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Eicuntaineers 'Freeze'
To Win Thriller, 49-47
A fieldgoal by West Virginia's great Fred Schaus with only 1:50 seconds of play remaining
gave the Mountaineers a climactic 49-47 win last night at Rec Hall to dash Penn State's hopes of
scoring one of the top upsets of the current basket ball season.
The spine-tingling finish left a nail-biting crowd of some 3500 partisan students limp as, follow
ing Schaus' deciding bucket, the tall, flashy-passing cohorts of Coach Lee Patton successfully froze
the ball for the remaining seconds of play.
KEEP PACE
Penn State's courtsters astounded the crowd by keeping right
up with the talented blue-and-gold-clad Rebel cagers—at one time
holding a ten-point advantage. But with Ed Sterling, 6-foot 1-inch
guard, and Schaus each scoring 11 counters the final half, the victors'
final drive wouldn't be denied
The loss sent Penn State past the halfway mark on its 17-game
schedule clinging to a three-and
seven record. West Virginia, en
hancing its 30th place tie among
top collegiate quintets in the
country with Southern Califor
nia, brings its current season
standing to 11 wins against five
losses
The tall, rangy Schaus came
within two tallies of tying the
Rec Hall individual point scoring
record, currently held by Col
gate's Ernie Vandeweghe and
Ed Brett, by sending 23 counters
through the meshes. The 6-foot
5-inch forward garnered a ma
jority of his ten two-pointers on
pass-offs from Clyde Green, West
Virginia's pivot performer.
SIMON
Milt Simon, who played a
bang- i up game for Coach John
Lawther's warriors, tried val
iantly to stem the visitors' last
half drive by scoring 15 points
-11 the first half and four the sec
ond—to lead State's scoring at
tack. Simon was aided by Ken
Weiss and Marty Costa, both of
whom chipped in with seven
points. Sterling, who caught fire
the second half, was runner-up
for West Virginia with 14 points.
The Pattonmen started out
fast, displaying one of the
fanciest passing team seen here
in a long time, and bvilt up an
early 8-3 lead, but Lawther's
crew soon found the range and
began hitting from all angles,
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Costa's tap-in and foul shot just
before the 10-minute period gave
State a hard-earned 16-14 edge.
In the second stanza the fray
7,ettled down to a stirring scor
ing duel between Simon and
Schaus. With Lou Lamie and
Whitey McKown controlling the
backboards State held a ten
point 32-22 lead at halftime.
Using a close defense, West
Virginia slowly but inevitably
cut the Lions' margin until the
defense conscious Nittanymen
found themselves with only a
40-36 three-quarter lead.
The final quarter saw Weiss,
blond ace from Allentown, try
desperately to pull his mates up
by their sneaker laces but his
efforts went for naught. After
Schaus had given his mates
their lead. Bob Jackson added a
final foul conversion but the
damage had already been done.
Penn State's varsity quintet
will swing back into action Sat
urday night in Philadelphia when
they tackle Temple University
at Convention Hall as part of a
collegiate doubleheader.
Penn State FG F FT Ttl
Nordblom
Ituhlman, f
BEIM
MeKown, f 0 0 0 0
Costa, c
Simon, g
Toed, g
Weiss, g
Totals 19 9 15 47
West Virginia FG F FT Ttl
Schaus, f
Rynn, I
153M2ffi
Green, c
Sterling, g
ickson. g 0 1 3 1
idaris, g
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENI4SYLVANIA
The Nittany Realm
Clarence "Dutch" Sykes flipped an aspirin to his boss, IM Ath
letic Director Gene Bischoff, gulped one himself, and both settled
back to the task of drafting the intramural basketball schedule.
"You see," Gene said, "we can't put this independent team in
league 'C.' There'd be two of last season's champs playing in the
same circuit that way. We'll stick them down here in 'F.'
"And this fraternity team. 'Can't put it in this league because
the chief swimming rival of that house plays there. We'd have too
strong a rivalry built up between just two fraternities at the ex
pense of spoiling the spirit and competition throughout all '49."
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"Okay," said Dutch, "but this team in 'D' is that fraternity's
next door neighbor. It'll be the same as putting them with their
swimming opponent.
"And we can't create another league. When playoffs come, the
finals work out best if the number of champions is a power of two:
16, 8, 4,—like that. We'd better stick to eight. This house will fit
in 'A'."
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And so they go. But making up the league card is hardly .half
the job. There's also the task of fitting the schedule to meet the
limitations on time and place facilities at the College.
Basketball is restricted mostly by the time factor. The varsity
squad needs the space for nightly practice, meaning a late start for
IM cage games. Then Rec hall is becoming more and more the
center of large student activities—the formals, registration and
graduation.
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The IM department has a problem about vacations too. Bischoff
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Wettstone Expects
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By Red Roth
There's no rest for the weary.
Coach Gene Wettstone and his
gymnastic contingent, who re
turned from East Lansing, Mich.,
at 2 o'clock yesterday morning,
leave again tomorrow, this time
for Syracuse, N. Y., and a meet
with an Orange gym. squad that
is "out to get them," Saturday
night.
Between train hops Captain Bill
Bonsall and company will man
age to inject two additional days
of practice, yesterday and today.
Wettstone looks on Saturday's
meeting as a close affair likely to
be decided by reserve strength
and luck."
"The meet with Syracuse may
not be decided until the last of
the six events, the tumbling corn
petition," Wettstone said yester
day.
"We've heard from the grape
zinc that Coach Paul Romeo's
- quad is up for this meet. In fact
hey probably want to beat us
nore than any other opponent on
heir schedule. Of course we're
, ut to keep our undefeated rec
ord intact, also. It all adds up to
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NEIGHBORS
Veteran
Oldest mentor in Intercollegiate
Boxing Association coaching
ranks is Penn State's. Leo Houck,
now 60 and head boxing man a
the College for the last 27 years.
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IURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1949
Between
The,s.ik - t•
Liong-
By Tom Moigan
SPORTS EDITOR
On Fisticuffs
Witty Wilbert, our admiring
fraternity brother, approached
us last night and offered a few
prime quips. Said Wil:
"'Tis all fine 'n' dandy, this
intercollegiate boxing rule that
says I can't holler for the Dras
when he's in the act o' lapin'
the leather to Some Larry Lay
down in the Rec Hall ring. It
helps put the fighters on more
even terms, I c'n see, by elimi
natin' the clamor from 5000
fans yellin' for Chuck t' clobber
him.
"But, 'cha know, the guy who
made up that rule, I'll bet, was
no psychologist. 'Cause it's agin'
my human nature to bottle up
my lungs 'n' stay lilly-white 'n'
peaceful when I see two guys
beltin' each other."
Wilbert assured us he was
not campaigning against the
rule by saying: "Now don't get
me wrong. I'm going to try to
shut up next time Benglian or
the rest of them are slingin'
punches, but it's gonna be
hard, Got my poi n t, don't
'cha?"
We said we had, and changed
ther subject to basketball by ask
ing Wil if he had made any bets
lately on the outcome of Nittany
cage games.
"After
" that Syracuse game last
weekend," answered Wil, "I'll
never bet again."
"Oh, yes, you will," we re
turned.
"I don't think so. How much
will you bet I won't?"
Charlie's Fan Mail
Back in '32 Grantland Rice,
noted sports columnist, asked
Wrestling Coach Charlie Spei
del to stage an intra-squad
meet in Rec Hall for a "Sport
light" sound film. Thousands of
Lion sport fans turned out sec
ondarily to see the meet, pri
marily to "get in the movies."
The result was a Penn State
film which Speidel calls the "only
one of its kind concerning ama
teur wrestling." Now the 17-
year-old film has been dusted off
and is being shown on television,
so Charlie now receives belated
mail from appreciative fans who
exclaim: "I saw you on television
the other day."
All for Fun
We quote Harry Grayson.
NEA sports editor:
"Down through the years the
only two worthwhile profes
sional boxers have come out of
the college ranks—Steve Mi
mes and Billy Soose, both of
Penn State."
Leo Houck, who tutored this
duo along with more than 50
other Eastern and National Col
legiate champions at State, says:
"Most collegiate boxers don't
want to go at it seriously.
They're only out for the fun
and the varsit' letter. Any boy
with professional ambitions is
a rarity among college fight
ers, and the few who do arrive
at a campus waste some of
their best boxing years."
Although Houck maintains that
some college boxers could make
top pros, he says, "They'd have
to ' put boxing ahead of every
thing else to become a good pro
fessional. In college their pri
mary interest is a degree, not
boxing."
From the Morg(ue)
Bill "Spider" Corman, Nit
tany first-string wrestler, was
a State Teachers College mat
champ while a freshman at
California State Teachers Col
lege.... In addition, he earned
the first-team quarterback post
on an undefeated football
eleven that included Fran
Rogel at full, Chuck Beatty at
center, Bob Ross at tackle,
Paul Kelly at guard, and sev
eral others now well-known to
Lion fans....
Track Coach Chick Werner
owns an interest in a shoe Zoo. ,
tory. • • •