FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1951
IT'S-FINALLY-HAPPENED DEPARTMENT Some one has at
last come up with a defense against the deep freeze tactics employed
by some basketball teams. An article in a metropolitan newspaper
the other day told of the attempt of the Bedford, Ky. high school's
attempt to upset its rival, Milton 'high school, by playing a stalling
game. But the strategy backfired when Milton coach Dudley Whit
aker told his boys to employ the same tactics. The result was a 12 to
'7 win for Milton. You listeriing, Bucknell?
ATTENTION CHARLEY DRESSEN Here's a little suggestion
aimed at clearing up your mound problems. Remember that pitch
ing
. machine Branch Rickey had installed when
he was president of the club? It might be a wise
idea to give it spot on your staff. Heaven knows,
it could hardly do worse than some of the hu
mans now doing your tossing. At least it would
get the ball over the plate.
necessary to ba c k to December 1949 and the
banquet, honoring that fall's all-junior cr os s
country team. The boys had made a good sh o wing that' year.
At the banquet, Coach Chick Werner made the statement that he was
confident that he had the next year's IC4-A and NCAA champions.
The statement was not published at the time for obvious reasons.
But 11 months later the accuracy of his prediction was established
as the Lion harriers captured both titles. Take a bow, Chick. By the
way, when you have a few spare minutes how about giving our foot
ball swamis a lesson or two in the art of prognostication?
SHORT SHOTS IN SUNDRY DIRECTIONS —Dick Wakefield
has been offered a $1 contract by the Oakland club of the. "
Coast league. In our book, he's still being over ,
paid ... Ron Coder, goalie on the varsity soccer
team and pole vaulter on the track team, is also
a former IM heavyweight boxing champion .
So Bob Feller is all. finished, huh? A survey of
the 1950 American leagile earned run averages
reveals that Rapid Robert had an average of 3.43,
This placed him above such men as teammate
Bob Lemon, Vic Rashchi and Allie Reynolds of
the Yanks, and Art Houtterman of the Tigers,
all considered pretty fair pitchers last season.
DOWN MEMORY LANE The success of Penn State's indoor
mile relay team this winter•recalls the antics of last year's aggrega
tion,. That foursome, comprising star hurdler Jim Gehrdes, Wil Lan
caster, Bill LoCkhart and Guy Kay, broke the State record for the
event no less than three times within the period of a month. That's
about par for the course. Kay and Lockhart are members of this
year's team (rated one of the nation's top) along with John McCall
and John Lauer.
HATS OFF TO Penn State's basketball team for its six
game win streak which hit a roadblock in Pittsburgh Wednesday
night ... Sugar Ray Robinson for his winning of the middleweight
title. But le chaneau is doffed a bit higher for Jake La Motta, who
refused to quit even though he was taking an unmerciful beating
. . . Coach Ed Sulkovrski and his Lion boxers for the surprisingly
easy win over Army's clouters. •
Swimmers Meet Strong Pitt
In Glennland Pool Tomorrow
WANTED for the Penn State swimming
team : a couple of brenstatrokers the
caliber of Princeton's 200-yard record
holder, Bob Barwner, and the ex-LaSalle
speedster Joe Verdeur.
Not that even with the aid of
this famous pair of "butterfly"
swimmers could State beat a
powerful Pitt team tomorrow
afternoon in Glennland pool.
However, the worse part of either
of them could probably have
made up the difference by which
the Lions lost more than one
meet this season.
Lack of a srtong breaststroke
leg in the 300-yard medlay pre
vented the Lions winning that
event in every meet so far this
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WHAT'S
BREUING
GIVING DUE CREDIT— For this little item it is
season. A fault which costs Nit
tany mermen five points.
Still a greater hurt is the auto
matic 8-point loss in the 200-yard
breaststroke since the best Art
Smith and Bruce Bainbridge
have done to date is a third place
finish.
Bruce is only a sophomore and
Art a junior. More than the hard
efforts they put forth all year
cannot be expected of them.
Th e ineligibility of Enrico
Rossi, IM. recordbreaker this fall,
definitely put a kink in Lion at
tempts to win this season.
Of late Coach Gutteron has
been grooming soph Jim Davies
for the frog-kick, but as yet, no
silver lining is in sight'.
THE DAILY C
By JOE BREU
Ass't Sports Editor
ILLEGIAN . , STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
Pitt Upsets Cagers;
Their streak broken, the pres
sure off, the Nittany Lion cagers
were back at work last night
preparing for the game with
Rutgers in New Brunswick to
morrow night. The battle cry
now is, "Let's start another win
streak."
In Pitts bur g h Wednesday
night, the Pitt Panthers fractur
ed the Lions six-game victory
streak by upsetting the State
courtmen, 60-51. '
The Lions hopped off to a
good lead in the game and it
appeared for a while that they
were off to their seventh
straight. At one time during the
first half, the Lions led by a 21-
10 count. But Doc Carlson's Pitt
cagers couldn't be denied and
left the court at the halfway
mark with a 27-23 advantage.
State came back to tie the
count shortly after but when
Phys. Education Instructor Played
On 7 U.S. Women's Hockey Clubs
By PAT NUTTER
With a clean smack, the hock
ey ball slashes the wire cage.
Ine whistle blows and the crowd
cheers. The score in the women's
field hocxey game is one to
nothing.
Fiela hockey to Elenore Pep
per, physical education instruc
tor at the College, is the most ex
citing and toughest of women's
sport. The tall orunette hockey
expert, who is working on her
masters degree, has scrimmaged
on the Unned States hockey nrst
team three times, and on the
reserve team twice. she has also
played forward line position on
Ine LI.S. team in two international
tournaments.
A Long Process
"Field nockey takes a long time
to learn," the heaver college
graduate saia, "because you must
/earn both correct body positions
and the manipulations of the
nockey stick." .he stressed tne
./act mat a hockey player must
also know strategy.
'ihe former vv 2-ISP, who has
.6o nours of flying time to her
credit, first played field hockey
in justior nigh scnooi. She be
came interested in the game and
played on her high scnool and
college teams. Since she lives in
Wyncote, near llulacleiphia, she
began playing on the tinyals club
team which competes with other
ceams in the Pniiadeiphia area.
Competition Is .Keen
Each year a squad is chosen to
compete with sectional teams in
Pennsylvania. Miss Pepper's
team was selected several times.
torom there, her team ascended
to middle Atlantic state competit
ion. The middle-Atlantic states
send three teams to the national
tournaments. From ,teams all
over the country, individuals are
chosen to make up a U.S. first
team and a reserve team. These
two teams play in international
competition every three years.
The blue-eyed instructor tour
ed with the U.S. team during
the 1947 international tourna-
Tiny McMahan, who was doing
yoeman work on the boards for
the Lions, fouled out and he in
turn was followed by Junie
Moore, Hardy Williams, and Ted
Panoplos, the Lion attack was
crippled. •
Penn State FG F TlPitt FG F T
Lamie,f 5 9 19IZernich,f 2 1 5
Williams,f 4 4 12113elich,f 4 311
McMahan,c 3 0 61Virestek.c 2 2 0
Moore,g 1 2 4111romalk,g 4 7 15
Panoplos,g 3 2 3lYurko,g 4 513
Sledzik 02 2l Kendrick 42 10
Pierkowski 0 0 olBoyd 0 0 0
Makarewicz 0 0 0
Lynch 0 0 0
Shuptar
Totals 16 19 51
Captain Lou Lamie was the
only Lion who hit with any con
sistancy as he rang up 19 points
to draw within 10 points of the
Penn State three-year scoring
record.
ELENORE PEPPER, phys ed instructor at the College, practices
her stickwork in White hall. Miss Pepper has played forward line
on the U. S. field hockey team in three games. She was also a mem
ber of the reserve team during two tournaments.
ment which was held in Rotter
dam, Holland. On the trip her
team played exhibition games in
England, Scotland, Amsterdam,
and Paris.
Last year. the tournament was
held in Johannesburg, Africa.
The U.S. team toured both Eng
land and South Africa. This tour
covered 30,000 miles. Although
the individual teams must pay
for their own transportation, the
host country pays expenses while
the teams are its guests.
"I like international hockey
because of the stiff compe
tition," Miss Pepper said. "It is
also a good way to meet people
4 Lions Foul Out
Williams followed Lamie in
the scoring column with 12
markers. George Hromanik was
the Panther's big gun with 15
points.
State Coach Elmer Gross
made no excuses for his team.
"They out shot us, out rebound
ed us—they outplayed. us. Pitt
is an under rated team," he said.
The Panthers used a switch
ing man-to-man maneuver out
front in their zone defense and
forced the Lions to shoot from
outside. When the Lions did
shoot the Pitt defenders faded
under the basket and monopo
lized on the rebounds.
Totals 20 20 60
Gross pointed out that the
loss of McMahan, who was play
ing his best game of the season,
and the tough luck the usually
consistant - Panoplos was having
with the shots hurt the Lion
cause the most.
Collegian Photo by McNeillie
of other countries and learn
their customs." she added. She
believes that sports cement
good relations between nations.
During her international tours,
the physical education instructor
took many color photographs of
historic spots. Now, she is re
producing the pictures in oil
paintings.
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