PAGE FOUR ittmer Attack For invading Gophers Coach Sulkowski Still Undecided About Lineup for Opening Meer With the Lions' boxing in augural but three clays hence, Coach Sulkowski is putting the finishing touches on his current mitt edition. Minnesota steams into Rec Hall on Saturday with its per-usual top-flight team. The boxing match between the Lions and the Badgers is scheduled im mediately after the wrestling meet against Cornell. After more than two-months of conditioning, the Staters seem to be strong in the ring, but compared to past squads they field but a mediocre combination. Although quite strong in the upper weights—five lettermen returnees . are battling for the upper four weight divisions—,- the Blue and White have nary a monogram winner in the lower weight classes. SULKOWSKI PUZZLED As yet Sulkowski, who is fill ing in for the ailing Coach Leo Houck, is undecided about his starting team for Saturday. "It's hard to pick the right boys," says the stocky ex-scrap per. Most likely I'll have to do a' Jot of shuffling before Satur day." . But right now it seems that Joe Reynolds, a sophomore, seems to be holding the upper hand for a starting berth at 125-pounds while John Hanby, an intramural finalist in the 128 division, will don gloves in the 130 pound class. At 135 pounds the competition is a little more keen with John Albarino, Harry Papacharalam bous and Gillian Handle batt ling for recognition. Albarino appears to be the hardest punching and most ring wise of the three. Papacharalam bous looked impressive in the re cent IM boxing show, while Han dle copped the independent 135 crown. FRATERNITY CHAMP Fighting for a starting place at 145-pounds is last year's 155- pound fraternity champion, Bill Curtin and Frank Gross. Al though Gross seems to be hold ing the higher hand at the mo ment Coach Sulkowski is as yet undecided on his representative. Bob Keller, regular 165-pound er two years ago, is still trying to make 155 pounds, this year and I should he lose necessary poundage he'll be a top contend er along with Pat Heims and Lou Koscarek. The latter two have been impressive in recent workouts. Although the remaining weight classes-165-175 and unlimited— are pretty well taken care of by Paul Smith, Jack Bolger and Captain Chuck Drazenov ic h, Light-heavy Charlie Wilson and Heavyweights Norm Restaine and Charlie Godlaski have been offering stern competition. Nitta n ies Foresee Busy Sports Slate Nittanies over this coming Weekend will represent the Blue and White of Penn State in ath letic contests. Coach Bill Gutteron's swim mers unveil their season with meets against Cornell and Col gate. The • basketball five will try to hit winning ways again playing Carnegie Tech and Wash ington and Jefferson, Friday and Saturday, respectively. Saturday night, Leo Houck Night, at Rec Hall, the wrestlers from Cornell and the boxers from Minnesota oppose State teams. The ski team will participate in Paul Smiths Winter Carnival in New York state. The fencers open their season against Lehigh at Bethlehem while the jayvee wrestlers engage Cornell at Rec 11 on Saturday at 4 p:m. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA in4eatenTeams Dwindle In IM Court Battles BY ERNIE MOORE With the intramural basket ball season about one fourth by the boards, a quick look at the leading contenders for • both the fraternity and independent crowns is in order. Of the 49 fraternities repre sented in the league, the number of undefeated teams has dwind led to a mere 13. In the in dependent half, 25 out of the 8 teams entered still have a clean slate. First, a look at the fraternity teams. Only one quintet, Sigma Pi of League A, has three vic tories to its credit and it stands as one of the teams to be reckon ed with in the fight for the fra ternity crown. SIGMA 'PI The Sigma Pi cagers have shown themselves to be a strong defensive club in capturing their three victories. Their victims,,Tti angle: 'Lambda Chi Alpha, and Kappa Sigma, together, have been able to score only 17 points against them. Other fraternities which bear close watching throughout the remainder of the season include: Sigma-Chi, 2-0; Delta Tau Delta, 2-0; and Alpha Phi Alpha, 2-0. The dark horse of the league could very likely be Delta Chi who, with a 2-0 record, has been consistently pressing Sigma Pi for the League A leadership. Last years champion, Pi Kap pa Alpha, has dropped two of its three starts this season and it ap pears that a new fraternity champion will be drowned this • year. INDEPENDENTS In the independent half of the tournament, last years champion, Section 'lO of League I, is very much in the running to annex this years laurels. The defending champs have won two games while dropping none and have so declared themselves the team to beat: But Section 10 can expect plenty of strong competition in its drive to retain the title. Al toona, a strong contender, is playing .in the same league and is at the moment tied with the de fending champs for the leader ship. Another contender, and prob ably the one with the best chance to wrest the crown from Section 10, is the Royals of Lea gue J. This Royal squad has shown tremendous scoring pow er by racking up 80 points in two contests. HIGH SCORING In one of these games, against the Barons, it put a two year high scoring mark into the rec ord book by marking up 54 points —an amazing feat when you rea lize that the intramural game is only 20 minutes long as compared to the 40 minute varsity game. But even more amazing is the fact that' the Royals used only four players in turning the trick. Any team with that kind of scor ing power has got to be taken seriously. YOUR PENN STATE CLASS RING A Fine Companion Throughout College . . Throughout Life L G. BALFOUR CO. Branch Office in Athletic Store Let It Snow, Let it Snow . . . . —Photo by Gearhart NOWED—Three of Coach Sherm Fogg's Penn State skiers, (1 to r) Chuck Suitch, Gordie Drane and Ed Lavino, are sending questioning looks towards the sky. It seems that• snowflakes have been avoiding the Nittany Valley. Lack of snow has caused the cancellation of the Lions first ski meet. Lack of Snow Handicaps Team, May Cancel Second Skiing Meet • Probably the persons with the biggest gripe coming about the "winter" weather are Coach Sherman Fogg and his 24-man squad of skiers. Already one meet has been cancelled and the prospect for snow at Paul Smith's Carnival in New York state Saturday is none too good. Only three lettermen have re nucleus of the squad, but a large crop- of sophomores gives hope for the future success of Penn State . skiing. Lack of snow has not prevented the skiers. from practicing however. Condition ing exercises and running are prescribed to get muscles into shape. RETUNING LETTERMEN The returning lettermen are Gordie Drane, a senior, who par ticipates in downhill slalom; Bud Bankert and Jim Raymond, ace jumpers and cross country skiers. Bill Graf, who was to captain the team, has transferred to the University of Pennsylvania. Two other men likely to cinch berths on the team are Otto Pfef rerkorn, a cross country hold over. and John. Kurtz, a sopho more aspirant in cross country. CoachFogg is too unfamiliar with the rest of the team to mea sure its capabilities, yet. This is the "hardest working •squad" he has ever had accord ing to Fogg. He also lauded Penn State athletes in general for their courage' and competitive spirit. LAST SEASON Last year Penn State finished fourth in the International Ski ing Union meet, but some key men are missing from that team including Ham Brosious, Cliff Carts, Herb Wahl, and Graf. The meet Saturday at Paul Smith's, New York, includes about a dozen teams. Manager of this year's team is Jerry Eber hardt. POPULAR SPORT Althotigh not much of a spec tator sport here at the College. skiing is one of the most popular forms of athletic recreation in the United States and also in Europe. Four types of competitive skiing, jumping, downhill, slalom and cross country, are used in collegi ate ski meets. Slalom and cross-country ski ing are the two types found around State College since they are best suited' to the spur of the weather hereabouts. No future urned from last year to form the arrangements are necessary if the proper terrain is present. The most graceful art of the sport is slalom. It is racing over a route strewn with gates. This course is usually winding with sharp twists on a slope of. a con tinually varying angle. Whoever maneuvers the course in the quickest time without missing any gates is considered the vic tor. Cross-country skiing is hard work and therefore may not ap peal to the average skiier. Such skiing is over makeshift courses, up hill, down hill, over flat ter rain, and the best time is again important. The downhill race, as in any race to beat the stopwatch, is thrilling but .also most danger ous. SKI JUMP Jumping is the most, spectacu lar form of the winter sport and it is regarded more as a specta tor than a participator activity. Jumping is judged much like diving in swimming meets. Dis tance does count but it doesn't win matches since a jumper may make the two longest jumps in a contest and still lose. Three judges cast votes for each of the two jumps with the longest and second longest jump automatically getting half of each judges points. Big Sports Weekend Only one other weekend be sides this one will feature nine athletic contests. Next month on the 10th and 11th, nine Nittany teams will meet intercollegiate opponents. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY vi'L.c9so Tankmen Open With Colgate, Cornell Meets Lions Rated Underdogs In Both Swim Meets Coach Bill Gutteron's Nittany swimming squad leaves town to morrow morning bound for New York state and two of its toughest meets of d the current season. The natators from Colgate and Cor nell intend to make the Lion's opening weekend a rough one if pre-meet ratings are' correct. The Lions have not met Col gate in the past few seasons, but the Hamilton, N. Y. tank men usually rank high up in the list of top-flight collegiate swim ming teams in the East. Cornell won last year's opener from the Lions, 53-22, and are out to re peat the verdict with a veteran packed squad. 21 MAKE TRIP Coach Gutteron will take 19 swimmers and - 2 managers on this first road trip. The final re sult of week-long time • trials, which ended last night will de termine who is to represent the squad. The team will arive in Hamil ton about 6 p.m. Thursday and hold a light workout in the Red Raider's pool. The .meet is scheduled for 4 p.m. the next day. The Cornell meet is slated for 2:30 p.m. Saturday in the Big Red's pool. Although Cornell outclassed the Lions in a majority of the nine .events in last year's meet, Captain Bill Schildmacher and diver Cal Folmsbee took first place in the 100 yd. freestyle and the fancy diving events respec tively. • SET RECORD Schildmacher posted a time of 55.8 in the event, a new record for the pool. He later bettered this mark in Glennland Pool, swimming his specialty in 55.5 only to be beaten by his team mate Cas Borowy in 55.3. The Cornell team set a new mark for the pool in the 400 yd. relay, doing it in 3:43.2. Folmsbee scored a total of, 95.05 points in the fancy diving. His highest total scored 'n one meet is 103.6. The Lions plan to start the re turn trip as soon as possible after the Cornell meet. They - will bring home some vital ex perience, whether they return with top laurels or not. . KIND LADY • WILL CLOSE IN TWO MORE WEEKS Saturday, Jan. 21. CENTER STAGE Friday 90c. Saturday $1.26 (Refreshments) Tickets at Student Union _ w ®w w w - P LILIOM IS COMING 0 SCHWAB 0 JAN. 19, 20, &21 . 11 0 , Tr i k o e n ts ? a n n. On 6 S a le I mi 11) STUDENT UNION ik Thurs. 60c; Fri. $c Sat. $1 IP Players 30th Anniversary d • lb, Ali . - AI Illk MI
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