4

THE SLIPPERY ROCKET

Published the second and fourth Fridays
of each school month by the students of the
State Normal School, Slippery Rock, Pa.





STAFF

Editor-in-Chief
SARA ADAMS

Associate Editors
HELEN MALONEY MARY GRIFFITH

GEORGE DEZORYAK LEONA O’SHEA

Honorary Faculty Alumni Editor
CLAY C. RUFF

Business Manager
CECIL R. HOCKENBERRY



Subscription Price - - - §$1.00 a year



Entered as second-class matter, December
27, 1918, at the post office at Slippery Rock,
Pa. under the Act of March i, 1879.



THE VALUE OF A GOOD
BEGINNING



Getting ahead of the other fellow
is very hard to accomplish if you
don’t take the offensive. A 1unner
will tell you that the outcome of a
race often depends on getting a good
start and then holding your head.
Doctors, ministers, educators, and
business men all agree on this point.

The end of this third week of
school is a very good time to look
back and see how well we h-ve start-
ed our school year. Are we holding
our lead? In work or play, studies or
extra curricular activities we keep
our lead by steadily progressing, dog-
gedly pushing on until we reach the
goal we set out to attain.

We hope that you will term ourv
first “Rocket” a good start. It is
not a high school annual, nor yet a
college monthly. It's just a little
paper that we try to make “newsey”
and interesting.

In some activities we don’t seem to
be making as successful a beginning
as we ought. The call for orchestra
material brought little response and
of course almost every one chose easy
electives,

Now if it should happen that any of
us decides that his start has been
poor, or that he is not holding his ad-
vantage—let’s get going again with
more order than before.

Let's get behind every student a--
tivity and boom it sky-high—Ilet’s g-t
that good start and hold to one lead.

THE SLIPPERY ROCKET
ATHLETIC NOTES

The football camp opened one week
before school resumed. Coach
Thompson reported that 34 men
came out for training, of which 20
were last year men. Prospects are
very bright for the coming season as
there are many new candidates that
look promising for a place on the
varsity.

This year’s team has a stronger
line than last year’s and an excep-
tionally clever backfield, consisting of
Capt. Berkman, Sundae, Rowan, and
Williams.

Coach Thompson and assistant
coach Cottrell trained the boys very
hard and put them in shape for the
first game of the season with Mt.
Union College.

The promising new men for the
backfield positions are Williams, of
Bellefonte Academy ; Sailor of Belle-
fonte Academy; Traynor, of Clair-
ton; Kruger of Union High School;
Roth, of McKees Rocks. For the
line are James, of Mt. Vernon, Ohio;
Leydig, of McKees Rocks; Harlan, of
Grove City; Durham, of Erie Central
High School; Pulling, of Edinboro,
and last year men are Whitehill, Pun-
Jack, Schade, Prasse, Taylor, Rals-
ton, Giraham, Metzger and Sager.
Backfield men from last year are
Berkman, Sundae, McKee and Rowan.

According to the Alliance Review
and Leader, Slippery Rock Normal
School had the better team when
they played Mt. Union. The team
was in perfect physical condition and
in mid-season form so far as team
play went.



Summary :
Mt. Union—O Slippery Rock—25
McElroy L. E Whitehill
Wasson LT James
Zurbrugg L. G Ralston
Burkle C. Sager
Phillips R. G. Taylor
Ball 2T Harlan
Everett R. E PunJack
Brin G. Berkman
Fleming L. H. Sundae
L. Armstrong R. H. William
Wilcoxen F. Rowan
B s e

Touchdowns—PunJack 2, Williams,
Sundac.
Goals after touchdowns—Sundae 1.

TECH GAME



After what looked like a gloomy
day S. R. spurted and came out vic-
torious in an exciting game at the
Tech Bowl Saturday. The Plebes,
after getting severai breaks through
fumbling on the S. R. gide succeeded
in pushing the ball over the goal line.
That the fighting spirit had been
aroused was shown by the blocking
of the try for the point after the
touch down. The quarter ended 6-0.
Early in the second quarter two for-
ward passes from Berkman netted 60
yvards and a touch lower, Williams
carrying it over. Sundae failed in the
try for point after touch down.

The half ended 6-6. In the third
quarter, by a series of line plunges
and end runs, the ball was worked to
the 3yd. line and Rowan took it over
with out being tackled, thus showing
the fine work the line was doing .The
line was the bright star in the glor-
ious victory. The playing of Prasse,
Sager, and Whitehill was brilliant.
Sundae succeeded in the try for a
point after touch dowa. Berkman’s
passes were almost perfect, while
Williams tore through Tech almost
at will. :



Before hockey practice was started
each class group met and selected a
captain, whose duty it became to see
that there were enough members of
that group present each evening at
practice to make a team. These cap-
taing are: Helen Maloney, Senior and
Junior Health Education group, Hel-
en Upton, Freshmen Health Educa-
tion class; Evaleen Laughlin, Senior
class ; Leonora Leopardo, Junior class,
Frances Smith was chosen by the let-
ter girls as varsity captain.

For the first few days, practice wa;
merely learning to hit and stop the
ball, to dribble, to handle sticks cor-
rectly, and other fundamentals. No
playing was attempted the first week
on account of sore muscles and limit-
ed endurance.

During the second week, however,
serimmage was begun, and Miss
otern, the coach, and ‘Smitty”’, the
captain, began to look for varsity
material, as graduation left only five
members of last year’s varsity.