PAGE SIX Cagers Seek sth Win Tonight Over Syracuse Courtmen Win One, Two in Tournament Lion Lose Although Penn State's record in. the All-College tournament. wasn't too impressive, only one win as against two losses, it was a good one considering the fact that the Lions were pitted against nationally ranking teams. Both Oklahoma A&M and Western Kentucky, the two losses, are top seeded quintets with the Aggies in seventh place and the Hilltoppers in 10th place., The lone win was over Bowling Green by a 67-56 score. Sledzik Outstanding The big bright spot in State's holiday excursion was the per formance turned in by its cap tain—Herm Sledzik. His coach, Elmer Gross, commenting on his playing, said "Sledzik played ex cellent outstanding ball in the tourney!" Herm's 54 phints in til, ee led the Lions in scoring and also helped to gain him honorable mention on the tourney all-star teams along with teammate Jesse Arnelle. The 6-4 senior from Indiana used his overhead shot very ef fectively and scored 18 points against the Aggies; 20 against Bowling Green; and 16 tallies over West. Kent. Currently, Sled zik is leading the team in scoring with 101 points on an average of 16.8 a game. Aggies Win Tourney. The Lions opened their three day contest against top-seeded Oklahoma A&M coached by Hank Iba. The Aggies, eventual winners of the classic and winners nine times in 16 years, were paced by a 6-10 1 h monster named Bob Mat tick and Gerald Stockton who tied Sledzik as the games' high scorer with 18. Mattik and the Lion's Joe Piorkowski each had 15. Final score read 61-68 in fa vor of the Aggies. The Lions have pinned their hopes on their scoring ace Jesse Arnelle, but the big 6-5 center hadn't rounded out to basketball form yet and was off in his shoot ing. He could only get 5 points, He was also being guarded by Mattick which would help to ac count for his low scoring. Playing before a sell-out crowd of 5500, the Aggies had little trouble in penetrating the zone defense set up by ,the Lions. Only in the early moments was the game tight with the score tied at 4-4 and 6-6. The Staters showed a mark of 29 per cent on its field goals Nittany Wrestlers Open Saturday Against Virginia at Charlottesville Coach Charlie Speidel's varsity wrestling contingent, undefeated in 20 matches dating back to 1950, will swing into the first of an eight dual meet season Saturday when it journeys to Charlottesville, Va., to take on the Cavaliers of Virginia. Penn State drubbed hapless Virginia last year, 34-0, on home mats. The last team to defeat State was Syracuse in 1950. Vir ginia has yet to beat a Penn State wrestling team. State's first of three home per formances before the nationals in March will be Jan. 17 against a strong Lehigh outfit. The Lions opened up last year with a 20-5 triumph over the Engineers on their mats. Jan. 10—Virginia away 1 17—Lehigh home 1 7—Navy away 11—Pennsylvania home 1 14—Syracuse away 21—Cornell away 28—Pittsburgh away Mar. 7—Army home 13-14—Eastern's away -- 27-28—NCAA's home ; For Speidel, it will be his 26th year at the helm of the Nittany wrestling crew. Over that period, * * while their opponents were con necting on 36.2 percentage. In the second night contest, the Lions had their sliding zone work ing better, and took a 67-56 con test over the Bowling Green quintet. This time Arnelle began to show his old form and tallied 21 points .--"" I ' 4 ' l l for the Both teams couldn't find the bucket in the final six minutes Of play and failed to make a shot from the field. However, the Fal cons were successful on eight free throws during that period while State was making only two. By defeating the Falcons the Lions gained the right to enter the consolation finals and on the last night of play they met the liilltoppers of Western Kentucky. The Staters lost 91-78, but the score was a record for the 17- year holiday classic. The com bined total of 169 points was a new all time high two-team mark. The Hilltoppers hit on 46% of their shots and that pretty much is the story within itself. They werepaced by two big men, Art Spoelstra, 6-9; and Dan King, 6- 7. Spoelstra, who outplayed the famous .all-America Walt Dukes of Seton Hall not so •1 on g ago, scored 21 points while King had a grand high total of 27 tallies. With Sledzik leading the way, Penn State was only behind four points at the half-37-33. But the Kentuckians came to life and rip ped the game wide open with a 32 point outburst. The Lions stubbornly clung on and man aged to make the score read 72-66 in the final quarter but they fell behind. TOURNEY SUMMARIES Penn State Fg F TllAggies Fg F IC'dh'mer,f 3 1-1 IStoekton,f 8 2-4 18 Piorko'ski,f 5 5-5 15 Haskins,f 2 4-6 8 Sberry.c 4 2-5 10 Fuller,c 2 0-2 4 Arnelle,g 2 1-1 51Mattiek,g 5 5-9 15 1 0-0 21Henctrick,g 0 4-5 4 Haag 0 3-4 31Pearson 0 1-1 1 Stectzik 3 12-15 181 Shaffer 0 0-0 0 Itohland 0 1-1 I.Rogers 5 0-0 10 Sheets 1 2-2 4 the stocky mentor has guided his clubs to 119 wins as against only 28 loses and •seven ties. Speidel has produced two national team champions, five• eastern tea in champions, 39 individual eastern champions and two individual national champions, including this year's co-captain, Joe Lem yre. Lemyre copped the NCAA 167-113. crown last season along with eastern title. The Lions, as a team, have also cleaned up in the Eastern team honors• the past two seasons. Also defending Eastern champs back this season are sophomore THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE CoLd,EGE. * * * ail To rind Bucket 32 Point Outburst dread Food at Popular Prices DUTCH PANTRY Our Own Baked Goods Fresh Daily OPEN Every Day 7 a.m. 'lll Midnight 2.10 e. Collie Ave. A. much wiser and more expetienced Lion court team resumes regular . season play at 8 tonight when it hosts the Orangemen of Syracuse University. The freshman team will play Phi Sigma Delta fraternity - • 6 p.m. in a preliminary match. The Lions will be hoping * * * Herm Sledzik Has Hot Holiday Hicks 2 0-1 4 Roarak 0 0-0 0 Totals 25 18-30 68 Totals 18'25-32 61 Score by periods— 7 18 13 18-61 Penn State 4 17 29 Aggies 2 Penn State Fg F Tl Piork'ski,f 0 0-0 0 W'd'h'er,f 3 4-7 10 Arnelle,e 5 9-10 21 Sledzik,g 7 6-11 20 Haag,g 2 1-1 5 Sherry,f 0 1-1 1 Phillips,f 2 1-2 5 Rrewer.f 0 0-0 0 ll,e 0 1-4 1 Rohland,g 1 2-2 41 Bowling Green Fgr F TI Bianchi,f 4 4-7 12 Ellis,f 4 5-9 14 Reis,c 0 3-4 3 Slesinger,g 1 5-6 Urago,g :1 1-1 7 Sekerehek,f 0 0-0 0 Sherin,c 0 1-1 1 Ray,g 2 2-2 6 Rogers,g 0 1-2 1 Server,g ;1 3-5 6 Totals 15 26-37 66 Totals 21 25-38 671 Score by periods— Penn State 1 Bowling Green 1 6 24 16' 10-67 0 18 9 19-56 W. lient'y Fs F TI Marshall,f 4 3-3 11 King,f 9 9-12 27 Spoelstmc 8 5-6 21 Beard,g 1 2-2 4 Whitex 7 1-2 15 Greer 1 0-2 2 Cole 0 0-0 0 Smith 0 1-1 1 Vest 1 2-2 4 Schultz 0 0-0 0 Whitsell 1 0-0 2 Hutchens 1 0-0 2 Wallace 0 2-2 - 2 Totals 33 25-32 91 Penn State Fg F TIC Sherry,f 1 2-2 4 Piork'ski.f 4 3-3 11 Arnellex 5 3-3 13 5 4-4 14 Sledzilr,g 6 4-5 16 Weid'ha'er 3 4-6 10 Phillips"l 1-2 3 Hill 3 1-3 7 Brewer 0 0-0 0 Totals 28 22-28 78t Score by periods= W. Kentucky 2 Penn State 1 16 :12 22-91 1 22 22 23-78 Bob Homan and junior Dick Lem yre. Homan and Lemyre repre sent Speidel's "little-men one-two Scoring punch." Homan wrestled in 123-lb. class last year followed by Lemyre in the 130-lb. division. Other holdovers this season will be co-captain Don Frey, his identical twin Doug, Jerry' Mau key, and Hud Samsoh. Don Frey and Samson are seniors, while (Continued on page eight) 6eMe'W-IVA JANUARY CLit'ARANCE . SALE • FREEMi L N L SHOES " ALL SLACKS REDUCED $2 OFF $1 • Gabardines, Flannels, Houncistooth•Checks , . YOUR CHOICE OF ANY MANHATTAN SHIRT & TIE FREE WITH EACH CAMPUS TOG SUIT By Ted Soens to improve their four and two record. They have . defeated Al fred University, 56-43; Washing ton and Jefferson, 62-50; an d Colgate, 6Q-55; in reguar sched uled contests. Over the holidays the Staters competed in the all- College / tournament in 'Oklahoma and lost_ to the Oklahoma Aggies and Western Kentucky while picking up their lone win over Bowling Green. Only 2 Wins On the other hand, Syracuse, coached by Marc Guley, will be attempting to get back on a win ning path. In seven outings this season theY've been beaten •five times and only have picked up wins over Canisius and Rochester University. - Their more recent defeat was by a powerful St. Johns quintet in an overtime period, 97-84. Other losses were by Sampson AFB, 72-70; Niagara, 65-45; an always strong West Virginia team, 71-63; and the 9. ,, q ,-, Vro Marines, 92-78. Comparing the records of Syra cuse and Penn State, it would seem as though the Lions would be the heavy favorites in to night's battle, . but the starters were also heavy favorites a few months ago in football and took a 25-7 shellacking. And just last year Coach Elmer• Gross took a 17 win and 4 loss record against Orangemen and • came out second best in a 76-72 double overtime period. Three veterans of last year's Syracuse team will see action tonight. A fourth letterman, Bill Manikus, who is this year's cap tain, will be out because of in juries.. Acting as captain in his place, will be Frank Iteddout, rated as pne of the best collegiate players in the game_,' This 6-5 senior scored 248 points last year and - is an excellent play. maker. The other two veterans are Pat stark at 6-0 and Lou Beverly, 6-10 pivot man. The team will be rounded out by Melirin Bes din and Skippy Thaw. Besdin was a late starter last season but scored 129 points, mostly on )utside shots and drive-ins. An interesting sidelight to to night'S game will be the meeting of three old football rivals. For Syracuse it will be baSketballer Pat -Stark, whose quarterbacking and passing derailed Penn State's bowl-bound express last Fall; and Jesse Arnelle and Jack Sherry, both standouts on the Lion's '52 football team. Sledzik High Scorer For the Penn State lineup, Gross will have Jesse Arnelle, Ed Haag, Joe Piorkowski, Jack Sherry, Captain Herm Sledzik, and Ron Weidenhammer. , Sledzik leads the team with 101 points with a 16.8 average in six games. Arnelle has scored 96 points for ,an average of 16 per game. Other starters show Sherry with 48 tallies; Piorkowski, 42; Weidenhammer, 39; and Haag with 33. Team average is 65.3 per game with a total of 392 as against opponents'' 363 points for an average of 60.5 a game 3 Veterans V7EDNESADY, JANUAIiY 7, 195 Collegiate Chatter A Michigan State defensive .ackfield ace, Johnny Wilson, is Jelieved to be the first major college gridder to win a Rhodes scholarship since Byron "Whi2- zer" White of Colorado, in the 1930'5. No. 45 on a Spartan football uniform seems to- have political implications. The, last two play ers who have worn the numeral, George Guerre, in 1946-48, and Johnny Wilson in 1950-51, were both senior class presidents. Michigan State won national championships in both its fall sports, football and cross country, in 1952. Spartan home football attend ance hit an all-time record high of 226,856, in 1952, with an Aver age of 45,000 for each of five 2ontests. Nineteen members of the 1952 Michigan State grid forces, ranked first , in the nation at season's end, will graduate in June. Three are All-Americans. Aside from winning the national championship, the MSC football team led the nation in rushing defense, permitting an average of only 33.9 yards gained against it per game, Michigan State's best season's ;nark in basketball was the 16 kvins, one losS record posted in 1931 under Coach Ben VanAls tyne. • - Grici Attendance Reaches AII-T ime Mark-300,000 For. . o the • first time 'in its 66 years of intercollegiate competi tion, Penn State's football team in 1952 played before crowds to taling more than 300,000. The three top turnouts were the 67,000 for the _Penn game at Franklin Field in Philadelphia; 58,000 for the season's finale at Pitt Stadium in Pittsburgh; and 51,000 for th e Michigan State gaine •at Enst Lansing.. T'hc. latter represented a . new high for the Spartan series. • A new home attendance mark also was established as five games at Beaver Field drew more than 100,000 patrons. A capacity house of 30,000 turned out for the home:- coming game against the. Univer sity of Nebraska , . for 1952's home - game high. Michigan State still holds the record for Beaver Field, attract-' ing approximately 31,000 for its 1950 game with the Lioni. Mangrum Wins in LA Lloyd Mangrum has won the $20,000 Los Angeles open. golf tournament by five strokes, • ' WARiER:: ,. agetWislOe ' ..SUSPENSE! . "NIGHT WITHOUT SLEEP" Linda Darnell, Garr Merrill SONGS GALORE! "RAINBOW ROOK MY . SHOULDER" Frankie La:ini I*II4 G r4 . II4III4Y ARY : COOPtR in "SPRINGFIELD RIFLE"
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