Lions Eye Mountaineer
Home Victory Streak
Back from their recent 55-47 defeat at the hands of Navy, Penn
State's dribblers will remain idle until February 2 when they re
turn to the courts for a head-on clash with the University of West
Virginia. The Mountaineers are attracting national attention by
their brilliant home record of 48 consecutive victories.
Victors over North Carolina College by a 54-34 margin in their
last game, the Mountaineers will
play host to the Lions at Morgan
town, W. Va. The Rebels have
dropped only three contests this
season, losing to Bradley, North
Carolina State, at Raleigh, and
Manhattan, in Madison Squarf
Garden.
HEIGHTS
Last year Penn State's Lions
rose to spectacular heights as
they smote the highlflying Vir
ginians, 50-36, in their first
meeting at Penn State. However,
the Lions found themselves on
the short end of a 60-32 score
at Morgantown.
The 1948-'49 Mountaineer team
hung up a splendid record osev
enteen wins against three losses,
aiming for a berth in the Nation
al Invitational Tournament at
the Garden.
This year Coach Lee Patton has
assembled another top-flight ag
gregation, minus only one per
former, Leland Byrd. The Pat
tonmen are on their way toward
establishing an all-time consec
utive home victory record and
are determined not to be deterred
by a State team which has won
two games while dropping five.
SCHAUS
Coming back for another shot
at the Centre County hoopsters,
Patton will use Beach and Green
as his starting forwards, Fred
Schaus, 6-foot 4-inch pivot per
former, at the tap spot and Car
roll and Jackson will operate in
the backcourt.
Sparking the Mountaineers of
fense will be the rugged Schaus
who last year was held to four
points at Rec Hall but came back
with 15 tallie s on his home floor.
He played an instrumental part
in the Southerners' revenge. Car
roll led West Virginia in its first
loss to Penn State by garnering
11 markers.
The only State warriors who
saw action against West Virgin
ia last year are Milt Simon, Ter
ry Ruhlman and Carl Nordblom.
Simon looped in 12 points against
the Mountaineers in the Lions'
Rec Hall win.
The lineups
Penn State
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Petchel, Sam
Hit Books After
Hawaii Jaunt
After living like kings for al
most a month, two Penn State
grid stars, Sam Tamburo and El
wood Petchel, must resign them
selves to menial chores such as
term papers and blue books. The
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Petchel
turned last weekend from a tour
covering Florida, California and
Hawaii and in their spare time
played in three all-star football
games.
First stop for the traveling grid
ders was Miami, Florida, where
they played in the North-South
game Christmas day. Staying at
a $35-a-day hotel in Miami, the
Penn State athletes practiced
twice daily for the game and
basked on the beach and swam
in the gulf between workouts.
While in Florida, Tamburo met
his former first-grade school
teacher and a couple from New
Kensington, his hometown. The
hometown folks ushered the Lion
end and Petchel around the resort
and presented Tamburo with a
three-piece luggage set before he
left Miami.
WATCH 'ROSE' FESTIVITIES
California and the Rose Bowl
were the next stop on the tour,
and after getting up 6:30 New
Year's day, they were taken to
reserved seats to view the parade
and following it, the game.
Following a visit to the usual
points of interest in Los Angeles,
the football players traveled to
San Francisco and from there
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W. Virginia
Beach
Green
Schaus
Carroll
Jackson
Penn State's Newest
and Smoothest
Orchestra
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New to Penn State, the
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lished a fine record o!
satisfied listening. Featur
ing HAL CATHEMAN as
the vocalist, this nine
piece orchestra can give
your dance the ine:ody
touch you desire.
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West Virginia Coach
Sports Calendar
Jan. 21—Track, Phila Inquirer
Meet Philadelphia
22—Track, K of C, Boston
22—Swimming, Temple
State College
29—Skiing, Penna State
Meet Ligonier, Pa
29—Track, Millrose A.A.
New York
29—Wrestling, Army
State College
Boxing, Western Mary
land State College
Feb. 2,—8 ask et ba 11, Wes!
Virginia Morgantown
2—JV Wrestling, Lock
Haven Lock Haven
Foggmen Enter
Ligonier Meet
Coach Sherman Fogg has • his
team in excellent condition for
the Pennsylvania State Cham
pionship meet to be held at Lig
onier, Pa., January 29-30.
Up until two weeks ago, ski
team members had been working
out at the ski course, using snow
which they had lugged in baskets
after the Christmas snowfall.
They used the snow to build up
the jump and slalom course.
The cross-country runners are
the only team members who were
fortunate enough to have worked
out on snow since that time.
They were practicing techniques
on a strip of snow next to the
snow fence on the golf course.
The others have been keeping in
shape by doing various exercises
and running on the track in Rec
Hall.
Coach Fogg reports that he will
have a full squad ready for com
petition in the championship
meet at Ligonier, which will be
a virtual tryout for the team in
preparation for completion in the
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Mar. 11th & 12th—Eastern Intercollegiate
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Grapplers Await Tangle
With Unbeaten Cadets
A well-earned rest from competition confronts Venn State's un
defeated wrestling team. The matmen do not see action until next
Saturday, when they tangle with Army's unbeaten Black Knights
in the Speidelmen's first home attraction.
It will be the third consecutive week that Coach Charlie Speidel's
forces engage a spotless-record combination. Army has trounced
Brown, 23-8, and the United State Coast Guard Academy, 22-6, in
its two matches this year. The
Cadets and Lions tied at 14-14 in
1948.
ARMY CAPTAIN
- Captaining the West Point
charges will be 136-pound Ralph
Raabe, 1947 Eastern Intercollegi
ate Wrestling Association 128-
pound champion. Last year Raabe
was unsuccessful in defending his
crown, and placed second to
Franklin and Marshall's Stan
Mousetis.
Raabe suffered a wrist injury
in pre-season practice and may
not be available for the Nittany
meet. However, Coach Lloyd Ap
pelton has molded a well-balanced
squad and, with lettermen avail
able in virtually every weight,
the future Generals should give
the Blue and White plenty of com
petition.
Other Army veterans are Sam
Nicholson, 121; Abe Allan, 145;
Charlie Olentine, 155; Phile Lange,
165; and Lin Mather, heavyweight.
LINEUP
Lion Coach Speidel will prob
ably stick to his usual starting
lineup for the West Pointers, a
team that has
ground out two
impressive vic
tories over Cor
nell and Pripce
ton.
Vying for their
third straight
fall wins will be
the Nittanies'
"pin pair," Jim
Maurey, 145-
pounder, and
Heayyweight
Corman
Horner Barr.
Also seeking win number three
are Johnny Reese, 121 pounds, and
reliable Bob Hetrick at the 165-
pound post.
Al Fasnacht, who topped one of
the East's best 136-pounders in
Joe Colby of Cornell, should reign
supreme in eliminations, and will
be after his second victory of the
season. Grant Dixon, 155-pounder,
and Bill "Spider" Corman, at 175
pounds, will also be seeking their
second wins.
Jim Walker, loser of two straight
against extremely rugged compe
tition, is looking forward to his
first win of the season against the
Cadets.
Bowling Champs
Phi Kappa Tau, winners in the
"B" league, recently captured the
IFC bowling trophy by defeating
Theta Chi, "A" league champs,
8 to 0.
Each league had 16 teams in
competition.
Pool Closed
There will be no recreational
, ;wimming in the Glennlarld pool
Friday night because of the var
sity swimming meet with Temple
University scheduled for Satur
day afternoon.
FRIDAY. JANUARY 21, 1949
letween
The Et
limos
By Toni Morgan
SPORTS EDITOR
About Wheels
This is what a college sports
editor gets in his mail, with apolo
gies to all hard-working athletic
managers:
"Dear Tom, My name is Omar
Fudd and I'm quite the man
around campus; that is, they
tell me I am. I believe it, for
don't I wear a sweater with an
'S' attached! Buddy, I'm a let
terman! You ask what's my job.
I'm an athletic manager. I take
care of the team, see that they
have their ice for sprains and
twists, lemons and tea for halves
and new cleats for their shoes.
I'm essential. No man ever goes
out to play unless I issue him
a T-shirt and towel.
"Who keeps track of the plays
to give to the coach? I do! Im
portant, aren't I? When the game's
won and the players (as the papers
say) troop happily back to the
showers, who glad-hands them
and gets their smiles? I do, Mac,
I'm tops! Omar's the name.
"What did you say? Cleans
up? Well, I do. I pick up the
sweaty shirts, the dirty towels
and socks. How much time? Oh,
about 30 hours a week, but I
get a twelve-fifty sweater and
pay fifteen bucks to be a hat
man, and that makes up for it.
I'm a wheel!"
Mountaineer Finesse
What manner of basketball
cager is this West Virginia Moun
taineer, who craftily balances a
cowhide sphere upon his index
finger? From this picture sent
along by West Virginia, we infer
that Coach Lee Patton's Moun
taineer quint (appearing here
February 2) is well versed in the
art of ball-handling. This cager's
name, by the way, is Bob Jack
son, a brilliant guard.
Topnotch Card
Nittany students (Censuring
Sam our admiring fraternity
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