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With Elliot Krane
Sports Editor
"Fair" Teams
Wrestling Coach Charlie Spei
del says that Penn State will have'
a "fair" to "good" team this year.
Basketball Coach Elmer Gross
also says that his team could
stand some improvement. But
when these two teams stage the
first athletic doubleheader of the
year, the 5,000 students expected
to pack Rec Hall tomorrow night
should see much more than
mediocrity.
College fan s have been
starved for an exciting evening
at Rec Hall. Last season the
audience would ' usually stay
for the •first half of the show,
throw a fe m . well-placed jeers
at the basketball team, and
then leave the building fOr the
more comfortable Cathaum
seats.
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But this year, the attitude
should change. Nittany fans have
seen only one basketball game,
that 74-44 fiasco against little
Susquehanna. The team played
a good game that night, but with
the calibre of the oposition at
such' a low level, it was difficult
to determine just what 'type of
team •Coach Gross has molded lin
his •freshman year.
- After the brief preview, the
team went on the road, split in
two Washington, D. C. contests,
and ' then went down to the
Dixie Classic to vie with some
top-rate southern teams.
Wha Hoppen?
' Suddenly an unknown Penn
State team slipped by favored
Duke 51-48. Then another upset
as/strong West Virginia fell by
the wayside 46-41.
• Finally, undefeated North
Carolina State stopped the
Centre County upstarts 50-40
but not until Penn State be
came one of the most talked
about teams in the tourney.
Tomorrow night, a good Col
gate five will test the Lions. This
will provide `the first chance for
the local fans to see the team
'since • its successful tournament
schedule. After Coach Speidel's
graplers tangle with Virginia, we
predict that the audience will
stay right in its seats to see, just
what-it is with Elmer Gross'. 'giant
killers. • - •
And More Wrestling
Whii e Coach Speidel is
watching , his team open . the
season.. tomorrow 'night, you
can be sure that he'll have one
ear toward the telegraph key
to catch the results ,of,••p
important match in - SYractise.
The perennially strong Franklin
• and Marshall team will 'trir to
be the first to dethrone the
Eastern Champs tomorrow .
night ' in a battle. Which pro . :-.
raises to be one of the top-con
tests in the east.
Syracuse, boasting East e rn
champs Kenny Hunte and Pascal
Perri, will have the ' edge over
the Diplomats since two of F &
M's top wrestlers will have to sit
out the battle because of acede
mic ineligibility.
In Defense
Answering the constant cries
that the Army football team
plays dirty football, Tim Co
hane champions the Cadets in
the recent issue of "Look" mag
azine. He defends the team's
blocking after the play with the
statement that, "Top teams . . .
keyed emotionally and physi
cally to victory, will break a
split second before the ball,
block and tackle after the
whistle, which they may or
may not hear."
This excuse may look good
on the pages of a magazine,
but it's not much of a consol
ation for the Lion football
players who were knocked
down time and again after the
whistle ,blew.
,Matmen Host Virginia
In Schedule Opener
Coach Charlie Speidel's Nittany Lion matmen open the curtain
on the 1950 season torhorrow night when they match holds with
Virginia's C4valiers, an untested quantity. The meet, the initial
part of a wrestling -basketball doubleheader in Ree Hall, will get
underway at 7 p.m.
Last year, the Nittanies plowed through a rough schedule and
ended the season with a 5-and-2
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umph over Navy. The Middies
thus suffered their first defeat
since 1942, and, their first •in 53
straight dual meets.
' •REESE :UNREATEN
Jehnny, Reese has earned the
nod 'at 121-pounds for tomorrow
night. Reese. was unbeaten until
an injury in the Syracuse meet
ended his season.
Veteran Jack Dreibelbis will
open at 128-pounds for the .
tanies. The State Colleg6"'iirOi:
duct went undefeated. throtigh
the last half of the 1949 season
before bowing in the quarter
finals of the EIWA tourney.
Sophomore Don Maurey.
younger brother of the team lead
er, edged out letterman Don Ar
buckle for the 136-pound post. At
145 pounds, Captain Jim Maurey
has shaken off his leg injury and
is prepared for a top season.
Maurey had won three straight
bouts by falls before being in
jured in practice prior to the
Syracuse meet last season.
SILVERMAN AT 155
Mickey Silv erm a q - ayvee
grappler in 1949, will represent
the Lions at 155 pounds. Silver
man slipped past •Larry Shall
cross, Maurey's replacement last,
year, to garner the position.
At 165 pounds, Bill "Rusty"
Santel, who joined the team • in
last season's trials at mid-se
mester, will wear the Blue and
White.:, Mike Rubino, intramural
175-pottnd king last • year, is the
top man at that weight for the
Sp eidelmen. •
Dependable Homer Barr re
turns to his heavyweight slot for
the Nittanymen. Barr, EIWA
titlist and 4th place winner in the
NCAA meet,Theat out Lynn Ill
ingworth, 1948 PIAA 185-pound
champion. .
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Two rule changes 'have been
made in collegiate wrestling this
year. A fall at any time • auto
matically ends the bout, and the
referee is .now • equipped with 'a
whistle. The latter rule, in the
experimental stages, was made
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Skiing Cancelled
The skiing meet scheduled
for Saturday at Syracuse has
been canceled because of the
unseasonable, warm weather.
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Gehrdes Third
In Bowl Race
Track Captain Jim Gehrdes
opened his high-hurdle winter
campaign by placing third in the
Sugar. Bowl Tourney in New
Orleans Sunday.
Running behind Bill Fleming
of Notre Dame and Craig `Dixon,
Southern California, Gehrdes was
unable to match the 0:13.9
winning time. This time was
four-:tenths of a second. better
than the old Sugar Bowl record
set by Fred Wolcott, Riee, in 1939.
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FOR If IR I
IM Basketball
Play in the fraternity half of
the intramural basketball tour
nament will resume tonight with
nine games on tap. The independ
ents returned to the courts last
night. Tonight's schedule:
8:45 Theta Chi vs Alpha Gamma
Rho
Pi Kappa Phi vs Alpha Chi
Rho
Sigma Nu vs Sigma Phi Ep
silon
9:25 Delta Sigma Phi vs Alpha
Sigma Phi
Sigma Alpha Mu vs Delta
Upsilon
Pi Kappa Alpha vs Phi
Kappa Tau
10:45 Alpha Phi Delta vs Delta
Theta Sigma
Alpha Tau Omgea vs. Phi
Kappa Sigma
Kappa Delta Rho vs Chi Phi
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