4 PPI I TEPP47 ! 1- I L, 1952 ICagers to t What can the Nittany Lions cagers do againFt top ranking basketball teams? Many Penn !State fans will have the ans ( wer to that question after the holidays are over. For from Dec. 29 to 31 Coach Elmer Gross will- be' matching his strategy against some of the nation's top- . (seeded squads . . On the first of , those three days, the cagers will go against the fifth t. ranking team—the Oklahoma. Ag gies coachedby Henry Iba. The I other contests will have Western Kentucky against, Idaho, Wyo ming against Tulsa, and Bowling Green against Oklahoma City. Won Two The losers of the first day pair • ing will meet, in consolation tilts on the afternoons of the next two days. But win or-lose the experience ~the Lions will gain will be a valu :, able assist in the remaining regu lar scheduled • contests. They al ready Dave two games in the win column—against Alfred U. and W&J—but in both contests the Lions didn't play up to their capa bilities. They have one more game before the tourney and that will be against Colgate this Friday. Sports Briefs Maxim, Moore Clash in Title Bout ST. LOUIS (JP)—At the ripe old . age of 36, able Archie Moore finally gets his long sought crack at the light heavyweight title tonight when he clashes with champion Joey Maxim in a 15 rounder at the Arena. An 8 to 5 favorite to cash in Moore, if he wins, will become Ruby Bob Fitzsimmons grabbed the crown at the age of 4L A crowd of some 14,000 was ex pected by the promoting Inter national Boxing Club to pay about $85,000. The 10 p.m. EST bout will be broadcast and telecast 1 , coast to coast by CBS. IThe Tpledo contender has been hammering at the doors of champ ions for over five years. If he I wins, he will be the second man ; ever to turn the trick against the steel chinned Cleveland cutey. Curtis "Hatchetman" Sheppard ' bombed -out Maxim in the first round on March, 1942. Maxim whipped the Hatchetman a month later. Former heavyweight cham pions Ezzard Charles and Jersey Joe Walcott never floored Maxim. Fordham Grid Plans? NEW YORK, Dec. 16 (FP)—Ford ham University is surveying its, football program to decide wheth er to: (1) continue its present set up,' (2) drop football or (3) adopt a middle course of de-emphasis on a "back to the campUs" basis. The Rev. Vincent Hart, director of university development, re vealed today that the football situation was up for review. He WILLIAM HOLDEN ALEXIS SMITH "The Turning Point" Sat DENNIS MORGAN in "CATTLE TOWN" • . DOORS OPEN 6:00 VJVIEN LEIGH "ANNA KARMA" An ? !wore Hit! DAILY PC4,EW4w,- pTAvil poLpim, Play Okla. A&M * * * The Nittany Lions have corn ?eted in _three early-season tour naments. In 1949 they broke even at Michigan State and the next year were runners-up in the Dixie Classic at North Carolina State. Last year the -Lions journeyed to on his firSt championship chance, the oldest 175 pound king since said no decision could be expected "for months." , Fordham lost approximately $50,000 in the 1952 season and some $200,000 over 'a seven year period. In the season just com pleted, Fordham won two games, tied one and lost five.' A nine game schedule for 1953 recently was announced by athletic direc tor Jack Coffey including a game with Penn State. Shantz, Reynolds Best NEW YORK, Dec. 16 , (EP)—Right 'hander Allie Reynolds of the NeW York Yankees and southpaw Bob by Shantz of the Philadelphia A's were the most effective American League pitchers in 1952 according to official statistics released today. Adrlona Guenint,lrlam Pitcaisol, Gluseppe Campos°, Anselroo Col-tonl, Fernando COICV3, Giuseppe IStiosiesii; professors d'Orchesna and tuilst del Coro of to Scala; La Rosa Polo& conductor. $18.50 3--12" 100110 Coroodoo covioa; =on, Afro ?0,•• •- _ sto ic, Goita Postio veo del coo of 14' 0°"3 to aOrcllestro. ono ..00duder. too "iessor% folio. 3 Votoo‘, a I% UM.? VA , - ; wito 226 Pittsburgh and won the Stee BoWI Tourney. The Aggies are the team that is noted for their strong defense. When they lose it's not by much but they know how to stop high scoring quintets. Last year they knocked off highly touted *Kansas, holding them to 45 points. Tall Squad They play deliberate, slow-mov ing, possession typ e d defense which can best be described as such:—Defending players - on the weak side of the court (the side where the ball is not in play) leave the men they are guarding to fall back and clog up the mid dle or vital keyhole sector, when ever a player from the opposite side indicates he is going to drib ble through either for a hook shot or to set up a scoring pass. Great things are expected of the Aggies this year. They have a strong squad headed by their 6-11 junior, Bob Mattick, who is being hailed as another Bob Kur land. Four other seasoned per formers have returned including Dale Roark who was the spark plug of the drive that saw the Aggies win their last six in a row last season. Another newcomer who'll add height is a 6-6 giant named Keith Lane. Horace Ash Named North America's Top '52 Athlete - Horace Ashenfelter, form e r Penn State track star, today was named North - America's foremost amateur athlete of 1952 by the Helms Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles; California. Ashenfelter, who also has been nominated for the Sullivan Award, emblematic of American athletic supremacy, will receive a silver plaque from the Founda tion and • his , name also will be engraved upon , the massiye World Trophy which is lodged in Helms One athlete was chosen from each of the six continents by a nine-man board, of which' Grant land Rice and Paul Zimmerman. both nationally-known sports writers, were members. 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Apt' DiSlitlO o olotti o SO'S POQUAtt lIINNSYLVATITA. ::<:; r . ; ;~:.:~ .< Sports Thru The Lion's Eye By JAKE HIGHTON Collegian Sport; Editor "Why, shucks. In my day ballplayers were r, none of the sissy stuff and creampuff type you -_ ,Lay. ,'s players couldn't compete on the same field when we were in our prime." Thus 011ie Oldtimer re-lives the past., In his mind—the narrow mind of the "great" Ty Cobb ridiculing present day baseball players as being inferior—no one who follows could begin to match the footprints left "in the sands of time." Although in football and baseball no fair or accurate measure ment can be made between the, past and present stars, it is for tunate that in track and cross-country sharp comparisons between ancient and modern are possible. The stop watch presents a bold truth,--today's runners are *topping the clock sooner. Unless, of course, watches these days are running slower. All of which leads to some enlightenment on the Penn State's 1952 cross-country team. Although it "failed" to recapture the IC4A title it held the last two years and although it "only" finished fourth among the nation's best teams,' it was the best team that Coach Chick Werner •has had in his 20 years at State. Crazy? No. According to the tell-tale stopwatch, Red Hollen, Jim Hamill, Jack' Horner, Stan Lindner, and Lamont Smith ran faster than any Penn State team in the 14 years of the NCAA title run held annually at East Lansing, Michigan. All five of these Lion harriers were clocked beneath 21 minutes for the four mile run —a feat accomplished by no other Nittany team. Not even the 1942 national champion team with Curt Stone, Jerry Karver, and Norm Gordon, nor the 1947 NCAA champs with Karver and present Olym pic champ Horace Ashenfelter, nor the 1950 NCAA champs with Bill Ashenfelter and Bob Freebairn had done so well. To give you an idea of how fantastic it is to have five men under 21 minutes, remember that the best team performance in terms of the clock was in 1949 when only two men, Don Ashenfelter and Freebarin, touched the better side of 21 minutes. A story may illustrate just how unbelievable the 1952 situation is. Assistant 'Coach Norm Gordon' is a talkative sort who will gab about track for hours. Of him Werner hassaid. "However good Gordon . says he is, just believe half of it—of course, that's still mighty darn good." It must be admitted That Gordon was a pretty hotshot runner, but even he confesses that he wouldn't have made this year's team.. No, the Lion hill-and-dalers weren't sub-par. (How anyone can consider fourth in the nation bad, is hard to understand 'except that Penn State x-country has made a habit of doing better.) State's John Chillrucl finished 67th in the last NCAA title run with a time of 21:26 which would have placed him among the top 20 in any year previous to the 1951 race. HOW TIMES CHANGE: Curt Stone won the IC4A x-country title in 1946 with a 27:09 clocking which would have placed him an also, also-ran 66th in this year's run . . . Talk about brass? Soph Hamill ran a steaming 4:35 first mile in the IC five-mile test and still had enough stuff to run four more miles fast enough for a lofty llth . . . Reliable /fallen, suddenly a poised, confident veteran, is so 'consistent that Werner will be checking his •stop watches on Red's running. yourse Chriptm Gift Before home, b: all your where • persona and pre; ready a. when yt you can really start the New Year right Dry Cleaners and Tailors 307 W. Beaver Ave. RAGE • SINIErf
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