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 •
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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.
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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. : \
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PIAA Matmen
Hold Tourney
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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,
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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
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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.
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