FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1950 Between 4 4 . ( . \ , I / TO, The Lions With Elliot Krane Sports Editor No Record??? • With Marty Costa's brilliant point-producing work a matter for the records, we went / over to the Athletic Office to check on some other basketball records. Browsing through the 1943 ac complishments, we sudd en 1 y stopped and took an unbeliev ing look at the figures on the • page. On March 6, 1943, Herk Bal timore Made 16, field goals and one foul shot to score 33 points. Could Marty's work have gone for naught? Looking .further, we came across another sur prising figure, that Whitey Von Nedia scored 32 points against Temple in 'January of the same year. Even John Egli, who was a member: of that ,amazing team, got into the act, \ with 13 field goals and 3 foul shots for 29 points in another game that year. , Double Check • • The figures were right there on the official recordi, 'and just to double check, we raced up •to Rec Hall to, verify the discovery. (:)car Buchenhorst, custodian of athletic equip ment in the muscle mill, pro duced . the score book, buf the figures were far from start ling. Against Georgetown, Bal timore scored 17 points, not 33. Against Teinple; Whitey scored 16 and not 32. Suddenly the 'light, dawned: Mickey Bergstein, who was the head manager that year, marked down total points in the field goal column of the record sheets. Every point total was doubled! It's Safe Since all of the high-scor ing, doubled scores of 1943 were discounted, 'Costa's ' feat , of pushing 32 points through. the hoop still stands as a mod ern Nittany mark. The closest any player has come to that mark within ,the last 20 years was Bruce 'Nick' Dietterick's 27 markers scored at Hamilton, N. Y against Colgate. Incidentally the Lions took that •game, 71_68. The all-time, all-rule -'record at Penn State is 36 points , which was set by Frank Wolfe in 1919 against Susequehanna. This record. was set during the era of the two-hand, .dribble and foul . shot specialist.) In those games, one man, and in . this case Wolfe, shot all of the foul shots for his team-mates. Records in Reverse On the negative side, -the low est:scoring Penn State game was the - 1944 farce at Pittsburgh when the Lions and Panthers pussy-footed t 9. a 15-12 decision. A shooting fool by the name of MTNary was high for the victor ious Nitta - 1y team with 5 points. Th 6 other points were divided equally among, his fellow play ers. • The all time . low for a Penn State hig;i scorer was three points scored by Mazes against Michigan in 1929. The Ahn Ar bor.team won that game 32-11.. Also in that same era, Reed plunked 20 out of 24 foul shots and five field goals in 1923 to total 30 out of the• Blue and White's 38 points to take Pitt 38-31. Dry Swifn The' Syracuse swimming team was all undressed with no place to swim last week. The Orange men were scheduled to meet Fordham in New York City, but the city's water shortage forced the. Rams to drain their pool and cancel the remainder of their tank contests. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Trackmen Vie in Inquirer, K of C Meets Gehrdes Competes in Wirdles Against Top-Flight Competition. The Nittany track team will begin a full weekend of activity tonight when it meets a top-flight field in the Philadelphia Inquirer meet. Tomorrow night, nine members of the squad will travel to Boston for the Knights of Columbus meet. Coach Chick Werner will enter either 13 or 14' men in the Inquirer meet, depending on whether Wil Lancaster runs in the 300-yard sprint. Heading the list of Lion entries -is Captain Jim Gehrdes, who will compete in the 50-yard high hurdles against a high class field. The mile-relay team will be out , to avenge its heart-breaking loss to Seton Hall last week. A team made up of Wil Lancaster, Johnny McCall, Guy Kay and Bill Lockhart led the whole way only to lose out in the final step to a team that is considered one of the finest in indoor competi tion this season. Should Lancast er enter the 300-yard sprint, he will be replaced on the relay team by John Bristor, 2-MILE RELAY The same two-mile relay team which finished second to Yale's strong aggregation last Week will answer the starter's gun this week. Bob Parsons, Bob Free bairn" and Don and Bill Ashen felter comprise ,the Nittany 16- furlong unit. Another former Lion star, Gerry Karver, will attempt to match strides with Wilt and Barry in the mile, a night's work for any man. One of the eve ning's top ittractions, it will bring together Wilt, and Barry for the first time. In addition to these three, the mile has • also drawn Sweden's Alf Holmberg, Syracuse's Neil Pratt, Browning Ross, of Villanova, and John Twomey, national AAU champ. Vic Fritts, Owen Wilkinson, Ron Coder, Jack St. Clair and, possibly, Lancaster will be the other individual performers for the Lions. In addition, the one mile and two-mile relays, which turned in surprisingly good per formances last week in the Washington Star meet, will at tempt to repeat or better their feats. The two relay teams and Gehrdes will make the trip to Boston. HIGH JUMP Fritts is entered in the high jump, and Wilkinson and Coder in the pole vault. Fritts finished in a tie for fourth at last week's games •in Washington, clearing the bar at 6-feet, 3-inches, only an inch less than the winner's jump. The pole vault is th - e. only event in which the Nittany team will have double representation. While Wilkinson took four t h place at Washington, the meet will be the first of the yeaf for Coder, Penn State's top vaulter last season. St Clair will compete in the two-mile run, which is dominat ed by former Lions Horace Ash enfelter and Curt Stone. HARRISON DILLARD Gehrdes will be out to dethrone Harrison Dillard, winner of the Inquirer hurdles. event for the past three years. Jim "warmed up" for tonight's affair by taking the 70-yard high hurdles event in Washingtqn last week in rec ord time. • • After the Game . . • • .. It's O'BRYAN'S RESTAURANT -1)- """"---- SERVICE STATION for that lit lessuo: , r _____,, q tl u e ic s k n , ack c . ou l r f te i o t' u s s gosoedrviocoed you want, then take just a few min utes to drop out to O'BYAN'S. And remember—we're open 24 HOURS! . , • mom orgßyANis ~ 824 N. ATHERTON ST. • OPEN 24 HOURS By JOE BREU Mermen Seek Initial Victory Against Temple By ,ART BENNING The Nittany Lion splashers in vade Conwell Hall pool at Temple University tomorrow afternoon in search of their first win of the season. Coach Bill Gutteron's proteges, still feeling the sting of defeat at the hands of Colgate and Cornell last weekend, are definitely pointing for a win over th. Owls. - Bill Schildmacher, who missed the first two meets because of a hernia condition, has been given the doctor's permission to make the trip, and to swim if he feels well Saturday. Temple won its season opener with Swarthmore, 38-37, 'and has since met Lehigh and Drexel; with the scores of these meets unavailable. ONLY 8 VETERANS Temple has only eight return ing swimmers for this season, in cluding Bernie Cheskin wh o placed fourth in last year's 300 Yard individual medley at the Eastern Intercollegiate meet last year. 10 Among the newcomers that Coach John Logan in counting on to, bolster the squad is John Hu ber, a 50 yard free stylist. Huber has won rbcoaintion for swim ming at Atlantic City. N. J. and has breken several records at Dairy" Beach. Fia.. • according to the Temple News, student publi cation at Temple. The news lists Penn State, ?long with Princeton, N Y.U., Rut e'ers and Pittsburgh. as its out -tanding opponents of the year. Tact ceason the Lions eked out nn -36 win over the Owls. The men traveling by bus and +rain to Philadelphia today for +nrnorrow's meet are Cas Borowv. Rart Bronk. John' Rruckner,' KQr rlonrarl. John D'Ardenne, Cal PolmQbee. Paul Jones. Gene ,Kol -1,4'. Dirk Long:4olln Lowenfeld, MrGrory. Harry Nelson. Rill Schilrimacher. Rudy Valen tino. Rod Waters. Bob Wilson, and one man to- he chosen from Tea .Toms. Andy warvey, Dean Groth Pevivirn Wick. In The Morning FRED'S RESTAURANT For Breakfast You Tell 'Em Chick . . . . Penn State's 2-mile relay team is pictured in the order in which they run as Coach Chick Werner gives out with some last minute instructions. Left to right are Bob Parsons, Bill Ashen felter, Don Ashenfelter, Bob Freebairn and Werner. Untried Gymnasts Seek Answer To Unfilled Varsity Spots With_just one. week of drills remaining before their first dual meet test with Michigan State, Coach Gene Wettstone's inexperi enced gymnasts this week began competing for the unfilled second and third spots that still exist in almost every event. Wettstone has an average of one seasoned performer in each event and will be forced to look to his untried newcomers to fill the other starting positions. LACK EXPERIENCE That's particularly true on the horizontal bar, the flying rings and in tumbling : Captain Mike Kuroviski will be the only ex perienced man on the bar. Three first-year men, sophomore Earl Kerber and seniors, Harr y Grieves and Ned Foster are fighting for the other two spots. On the rings, Bill Hendrick son, a sophomore, is in the num ber one spot, followed by Grieves, Bill Hamel and possibly Kurowski. None of them are ready for dual-meet competition, according to the coach. Rudy Valentino is the only ex perienced tumbler. The best of the new crop are Bill Sopper and Howard Mason, sophomores,-.and they will work number two dnd (Continued on page seven) By 808 KOTZBAUER • JO JO' s Dahlia Room Proudly Presents The Tony Star Trio NIGHTLY Direct from New York—Vocal Comedy, and instrumental group featuring Jackie Farrel and Tony Starr, writer of re cent song hits Rockin' Horse Cowboy, Va Zap-Ta Tasta Fa sula and many others. Lim ited engagement only. Don't miss 'this treat. Down by the P.R.R. Station Lewistown, Penna. Pk 4906 PAGE PIVE
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