FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1943
Set Shot Stars Spark W&J's Unbeaten
Court Team; Funk Still Out With Grippe
Cagers Crush
Susquehanna
After dropping their first home
basketball game in• two and one
half years to Bucknell 29-26 last
Saturday, the Nittany Lion cap
ers
.snapped back Wednesday ev. ,
ening to swamp Susquehanna
.
• . The victory marked - John Law
ther's 100th .win as . Nittany, bas
ketball mentor;
Previous to the tussle with the
Bisons, the Blue and White court
men had been • victorious in 25
.straight games finishing up last
year's • home season with. a•
triumph •over Georgetown.
West Virginia was the last team
before Bucknell to humble Penn
State when they prevailed 35-
29 back in February 1941.
Offense Clicks—
But against the Susquehanna
Crusaders, the offense perked up
as Mac McNary showed the way
with 14 counters and Monty Mos
kowitz followed close behind
with 13.
• Buck Barron showed. the way
in scoring for the ragged State
five as he counted eight points
against Bucknell. Hoeveler and
Lefkandinos were high
. for the
visitors with 10 points each.
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Konyha, Sterling To Fight With Moskovitz
For Long-Range Honors As Lions Face Prexies
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Gets Lacrosse Post
DEAN CARL P. SCHOTT head of
the Physical Education School,
was named vice-president of the
U. S. Lacrosse Association at its
meeting in New York City Friday
and Saturday. At the same time,
Nielt . Thiel was elected president
of tne Coaches' Association in .the
lacr,sse organization.
Grapplers To Meet
Colgate In Opener .
Cancellation of the opening three- starters •will, probably . all
wresi ling match with MiChigan be freshmen.. who s played -varsity.
slated •foi. January 'ts gives Head bail.. ":for' Mount Lebanon . High
Coach Paul Campbell ari extra Sehool last - year, Bob • Dickson,
.week to condition his squad- far six -fiiot five -inch • center will
the 1944 campaign, which . ..will get start .at.the pivot . . - .spot., while' Joe
under way January 22-againSt COl_Thatrone, will Open' at forward and
gate.• Bob Barbrew.-at the .other gtiard
Moving-back the opener affords
artists. WithP,erin.State's
BOtli-Kbriyha' and - Sterling - .are
the coaching - staff, including •
set shot
Carnnoell and CSps Sherman and
Moskowitz and Curran throwing
Gedeon, rrecious time in shaping
:from '.midr-cOurt, l -the, game
a team from a squad which boasts them
should take
.on a long-range ap
only a half dozen experienced-i earance.
-• • •
grapplers. None of the candidates • -"
, ion caws ,will probably.
'
were varsity regulars lastseason. The
season, p - laY - _With6ut:the ;.se.rvieeS of for-,
The Lions last year lost 'only fo NA7a - rd Walt .Funk, - who is - still re-
Navy and Lehigh and placed third, eliper•atine frein - f!n attack:ol the
in 'the Eastern Intercollegiates. grippe': :The:Starting- line=up . for,
Both Navy and Lehigh are on- the theLawtherrnen',Nvilliprabably see,
Stat..: card this year, with Temple,• IVIaC . McNary ' again. _at: center
Colgrlte and Cornell rounding 'ont f ! lanked-by AL-Richards. and .BUck
the oppoFition. ' . ' Barron, at the .forward. slots 'and
Joe Curran and , Monty, Moskowitz
on ; the baCkline:„ . • •
BUY -WAR 'BONIiS
THE COLLEGIAAN,
Dud McMinn, rugged basketball
guard, and captain of the Penn
State varsity court team in 1932,
died in Montoursville last week
of a lymphatic infection. He has
been ill for several years, and at
the time of his death was on
leave of absence from Clearfield
High Sdhool, where he was an
instructor in agriculture.
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Out to duplicate last year's
win over a WO team that went
On to amaze the basketball world
by toppling top-seeded Creighton
before losing a last-minute decis
ion to Tolodo the Madison
Square . Garden Invitation Tour
ney, Coach Lawther's combine
Will be on the lookout for two
men. • •
Paul Konyha, senior letterman
from• last year's thrice defeated
President club, is back this year
and is teaming up with F 4 Ster
ling; a frosh star from the same
hometown of Martin's Ferry,
Ohio, to ;provide the offensive
spark for the downstate squad.
In their . first game against Jun
iata,. whom the • - Lions. tackle - in'
Rec Hall January 29;
,Konyha
scored 17 points •while Sterling
notched 14 counters- as the Prex
ies took the contest' 70-34. Against'
Camp . Reynolds last.week,. Ster
ling hit the cord's- for 18 points .
with Konyha -not far behind.
• Coacb Sander's other
Hershey Chills Nittany icemen
To Freeze Game in Last Period
Co. ch Art Davis' pia cksters However, conditioning ag a 2t
sharpened their skates, but didn't provel to be on the Hershey sidt'.
have enough time to sharpen their
of the scoreboard, and on two tal
skating, rs they dropped the sea
son's opener to the Hershey Junior lies,went ahead 4-3. "Legs of
Bears : 7-4,. Wednesday afternoon. Steel" Crawford then slidt h
During the past month the Lions Lions' final score under the net V.
have been forced to practice in- again even the close battle.
cioors due to warm weather con-
didnos
S9venteen - year - old Canadian- combinations to determi n e the
born Gene O'Donnell rolled the exact weaknesses and strength at
Nittany icemen into an early lead the Lions, only to have the alert
when he smashed the puck into the Junior Bears score three points in
net unassisted for the initial tally, a matter of minutes to bottle the
and followed with'the secor d score game at 7-4.
on a
.pass from Captain Art Glad- Paul Ameel from Dayton opened.
the contest for the Lions, and may
Aided with over a month's prac- pro ,, e to be the outstanding Nit,
tice ln the ice, the Hershey squad atnv goalie in history, according to
fought back into the game with a Davis. Crawford and Nelson open
pair of scores in the second period ed hostilities on the wing for thc'
to deadlok the game at 2-2. Then, unsegsoned Staters, while Jack
on passes from Roger Nelson and Foley from Carnegie Tech, and.
Tullby Crawford, Gladstone spun O'Donnell filled the gaps at de
the third goal past the Bears' goal- fense. Gladstone started in his old
ie I.) again push Penn State into position from last season, at cen••
the lead. ter.
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