Sports Thru
The Lion’s Eye
By JAKE HIGHTON
Collegian Sports Editor
Polevaulting Cadet Perlow, captain of the United States Military:
Academy’s Underwear Brigade,-was talking in Army’s magnificently
equipped field house following the track and field meet with Penn
State two weekends ago. He spoke neither of his team’s 63%-45%
victory or his own personal tie for first in the Warmerdam-Richards
event. Rather, Perlow became quite vehement about Penn State.
"If Iwere at Penn State I wouldn't be out for track." At first
this seemed like the rankest blasphemy the Nittany Vale has
been extremely bountiful with track products. But the West Pointer
continued from his left-handed compliment. "How you do it with
out a field house is hard to understand."
Although you can’t admire Perlow’s institutional philosophy of
“no eat,-no work,” you can’t help wondering how the Nittany indoor
track team does do it. As the Holy Roman Empire was “neither holy,
Ronian, or an .empire,” so Rec Hall, the track team’s field house,
has. neither a jumping pit, a throwing area, or a track. (The up
stairs balcony, despite its nearly 220 yard length, is merely a warmup
pkddock and not to be confused with a running track.)
Nevertheless, in the aforementioned Army meet the Lion track
men came up with some weird believe-it-or-nois. Rosey Grier,
giant fobtball tackle and a weighty weighiman, got his 225 pounds
behind the 16 pound shot and hurled it 51 feet. Vs of an inch—
an all-time Penn Slate record—the first lime he. threw the ball
in competition all winter. Chuck Drazenovich achieved the former
record, 50-1, outdoors following a springful of practice.
Broad jumper Ron Johnson leaped 22 feet the first time he jumped
since last spring. Polevaulter Danny Lorch, who had hit 12-6 in his
first meet and/or practice at the Washington Star games in January,
used his pogo stick to defy 13 feet of gravity and tie Perlow —who
had been practicing, mind you. Imagine what these guys could do
With practice. Lorch might be a 14-footer, Rosey a 55-footer, ‘ and
Johnson a 24-footer—at the Academy, never at the Lack-emy.
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All of the above makes good argument for the environment
over heredity theorists. Maybe Army had better trackmen than
State anyway, then again, maybe the 18-point spread between
them could have been made up by better environment at Penn
Stale. It's certain that the Nittany advocates for a field house—
don’t know who would be against it—will support the environment
theory."’ >'■■ ■
State’s poor indoor track environment leads only to crime. The
Rec Hall "track” is unsafe and unfit. It is good for shin splits, fallen
arches, and spavin. The turns are impossible. Other crimes spring
from a lack of a field house. Runners who ■ might come to State,
prefer Michigan State, Purdue, or Cornell—they have field houses.
A runner can’t develop indoors at Penn State —the outdoor growing
season is too short. And, unless a guy is on the relay team or a
rare phenomenon like. Ollie Sax, he spends Saturday afternoon rac
ing the clock, his own teammates, and the deadening Rec Hall boards.
What’s more, better than 12,00 aficiondso are filling Madison and
Boston Gardens to see Sax and his like run every Saturday during
the winter.
Don't forget too, that the track team isn't the only beneficiary
of a field house. The wrestlers could have their own private room.
as they do at Pitt. The gymnasts wouldn't have to crowd the frosh
cagers, IM boxing, and all vice versa. Hey. the seating capacity of
12.000-plus hasn't even been mentioned. Nor have numerous other
.advantages. But you get the idea. A college with the 12th largest
enrollment in the nation shouldn't have to blush. It shouldn't break
ground for a Student Union Luxury, with a Field House Necessity.
There is no to be, or not to be, about a field house—it should be.
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STATE COLLEGE
Gagers Drop Seventh
To Rutgers Five, 74-62
Four games in seven days with
an approximate mileage of 1575
proved too big of ah obstacle for
the Lion cagers on Saturday as
they dropped their seventh game
of the season to the Queensmen"
of Rutgers, 74-62. The disasterous
Eastern swing, just concluded, saw
the cagers win only one out of
four games and that was over
Georgetown University. Losses
were to Pennsylvania, Navy and
Rutgers.
Coach Elmer Gross summed up
Rutgers loss’in two words —“trav-
el weary,” and in the words of
one of the players—“l saw him
(Rutgers player) get the pass; I
saw the ball in the air, but I just
couldn’t stop him!”
Lion Sluggishness
Gross gave his cagers a much
needed. rest last night and will 5
only have an half-hour practice
tonight as the Lions will get ready
for tomorrow night’s contest with
American. University in Rec Hall.
The Lion’s couldn’t work out
the sluggishness-in their offense
and defense until too late in the
game and by that time the Rut
ger’s five had a large lead. The
half time score read 48-37 with
the Lions bn the short end.
In a low-scoring third quarter
period the Lions managed to creep
to within four points of the
Queensmen but couldn’t keep up
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the pace as the Rutgers quintet
outshot them in the final period
17-14.
Larry Gordon did most of the
damage, scoring 26 points for the
games high scorer. He made 21 of
these points in the first three quar
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man-to-man defense in the fourth
—held him down to one field
goal and four fouls.
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Two other Queensmen Sund
etrom with 16 and Villaniel with 15
—took scoring honors before the
Lions managed to place Ed Haag
with 14 tallies as fourth highest
scorer.
He made his points on five out
of 11 shots and four fouls for a
.454 percentage. Four more Lions
placed in the double figure col
umn—Captain Herm Sledzik, Jack
Sherry, and Jesse Amelle bad 12
apiece; and Ronnie Weidenham
mer had 10.
The Rutgers five now sporting
a 5-7 record had 31 foul attempts
and managed to collect on 20 for
a 64 percentage. For the Lions
they had nine chances less and
wound up with a 66% percentage
on 14 out of 22 chances. Their
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Teams total points is 1075 for
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Leading in the scoring are Sled
zik on an 16.9 average for 271
points—and Amelle with 259 tal
lies on a 16.2 average.
Penn State Rutgers
FG F Ttl. FG F TO.
Sledzik,f 4 4-6 12 Gordon.f 11 4-8 28
Sherry,f 5 2.3 12 Tighe,f 3 4-6 10
Anielle.c 5 2-4 12 S’ndstrom,e 4 8-8 16
W*d*nh'er,g 4 2-2 10 Porter,g 0 0-0 0
Haag,g 5 4-5 14 Villanie,* 6 3-7 15
Edwards 1 0-0 2 Beindorf 0 . 1-2 1
Blocker 0 0-2 0 Mastrolia 3 0-0 6
Brewer 0 0-0 0
Rohland 0 0-0 0
Boxers --
(Continued from, page six)
badly, but Sulkowski was taking
no chances on injury.
State’s two other participants,
Joe Reynolds and, Dick Cameron,
lost decisions. Reynolds, making
his first start of the season, lost a
close decision to Max Jozwiak,
132 pounder, 29-28. Cameron at
165 went down 30-27 before the
Spartans’ many-fight experienced
NCAA finalist, Tom Hickey.
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Totals 27 20-31 74
24 14-22 62
Score by periods—
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17 20 11 14—62
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