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
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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.
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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
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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.