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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