PAGE SIX Gym, Court Squads Face Navy, Colgate Here Gymnasts Open 2-Meet Season Veterans 'Frey, Greene Form State's Nucleus Gene Wettst one’s Lion gym nasts open, their season against undefeated! Navy as the first of the twin bill sports event at Rec reation Hall, 7 p.m. tomorrow. The Navy team has suffered only one dual meet loss in three years. The State gymnasts bad no'for mal season last year and did not enter the Eastern Intercollegiates, tout annexed the National AAU championship in their only meet of the season. 'Eight men will form the veteran squad which will compete in tomorrow’s meet. Chet 'Phillips, Navy coach and (former Temple University star, will have strong contenders on the ropes, flying rings, and hori zontal bar. Frey In Three Events 'Acting Captain Hal Erey will toe seen in the last home appear ance of his college career com peting in three of the six events of the evening. Hal won the East ern Intercollegiate all-around! gymnast crown in 1944 arid held the National AAU tumbling cham pionships in 1944. Veteran Steve Greene, another title holder on the squad, having captured the 1944 Eastern Inter collegiate side horse championship is the present National AAU rope climbing champion.. For the Navy meet he will, participate on the isid'e horse, rojjss, and ptoralM bars. Running mate to Frey is War ren Neiger who took third place in the Eastern Intercollgeiate all around meet in 1944 and! will com pete against Navy in three events. ■Making his home debut on the horizontal bars, rings, side horse, and parallel bars will be Walter Glover who shows promise of be coming a champion gymnast. Ex-Lion Climbs Ropes Stanley Wirtshafter who was a member of the 1943 State cham pionship team 'before going into the service is .back on the squad and will be a strong contender m the rope climbing event. State’s third rope climber, who will give Navy plenty of trouble, is Ed Ho bart. Along with Charlie Fries and Hal Frey, NRiOTC Tim Petroff give the Lions a strong trio for the tumbling events. Petroff was fourth in the 1945 National AAU tumbling championship in which Frey placed) second. The gymnasts test another strong team when they travel to West Point February 16 and meet the Cadets. They themremain idle until March 9, when they wilt be entered! in the Intercollegiates. Rifle Club .... will not be able to reor ganize this semester. The club will start next semester if the College is able at that time to back minor sports. ROTC men can still join the ROTC Rifle Team. ANY TIME is the time to meet at SEN* and * Home-made Pie Our Specialty! 111 S. Pugh St. SALLY'S Know Your Coaches Ex-State Champ Trains Wrestling Team By dick sarge “Paul has an odd combination of abilities and talents and inclin ations” ... so ran a sketch of wrestling coach, Paul Campbell, in the 1929 Penn State Collegian. In this 1929 pen portrait, Camp bell, then a student at Penn State, was pictured as an ever-hustling individual. The situation today shows that he has retained these characteristics, for tutoring the Lion mat squad is not his only task. Campbell carries on a full time law practice in Bellefonte and returns to his coaching duties at the College only after his law office closses at 4 p. m. As an undergraduate here, Paul Campbell was noted for his abil ity on the mats but he took part in many other activities. He was a member of Varsity Debate team, Skull and Bones, Delta Sigma Rho (pre-legal honorary), Delta Chi, ,and was vice president of P. S. C. A. Coach Campbell graduated from the College in 1930 with an A. B. and was salutatorian of his class. He received his Masters in 1931 arid graduated from the Univer sity of Pennsylvania Law School in 1934. Wrestling in the 155 pound class, Campbell was on the var sity' mat squad for two years. In Lion Wrestlers Compete In EIWA Championships Nittany Lion wrestlers will grapple against their strongest competition of the season when they compete for Eastern Inter collegiate wrestling honors at Bethlehem today and tomorrow. Lehigh University, for the third consecutive year, is host to nine teams which will participate in the 1946 championships. ■ln last year’s championships the State team placed fifth, preceded by Navy, Army, Coast Guard Academy, and Lehigh respective ly, with Lion captain, Glenn Smith, who was crowned Eastern Intercollegiate champion in the 155-pound division. Sam Harry, State’s captain and former champion, stands an ex cellent chance of regaining his 128-pound title from Gershkoff of the Coast Guard Academy, who Harry has defeated this year in collegiate competition. Oscar Green of Navy, defend ing champion, will be the tough est test for Joe Steel to overcome in the 136-pound class. Depending on Hal Green’s in jury, suffered in the Cornell match, Coach Paul Campbell may start Norm Wynn who has had Track 'Candidates are asked to report to Track Manager Richard Lose at Recreation Hall, any weekday afternoon after 3 o’clock. THE COLLEGIAN PAUL CAMPBELL * * « 1929, he took second place honors in the Intercollegiates and the next season became Eastern In tercollegiate champ. The lawyer-coach lives on S. Gill street in State College with his wife, Ora, and three children, some experience. Jim Miller, Cor nell’s captain, who outpointed Green last week, is the strongest contender in the 145-pound divi sion. Runner-up iri last year’s meet, Art Fletcher of Navy, will be out to gain top honors in the 155- pound class. State will pit Grant Dixon against him. Wally Chambers will receive rough competition in the 165- pound class as Ted NieWenhous of Lehigh the 1945 155-pound champion, has moved up to the heavier class this season and will be after the title. Army’s Jerry Land is entered in the 175-pound division and may prove the man to beat Don McKeefoy. Newcomer Dick Gray will seek the 121-pound title, while Fred France is entered in the unlimited class. To Chuck McFarland, former Lion baseball star, belongs the distinction of being the first stu dent formally admitted to Penn State under the new priority system. Always welcome BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMP/ COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY OF ALTOONA Robert, Nancy, and Richard. Ad mitting that his duties; as coach limit the time he has with his family, Campbell voices the hope that next year will find the regu lar coach, Charley Speidel, back at his post. Campbell took the position in 1942 when Speidel werit to the Navy, and has piled up an en viable record with his State mat teams. In matches with civilian schools, the Nittany wrestlers have been practically unbeaten in the four seasons he has been here. Army, Navy and Lehigh have been thorns in the Lions side, however Looking forward to the coming Eastern Intercollegiates, in what may be Campbell’s last season as coach, he says,” I expect Captain Sam Harry to walk off with first place and . believe that EDixori, Green, Gray, and Steele have an excellent chance to place high.” Boxers Meet Coast Guard A second 145-pound bout will take the place of the heavyweight bout when Lion boxers square off against the Eastern Intercollegi ate champ, U. S. Coast Guard Academy, at New London, Conn, tomorrow. This news came early this week from Coast Guard officials after Coachi Houck had asked for two battlers in either of the middle di visions. Team hopes received a second setback within two weeks when Stan Lachowski, promising wel terweight, x-eported to Coach Leo Houck that he had decided to transfer to another school. The earlier jolt came last week with the loss of veteran light heavy weight, Nick Ranieri. • Coach Houck was undecided as to who would replace Lachowski as welterweight. Veteran Joe Bondi, regular 145-pounder last year, was slated to start with Stan and he should be one of the welters. Captain Paul Smith, regular lightweight, will prob ably move up a weight and fight the other 14'5-pound bout! Either “Buzz” Fahringer, with one win.', or veteran Jack Seit chik, with a draw, will be the I's's-pound representative. Other starters will be Ray Polansky, 120; John Benglian, 127; Jim Cas sidy, 135; Bill Christmas, 165; and John Slusarczyk, 175. FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 8, 1946 Navy Fouls Beat State Lions Attempt Win Over Raiders On Home Court Navy’s undefeated basketball quintet turned back the Penn State five via the foul line in a close ly contested 34-33 Victory on the Academy floor on Wednesday af ternoon. Jack Carrol, the Middies high scoring forward scored on a free toss in the closing minutes of the game to.give Navy the one..point margin of victory. This marks the second time in the last three games that the Lawthermen have lost on free throws. The previous game was a 46-4's' loss to Army in which a foul toss in the final, 30. seconds spelled defeat. State forged ahead midway in the first half on a field goal' by Milt Sison. Navy came back with two field goals to regain the'lead) and go on to i\vin;! keeping their undefeated record intact and be coming the only major undefeat ed college team in the east. Wally Hatkevich garnered five field goals and eight fouls for high scoring honors of ;the game. Navy’s Jack Carrol was second high with thirteen points. Four of these points came by way of field 1 goals and nine' by the foul! rdute. Four of these fouls coming in the last two minutes were enough to gain the victory for the Middies. Colgate's Red Raiders invade' the local court on Saturday night for the season's second encounter with the Lawthermen, In a prev ious lilt the Colgate squad emerg ed victorious on the long end! of a 67-51 count. The Box Score Navy G F ;P Nelson, f 2, 1 5 Carroll, f 2 9 ;13 Waldrop, c 4 0 8 Duden, g 1 1.3 Barrow, g 0 G O Shugart, g 2 1 5 Totals 11. 12 34 Penn Slate G F P Nugent, f 0 0 0 Simon, f 3 0 6 Light, f'. 1 0 2 Currie, c 1 1' 3 Funk, ,e 0 0. 0 Rusinko, g 2 0 4 Hatkevich, g 5 8 18 Totals 12 9 33 Halftime score: Navy, 20; Penn State 14.
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