New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03
Penn State Has
!. lOOLetter Men
In War Service
Football Leads Honor Roll
With 81 Men; Track Con-
tributes Twenty-one

STATE COLLEGE. Penn, Feb. p
Pennsylvania State has prepared sta
tistics showing that athletes at the in
stitution have been prompt to respond
to the call to arms. Exactly 100 wear
ers Of the varsity as" have enlisted,
according to records in the graduate
managers office.
Football leads the honor roll. with
thirty-one men. Track has given 81,
basketball 9. baseball 9, wrestling s,
lacrosse I, and tennis, soccer and box
ing men make up the remainder. These
figures do not include the large number
Of athletes, not letter men, who have
also enlisted.
The men and the services which they
have Joined are:
Football-Captain L. S. G. Conover,
10, ordnance department; Robert A.
Higgins, '1s, lieutenant, cavalry. Camp
Lee, Va; B. c. Jones, '1s, aviation sec
ton, France; J. A. ODonnell, 'l9,
ambulance corps, Allentown, Penn; b.
{. Cubbage, ambulance corps, Allen
town, Penn; A. J. Krushank, '19, sec
ond lieutenant, infantry; S. W. Ewing.
~, signal corps training camp,
Texas; Edward Eye, 10, first sergeant,
infantry, Camp Lee, Va; W. c. Thomas,
10, aviation section, France; A. II.
Lindquist, 10, ordnance department;
Clarence Beck, 10, ambulance corps,
A1lentOvr Penn uo;Stor p,;c<o- no
base hospital unit, France; W. H.
Hess, ordnance department; W. f.
Wilson, 10, first lieutenant. infantry;
Floyd Parrish, 10, first lieutenant, field
artillery; Edward Smozinsky, ambu-
lance corps, France: l.. II. Harris. 30.
ambulance corps, France; Gene Och
senreiter, go, aviation section; G.. X.
Sutton, sergeant. Railway Engineers,
France; F. T. Yeager. 1st Pennsylvania
Cavalry, Camp Hancock, Ca P. W.
Griffiths. United States navy; A. W
Pond, 10, aviation section. Dayton.
Ohio; NJ. l.. Shields, '1e. ordnance de-
partment, Rock Island. Ill.,; R. II.
Rauch. 20, ordnance department.; K.
S. Clarke, 10, ordnance department;
Walter Cross, 10, ordnance depart
ment; Lee Hills, 10, ordnance depart
ment; A. G. McKelvey. 30, ordnance
department; Paul Hoffman. II, avia-
ton section; J. c. Herr, II. ambulance
corps, Allentown, PENN A. B. Under
Hill, II, base hospital unit.
Track-Jarnss Shea, captain 1917
team, ordnance department.; Harold
Barron, 10. captain-elect 1918 team,
ordnance department.; Russell Foster,
10, ordnance Department.; D. G. Enoch,
20, first lieutenant, infantry; Joseph
H. Wilson, 10, first lieutenant, in
fantry; E. A. Dandy, 1s, captain. field
artillery, Camp Dix, New Jersey; w. J.
Marling, 20, aviation section; Ralph
Lawrence l.. Holland, 20, ordnance de-
partment; II. V. Cotton, II. ordnance
department; J. W. Hardesty, II, second
lieutenant, infantry; I. l.. Entwistle,
'16, U. S. N, submarine duty; d. NJ.
Brown. '16, ensign, L. S. N; E. P.
Hamitt, ZIG, first lieutenant. cavalry;
Ralph +. Primer, II, sergeant, Ambu-
lance Corps; G. S. Denothorne. rs, first
lieutenant, engineers; Il. NJ. Clark. 10,
second lieutenant, field artillery; H. NJ. 4
Smith, '16, first lieutenant, infantry; 4
NJ. c. Jester. Is, ambulance corps, Al y
lentown. Penn; Lawrence Shields. 'la,
ordnance department.; Harold Foster.
IA, second lieutenant. field artillery.
Basketball-J. S. Wagner, 'l8, second
lieutenant, quartermaster's corps; Fl.
w. Adams, 10, ambulance corps, Al
lentown, Penn; L. K. Metzger, IA, first
lieutenant, infantry; F. II. Blythe. ~,
officers training camp; W. B. Walton,
'16, officers training camp; J. +: Park.
Spy" Blythe, ~, branch of service
unknown; B. NJ. Hermann. ~. varsity
basketball coach, first lieutenant. in
fantry, Chickamauga Park, Tenn; H.
F. Shore, 10, navy coast patrol.
Baseball-A. C. Runnette. 10, second
lieutenant, field artillery. France; Don
Blyth, II, aviation section; J. N. De
voc, aviation section, France; ]. ko-
minarsky, 'l6, officers training camp;
R. p. Wetherald. '16, second lieutenant,
field artillery; S. W. Chubb. ~. Ma
tonal Army; f. N. Leibacher, rs, Ma
tional Army; NJ. P. Scollins, II. Ma
tonal Army; George E. Hesselbacher.
'16, National Army, Camp Meade; +.
X. Ross, '0S, captain. cavalry.
Wrestling Jack Dale, II. second
lieutenant, infantry; ". S. Nollmer. '1s.
second lieutenant, cavalry; r. F. Nelan.
IS. National Army; Levi Lamb, rs.
second lieutenant, infantry; France;
R. Foulkrod. IA. second lieutenant. En-
gineer Corps; X. B. Sloppy. IL. Engi-
neer Corps; W. N. Neid ig. II, first
lieutenant. aviation sections; {. {.
Knight, ~. officers training camp.
Tennis-R F. Love. 10. second lieu
tenant, infantry; T. NJ. Reed, jr., Am
bulance Corps, Allentown, Penn.
Lacrosse. B. Cuno. 'l6, officers
training camp: David +. narrower, 13,
French ambulance service: A. n Men
ball ~ Naval Reserves. r. r RoWes
'16. Naval Reserves; W s. Farley. 'l6.
infantry; J. s. Lloyd, '1s. second lieu
tenant, coast artillery; Richard Green
land, '1s, first lieutenant, Engineer
Corps.
Soccer-W. S. vol'mer. 10. second
lieutenant, cavalry; S. o. Nicholson,
II. National Army.
Boxing c. f Berger. rs. cavalry.
r. gular Army; W. c. Rock. 'l6. second
lieutenant. Engineer Corps.