PAGE TWO (agers Face in Ric Hall; Curran, Funk to Start Against Bison Quintet By ART MILLER, AS/USNR When the Nittany Lions face the 3ucknell Bisons five on the Rec Hall court tomorrow night, it will )flark•the first home game on the Petri State wartime Winter sports •The second will be against Sus quehanna this Wednesday. Coach Lawther's charges offici ally opened the cage season last 'Saturday when they lost a 40-34 decision to a tough Muhlenburg team on the Rockne Hall floor. In an effort to put the squad . !)aek on the winning side of the ledger, the Lion mentor will change his starting line-up for tomorrow's tilt with the Lewis- 'burg quintet. Joe Curran will replace Bud Long, who teamed up with Monty 'Moskowitz on the backline a- giinst the stubborn Mules Satur 'day. Barring a bad cold which may bench him for part of the 'fray, Moskowitz will start at the other guard spot. McNary Stays At Center Don McNary, tall courtman from George Washington Univer sity, will. see action at the pivot position. Walt Funk, sophomore from Phoenixville who played some .. freshman 'ball .fOr . :the ::.: .T.ia ,v,:# ew .. 9r„ . r IL , oxinguass juniors last season until sidelined with an imury, will probablysbe in The solid thttd • of leather one of the forward slots at the against flesh resounded through opening whistle and, either Ed Rec Hall this week, as Leo Houck Czekaj .or Rey Brune, both start- and Co. started work on the 1944 ing forwards in the Muhlenburg replica of a Nittany Lion box tilt, will get the call at the other ing squad. frontline spot. Iry Batnick, unless unable to play because .of scholastic diffi culties. will be shooting against the Bisons from the center or guard position. Vic Danilov, fresh man from Farrell will probably see action as will Buck Barron, former Westminster hcopster. Ten Colleges Represented • Boasting a formidable array of borrowed basketballers and a set of identical twins, the starting five for Bticknell played for five dif ferent colleges last winter. It is interesting to note. that if Rey Brune faces off against the Bisons instead of 'Ed Czekaj at the for ward spot tor the Lions, there will be ten cagers on, the floor, all of whom play ed- for different colle giate squads last year. The only holdover for the Lud wig team is Frank Burns, six-foot three-inch forward who will share the frontline with Francis Day, late of Manhattan's top aggrega tion. Centering the lease-lend Bison club will probably be Paul Good win, 6-5 Navy trainee froth Pitt. :Bill Hoeveler, big hoopster who swished the cords for Temple last season, however, may get the nod. • George Lefkandinos, previously of Panzer, who along with Frank Burns accompanied the Bucknell football team to the scene of their 14-0 defeat this past season, will hold down one of the guard spots. Vic Mastriani; Siena college im port, will Mart at the other back line slot, ar:ording to Bucknell ad vises. . (Continued on page eight) Christmas Reminder . . . Shopping Days 'til Christmas Bucknell, Susquehanna Lose To MuMenherg Eighth Season. WHEN he leads his squad of 22 Nitt2ny pucksters to the Hershey arena to meet the Hershey Junior Bears in the season's opener Wed nesdly, Hockey Mentor Art Davis will begin his fifth coaching year. The team will be guests of the Beats for that night's tussle with the Pittsburgh. Hornets. Leo Houck Starts Instead' of limiting practice sessions to' mere squad Workouts, Houck will give daily boxing les sens for the balance of the sea son to all interested civilians and V-12 trainees. Instructions will begin Monday afternoon between 3 and 6 o'clock, according to the fistic professor. From this group of candidates, Hou.:k will name his starting squad early in January, when he tapers the team down for the win ter fireworks against Virginia, Army, the U. S. Coast Guard, Wisconsin, and the intercolleg iates here in State College on March 11. Houck has been working with several promising candidates, including veterans of the All-Ser vice boxing tourney• held early in the summer. From this round robin tourney comes Mike Swee ney, tough Marine trainee who copped the 165-pound diadem. Seaman Billy -Cochran seems like a varsity starter to date, ac cording to Houck. Cochran was slated to compete in the summer tournament, but won' the crown by forfeiture. Chuck Klausing, varsity foot baller, is working out in the wel terweight division, while team mate' Cass Sisler of the Marine Corps is slugging hard for .a nod in the heavyweight slot. The re maining gridder working with the potential squad is Pvt. - Zeffer• ino, another Marine trainee. With, the publicized recognition of being the first man to box Houck in 16 years, Seaman Claude Horton of the Navy is working in daily practice under the tutelage of his first sparring partner—the Lion mentor himself. Horton was a former intramural mittman at Penn before being called to duty in the V-12 pro gram. • Wrestlers—Try for Team Any men, civilian or Navy or Marine, interested in trying out for the varsity wrestling squad, should report to the. Rec Hall floor any weekday afternoon at 4:30 p.m., according to Chiefs Gedcon and Sherman, co-coaches of the mat team. THE COLLEGIAN Borrowed Mule Kicks Lions fo Tune of 40-34 Fresh. ..from ita '5O-47-mpset • tri umph over CONY 'in their opener in Madison Scittare dEirden the week previouS;' quintet nearly -went 'stale. as, they found themselves on the 'short end of a 34-31 tally .With eight minut es left to. play aginst: the State five. ... . But, the LaWther defense weak ened, four field - goals and a foul shot leaked through, and the Blue and White court squad dropped its initial hoop game. Due mainly to Monty Mosko witz's eagle eye from mid-court, the Penn State forces stayed In the ball game until the final stan za. Moskowitz , po.cheted seven field goals and two foul tries to lead both teams in scoring. Bill Munson, former West Liberty State Teachers' center was .high for the Mu]es with 15 counters. Muhlenburg took 'the lead at the start of the contest and led 5.4 at the end of the' first quarter. The Allentown crew' added to their score in: the second and third per iods, leading at the termination of the third stanza, 26-22. Mosko witz then sank several field tries in succession to give' the. State for ces their .short-lived lead. The last eight minutes were all Munson and Baietti • -• 4-- ^ As.. an appetizer 'fOr the cage fans,, a..preliminary, game between Muhlenburg's '3 3?-vee 'team of V-12 trainees -was played with' a Navy V-5 team from the MoraVian air cadets, with,. several • 'former Penn players in the lind-up Score -by periods Penn State ... Muhlenburg Penn Slate Czekaj,' f • • • Brune, f - McNary, c • Long, g Moskowitz, g Caftan; g Total Muhlenburg Miller, f Meyerdiercks; f Munson, c Baietti, .g; Capehart, g Doumont, c Total 4 7 11 12-34 5 13 8 14-40 FG FS T 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 1 5 •;2 2 6 7 2 16 2 2 6 34 COLLEGIAN SPORTS R. L. "fizzy" Richter, • E . IBA heavyweight champ of five years back and now a corporal in the Army stationed at Bermuda, sent an SOS to Soccer CoaCh Bill Jef frey for tips . on%how to teach the game . to his• - soldierlstndents. .: •; • r Dick McCown, Penn State scaV back and a . forn.ter, Penn Charter sprint' star, entered "the Pitt ganao for one play thli fall and scored a touchdown. . • • , ' *• * * When .Perin State. defeated •Pitt n the gridiron this fall, it mark ed only the second time .in 43 games that the Lions have defeat= ed their Panther rivals thrice in a rc.,\V. att . . Neil Fleming, graduate manager of athletics, is Penn State's No. 1 football fan. The 1943 season mar ked the 32nd time since 1910 that he has witnessed every game on the schedule, Cass Sisler, nephew of baseball's famed Gerrge Sisler, was Penn State's most effective ball-carrier during'.the 'l943:,:fotball, season. He averaged better than four yards every time he carried, the ball ft-i-tliejiltMlZ:;-, Second Team- John Jaffurs Eniers Ranks Of All-Time Lion Grid Greats The Associated Press . All-Am erican ratings published late this week listing Penn, State's Johnny Jaffurs on the, second team place the hard working Wilkinsburg gridder among , the four top guards in the nation and assured him a permanent spot as one of the all-time Nittany football greats. •' Selection of Georgia .Tech's John Steber and Navy's George Brown as guards on the mythical varsity have • automatically can celled• the 18 by 24 wall space hopeful Fenn State fans had re served on that portion of Ree• Hall which displays . the likenesses of All-Americans. • • - .Ev,en., so, the Jeep's-: second team - appointment t:/rows hiw - in with : fast . ebrivany. o r ft . with • jaffurs at.' the other • guard post is Pat Filley;' Notre .Dame's highly touted • perforther. _lf this imaginary • eleven entered actual combat., Jaffurs would be opening holes for such distinguished backs as. Angelo - Bertilli, • .Notre • Dame quarterback, and Tony Butkov ich, Purdue. Other members of AP's second best team include ends J. F. _Man= ahan Jr., Dartmouth and Bob Hall, Colorado; tackles Frank Merritt,• Army and . George Con nor, Holy Cross; center. William Grey, So. California; backs Ed Prokop, Georgia 'Tech and Al Dark, Southwestern. (Continued on page eight) FG FS' T 1 3 5 0 2 2 7 1 15 3 5 11 1 1 3 - 2 0 4 40 -* 3arnottJ American, AO qroup • RIS • . . . • 5 . , • c to 2 c Now-on Insplay • . Christmas cards for servicemen—with Army,Navy, Air . and Marine Corps insignia. KEELER:s Cathaum Theatre:Bldg. FRIDA2, DECEMBER 10, 194/ Skaters Opeo Winter Card Hockey. Team Too Meet Hershey Junior Bears After three weeks indoor prac tice in the Armory, Coach Art DaL vis' hockey team will hit the 10 for the first time this season when they 'skate into a practice game with the Hershey Junior Bears ail the spacious Hershey Arena Wed nesday afternoon. With only two varsity men re turning from last season's. Squad, Davis received. a big shake of the Navy-Marine trainees. on his lopg • list of candidates, including the . athlete-sensation of the Marine, Corps, Pvt. Tubby Crawfor4. Since arriving here in July with the V-1 detachment, Cawford has dug his spurs into three varsity sports for a letter, and is ready to take his share of hockey hoii ors this winter as a first string offense skater. • Also back with the Marine Corps is Pvt: Art Gladstone, cap tain for the 1944 squad. Gladstone is tentatively lined for duty in • the pivot position at center, the spot which he has 'held for the past two years. Ed Williams is the sole survivor from last year's war-scalped team, with the ex= caption of Gladstone. With practice sessions still don, tinuing at fast .pace for the op ener next week, Davis was unable to name his starting lineup' lAA night; However, he listed poss ible 22,. • pticksters who -may see, Ac tion' in the initial - frayi of - :what looks to `be an exciting.. Season. Pending t business .arrangerhents being' • cinpleted this weekeid s Davis • proinises • that . there is a likely'priggibilitY thit Mount. Nit : , tany: may see 'its . first home' hock ey tilt •in history sometime . . ..in January. • Construction are being received for .Sis 4 bactids on a regulation outdobr zit*: Under present plaiis, the arena would be built in the tennis. courts near Rec I-lall, and, would be flooded to permit icing, if the temperature falls low enough on the game day. If a suitable pro gram could be perfected, both Colgate and Cornell would meet the Lions On home territory, - as well as in their respective New York State .arenas. BUY .WAR BON4S
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