PAGE FOUR Orange Poses Big Task For Nittany Gym Squad A flurry of last-minute drills and smoothing-out opera tions is the key-note in Rec Hall today as Coach Gene Wett stone's gymnasts round out preparations for their biggest order of the season—trying to stop the high-flying Syracuse Orangemen tomorrow afternoon. The Orange has established itself as one of the strongest outfits in the East, already having clinched at least a tie for the Eastern Intercollegiate championship. Coach Paul Romeo's charges have romped over thr e e opponents Cortland State Teachers, Temple and Navy— and last week tied Army, <and they'll be favored to add the Lions to their string when the two squads meet at 2 o'clock. TALENT SHOW Whether the show will go ac cording to odds, or whether the 'til now mediocre Nittanies will be able to rewrite the script, gym fans are in for a top-notch muscle-talent show. In the starring role will de Syracuse's scintillating Joel Baba of Philadelphia, performer de luxe on the side-horse. parallel bars and flying rings. Backing him up are Gene Rabbitt, NAAU and Eastern Intercollegiate side horse champ, Leo Minotti, and Captain Norman (Bud) Matthews, pretty fair, actors in climbing the rope and tumbling, respectively. Against this visiting array, Wettstone will pit his top-flight ers, Dave Benner on the horse, Dick Spiese and Captain Joe Mirenzi on the P-bars, Lee Perna RECEIVE EQUIPMENT—Two of Coach Nick 'Thiel's lacrosse standouts, Jack Wilcox (1) and John Hagerman (r) are shown re ceiving their equipment as the lacrosse forces prepare for the coming season. Last year the stick Lions won 5 of 9 starts. This year's. hone season opens against Western Maryland, April 29. Lacrosse Veterans Few, Thiel To Stress Youth With only three returning lettermen in the- fold, Coach Nick Thiel will be concentrating on the youth ,movement in his 16th year as guide of Penn State's lacrosse fortunes. Despite the loss of 15 of last year's lettermen, Thiel is still his usual smiling self as he runs more than 90 candidates through the first week of formal practice on 'the rain-soaked golf course. Last year, Thiel had 13 lettermen at the start of the season, yet his squad only managed to shave .500, winning five and dropping four. Co-captains Ed Belfield, at tack, and Bob Louis, midfield, and defense-man John Hager man are the only lettermen Thiel will have to work with through a nine-game schedule. Jim Wor ley, another award winner last year, is not able to play because of an injury. Eleven other men on the squad saw action last year, six of them are seniors and two juniors. Goal ie Phil Benedetti and midfield man Jay Stone are juniors. The seniors are defense-men Joe Owens, Joe Drazenovich, Don Copelin, and Bud Pierce; attack men Ken Kaye and James Case; and midfield-men Jack Long, Burt Raymond, and Larry At kinson. LACK EXPERIENCE The squad will be short on 'ex perience; therefore these veter ans are sure to see plenty of q,:ticri. Thiel, however, will be THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA climbing the hemp and Rudy Valentino in tumbling. ' OUTSTANDING So far this season, Spiese, a sophomore, and Valentino a jun ion, have been the Lions' out standing performers. Spiese took firsts against Michigan State, with 266 points, and against Navy, with 252 points. Valentino, who leads State in its strongest event, has finished on top in every meet. Mirenzi, who scored 249 for a second spot againgt Navy last week, has come through to back up Spiese nicely on the bars this year, and Perna, climbing the rope in 3.9 seconds against Navy, has begun to look like' the rope climber he was expected to be. How they'll stack up against the Orange stars remains to be seen, but event for event the Nittanies have plenty of work cut out for them. • SIDE-HORSE Syracuse's Babbitt and Baba give Romeo a well-calculated edge in the first event, the side horse, where the Lions will use (Continued on page seven) —Photo by . , Sam Vaughn concentrating on the youth di vision, working toward 1951 and 1952 with a squad of promising stick-handlers that includes 18 juniors who saw action with the jayvees last year and 13 sopho mores, products of freshman cen ters. Junior varsity men trying for first string berths include goal ies Dick Hannah and Dale She.' fer; defense-men Charles Junker, Milo Kasonovich, Robert Rodli, Roy Hagy, Joe Phileromo and Mervin Snyder; attack-m e n Richard Bailey, Jack Cook, Steve Meisel, John Neff and Don Wat kins; and midfield-men Tom Overdorf, Paul Raffensperger, Jack Wilcox, Bill Forrest and Bill Hickey. SOPHOMORES Thiel has an exceptionally goodlooking crop of sophomores. The list numbers goalies Bob., Koons, defense-men John Am ber, Vance Scout, Bud Pedley,' and Al Seithers; attack-men Jim Reed, Harold Wolfron and Jim (Continued on page seven) I IM Basketball Standings FRATERNITY League B W L Phi •Kappa 5 0 Alpha Phi A. 4 0 Phi Gamma D. 8' 1 Sig. Phi Sig- 8 1 Phi Eph. Pi 2 3 Sigma Phi A. 2 3 Thu Phi Delta 0 5 Theta K. Phi 0 6 League A W Sigma Pi 6 Alpha Chi Sig 4 Delta CM 3 Alpha Zeta 3 Lambda Chi A 2 Triangle • 2 Kappa Sigma 1 Zeta Beta Tau 0 League' D W L Alp. G.. Rho 4 1 Sig, Phi. Ep. 4 1 Theta Chi 4 1 Phi Sig. Delt. 3 2 Sigma Nu S 2 Pi Kap. Phi 1 4 Theta Xi 1 4 Alpha Chi 0 0 League C W Beta Sig. Rho 4 Sig. Alpha Ep. 3 Phi D. Theta 3 Phi Kappa 2 Pi L'bda. Phi 2 Phi Sig. Kap. 2 Acacia 1 Alpha Ep. Pi. 0 League F W L Tau Kap. Ep. 6 0 Beta Theta Pi 4 1 Phi Kap. Sig. 4 1 Kap. Delt. Rh s o2 2 Omega Paint 2 2 Chi Phi 2 0 Alpha Tau 0. 2 4 Delt.Thet. Sig 1 4 Al. Phi Delt. 0 6 NDENTS League E , W Delta Upsilon 5 Sigma Chi 4 Al. Sig. Phi 3 Delta T. 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L 'Architects 4 1 NIL Co-op. 4 1 Royals 3 2 Shrimps 3 2 Whiz Kids 3 2 Bullets 1 , 4 Barons 0 6 Jordan Hall 0 • 6 League I W L Section 10 5 0 Altobnn 4 • 1 Harm : House 3 2 Jayvees 3 2 'Ampere 2 4 3 Matilda Chi . : 2 3 Beaver House' 1 • 4 Brickettes , 0 6 League K .W L Timber W's 5 . 1 Eagles . 4 1 Mary's Mugs 0 2 P-State Club . 3 3 Reds 2 3 Port. Terrors 2 ' 4 Penn Haven 0 5 These standings do not include games 'yed last night. * Double forfeit games in this league. One of the Few Only two Penn State boxers -160-pound Allie Wolff and 115- pound Johnny , Criswell—ever won three Intercollegiate Box ing Association titles in a row. Heavyweight Charles (Chuck) Drazenovich, 1950 captain, will he seeking this distinction when the Eastern championships are 'held at Syracuse, N. Y., March ,n-ii. ow. v m Meet Gymnastics co ac h Gene Wettstone announced that the •iym meet with Syracuse, scheduled for 7 o'clock tomor row night has been advanced to 2 o'clock torhorrow after noon. The rescheduling took place to accomodate a request by Syracuse that would allow ‘-oth their swimming and gym teams to leave Saturday in stead of staying over until Sun day. State Grapplers Test Strong Navy Mat Crew Coach Charley Speidel and his once-beaten Lion wres tling team leaves State College at noon today for their annual,/ jaunt to Annapolis, Md., the site of he United States Naval Academy. Tomorrow afternoon, the Nittanies will lock horns with the Middies in the final away-meet of the season for the Blue and White. Navy will be gunning for an upset over the Speidelmen, for last year a make-shift State crew ripped to a 20-10 win over the future Admirals. Jt was Navy's first dual meet loss since 1942. Speidel plans at least one change in his lineup from last week.' Bill Cormari, varsity 175- pounder the past two seasons, will get his first taste 'of com petition this season at 165 pounds, replacing Bill Santel. Coach Speidel ordered Santel to take a rest after he defaulted to his Army opponent last weekend be cause of a head injury'. 155 POUNDS Lion Tankmen Tie F . and M, Meet Syracuse The Lion mermen stroked to a 37 1 / 2 -37 1 / 2 tie with the Diplomats of Franklin and Marshall Wednes day night in Lancaster. A victory in the 300 yard medley Narked the first time in recent years that a State team had won this event in dual meet competition. The tie resulted from a dead heat for third, place in the 440 yard freestyle between Gene Kol ber and Ivan High. Rudy Valen tino, Lion fancy diver, was nar rowly beaten ,by his brother in the diving event., LONG SWIM " Captain John McGrory swam a total of 760 yards under strong competition. He. placed third, in the 220 freestyle behind. F. and M's Ivan and Robert High, took second in the 440 freestyle, and swam in the winning 400 yard relay team. Rod Waters and Kul' Conrad scored a one-two punch in the 150 yard backstroke. Cas Borowy took second in the 50 and third in the 100 yard freestyles. The mermen meet Syracuse in Glennland pool Saturday after noon at 2 o'clock. The Orangemen and Cornell's Big Red were the only two teams to defeat the Lions in 1949. Cor nell repeated against the Lion mermen in. this year's opener, and Syracuse looks like another repeater. LOSSES Coach Ted Webster's veteran- packed team is minus only three I of last year's swimmers. The big gest loss •is record-smasher Paul McCabe, who broke 20 records during his varsity years. Steve Rubeck, former Orange breast stroke ace, was also graduated last spring. Opeqing the season against Co lumbia, the Orange stroked its way to a 69-6 win over the Lions. Only roommates Brent Clark and Hal Auer are left of Sya- • cuse's triple threat, which in cluded McCabe..But these two are not to be taken lightly. Clark is currently rated the most valuable man on the squad. AAU CHAMPS During the past summer Clark and Auer teamed up to win the trophy in the Senior Men's Divis ion of the New York state AAU meet, despite the fact that all the other teams, comprised of upper New York state and Cana dian collegiate - swimmers,' had three men per team. The two men swim the 100, 220 and 440 can freestyle events. Clark can fill in at any position his coach wants him to, a valu able asset to any team. The New York staters are still strong in the fancy diving event, despite the loss of Bob Tierney. IBurt Pariser and Charlie Star wald are rated by their coach as the best divers in Central New York. JACK, JACK, JACK The three Jacks; Fa on, Gary, and Watkins are the probable starters in the 300 yard medley and the sprint events. Rod Waters, Penn State's ace backstroker, will run into strong competition in Ken. Heller, Skippy Mullin and Fred Raphael. The Lion natators will host Vir ginia March 4, in the last dual meet of the season. Big Boys Exciting Heavyweights promise excit ing competition in the National Collegiate boxing championships at State College, March 30- April 1, All-Time High Penn State football, attendance hit au all-time high in 1949. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1950 At 155 pounds, both Cec Irvin 2nd Bill Slabonik are still in line for the right to wrestle against the Middies. The'final choice rests on the • outcome of yesterday's elimination bout between the two. Otherwise, John Reese will be at his 121-pound position, with Jack Dreibelbis slated for duty at 128 pounds. Don Maurey, 136; Captain Jim Maurey, 145; Mike Rubino, 175, and Homer Barr, heavyweight, complete the Lion lineup. The Middies won three straight matches this year before falling victim to Michigan of the West ern Conference, 20-6. Navy's early-season triumphs" were over Columbia, 24-6; Penn, 20-6 and Yale, 16-11. The following week Coach Ray Swartz's Gold and Blue matmen • edged powerful Rutgers, 15-14. Rutgers forced Syracuse's EIWA champions to the limit before losing. Last Saturday, a good Lehigh team ran roughshod over the Tars, 24-7. -- MIDDIE CAPTAIN Leading the Navy - grapplers is Captain Wayne Smith, an ex perienced performer. Smith; who dropped down to the 136-pound class for the .Lehigh battle. won that weight title in the 1947 EIWA tournament. He was. upset in the semi-finals of the 1948 tourney, but still managed to place third. He was out last season because: of injuries. A former Michig,an grappler befoi.e entering the Na val Academy, Smith will likely remain at 136 pounds and his fight with Don Maurey should. be the highlight of the meet Smith is unbeaten, but has wrestled five matches at 145 pounds.. .Other Middle standouts . are Dick Neff, 128-pounder, and heavyweight Jim Hunte. Neff will match holds with the Lions' Drei belbis, while . Hunte will once again take on Eastern champ Barr. Hunte lost by decision 'to Barr in last season's dual meet. NAVY STARTERS Other probable starters fOr the hosts include Bob Sutley, 121 Pounds; Jack Reed, 145 pouncls; Bill Harvey, 155 pounds; the vet eran Floyd Holloway, 165 3;•ounds, and Archie Thompson, 175 pounds. Captain Smith was the only winner for the Tars in the Le high duel, while Holloway fought to a tie, with Pete MUrplxy, • Track Meets . Dual meets with Ohio• 'State, Michigan State, and Navy, and .a triangular meet with Pitt and West Virginia, highlight' the 1950 Penn State track and field schedule. H. R. Gilbert, gradu ate manager of athletics, says the trackmen also will compete in the Penn Relays and IC-4A championships. The season opens April 22. Bouncing Rudy • Penn State's best bet for title hon6rs when the Eastern inter collegiate gymnastic 'champion ships are held here March 11 is Rudy Valentino, tumbler, of Lan caster. Bill Meade, since gradu ated, brought this title to Penn State last year. 21-Game Card A 21-game card will mark the 1950 Penn State baseball sched ule.
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