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Matmen Victorious
Over Academy, 2
Harry Defeats Gershkoff to Retain Lead
In Intercollegiate Battle for 128-pound T
Sinking the Coast Guard Acad
emy in seven out of eight bouts,
the Penn State wrestlers crushed
their opponents by an overwhelm
ing 23-3 score before 1800 fans in
Rec Hall, Saturday night.
The Nittany grapplers, com
pletely recovered from their lac
ing a week ago at the hands of
the Annapolis Middies, lost only
in the 155-pound class when Lions
man Norm Wynn was outpointed
by Monk Sharpe of the Coast
Guard.
Captain Sam Harry showed
prmoise of being the 1945 Eastern
Intercolegiate 128-pound champ
in defeating the Const Guard’s
Bob Gershkoff.
Gershkoff, who was the 1945
E.I.W.A. champion in the 12'8-
pound division, was too elusive to
(be pinned, but he was out-pointed
by 'Harry, 17-3.
Starting the Lion matmen off
on their lop-sided victory, Dave
Faloon decisioned lanky Scott
Marple in the I'2l-pound bout. It
was Faloon’s first win this season.
The only fall of the evening
was recorded by Joe Steel who
pined the Academy’s George Ry
nick in 6.55 minutes of the 136-
pound event by using a double
wrist-lock.
In the 145-pound bout, Jack
Greene out-scored the Coast
Guard’s Jack Steffey to win by
decision.
Spotting his rvial 12 pounds,
Grant Dixon moved up to fill a
vacancy in the 165-pound class
and while unable to pin his hea
vier opponent, he did manage to
out-point A 1 Clough of the Acad
emy.
Don McKeeby, 175-pounder,
won ,by decision .over Charlie
Lanabeer as did Fred France, un
limited-weight class, in the final
event of the evening.
A pre-game exhibition bout be
tween former Nittany stars Char
lie Ridenour and Clair Hess ended
in a. draw. >
12'1-pound class—Faloon (PS)
decision over Marple, 15-6.
128-pound Class—Harry CPS) de
cision over Gershkoff, .17-3.
1 136-pound class—Steel (PS)
pinned Rynick, 6.55 (double wrist
lock).
i145-pond class Greene (PS)
decision over Steffey, 7-0.
155-pound class—Sharpe (CG)
decision over Wynn, 6-2. .
165-pound, class Dixon (PS)
decision, over Clough, 13-4.
175-pound class—McKeeby (PS)
decision over Lahgabeer, 6-2.
i Unlimited class-—Prance (PS)
decision over Holland, 17-6.
Alpha Chi Sigma Tops
IFC Bowling Tourney
Alpha Chi Sigma is holding
down the top position, in the In
terfraternity bowling tournament.
Eight fraternities have entered
teams in the ten-pin tourney. 'Die
bowlers and their captains are as
follows:
Phi Sigma Delta, Ken Jayson;
Theta Chi, Jim Ray; Sigma Phi
Epsilon, Tom Hutchins; Beta Sig
ma Rho, Jay Rosensweig; Alpha
Chi Sigma, Jack Seavy; Tau Kap
pa Epsilon, Frank Stevenson; Pi
■Lambda Phi, Allen Baskin; and
Pi Kappa Phi, Dick Young.
Each game won by a contestant
gives that team two points, and'
the team with the highest total
score after three games have been
played gets two points. This makes
a total of eight points for each
match.
All teams should hand in their
tournament fees to Jack Seavy,
Alpha Chi Sigma, 881.
Team Won Lost
Alpha Chi Sigma 20 12
Phi Sigma Delta 18 14
Sigma Phi Epsilon .... 18 14
Tau Kappa Epsilon .... 18 14
Pi Kappa Phi ... 18 14
Pi Lambda Phi 14 18
Theta Chi 12 20
.Beta Sigma Rho 12 20
Intramural Wrestling
. . . and boxing tournaments
have been called off because of
the lack of sufficient entries. All
men alraedy enrolled may have
their entrance fees refunded at
the intranuu-al office in Recreation
Half.
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SAM HARRY
Captain Sam Harry, Eastern In
tercollegiate Wrestling Association
champion in 1942 and finalist in
1943, showed strong signs of being
top contender for the 1946 E.I.W.
A. crown Saturday night when he
defeated Bob Gershkoff, present
holder of the 128-pound title.
Harry out-pointed the 1945 E.I.
W.A. champ, 17-3, in winning his
third match of the season.
In his last year at Slate before
going into- the Armed Services,
Harry won six of his matches by
falls. A finalist in the Inlercolle
giates, he was defeated by Kiff of
the United Slates Naval Academy.
Pi Laffibda Phi Receives
Bridge Tournament Cup
Pi Lambda Phi is the recipient
of a gold lovir.g cup given by IFC
for first place in the recent bridge
tournament. Pi Kappa Phi won
second place, and Beta Sigma
Rho, third.
Keys were given to : Howard
Amchin and William Klein,.. Pi
Lambda Phi arid Thomas Croche'r'
and Robert Frank-house, CM Phi,
for winning north-south and eapt
west respectively.
THE COLLEGIAN
Red Raiders
Rout Floormen
Colgate’s high scoring Court
Squad made it eight victories in
nine starts by scoring a 67-51 win
over the Penn State, quintet in a
loosely contested game played, on
the Raiders home court Saturday
night.
Ernie Vandeweghe and Carl
Braun led the victors with ten
field goal's apiece. Vandeweghe
countered four limes from the
foul line and Braun tallied twice
on free tosses.
For the Lions Wally Hatke
vich and Johnny Rusinko tied for
scoring honors. Both men tallied
six times via field goals and twice
from the foul line.
The Box Scores
Penn Stale
Light, f 3 3—5 9
Simon, f 0 o—o 0
Funk, f 0 o—o 0
Pfirman, f 1 o—o 2
Masticola, f 0 o—o 0
Currie, c 2 I—2 5
Halkevich, c 6 2—7 14
•Rusinko, g 6 2—6 14
NUgent, g 3 I—2 7
Toflas 21 9-22 51
Colgate fg f—ft T
Aery, f 3 o—o 6
Rice, f 0 o—o 0
Phelan, f 0 o—o 0
Gilles, f 0 o—o 0
Szeregay, f 0 o—o 0
Vandeweghe, f 10 4—B 24
Mott, c 0 o—o 0
Plunkett, g 1 I—l 3
Cox, g 1 I—l 3
Sullivan, g 4 I—4 9
Totals 29 9-19 67
Score by quarters:
Colgate 16 22 21 8 67
Penn State .... 319 11 18 51
Werner Chooses Five
For Inquirer Track Meet
From 30 candidates, track coach
Charles Werner has selected 5 boys
to represent Penn State in the
Philadelphia Inquirer Invitation
Meet in Convention Hall on Fri
day. Werner announced that he
would enter a mile relay team
and a pole vaulter in the compe
tition after a final trial which was
held Friday afternoon.
His teams are composed of Ev
erett Fretz, Warren ISteubing,
John Stevenson, and William Da
vies on the rtiile relay squad and
Charles Willing as the pole vaul
ter..
Werner’s candidates have been
working out on the balcony track
in Recreation Hall as the..board
track, which is usually erected on
New Beaver Field each year, has
not ben set up. This is a handicap
for the aspirants as the indoor
track cover s the distance of only
217 yar.ds and has four bad cor
ners* which force the runriers to
decrease their pace and resume it
after pasing one of these turns.
Boxers Boast
In 27 Years
Penn State’s boxing career'has
been long adn varied during more
than a quarter century of dual
meet competition, as Lion ring
men have squared otf against 29
different foes since the sport was
inaugurated in 1919 with a single
meet against the University of
Pennsylvania.
Boxing records reveal that West
Point’s Cadets, who meet the
Lions twice this season, fought the
Lions the rngsl times. The Army-
State series began in 1922 and
continued through 1926,'when it
was dropped for four years, and
the Lions opposed such teams as
Notre Dame, Temple, Georgetown,
N. Y. U., and M. I. T. '
In 1931 the series was resumed
and has continued uninterrupted
since then, during which time the
teams met 22 times, with the Ca
dets holding a decided edge over
the Lions with 13 dual meet wins,
compared to 3 for the Lions and
6 ending in draws.
Syracuse University, with 18
clashes beginning in 1924 and
continuing through 1942, the box
ers in the second longest series,
followed by the U. S. Naval Acad
emy and Western Maryland, each
with 16, University of Pennsyl
vania, I*2', Wisconsin, 12, Virginia,
9, University, of North Carolina, 8.
In scheduling their varied op--
ponents the Lions went as far
north as to cross the border into
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curtain falls.
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The Penn State Players
TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 22, 1946
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88 Wins
Of Rivalry
Canada, Where they fought two
dual meets with the Univerr/ty of
Toronto in 1920 and again in 1940,
winning both. Reversing their di
rection in 1935, they took on the
University of Miami, and in 1920
and 1927 they headed west, where
they paired off with the famed
Notre Dame University, trimming
them twice.
Such annual football opponents
as Bucknell, Pittsburgh, and
Temple, were powerless and win
less in their few short encounters
with Lion ringmen. The Bisons
dropped two frays to the Lions,
while the Owls and Panthers each
lost three.
Besides Miami, eight other
teams faced the Lions only once,
including Dartmouth. University,
Harvard, New Hampshire, Car
negie Tech, Catholic University,
New York University, George
town, and the Western Branch of
the Y. M. C. A. in a .1924 tussle.
' Other nationally-known schools
who encountered the Lions are
Cornell, with 5 atempts; Mary
land, 4; Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, 2; Virginia Mili
tary Institute, 4; and West Vir
ginia, 4. ,
..Boiled down to hard figures,
the Blue and White • gladiators
have a 27 year fighting average
(23 seasons under Coach Leo
HouckV of 88 wins-—5B losses-—l 6
ties in 162 dual encounters.
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