State College News 1945-11-16

Well, here is our gripe for the day, so we might as well get It over with . . . why do all the teams play their games on Thursday afternoon at 4 or 4:30. Is there some fatal fascination for that day and the hour that no one can resist, or is it that at that time no one can see the ball so the team that pays the referee the most money will automatically win the game. There must be one day in the week besides Thursday at that late hour when all the members of the teams can manage to get together. Since it gets dark so much earlier, the games either have to be postponed or called because of dark ness. If the play-offs could start at 3:30 there would be enough time to finish the game and be able to go home without the aid of headlights. We note that a "Back to Camp Johnston" movement has been started. The gals around here are finally realizing the potentialities of that place. Just think—no hours, few rules and everybody can do almost anything they want to do. 'Round here the thing to do now is—not read the book "How To Win Friends And Influence People" but rather take them to Camp Johnston on a week-end and really go to town. Army Villanova And then too we had some representatives at the Army-Villanova game last week who say, even though Army won 54-0, it was worth the trip just to see Army's formation. We understand they also had a slight bit of trouble with their car . . . We thought the Notre DameNavy game last week slightly disappointing as we wanted to see Notre Dame beat Navy not merely tie them. A slight amount of disagreement was shown here, however, as we sat listening to the game with several avid fans who were all out for Navy. We are going to listen to the Army-Notre Dame game behind locked doors and will positively refuse to speak about the matter if Notre Dame loses. We do note however, that Army is the favored team. Any way this is taken, it is agreed that this game will be something for the books. Oh to be one of the 70,000 fans expected to witness this game with "keen interest". Yankee Stadium—here wo come!