SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 190 Lions Seek 2nd Win, Battle Carnegie Tech Instead of finding the traditional "welcome" mat greeting them tonight at Rec Hall, Carnegie Tech's court quintet will encounter an "enter-at-your-own-risk" attitude as it tackles a determined Penn State combine in an 8 o'clock contest. Both squads will try to snap respective losing streaks, each Jefferson group by a 89-47 score collegiate entry having dropped its previous game. The Schenley Park brain factory team lost to a hot-and-cold Washington and Wednesday night, an d Penn State dropped its most recent fray. against Colgate, 58-40. Mike , Theodore highest scorer Between gat . The " 4r' Lions PO-It:-%•iikx By Tom Morgan SPORTS NUM Foggy Wit Witty Wilbert, our admiring fraternity brother, is alert for a novel twist of names and delights in drawing a neat association of persons' names and their pursuits. For example, yesterday he approached us this way: 'Penn State sure has the ap propriate names in the right sports. We got Fogg. the ski coach, wishin' for snow. Get it—Fogg and snow! A killer!" Wil emitted a loud guffaw and slapped us exuberantly in the small of the back, then bent over us prostrate on the floor and con tinued• "And there's That guy Red Waters on the swimming team. Get it—Waters on the swim team! What a juicy plum!" This time we missed the sting of his glad hand by executing a crude somersault. Vaulting to a standing position, we fled safely into a phone booth as the Witty One jarred the door and shouted something about a football pass ohucker named John Ch'uckran. When Wil's emotion and wit were exhausted we sauntered out of the booth and calmly posed: 'What can you do with Drs. aonovich and footballr 7 Sophs Vie In Washington Track Meet Seven sophomores will domi nate the Nittany Lion track squad tonight when the Penn State run ners vie for Individual honors in the Washington Star Invitational meet at Washington, D.C. Newcomers to the Blue and White squad will compete in seven events including the mile and two-mile relays. With Horace Ashenfelter still on the altok list from a broken foot received during the cross-country season and Jerry Karver on the alumni list, Coach Chick Werner will have to call on Sophomores John McCall and John St. Clair to step into the shoes formerly filled by the Lion "track twins". Two other sophs, Ron Coder and Victor Fritts, will compete in the field events, pole vault and high jump, while a fifth "underclass man", Bob Parsons, will run in the 1000-yard event. Bill Lockhart, another soph, will complete last year's trio of Wilbert Lancaster, Ike Evans and Paul Koch in the mile relay and in the two-mile relay, Sophomore Bob Freebairn completes the squad of John Bates, Bob Bour and Mitch `illiams. WIN-LESS The Lion relay team went through last year's indoor season without winning a meet, and with thre.: of the most outstanding squads, Texas A & M, Seton Hall and Villanova listed for that event, Penn State will be hard pressed to stay in the race. In the 70-yard high hurdles, Jim Gehrdes will open his indoor season tonight against strong op position. Gehrdes, who won the 120-yard hurdle race at the Sugar Bowl games in December, is ex pected to repeat his performance in Wulalagion. By Ray Koehler in the Pittsburgh area with 163 points in ten games, will lead Coach "Wild Bill" Donohue's at tack against the Lions. Coach John Lawther, State mentor, could take a page out of W.&J.'s book by jamming up the middle against the prolific-scor ing Pittsburgh center, who Is averaging 16 markers a game. The Presidents held Theodore to a mere ten points in Skibo Gym by the simple expedient of keep ing the ball out of his eager hands. Once mighty Mike was stopped, the whole Tartan offense col lapsed. Theodore is conceded to be one of the best all-around players in the Smoky City area, and according to press notices is a cinch to go down in Carnegie history as one of its all-time bas ketball greats. • The Plaid comes to State Col lege owning equally as lack luster a record as the Lions, 'win ning three—two more than the Lawt h e r crew—but dropping seven. Carnegie's• wins have been registered over Grove City, St. Vincent and Bethany College. RIEHL AT GUARD Donohue plans to use a mod erate fast break with a close man-to-man defensq. Jack Riehl, a star in his own right and Tech's best set shot, will be sta tioned at one of the guard spots. Running beside the 20-year-old senior will be Martin Chetlin, one of the fastest and best defen sive men on the team, despite his 5-feet, 8-inch stature. At the forward positions Don ohue will have Joe Matsey, one of his biggest men, at 6 feet, 3 inches, and Robert McCullugh, a Portland, Oregon sophomore, who is a deadly one-hand shot from anywhere within a 15-foot radius of the basket. For the Nittany Valley team-- which has copped one game while dropping four—about the only dribbler conceded a chance to out-gun the Tartan's Theodore is blond Milt Simon. Simon is be ing counted upon to supply the Lions' heavy artillery. Joe Tocci, State's leading point producer with 41 -tallies in five games, and Simon will handle the ball-handling chores. Marty Costa, main reason for the Lions' chance to rule the backboards, will guard the center lane, with Terry Kuhlman, senior class pres ident, and Ken Weiss opening at the forwards. Boxers Speed Up Drill Pace; Season Outlook Brightens Speeding up sparring sessions to three two-minute rounds, Coach Leo Houck's charges are quickly shaping into what looms to be one of the Lions' most successful ring units in recent years. • What was expected to be one of the sore spots of the '49 ring Lions, the 155-pound class which was left vacant when last season's captain and former Eastern champ Jackie Tighe graduated, will be ably filled by one of a host of boxing aspirants for that weight division. Leading the parade of con tenders for the 155 class is Jack Sheehe, last year's regular 145- pounder, who has gained sufficient weight to be able to compete in that division. 155 POUNDERS But it is going to be a nip-and tuck battle before a starter can be named. Bill Curtin, fraternity 155-pound champ; Pat Heims, a lanky Osceola Mills battler; Ted Best, Clark Young, Dick Dumm and George Neal all are in the race for a starting berth at 155 pounds. Only other position of the team which was vacant due to the loss of last years regular is the 135- weight class. But acording to pre_ sent day performances this class, next to heavyweight divison, will will be the Lions' strongest weight division with such alert ringsters as aggressive 011ie Wallace, Harry Papacharalambaus and Louis THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Football Wake . Rogel Places 38th Among Ground Gainers Smashing throuph the opposi tion for more than 600 yards, full back Fran Rogel finished the 1948, college season in 38th place among the nation's leading ground gainers, according to sta tistics released by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The list, composed of 60 of the nation's leading pigskin car riers, includes mainly scatbacks and break-away runners. Rogel is one of the few power plungers included in the ratings. The team as a whole finished the season in second place in rushing defense, allowing the op position only 83.3 yards per game, while in offense, the once defeated Lions placed 25th, with an average of 218.1 yards per game• Scoring three touchdowns and completing 23 passes, Sam Tam , buro, the Nittany Lion All- American end, finished the sea son in 20th place among the na tion's pass receivers. Elwood Petchel, who finished the season in 40th place in the passing department, completed .480 of his passes, but his Passes accounted for only 628 yards and nine touchdowns. STURGES In place-kicking, Carl Sturges finished in 19th place with a .781 percentage for 25 conversions in 32 attempts. The NCAA statistics also show that the Lions ranked 19th in pass defense, allowing opponents only 74.9 yards per game, and limiting the opposition to three touchdowns. Guthrie battling for the berth. Opening gong sounds January 29 against Western Maryland in Rec Hall. By Elliot Krone ONE OF FEW SALES Representative WANTED MEN'S OUTDOOR SPORTSWEAR . Sell colorful popular styled wool jackets, jackshuts, warm-up Jackets. leather jackets. mackinaws, etc. Low prices, high earnings, NO RISK. Unusual oppor tunity. Write for details. Spruce Apparel Co. 42 West 33rd Street NEW YORK CITY Nittany Wrestlers Meet Cornell Mat Combine Cornell University's wrestling team, one of the Zast's foremost mat aggregations, plays host to Coach Charlie Speidel's Lion grap plers tonight at Ithaca, N. Y. Acting Coach of the Big Red and former NAAU 145-pound champion, Erie "Jim" Miller, considers Penn State one of the high spots of the Cornell schedule and anticipates plenty of competition from the troublesome Nittanies The Cornell matmen are fresb from copping an upset 14-13 ver dict over last year's eastern king pin, Lehigh. ' Assistant Coach Charlie Ride nour has taken a squad of juniot varsity wrestlers on the trip. The Lion Cubs challenge the Cornell , Jayvees this afternoon. BARR AGR's Swamp Acacia, 32-5 Alpha Gamma Rho stumbled onto the perfect IM cage setup Thursday night a combination of air-tight defense and a point maker deluxe—to swamp 'Acacia, 32-5, on the Rec hall boards. Ray Heimbach was the point making star, skittering frequent ly under the Acacia hoop and piling through a total of 18 points. His mates backed him with a de fensive web that held the losers scoreless through the first half, and eased to allow only five in the second. "D" leaguers Sigma Nu and Chi Phi continued in a knot for their circuit " leadership. Sigma Nu, on the strength of fancy scoring by John Smidansky, easily trounced Alpha CM Sigma, 25-18; but the Chi Phi's had more trouble downing Pi Lamb da Phi by a whisker, 15-13. Phi Kappa Sigma walloped Sigma Phi Sigma, 30-13, and Sigma Pi beat Delta Theta Sig ma, 17-9, to keep the "C" circuit tied. In other action, Phi Kappa bounced Triangle, 22-13; Phi Kappa Tau defeated Sigma Phi Alpha, 20-5; Sigma Phi gpsilon edged Delta Chi, 21-19, and Alpha Phi Alpha slid by Alpha Sigma Phi, 10-8. Monday's schedule follows: 8:95 p.m.— Alpha Epsilon Pi vs. Pi Continued on page four The Paleface Wears 'urn SPECIAL.. For Seniors Only! One Bxlo La Vie Portrait Unmounted . . . Only '1.50 Special for Week of 17th Come in and see on display the individual portraits of the Class of 1949 at the Penn State Photo Shop College Avenue PACIIC THR Homer Barr, promising Blue and White heavyweight, receirn the acid teat tonight. He meek Dick. Clnrig, one of the top heavies in the EIWA, who has a win and a draw 'with Lehigh's Don Bernd) as his season's record. Speidel is counting on the former Clearfield grappler to aid the Lions this year, and the Barr- Clark duel should prove one al the evening's top bouts. If Bari does get past Clark, he can look forward to a successful season. IotAXIBET Another ex-Cleariielder, Jive Maurey, will be out for 'his second win in the 145-pound class. He tangles with John Adams. Gibes varsity grapplers will be Jobs Reese, 121; Jim Walker or Jacit Dreibelbis, 128; Al Fasnacht, 138 Grant Dixon, 155; Bob Hetrick. 165, and Bill "Spider" Corman 175-pounds. Jayvee slots will be held down by George Schautz, 121• Dreible bis or Walker, 128; " Buc icy" Edin ger, 186; Mickey Silverman, 145; Larry Shallcross, 155; Aubrey Mcllvaine, 165; Bob Markle, 175 and Wally Chambers, heavy weight.
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