SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 19411
6 Nittany Squads Seek
Victory on Foreign Soil
Six Penn State teams have traveled to the four points of the
compass this weekend as the Lions seek wins in basketball, boxing,
gymnastics, fencing and track.
Although the major athletic teams will be on the road this
weekend, the sporting fare for the College will include a rifle meet
at the Armory at 2 p.m. and a battle of high school titans, Clear
field vs. Bellefonte, in Rec Hall at the same time.
Clearfield recently won its 37th straight dual meet and Belle
fonte is protecting a 21-meet victory string.
Ashenfelter Returns
To Defend IC4-A Title
After weeks of exercise and
slow running, Horace Ashenfelter
will compete in his first race of
the indoor season tonight in an
attempt to hold his Intercollegiate
4-A two-mile title.
"Fearless Fosdick" broke a bone
in his foot during an Intercollegi
ate 4-A cross-country meet last
fall, and was sidelined with his
foot in a cast for the beginning
of the indoor season.
By the dint of sheer determi
nation, "Ash" slowly rounded
into form after his cast was re
moved, and his first and most
important test, the IC4-A meet
at New York, will show if the
Nittany distance ace can meet
top collegiate competition after
a three-month layoff.
Jim Gehrdes will go out after
the high hurdle title, and is an
odds-on favorite to capture the
60-yard title.
Gymnasts Face Sailors
In Annapolis Dual Meet
Two "weak sisters" of the
Eastern Intercollegiate gym con
ference clash today when the
Nittany Lions, striving for their
first conference win, meet a
Navy team which is in literally
the same boat in a dual meet at
Annapolis.
Syracuse and Army have al
ready downed the Lions while
Navy too has bowed to the Or
angemen from upper New York
State.
Captain Bill Bonsai!, favored
to take firsts in at least two
events, the horizontal bar and
flying rings, may be the differ
ence between the two teams.
Naval superiority on the ropes is
counterbalanced by superior
Penn State strength in the tum
bling competition.
Navy Captain Roy Grayson,
best bet to capture the Eastern
side horse title later this year,
will be another thorn in the
gymnastic side of Coach Gene
Wettstone's team.
Grapplers Seek Upset,
Engage Middies Today
Navy's formidable wrestling
combo, undefeated in dual meet
competition since 1942, plays
host to Penn State's upset-hun
gry matmen this afternoon at
Annapolis, Md. It will be the
Lions' last match of the season.
Coach Ray Swartz's Midship
men were forced to settle for a
tie against Princeton two weeks
ago—a team that the Lions beat,
19-9, while at full strength, but
managed to protect their un
beaten 52-meet record.
Last week, the sailors squeezed
out a 19-16 win over Lehigh,
which had previously edged the
Lions, 14-11. To further muddle
the Eastern mat picture, the
Statemen were early-season vic
tors by a 24-6 count over Cor
nell, a team that copped a 14-13
verdict from the same Lehigh
squad.
Three lineup changes have
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been made by Coach Charlie
Speidel in hopes of strengthen
ing his forces for the battle with
the Navy grapplers. Jack Drei
belbis, boasting a clean slate for
three clashei this year, replaces
Kryder Mattern at 128 pounds,
and Bill Corman takes over Bob
Hetrick's post at 165 pounds.
Bob Markle regains his position
at 175 pounds as the result of
Corman's drop in weight classes.
Lions End Road Slate,
Duel Orange Meshmen
After facing a tough Colgate
basketball quintet last night at
Hamilton, N. Y., Penn State's
varsity dribblers take a short
hop to Syracuse University to
day where the Lions will close
their 1948-'49 road menu.
The schedule lists only two
remaining games after tonight's
skirmish with the Orange has
been crated.
With the invasion of Temple
U. onto the Rec Hall boards, Nit
tany Valley cage fans will have
the opportunity of watching one
of the finest teams in the East
Wednesday. From down in the
"Gone With the Wind" country
Georgetown makes its appear
ance on Saturday, displaying its
perennially strong brand of ball.
Prior to the Colgate tussle, the
Lions faced a rheumatic foreign
court, six-game losing streak
which had been stretched to eight
games over the past two years.
The last State win on an enemy
court came against Georgetown
February 13, 1948.
After scoring nine wins in
their first twelve games, the cur
'rent Orange five ran into an in
spired State team which re
corded a decisive 63-47 upset
win.
Determined not to see a repe
tition of the early-season loss on
the Syracusans' home court.
Coach Lew Andreas will start
his strongest combination.
Fully mended from a knee in
jury which bothered him last
year, Ed Stickel will again be
the crafty Andreas' best bet to
even up this year's series. Run
ning with Stickel at the other
guard spot will be bespectacled,
but accurate, Bill Fash.
Six-foot 8-inch Royce Newell
will start at center, with John
Kiley and Red Rosen starting at
the forward spots. Newell has
produced over 800 points for the
Orange in four seasons.
Boxing Rivals Meet
At Michigan State
The football f e u d between
Michigan State's Spartans and
the Nittany Lions will be car
ried into the boxing ring at East
Lansing tonight when the two
athletic powers will settle the
question of ring supremacy.
Coach Leo Houck is confident
of a win for the Lions. "If we
perform up to our potentialities
we should win. I think the boys
will come through tomorrow,"
the coach said shortly before the
Lion Cagers Rank
Third in East
Defensively
Penn State ranks third in the
East in basketball defensive play,
according to figures released this
week by the National Collegiate
Athletic Bureau.
The Nittany team, by limiting
its opponents to 48.4 points per
game, placed third behind Siena
and St. Bonaventure.
Leading the nation with the
amazing low average of 34.6
points per game is Oklahoma A.
& M., while Siena placed second
with 40.8.
Kentucky is still at the top of
the collegiate heap with an of
fensive average of 67.3 points per
game, and a defensive average of
42.7 points per game.
mittmen boarded the train for
East Lansing yesterday.
There'll be two changes in the
lineup for the Lions tonight. Pat
Heims will make his varsity
debut fighting in the 155-pound
class while battling 011ie Wal
lace will replace Lou Guthrie in
the 135 weight division.
Highly improved light-heavy.
Jack Bolger will compete at his
class while Nitt any- heavy,
Chuck Drazenovich battles in
that class.
The Nittany Realm
Rudy Valentino, promising young tumbler on the Lion gym
nastic team, is used to following in other people's footsteps. He
only hopes he can manage the next step which John, his brother,
succeeded ih doing while attending the College in 1944.
In that year the elder Valentino, then a sophomore, took the
Eastern Intercollegiate tumbling title. Bef or he could make a try
for the National title the long arm of Uncle Sam reached out and
soon John was a navigator in the Army Air Force.
Now, Rudy, also a sophomore, is aiming at the same Eastern
Intercollegiate title. Coach Gene Wettstone, while he rates Rudy
a better tumbling prospect than his brother, doesn't think he'll
make it this year.
"Valentino is undoubtedly our outstanding tumbling prospect,
and I think he eventually will win the Eastern tumbling crown.
I don't believe he'll do it this year, however," Wettstone said.
The quest for the tumbling title isn't the only parallel in the
lives of the Valentino boys. Both attended the same high school,
McCaskey High, in Lancaster, and both won the Pennsylvania In
terscholastic Athletic Association tumbling championship while in
high school.
Rudy credits his brother with most of his tumbling ability.
"John taught me most of what I know, and has been my best
teacher," Rudy commented. "He started teaching me to tumble
when I was in the second grade of grammar school."
Another big influence in the gymnastic life of the current num
ber-one Lion tumbler was Lester Fiester, athletic director of the
Lancaster YMCA, where he got most of his tumbling experience.
This is Rudy's first year of collegiate tumbling, and already he
has managed to oust last year's number-one tumbler, Bill Meade,
from his accustomed perch.
Now that the younger Valentino has successfully followed his
two instructors by winning the PIAA tumbling championship, the
question is: Can he duplicate his brother's feat of annexing the
Eastern Intercollegiate crown?
And, if as Wettstone expects, he can, will he go one step farther
and win the National tumbling title? Only time can tell.
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IM Court Leagues Approach
Finals; Loop Playoffs Monday
Intramural cage teams in at least five leagues, and possibly sev
en, will move into playoff action at Rec Hall Monday night begin
ning at 8:45 p.m.
Four fraternity leagues are a
cuit crowns Monday, with much
test between league "D's" Sigma
Riflemen Battle
Lehigh Invaders
Capt. Carl A. Unrath will send
an improved Lion rifle team
against the Lehigh University
squad in the only home sports
event in the Armory at 2 p.m.
today.
Nothing is known of Lehigh's
previous record this season, but
in the years of competition be
tween the two schools Penn State
holds a decided advantage. Capt.
Unrath expressed cautious confi
dence that his squad would come
out on top.
The Lion team is co-captained
by Gerry Prange and Lyle Root.
who will lead lifters Harold
Swarmer. Sam Carnahan. Nor
man Phillips. Charles Kirk, Jack
Hepfer, Alfred Darrath, Jack
Agosta and John Stoudt against
Lehigh.
By Red Roth
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ready slated to battle for the eir
;nterest centered in the third con-
Nu and Chi Phi.
SIGMA NU
In the first struggle between
the two contestants, Sigma Nu
walked off victorious, only to
find the result pretested because
of ineligibility. The resulting
elash, February 16, saw Sigma
Nu's John Smidcrisky lead his
mates to a 23-16 victory.
Four teams in "A", Phi Ep
sllon Pi, Tau Kappa Epsilon, Sig
ma Aloha Epsilon, and Delta
Sigma Phi. all with five-and-two
records, will be after the driver's
neat in that circuit. Beta Sigma
Rho and Theta Kappa Phi will
battle in li - aque "E", and Pi Kap
oa Alpha, Phi Sigma Delta and
Sigma Chi rre c , ^hecl-led to bump
heads for the "F" title.
BERLETICS
Berletim Drewlers, and the
Penn Points will play for the in
dependent league "D" cr o wn,
with the possibility of team ties
in "B" and "E" necessitating play
offs there. '
The playoff schedule for Mon..
day night follows:
8:45 p.m.—Beta Sigma Rho vs.
Theta Kappa Phi, court one; Tats
Kappa Epsilon vs. Delta Sigma
Phi, court two: Phi Epsilon Pi vs•
Sigma Aphla Ep-ilon. court three.
9:25 p.m.—Phi Sigma Delta vs.
Sigma Chi, court one; Drewlers
vs. Berletics, court two; Sigma
Nu vr. Chi Phi, court three.
Finals will be run off Tuesday
night.
Lion Coach ---
Continued from page two
at West Chester, "Light Horse`
Harry Wilson and Johnny Roep•
ke; guards R. B. Bael and Joe
Bcdenk and ends, Red Griffith
and Bob Higgins, present State
coach.
Bezclek doesn't exhibit the
slightest apprehension abdut his
coaching technique fitting in with
the present day strategy. He has
said that all he wants is a team
that can block and tackle and
he'll do the rest.
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