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gagers Seek 7th Victory
• To Assist 'Hale America'
Ai Gymnasts Lose The 14oris • Under the direction of Dr. Lloyd At West Poi nt
M. Jones, piofessor of physical .ed-. Tomorrow
With 808 SCHOOLEY ucation, the facilities and person-
To Gophers 17-1® Collegian Sports Writer nel of the College will be utilized ".
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Penn State's gymnasts made a Looking Ahead , for national fitness.
The central district in Pennsyl
game bid for a double Mid-west
With the future fortunes of the vania, which will be headed by Dr.
victory Saturday night but New- -
Nittany Lion football team fast Jones, is one of nine in the State.
ton Loken, all-around national' crumbling, it may be necessary for It includes Blair, Cameron, Centre,
gym champion, • proved too much the Athletic Advisory Board to al- Clearfield, Elk, 'Huntingdon, Ly
competition and the Lions drop- low freshmen to, play on. the var- coming, McKean, Mifflin, Potter,
ped a 27-18 score to the Gophers sity. But no hasty decision need . Snyder, Tioga, and Union counties.
of Minnesota. be made until colleges and univer
"The
final score was not indica-. sities throughout the nation con- m ,
effects of The closeness of the meet," sider the effec war will bring. Princeton Pr imes
CoaCh Eugene Wettstone pointed
Here at Penn State, however, it
out yesterday. Hal Zimrrkerman
would seem to ~be the ideal plan
tied Loken . in tumbling with both For Lion Match
since education has been speeded •
, boys in top form. Ed Trybala lost , •
up. for the next year and probably . , •
'by one point to Loken on the •hori.-
for .the duration. of the war. With experience gained in a
zontal bar and had to b'e. content . training period of 21 days after its
with a second place tie. Every- On the one hand freshmen now
initial match of the season, a tal-
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one but the judges thought Sol will have 'three seasons of foot-ented Princeton wrestling squad ii.
S, tl: had clinched first plate ball ahead of them since the Col-- Inc . .
h - • hel( •-. lai.
.ima.. Jiad clinche, irst place .on . --- -- -.---- which was held to - a 16-16 tie by --
the side horse but the Lion con- lege program has<been speeded. up. Rutgers early - this month will re- SWITCHES LINEUP—Coach John Hornstein 's loss may cause a
On the . Other hand the varsity elig- . definite weakness in the
„,:tender lost out by 1 1 / 2 points. . new hostilities again this Saturday Lawther will be forced to change
slack
' ' Wetstone, in praising the Lion, ibility plan may lead to commer- when the Tiger and the Nittany his starting lineup again for the r . ank . s, since the Lions are
contestants stated, "Trybala and cialism. Some intercollegiate reg- .
--Lion tangle in Rec Hall. Army game at West Point tomor- mg in reserve strength. As a re
, ulations would have to be set . up -to • suit,Coach John Lawther will
Small looked very good in their Although ' the Princeton grap- row night. Dave Hornstein, soph- .
prevent subsidization. Only in this again switch. his starting lineup:
events, while Zimmerman proved . piers were hampered by inexper- omore guard, - will not accompany
to be one of the outstanding per- way Could collegiate sports avoid
ience in their debut against the the.team because of 'an injury. Larry Gent and Elmer Gross.
becoming professional. the two forwards who carried the
formers of the meet." Zimmer- ' Scarlet, the showing madd by
man subdued Loken on the para- Looking at the Nittany Lion ros- Coach Jim Reed's proteges is con- ' . brunt of the Nittany attack in the
llel bars and tied the champ for ter, we find that it is rapidly sidered -to be indicative of the corn- .Frosh Courimen hold the front court positions at victory over Pitt, are expected to
first spot in the tumbling event. dwindling. Already' Ralph Ven- petition the Nittany inatmen will .
The diminutive Lion star was tresco, Paul Weaver, and Bill Del?- meet. _ - the opening tipoff against Army
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awarded two first places also on ler, backfield reserves who would
Friday night in the Chicago meet. have formed the nucleus of the
"The boys just didn't work their 19,42 backfield, have gone into the
best," Wettstone explained. "We armed forces. Debler may possibly
lost the services of Lou Bordo on return,for the-second semester, but
the horizontal bar and Sol' Small it•is doubtful whether he will sur
on the parallel bars because of vive the draft until next grid
hand injuries. they . received in season. •
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Chicago. The staunch line which Coach
• Wettstone, however, commend- Bob Higgins so carefully built has
,ed Loken on. his fine work in the been caved .in suddenly. Ted.
'meet. Loken has held his nation- Kratzke and Jim Bonham, guards,
..)al all-around gym championship have departed and so has Bob Hal
for two years and has what Wett- pin, burly tackle.' • John Moody,
stone terms, • "a smooth' routine freshman fullback, has also been
with never a., break. It is hard drafted. Harry Alston, freshman
to believe that one man can per- right halfback,.has_dropped out of
form so well in so many events," College, but he may return for next
WettStone continued: Loken also season. The status -of John Pots
captured three first positions when klan is still indefinite.
the Gophers traveled to, our pain- Probably many more players
:pus last year, will be claimed by the national
The meet with Minnesota was a emergency before next fall. At our •
non-league tilt and will not effect first glante at the freshman varsity
the teams' standing. The gymnasts eligibility rule, it would seem a
will start their quest for the east- gocid• idea if the majority of col
ern, championship February 7 leges would accept it.
when they play host to Princeton. HoweVer, if Perm' State, along
Horizontal bar—Loken, Minn.,. with a handful of colleges would
first; Trybala, PS, and Olsen; initiate the plan, it would cheapen
Minn., tied for second. athletic standards built up by the
Side horse—Loken, Minn., first; • College. That's why the plan needs
Small. PS, second; Bjorgo, Minn., thought and not 'quick action.'
third. If the rule were passed, it would
Flying rings Loken, Minn., not revolutionize collegiate football
first; Small, PS, second; Olsen, because few first -year men out of ,
Minn., third. high.school could measure up to'
Parallel bars—Zimmerman, PS, the standards of collegiate foot
first; 'Loken, Minn., second; Bor
do, PS, third. Regardless of the passing of the
Tumbling Zimmerman, PS, rule at Penn State, Lion football
and Loken, Minn., tied for first; does not look too dark for the fu-
Berg, Minn., third.. ture. With .the return of Sparky
Brown to College yesterday, a
shifty runner and passer • will be
available. Teamecrivith Jack Ban
bury, • Dave Alston,. Aldo Cenci.
or Ray Ulinski, Brown should fit
Werner, Grieve speak
At Pitt Testimonial
• Chick Werner. and Bob Grieve, in with a smooth-clicking back
varsity and frosh track coaches, field. '
respectively, left yesterday for Line prospects, barring draft,
Pittsburgh. for a farewell banquet look good. At the ends there
to one of the most colorful mem- should be Potsklan, Davis, Van
bers or the track coaching frater- Lenten, Walters, ..Durkota and
nity. Boyd. Reasonably optimistic of re-
The banquet was held last night turning so far also are Schoonover,
at the William Penn Hotel for Jim=. Brosky, Mundwiler, I'6llz,
.Nobile,
my Potts, 'assistant coach at Pitt, Moore, Suhey, Cackovic, and Wo-
Who is retiring to go into business losky, all linemen. .
after 16 years of coaching at the Freshman backfield stars who
Smoky City university. have signified that they expect to
Other speakers at the banquet, return are Dave Alston, Weitzel,
besides the Nittany mentors, were Ulinski, Davis, St. Claire, and Tu
. introduced by Billy Evans, • cerri. .
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WPIAL president. They include: Othei. players have not yet clear-
George Wheeler, former Pitt gym- ed up their statuses; but it is ex
nast and AAU champion; Jimmy petted that, because of their young
Hagan, Pitt athletic director; and ages, many of them will be allowed
Carl Olson, Pitt track coach, to play football next season.
PENN STATE CLASS
• L. -G. Balfour Co.
109 S. Allen St. in Ch€ar•les Fellow Shop
Tiger Captain Herbert Van ace F Service Men tomorrow. After getting off to a
Brewer, a senior, did. not wrestle slow start 'earlier in the season,
against Rutgers as Bob Taffar for- Co-captain Gross suddenly hit .his
felted the 121-pound match but his With the Great. Lakes Naval stride when he topped the Penn
standing as captain and his varsity Training Station 'leading the way, State scoring in each of the last
experience are acknowledged to Uncle Sam's service 'teams have two games with West Virginia and
qualify him as a strong opponent been busy upsetting top collegiate Pitt:
for spunky Charlie. Ridenour. basketball squads throughout the Herk Baltimore will be back at
Aggressiveness has been called nation. .
his center stance once more, after
the key-note of the Tiger's attack. For this reason, Nick Thiel's Nit- having moved over to a guard
In the 136-pound 'and 145-pound Many Cub cagers need fear their op- poSition in the' starting lineup for
weights Princeton men have the ponents of the coming -Saturday the Pitt game. In place of Balti
reputation of pushing their evening tilt. They are matched more, Hornstein held the pivot
matches relentlessly. against the Aberdeen, Md. testing
. Further strength in the light- ground quintet preliminary to the position at the opening tipoff
against Pitt.
weight divisions is added by Ira Princeton wrestling match. According to . . Lawther, the
Griffin, last year's freshman squad The frosh team has improved guard posts are still undetermined
captain who went through his en- immensely since the Cornell Little for the battle with Army. The
tire season undefeated. In his first
.Red upset them in their initial Lion mentor will pick his back
match of this season he pinned start by a score of 32-31, but the court ,starters from Bob Ramin,
Dave Scarr with - a bar and chan- game arranged by the Nitta
eery in less than 9 minutes of the freshmen mentor and Lieut. Lou
nY Dick Grimes, and John Egli
128-pound fracas. Barth, former Penn State eager
Princeton's 1940-41 wrestling and present post morale officer,
record lists five victories and only will severely test the young squad.
two defeats. Closest meet of the.en
tire season was the 14-12 defeat One of the former college stars
CATHAUM
in the service team's lineup is
"Remember the Day"
handed to Coach Charlie Speidel's Mark Heller, former Syracuse STATE:
team. Pennsylvania, however,
.captain, who opposed the Blue and
"The Bugle Sounds"
blanked the Tigers.2B-0 and Lehigh white at Rec Hall several times NITTANY:
chalked up the only other victory during his college days. "Small Town Deb"
over Princeton, 17-11,
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PAGE SEVEN
Lions Will Leave
At Noon Today
Following a week and a half
layoff, Penn State's varsity bas
ketball team will embark at noon
today for West Point, where they
will clash with the Army passers
on the Military Academy floor to
morrow night.
The Lions, in quest of their
seventh victory in nine starts, will
not be at full strength for tomor
row's engagement. Although the
condition of his injured ankle has
improved, ,Dave Hornstein is still
confined in the College Infirmary,
and will not be able to accompany
his teammates to West Point.
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