy."
Bell pointed out, however, that
Triplett and •Hocrgard might have
to stay in hotels apart from the
Mr/ramped nn came six)
Ashenfelter 2nd, Karver 6th
As Lion Harriers Win NCAA,s
By ELLIOT KRANE
They're thinking of changing
::orace Ashenfelter's nickname
from "Fearless Fosdic k" to
"Hardluck Horace," and , they've
already started calling the Penn
State cross • .c ount r y team
''Champs." . ,•
Chick Werner's Nittany Lion
:.arriers won their second Nation
al Collegiate cross'country cham
nionship at Michigan State Col
lege, East Lansing, Michigan.
in three inches of snow yesterday
morning. • • ,
Ashenfelter led the pack to the
three-mile mark and then took a
wrong,turp and went 20 yards off
July 14,1944
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Stale Runners Favored
Two runners who captured a
lot of points for Coach George
Harvey's track team this spring
are favored to win at the Middle
Atlantic .AAU championships in
Beading tomorrow.
Track Capt: Johnny Dibeler is
rated . the best in the 440-yard
dash. , Also running in this class
will be some of the top men in
Eastern track circles.
. The other favorite is Service
map Bobby Jones. The former
Penn State trainee is given the
nod over Dan Kirk, Penn's Out
standing trackman, in the 880-
yard run. Jones, was shipped out
at the end of the spring semes
ter• and is now stationed in the
Suuth.
Servicemen Like Sporis
Sports news *still ranks first
with American , boys scattered
throughout • the. world on hun
dreds of battldfronts.
Lt. Eddie -Tuleya of York, for
mer Penn State baseball pitcher,
is the latest to support this state
mcnt,..The one-time Nittany Lion
twirler recently forwarded a
batch of newspaper clippings to
Coach Joe Bedenk from his hos
pital bed In. England.
Wounded in the Normandy in
vasion, Tuleya said he had occu-,
pied himself in the hospital by
By TOM MORGAN
There's great joy in the N:ttany Lion's den.
The reason: Penn State's mountain cat reached out with
a predatory paw Saturday • and crushed Pitt, 29-0, and the
deep cleat-marks in the -Panther's hide will burn and rankle
for many moons. •
• . ,
For Head Coach Bob Higgins and his once-in-a-lifetime
grid aggregation, the nugget of victory had many facets:
First, it overcame a Pitt jinx that had plagued the Lions
for three years, transforming them into floundering kit- '
tens, putty in the paws of Pitt's Panther.
Second, it was the' final' stage in a gridiron campaign
that stamped the high gearedl947 eleven as one of the
greatest ever to don Wue and White moleskins of Penn State.
Third, it paved •the Ivay fora stream of post-season
bowl offcrs, some of which have alreey been received.
Fourth. it climaxed the first nerfect nine-ganie foot-'
ball season in the h'story of the College. -
lines From The lions . . .
Nittany
"`ear Gone:
It's good to be back in this Nit
lny Valley lair and take our
glees off again, isn't it? •
My city cousin, the Panther.
111 never be the same. That
hunk I took off his hide made
`his the worst hunting season of
'lts career.
•
Have been checking the local
'toms for a saddle S and spurs for
a' possible trip to Dallas and a
ittle bronc-busting assignment.
I've never tasted mustang
burgers. but Phineas tells me
they're much like. panther
burgers.
I'm looking forward to a scout
'mg trip down to Texas and will
have a picture taken for my pass
port today. Meanwhile, I'll spend
Thanksgiving at the l3ronx Zoo
visiting relatives.
I am thankful for this great
-.eason and I want to thank the
;ang for feeding me so well.
For the glory,
The Lion
Vcication Begins
Thanksgiving vacation . begins
at noon today. said Yl!lmes Ken
worthy. secretary to the acting
President of the College. The
24-hour extension wits 'granted
as a "football holiday." Classes
will be resumed Monday. De
cember I. . .
the course; by the time he got
back on the path he was third
Jack Milne of North Oliolina and
Quentin Brelsford oi Ohio .Wed
leyan, defending titlist. .passed
Nshenfelter. •
Millie won the race in 20:41.1,
:,0 seconds off: Brelsford's pace
last year, and 30 seconds off Greg
Rice's record for the four-mile
flat rtm in 1938.
BRELSFORD FALLS "
Ashenielter finished second,
eking over that position after
Brelsford had slipped and, fallen
in the snow. Ash's time was 20:45,
three seconds better than Brels
ford's who finished third. •
Jerry Karver,. ace Lion barrier,
Fifth, it enabled the Lions
to register the first undefeat
ed and untied record in n 5
years of State grid competi
tion.• - •
srT TiEre.rn
Sixth, it-lowered the Nittany
nen's phenomenal rushing defena"
mark to a record average of 17
yard s yielded per garnelo cpnon
ents' running attacks. This shat
ters -the national re-ord .of 25.3
yards. registeredby Santa Clara
In 1937, and take.] on atide-' sig
nificance In the tight 'of the of
fensive key to which present-day
football is pitched. . •
Seventh, it marked the L'ona
as one of the country's top 1997
football Titans,' Virtually a sure
bat to ' capture • •the • Lambert
Trophy, symbol of Eastern foot
ball supremacy.
Eighth, it transformed into
reality Coach - Higgins' .27-year.
old dream of skippering a colle
giate football .team through an
undefeated and untied' season. •
FOUR UNDEFEATED
Ninth, it established State as
cne of the nation's four malt)! el
evens boasting spotless records.
None of the others—Southern
Methodist, Southern ' California
and Notre Dame—has finished its
sehefule. The latter two clash
Dec. 6.
- . .
Befcre a throng estimated to tie
53,000 (highest in the , 47-game
Pitt-State series), the Higgins
men's powerful running , attack
churned out four touchdowns,
with -a field .goal. tacked on, to
blast the hapless Pittmen.
WILLIAMS SCORES
After halfback Bobby Williams
, (Continued on paw. four(
round the going rougher than his
:eammate and finished in 6th
- ilace, just ahead of Rhode Island
Slate's Bob Black, 1947 IC4-A
-ross country champ.
The Lions won the team tro
phy with 80 points. Syracuse was
next with 72, followed by Drake,
three-time winner, with 133.
Purdue .•and Indiana tied for
fourth with 147 and Michigan
State was fifth with 152.
!CARVER'S BEST
Ashenfelter, who finished sec
ond to Black in this ' year's
ICS-A's, pulled a similar stunt
last year in the Nationals and
lf.lth af`er he made. a
(Contunued• on page eight)
c/IPPIPZ Penn State items from
the. sports , pages of metropolitan
papers sent to England for Am
erican servicemen.
'8 Dawn and 8 fo Go!'
For the second time within a
year Penn State's athletic pro
gram ,has been . curtailed. At the
start of the present conflict there
were 16 intercollegiate sports in
operation on the campus.
Then came the announcement
that the rifle and fencing squads
were to be dropped. Now the
College has , eliminated cross
country, swimming, ice hockey,
gymnastics, tennis, and golf.
What's next, football, basket
ball, baseball, soccer, boxirig,
wrestling, track, or lacrosse?
"Yes, eight down and eight to
go!"
Penn Stale In Review
"Lighthorsa" Harry Wilson. now
a full colonel in the Air Corps,
never missed a scrinunage in four
years
.of football at Penn• State.
... Wall Stenger. V-12 tennis star,
lost only two of 14 matches while
playing .for
.the Nittany Lions.
. . . Frankie Serago, Penn State's
127-pound Eastern Intercollegiate
boxing champion, has entered the
Merchant Marine. . . . **Mother"
Dunn, giant .center of the 1944-05:
06 football- seasons and • Penn
State's first all-American, is now
a doctor in Hawaii. . Swim
Sept. 13, 1957
MATED BASEBALL CHAMPIONSHIP—
seems theNCAA 'likes to schedule its College World Series
Omaha, Neb.'. after the regular college season ends. And it just
happens that: Our'regular college schedule ends on-the last week
cf. strns,.when The Daily Collegian' terminates its publication for
!tit year:- •
Since, therefore, we were, not able to cover either •the Eastern
r.e.fict playoffs. t Ebetts Field, Brooklyn, or 'the .Wcirld Series in
we,will 'report one player's account' of tliose,championihip
om-.11. - The athlete doing the. speaking is' 6'4", 210-pound junior
71"*Aticr, , Cal Emery, whom we just , a happened" to. overhear recount
s.; th a.'
e tale to group of freshmen:
.- .
'We hid an. undefeated season last year, we got' through 19
me- , unscathed, but WE -WERE I.A.TCItY..You see,' we had what
7 , -,.. MIGHT • call. a.two-man pitching staff. • • ..
. ..,
`Well; anyway,. little Eddie Drapcho and I—pitched all' the
gynr:. And one week we had three away' games with Colgate '(a
geg?, - .. came 'on
. Friday) and a doubleheader with Syracuse (on a
54.17rday),,8ut they were rained out. .. ,
'I guess I was:real lucky in one of the 'midseason games again:st
T.'rry. They laced me' all over the place
,and before you knew it,
1-1 , 7.- had a 4-2 lead and reliable Eddie comes in and bails me out
'''::: :..e sixth). J • ' - .
- Well. WE WERE LUCKY and got a couple of hits and tied up
bal game for Eddie in our half of the last inning. But Navy
!ire back and,•before You * know it, they had the bases loaded on
.... • '
and nobody out. .'
'Eddie drew back. here and WE GOT LUCKY, again. The next
r:7 hits one ddtV-n to' Steve Baidy at third and we got the guy at
imrt. The next batter smashes one-toward short and Guy Tirabassi
.r.), - (fs' a great play and throws the second guy otit at home. All
t'!.r time the coach (veteran Joe Bedenk), is just about given up and
ntiF to head for the locker room.
• "Well, Eddie, the, great dutch pitcher that he is, decides to do .
;ob and strikes out the third guy, leaving •the' bases loaded in
v.ri.:ien death. We scbred four runs in extra innings. WE WERE
f.:":CKY again, 'cause Navy came back for one in their half •bf
.::? inning. but we won, 8-5. Eddie really bailed me out, • •:
v.liund up the season undefeated and went up to 'Brooklyn
!:t. the District 2 playoffs.
'Eddie got the assignment to pitch the first game. It was Against
If.r.battan in sudden death, and those guys were rated high. I
Ir...:!dn't say they were cocky, just real confident.
"Before you knew it, they scoled a run on us in the first
and that's the way tile game went until the last inning.
Fzn Rainey . (who played leftfield and was the leading hitter on the
incr. batting .350) gets a single and ,although it was a • bunting
sr,zation, Joe lets me hit away. (At the time, Emery was playing
fest base and was the second leading hitter on the squad at .342).
'The pitcher gets two fast strikes over - on me, and I just couldn't
;at the team down and strike out,' so I just wanted to meet the next
and it lands out on Bedford Avenue and we won, 2-1. I guess
tt was my most exciting moment in baseball. Me, hittin' a home
r to wida . playoff game in the last inning in Ebbets Field yet.
''The next day I was on the mound aghinst .St. Johns and we
rm the playoffs, 5-0; And then on to Omaha.
gtt back there. .• •
'There was this one "whoppee boy," old "horrah" alumni type.
r 4 he said that if we win our:first two :games, he's going to give
UN a free meal.
`Eddie knocked off Florida State, 7-0, for the first one and
En"!ri got a 4-1 win against Texas. But before the guy could arrange
1t the meal, we had to play California and Notre Damp.
"We had to go with (sophomore) Ron Reise, who's got good
but only 2 innings of experience all season. California gets. a
:11:2!e of runs off him real fast, but it didn't matter cause their boy
out,l-0. _
'hen we had to play Notre Dame the day we got the free meal
!-xn this guy. Eddie got the pitching nod.' He's a little guy, and
only two days rest, he was just pitching on guts and gives up
or seven walks and they shell
. him for 14 or 15 hits (actually 12)
nt Ire won the sloppiest game we ever played, 5-4. ' '
"Old 'hoorah'• gives us that meal and he looks like the saddest
71rr in the world. and I thought it was because he was handing out
:at dough.• Later I found out vrhy he was really sad—he was a grad
.`"zi Notre*Dame!
star Leigh Woehling is the new.all
college champion in cattle judg
ing.. Bob Higgins has been head
football coach at Penn State long
er than any of his nine predeces
sors: .1-le, . assumed scmmand iu
1930.. . .
Gerry_ Carle, third baseman on
the baseball team this spring-and
blocking_ hack on the Northwest
ern football team last fall, has
been shipped to Parris Island for
his boot training. . . . Earle . Ed
wards. - assistant football coach,
played under . three, different
coaches as .an undergraduate at
Penn -State.:. . . Ten. years .ago
this summer Bill Jaffroy's soccer
squad visit e d Scotland.- for
a series of eight games with Scot
tish elevens . . . Baseball Coach
Jo* Bodcalc. formerly coached the
diamond. sport at . Bice Institute
and the. University of Florida....
Bill Bierman. son of Li. Col. Box.
nie Bierman. former Minnesota
football ocach, is a Marine trainee
at the College. . . . Varsity wres.
tiers Bob Lowrie and Charley. Dip.
ner were last through graduation
in June. 1
Glenn Smith, a wrestling candi
date last winter, captured the
right fielder's position in this first
try at college baseball this sum
mer.... Jim Robinson, freshman
negro flash from Altoona, wcn the
PIAA 200-yard low hurdles cham
pionship this year in 23.2 seconds.
. . . Mike Garbinski; first Penn
State football player to enter the
armed forces in 1941, is now•sta
tioned in Nebraska after being
two years overseas.
As a
MATT-er-aiNFACT
By . MATT MATHEWS
Assistant Sports Editor
45 Students Turn Out
For Lion Soccer Team
Forty - five navy - marinee
trainees and civilians turned
out for the soccer squad's first
practice this week, Coach Bill
Jeffrey announced yesterday.
The only returning veteran
on the team .is Jim Atherton.
Others who saw action last
year and came out .to practice
are Charlie Apple.man, Joel
Crouch, Lew Gross, and Bud
Long.
. Helping Coach Jeffrey with
the squad is Remzt Gurcay, the
Turkish regular from last year
who graduated in June.
Scrimmages will be• held
three times a week for the
next couple weeks on the golf
course field. Positions are still
open to all students interested
in trying out for the team. •
Talent Good,
Says Higgins
Freshman football talent was
termed "very promising" today
by Coach Bob Higgins as tke
Penn State grid veteran inaug
urated daily informal drills foi•
civilian and Navy V-12 candi
dates not otherwise engaged in
athletic' competition:
Among the ex-schoolboy stars
who reported the first week were
Johnny Chuckran, star back of
Lonsford High School's 1943 State
championship team; Harry Muckle
of Charleroi, an' outstanding back
in the Pittsburgh district; and
Howard Casket' of Allegheny
High School.
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