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IM boxing exploded into the first of its final four days of the 1952 tourney yesterday
at Rec Hall as 16 out of a scheduled 18 bouts were fought in the all-fraternity pairings.
Yesterday's fights wrapped up the bulk of the fraternity quarterfinals, setting the
stage for tomorrow's semifinals, with the finals scheduled for Thursday night.
Delta Upsilon, leaders in team points since the opening day, won and lost. Dean Har
bold, last season's 128-Ib. king, ran into Jim Lewis, Sigma Chi, in the 135-lb. class and
Collegiate
Chatter
Spectators at the fourth an
nual Spartan Basketball Classic
to be held at Michigan' State
may be looking at the national
championship team for 1953.
Three teams in the tourney—
Notre Dame, Kansas State, and
UCLA—are rated very highly in
early season polls, and any one
could conceivably win the nation
al title. Host Michigan State is
the only team unrated among the
nation's best in the classic, but
Pete Newell's Spartans are known
to be troublesome.
Coach Jack Gardner's K-Stat
ers are currently rated third in
the country behind Illinois and
LaSalle, while UCLA is sixth
and Notre Dame 11th. These
squads are possibly the highest
rated aggregations ever to ap
pear in a tournament, with the
exception of the NCAA and Na
tional Invitation Tournaments.
All four teams have gotten off
to winning starts. Kansas State
dumped • Drake in its opener,
while Notre Dame has beaten
Creighton and highly regarded In
diana. UCLA has stopped Oregon
State twice. Michigan State has
defeated Marquette in its lone
start.
Many different types of of
fense will be on display in the
tourney. UCLA is a "race horse"
team using the "run and shoot"
offense. Kansas State features
the balanced attack, with plenty
of set plays, some fast break
stuff when the occasion arises,
and emphasis on pivot play. K-
State boasts one of the nation's
top scorers, Dick Knostman.
Notre Dame is a fast team with
speedy men Joe Bertrand, Norb
Lewinski and John Stephans lead
ing the attack. Michigan State is
mainly a ball control team, but
occasionally resorts to the fast
break.
Tied in with the classic is a
two-day clinic for high school
and college basketball coaches
and players. The instructors,
the four head coaches in the
tourney, are Johnny Wooden of
UCLA, Johnny Jordan of Notre
Dame, Newell and Gardner.
The schedule calls for Kansas
State to meet Notre Dame and
Michigan State to play UCLA Fri
day night, with K-State meeting
Michigan State and Notre Dame
playing UCLA Saturday.
Members of the press and ra
dio delegations covering the
games will pick the outstand
ing player of the tourney for
special recognition.
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dropped the decision, while DU
Arch Kinder, lightheavy, picked
up his third forfeit win in suc
cession to move into the semi
finals. Kinder has yet to fight.
Carroll Wins by Forfeit
The defending champs, who
have missed bringing home the
crown only once since 1947, still
head the lot with team points col
lected in 14 bouts, with three men
left. Beta Theta Pi, with two men
still in contention, advanced its
twosome yesterday to cut down
the DU lead by one. The Betas
trail by four.
Phi Sigma Kappa remained in
a tie with third place Sigma Nu
when its only entrant of the day,
heavyweight Harry Carroll, was
presented a forfeit win from Ros
ey Grier, Alpha Phi Alpha. The
Phi Sigs with nine team points
have two men left.
Sigma Nu's defending 135-1 b:
champ, Stan Engle took a unani
mous decision from Tom Orr,
Sigma Phi Epsilon to keep the
Sigma Nu's in the third place tie.
Lightheavy Jesse Moore was ous
ted by Don McCormick, Tau Kap
pa Epsilon; to reduce the Sigma
Nu's still in the tourney to two.
Shopa Wins
The lone 121-lb. fight of the
lengthy card found Bob Wylie, Pi
Kappa Phi, eliminating Beta Bill
Camp. Wylie kept on top all the
way for the unanimous verdict,
thus reducing the total number of
Betas to two.
Kappa Sigma's Pete Shopa
tacked up his second straight stop
ping in the lightheavy class, this
one hung on John Whitesell, Al
pha Gamma Rho. Time was :17
of round two.
Whitey Messerman, Delta Chi,
gathered in a split decision over
Bill Ziegler, Phi Kappa Psi, in
one of four quarterfinal matches
in the 135-lb. division. Bruce
Wagner, Beta Theta Pi, and Carl
Evankovich, Phi Kappa Sigma,
along with Sig Chi's Lewis, were
the other 135 pounders to advance.
SPE Contender Loses
Wagner outclassed George Resh,
Lambda Chi Alpha in their go,
while Evankovich ousted Chuck
Myers, Delta Sigma Phi.
Joe Gratson, Phi Kappa Psi,
scored early and freely in his
fight with Don Balthaser, Sigma
Phi Epsilon to get the unanimous
nod in the heavyweight division.
Beta Dick Cameron outslugged
Johnny Johnson, Acacia, in their
lightheavy bout to pick up the
unanimous decision.
In the 155-lb. class, Bill Mat
thews, Alpha Phi Alpha, and Tom
Lozaw, Delta Sigma Phi, banged
out decisions. Matthews beat Bob
Myers, Sigma Alpha Epsilon,
while Lozaw cut the remaining
number of Delta Sigs by one-third
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
Basketball
Thompson McMaster over Coop—
40-12
Women's Atherton East won by a
forfeit over the lonians.
Thompson Rojahns over Aye-Sees
-36-25
The Lionides over the Little Lions
—25-14.
Ping-Pong
Little Lions over the Coops by
forfeit.
Coach Holman
Says Suspend
Charges False
NEW YORK M---Describing the
fight to lift his suspension as City
College of New York basketball
coach as a "battle of life or death,"
Nat Holman said flatly yesterday
the charges which led to the sus
pension are false.
•"I've never done a dishonest
thing in the game in all the years
I have been connected with it," the
veteran coach told the Metropoli
tan Basketball Writers Association
at their weekly luncheon. "I have
always fought hard and to the best
of my ability and there is no,, one
anywhere who can point to a single
demeaning thing ever done -by Nat
Holman."
Holman, Asst. Coach Harry Sand,
and Prof. Frank S. Lloyd, chair
man of the faculty athletic com
mittee, were suspended Nov. 17
by the New York Board of Higher
Education on charges of unbe
coming conduct. The charges were
brought by a committee which had
been investigating the 1951 "fix"
scandals in which several. CCNY
players were involved.
when he decisioned Bob Gallo
way.
Other fraternity winners are:
Bill Freed, Theta Kappa Phi, over
Dick Davidson, Phi Gamma Delta,
unanimous decision; Tom Hand,
Lambda Chi Alpha, over Glenn
Wiggins, Alpha Gamma Rho, un
animous decision; Bob Thomas,
Kappa Delta Rho, over Bob Cham
berlain, Alpha Gamma Rho, split
decision; Bud Thompson, Delta
Theta Sigma, over Russ Teague,
Kappa Sigma, :32, round two.
WHA Results
Sports Thru
The Lion's Eye
By JAKE HIGHTON
Collegian SpOrts Editor
Nittany football Coach Rip Engle has a sure-fire ulcer preventa
tive during the season—don't read the newspapers. After the head
line which appeared in a Pittsburgh paper yesterday, State's basket
ball Coach Elmer Gross will soon be reaching for Dr. Engle's pleasant
pellet prescription.
The headline and the accompanying story which undoubtedly
made Gross shudder and groan said to the effect that Penn State
loomed as the best cage team in the district—which takes in the•
wide territory of Duquesne, West Virginia, and Pitt. Why, that •
kind of story is as dangerous as were those about Pitt's. gridders
going to the Orange Bowl.
Although looking fairly good in taking their two season openers
over the weekend, State hardly qualified for the top team in any
district. Physically the majority of the NCAA playoff Nittany team
is back, but as yet isn't the same team. Whether or not it will•prove
to be the same remains in the future. At any rate, it is much too
early for any team to be in NCAA playoff form.
As Gross points out, many of the answers to the present team
lie in the road games. You can't begin to get any real conclusions•.
on a basketball team until it has faced the cold, hard, five to 10
point disadvantages of away games. These conclusions are forth
coming over the holidays when the Lions engage in the All-College
tournament in Oklahoma City Dec. 29-31.
This tournament harks Gross back to last year, even though
State played miles and miles away from Oklahoma in the Steel Bowl
at Pittsburgh in 1951. Gross recalls State's Steel Bowl championship
last year because he feels it was then that the Lions fouhd "some
thing" and began a season which Gross still sees as only half real.
For it was during that Steel Bowl tourney that State caught fire.
They romped Pitt by 20 points and springboarded to a 15-game
winning streak and one of State's all-time best court teams. •
Even though the newspaper is wrong in calling State so good
so early, discount some of the infectious pessimism of Coach Gross
and look at the cage situation this way: State is unbeaten so far—
which is beating par every time.
WASH & JEFF POST MORTEMS: State's win ,over the Prexie
was the first in three seasons . . . A full-court press, infrequently.
used by State in the past, seemed to be the biggest factor in victory
. Captain Herm Sledzik is not only the most improved, man on
the squad but at present he is the only one—aside from new-found
reserve strength Jim Brewer playing at near peak potentiality.
BIG TIME? Up at Hamilton, New York, there . is a college
known as Colgate with a male student enrollment less than` 2000.
This , school, despite ifs comparatively low number of students,
has a 12-game freshman basketball schedule. Down in State Col
lege, Penna., there is a college with a male enrollment of approxi
mately 8000. This school has an eight-game frosh cage schedule.
Although eight is not too far removed from 12, junior varsity and
intramural opponents are considerably removed from playing Cor
nell, Army, Syracuse, and Niagara as the Colgate fresh do.
BIG LITTLE MEN: Pacing the frosh cagers' bright victory over
the jayvees Saturday were two sweet little players who end on end
couldn't outreach the former Oklahoma A&M seven-foot giant, Bob
Kurland. Frosh Coach John Egli's dandies are two of the tricky,
shifty type who take some of the truth out of the adage that basket
ball is a big man's game.
Brunner Named
Committee Chairman
Dr. Henry S. Brunner, profes
sor of agricultural education, was
elected chairman of a national
committee for research in agri
cultural education recently at the
annual American Vocational As
sociation convention at Boston.
His job will be to coordinate
work of regional groups. At the
convention Brunner reported on
developments in regional research
in the field in North Atlantic
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1952
When Jesse Arnelle snared four
passes in the season's closing game
against Pitt, he set a new Penn
State record of 33 receptions in
one season. The old mark of 31
receptions was se t in 1941 by
halfback Lenny Krouse.
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