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Ash6ifeltei
Lion Cross-Country Star Beats
Fred Wilt in 10,000 Meter Run
The cream of the nation's distance runners including two of the
FBl's best, Fred Wilt and Horace Ashenfelter, failed to catch Bill
Ashenfelter as the lanky Nittany senior scored the greatest triumph
of his career by winning the National Senior AAU 10,000 meter
cross-country championship Sunday in Philadelphia.
Mitten, earmuff and warm-up
clad Ashenfelter fought off 15-
degree cold, a biting wind and
the doggedness of FBI Flyer Wilt
to win by a foot with a driving
finish over the last 10 yards. Both
were timed, in 30:26 for the ap
proximately 6 1 / 4 mile course.
Beats Brother
Ash's stunning . upset victory in
the Fairmount Park frigid endur
ance test was his first major tri
umph in a championship meet
after three years of outstanding
distance running for Chick Wer
ner's track teams.
The closest Bill had previously
come to winning a "big one" was
in the 1950 IC4A cross-country
run when he took runnerup hon
ors behind Army's Dick Shea.
Aside from defeating Wilt,
NCAA X-country champion in
1941 and well-know for his re
peated failures to beat the U.S.
mile king Don Gehrmann in
doors last winter, Bill licked bro
ther Horace, another former Penn
State distance star Curt Stone,
and defending champion in the
AAU run, Browning Ross.
Olympic Contender
Horace, NCAA. two mile track
champion in 1949, was third,
clocked in 30:09, and Curt Stone,
Olympic 10,000 meter participant
and U. S. track champion was
fourth in 30:41. Ross ran a poor
fifth.
By triumphing over such elite
company, Bill establishes himself
as a contender for an Olympic
berth next summer after his grad
uation in February.
Penn State's position as a home
of distance running champions
was evidenced by the fact that
four of the first seven finishers
were present or former Lions.
Herm Goffberg, ex-State X-coun
try runner, -took seventh to be
the fourth Nittany finisher. Goff
berg ran for the United States
during the '4B Olympics.
Lindner 15th
Bill Ash represented Penn AC,
coached by former Lion runner
Jack St. Clair's father, but de
spite his victory Wilt's New York
AC won the team title by 29-35
count over the Philadelphians.
Stan Lindner, another, member
of the Lion harriers the last two
seasons, took a creditable 15th
place running for Mutual of
Omaha.
Long-striding Bill moved into
the lead after 50 yards. From that
point on he and Wilt ran closb
together until the dash for the
tape where Bill with a burst of
reserve won the National Ama
teur ,title.
Olympic Year Introduces
New College Mat Rules
Because of the forthcoming
Olympic games, some major rule
changes will be introduced in the
coming wrestling campaign.
The first and most important
rule change will be the stressing
of take-downs. This season wrest
lers will be stressing take-downs
as the most important part of the
scoring system, since it is an
Olympic year and Olympic and
AAU rules do the same.
A wrestler' will be allowed to
take an opponent down, and then
let him up purposely. Last year
if a competitor purposely gave a
man an escape, he was penalized.
Another important change is
that a man on the offense will, be
allowed to ride the legs only for
the purpose of preventing an es
cape or reverse. Once the offensive
man assumes control, he must
work up on other parts of the
body.
Last season there was a lot of
controversy as to whether a man
has escaped or reversed before he
was off the mat. This year referees
have been instructed to call a
"break," and bring the wrestlers
back to the center as soon as any
point of any wreslter's body
touches the apron. Previously, a
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATECMYJEGE. - - PENNSYLVANIA: • ' TtrEHDAY''.DECTIVIItEN-litr'l9l
Bill Ashent4lter
Named Week's
Top Athlete
For hi's brilliant performance
in winning the Senior NAAU
10,000 meter run Sunday, Bill
Ashenfelter wins the Athlete of
the Week award. It is the second
time that the Lion cross-country
star has been selected by the Col
legian sports staff as the week's
top athlete.
In turning back some of the
nation's top distance runers, Ash
enfelter ran the six and one-quar
ter miles in a time of 30:26 to
edge out FBI agent Fred Wilt,
Horace Ashenfelter, and Brown
ing Ross.
By winning the NAAV
Bill marks himself as a definite
contender fOr the 1952 Olympic
team.
The win for the last of the
Ashenfelter brothers is a bril
liant climax to an outstanding
college career.
Last season when Penn State
won the NCAA cross-country ti
tle, Ashenfelter led the Lions to
victory by placing eighth. This
season he placed fourth as the
Lions took third place. In the
IC4A meet last season, he placed
second, and this year he finished
sixth.
break was called when one of the
wrestlers' shoulder touched the
line.
There has also been some spec
ulation in intercollegiate circles
about two more weight classes in
the EIWA and the NCAA cham
pionships in preparation for "the
Olympics. These two weight
classes would be 115-pounds and
191-pounds. Although it is almost
definite that these weights will
be approved for the NCAA, noth
ing is definite for the Eastern
championships or dual meets.
American TKO'd
NOTTINGHAM, England, Dec.
17—(R)—Alex Buxt6n, British
middleweight, today gained a
three-round technical knockout
over Burl Charity of Youngstown,
0., when'the American was forced
to retire with a cut over his left
eye. The bout was scheduled for
eight rounds. Buxton weighed
159 3 / 4 ; Charity 158%.
Gene Wettstone, Penn State
coach, directed the United States
gymnastic team in the 1948
Olympic Games.
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Road .. Tilt . l -.l7llourit.:''Ljetii*';
Lose to
Wyoming. End
Top Receiver
In Nation
New York, Dec. 17—M—Dewey
McConnell of Wyoming, a 6-foot,
186-pound senior end, won the
maj or college Pass catching
championship for 1951 with 47
catches in 10 games.
McConnell, whose defensive
play wos so good he was named
to the defensive platoon of the
Associated Press All-American
team, gave the Skyline area its
second successive receiving title
holder. Gordon Cooper of Den
ver won it last year ;but finished
33rd this season. .
Close to Record
It took a strong finish by. Mc-
Connell, who grabbed NY passes
in his last three games, to nose
out Ed Barker of Washington
State and Jim David of Colorado
A. & M. Barker — and David each
caught 46, one more than Karl
Kluckhohn of Colgate and Fred
Snyder of Loyola of California.
McConnell was close to the all
time record of 52 set by Barney
Poole of Mississippi in 1947 and
tied by North Carolina's Art Wei
ner in '49. The only other pass
catcher in college history to•bet
ter McConnell's mark was Henry
Stanton with' 50 for Arizona in
1941.
Barker broke one record by
stretching his 46 catches into 864
yards, bettering Stanton's old rec
ord of 820 yards set . l.o years ago.
Nine Touchdowns
Bill Howton, a Rice senior,
averaged 22.6 yards per catch,
the best by far among the leaders.
He took care of 75 per cent of
Rice's aerial gains with 747 yards
on 33 catches. Rice completed
only 62 passes for 1,014 yards all
season.
Jay Grumbling of Virginia Mili
tary and Barker shared laurels by
scoring nine touchdowns each on
passes.
On the basis • of catches per
game, Kluckhorn and Snyder ac
tually did better than the leaders
for they nabbed 45 in nine games.
Wes Bomm of . Columbia, also
caught them at a five-a-game clip
with 40 in an eight-game schedule.
Spartans' Win
OVer Irish
'Big Surprise'
NEW YORK,. Dec. 17-07 . )
What was the biggest surprise of
the 1951 collegiate football sea
son?
If you listen to the gents who
covered the big garnes—the na
tion's sports , writers and broad
casters—they'll tell you there
were two outstanding surprises:
1. The ease and power with
which Michigan State butchered
Notre Dame, 35 to 0, and
2. Stanford's brilliant showing
in winning nine straight games
for the Pacific Coast Conference
title and a bid to the• Rose Bowl.
There were many other sur
prises during the turbulent sea
son just ended, but these two
ranked far ahead of all others.
In fact, in an Associated Press
poll of 103 writers and broad
casters, the Michigan State-Notre
Dame game and Stanford's show
ing each received 17 votes.—
Following these was Princeton
turning in its second straight ‘in
defeated season after losing Most
of• its varsity.. Six voters picked
this as the top surprise.. But, of
course, the Tigers didn't lose-All.
America Dick Kazmaier, and he's
a one-man team himself.
Jesse Arnelle, 6-foot-5 New Ro
chelle, N.Y., athlete, is.rated Penn.
State's best. frosh prospect in
years.
W ' and '.J, ..,..i,..:9146.
With 14 more road games staring him in the face, Coach'Elmer
Gross isn't too pleased for . his Lion basketball team has failed to
prove itself .a travelling' team.
Saturday night a supposedly underdog Washington and Jeffer
son team ran - its home winning streak to 19 as it defeated the, pre-
viously unbeaten . Lions, 49-46.
!cores 17
Jesse Arnelle
Steel Tourney
Calls Cagers
Over Vacation
Penn State's cagers have fin
ished their regular season games
until Jan. 5 when they meet Col
gate in Rec Hall, but the Lions
will play two tournament games
in the Steel Bowl tourney in
Pittsburgh, Dec. 27-28.
Other teams entered in the first
tournament in the newly-com
pleted Ptit fieldhouse are Michi
gan, Pitt, and Virginia.
Pitt Favorite
State will carry a 2-1 record
into the classic. The Lions de
feated Ithaca, 51-21, Bucknell,
73-63, but lost to W&J, 49-46.
Coach Elmer GrOss - believes
Pitt will be the favorite in the
tournament. The Panthers opened
with an upset 65-64 win over
Columbia, which had previously
won 32 regular-season contests.
Bernie Artman, a Panther soph
omore substitute, stole the ball
and dribbled in to score the win
ning basket with less than 40
seconds to play.
Tall Team
Clarence Burch, a sophomore
from Oil City, was the outstand
ing player for the Panthers, al
though Don Virostek led Pitt in
scoring with 16 points.
Pitt has a mixture of veterans
and newcomers this season, and
a team taller than most of Coach
Doc Carison's squads. Virostek
(6-4) is the tallest, but Art Boyd
(6-3) and Mickey . Zernich (6-3)
give rebounding support. Captain
John Kendrick stands six feet
one inch, and Burch- and Scott
Phillips, both sophomores, are
six-feet. •
NCAA Will Form
TV Policy in Jan.
CHICAGO, Dec. 'l7--(iP)—Tb:e
full television committee of - the
National Collegiate. Athletic,Asgo
elation today ended a "progress
report" meeting, but said the 1952
football video policy will not be
determined until the NCAA con
vention at Cincinnati, Jan; 10-12.
Co-chairman Ralph Furey of
Columbia University said the
group yesterday and today re
viewed operational developments
of the NCAA's experimental, con
trolled grid television' program
last- season. '
"We won't bp able to make any
recommendations until we study
a preliminary report on a survey
By DAVE COLTON
&J hasn't been beaten at home
since State did the trick 51-50 in
1949.
Big freshman center Jesse Ar
nelle (6-5) continued his rapid
improvement, and led the Lions
with 17 points. Bane Weber was
the -top scorer of the game as he
tallied 18 markers for W&J.
Tough Season
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The win was the Presidents'
second of the season against three
losses. The Nittanies now have a
2-1 chart.
The only other contest the
Lions have played away was • a
practice tilt with St. Francis.
Gross' cagers also lost that. one.
BOk.
Penn State Fa. F P
Sledzik 2 2 6
Makarewicz '0 • 0 0
McMahan 0 1 1
Williams 1 4
Piorkowski 1 2 4
Sherry 3 2 8
Arnelle 6 5 17
Haag 2 0 4
Weld'ham'er 1 0 2
Penn State
'W&J
With five-eighths of the 24 'game
schedule away from Rec Hall, it
could be a long, tough season
for the Lions.
Arnelle's 17 points gave him the
three game leadership • in team
scoring with 31 points. He r
Sledzik is second with 25, while
Joe Piorkowski an d freshman
Jack Sherry follow with 24 points
each.
Despite a height advantage
against the Prexies, the Lion cag
ers didn't control the backboards.
Gross said "they outfought, out
rebounded, and outshot us."
Two of the Blue and White
starters only scored one point be
tween them. Whitey: Makarewicz
continued in his slump as he fail
ed to score, while Co-captain Jay
McMahan made only a foul.
The Presidents played without
the services of one regular and
only limited service by another
starter. Ed McGlumphy, wh o
sparked the team in its first win
over Eastern New Mexico was
injured in practice, and didn't
dress for the contest. Joe Rich
ards, the leading scoring threat,
didn't play much because of an
attack of influenza.
Cut Lead
W&J jumped off to a 12-6 mar
gin in the first quarter which the
Lions . were never able to over
come. Both teams tallied 12 points
in the second quarter and the
Presidents led 24-18 at halftime.
State cut the home team's lead
with a 16-13 edge in "the third
period, but the Prexies fought off
a last-minute rally to win by
three. The Nittanies trailed by
only one point with a minute to
go, but couldn't crack the Prexies'
man-to-man defense.
Mantle Will Marry
MIAMI, Okla., Dec. 17L-(1P)
New York Yankee baseball play
er Mickey Montle oncl his high
school sweetheart, Merlyn John
son, ogtained a marriage license
today.
Members of their families de
clined to say when or where the
couple would marry. ' •
by the National Opinion Research
Center which we expect around
Jan. 1," Furey said.
The survey, costing $50,000, ex
tended through six channels, in
cluding polling of 270 colleges on
the affect of television on their
home game attendance.
"As to what the NCAA will do
about television next year, I can't
say," Furey said. "Our commit
tee's job was to investigate the
television picture. The.. NCAA.
membership will make the final
decision."
itie
CORE
W & J PG F P
Weber 7 4 18
lifoizer '5 5 15.
Krebs 0 2 2
Alvarez 0 2 2
Chan . 3 0 6
Oblate 0 1 1.
'Richards 1 0 2
Taker 1
.0 2
Sonson ' 0 1, 1
6 12 16 .12-46
12 12 13 12-49
Regulars Missing