PI IDQ,Y , FEEMUARY 29; 1962
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The Nittany Realm
Well, it was the same old story in Wednesday night's West• Vir
ginia game, with
,the opposition's star failing• to impress on the
Bee Hall floor. Mark Workman's having to leave the game on per
sonal fouli and his meager total of three points just puts him in
the class with all the other stars who have come to Rec Hall and
gone away without giving any indication of their true ability.
We couldn't help but think, after overhearing a bit of a con
versation on the . mall yesterday, that Penn State fans and sports
fans in general are a strange breed. ,
The conversation went something like this
"Did you see the game last night?"
"It was a good one."
"Yeah, it's about _time."
It seems to us that that's an unusual reaction when one con
siders the few games the State basketball team has looked poor in,
and the numerous times this season that they have looked good..
But some fans fail to remember the good games
or the victories, and get a great deal more pleasure
in criticizing an athlete when he makes a mistake
or a team when it loses. Evidently some people
don't call 17 wins in 21 games good.
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After we referred to boxers Lou Koszarek and
John Albarano as Penn State's own "gold dust
twins" in a story the other day, we got a suggestion
from Lou himself that sounds pretty good.
Lou suggested. that since both he and Johnny both come from
the heart of Pennsylvania's soft-coal region, that instead of
"gold," they should be called the "coal dust twins."
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Boxing fans, who attend Saturday night's meet with Virginia
will have an opportunity to see in action a fellow who in his sopho
, more year has the honor of captaining his team. 1-1 e is Pete Potter,
captain and 156-pounder of the Cavalier squad. •
The Virginia team, vitich is made up completely of freshmen
and sophomores, had only one veteran, captain-elect and Eastern
125-pound champ, Len Coiner, returning to the squad this year.
When Coiner was declared ineligible, Potter's teammates elected
him captain. And so far he is living up to his team's expectations'
with four wins, no losses, and two draws.
Piorkowski Is Lions'
Underrated Player
The most underrated player on the team—that's Joe Piorkowski,
State's hard-working senior forward.
While other members of Coach Elmer Gross' squad get the
publicity, the good looking six-three cager keens playing his
reliable, capable brand of ball for the Lions.
Joe's not a great scorer but he
has had some good nights this
season. He scored ten points in
both the 'lthaca opener and the
Bucknell contest to rank as
State's top scorer for the first
two games. His 12 point produc
tion at Navy has been his largest
this season. He has an -overall
total of 124 to rank seventh in
team scoring:
Most of Joe's value lies in his
fine. defensive ability. His height
Joe Piorkowski
and agility have made him one
of State's top defensive players.
Joe is also a good ball handler
and rebounder.
The baby-faced 21 year old
has. played only two seasons at
State because of a year of ineligi
bility: He spent his freshman year
in college at • Wilkes, where he
was a first string forward. After
one year at Wilkes he transferred
to the . Nittany Vale mainly to
see if he could play in big-time
collegiate basketball . Coach
Gross .has never regretted this
move.
Joe also , had an enviable. rec-
THE DAILY pOLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE PENN'SY'LVANIA
By 808 VOSBURG
Assistant Sports Editor
By DAVE COLTON
ord at Wyoming Memorial High
School. He spent three years on
Wyoming's court teams, and was
co-captain his ' senior' year. His
junior year the Class B school
advanced to the PIAA playoffs,
but his senior year they were
eliminated in district playoffs.
Besides basketball, Joe earned
himself a reputation as a high
jumper. He climaxed his school
boy high jumping activities by
taking third place in the district.
The 170 pounder was president of
his junior and senior classes and
played the bass druM in the band.
He was graduated as the top male
student scholastically.
IT'S A FACT
1n1859 the admission
requirements for a student entering Penn State were
to have attained the age of 16; tuition, boarding, fuel,
light and books were fixed at one hundred dollars
per session: One hundred pupils were to be admitted
on recommendation of the respective County Agri
cultural Societies.
The admission requirements for coming to Vic's
are a desire for:
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VIC S 145 S. ALLEN ST.
Gymnastics Team Seeks 4th
Victory Against Temple Squad
Penn State's rapidly improving gymnastics team travels
to Philadelphia tomorrow for, an expected tough meet with
Temple's twice-beaten team. '
Temple has lost to the two service schools, Army and
Navy, but notice must be taken that the Army team which
defeated Temple, 53-43, is the only team to have decisioned
Coach Gene Wettstone's crew
this season.
Since the Army setback, State
has notched wins over Navy and
Syracuse to set its seasonal rec
ord at three victories as against
one setback. Temple will carry a
5-2 mark into tdmorrow's tussle.
Lawrence Unbeaten
Jan Cronstedt, the Lions' tal
ented performer from Finland,
will try to extend his undefeated
streak on the horizontal bars in
an expected close match with
John Jengo of Union City, N.J.
Behind Cronstedt for State
be Mario Todaro and Karl
Schwenzsfeier.
.Bob Lawrence, undefeated Nit
tany performer on the side' horse,
is favored to lake honors abbrig
with Frank Wick and ".Richard
Shaffer. Wick and Shaffer have
been improving with every
meet.
In the rope climbing, David
Schultz will have to be at his best
to contend with Temple's Bill
Scholl who has done the climb
in 4.1. • John Baffa, and Norman
Yu will round out Wettstone's
starting trio.
Hazen Underdog
Temple's Joe McCarthy may
provide plenty of trouble for
I
State's .Cronstedt on the parallel
bars. Cronstedt has been defeat
ed only once in this event. Bill
Sabo will again be second man
for State:
Jim Hazen will lead the Lions
in the rings, but he will be an
underdog although he has been
beaten only once. The reason is
John Galente, Temple's star
performer who finished second
in the NCAA tournament. Tony
Procopio an d Schwenzsfeier
round s out the Nittanies' starting
threesome.
- -Dick Hartmeyer of Temple
will be slightly favored over
Aggies Rated
Defense King
NEW YORK, Feb. 28 (PP)
Basketball teams from the south
west have established themselves
more firmly than ever as the top
defensive outfits of major-college
cagers, figures of the NCAA ser
vice bureau disclosed. today.
While Kentucky's high-geared
offense still is heading for a na
tional scoring record, six of the
current seven leaders on defense
are from the southwest. ;
Oklahoma A& M, with ,a 47.2
point average defense through
games-of Feb. - 23, has been the
top defensive team in the . land
in 12 of the last 17 seasons. The
Aggies have never dropped un
der third in the defensive lists.
Penn State's improving Bob
Kenyon for tumbling honors.
Owen Wilkinson and Bob Kreid
ler are State's number two And
three men .in Wettstone's plans.
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Indoors or out, when you see a crowd of campus biggies
relaxing, you're sure to notice that the really smart boys
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you just hate to take 'em off. Manhattan has them in long
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Howell to Discuss
Geophysical Prospecting
Dr. B. F. Howell, associate pro
fessor in geography, will discuss
"Recent Developments in Geo
physical Prospecting" at 4 p.m.
today in 213 Mineral Sciences
Building.
The meeting is the fourth in a
series of discussions being pre
sented during the spring semes
ter.