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NCAA Wrestling Tourney
Opens Today at Fort Collins
Three Lions
Seek National
Mat Crowns
By JAKE HIGHTON
P6nn State's three EIWA cham
pions wade into a stellar field of
national collegiate wrestlers in
the first round of the 22nd annual
NCAA tournament this afternoon
in Fort Collins, Colorado. -
Dick Lemyre. Bob Homan and
Joe Lemyre, only competing rep
resentatives .of State's Eastern
championship powerhouse, have
no chance to• bring off a team ti
tle, but will be battling to make
a Nittany NCAA champion less
of a rarity. Only one Penn Stater,
Red Johnston in 1935, has won a
national title.
Placed Third in '5l
Defending champion Oklahoma
and 1951 runnerup Oklahoma
A&M are co-favorites to keep the
Sooner state's stranglehold on
NCAA championships. The Ag
gies will be after their 17th and
Oklahoma its third.
Last year Oklahoma squeeked
past the Aggies 24-23 to win the
title, while the Lions' three run
ners-up and a third place gave
State a 15-point third place team
standing. The Lions scored on
three runnerup finishes by Don
Frey, Mike Rubino and Homer
Barr and a third place by Don
Maurey.
Two Classes Added
Two 1951 champions will at
tempt to retain their titles. Prince
ton's Brad Glass has already re
peated his EIWA heavyweight
championship and oklah o m a
A&M's George Layman will re
turn at 137.
Five rounds of matches will be
contested over two days with the
finals listed for tomorrow night.
Because of the Olympic year,
two weight classes will be added,
115 pounds and 191. Regular sea
son weights will remain the same
for the tourney with heavyweights
either making 191 poun. d s or
wrestling unlimited.
Faces Tough Foes
A flock of former runners-up
and place winners will leave a
rough path to championships' for
the three Lions.
Dick Lemyre, unbeaten in dual
season competition and EIWA
130 champ, will have to get by
NCAA third finisher, Gene Lyb
bert, lowa Teachers. Never a
loser since his junior year in high
school, dazzling Dick has the best
chance to win a NCAA title for
the Lions.
Homan, defeated only once all
year and Eastern 123 champ, has
two top-notch men to get around.
Oklahoma's tough Billy Borders
only lost by a point to Waynes
burg's great Tony Gizoni in the
finals last year and Oklahoma
A&M's Tom Keys wound up third
among the nation's collegiates.
Open Field at 167
Only frosh, Homan was slightly
sensational in piling up an 8-1
Eastern record and then decisively
whipping his lone conqueror, Syr
acuse's Bob Gerbino, in the finals.
Third Nittany Eastern champ
Joe L e m,.y r e doesn't have any
NCAA place winners to face at
167 unless runnerup George
Graveson, Yale, comes down from
177 which he has wrestled all
year.
A reversing specialist, Joe sur
prised by taking an EIWA title
after %finishing the season with a
6-2-1 dual record, third• best in
that weight class. Joe can expect
trouble from Big Ten- champion.
Orris Bender, Michigan State, and
the usual unknowns who upset
the top-seeded.
Clarion Cards 8 Games
CLARION, Pa., March 27 —(AP)
—Clarion State Teachers College
will play an eight game football
schedule this fall.
The schedule: Sept. 27—Edin
boro: Oct. 3—at St. Vincent; 11—
Thiel; 13—Brockport, N.Y.; 25
at Indiana; Nov. I—California; 8
—at Slippery Rock; 15—at Gen
eva.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
'Tu'rn Him Over, Bob'
DELTA UPSILON'S Bob Decker tries to roll Jim Diehl of
Sigma Nu for a nin in their 155 pound bout in the IM wrestling
quarter-finals last night in Rec Hall. Decker didn't get the pin,
but he won a 5-0 decision to keep the DU's ahead in the race
for team honort.
Loses 2 Wrestlers
Semi-Finals Near
DU
As
Delta Upsilon had a tremendous advantage in 'the intramural
wrestling tourney,kicked from under its feet last night when it lost
Alan Sredenschek, 175, and Mario Todaro, 121.
In a comic-book finish, Bob Wylie, Pi Kappa Phi pinned Todaro
one second before the final whistle to climax a match that was
151 Matnrien
Entered in
NCAA Meet
FORT COLLINS, Colo., March
27—(J")—A record 151 competitors
from_4l colleges and universities
were entered today in the NCAA
wrestling championships opening
here tomorrow.
Oklahoma will defend the crown
it won last year by one point,
24-23, frOm Oklahoma A&M, the
perennial NCAA champion. Okla
homa ruled as the pre-meet fav
orite because of two regular sea
son wins (14-12, 14-13) over. Okla
homa A&M.
Penn State, which scored 15
points for third place last year,
has entered only three men.
Penn State won the EIWA
championship this season, but
with only three entries will not
pose a serious threat to the twin
powers froni Oklahoma.
Coach Julius Wagner, of host
Colorado A&M, said there were
20 more entries than competed
last year in the championships
held at Lehi g h University in
Bethlehem, Pa.
The addition of two new weight
classes —ll5 and 191 accounts
for some of the increase. The en
try list would have topped the
160 mark, but it 'was necessary to
limit schools to one contestant in
each weight class.
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give-and-take all the way.
The lead changed hands sev
eral times and before Wylie ap
plied the pressure for his fall, he
led Todaro, 11-10.
Phi Sigma Kappa Fades
Sredenschek, .on , the other hand,
was pimied by Jesse Moore, Sigma
Nu. Moore's win kept Sigma Nu
in definite contention even though
it lost Jim Diehl, 155. Diehl lost
to Bob Decker, DU, 5-0.
"Darkhorse" threat Phi Sigma
Kappa faded farther into the
backgrdund, losing Dave Sener,
121, and Joe Bonchonsky, 165.
Sener's 'finish came at 4:32 at
the hands of Charlie Schutte, Phi
Delta Theta. Bonchonsky - lost a
time-advantage decision to Steve
Melmeck, Sigma Nu, 5-4.
Brubaker Wins
Other 121 pound action saw Bill
Beatty, SAE, edge Ed Thomas,
Phi Kappa Tau, 3-1.
In the 128 pound division, Bob
Brubaker, DU, pinned Don Siegle,
Theta Kappa Phi, and Dick Head
lee„Chi Phi, felled Glenn Stumpff,
Phi Kappa Tau.
George. Watson,- SPS, .pinned
Andy Schoerke, Pi Kappa Alpha,
in the lone 145 bout.
In the two 155 pound matches,
Dick Blythe, Pi Kappa Phi, and
independent Tom Lozaw scored
victories.
In the other 165 pound bout,
Bob Gower, ATO, won by a fall.
Other wins were scored by in
dependents Bob Reinhart, Paul
Heitzenrater and Jim McGinnis
and Cy Brown, DU.
Forfeit wins were scored by
independents Mario Rossini, Dick
Green and Jim Brownell and
Dave Budenstein, Alpha Epsilon
Pi.
Chick Werner Faces
Task of Rebuilding
An obvious reconstruction job• faced Head Coach Chick 'Werner
as his "limited number" of returnees began pre-season practice :
earlier this week on the Beaver Field course for the coming 1952
outdoor track campaign.
With the first major test only a month away, early spring work- ,
Eddie Sawyer
Slaps $2OO Fine
On Willie Jones
CLEARWATER, -Fla., March 27
--(R)—Manager Eddie Sawyer of
the - Philadelphia Phillies slapped
a $2OO fine on third baseman
Willie Jones today, demonstrating
in no uncertain terms he expects
the club's training camp austerity
program to be followed to the
letter.
Sawyer, in a short statement to
reporters covering the clu b 's
spring tamp activities, said Jones
had been fined "for conduct det
rimental to the welfare of the
ball club ", He declined to elabor
ate. .
Sawyer implied that there may
be more and larger cash punish
ments in the future.
"The players have been warned
:ollectively and in some cases
'ndividually," the manager said.
"If one or two of them insist
upon violating the rul e s then,
they'll pay for it."
Sawyer was obviously very
angry and some of his players
shared his indignation.
Ken Silvestri, newly elected
player representative of the team,
said, "If Jonesie's conduct was
unbecoming to the club then it
was unbecoming to each of us."
Captain Granny Hamner said
he'd have to go along with the
skipper. "As captain of the club,
that's my duty."
Reporters concluded that Jones,
26-year-old Laurel Hill, N.C., na
tive, had violated the midnight
curfew. Sawyer has ordered all
his players to be in bed by mid
night. He bawled out rookie pitch
(Continued on rage seven)
WRA Finishes
Regular IM
League Play
One volleyball team and one
bo'wling team held first place in
their leagues as WRA IM's com
pleted their schedules last night.
League play-offs begin Monday
night.
In volleyball Theta Phi Alpha
won a forfeit from Thompson B
to remain on the top of league 5.
Alpha Omicron Pi and Alpha
Xi Delta, both of league 4, re
mained undefeated In bowling.
AOPi defeated Delt a Gamma,
554-508. Alpha Xi Delta downed
Co-op, 603-504. Alpha Xi Delta
was the champion bowling team
last year.
In other volleyball games, ChiO
beat Phi Sig, 43-21. Delta Zeta
won over Mac, 47-26. Thompson
A and the Tri-Delts double for
feited. SDT forfeited 'to Gamma
Phi Beta.
In other bowling games, Zeta
Tau Alpha, ; won over Simmons,
492-451.
Kathy Keister of AOP was - high
scorer of the evening . in bowling
with a 154 game.
FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1952 11,
By JOHN SHEPPARD
outs haven't looked promising
and further indicate an acute
shortage of material.
The need for new track and
field aspirants, whether experi
enced or .not, is a vital one in
that a "special series of vacancies
in all events are available be
cause of the severe blow suffered
by the loss and ineligibility of
several key performers," the sil
ver-haired mentor said.
All new candidates should re
port to Coach -Werner or his assis
tant, Norm Gordon, either at Rec
reation Hall during the day or at
the Beaver Field track during
the evenings.
Tough Schedule .
Last season the Nittany . thin
clads lost to an undefeated Navy
team, 82-49; defeated Pitt, 72-59;
and won the four mile relay
championship in record time at
the Penn Relays. The feat by the
Nittany fouriome of Bob Parson,
Bob Freebairn, and the Ashen
felter brothers, Don and Bill, was
run off in the fast -time of 17:24.6, 1
eclipsing the State rec or d of
'17:30.7 set in '4B by Shuman, Wil
liams, Karver, and Horace Ashen
felter.
This season, however, Coach
'Werner's chances' of restoring the
Penn State outdoor track edition
to '5l ratings becomes even more
discouraging when one glances at
the '52 schedule. The card is
load ed with potential champs ,
from start to finish. •
Six Meets
The Wernernren trek to Phila
delphia for the Penn Relays later t
next month.. They return home
Ithe following Saturday to test
perennially strong Michigan,State,
after which they' meet Army atlt,
West Point. 'The Lion trackmen.;
then entertain Pitt at home and"i !
Manhattan aw ay on successive i
Saturdays before the big test in, :1'
the IC-44's at New York City.;
The schedule: Penn Relays, Ap-t
ril 25-26, away; Michigan State,},
May 3, home;, Army, May 10,!
away; Pitt, May 17, home; Man-'
hattan, May 24, away; and IC-4As,
May 30-31, away.
Rogel Transfered
To Fort Eustis
Cpl. Francis "Franny" Rogel,
forffier • Penn State football start/
and fullback for the Pittsburgh
Steelers last season, has been
transfered to Fort. Eustis, Va.,
from Fort Meade, Md. :/'
Rogel played for the Nittany ,
Lions during the 1947, 48, and 49
seasons. He, was a member of the n.
team which went to the Cotton
Bowl in 1948.
Rogel played for the Steelers
last year while stationed at Forty
Meade. Fort Meade did not field a I.4p'
football team'. His new base lost.N' ,
only one in nine games last year.
•White at Penn .State Rogel waseo.
a member of Kappa Delta Rho''' .
fraternity.
He Makes Musk
Johnny Albarano, Penn State's '
two-time Eastern 147-pound box- i
ing champion, plays the trumpet
in his father's family orchestra.