FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1 - 0, 1950 Between AN , k t -0 3prte'll A`f, ) L \ 1 The Lions With Elliot Krane Sports Editor Fatal Lag As someone at the press table said Wednesday night. "There isn't anyone on the Penn State basketball team who can put the ball into the basket." With slight corrections, that sentence is right. The proper description of the team's shooting is better ex plained by stating that no one could score after a ten-day lay off. For anyone who saw 71 sizz. ling team upset Syracuse on January 28 and saw them Wednesday night, it appeared that two entirely different ag gregations represented the Col lege. Against Syracuse, Coach Gross' squad was a fast-break ing, snappy outfit, but against Penn the Lions could never get started. How About Wrestling With the mid-semester and final exams hitting the basket ball team •such a low blow, we rushed up to Rec Hall to see if the other teams were still in tact. "No, I haven't noticed any change," answered Charl i e Speidel, Nittany wrestli n g mentor.• "The boys are work ing out in the morning in dividually and practice in or ganized drills every afternoon. "What .do I think shout Syra cuse?" 'Well, they've won four and we've won four. Only two major Eastern teams are undefeated and Saturday afternoon just one team will be undefeated." Boxers Better Relieved by the news, we saw boxing coach Ed Sulkowski in the Rec Hall stands watching the registration and asked him about the team's condition. "No, I think that the team has improv ed rather than deteriorated •dur ing the exam period. They're - hitting harder, in fact, than they did before exams." The freshman . coach looked at the students milling below him and remarked that he'd like to start practice early but would have to wait until five p.m. when the registration of ficially closes. Like Coach Speidel, Sulkowski is running two practices daily because Syracuse is good, and Penn State will have to be very good to beat the visitors. • Penn Again The Penn lineup looked like a football scorecard in the Quak er's program. Bob Ton chink Francis. "Reds" Bagnell and Harry Wettlaufer, \ all varsity gridders on the 1949 Penn team, saw action in Wednesday night's game. Look Who's Back Steve Suhey, All. American guerd on the 1947 Lion Cotton Bowl team, appeared in the registration lineup Thursday afternoon. Sorry, Coich Bed enk, Steve won't be back to play, just- to pick up a , few credits for his teaching cer tification: Steve injured his knee in his last game with the Pittsburgh Steelers this Fall and has been working out since the end of the season in an effort to stay in top con dition for the rough profess ional grind. Another returnee, this time in the faculty ranks, is Gene Bisch off, director of intramural ath letics. Gene spent the last few weks in California, but he re marked that State College still lodked very good to him. While traveling along the west coast, he looked over the recreational facilities .of U.C.L.A. "You just can't compare their set up with ours. Out there they use outdoor facilities nine months and in door three while we do just the opposite." THE DAP 11 COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA .ag. a lay-up nesday night. Herb Lyon (4) captured this rebound and a few more as he scored 29 points to lead the •Quakers to a 66-49 win Off-form Lion Lagers • Drop Tilt to Quakers A shocked but determined Nittany basketball team left State college this morning on_ its way to a two-game weekend stand against Gettysburg and Navy. The traveling Lions opened their road tour at Philadelphia Wednesday night and received a 6649 jolt'from an under-rated Penn quintet. The Qiiakers outplayed the visitors offensively and de fensively• .as they handed Penn State its worst loss of, the cur rent •basketball season Tonght the Nittanies will try to improve their road-win record which stands •at .fide wins and four losses. Gettsyburg, with 6 won. and 8 lost, dropped only two games at home while win ning four. Only powerful Muh lenburg, and Pitt, have been- able to take the Bullets on their home court. ' NOT CONNECTING In Wednesday's game the Blue and Whites were unable to con nect • with- the. Palestra baskets. Only eight out of • forty-three shots, dropped through the hoop in the first half of the contest and seven out of forty-eight went through in the second half. Throughout the last ten min untes of the game only Kenny Weiss was able to score from the floor as the Red and Blue com pletely throttled the visitors' attack. . Foi Penn,• it was a red-hot Herb Lyon who paced his team to its seventh win in sixteen starts. The 6-foot, 4-inch senior worked his one-hand stab shot to perfection, dunking 29 points, just three .hort of the fieldhbuse record. LYON HOT • Lyon flipped "six out of eleven shots in the first half and six out over Penn State. By ELLIOT S. KRANE of fifteen in the second to mark up just a little less than fifty percent. The entire Penn team made 25 out of 78 shots for a 32 percent record. The 6-foot, 5-inch Quaker cen ter, Paul Fitzpatrick, dominated both baskets leaping up to the bankboard time after time to spear the Nittany and Penn re. bounds. Only when Fitzpatrick fouled out•in the waning minutes of play were the altitudious Cos ta and McMahan able to do re bound work for Penn State. EARLY LEAD Penn jumped off to an early lead and with Lyon sinking two buckets and Fitzpatrick one, they piled up a 6-0 lead after the first two minutes of play. Lee Schis ler, Lou Lamie and Marty Costa evened the count, but from there on, the Quakers pulled away and their lead was never. threatened. At the beginning of the sec ond half, with the Red and Blue holding a comfortable-four point lead; Costa scored on a tap-ir e to close' the • gap to two points. But Captain Harry Wettlaufer put the lid on - the uprising, hitting the cords, for two points. Just as Lyon was nearing the court 'record, Coach Howie Delmar pulled him out of• the lineup, but the Tarry town, N.Y. forward had done his damage and helped hand Penn State its first defeat in its last five games. Penn State F Costa 4 3 121 McMahan 2 2 6 Sehisler 1 0 2 Lnimie 3 8 14 Toed 3 1 7 Storer 0 0 0 Weiss 2 4 8 Penn G F T Jeffers 1 0 2 Fitzpatrick 4 4 12 Dougherty 3 0 0 Davin 1 1 3 Lyon 12 5 29 Hein(lel 0 0 0 Wettlaufer 2 1 6 Brooks 1 2 4 Bagnell 0 3 3 Topchik 0 0 0 Toth 1 0 2 Totals 15 19 491 Totals 25 16 6G Halftime score: Penn 28, Penn State 24. Free throws missed: Schiller, Lamle 3, Toed, Storer. Weiss, Fitzpatrick 3, Officials—Collins, Yiounger Fencers Drilling To Meet Temple Determined to climb onto the 'Winning bandwagon after two losses in a row, Art Meyer's fencers are sharpening their techniques and their swords in preparatiqn for the meet with Temple in Rec Hall at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. SHOES ... at . . Famous Brand Shoe Store ARE LESSI BECAUSE OF SURPLUS Nationally Advertised Men's and Women's Every Pair Guaranteed Perfect MEN WOMEN 3.95 to 9.95 2.50 to 9.95 ACROSS FROM POST OFFICE ON BEAVER AVE. Swimmers Prepare To Test Delaware Coach Bill Gutteron will be counting on several unknowns for fancy diving duty when his Nittany swimmers go against the mermen of Delaware at Glenn land pool tomorrow afternoon. ' - With diving stars Cal Folmsbee and Rudy Valentino not available for duty, Gutteron is faced with choosing his competitors from several new men in varsity trunks. He will make his selec tion for frontline duty today. The meet is scheduled to start at 2 o'clock and seats along the side of the tank and standing room in the balcony will be available for fans. The Lions have shown marked improvement while dropping two close matches to Lehigh and Army and should be in top form for the contest. PAGE FIVE
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