PAGE SIX Penn Elmer Gross To Show Tall, Fast Squad By DAVE COLTON Penn State basketball fans will have an opportunity to watch a tall, fast-breaking team tomorrow night when the Lion cagers open their 24 ' game schedule against Ithaca College in Rec Hall. • Coach Elmer Gross begins his third season at the helm of the Lion hoopsters, and has the tallest Nittany team he has coached. The first team averages six feet, four inches, and the second team about six-three. Despite the squad height, they have been' using a fast-break, and emphasizing of fense more than former State teams. Gross expects his hoopsters to score more, but believes the defense will not be as tight as in other years. Last season's two leading scor ers, Lou Lamle and Ted Panoplos were both graduated, but Gross believes he will have a well balanced attack. He thinks the scoring will probably be divided, with most of the regulars scoring in the double figures. 24 Game Schedule The Nittanies have some worthy opponents included in their 24 games this season. The 15 away games will make it tough to equal last year's 14-9 record, Gross believes. "Any away-game in basketball is tough since it's just like giving 9 to 10 points to the opponent," the Lion coach said. The Lions won five practice games and lost one. They beat Lock Haven State Teachers Col lege twice, and downed Juniata, St. Francis, and Lycoming, but lost to St. Francis at St. Francis. Gross has five lettermen in his starting lineup. Co-Captains Har dy Williams and Jay 'Tiny' Mc -Mahan were regulars last year and have been on the team for three years. Chet 'Whitey' Mak arewicz, Jo e Piorkowski, and Herm Sledzik are the other vet eran regulars. Williams and Pior kowski are the guards, McMahan, center, and Makarewicz and Sled zik, forwards. Five Frosh The reserves include five fresh men, and two sophomores. Jack Sherry played for the Lion fresh men last year, and Ed Haag came to State from California State Teachers. Jesse Arn ell e, Jim Blocker, Frank DeSalle, Jim Hills and Ronny Weidenhammer are first year men. Most of the new comers are promising but lack experience, and reserve strength may be one of Gross' problems in the early part of the season. The Schedule / Dec. 5, Ithaca; 12, Bucknell; 15, at W&J; 27-28, Steel Bowl tourna ment, at Pittsburgh (Virginia, Pitt, Michigan, Penn State). Jan. 5, Colgate; 10, Syracuse; 12, Carnegie Tech; 16, at Gettys burg; 17, at Dickinson; 19, at Pitt; 30, at Navy; 31, at American Uni versity, Washington, D.C. Feb. 2, at West Virginia; 6, Rutgers; 9, Georgetown; 15, at Rhode Island State; 16, at Army; 20, at Pennsylvania; 22, at Col gate; 23, at Syracuse; 27, West Virginia. March 1, Pitt; 8, at Bucknell. Golfers Will Play Six Matches in '52 Penn State's newly restored golf team will compete in six matches next spring, H. R. Gil bert, graduate manager of ath letics, announced yesterday. , Golf was dropped from the Col lege's athletic program last season in an economy move, but was recently restored to varsity com petition. Gilbert also announced that the 1952 team will "compete in• th e Eastern Intercollegiate Golf Association title tournament. The schedule includes April 30 at Gettysburg, May 3 at Cornell, 7 at Pitt, 10-12 Eastern Inter!. collegiates, 15 at P-cknell, 17 at Navy, 24 at Colgate. State Courtmcn Open Ithaca Five Tomorrow Await Startin 'l / 2 , :.; : ,A? ~ .4..,•—,.,,, ...iffue. —Photo by Sussrban CO-CAPTAINS Hardy Williams and Jay "Tiny" McMahan listen attentively while Coach Elmer Gross talks about the coming sea son. The Lions open tomorrow night in Rec Hall with Ithaca College. Lion Soccermen Defeat Schodboy Hs•Stars, 3-2 Penn State's soccer team turned back a scrappy but outclassed Centre County Soccer League all-star team Saturday afternoon, 3-2. ' The high school all-stars put up a good fight against Bill Jeffrey's crew but without playing too hard a game, the Lions were able to score a comparatively easy w: The game, which was a well played affair, was arranged by the County League coaches and Jeffrey, and may become an an nual affair, Lions Take Lead With some fine play by Mill heim's Mert Springer, wh o tal lied both the all-stars' goals, the high school stars came from be hind twice to ti e the Nittany Lions before Jack Pinezich scored the winning tally late in the third period. Penn State took the lead at 7:09 of the first period when Don Shirk pushed through a score. The All-Stars tied it up at 10:23 of the second period on Springer's first tally. The Lions came right back with their second goal in the same period with Hap Irvin scoring. Klaus Missing At 4:50 of the third period, Springer again knotted the count with his second goal. Five min utes later Pinezich booted in the clincher for the Lions. Jeffrey used the Lion regulars sparingly in an effort to keep the game on as even terms as possi ble. Kurt Klaus did not see any action for State. The county All-Stars were se lected by the league coaches in conjunction with the Centre Daily Times. Seixas, Savitt Lose to Aussies MELBOURNE, Australia, Dec. 3 —(M—America's Davis Cuppers discovered to their surprise to day that they have only one dou bles team after all and that it is composed of Ted Schroeder and Tony Trabert. Vic Seixas and Dick Savitt, wh o might have entertained some aspirations in tandem play, took a royal beating from veteran Adrian Quist and Geoff Brown of Australia, 7-5, 8-6, 6-2 in th e quarter-finals of th e victorian tennis championships. He Knows Stuff Lamont Smith, of Lehighton, Pa., Penn State cross-country "find," is no dullard. He's a first year student in engineering. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COrA,EGE, Whistle • ...Aso m a _ • . Temple Accepts Bid To Soccer Bowl, Dec. 30 For the first time in three years, Penn State will not play in the Soccer Bowl in St. Louis Dec. 30. Temple University has ac cepted an invitation to oppose San Francisco in this year's soccer classic. Temple and Penn State played' to an over time 1-1 tie, Nov. 24. However, the Owls haven't been beaten in the past two years. In the first two bowl matches Penn State tied San Francisco and defeated the Purdue Soc cer Club: Bartek, Hoover On Blue Team Guard Len Bartek and tackle Ed Hoover have been named to play in the annual Blue-Grey football game in Montgomery. Alabama, Dec. 29. The two Lion gridders will join Coach Rip Engle and Trainer Chuck Medlar as Penn State rep resentatives on the North squad. Engle will coach the Blue team with Ivy Williamson, coach at Wisconsin. and Dick Harlow, Engle's former coach at Western Maryland. Medlar will act as the Blue squad's trainer. Both: Bartek and Hoover are seniors and 'are eligible to pliy in the all-senior game. Both men are' offensive linemen. Vince O`Bara and John Smidansky were, invited to the game last 'season. Only ()Sara accepted. Bartek was named to the all district first team over the week end. He 'was named to the AP's All-Pennsylvania second team last week. Hoover was named to the AP's first team. Tough Card in '52- Penn State will undertake a tough ten-game football schedule in 1952, opening against Temple September 22. tNNSYLVANIA Wrestlers ,-Prepare For Title Defense With still a Month to go before they open the season at Lehigh, Jan. 5, the Nittany Lion wrestlers are hard at wo'rk preparing de fense of their Eastern Intercollegiate wrestling crown. Coach Charlie Speidel has been sending the Penn Statd matmen through daily drills and is Rleased with the , way the squad has-been shaping up. With five memb e r s of his championship squad lost• through graduation, Speidel is faced with the 'task of finding able replace ments for such men as 177-pound East ern champ Mike Rubino, two time heavyweight champ Ho mer Barr, Rusty Santel, Johnny Reese, and . Jack Driebelbis. , Opponents Tough • - 1 "We'll have a good wrestling team but I'm not shedding croc odile tears when I say that it won't be one that will cause the other team to drop dead' every time we walk out on the mats, Speidel said. "Our opponents are t o ugh. There are too many sleepers. I just returned from a meeting of the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrest ling Association and all the coaches are tight lipped and think they have an ace in the hole. "With freshmen eligible t h-i s season it's 'hard to say how tough the other teams are going to be. We'll have a good team but I won't predict that we'll win, all our matches," he said. "The success of our season will depend on the outcome of the Le high match and how well our first year men do." Brother Act Back to form a nucleus for this year's squad are Captain Don Maurey, Eastern 137-pound cham pion, Don Frey, 147-pound run ner-up in both the Easterns and Nationals, and Joe Iremyre, 167- pound letterman. Don is the second member of the famed wrestling Maurey's to captain a Penn State wrestling squad. Jim, now coach of the State , Colege High School mat team, captained the Lions in 1949. The third member of the family, Gerry Maurey, will make his bid for a varsity spot this season. Last season, Gerry wres tled for the Penn State freshman squad and was undefeated at the 147-pound class. Speidel says his biggest prob lem will, be to fit everyone into the lineup. Don Frey and Gerry Maurey are both vying for the 147-pound spot and one might be forced to sit on the bench unless Speidel can stagger his lineup. Princeton Puts Five Gridders On AP Team NEW YORK, Dec. 3—(W)—Un defeated Princeton dominated the 1951 All-East football team by placing dazzling Dick Kazmaier and four of his teammates on the two-platoon squad picked for the Associated Press today by eastern coaches. Kazmaier, whose running and passing exploits won him the na tional individual offense title, was a unanimous choice for a backfield spot on the • attacking unit. No other team in the east re ceived more than two positions, and five got that many. They were Holy Cross, Cornell, Navy, Bucknell and Pennsylvania. Remaining honors went singly to Yale, Colgate, Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth, Boston Uni versity and Villanova. The Associated Press All 7 East: OFFENSIVE PLATOON • Pos. Player College E Karl Kluckhohn Colgate E Tom McCann Holy Cross T Paul Tetreault Navy T Charles Metzler Cornell G Gerald Audette ' Columbia G John Pietro Brown C William Vesprini Dartmouth B Richefd Kazmaierl Princeton B Harry Agganis Boston U. B Chuck Maloy - Holy Cross B • _. Burt•Talmage •- N " ' Bracknell * DEFENSIVE PLATOON E Frank McPhee Princeton E Edward Bell ' Penn T George Young ',. Buckngil T Gerald McGinley Whit G . Nick Liotta Villanova G -Victor Bihl Princeton C David Hickok Princeton B Robert Spears Yale B William' Whelan Cornell B Richard Piviiotto , Princeton 8 Frank naafi Navy TUESDAY, DECEMBER, 4, 1951 Shattuck Tops Lions In Rushing Ted Shattuck, The' Lions' quick starting • left halfback, finished thor football season, his second in a Nittany uniform, as the team's top around gainer with a net total of 579 yards in 135 plays for an average of 4.3 yards per play. He finished, well ahead of his closest competitor. Bob Pollard, who carried for 421 yards in 56 plays, although Pollard led in total offense with 894 yards in 88 Plays. 'Bob also contributed the longest run from scrimmage for the year, a 75 yard 'dash against Rutgers. Quarterback Bob Szajna fin ished second in total offense rolling up 465 yards in 99 plays. Szanja also led the team in pass ing • yardage, throwing for 528 yards' in 86 attempts including three touchdown passes. He com pleted 41 passes or 48 percent of his tosses, and had seven inter cepted. • Tony Rados was runnerup iri passing with 25 successful heaves out of 68 tries or 37 percent of his attempts for 415 yards. Co-Captain Art Betts paced the pass receivers, pulling in 13 passes for 200 yards including two touchdown throws. Joe Yu kica backed up Betts, catching 10 for 147 yards. The pass re sulting in the longest gain -was caught by Matt Yanosich against Michigan State, and covered 56 yards. Shattuck led in kickoff returns, carving nine for 168 yards, and Pollard took the punt return% honors, rolling up , 224 yards in 14 carries. Shattuck also scored the most points, 30. Betts, who did the punting all year, had an aver age of 35.2 yards per punt. The Penn State team ran up a total of 4.6 yards in total offense per play throughout the season while, holding the enemy to 4.3 yards per play. Don't Get HOSED ... _ N, , •„.. ,k., • ~-.0 - . ..,,:,. 1•.:.., ~., , ~ • ,•,,,,. • „, , ; ~.„.,„ _ te ~. i': 1.. , • , ;,. : 4 4 / ... A sur v e y by Collegian showed that the prices in State College stores are equal to (and in some cases lower than) prices in met ropolitan shopping centers. Remember you have 13 days foi your Christmas shopping in State College, but only 4 hectic days (Dec. 20,24) if you carry your shopping • worries home with you. This Christmas—Shop State College. Sponsored by Courtesy of ETHEL MESERVE
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