113,IDAY, :1\44,C ,7 14, '1952 Between the Lions It took a decade to do it but Penn State's Nittany Lions are once again in the NCAA basketball tournament. Not since the 1941-42 season •when present coach, Elmer •Gross, was co-captain, have the Lions played in a post season tourney. V • ' Our comment on the selection is- that it couldn't happen to two more deserving men—we mean Coach Gross and his assistant John Egli. This trip will surely revive riled memories for these coaches since they were both stars of the great 1941.42'1eam which• t played in the Eastekn Regionals playoffs in New Orleans. • . After last night's tournament announcement we dug into Col legian files and discovered the Lions finished with a 17-2 record that season. After losses to Cornell and West Vir- , ginia in the early part of The campaign, Coach , John Lawther's proteges won their last 12 contests: ' • The Mountaineers walloped the Lawthermen • •• 53-331 n ' the seventh game of the year, but the Slue 'and White clinched the Pistrict 2 title with :tpl' 01 ' ll a spectacUlar 44-30 decision over the Morgantown t entry in Ilec Hall. The Lions' last seven triumphs were over Temple, Syracuse, Colgate, Pitt, West • ,•;i,Vr, • ;,-" Virginia, New York U., and Carnegie Tech. They I massacred Tech 42 . -19 to complete the most successful season in State history. Lawther took his team to New Orleans to meet a strong Dart mouth five in the opening round of the "big-time" competition. The Big Green, veterans of the previous year's tourney, eked out a 44-39 win over State. Forward Egli paced the Lions with 12 points. Although their championship hopes were destroyed by Dart- Mciuth, the LiOns put on one of their top displays of the campaign to upset Illinois, 41-34 in the consolation round.. Little Larry Gent, Nittany forward, spearheaded the attack with '2l points. Gross, senior forward, topped the State quintet in regular sea son scoring with 168 points. Teammate Herb Baltimore was runnerup with 162,- and Egli was' fourth with 91 markers. Gross scored nine points against Dartmouth and four against the Illini. • Egli made the highest individual scoring • total of the season when he cut the cords for ,eight field goals and a fOul for 17 markers against Bucknell. Gross, in pacing the Nittanies over the season, sank 50 of 66 free throw attempts. The records reveal an interesting note on the Lion squad. When they opposed the usually towering :Mountaineers of West Virginia, the Blue and White cagers were aided by their height advantage. They 'averaged six-foot-two while the Mountaineers had only one man over the six-foot mark. _ Other starters besides Baltimore, Egli; and Gross were Co-captain Dick Griines, Bob Ramin, Dave Hornstein, and Larry Gent.• Coleman, Klaus Off For Olympic Tryouts Penn State's two soccer hopefuls, center halfback Kurt Klaus and inside right, Ron, Coleman, will leave today with Coach Bill Jeffrey for Astoria, L. 1., where the Olympic soccer tryouts will con tinue Sunday after a three-month layoff. Coleman and Klaus, inactive from regular competition since the North-South All-Star contest last December, will play for a selected collegiate team against a selected Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland club team. The game will be • part of a doubleheader which will pit a se lected New York club team against a selected New England club team in the other game. The games will be played in the Eintracht Oval in Astoria. Besides Coleman and Klaus, six other soccermen from three Penn sylvania colleges will play for the collegiate team. Temple heads the list with three men, while West Chester has two, and Penn one. Temple, which tied State, 1-1, here in the final regular season match for both teams, will send Jack Dunn, Len Oliver, and Ed die Tatoian as its representatives. Dunn, who scored Temple's lone goal against State, plays inside right while Tatoian plays inside left, and Oliver center halfback. West Chester will have Tony Puglisi and Bill Engard as • its representatives, while Penn \ will place Joe Devaney on the team Four times since 1943; Dr. H. C. Carlson's Pitt teams have used "freeze" tactics in their basket ball games with Penn State.. LopOel Under the Corner Room ENTRANCE ON COLLEGE AVENUE Bp DAVE COLTON Assistant" Sports''Editor KKG's Capture V-Ball Victory Kappa Kappa Gamma thrashed Phi Mu in. the WRA volleyball intramurals last night when Val erie Hobbis of the KKG's scored 30 straight points in the second half to lead the team to a 108-8 win. McAllister, leader in League 6, and SDT had a double forfeit in volleyball. Thompson A forfeited to Alpha Chi. AEPhi won over a Tri Delt forfeit. Delta Gamma rebounded after over 5 minutes with no score in the v-ball game with Gamma Phi Beta to tie it up at 36 points. In o w ling Atherton- . East downed ZTA, 478-465. Alpha• Xi Delta won over Delta Gamma, 585-439. Simmons los tto AOPI, 605-447. Pat • Purks of the winning team was high scorer of the evening with 155 points. Emma Jean Way of the same team, was runner-up with 197 points. : \ at HARTMAN'S ; where prices hiven't been raised, and HAIR CUTS are ONLY 85c HARTMAN'S BARBERSHOP THE DAILY cgra;9r4l,v . . STATE coLLFgE. PENNSYLVANIA PIAA Matmen Hold Tourney cb Here Saturday While „Penn State's wrestling 'team will be vying for its second straight Eastern title at Lehigh, Rec Hall will be the scene 'of the PTAA wrestling Championships. Forty-four high school matmen will compete for titles, starting at 2 p.m. tomorrow. Four defending chaimpions will seek to repeat in this year's tour ney, The returning champions are Manuel Pihakis of Canonsburg, Dave Adams of Bellefonte, Ed Peery of Shaler Township, and Ed DeWitt of Trinity. Pihakis will be seeking his third straight title. Three second place finishers also return. They are Jghn Johns ton of Cleatfield, — Joe Angellello of. Washington, and Alex Skirpan of Carnegie. NCAA Bid-- ished the regular season with a 20-4 record, back on the practice courts last night and said that they would continue regular prac tice until they left for the tourney. "I'm happy we received a bid. The boys• are overjoyed," said Gross. , Co-captain Tiny McMahan flashed a big smile and said, "It's sure nice." His running mate, Hardy Wil liams, echoed McMahan and add ed, "I'm sure glad the season isn't over." Penn State's last appearance in a post-season basketball tourna ment was after the 1941-42 sea son when the Lions were invited to the NCAA tourney. in New Orleans. Gro s s and Assistant Coach John Egli were members of that team. The Lions were eliminated in the first game but won the consolation contest. Sugar Ray Makes First Title Defense SAN FRANCISCO, March 13— (IP)—Sugar Ray Robinson, mak ing his first defense of the mid, dleweight title' since he regained it last September, was- an over whelming favorite to easily re tain the crown in his scheduled 15 round fight tonight with Carl (hobo) Olson of Honolulu. Robinson knocked out Olson 17 months ago in 12 roundS. The champion weighed in at 157 1 / 2 pounds to .159 1 / 2 for Olson. Robinson appeared trim and fit when examined by the doctor for the State Athletic' Commission. So did his opponent. Tigers Beat -Braves 1 LAIOELAND, Fla., March 13 (JP) Batting around in the sixth in ning against rookie right hander Murray Wall, the Detroit Tigers scored four runs for an 8-5 tri umph over the Boston Braves to day, (Continued from , row one) Beware the Monsoons - - - - You don't have to know enough to come in out of the rain. Keep your head dry during the Mopsoons with a WEATHERSEAL RAIiIHAT It's Showerproof $195 Lagers Practice Squeeze Play DUQUESNE'S JIM TUCKER (4) is sandwiched between two Holy Cross players, Earle Markey (right) and Dave Nangle as they wrestle" for a loose ball in the first half of their National Tourna ment basketball game at Madison Square Garden, New York, March 11. Duquesne won, 78-68. Unbeaten Washington, Farrell Clash in Top PIAA Contest HARRISBURG, March 13 (N)— Farr6ll's once-beaten Steelers face one of their biggest hurdles of the PIAA Class A basketball play offs tomorrow night when they collide with unbeaten Washing ton; The District "7 (WPIAL) title playoff at Pittsburgh highlights a night in which five Class A dis trict champions . will be crowned. The Farrell-Washington game poses the question: Can a good short team beat a good tall team when the chips are down? Farrell, with a 25-1 season's N / S 0 0 LIQUID CREAM SHAMPOO More than just a liquid; more than just a cream new Wildroot Liquid Cream Shampoo is a combination of the best of both. Even in the hardest water Wilslroot Shampoo washes hair gleaming clean, manageable, curl inviting without robbing hair of its natural oils. Soapless Sudsy... Lanolin Lovelyl Ts keep hair meat betilseen shampoos use LadyWildroot Cream Hair Dressing. PAGE SEVEN record, has only one player over the six-fOot mark while Washing ton has only one of its starting five under six foot. However, Far rell's lone "giant" is all-Stater Julius McCoy, 6-1, who has scored 625 points this season. Westmont's Hilhoppers are fav ored to down Hollidaysburg in the District 6 title scrap at Al toona. Chester and Coatesville tangle at Philadelphia's Penn Palestra for the District 1 Class A title. THREE SIZE,' 29d 59d 98d
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