FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1945
Boxers Encounter''
West Point Squad
McAndrews Replaces
Houck as Ring Coach
An inexperienced Lion boxing
team will travel to West Point to
meet the U. S. Military Academy
mitmen tomorrow afternoon.
lVfarty McAndrews, Eastern in
tercollegiate boxing champion in
1930; will manage the team in
Coach Leo Houck's absence..
This will be the opening con
test for the Nittany Lions while
Array defeated Maryland, 4 1 / 2 -
3 1 / 20 last week in its only start.
'Capt. Paul Smith is the only re
turning letterman for State and
will, compete in the 135-pound di
vision. All but one of the Army
boxers are veterans.
Hal Heir), Bronx, N. Y., lad who
dislocated his shoulder in the first
few weeks of practice, will open
the bouts in. the 120-pound class.
Bob Fields, Navy trainee, is Coach
McAndrews' choice in the 127-
pound class. Luther Keppler, ci
vilian, is 'also contending for this
position.
Either V-12er Joe Bondi or
Freshman Alan Pottasch will re
ceive•the starting nod in the 145-
pound bout, and Jack Seitchick
Will represent the 155-pound
class.
Vaughn Stapleton will box in
the 165-pound match while Nick
.Ranieri discharged air corps fly
er, will meet Army's 175-pound
er. Larry. Luhrs, 180 pounds, will
occupy the heavyweight post.
.Dina Taccalozzi, Dick Mauthe and
F. D. • Angeistive are also com
peting for this berth.
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•' Standings of campus basketball
leagues - for this , week show Phi
Delta Theta and Phi Kappa Sigma
irying for first place in the Fra
ternity league, Grahams and Bil
lets deadlocked for the Independ
ents, and Barracks 37, competing
with Barracks 36 for the V-12
title. •
FRATERNITY LEAGUE
Phi. Delta Theta leads league A
Which has completed its games.
Phi Kappa Sigma and Theta Chi
will play it out for the winner of
league, B. ,
League A
Team..
Phi Delta Theta .
Beta Sigma Rho ....
Sigma Chi
Alpha Chi Sigma ..
Phi Sigma Kappa ..
Delta, Chi,
Phi Sigma Delta ...
Lambda Chi Alpha .
League B
Team
Phi 'Kappa..Sigma. •
Theta Chi
Pi Kappa Phi
Sigma Phi Epsilon
Triangle
Phi Kappa Psi
Delta Tau Delta
INDEPENDENT LEAGUE
In this' week's games in the In
dependent 'cage league Grahams
defeated Nittany. Co-op, .Billets
won over Penn Haven, and Spears
defeated the Penn State Club. The
standings follow:
Team
Grahams -.
Billets
Spears
Penn Haven
Nittany Co-op
•Sanbourne Cagers
Penn State Club
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V-12 LEAGUE
Defeating Barracks 9, Barracks
37 moved to first place s deadlock
ed with 36' in the V-12 league
The standings follow:
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Barr4clEs - 37 ". 3 0.
.13,err994s 36, , . ... 0
.Barracii. 9 • . 3
.
'Oerracks .13..' " .1 2
:Barracks : 24 1 2
....Barriteke' 26 • fl - $
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LEO HOUCK
Houck Goes
To Iceland
Boxing Coach Leo Houck has
been granted an indefinite leave
of absence to join the army spe
cial service unit. The veteran
Lion mentor will be replaced by
Marty McAndrews, a member of
the football coaching staff.
Dr. Carl P. Schott, dean of the
School of Physical Education and
Athletics, said that the leave of
absence was granted so that
Houck can report for duty in Ice
land and Greenland as a civilian
consultant for an army "coach
ing clinic" in that theater of
operations.
Houck will make the trip with
four other nationally-known ath
letic figures. They are Harry J.
Rockerfeller, athletic director of
Rutgers University; Red Rolfe,
basketball and baseball coach at
Yale; Charles Berry, . American
League umpire from Easton; and
Ew Zanfrieni,- athletic trainer at
Dartmouth. •
.Coach Houck has had charge of
Lion ringmen for the past 23
years. During that time they have
Captured numerous sectional and
national glove crowns.
McAndrews has been handling
the Penn State mitmen for the
past two weeks. He is a graduate
of the College and a member of
the football coaching staff for the
laSt nine years.
Boxing is not a new experience
for Coach •McAndrews. He won
the 175-pound title in 1930 when
Houck copped his fourth team
championship in seven years.
The new coach was the first of
three brothers to box on Leo
Houck's teams at Penn State.
Johnny later winning the 135-
pound championship and Francis
also giving a good account of him-
Self in the ring against intercol
legiate competition. Johnny and
Francis now hold commissions in
the army and navy, respectively.
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Lion Wrestlers
To Face Cornell
Penn State Defeats
Bison Millen, 17-11
After defe'ating Ilucknell, 17-11,
in the opening match, Coach Paul
Campbell will take his wrestling
squad 'to Ithaca, N. Y., tomorrow
to &apple with Cornell's veteran
outfit in the first meet away from
home.
'The Bit, Red have beaten Penn
and Lehigh in their only two
matches of the season. The squad
is composed largely of Navy V-12
trainees. Walter O'Connell is the
mentor of the Cornell wrestlers.
'Coach Campbell said today that
he would probably use the same
lineup which started the first
match. There is a possibility that
Wisherd may replace Beegle, who
was pinned in the Bucknell meet.
The only Penn Stater who won
by a fall in the Bison match was
Hal Greene, who threw his man
in 1:18 by a crotch and chancery.
Other Lions who .were victorious
are Geoge Schautz, Bob Crease,
Glenn Smith, and Chuck Hall.
Nittany grapplers who will al
so make the trip to Ithaca are Hal
Frey and Don Miltenberger. The
latter dropped a 6-2 decision to
Meyers of Bucknell in his first
encounter despite the fact that
he outweighed his opponent by
40 pounds. • •
The match was the first wrest
ling meet between the Lions and
the Bisons. This season is Buck
nell's first try at the sport.
Weffslone Dubs Greene
Foremost Rope Climber
Steve Greene, crippled youth, is
rated one of the greatest rope
climbers ever to compete in col
lege ranks by Coach Gene Wett
stone, who has produced five Na
tional champions in a row at the
College. •
Greene, who set a new AAU
mark of four seconds in the 20.-
foat clib last year, is still active
in the sport even though gym
nastics has been dropped for the
duration, and the polio victim
plans to enter the Nationals this
spring at Jersey City.
Only climber ever to do better
than Greene in title competition
was Lieut. Charles Lebow, now
in New Guinea, who set a new
Eagtern intercollegiate mark of
3.8 seconds in the 1943 champion
ships. Lebow, who like Greene is
a Philadelphian, won the National
'competition in 4.2 seconds.
Penn State's Nittany Lions
have been unbeaten on their
home gridiron 39 of 58 seasons.
Mt. Nittany Five Meets
Unbeaten Army Quintet
Penn State's varsity cage quintet will face its toughest test of the
season when it battles the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, N. Y.,
Wednesday evening.
• Coach John Lawther feels confident that
Cadets "a run fcr their money" after seeing hi
team in the East, West Virginia, 53-27, at Rec
Army currently is'undefeated
has not lost a contest at the Acad
Cadets took 15 straight games to
finish as one of the top outfits in
the country.
The Nittany Lions will go to
West Point hoping to avenge last
season's 49-38 defeat. Coach Law
ther said that he probably will
start the same team which open
ed against West Virginia this
week
In that case, he will have Dick
Light and Les Szepesi at the for
ward slots, big Slim Currie on
center, and Iry Batnick and Bill
Nugent in the back line. There is
a chance that either Doc Willison
or Stretch Bozinski may break
into the starting lineup.
Lions Beat vy
.W. Va 53-27
West Virginia's tournament
bound, Mountaineers were disrail
ed Wednesday night when an in
spired Penn State team played its
best game of the season to trium
ph, 53-27, at Rec Hall.
Coach John Brickel's hoopsters
failed to break the jinx which has
hung over the Mountaineers for
the past nine years. During that
time West Virginia has beaten the
Lions only once on their home
court.
Husky Iry Batnick paced the
"red hot" Mt. •Nittany cagers in
their win over the Morgantown
machine with 16 points, his' high
est total for the season. Close be
hind him were Stretch Bozinski
and Slim Currie with 12 and 10
markers respectively.
Pitt Downs State, 58.41
A sensational fourth period rally
which netted 19 points gave Dr.
Carlson's Pitt Panthers a 58-41
victory over a tired, but fighting
Penn State team at the Pitt Sta
dium last Saturday.
After holding the undefeated
Panthers for three quarters, the
Lions fell apart in the last stanza.
Their offense shrunk from artil
lery bombardment to - mere rifle
fire as they counted only
six points in the home stretch. The
Richard Crooks Tickets
Go on Sale January 22
As a new year "dividend," the ArtistS Course will pre
sent Richard Crooks in Schwab Auditorium May 12.
Holders of season tickets for the current course will be
offered tickets to that performance for $l.OO, including
tax.
IMPORTANT: To acquire a ticket at that price, hold.
ers of season tickets must bring or send their Sanroma
tickets, with $l, to the A. A. ticket window, Old Main,
on Monday, January 22. You need not appear in person
with your ticket.
If, however, your ticket is not presented on that date,
you will automatically relinquish your right to that seat
and it will be placed on open sale.
Single seats for the Crooks number, available =to those
-who are not season patrons, will go on sale at the A. A.
• office 'Tuesday, January 23, at - $3. These will :include
-stage seats and unclaimed auditorium seats.
PAGE SEVEN
the Lions will give the
s squad trim the hottest
Hall on Wednesday.
n three games. Coach Ed Kelleher
Illy in two seasons. Last year the
three-quarter score was 39-35.
Navy Trainee Dick Light had
15 points to lead the Nittanies.
Lions Trip Tech, 57-22
The Nittany Lions jumped to an
early lead to defeat Carnegie
Tech's Skibos, 57-22, in Pittsburgh
on January 12.
Penn State presented an air
tight defense which puzzleil the
Tech cagers throughout the con
test. Coach Maxie Hannum's scor
ing star, Mike Theodore, was held
to one field goal.
Football Outlook Bright;
12 Return Next Season
For the first time since the war
began Coach Bob Higgins is able
to look ahead and plan for the
next football season.
A check of the squad at the end
of the 1944 season, during which
the Lions won six and lost three,
disclosed that as many as twelve
players may be available for cam
paigning in 1945.
Two of the twelve are ex-serv
icemen who returned to the cam
pus with medical discharges, one
is Wingback Larry Cooney of
Pittsburgh who does not reach
his 18th birthday until November
next year. The others either have
been rejected or claim limited
service classifications.
Backs returning to keep Cooney
company will be Elwood Petchel,
brilliant Easton tailback, Al Bel
las of Kingston, Dino Taccalozzi
of Sayre, Nick Ranieri of Phil
adelphia, and Edwin Voll of Ems
worth. Linemen include Bob Mc-
Coy of Lock Haven, John Simon
of Brownsville, Jim Mattheivs of
Grindstone, Marino Marchi of
Glassmere, Howard Caskey •and
Fred France of Pittsburgh.
Penn State's all-time football
record now stands at 234 wins,
164 losses, 29 ties.