WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1953 Sports Thru The Lion's Eye By JAKE HIGHTON Collegian Sports Editor There is a school of philoiophic thought which contends that th spending of one minute of the present to think of the past is a waste of tune. Nevertheless, the swaddling-clothed 1953. shouldn't be grudged a final retrospective glance at the highlights of 1952 which found Penn State sports "bigger and better than ever." JANUARY: The wrestlers opened the year with a bang—that of the ref's hand slapping the • canvas. In a spectacular display of pin ning, five Lions scored falls defeating Virginia, 344, in one hour and 15 minutes, probably the fastest match - seen in Rec Hall . . . Prank Follmer, prize right half on the soccer team, was named to the second team All-America . . The surpr4sinecagers twice in one week set Penn State 'highscoring records on the road with 8§ points agaiust- Gettysburg -and then 89 against Dickinson. FEBRUARY: Rapid Robert Roessler, track captain elect, set an Army field house mark with a swift 2:14.9- victory. at 1000 yards The wrestlers stopped Syracuse, 17-11, for their 17th straight and a new Nittany record, . . . The courtien cavorted over George town for their - 13th straight which smashed the previous Nittany record set by the 41=42 team of then-captain and now-coach Eliner Gross. Frosh,sensation Ass Arnelle, hit the cords for 40 points and a new Nittany high. Arnelle shattered Lou Lamie's season record of 319 set in 50-5.1. • MARCH: George Ceiga delivered an organ concert in Rec Hall while Pitt stalled and froze their way o a 24-9 defeat by State's basketball team, believe it or, not. The to triuniph Made it the win ninge.st in Lion cage hiStory. Stellar entertainment was also pro vided by- Pitt's Irilitting star Mickey, Zernich and - hootchy-kootchy dancing , Coach Doe Carlson . . Rec Hall fans were as thrilled as the boxing team which shoulder -carried Bob Potter to the dressing room after' State's • 5%4 1 / 2 win over Virginia and its first heavy weight win all 'season.: Johnny Albarano. 147, and 'Sam Marino, 125, pounded out ELBA championships and Tony-Flore, 139, missed a title on a split decision States Flying Firm Jan Cronstedt won the horizontal bar crown and the all-around championship in the Eastern gym meet. Side horse specialist Bob Lawrence had his five meet Win streak snapped in taking runrierup honors although 'two judges called him-the winner' . . State's recor&wrecking cagers got . an NCAA' district playoff berth' but • ran. into - too much class in perennial- power, Kentucky._ . State's only lossless.team in - 1952, the wrestlers came up with tree EaStern - champs in Bob Homan, 123, Dick 'Lemyre, 130, and :toe Lemyre, 167. Runnerup Jerry Maurey, 137, suffered his first defeat hi Six years of scholastic and collegiate wrestling to triple-chamP from Lehigh, George Feuerbach. Joe Lemyre went on to achieve the Nittany rarity, an NCAA - 167 title. (Only one other has done so). APRIL: Slugging Sammy Marino •gained the NCAA finals but fell before his nemesis, Frank Echavarria (Idaho) who took the 119 title . . . Cronstedt copped the NAAU calisthenics title during the dramatic, sparkling Olympic-AAU trials in Rec Hall. MAY: Jim Herb, State's standout gravity defier, for the last two seasons, set a' new.. Michigan State-Penn State .meet record with a highjump of 6-5 1 / 4 . . . Rod Eaken, went to the semi-finals of EIGA championship before losing to eventual champ Par Paul Harney, Holy Cross, 4-and 3 .- • Largely on the strength of a 10 game winning streak—it was a wonderful streaky and recordy one for Nittany sports—the baseball team gained the District II baseball playoffs and won out over Eastern powers St. Johns, Fordham, and Villanova. JUNE: Joe Bedenk's giant killing baseballers gained a lofty third in the NCAA championships after knocking off pre-totirney favorite and twice champion Texas, 5-3, and the collegiate headliner, Duke, Dick Groat, and Co., 12-7. - OCTOBER:. State surprised Big Ten co-champ Purdue , with a 20-20 thriller. Tony "Radar" Rados' passes out-Sartrueled Samuels (Dale) to show . the trend of his recording of new career, season, and single g • arne completion records.. . .- The harriers snapped Army's 15-meet con,secutive string with Lamont Smith and Red Hoßen showing the way. NOVEMBER: Bill Lepnard's toe nipped Rutgers 7-6, and gave State its winningest grid season since 1948 . . . End Arnelle, State's tandidat for two-sport All-America honors in the future, set a single season pass catching record . . . The soccer team nipped 1951 national champion Temple. 1-0, and followed with a win over Penn to earn a soccer bowl bid which mysteriously never was extended, nor the game • even held. Jack Pinezich's hat trick against the Quakers gaye him 23 goals and wiped out a 16-year-old Nittany record of 21. (My gash, how the records rolled in this year!). . . It's alwayf, 4 glorious season when the Lions beat Pitt—they did 17-0-- and the Ripper had scored with his third straight winner, in three starts. DECEMBER: Ignored by the Lambert Trophy selectors, the gridders got their due from the pollsters with numerous "all" selec tions.-Jiin Dooley made AP second team All-America. Pete Schodere bek, and .:.Dooley made All.-East and Pete, Dooley, Itaclos, Annelle, Rosey Grier, and DOll. Malinak made All-Pennsey. Most . Valuable Player Ted Ilarchibroda of the Uni versity. of .Detroit, who quarter backed Rip, Engle's squad in the Blue-Gray football classic, • has been named the most valuable player on the gorth. team, • - The TAVERN • ENJOY OUR :„ DELICIOUS PIZZA PIE. SERVED, OR TO TAKE OUT from 9 to t 1:30 . THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, Horace Ashenfelter '52 Sullivan Trophy Horace Ashenfelter, America's fir s t Olympic champion and record breaker in the 3000-meter - steeplechase, has been named 1952 winner of'' the James E. Sullivan Memorial Trophy, as the "amateur athlete who, by performance, example and good influence, lid most to advance the cause of good sportsmanship during the year." * * dCler . (A.A.U.'s Top Athlete) Wilt, Stone Given -Credit for Ash's Track Progress Horace Ashenfelter's col le g coach, 'Charles (Chick) Werner, believes Fred Wilt and Curt Stone deserve credit for much of the Olympic champion's post-grad uate tra - t. progress.. "Stone and Wilt were more experienced than Horace,'' Wer ner says,"and • they took him under thir wing when he fin ished college. "'The three pooled their know ledge as they went. along and each man learned something from the other. "I think Ash benefited most because Stone and Wilt both - had considerably mor e competition under their belts." Ashenfelter astounded the ex perts last summer by switching from the 10,000 meters to the steeplechase at Helsinki and run ning off with the Olympic crown in record time. It was this achievement that last week brought him the coveted James E. Sullivan Memorial Tro phy which annually is awarded to America's foremost amateur athlete. Werner; who was a member of the Olympic coaching staff, took Ashenfelter as an " inexperienced freshman and converted him into one of the nation's , top college distance ,runners. His = progress since has been -eveirmore note worthy: Identical 'Twins Frank and Al Wick, identical twins of Philadelphia, will spear head Penn State's 1953 gymnas tics team. The annual award, made by the Amateur Athletic Union, went to Penn State ' s former outstanding two-miler and cross-country run ner, now an F. 8.1. agent, by a margin of more than 200 points. Ashenfelter received 1112 points on 538 ballots on a 5-3-1 system of scoring._ He had 154 first-place votes. Runnerup Ma jor Sammy Lee, Olympic plat form diving champion, had 882 points with 102 - first-place votes. World Record Setter Ashenfelter's Olympic victory at Helsinki was one of the high lights of the track and field com petition. No United States runner had won an Olympic distance ti, tle since 1908, and the F. 8.1. agent of Collegeville was the un derdog to Russia's Vladimir Kas antsev. But the G-man, who never began serious competition as a runner until he enrolled at Penn State, beat.the Russian, and all others, in world record time of 8:45.4. Before the Olympics, he won the national title at three miles and afterward was runner up in cross-country'. Ashenfelter, now assigned to Newark, N.J., will be 30 years old Jan. 23. He succeeds pole vaulter Bob Richards, last year's Sullivan Trophy winner. Ashenfelter is the second New York A.C. athlete to obtain the award in the last three years, since Richards was also a representative of the club. One of Famous Brothers The trophy will be given to the distance champion Feb. .15 at a luncheon at the New York A.C. After serving during World War II as an Air Force 'lieutenant, Horace, who was one of the three brothers enrolled at the College, began his career in track under Coach 'Chick Werner. The tall, lanky runner owns the ; Lions' fi v e mile cross-country record and is a former NCAA two-mile champ. Werner aptly characterizes the "Pride. of the Penn State Track Team." "Horace has never failed to im prove day after day," says Wer ner. "He has performed better every time he competes. He's a stubborn Dutch fellow. If he is beaten, Ashenfelter never gives up." Midi:Season Loss , Six lettermen form the nucleus of the current Penn State basket ball team. Joe Piorkowski, of Wy oming, Pa., will complete his eli gibility mid-way through , the sea son. -JANUARY CLEARANCE SUITS - TOPCOATS 20% Off ENTIRE RANGE OF GABARDINES, SHARKSKINS, TWEEDS, AND FLANNELS SWEATERS $2.99 and $3.99 Regularly from $3.95 to $10.95 WINTER JACKETS V 3• Off • Colt ge por Jwear "STATE COLLEGE'S FRIENDLY STORE" BEAVER and ALLEN PAGE SEVEN Named Winner Sports Briefs Colts Revived BALTIMORE (11 7 )—Professional football will be returned to Balti more next season after an absence of ' two years. Baltimore fans have subscribed to the necessary 15,000 season tickets laid down as the minimum by National Football League com missioner Bert Bell. Actually, the fans themselves purchased only 13,000 season seats. But Ameri can Oil Company has promised to underwrite the remainder of the 15,000 not sold by the Jan. 22 deadline. Yank-in Your Leg? NEW YORK (.rP) Southpaw Eddie Lopat -of the- New York Yankees decided to visit some sick children in a hospital re cently. To his surprise, one of the youngsters refused to believe that he was really Lopat of- the Yankees. Eddie couldn't figure how to convince the youngster. But the' youngster finally said: "Okay—if you're Lopat, let's see your driver's license." Lopat showed him the license and the youngster was finally impressed. Dapper Dan Awards PITTSBURGH (JP)—The Dapper Dan Club for the first time named two men for their annual sports award. Lowell Red Dawson,- Uni versity of Pittsburgh football coach, and Stan Musial, major league batting champion from Donora, . Pennsylvania, won the club's 1952 award. Fencing Club to Hold Organization Meeting There will be a short organ izational meeting of the Fenc ing Club at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Water Tower, according to Jerry Paltin. - Regular nights for fencing will be Tuesday and Thursday nights and Saturday afternoon, beginning Feb. 3. gach member has been scheduled for a certain night. Competition between all mem bers is planned for next se mester.
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