PAGE SIX Lions Open Court Year Coach Elmer Gross will take the wraps off his quintet tomor row night at 8 p.m. when the Nit tany Lions open their 1952-53 bas ketball season in Rec Hall. Alfred University will provide the opposition in the first of a 21- game schedule, which will see the Lions playing 11 home and 13 away contests. This is the first time the Staters have played the New York team, which last year had a record of 13 wins and 7 losses—most wins in the school's basketball annals. Coached by Jay McWilliams, the Saxons met only one team last year that the Lions played and that was Ithaca College. The Sax ons won both times. Sets Two Records r; Under the capable direction of Gross, last year's squad set two new Penn State records; the team's total output of 1596 with an average of 66.5 per game was a new scoring record while the 20 victories as against four losses also set a record. Entering the NCAA tournament at the end of the season, State was pitted against powerful Ken tucky and lost by a 82-54 score. In the consolation mat c h they were defeated by the Tarheels of North Carolina, 69-60. However, the tourney wasn't a complete loss as Lion Jesse Arnelle, tied with All-America Bob Zawoluk of St. Johns for individual scoring honors. Led with 448 Points Arnelle led the team with 448 points in 24 regular season games for an average of 18.7. Herm Sled zik, captain of this year's squad. was second in the scoring column with 212. Jack Sherry had 159 points; Ronnie Weidenhammer -146; Joe Piorkowski-140; and Ed Haag with 83. Penn State uses a sliding zone defense with 3 out and 2 back. Arnelle, at 6-5 and Sledzik at 6-4 will be the backcourt men, with three of the following alternating out front—Ed Haag, 6-2; Ronnie Weidenharnmer, 6-1; Jo e Pior kowski, 6-3; and Jack Sherry, 6-3. Sledzik and Piorkowski are the only seniors; Haag is a junior; and the rest are sophomores. 1951-52 RECORD Opponents Ithaca Bucknell Wash-Jeff Michigan Pittsburgh Colgate Syracuse Carnegie Tecli Gettysburg Dickinson Pittsburgh Navy American U West Virginia Rutgers Georgetown Rhode Island Army Penn Colgate Syracuse West Virginia Pittsburgh Bucknell Kentucky N. Carolina State Get Ready for WINTER FOLLIES you had observed a safe following distance, o ceffir!" NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL JACK WIMMER'S State epellnwn Sunoco Across from Wincicrest THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE • COLLEGk. PSDiDi 6X' L. AMA Tomorrow * * * DU's Keep Early IM Boxing Lead; Beta's Traii Delta Upsilon •advanced two of its three pugilists yesterday to maintain a strong hold in its guest for the 1952 IM team boxing championship. Beta Theta Pi, which possesses nine wins to DU's 11, were able to place only one of its men into the higher brackets. DU placed its two men into higher brackets via forfeits. Al though its other fighter, Gerry Troy buckled his opponent with two hard rights to the -jaw, heavy weight Harry Carroll, Phi Sigma Kappa, rushed Troy and hit him with a flurry of rights and lefts to gain a unanimous decision. The Betas defeat came in the first bout of the card. Bud Thomp son, Delta Theta Sigma, landed, the -most effective punches in his toe-to-toe battle with Dave Ar nold in the 165 lb. division, win ning by a unanimous decision. Whitey Messerman, Delta Chi, in one of the four abbreviated bouts, dazed his opponent with a right backhand to the jaw. The aggressive Delta Chi pugilist halt ed his opponent in :40 of the first round Jim Smith who floored his op ponent in the second round, sur prised Whitey Laird with a right to the jaw. 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Mike Brunner, Theta Kappa Phi, and Bob Galloway, Phi Sig (Continued on page sei,en) HAGERSTOWN. MARYLAND Sports Thri) The Lion's Ey By JAKE HIGHTON Collegian Sports Editor Between tours of the post-season Banquet Circuit, Nittany foot ball Coach Rip Engle—fatter and having nothing . to worry about until Wisconsin next September 26—was talking to a journalism class. Before long the popular mentor, who would -be a pleasure to listen to even if he hadn't just piloted State to its best grid 'season since 1948, came up with a choice bit: "rating systems belong on the funny pages rather than on the sport pages." Eureka! The Ripper had hit upon it. Maybe it wasn't the committee of sportswriters and broadcasters who had voted on and r ank e d Eastern football teaths for the Lambert Trophy. Perhaps it was the comic strir writer s who determ'ned the winner of the August V. Lam bert Tr o phy; emblematic of Eastern collec•h_ f'+othall suprem acy. Syracuse Nra, inner. Can', kick about that. The Orange Bowling Orange -licked the Nit tanies. 'But who was in second place? Princeton; loser to Penn and victor over no one of impor tance. Who was fourth? Penn: defeated by Penn State and beaten or tied by four other teams. Who was sixth? Pitt; 'whipped by the Lions, 17-0. Wh o was eighth? Penn State: winner of only seven. But give the devils their due. , The Cartoonists placed the Lions ahead of • Cornell, Alfred, Vas sar, and Smith-10th, 11th, 12th, and 13th among Eastern grid powers. * * * Christopher Columbus! What major teams aside from Michigan State and Georgia Tech went un beaten and untied? Notre Dame, which lost two and tied one to finish with a record identical to the Lions', was still acclaimed one of the best teams in the nation. As Engle points out, the Cleve land Browns, "the best team in the pro loop," has lost three and won two of its games by one point. State loses two and ties one, yet is ranked eighth in the East. You figure it. What about next year? The question was asked with all those sophomore stars in mind and "loaded" for an optimistic answer. But the Ripper, characteristic of the coaching fraternity, replied. "I feel like we are on a tread mill. We are getting better and so are the others . . . Pitt had a great freshman team . . . You can't tell about the unknown fac tors like the draft and unexpected Shattuck and Anders losses . . . E SPEC. PLATE DINNERS a _.....7eature Auld the CORile . ~:••••• • the CORNPJA? .141117t*, . Tl-1 Y, I).CCEIVII3ER 11, 195 Z And graduation? Look at 'em go, Dooley, S m it h, Barney, Simon, Scheetz, Gratson, Leonard. Yuki -a. Pollard .." ENGLE QUOTES: We put one ';:am in (Syracuse), and one put "?itt) of the Orange Bowl . Tony Rados was as fine a passer -'s in the East considering a bum knee kept him from hustling -around like many other quar terbacks . . Trainer C. ,- uck Medlar did a wonderful jo'l tap ;rag Rados together, and knp ing him together through ten -Fames . . . Fewer injuries this season can be attebuted to -he two-platoon system which cuts down, the fatigue on which in juries thrive . . . Any shifts should be outlawed next year. If a team wants to run from sinalewing, it should line up that way coming from the hud dle. Smith in Blue-Grey Bob Smith, Bentleyville, has ac cepted an invitation to play for the Blue in the Blue-Gray post -;ea:on football game at Montgom ery, Ala., December 27. A defen sive backer-up, th e 195-pound senior is the fourth Penn Stater invited to this game. Others are Jim Dooley, Don Barney, and Bill Leonard. Times Have Changed In 14 football games since 1939, Penn State and Pitt have broken even. Previously, the Panthers had won 12 straight fro in the Lions. t RONSON . . . : 1 World's great est lighter • . . . :A w l\ styles from $6.95 _ • MOYER I SHOP aPe 4appy announce ... Served eacl weekday evenin .. . U 218 E. College
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