PACE SIX Basketball Practice Begins The 'stop-over" sport— bas ketball—that was invented 60 years ago is back again, and State joined in its welcome Monday night by opening Practices for the coming bas ketball season. Some 20 candidates and ten members of last year's squ z, d showed "for the initial practices as head Coach Elmer Gross began the difficult job of molding 'a team into the caliber of last year's squad. The '5l-'52 season was one of the most successful in State's basketball history with the team winning 20 games and dropping sik.) With fewer men to work with, more time can be spent on getting the team in shape. Last year's turnout of basketball hopefuls numbered over the hundred mark, and Gross and his assistant, John Egli spent considerable time re ducing the squad to a working unit. Gross will be driving his men hard this week in preparation for their first scrimmage game Fri day against Lock Haven. This will be the first of five such practice tilts before the regular season begins. Other practice tilts in clude Juniata, Nov. 12; St. Fran cis, Nov. 14 and Dec. 6; and Lock Haven, Nov. 21. If the Lions show poor defen sive work this year it won't be the fault of the coaches, for com ing back to help out in the teach ing is the past master of the de fense, John Lawther. He will be assisting with the varsity-coaching while John Egli, the regular as sistant coach, is teaching the frosh. Famous for his sliding zone techniques, Lawther, wh o was once the coach of Gross, will put the team through the "stopping" actions while on the "scoring" end will be the head coach. Jasper Harriers To Compete Here When Manhattan's cross-country runners invade the liar of the Nittany, Lions Saturday, they'll race against one of the best harrier teams in the East in Penn State. Victorious over Cornell, Army, and NYU, Coach Chick Werner's distance charges will get their last opportunity to display their scoring prowess in dual rrieets before they defend their IC4A title Nov. 17. And, if their show ing against NYU last weekend can be used as a time criterion. the Nittany hill-and-dalers should turn in their lowest times of the season In Manhattan the Lion thin clads will encounter a squad which is in the same class as last week's foe, NYU. Coach Georg Eastman's squad has been weakened by the loss of virtually his entire 1951 corps via the graduation route. Only 3 Veterans The loss of such cross-country stars as Bill Lucas,Pat Duffy, and Bob McNeill has been evi dent in the Green and White's showing to date. Captain Frank Egan, Bob Ku bic and Charlie Sanaga are the nucleus of this year's team. Up from last fall's frosh squad are John Brennan, Walt Burke, and Bob Goodwin. Other Kelly Green thinclads are Jim Enright, J a c k Boitano and Bill Baker, all of whom competed with the junior varsity last season. Led by Captain Egan; Manhat tan successfully opened its '52 campaign by defeating lona, 26- 29. It was a close race until the Jaspers captured sixth, seventh, and eighth -place to clinch the victory. Egan led throughout and fin ished some 100-yards in front of lona's Jim Mahoney. His time was 27:12.5. The next weekend the Jaspers suffered their first defeat of the fall season. In a quadrangular meet at Van Cortlandt Park, the men of East man finished fourth behind Syra cuse, St. Johns, and Navy. Lose to Army ( The tall, slim, dark-haired Jas per captain ran second to Ray Osterhout of Syracuse. Osterhout's time was 25:25.6, the fastest clock ing posted over the VCP course this season. Evan's t•:ne wal 26:18, much faster than the 26:40 time Five of last year's starters will •e back,. but because of the foot ball season two of them, - Jesse Arnelle and Jack Sherry, won't be available for practice until after their sport is over. Joe Pior kowski, who is eligible for one more semester of play, will also miss the first few days of prac tice because of student teaching. Heading the group of veterans is big /Herm Sledzik, captain of the team, whose 6-4 was a big factor in last year's wins. Out front Gross will have two capable players in Ed Haag, a 6-2 junior, and Ronnie Weidenhammer, 6-1. Ron broke his ankle during the summer but by all indications it shouldn i t handicap his playing ability. Other members of last year's squad out for practice include Jim Blocker, 6-3, Jim Hill., 6-6, Andy Phillips, 6-2, and Frank De- Salle, 6-1. Another` promising re turnee who played freshman ball two years ago is Ted Jackson, a 6-4 junior from Huntingdon. State will play a 21 game sched ule, with an All-College tourna ment during the Christmas holi days. The schedule includes 11 home games and ten away con tests. The Schedule: Dec. 12—Al fred (H); Dec. 13—W&J (H); Dec. 19—Colgate (H); Dec. 29- 31—All-C ollege Tournament. Oklahoma City; Jan. 7—Syra cuse (H); Jan. 9—C arne g i e Tech. (A); Jan. 10—Pittsburgh (A); Jan. 14—W es t Virginia (A); Jan. 15—Gettysburg (H); Jan. 17—Ithaca (H); Jan. 31— Pennsylvania (A); Feb. 3 Georgetown (A); Feb. 4—Navy (A): Feb. 7—Rutgers (A); Feb. 11— American U. (H); Feb. 14— Bucknell (H); Feb. 16—Dickin son (H); Feb. 20—Colgate (A); Feb. 21—Syracuse (A); Feb. 25 —West Virginia (H): Feb. 29 Pittsburgh (H): and March 7 Temple (A). Sports Briefs :arrier's Defend Title Penn State's two-time cham pions will defend against the field in the 44th renewal of the IC4A cross - country championships in New York Nov. 17. Lion ace is sophomore Lamont Smith of Le highton. Brother Act Dick Tamburo, Michigan State's all-America candidate, is a bro ther of Sam Tamburo, who won this distinction at Penn State in 1943. posted by the Nittany runners over the same course last week end. Against Army the next week end, they were at the tail end of a 19-44 score. State beat the Ca dets, 21-35, earlier thiS fall. The Black Knights completely overwhelmed the Jasper harriers, permitting only one Manbattanite to finish in the lower scoring ranks. The lone Jasper among the military aggregation was "Flin' Frank." He finished second to West Point's Bob Day in 26:06. Day was clocked in 25:56. Defeats Villanova From all report s, Egan will have his hands full When he runs against State's Lamont Smith, who won individual honors in the Army dual meet. Last weekend Villanova won its third straight dual meet by beating Manhattan, 18-37, in a five-mile race at Villanova. The Wildcat's Fred Dwyer set the pace most of the way, but came across the finish line tied with teammate John Joe Barry in 27:17 seconds. Egan fiv , ished 75 yards behind for third place. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Yanosich, Jones Lead In Rushing As the Nitany griddeis got down to serious work yester day for Saturday's , engage ment with dangerous Syra cuse, only once - beaten col legiately, two of State's pony backs, juniors Dick Jones and Matt Yanosich, still led the team in average rushing yards. Jones, who weighs about 165, has picked up an average of 3.9 yards per carry en route to gain ing the highest team total yard age, 245. Yanosich, a far cry from former day 200-pound fullbacks at 168 pounds, has averaged 3.6 yards per crack. (Matty pulled a ligament in his leg Saturday, but trainer Chuck Medlar reports that he and Pete Schoderbek, who got a s I,i gh t shoulder separation, should be ready by Friday. This leaves the Lions at full strength for Syra cuse with the exception of ' end Joe Yukica who still will be side lined by his torn knee ligament Nittany Career Record However, Bob Pollard is corn :ng along rapidly to challenge IYanosich and Jonesy. Aided by a 50-yard run in the Penn triumph, Pollard is now second in total yards with 233, 21 more than Mat- I ty for a 3.3 average. In passing, Tony Rados contin ues -to show the way. Rados has 68 completions in 128 throws and has already eclipsed the Penn State career record of 92 set by Bill Smaltz between 1939-41. With .93 Completions overall in two sea sons, Rados, a junior, also holds the individual season rec or d which he breaks wtih every sub sequent completion. Although Jess Arnelle official ly caught no passes against Penn, he still leads the team in recep tions with 21, good for two touch downs and 187 yards. Playing in two less games, Yukica is second with 15 catches good for 163 yards and one TD. Among the Nittany secondary defenders who picked off five Penn aerials, safetyman Jack Sherry and halfback Don Eyer lead the team with four intercep tions each. Sherry has lugged his loot back 46 yards and Eyer 39 yards. In the kicking department, Eyer retains his average-yards lead by a slim margin over specialist Ted Kemmerer. Eyer has kicked 17 times for a 35.4 mark and Kem merer has booted 27 times for a 35.0 average per kick. Jones and Pollard each tallied a touchdown against Penn to re main tied for scoring honors with 24 points apiece. Bill Leonard kicked his 13th and 14th consecu tive extra points to bring his point total to 20• with 17 PAT's and one field goal. 3 Fraternities Enter Finals Phi pelta Theta, Theta Xi, and Phi Epsilon Pi moved into the quarter-final round in intramural swimming last night at Glennland Pool. The Phi Delts edged Sigma Chi, 21-20, and Theta' Xi trounced' Del ta Tau Delta, 28-13. Phi Epsilon Pi advanced as a result of a for feit by Alpha Chi Rho. Phi Delta Theta notched its win in the final event when Ron Mil ler clinched matters with a sec ond in the diving. Bob Vanner almost saved the day for the losers with firsts in the freestyle and breaststroke events. Mike Meckley's first-place in the diving, along with a third in the breaststroke, paced the Theta Xi's, who captured a first in each event. Dick Robinson, Don Orcutt, and Frank Trapani took top honors for the winners in the freestyle, back stroke . and breaststroke events, respectively. Eyer Leads Punting Soccermen to Meet Tarheels Saturday The Nittany Lion and North Carolina soccer teams will place almost identical season records on the line when they clash at Chapel Hill in p. 9 a.m. engagement Saturday. The Lions and Tarheels both have won three matches and dropped only one decision. The Nittanies have an addi tional tie game tacked on their log by virtue of a 1-1 deadlock *** * * * Jeru6. put - Jay zw... last Saturday's soccer tilt on Beaver Field befween the Lions. and Army. Jack scored the lone goal in the 1-1; double overtime tie. (Notice the mud cakes under the Army players' eyes to ease the sun glare.) with Army last Saturday. .. • The Tarheels' lone loss came at the hand s of North Carolina State by a 3-2 score. Lion soccer mentor LBill Jef frey, commenting on the relative strength of th e Tarheel team, said, "North Carolina is a good team but is in a class of a team like Colgate, whom we beat, 2-0. They don't score too many points in a game and rely a lot on their defense," 6-0 Whitewash Tarheel booter Coach Alan Moore, 'a soccer star at Spring field College, is comparatively new to the soccer-coaching indus try. Moore is in his second year as booter boss at North Carolina. Jeffrey can well remember last year's match with the Tar heels, for it marked the return to action of the Lions' ace scorer, Jack Pinezich. Starting at left, Pinezich showed that his back injury, which sidelined him most of last year, was healed by scoring two goals and displaying brilliant ball handling in leading the booters to a 6-0 whitewash over the• Tarheels. Shirk Scored Goal Ironically, the Nittanies entered last year's North Carolina match with the same record they have at present, 3-1-1, and handed the Tarheels their second setback of the 1951 season. i - In addition to Pinezich's two pointers, Don Shirk blasted a goal into the net to share some of the scoring honors. This year's contest will also feature the same halfback trio which spun a web around the North Carolinians last year in Jack Chariton, Captain Kurt Klaus, and second- team All- American Frank Follmer. The powerful Lion offense, however, will have to do some high shooting to better the exhi bition put on against the Tar heels last year when the Nittanies recorded 62 ' total shots for their six goals and held the Carolinians to a mere seven. 'Rough Play' Coach Jeffrey was calm about the Lions' tie ghme with the Ca dets Saturday. He said that the "lucky" goal the Cadets scored which enabled the West Pointers to walk off with a 1-1 deadlock was "just one of those ',things that happens every now and then, and. a situation you can't do any thing about." Commenting on the rough tac tics employed by the Cadets in Saturday's match, Jeffrey said, "The Cadets, have always played a rough type game, but some of their tactics were dirty and un called for. On one occasion an Army booter, kicking his foot too high, almost hit a Nittany soc carman in .the face. which .is outright dangerous play." WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1952 Beaver House Wins In IM Basketball Play The Beaver House, the Eagles, and the Nittanies chalked up wins Monday night in the first three games of IM basketball compe tition. The Beaver House edged by the Huskies, 37-34; the Eagles retained their half time lead of 22-16 to cop the victory over the Cats, 40-35; and the Nittanies romped over the Panthers, 32-16. A set of lopsided scores in the second set of games attributed to the dominating wins by Dorm 33, the Ramblers, and the CapitalS. Dorm 33 defeated Wilkinsburg, 30-18. The Capitals nearly dupli cated that score with a 31-17 vic- • tory over the Mustangs, And the Rariablers humbled the Cubs by an overwhelming score of 32-9. Jim Garrity led the Sinkers, last year's champs, to a 48-32 win over the 21 Club. Garrity racked up 12 points. Jim's Gang put on a second half drive to overpower the Turtles, 47-31, after the first half ended in a 14-14 stalemate. A 20 point scoring spree by War ren Grant enabled the Explorers to ctUsh the Mustangs, 34-8. ' Tonight's Schedule: 8:45-29'ers vs Dorm -35, Cru saders vs Hamilton Fours, Epars vs Dorm 12. 9:2s—Penn Haven vs Dorm 5, Phi Sigma Delta vs Alpha Tau Omega, Sigma_ Phi Epsilon vs Delta Chi. 10:05 Delta Sigma Phi vs Alpha Epsilon Pi. Phi Gamma Delta vs Delta Tan Delta, Delta Upsilon vs Phi Epsilbn Pi.-,
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