PAGE FOUR
Lions Host Unbeaten
Army Gym Forces
What slim chances the Nittany Lion gymnasts possess of re
taining even a partial hold on the Eastern Intercollegiate gym title
will be put to a severe test tomorrow afternoon.
The Lion gym aggregation will play host to Army's unbeaten
Cadets at 2 p.m. in Rec Hall to start off Saturday's parade of sports
events. The soldiers, who are rated an excellent chance to annex the
crown themselves, will be out to
put a damper on Nittany hopes of
sweeping their remaining three
meets and emerqing in a tie for
the championship they won last
year,
UNBEATEN
So far this season Army has
trounced five foes in dual meets.
Only one of the five, Syracuse, is
a member of the Eastern Inter
collegiate Gymnasti, Conference.'
This same Syracuse team which
bowed to the Black Knights two
weeks ago snapped a victory
string of 13 consecutive dual
meets without a loss when it
downed the Blue and White gy_.i
aggregation, 55-40, at Syracuse
last Saturday.
Despite this evil foreboding,
Coach Gene Wettstone feels his
team has a good chance of up
setting the favored Army crew.
"Syracuse defeated us because
they had at least one outstanding
man in each of the six events,"
Wettstone said. "Army, on the
other hand, has no tumbler in a
class with Valentino and Meade.
This bulge we possess in the
tumbling competition may give
us a better chance to beat the
Cadets than we had to trounce
Syracuse last week."
WEAKNESS
• That old bugaboo, weakness in
the rope climb event, will ham
per Lion chances again tomorrow.
All three of this year's men in the
event are participating in their
first year of rope climb competi
tion.
This inexperience, which had
a major part to play in last week's
loss to the Orangemen, may prove
disastrous.
Army returns to Rec Hall to
morrow with virtually the same
squad that lost a 55-41 meet to
the Lions last year.
The difference this season is
that while Coach Thomas E. Mal-
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oney's men now have an added
year's experience under their
belt, the Nittanyites have lost
practically all of last year's squad
through graduation.
The best of the Cadet crop is
Louis Jamison. Eastern champion
on the flying rings. Jack Hodges,
who placed second in the cham
pionships in 1948, is an outstand
ing competitor on the horizontal
bar.
For the Lions the same 12 men
that participated in the Syracuse
meet will be entered again. Four
of these men, Captain Bill Bon
sall, Rudy Valentino, Bal Meade,
and Mike Kurowski, will carry
the big load in tomorrow's dual
competition,
Should Army conquer Coach
Wettstone's gymnasts, the Cadets
meet next week with undefeated
Temple would probably decide
the next Eastern Intercollegiate
titleholder.
Following the meeting tomor
row, the Lions must still face two
other Eastern foes, Navy and
Temple, on successive weekends.
Jayvee Lineup
Following is the boxscore of
the recent Navy-Lion Jayvee
game:
NAVY
G F TI
5 2 12
1 71
Olson 2 2 0
MeLeman 0 0 0,
Lsnsill 1 1 31
Rennenian t, 1 1
Cornwell 1 0 0
0 0 0
Simmone 2 0 4'
Nehm 0 0 0
Totals 17 7 41
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
LINEUP
Penn State
G F T
Shuptar 2 0 4
'l'egtmeyer 0 0 0
I)eDone 7 3 17
Meisel 0 0 0
Lawther • 0 4 4
Kokoska 1 2 4
Clark 0 0 0
Storer 2 3 7
Lagunosky 11 1 1
Amprirn 1 1 3
Totals 13 14 40
Hoopsters Eye Revenge
Against Pesky Panthers
Pittsburgh's pesky Panther, which seems to delight in twisting the Lion's tail, will bid for its
second victory over Penn State's cagers this sea son when the two ancient rivals collide on the Rec
Hall boards tomorrow at 8 p.m
The Skyscraper U. quintet, recently returned from a disastrous road trip
during which it suffered a skein of eight consecutive setbacks, tangled with a
club Wednesday night. The Pittmen dropped a 54-51 decision.
After his team embarked on the
1948-'49 season in grand style,
copping 8 of his first h starts,
Coach H. C. "Doc" Carlson'. "win
'em all" cry was quickly muffled
by the Panthers' lack-lustre
showing in the western badlands.
Carlson figures, however, that
with a few breaks, six out of the
eight games might have resulted
in Pittsburgh victories.
POTENTIAL
From the coach on down, the
Nittany team recognizes the po
tential explosive power of the
Smoky City outfit, which has won
nine while losing eleven this sea
son. In the Lions' first venture at
the Pitt Stadium, the home team
edged out a close 40-33 win.
Penn State, Bethany, Miami,
Florida (twice), Carnegie Tech,
Allegheny. Army and Westmins
ted have all received their come
uppance at the hands of Pitt.
One glance at the "loaded" op
ponent chart of the western
Pennsylvania school is enough to
tell the story of most of its up
sets. Among the teams which
have defeated Pittsburgh ,are
Michigan, North Carolina State,
Miami, Bradley, Denver, Utah,
California, Stanford, Loyola, U.S.
C. and Arizona.
Carlson has three starting var
sityites returning from . a team
that won 10 and lost 11 last year.
They are co-captains Sammy
David, Oland Canterna and cen
ter-man Mort Lerner.
With Lerner, who at 6 feet, 3
inches, is the tallest man on the
squad, Pitt will be forced to re
ly on fast ball-handling and a
new fast-break offense to make
up for the loss of height under
the basket.
David, cashing in with 14 points
against the Lions in the first
clash, has been drawing rave no
tices from partisan Pittsburgh
scribes and fans alike. On Wed
nesday the six-footer broke Char
ley HOtt's 18-year rule as scor
ing monarch at Pitt by tallying
18 points against West Virginia.
David has annexed 318 points so
far this season.
Teaming with David at forward
is "Dodo" Canterna who, in 47
games with the Skyscrapers up
to the beginning of the season, has
maintained an eleven-point av
erage.
EXPERIENCE
Opposing State's Marty Costa
will be the rugged, 205-pound
Lerner who, like Costa, had no
high school experience before
stepping into a varsity job last
season in his first year.
George McCrossin and Lou
Cecconi, more renowned for his
antics on the gridiron than on the
wooden way, will set up Pitt's
figure-eight offense from the
guard spots.
Pittsburgh took a 35-34 edge in
the 52-year-old collegiate cage
rivalry, between the two schools
with its earlier win. in 20 per
formances this year the Pitt five
has averaged 49 points while al
lowing its opposition 52 coun
ters per game.
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Intramural
Standings
Following are intramural bas
ketball standings through Wed
nesday, February 16:
League "A"
Won Lost
Phi Epsilon PI • 5 1
Tau Kappa Epsilon 5 2
Sigma Alpha Epsilon 4 2
Theta Chi 4 2
Delta Sigma Phi 4 s 2
Alpha Zeta 3 4
Alpha Phi Delta 1 6
Omega Psi Phi 0 7
League "B"
Won Lost
Phi Delta Theta 6 0
Delta Upsilon 6 1
Alpha Tau Omega 4 2
Pi Kappa Phi 3 3
Zeta Beta Tau 3 4
Alpha Chi Rho 8 4
Sigma Alpha 1 5
Tau Phi Delta • • 7
League "C"
Won Lost
Sigma Pi '7 0
Phi Kappa Sigma 6 1
Alpha Gamma Rho 3 3
Sigma Phi Sigma 8 8
Delta Theta Sigma 3 9
Alpha Phi Alpha 3 4
Acacia 1 6
Alpha Sigma Phi 0 6
League "D"
_ _ .
Won Lost
Sigma Nu 6 0
Chi Phi 6 1
Pi Lambda Phi 4 3
Phi Kappa Tau 3 3
Sigma Phi Epsilon 8 3
Delta Chi 3 4
Alpha Chi Sigma 2 5
Sigma Phi Alpha 0 7
League "E"
Won Lost
Beta Sigma Rho 6 1
Theta Kappa Phi 6 1
Kappa Sigma 5 2
Delta Tau Delta 3 3
Phi Sigma Kappa 3 3
Beta Theta Pi 1 5
Lambda Chi Alpha 1 5
Theta Xi 1 6
League "F"
Woo Los
Pi Kappa Alpha 7 1
Phi Sigma pelts 4 1
Sigma Chi 6 1
Alpha Epsilon Pi 4 3
Phi Gamma Delta 4 3
Kappa Delta Rho 3 4
Phi Kappa 1 is
Phi Kappa Pal 1 6
Triangle I 7
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1949
through the West,
hot West Virginia
Between
The;•
Lions taf;';'
By Torn Morgan
SPORTS EDITOR
Rather Consistent ,
We prodded Lacrosse • Coach
Nick Thiel on the matter of prev
ious lacrosse experience of Penn
State lacrosse players. Nick, who
has 78 out for this year's team,
says: "During 15 years of coach
ing, I've had no more than one
boy at a time who played lacrosse
before coming to Penn State."
That 1.3 percent of the cur
rent squad with pre-Penn State
experience is Ed Belfield, from
Swarthmore, which is a lacrosse
hotbed.
About Doc
Doc Carlson, dynamic coach of
the Pitt Panthers who'll be in
town tomorrow, is (among other
things) a coiner of slogans, a
student of fatigue in basketball
players, a medical doctor, a lover
of ice cream, a former 12-letter
Pitt athlete, a writer of books on
the hardwood game, veteran of 25
past seasons as Pitt skipper, and
a crowd-pleasing personality on
the basketball bench.
His "Win 'em All!" basketball
brood is weened on ice cream.
Not only a connoisseur of ice
cream himself but a firm be
liever in its value as a part of
the daily diet, the Doctor stages
few Pitt practices without it.
In the past several years he has
done extensive experimenting
with the effects of fatigue and the
best way of combating it, and has
insisted that his players do better
if they go "all out" for short
periods with frequent rests, in
stead of pacing themselves.
Not once has Doc Carlson
advocated any sort of rules
change. He has been content
to let others make the rules,
and then go after wins. His all
time record to date at Pitt is
322 wins and 187 losses. •
He is recognized as one of the
most inventive coaches in the
history of the game, and has seen
his "figure eight" and "continuity"
ideas adopted by virtually every
team today in one form or another.
Doc's seemingly zany antics
on the court stem partly from
his pet peeve, basketball offi
ciating'. Pitt fans tell of a game
some years ago with West Vir
ginia, in which Carlson staged
what is now a legendary per
formance.
The decisions, from his point
of view, had been bad, so near
the end of the game Doc decided
to act.
Gathering up all available sweat
suits, the water bucket, all the
gear in sight on the Pitt bench,
he staggered out on the court.
Then he dumped all the gear at
the feet of a surprised referee and
boomed:
"Here. You've taken every
thing else from us tonight. You
might as well have these tool'
Only Penn State boasts repre
sentation in every championship
townament of the Intercollegiate
Boxing Association.