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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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