“i;es -: av..Jn7iii=~' 31. IR3S CAGERS FACE Ti Drab 44-24 Triumph Over Susquehanna Angers Lions By JOHN A. TRO.ANOVITCH Their determination intensified by Saturday’s surprising letdown, Penn State’s champion-gunning eourtmen move into the stamping grounds of the rampaging Carnegie Tech Tartans for their opening jEastern Conference tussle tonight. The Tartans edged West Virginia’s Mountaineers, 33*29, in the league opener Saturday, night. ' With strong arrays moulded on all fronts, another dizzy race for Con* fcrenee laurels is being predicted free-' ly, withJTemple’s giant-killing giants given the uppermost chance of smash ing the “Pittsburgh' Dynasty” that has ruled the loop since its inception in 1031 Catapulted From Cellar ■ 'With .the exception of 1936, when Carnegie. Tech captured the -cham .pionship, Pitt's golden-plated Pan-, thers have ruled supreme. They re gained the title last year by trim ming Temple in a special play-off game. Meanwhile, the Lions, in their '.first season under genial John Law- TASTY SEAFOOD GIVES NEW LIFE TO A TIRED MENU . Choose from Blue Fish - Forty-Fathom Haddock. ! Spanish Mackerel Halibut Steak Dressed Trout , . Shrimp ■ ' Salmon Steak . Crab Meat Scallops ■ Fresh Oysters COOK’S MARKET Dial 791 We Deliver ' > • ~ . ther, pirouetted from the cellar to within a single game of a tie for first place. 1 Although "State's high-riding quin tet, which had rehounded from an Akron defeat to conquer. Kent State, Western Reserve, and Penn’s Eastern Intercollegiate champions, shot like the R. 0. T. C. boys at musketry, hopes for a successful campaign were buoyed Saturday by the - amazing per formance, of unheralded Bill Stopped, who .joined with veteran Max Corbin to pace a 44-24 victory over Susque hanna's weak but stubborn Crusaders. Stopper Steals Show Rushed in with the' “second” team when - the starting lineup failed to produce more than' a' brace of field goals .in the first seven’minutes of play, Stopper nonchalantly proceeded to steal uie show. ' He ripped the cords with perfect shots ... he spearheaded plays . . . he passed smoothlyhe calmed jit tery second-stringers... he broke up opposition drives... lie threw his six feet-six all over-the place to get re bounds. In short, be was ns hot find lough as an ckC cheap pipe. , " Corbin High Scorer . hi actual scoring, Stopper made nine points, one less than Corbin’s high of 10. But, just as in the West ern Reserve battle, Stopper’s tallies came «t a moment when State's of fense seemed to be making very little headway. With the score sit 0-3, Stopper went to work.. He popped in one foul and three field goals and passed to flow- (Continued on page, four) W. R. 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Each team will hold the plaque for four months.of the year; Springfield went through its'season undefeated and untied, while ,Princeton dropped only one game—a iron-league contest. The Nittany Lions were held to a scoreless tie by Army. At the time, Army was not a member of the league. ■By a ruling,of the group, Army enters the Eastern Intercollegiate Soccer association this year. The meeting pf the association, which in cludes 34 Eastern colleges and uni versities, was • attended by Soccer Coach Bill Jeffrey and JDr. Carl P. Schott, 'dean' of physical education and athletics. • Mermen Prepare To Open Season After two months of intensive prae •tice and training the Penn State swimming team is about to enter an other season of. competition on !$nU urday. In a freshman-varsity prac tice meet held in Glennland Pool last Saturday both tennis showed power Hint may take them places this sea son, the varsity leaving the freshmen behind with' a 42-22 score.. One freshman standout observed in the tilt hist Saturday and through-, out practice has been Bob Kirkpat rick‘who recently established the new Glennland Pool record for the 50 yards in 00:23:0. He was State high school champion in that event last year, and is easily able to take over any of the Lion varsity in it this year. Frosh Lead sfl-Yard, 100-Yard In Saturday’s practice the 50 yard event was lead by Kirkpatrick in the time of 00:26:7. He was followed by Capt. Bob -Dewalt and Chuck Welsh. In the 100‘ yard breast stroke event another freshman, A 1 Boileau, lead in J :17:07, followed by freshman Dick ; Reilly and two varsity men, Johnson and Dick Schuffner, in' a dead heat for* third place."'"'-"' i " " '* - Ken Bunk led the 220-yard event in 2:27- to be followed by Ed Sachs and freshman John McCarthy. First place in. the 100-yard back stroke fell to Mark Vinzant in one minute and nine seconds, second went to freshman Dave Welsh, while third place went to Don Newbury. In the 100-yard free style Chuck Welsh lead in 00:69:1, followed to the end mark by Kirk-, Patrick, a freshman, and Robinson.. Varsity Dominates Diving Ray Parks, Guy McLaughlin, and A 1 Ilildebrandt took over the fancy; diving points, while Mark Vinzant, Bob Hancock, and Bobby Brown took the 160-yard medley relay , without effective competition. Vinzant shoved out in front with a 1:30:6. In the 200. yard relay' n varsity .team of Brown, Bunk, McLaughlin,' and Wright took the'event in 1:43:9. .. 1. '