PAGE SIX Await Invading Bombers PENN STATE'S basketball team, which opens its 24 game schedule against Ithaca College in Rec Hall at 8 tonight. Kneeling are Coach Elmer Gross' starting five: Co-captain Hardy Williams, guard; Co-captain Jay McMahan, center; Herm Sledzik, forward; Joe Piorkowski, guard, and Chet Makarewicz, forward. Standing are re serves Frank DeSalle, Ed Haag, Jim Blocker, Lions Will ,Sport New Fast-Breaking Offense Gross believes the fast break he ha's been using in practice ses sions will give the Lions higher scoring games, with the emphasis on defense. Jesse Arnelle, Jack Sherry, and Ed Haag are Gross' . top reserves. Arnelle is a freshman and Haag and Sherry sophomores: Others slated for action tonight are Jim Blocker, Frank DeSalle, Jim Hill, and Ron Weidenhammer. PENN STATE SQUAD Hardy Williams Co-captain, and three year man. Six-feet, 178 pounds. Regular last year and one of most consistent scorers. Cool ball-handler; one of smoothest players Penn State has had in many years. Jay 'Tiny' McMahan Tallest man on team at six-seven. Lives in Hamilton, Ontario. Co-captain; always dangerous because of height and hook shot. Scored 194 points last season. Joe Piorkowski Senior; let terman last season. Six-t hr e e from Wyoming, Pa. Transferred to Penn State. Scored• 68 points as reserve last winter. Good ball handler; quiet, but aggressive. Herm Sledzik Another let terman. Missed part of last sea son with broken wrist, but still tallied 80 points. A six-four junior with good jump shot; potentially high-scorer. Chet 'Whitey' Makarewicz Six-five junior forward. Saw a lot of action last season and scored 45 markers. A good rebounder. Has been scoring more this year and scored first 14 points in Lock Haven scrimmage. Has bad habit of fouling and holding opponent. Jesse Arnelle Big six-five, 215 pound freshman. Joined team after football season, but ha s caught coaches' eye with rebound work. Has two hand push shot. Star at New Rochelle, N.Y. Po tential starter after he learns of fensive tactics. Jack Sherry Six-two sopho more. Joined freshthan team last February and was one of top scorers. Lives in Philadelphia; fast on both offense and defense. Exceptionally good o n e-h an d jump shot from foul line. Ed Haag Six-two sophomore transfer from California State Teachers. One of the better re serves. From Crafton; aggressive, fast. Ronny Weidenhammer Six foot freshman from Kutztown. Was All-State Class B for two years. Starred f o r Kutztown's Class B championship team last year. Fast, good ballhandler, but hasn't hit scoring stride yet. Jim Hill Six-five freshman from Ambridge. Good rebounder, but needs experience and polish. Jim Blocker Another Phila delphia product. Six-three fresh man. Terrific rebounder for size. Could develop but needs ex perience. Frank DeSalle Twin brother of Renault, freshman football can- (Continued from. wage one) Matthews May Turn 'Heavy' For Title Shot CLEVELAND, Dec. 4 —(W)-- Jack Hurley, manager of Harry Matthews, today said he had just about decided to start the sensa tional Seattle light heavyweight fighting in the heavyweight class. "The chances of getting a fight with Joey Maxim (light heavy weight champion) at any early date seem pretty hopeless now," Hurley said. Hurley said he was hopeful of getting Matthews a fight, probably next summer, \ with heavyweight champion Joe Walcott or heavy weight Rocky Marciano. Matthews, unbeaten in his last 65 fights and ranked second in the light heavyweight class, will seek his 13th straight knockout tomorrow night in a 10-round bout with Danny Nardico of Tampa. The fight will be the feature bout on the Cleveland News Toyshop Fund show. Nardico, although an underdog in the betting, boasts a record of 17 knockouts in his last 21 bouts. His only loss in 12 fights this year was to Irish Bob Murphy, whom Matthews has beaten. Die* Kazmaier Gets Heisman Award NEW YORK, Dec. 4—(2 l P)—Dick Kazmaier, Princeton's ace tail back, today was named winner of the Heitman Award, given an nually by the New York DoWn town Athletic Club to the out standing college football player in the country. It Was 'Poor' Year It was a "poor" year for Bill Jeffrey in his 26th, season as Penn State soccer coach. His team, us ually unbeaten, lost one game. didate. Six-one fr om Monaca. Also needs experience, but looks promising. The Lineups Ithaca Penn State Masken f Williams Gilbert f Plorkowski Howard Reserves: Ithaca: Byrne, Cordtnes, Grundtisch, Fa ciletti, Moomey, l'o,nn State: Arnelle, Blocker; DeSalle, Haag, Hill, Sherry, Weidenhammez. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STA*. eCirsi;EGE, —Photo by Sussman Jim Hill, Jesse Arnelle, Jack Sherry, and Ronny Weidenhammer. Haag and Sherry are sopho mores, and the others reserve freshmen. Sherry played on the freshman team last _season, and Haag is a transfer student. Weidenhammer was All-State at Kutztown. Arnelle has improved rapidly since joining the cagers after football practice, and is a potential starter. Epars Win Fourth IM Cage Tilt The Epars became the first team, independent or fraternity, to win four games as the IM Gager s of League A defeated a good Fireballs five, 37-23, in the feature.of Monday night's sched ule. The win left the Epars all by themselves in first place and a game and one half in front of the Radads' and Sea Hawks. In the only other League- A game, the Puddy Cats piled up a 12-4 half time lead and eased up just slight ly in - the second half to whip the Mustangs, 22-16. The Sinkers won their first game in League J after an early season forfeit to Dorm 23 by trimming the winless Alcoholics, 42-16. The Sinkers are composed of Penn State varsity football players. Jim Garrity and Renault DeSalle led the Sinkers with I'7 and 12 points, respectively. Dorm 36 continued unbeaten in League J by winning over the Hawks, 25-15. It was the third consecutive win for Dorm 36 and the Hawks' first loss. In another League J tussle, Simmons Hall edged Dorm 24 by a 23-19 score. Dorm 35 and Palmerton racked, up 'their third victories in League K. Palmerton romped to a 51-6 triumph over McElwain Hall as John Kunda tallied 16 points. Dorm 35 kept pace with Palmer ton by tripping the• Triple A's, 24-19, with Bob Greenly leading the attack with nine points. - Dick Gelatt scored 14 markers in leading Dorm 28 to a 21-12 win over the Penn State Club. In the other League K 'gaine, Dorm 51 forfeited to Ford City. Frank Rogel Dies Of Heart Attack PITTSBURGH, Dec. 4 (IP) Frank Rogel,, father of fullback Fr an Rogel of . the Pittsburgh Steelers national football league team, and former Penn State star, died of a heart attack yes terday in nearby North Braddock.' The elder Rogel, 58, collapsed on the street after leaving his job at the Edgar Thompson Works of the U.S. Steel Company with two other workers. His compan ions said he complained of feel ing faint, then slipped to th e sidewalk. MEM Makarewiez By JIM PETERS ENNSYLVANTA Wrestlers, Harriers Share Top Honors , Coach Charlie Speidel's wrestling team, undefeated in dual meet competition this past season, had to share top honors for 1951 with Chick Werner's cross-country team, which copped the IC4-A crown for the second straight year. - The Penn State Matmen captured eight consecutive dual meets and added the Eastern title and a third place in the national tour ney to its laurels during the 1951 campaign. The Lion harriers' win in the IC4A's marked the sixth time since 1926 that Penn State has won the title. The Nittany Lions dropped mly one dual meet; to Army, and finished third in the NCAA race. Coach Bill Jeffrey's soccer teani lost only 'one match, also to, Army, winning five and tying two with Temple and Navy. Winning Records 'Rip Engle's football squad finished the 1951 campaign with a 5-4 mark, just shy of tying the 5-34 record of last season. The • Lionl gridders defeated . Boston U., Nebraska , West,Virginia, Syracuse, and Rutgers. Villano* Michigan State, Purdue, and Pitt won - contests t from the Lions. ' Five other varsity sports finished above' the .500 mark. The t basketball team finished with a 14-9 Mark; lacroise, 6-3; baseball, 10-3; golf, 6-3; tennis, 9-4. The Lion boxers won three, lost three. ' tied one and finished second in the Pasterns. The track squad split even, winning one and losing one. Coach Gene Wettstone's gym nasts also split, winning three and losing three. Only fencing and swimming posted losing seasons. The fencers' could win only one of seven while the - swimmers won two of ten. pastern Champs Individual honors went to boxers Johnny Albarano and Lou - Koszarek, ba:sketballer Lou Lamie, wrestlers Don Maurey and Mike Rubino, trackman Ted Roderer, baseballer Owen Dougherty, lacrosse player Jack Wilcox, and swimmer George Hamilton. Albarano and Komarek each captured Eastern boxing 'crowns, while Maurey and Rubino won Eastern wrestling togas. Roderer copped the IC4A javelin throw. Dougherty was selected to the District 2, NCAA all-star baseball team. Lamie put two basketball scoring records into the record books, breaking the one year and three year marks. The Lion forward scored :319 points for the one year mark and 666 for the new three year standard. Wilcox also set a scoring mark for the Lions by scoring 20 goals last season for Coach Nick Thiel'& lacrosse team. The team's total of 101 goals was also a new record. 11 Gridders Honored Hamilton set a new Penn State 200-yard backstroke mark with a time of 2:21.3. This fall 11 Penn State gridders were recognized with either selections to "all" teams or honorable mentions. Bob Pollard and Ed Hoover were named to the Associated Press' All-Pennsylvania first team. Pollard made the defensive squad and Hoover the offensive. Len Bartek and Ted Shattuck made second teams; Bartek on the offensive and Shattuck ,on the defensive. Co captains Art Setts and Lin Shephard, Stew Scheetz, Paul Anders, and Tom Pevarnik were given honorable mention. Ted Shattuck was given honorable mention on Collier's Eastern regional team. Pollard, \ Anders, Scheetz, Bartek, McPolanci, and Gratson were named to the district "Big Three" team by the Pittsburgh Press. Anders and Bartek made the first offensive team, while Gratson, isolcPoland, Scheetz, and Pollard made the defensive team. Hoover, offensive tackle, and Bartek, offensive guard, have been invited to play in the Blue-Grey game for the North team which will. , be coached by State's Rip Engle. Soccermen Captain Ron Coleman and Kurt Klaus have been invited to play in the Olympic tryout games. Class B Clubs Draft 70 Men COLUMBUS, 0., Dec. 4--(W)-- Baseball drafting activity took an upsurge today as clubs in the nine Class B leagues grabbed off players from the teams in Class IC and D leagues. Last year the • Class B clubs drafted 54 players.. The Class B leagues are the Big State, Carolina, Florida In ternational, Gulf Coast, Inter state, Piedmont, Three-I, Tri- State, and Western International. The Classß teams paid out a total of $63,600 for the 70 play ers. That brought to $287;600 the amount the various minor league clubs have paid thus far for 166 drafted players. Of the 70 drafted today, 38 were taken from Class C leagues at $l,OOO each and 32 from Class D at $BOO each. Football Meeting There win be a short but im portant meeting of the football squad in 121 Sparks at 12 noon tomorrow. All members of the squad are requested to attend. sTEDftsbAy„ TACENtRaTi 5, 1551
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