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Lion Winter Sports Teams
Await Intensive Campaigns
Utilizing every available inch of Penn State’s indoor athletic plant, Rec
Hall. Nittany Lion winter sports teams are preparing for action that will
waged on a broad front from early January until the middle of March.
Cynosure of the eyes of all Lion sports followers is John Lawther, new
basketball coach, who is now in the process of rebuilding a Lion five with
which he hopes to emulate the success enjoyed hy his cage teams at Westmin
ster, where he formerly coached. Outlook for the boxing •season is the bright
est in years with a formidable array of talent in nearly every class. What
Coach Charlie Speidel lacks in quality of wrestling material is made
up of quantity. With only five lettermen returning to holster a mat team
which lost three intercollegiate cham-'
pions by graduation, Speidcl is eager
ly eyeing the’ unusually large num
ber of candidates for talent,
Basketball
Awaiting reinforcement from the
varsity football and soccer ranks, 1
Coach John Lawther sent a squad of
about thirty basketeers through the
preliminary practice sessions last
week. The lettermen from the fall
sports teams were allowed a two
weeks’ rest before starting another
strenuous training period.
Leading the late-comers to the
court is Frank Smith, holder of seven
varsity letters gained in three dif
ferent sports. Smith and Mike Kor
nick, co-captains of this year’s team,
were two of the most consistent play
ers last season.
Sol Miehoff, varsity soccer forward,
is another of last year’s lettermen to
return. He was high scorer for the
Lion quintet last year. Harry Harri
son, three-sport star and guard from
last year’s freshman cagers, will he
among the candidates for berths, as
will Sam “Davies, plebe captain of
last season. Other gridmen turning
to the indoor sport are Joe Adessa,
Alf Lang, Sever Toretti, Windy
Wear, ans Ott Wuenschel.
About thirty-five candidates for
the freshman squad remain from the
large turnout that answered the first
call. After eliminating a number of
first-year men several weeks ago,
Coach Lawther, desiring that every
one should have a fair chance, issued
u second call.
The freshman squad, as well as the
varsity, has been supplemented with
some players from the gridiron.
Among the group, many of whom are
high school stars, are Milan Buchan,
who played halfback, and Sam De-
Franco, quarterback.
Boxing
“It appears propitious.”
Thus docs the good Doctor, .Leo
Houck, predict the coming season for
his boxing team. Pointing out that
the performance of the-Lion fighters
last season does not guarantee suc
cess for the coming campaign, Coach
Houck nevertheless admits that 1937
looks promising.
But no amount of optimism or pes
simism by the Doctor, who usually is
non-ccmmital about his team’s chan
ces, could alter the prevailing condi-
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tions. Probably at ‘no other time in
Penn State boxing history has there
been more formidable material on
hand.
Covered in every weight, although
the 115-pound class may present a
problem, the array of veterans and
sophomores is indeed a murderers’
row. The presence of three Eastern
intercollegiate champions, one of
whom holds the National crown as
well, plus a former champion and
four especially talented newcomers to
varsity circles, leaves the Nittany
boxing public anxiously awaiting the
1937 season.
Graduation of Captain Russ Cris
well, Eastern title holder in the 115-
pound weight, and the absence from
the squad of Bobby Donato, gives
Coach Houck his major problem in
the lowest division. A 1 Tapman and
Alex Sopshak, two sophomores, and
•Bobby Shaft, a junior, are training
hard in an effort to make the 115-
pound weight. All three are more
than husky and it remains to. be seen
whether or not they will be able to
come down.
Frank Goodman, Eastern and Na
tional intercollegiate 135-pound cham
pion, is on hand again for his third
season. Sammy Donato, Eastern
winner and runnerup to the National
crown, will fight at 145. Bill Soose,
most likely looking sophomore fisti
cuffer in many years, will amply take
care of the 155-pound class. Captain
Lou Ritzie, champion at*lss two years'
ago and runner-up last season, will
probably enter the 165-pound weight
this season.
The 17'5 and heavyweight divisions
will ho more than strong with Nestor
Kociubinsky, sophomore ace, and Izzy
Richter, Eastern heavyweight cham
pion, ready to go.
Wrestling
Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling
Champions—the Nittany Lion grap
pl'ers—face a tough schedule of seven
dual meets, four of which will take
place on the home mats. : .
Conch Charlie Speidel has five let
termen returning as a nucleus to
build" his team. TheywilU strengthen
considerably the upper : weights, as
they include Captain Joe O’Dowd,
heavyweight; Ross Shaffer, 175; Joe
Krupa, 165; John Calvin, 155; and
Ray Brooks, 125.
The three remaining weights will
he seriously contested, *with Zazzi
having experience at 145. Herr and
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Announcing —
Introducing Collegian writers
who will handle winter sports .as
signment's;
Woodrow Bierly, who covered
freshman baseball and intramurals
last spring and cross-country this
fall, will recount the activities of
the basketball team. -
Jerry Weinstein will follow the
boxing team during its 1937 cam
paign after handling baseball and
soccer assignments.
Frank Syzmczak will handle the
wrestling assignment, having cov
ered lacrosse, football, and intra
mural sports previously.
Chuck Wheeler will cover winter
intramural sports, having previous
ly written golf and football.
MacMullan going strong at 135; and
the Craighead twins, John and Frank,
coming up from the ranks of last
year’s freshman team at 118.
Forty sophomores and twenty jun
iors and seniors began practice last
week. Limbering exercises and fun
damental movements were taken up,
with Speidel promising intensive con
centration up to the Christmas vaca
tion.
Eliminations will.take place after
vacation ends. The inter-class meet
is scheduled for January 8. Mean
while, the team will have to be whip
ped into top-notch form to meet the
Princeton team January 16. Prince
ton and Lehigh were strong conten
ders for the wrestling crown last sea
son.
The schedule includes Navy at An
napolis on January 23; Pittsburgh,
Syracuse, and Lehigh arc listed here
for the next three week-ends; apd
Cornell at Ithaca, N. Y., on March 6.
The Lions will defend their champion
ship in the intercollegiate tournament
scheduled at Bethlehem on March 12,
13.
Swimming
By a decision of the Athletic Asso
ciation, swimming was officially plac
ed on a level with the other freshman
sports. The yearlings who compete
in the Mcrcersburg meet on Febru
ary 6 will be eligible for numerals.
In a freshman-varsity meet won
by the latter, Ken Bunk was the star.
He won both the 100 and 150 free
style events. In .the century sprint,
a very close race, he beat Charlie
Welsh, another sophomore, in the
fast time of 57.4 seconds.
Guy McLaughlin, a freshman, won
the fancy diving contest, and Art
Lehman" was the victor in the 50-yard
free-style.
Other event winners were Dick
Geiger in the back stroke and Gil
Burleigh in the Breast stroke. In the
former, 6eiger nosed out Captain Jim
Camming. The varsity relay team
proved too strong for the freshmen
in the final event.
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