Fage Four
BEHREND HOSTS TOURNAMENT
Behrend Soccermen
Drop Home Opener
Coach Rogert Sweeting
Behrend's Soccer team fell at
the hands of Fredonia University,
2-1, Wednesday afternoon.
It was Fredonia's Markoh who
kicked the deciding point with
only five minutes in the game re
maining to break a 1-1 deadlock.
After a scoreless first quarter,
Behrend broke the ice when Tom
Loesch scored on a penalty kick.
This effort was to no avail, how
ever, as Fredonia scored on a
penalty kick moments later.
The first half ended in a
. 1-1
stalemate. When the game con
tinued, it appeared that Behrend
would score, but John Bowman
missed a couple good opportu-
nities
In the fourth quarter, freshman
Bob Taylor displayed very good
ball control, as he repeatedly sped
by defenders. Another freshman,
goalie Dan Chase, put a damper
on many of Fredonia's scoring
thrusts.
It was still anybody's game with
five minutes to play, but the tired
Fredonia team scored and desper
ately hung on for a 2-1 victory.
Students are reminded of the
next home game, which is on Oc
tober 21, at 4:00. Behrend will
take on Erie County, N.Y., Tech.
It should be an exciting game
and none of you should miss it.
Cheerleaders
Start Jumping
Any girl limping around Behr
end Campus this week is prob
ably a candidate for cheerleader.
The girls started practicing on
Monday, October 5, in Erie Hall.
They have since learned four
cheers—DYNAMO, CUBS, WE'RE
FROM BEHREND, and VIC
TORY. Tryouts will be held on
Monday, October 19. Mr. Sweet
ing is in charge and Lynn Kos
talnick has taught the cheers.
Dr. Manning recently returned
from a world tour on which he
made visits to such corners of the
world as Australia, Africa and
Tahiti. While visiting these places
Dr. Manning collected a good
deal of foreign currency. But try
as he would, our campus coin
collecter, Mr. Baker couldn't ob
tain any of this treasure.
'VIYE NITTANY CUls
Six Teams Corn pete
One of the mose exciting spec
tator events on the school agenda
for this year is rapidly approach
ing. The long awaited moment
will arrive on the 23 and 24 of
October when the Intercollegiate
Commonwealth Campus tourna
ment will unfold. This year Behr
end Campus will be host to the
six incoming teams.
The tournament consists of
three different activities: chess,
bowling, and table tennis. Already
here on campus a process of elim
ination is taking place in prepar
ation for the tournament. Since
each team can keep only three
chess players, four table tennis
players, and five bowlers, the best
qualified players will be chosen
to represent us. In order to deter
mine who these players will be,
some system must be set up. In
chess, a "round robin" elimination
match is set up with the remain
ing three players representing the
team. Mr. Gordon L. Baker, who
is in charge of the chess activi
ties, hopes to come up with a win
ning combination. The nucleus of
the chess team will be captain,
Larry Petroff, a holdover from
last year's team.
In table tennis, approximately
eighteen players vie for four po
sitions on the team by a single
elimination method. Since this
elimination has already begun, it
will soon be known who will rep
resent Behrend in the table tennis
phase of the tournament.
As to bowling, it is anybody's
guess who will carry the Behrend
prestige into the action. Twenty
five bowlers are competing for
five positions on the team. Each
candidate must bowl five games
in the presence of the bowling
manager, Bill Harding, or one of
his assistants. The five bowlers
who have compiled the highest
scores will then compose our bowl
ing team. Mr. Roger E. Sweeting,
the boys' physical education in
structor and coach of the soccer,
basketball, and baseball teams,
will supervise the table tennis and
bowling proceedings.
Besides Behrend, the tourna
ment will feature five teams from
thewestern part of the state. The
other teams are: Altoona, Dußois,
New Kensington, Mont Alto, and
McKeesport.
Since six teams will be compet
ing, some sort of system must
October 20, 1964
again be set up in order to deter
mine the winning team in each
sport. Briefly, the winning team
in the table tennis match will be
the team whose members win the
largest number of games. Each
win is awarded one point, thus
the team with the largest number
of wins will also have the largest
total points. In bowling, a point
system is also employed whereby
a team receives points for indi
vidual and team performances.
Finally, in chess, an intricate sys
tem is set up whereby the top
players on each team compete
against the top players from the
other teams and the team that
captures the most victories will
also collect the most points. In
each case, naturally the team with
the largest number of compiled
points will be declared the winner.
The winning teams are then clas
sified separately into the category
in which they were superior—
bowling, table tennis, or chess.
Thus there can be as many as
three different campuses coming
away with a victory or there may
be only one which can garner vic
tories in each of the events.
What are these teams compet
ing for? Why is there such keen
competition between the teams?
What will the winner's reward be?
The first two questions can be
answered in one sentence. They
are competing for prestige. In
other words, the campus that is
victorious will gain a great
amount of respect from the other
campuses, and the keen competi
tion is due to the fact that each
campus would like nothing better
than o gain this prestige. The re
ward is a trophy that is presented
to the winning team in each
event. For the last three years,
Behrend has held the trophy for
chess and intends to keep it. With
a little more effort, it can capture
the bowling and table tennis tro
phies. Behrend could truly be
proud of its campus with three
handsome trophies to its credit.
Last year, the faculty and their
families reserved a recreational
night every week. Volleyball,
bowling, table tennis, badminton,
and many other sports were en
joyed by all who participated. If
there are enough faculty mem
bers interested in this program
this year, they should contact Mr.
Sweeting as soon as possible.