PAGE FOUR Strong W & J Quintet Opens Cagers' Season The College basketball team will be put to the test tomorrow night at 8 o'clock in Rec Hall when Coach John Lawther' s courtmen will try to stop the undefeated, high-scoring Washington and Jeffer- son squad Scoring a 74-29 win in their first tilt and a 63-40 decision in their second, the Presidents will descend upon the Nittany Valley with the intentioh of making the Lions their third straight victim. In an effort t o slow down the invaders, Coach Lawther will em ploy his score-stopping sliding zone defense. Two six-foot-three-inch guards, Stretch Bozinsky of Nanticoke and John Kulp of Great Neck, L. I. will form the defensive part of the team, while six-root Jack Biery of Philadelphia. five foot 9', 1 2, inch Milt Simon of Erie, and six-foot one-inch Iry Bat nick will take care of the scoring Punch, ACCURATE SHOOTING According to the reports brought back by Coach John Lawther, who scouted the Prexies last Saturday. the W. and J. squad is tall. fast and very accurte. In ',heir first encounter they made 56 percent of their shots which is an exceptional record considering the 74 points that they rolled op. Bertley Alcorn. six4foot one inch guard and Charles Devic. six-foot forward, sank eight goals in ten tries in last Saturday's en counter. while forwards Andy Mestrovic and Dave Knoche hit the cords for 3 for 6 and 3 for 4 respectively. Two carers on the President' roster. Tom Mears and Ray For atter. are nlaying in their fourth season with the team. Both of these men played on the W. and J. team that took the national THERE'S NO PLACE ON EARTH LIKE . . . • e i t ‘ • •-• ' • HENRY'S PARADISE CAFE 114 S. Spring Street BELLEFONTE, PA. with the Tru-Blu Ouinfet 'Wild Dave' Briner 'Pops' Greenly The Old Professor 'Shoeless Lou' Levi 'Mouse' Miller Every Friday and Saturday 8:30 - 12:30 ON THE AIR OVER WMAJ 11:30 - 12 EXCELLENT SERVICE No Cover • N o Minimum THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA championship at Madison Square Garden a few years ago. Lions Finish Fourth in AP One of the nation's three un defeated an d untied football titans, Penn State ranked fourth in the final weekly Associated Press poll of 246 -sports writers throughout the country. Notre Dame was named the top team of 1947, copping the title for the sec ond straight year. Southern Methodist's Mus tangs, the Lions' New Year's foe, finished in the third slot behind Michigan, which captured second place in the voting. Following are the final stand ings of the first ten teams, based on a 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 system of scoring, with season won-tied lost records in parentheses: I—Notre Dame (9-0-0) ...1,410 2—Michigan (9-0-0) 1 289 3—So. Methodist (9-0-1). 975 4—Penn State (9-0-0) .... 853 s—Texas (9-1-0) 757 6—Alabama .(8-2-0) 617 7—Pennsylvania (7-0-1) .. 525 B—So. California (7-1-1). 354 9—No. Carolina (8-2-0) .. 295 10—Georgia Tech (9-1-0). 278 RED MOORE Ex-Lion Cops All-NFL Post Bill "Red" Moore, stellar cap tain of last year's Penn State football team, was named to the United Press All-National Foot ball League team in his first year of professional football. His team mate on the Pitt Steelers, Chuck Cherundolo, another f ormer Lion gridder, was named second team center in the U.P. poll. A 220-pbund five-foot eleven inch tackle on the 1946 College team, Moore gained recognition by playing with Andy Kerr's "East" team in the annual East- West football game last year. After graduating in June, he signed with the Steelers and has been playing for them at the guard position during the 1947 season. Chuck Cherundolo, a ten-year veteran with the Pittsburgh club, hails from Old Forge, Pa.. and Moore makes his home in Roch 2ster, Pa. Sigma Nu Enlarges IM Lead ; Lennox Out-slugs Keller The Sigma Nu's are practically a shoo-in for the 1947 intramural boxing team crown. Yesterday afternoon, Tommy Halligan, Bill Mac- Donald, and Fritz Lennox joined Don Roy and Don Myers as the Sigma Ni fighter s In the finals. Halligan defeated Georgia Schautz, DU, last year's izi pound champ, while MacDonald decisioned Paul Schweitzer, KDR, in a slow fight in the unlimited division. Lennox had by far the rougher time in his match with Phi Kap- .?hi Eps Trounce PiKPhi, 46-10 Phi Epsilon Pi established a new scoring record for the 1947-48 IM basketball season as they sub merged Pi Kappa Phi under an avalanche of field goals, 46-10, in one of the top tilts on Wednes day night's cage program. Marc Claster with 12 points led the assault for the Phi Eps, close ly followed by Rittmaster with 10 and Freedson with 9 markers. The win, third straight for the Phi Eps, placed them in a first place tie with Phi Delta Theta, who also won Wednesday night, in fraternity league "C." The Phi Delts kept pace with Phi Epsilon Pi by chalking up their third consecutive win, a 32-20 triumph over previously undefeated Chi Phi. Shaffer and Sheehe were top scorers for PDT with 12 points apiece, while Slo bada paced the losers with 10 tallies. Another dose race developed in fraternity league "A" as both Beta Sigma Rho and Phi Kappa Psi notched triumphs to remain undefeated. The Beta Sigs, led by Miller, swamped Delta Theta Sigma, another championship contender, 31-15, and Phi Kappa Psi toppled Phi Kappa, 23-10. A vastly-improved Sigma Pi team downed Sigma Phi Alpha, 41-10, as Mather, rangy Sigma Pi center, broke the individual scor ing record for the season by bas keting 17 points. The tall Sigma Pi five played the rebounds off the boards well to cop the deci sive win. Other scores were: Alpha Zeta 17, Triangle 6; Al pha Phi Alpha 24. Kappa Delta Rho 11; Phi Gamma Delta 19, Al pha Tau Omega 10; Acacia won by forfeit from Theta Xi. Monday night's schedule: B:4s—Sigma Alpha Epsilon-Phi Kappa Sigma, court 1; Delta Tau Delta-Delta Chi, court 2; Zeta Beta Tau - Alpha Phi Delta, court 3. 9:2s—Tau Phi Delta-Phi Sigma FRIDAY. DECEMBER 12, 1947 pa Sig Bob Keller. Keller sur prised the throng watching the fights by slugging it out with last year's 165-pound king for three rounds. Mike Kutsenkow, Sigma Chi, went into the finals by winning over Howard Wilde, KDR, by a T.K.O. in the 121-pound HANFORD IN FINALS Ed Hanford, PiKA, runner-up to Lennox in last year's meet, won over Larry Spencer, Beta Theta Pi, despite a third round knockdown by Spencer. Sam Greenlee, Alpha Sigma Phi, defeated Ed Loy, Alpha Gamma Rho, to go into the finals, while Laird Robertson, Phi Delta Theta, decisioned a surprisingly fast Curt Crooks, of AGR, at 155 pounds. In other bouts. Chuck Hoyt, Chi Phi, fought a fast and hard battle in taking a decision from the Alpha Chi Sig's John Bruck ner; and the Phi Delta Theta's Frank Mattern notched his place in the finals by taking Paul Smith, AGR, in a 165-pound slug ' fest. The finals will be held next Wednesday evening, Dc•?2mber 17, immediately following the var sity basketball game with Buck nell. Aground the Rim While the Nittany Cagers were practicing for their opener to morrow night, their opponents had already started fighting for national honors. Monday night West Virginia marked up its sec ond straight win by outscoring Brigham Young 68-51. Wednesday nigh t Syracuse downed St. Joseph 63-51, Car negie Tech topped Grove City 54-41, DePauw defeated Canter bury 53-38, Washington and Jef ferson rolled over St. Vincent's 63-40, and Temple reversed Del aware 64-46. Kappa, court 1; Phi Sigma Delta- Alpha Sigma Phi, court 2; Sigma Nu-Alpha Gamma Rho, court 3. 10:05—Sigma Phi Epsilon-Al pha Chi Sigma, court 1; Delta Upsilon-Phi Kappa Tau, court 2; Beta Theta Pi-Theta, court 3.
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