PAGE EIGHT Royce Newell, 6-foot-8-inch Syracuse center, gets acquainted with Mike Stark, 5-foot-8-inch Orange star who's one of the cleverest passers in the nation. Both will appear Saturday night in Rec Hall. Villanova Battles State in '49 Grid Opener Here Penn State's gridders will open their 1949 pigskin season against Villanova's Wildcats on New Beaver field September 24, one week before the Army game, Harold R. Gilbert,. graduate manager of athletics, announced recently. The addition of Villanova, wh Bowl on New Year's Day and is mentor, Jim Leonard, brought to four the number of newcomers to next fall's grid agenda. NEW STANDS Contests with Boston College ”cl. Nebraska on New Beaver 'l;eld, and Army at West Point had previously been announced. Gilbert, in announcing the com plete 1949 schedule of the Lion's, added that the new 30,000 foot- Lail stands slated for completion, in time for the opening grid game. Construction of the new steel stands, doubling the seating capacity of New Beaver field, had previously been authorized by the College and work has already started on the stands. The Lions will again play a nine-game slate next fall with th card looming to be one of the Y.fl.)St attractive in recent years although the Penn game does not appear on the schedule. Villanova, n...4t0n College, Nebraska and Syracuse are scheduled in home contests. OTHERS The Nittanynien will continue omtracts with West Virginia, at Morgantown, Temple at Philadel phia, Michigan State at East Lan sing, Pitt at Pittsburgh, in addi tion to Army at West Point. Missing from last season's slate during which the Lions won seven, tied one and lost one, are Bucknell, Colgate, Penn and Washington State. Penn State and Villanova last battled in 1936 when the Phila delphians upset the Lions, 13-0, for their only victory in seven attempts. The Blue and White won five times, the first time in 1902, while the 1910 contest ended in a scoreless tie. The schedule: Sept. 24 Villanova, home OCL 1 Army, away 1.. Boston College, home 15 Nebraska, home 22... Michigan State, way 211 Syracuse, home Nov. 5.. . . West Virginia, away It Temple, away 1$ Pitt. away Long Haul Penn State's graduate manager of athletics, Harold R. "Ike" Gil bert, served as assistant graduate manager for 31 years. ch defeated Nevada in the Harbor ow under the guidance of a new Tankmen Meet Syracuse Crew Apparently it is the Blue and White's fate to meet the fore most in Eastern swimming circles, for Coach Gutteron's n a t a tors battle one of the best balanced swim units in the East Saturday when they take on Syracuse in the upstater's home pool. Both Syracuse and the Lions will be out to break above the .500 mark. The Orange have a one-and-one record, having sub dued Hamilton College after dropping their opening meet to Princeton. The Nittany splashers dropped their opener against a formidable swim array from Cornell and then went on to squeeyA , by Temple, 39-36. COACH COMMENTS "Cornell and Syracuse are the two of the toughest opponents on our schedule," said Gutteron shortly before the team departed for Syracuse. "I don't know what our chances will be but we'll be in there trying all the time." Gutteron is depending heavily on his breaststroke combination of Walt Munhall, Bob Fritts and Ed Sweeten to bring back the bacon for the Lions. Recently setting a new Penn State pool record in the 100, team captain Bill Schildmacher is ex pected to offer tough opposition as he does his stuff in the 50- and 100-yard dashes and on the relay team. DIVERS The diving team of Cal Foims bee, Rudolph Valentino and Dick Hannah is performing rccullar competition dives and with the veteran Folmsbee leading the way the Nittanymen are hoping for a high point total in the diving events. Coach Gutteron is pleased with th e performances of Jack Senior and Cass Borowy. Both mermen are newcomers to the Penn State 41300 L. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Lawther Courtmen Encounter Top-flight Syracuse Cage Foe After absorbing a 52-28 lacing from the West Virginia Mountaineers. tany Lion basketball team will have to forget its wounds and prepare for Syracuse, who will invade Rec Hall Saturday night at 8:30. Keeping to within a few points of the tall Morgantown team unable to cope with the West Virginia attack led by Captain Fr dropped behind, 26-17, at the half. In the third period, the Nittany defense held the Mounts in check and the home team was able to score only three points. But in the final frame, the superior ac curacy and height of the victors spelled defeat for the Penn State courtmen Only 12 per cent of the Nittany shots went through the hoop while the est Virginia squad con nected with 40 per cent. PAR "I rate Syracuse on a par with Colgate" said Coach John Lawther. "Syracuse has a tall team and with their height and experience, they will be hard to stop." Outstanding on the visitors' squad is Royce Newell six-foot, eight-inch Orange center. Newell, who is now in his fourth season with the team, racked up 701 points in his first three years and has hooped 113 so far this season. The towering center is noted for his accuracy and rebound work. A sophomore scoring star, John Kiley, leads the Orange attack. The six-foot hoopster hit the cords for 31 points against lowa State earlier this season and is current ly leading the visitors' scoring with 173 points. STICKEL Second in scoring and a clever dribbler and playmaker, Ed Stickel, is slated for action Sat urday. With 123 points this season and 789 for a collegiate total, Stickel is aiming at the 1000 mark this year. The Syracuse cagers opened their season by trouncing both Toronto and Ithaca in a double header. Coach Lew Andreas di vided his squad in half and neither segment had trouble in trouncing its opponent. A strong Denver team, featur ing Olympic Star Vince Boryla, just nipped Syracuse, 65-63, in the final 15 seconds of the con test. The Orangemen, employing a two-platoon system, used the defensive team against the Pioneers in the final minutes and failed to keep the visitors in check. A fair Quantico Marine squad fell before the big guns of the Orange team, and after six min utes of play, Coach Andreas re moved the varsity and substituted his regulars with the second and third squads. With Kiley again leading the team, Syracuse captured a big lead and held onto it to trounce Cornell, 49-44, but a fast-breaking Canisius squad outscored the Continued on page ten IM Cagers To Renew Action; Bischoff Calls Others Soon With intramural basketball breaking out into renewed action with nine games on the Recreation hall hardwood next Tuesday, IM athletes gird themselves for a sport-packed Spring semester that will span the indoor season and continue until classes end. Eleven more nights of cage play are scheduled before league champions are determined, and the IM department plans a post- season playoff for fraternity leagues to choose the fratenity champion. Four other indoor sports, bad minton, handball, voleyball and wrestling, will call for partici pants in the next couple of weeks, Gene Bischoff, IM athletic direc tor announced yesterday. Wrest ling will proceed on a night-to night schedule similar to last semester's intramural boxing. In structions on all the sports will be available when the notice for entries appears. Most of the intramural basket ball teams have fought through five of their scheduled seven or eight league games, but in the six fraternity leagues, as in the six independent circuits, no team has yet acquired a large enough first- SUBS OTHERS By Elliot Kum +~ i k- Feb. 4-5--Skiing, St. Law rence Winter Carnival, at Can ton, N. Y. Feb. s—lndoor Track, Mich igan State Relay, at E. Lansing Feb. s—lndoor Track, Bos ton A.A., at Boston. Feb. s—Basketball, Syracuse, at home, 8:30 p.m. Feb. s—Boxing, Army, at home, 7 p.m. Feb. s—Wrestling, Syracuse, at Syracuse. Feb. s—Fencing, Army, at West Point. .Feb. 5--Swimming, Syracuse, at Syracuse. Feb. 7—Gymnastics, Michi gan State, at E. Lansing. Relay Team Snares First In New York After winning its first mile re lay contest in over a year, the Penn State winter track team will try for a repeat performance Sat urday night when it travels to Boston for the Boston Athletic Association meet. The Nittany quartet found the going rough in both the Inquirer and Boston Knights of Columbus meets during the vacation and were unable to place in the in vitational meets. Finally, after three attempts, the squad com posed of Wilbert Lancaster, Paul Koch, Bill Lockhart and John McCall posted a win in the Mill rose Games last Saturday in New York. GEHRDES In the high hurdle races, Penn State's ace, Jim Gehrdes was topped by Baldwin Wallace's un defeated hurdler, Harrison Dill ard. In the Inquirer meet, Gehrdes breezed through the quarter and semi-finals, out sprinting both Ed Dugger of the Dayton A.C. and Bill Mitchell of Georgetown. Dillard had to equal the world's record to nip Gehrdes at the tape by less than a yard. Again in the Boston K of C meet the Baldwin Wallace hurd ler nipped Penn State's entry and last week in the Millrose Games, Gehrdes placed third behind Dug ger and Dillard. Penn State's entry in Satur day's meet will include Gehrdes plus a mile 'relay team. place margin to be a shoo-in for the crown. SLATE Action next week will be on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday nights. Tuesday's schedule fol. lows: 8:45 p.m.—Berletics vs. Rum mies, court one; Kappa Sigma vs. Theta Kappa Phi, court two; Delta Tau Delta vs. Beta Sigma Rho, court three. 9:25 p.m.—Beta Theta Pi vs. Theta Xi, court one; Phi Sigma Kappa vs. Lambda Chi Alpha, court two; Speedsters vs. Priva teers, court three. 10:05 p.m.—Matilda Chi vs. Ward 2, court one; Smooth Schmoos vs. Q. Quintet, court two; Jordan Hall via. Red Flashes, court three. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1949 Wednesday night, the MO another powerful opponent, n the first period, the Lions were ed Schaus and Eddie Beach and Between The By Tom Morgan SPORTS EDITOR Lion Guest Guest of honor at the 6-2 whip ping administered Western Mary er NCAA champ and donor of the Goodman trophy, Frank Good man. An ex-Nittany fighter, Good man now is a trophy manufactur er in Philadelphia. Disappointed Lion heavyweight Chuck Dra zenovich was disappointed over the outcome of his contest with Western Maryland's Joe Corlet to. A steadfast ELBA rule cost the Eastern Champ his seventh straight win. In the dressing room after the bout, Corletto also expressed dis appointment when he said: "I sure hope for a return bout in the Easterns. That'll settle the issue for good." Worried The .exigencies .of .schedule making leave us a bit cautious in trying to evaluate the Lion team outlook in wrestling. According to all results and rat ing systems, the Speidelmen were 'blessed" with what were prob ably three of their easiest foes of the season in the first three meets —as easy as wrestling foes come, that is. That the Lion§ copped three straight has resulted in what Speidel himself calls "a general over-optimism." He declares: "This year it looks like Syracuse. Lehigh, Franklin and Marshall and Navy are about tops in the East.' Since the Nittany Lions battle three of these four in ensuing meets, we laymen can draw some picture of the task before the Speidelmen. As we see it, a Penn State mat victory over just one of the trio Syracuse,.. Lehigh. . Navy would be a tremendous accom plishment. Our proof for this is simple. Navy won its 49th consecutive dual meet recently by drubbing Yale, 17-9, despite a bumper crop of ' injuries on the Annapolis roster. Lehigh boasts at least four wrestlers—led by Eric and Edwin Erikson—who are undefeated in their weight classes to date in five meets, and Syracuse's crew is comparable to that of Lehigh. The Orange dropped its only meet a strong F & M team. Tigh Tidbit We received a welcome Wier from Jackie Tighe, ex•Nittany boxer now on the athletic staff of the U. of Illinois at Chicago pier. Penn State never graduated a oetter booster of everything Nit tany than the likeable Tighe, ex collegiate boxing champ at State. He sends regards to all his friends 9ti campus and says: "I'm hoping, I'll be back for the RIBA sched uled for March at State." From the Morgue) Lion Fullback Fran Roger _was interviewed over a Pittsburgh radio station this week by Deb Prince, sportscaster. Conversation ranged from the Pitt and Pion games of '4B to the Lions' ell-foe team and "Punchy's" pro ambi tions. Ray Conger, director of recrea tional activities, is author of a popular track and field volume published by A. S. Barnes and Cu. . . . Incidentally, watching Conger's movies of Lion wres tling meets is akin to enjoying a mat-side seat. Joe .Bedenk. .State .baseball coach, recently finished his one year term as prenie of the Na tional Association of Collegiate baseball coaches and joined die executive board at that grow
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