Penn State at Navy

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, October 20, 1943, page 17

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  7erps in Last Home Grid Tilt Penn State, With Six Former Co|oniaIs, Visits Saturday This vicinity’s final collegiate football game of the season will be presented Saturday at College Park, where Maryland and Penn State will collide in a game featuring six former George Washington Univer- Sity gridders as Nittany Lions. 1t will mark Marylands final home game of the campaign, the Old Liners travelling to play their last four engagements. Navy, which plays Georgia Tech at Baltimore on Saturday night, thereafter will shift to more distant fields. meeting Notre Dame at Cleveland, Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, Columbia at New York and Army at West Point. Old Liners Homecoming Game. The Maryland-Penn State tiff, the Old Liners homecoming game. will precede Maryland visits to Green vile. S. c., to meet Army Air Base; to Charlottesville, Va, to face Virginla; to Port Deposit, Md, to battle cambridge Navy, and to Roanoke Va, to tangle with V. M. I. Four former Colonial linemen, Dan Ross, Ted Hapanowicz. John Misiewicz and Ed Czekaj, and two former G. W. backs. Jim Graham and Paul Weber, are on the Penn State squad. Ross, who was Rosa at G. w: Hapanovice, Czekaj and Graham have been enjoying steady service with the Lions. Penn State, a 14–⁠6 victim of Navy’s sturdy team last week, appears to pack too much weight and experience for Maryland, but so did Wake Forest. The Deacons blasted N. G. State, 54–⁠6, but Maryland scored on the last play of the game to defeat Wake Forest, 1877. Invaders at Full Strength. The Nittany Lions will be at full strength for Maryland and Line Coach Joe Bedenk, who secuted the Maryland-West Virginia game, believes Penn State will require all the strength it can muster. His report to Bob Higgins. Penn State head coach. said Maryland is a better team than its GO loss to West Virginia would indicate and that he particularly was impressed by Joe Makar and Dick Tushak. Higgins was pleased with his teams showing against Navy, but now is willing to settle for fewer mora victories and more actual triumphS. Penn State thus far has lost to Navy and Nor,h Carolina, the latter by 1910; defeated Buck nell, 14–⁠0, and fought a sccreless tie with Colgate. Maryland never has registered a victory over Penn state. losing four previous games. Penn State won the last game, 1910. in 1859, but the best tilt was in 1887. when the Nittany Lions won in TIE last minute, 2l-l4

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  Imperial Valley press, California, October 22, 1943, page 4

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  Navy’s Test Comes NEW YORK, Oct. 81. tUP)- Navy, current question mark of the gridiron, plays its tip-off game against Georgia Teen under the Arc lights 1T Baltimore’s Munich pal stadium Saturday night. This is one of the most significant contests of the season. 1t should reveal navy’s comparative big-time strength and indicate how the heavily manned middies will fare later against Notre Dame, Pennsylvania and Army. Capt. Billick Whelchels navy squad is a question mark because of its contrasting performances thus far The Annapolis machine, five deep at every position and apparently possessed of great air and land power, looked like a strong candidate for the mythical national title in its first two tests. 1t sunk North Carolina Naval 31–⁠0; and then torpedoeN apparently strong cornell, 42–⁠7. WEAKNESSES NOTED But it was a different story in the next two contests. The sailors won by single point over Duke, 14–⁠13, by virtue of Bob Gantt’s missed kick after Dukes second touchdown in the closing minutes of play. Last Saturday, navy had great difficulty in coming up with 14–⁠6 win over Penn State, which already had been beaten, 1870, by north Carolina and held to a score less tie by Colgate. Meanwhile Bill AleXander’s engineers from Georgia Tech have suffered only one blot against their record; but it is a big one. They were crushed 55 to 13 by Notre Dame. Despite this unprecedented trouncing by the Irish, Georgia Tech still must be regarded as a menace, if the middies let down. Although comparative scores are not necessarily important, the middies should remember that Georgia Tech beat North Carolina, 20–⁠7; whereas Duke won only AT over North Carolina. RAIN SLOWS NAVY Last Saturday, in the rain at Annapolis, navy was not impress Sive against Penn State. The Mid dies registered a touchdown and conversion in the first period; but then they became SO ineffective Of fensively that in the other three periods navy made only six first downs and got into Penn State ter ritory only three times, including Bill Barron’s 43-yard touchdown run in the last session. They were playing against a team on which several men received no rest.

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  Detroit evening times, Detroit, Mich, October 17, 1943, page 1

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  Navy Off Form, fkes 14–⁠6 Win ANNAPOLIS. oct Is up JIttery Navy far of the form that has made it one Of the ma tons football powers. today called on all the luck AZ its command 70 eke out = IA 10 s victory over Penn State. Rain turned the contest into a battle of fumblcS. Mighty Navy was not m Chty today. a fourth period touchdown finally ASSURED the indicated Middies their fourth straight triumph. Navy actually was forced 70 cash in on two breaks – partly blocked punts-to nail down VIC tory.

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Penn State leads 19–⁠17–⁠1 in 37 meetings, counting the 18 since this game.