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'Home Sweet Home'
THREE MAIN COGS in the 1952-53 Nittany bas
ketball machine, Ed Haag, Coach Elmer Gross,
and Captain Herm Sledzik (left to right), show
broad smiles now that they're back home. The
road-weary hoopmen absorbed losses to Penn.
Navy, and Rutgers on their recent four-game
jaunt. The Nitlany cagers will open a three-
Lions
Seek
The Lion courtmen return to the home basketball scene tonight seeking their evasive
tenth win of the season against American University. The game will immediately
the Penn-Penn State wrestling match starting at 7 p.m.
The Lions haven’t lost a game in Rec Hall since the Colgate contest in 1950, but the
road record is a different story. All seven losses this year have been on foreign terri-
Collegiate
Chatter
West Virginia’s lean courtman,
Jim Sottile, is fast becoming un
stoppable. The Mountaineer gun
ner has been averaging 25 points
a game. This firepower rests
mainly, on the fact that he has
recently improved last year’s ac
curacy of 33 per cent to 41 per
cent; during the last eight games,
this average has shot skyward to
51 per cent.
Sottile is not just a shooter,
as he was once criticized. The
6-1 hustler is a rebound terror.
• He has averaged four personals
pec game, but has fouled out
only four limes. His 73 per cent
accuracy at the foul line has
placed him second in team foul
shooting. „
The Mountaineers were the hot
test team in the nation until Sot
tile dislocated his collar-bone last
year. The material loss slowed
down the West Virginia five so
much that it never regained its
winning spark.
The shoulder break, however,
healed imperfectly and required
an operation, which rendered
his right arm useless. Soitile's
career could have been easily
terminated because he shoots
only one type of shot—the right
handed jump.
His markmanship from 35 feet
is phenomenal. His scoring' aver
age has not been .compiled against
the weaker court fives. He scored
33 tallies against Penn State, 29
at Duke last week, and 27 at
Madison Square Garden against
New York University. Against
Bethany and South Carolina he'
dumped in 18 and 13 points.
WRA Results
BOWLING
Phi Mu over Kappa Kappa Gam-
ma
Gamma Phi Beta over Tri Delts
Alpha Epsilon Phi over Alpha Chi
Omega
VOLLEYBALL
Leonides forfeited to Alpha Omi-
cron Pi
Alpha Xi Delts over Atherton
West
Coop over Aye-Sees
Woman’s Building forfeited to
lonians
Zeta Tau Alpha over Delta Gam-
ma
Kappa Alpha Theta over Kappa
Delts
Meet Eagles;
Tenth Win
tory and the, cagers'have three
more of these “jinx” games re
maining.
Lose to Navy
A new coach, Hugo “Dutch”
Schulze, took over the Eagle team
this year and.,has coached the
American club to nine, wins and
four losses. They had a five-game
winning streak stopped by Loy
ola of Baltimore on Saturday, 69-
53. This was the same club the
Eagles had beaten earlier in the
season.
The Eagles and Lions have
played only one common foe—
the Midshipmen squad of An
napolis. Both teams went down
in defeat with American U- los
ing 47-69 and State taking its
worst defeat of the season, 77-53.
In the all-time series between
the two clubs, State holds the
edge, 14-1, with the Eagles cop
ping their lone win four years
ago on their court.'State took last
year’s game, 77-52'.
Win in Conference
The American club has been
averaging .61.4 points a game as
compared to the 67.1 average of
State. Up to last Saturday the
Eagles were 11th in the nation
among small colleges with its
team defense of 58.2 markers per
contest.
In Mason - Dixon Conference
games they have taken six of sev
en contests.. Two years ago they
took the league and last year
were runners-up.
Highest point maker is John
Selby with 179 points in 12 con
tests for an average of 14.9 a
game. He is a junior standing six
foot. three, and was second high
point man last year. Close be
hind him is another junior, Bud
Daly, with 150 points and an av
erage of 13.6.
Needs Two Points
High, point maker for the Lions
is Captain Herm Sledzik with 271
points, averaging 16.9 per game.
He has now scored 59 more points
than he did last year when he
ended a 24 game schedule on 212
tallies.
Jack Sherry, who has b.e e n
slowed up because of shin splints,
has been averaging 9.8 a game
for 157 points. He needs just one
more basket to tie his total out
put of last year.
Ed Haag has 112 points—some
25 points more than last year’s
total—for a 7.0 average, and Ron
nie Weidenhammer has made" 32
field goals and 28 free throws for
a total of 92 points and a 5.8 av
erage. He is 54 tallies short of
last year’s season output.
THE DAILY. COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
game home stand tonight against American Uni
versity at Rec Hall. Tonight's game will be the
nightcap of a scheduled double-header, with
the Nittany mat team opening the evening's
festivities at 7 p.m. The Grossmen will be shoot- v
ing for their 21st consecutive home victory.
Nat'! League Games
NEW YORK (JP) —The National
League, announced a 1953 base
ball schedule yesterday which
listed a total of 217 night games,
three below last year’s all-time
record. "
The St. Louis Cardinals again
qualify- as the circuit’s night owls,
playing 50 of their 77 home games
under the lights , and 32 of those
away from home after sundown.
The only team that approaches
the Cardinals in moonlight activ
ity is Philadelphia, which has
scheduled 42 home games at
night. Pittsburgh has .29 night
contests at home, Boston and Cin
cinnati 28 each, Brooklyn 24 and
New York 16. The Chicago Cubs,
unequipped for electrical lighting,
play all Wrigley Field games in
broad daylight.,, ,
Thompson Arrested
NEW YORK (A 5 ) —Henry Hank
Thompson, 27-year-old New York
Giants outfielder and third base
man who allegedly was struck on
the-head with a baseball bat by
a taxicab driver Jan. 31, was ar
rested yesterday on a charge of
felonious assault.
The arrest was a counter-com
plaint of the cab driver, William
Winfrey, who is free on his own
cognizance on a felonious assault
charge.
Sets Auto Record
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla —Bob
Pronger, Chicago race driver built
like a basketball center, led a full
scale smashing of the beach speed
record for strictly ’stock Ameri
can automobiles here yesterday. -
The 6 foot 6 speeder drove a
1953 Oldsmobile an average' of
113.28 miles, an hour over the
measured mile on the ocean
beach.
$2.00
CASH PRIZE
—DAILY—
LAUNDER£TT£
210 W. COLLEGE AVE.
Sports
Briefs
Mat men Fa c e
Penn Tonight>
Seek 24th Win
When Coach Charlie Ridenour’s Quaker matmen wrestle Penn
State’s Eastern intercollegiate champions at. 7 tonight in Rec Hall,
they are not only scheduled as the Lions’ 24th dual meet victim
but are scheduled to witness a lineup change.
Coach Charlie Speidel, who considers his second team as good
as his first, will give Penn State wrestling fans the opportunity to
observe some of his capable second stringers against Penn; ...
“The good men that keep our better men on the ball and in
condition during the season will have the opportunity to get ex
perience, the stocky mentor said. “They are just as good as our
first team but need some experience.” . .
Speidels power-laden grappiers, who are in excellent condition,
should prove to the Quakers that they are the defending champions
and determine to maintain their eastern Rrestige.
P® nn State will have two men from each division weigh in.
Included in the tentative lineup will be one or two newcomers
In the 123-pound division, Doug
Cagsel is the probable candidate.
The short, aggressive wrestler
who performed in the 130 divi
sion, earlier this season will bat-
tie a good man in George Evans.
Cassel, this season, has a 1-1 dual
meet record.
Moving up one weight will be
?IWA champion Bob Homan. The
123-pound champion, who is
among Penn State’s “unbeaten
quintet of three wins this year,”
will oppose Tom Jones in the 130-
pound class.
Bellefonte’s Larry Fornicola
will be out to prove that his first
victory of the season was no fluke
when he moves -up to the 137-
poUnd division. His Quaker oppo
nent will be Len Shea, who will
attempt to halt the 130-pounder’s
three win streak.
Another victory string to be put
at stake will be that of rugged
Jerry Maurey. The Clearfield pro
duct will seek his ninth against
Penn’s Lou Goettelman or Bill
Hoffman in the 147-pound divi
sion. Maurey has gained two falls
this year.
Either sophomore Bill Shawley or. Junior Bill, Krebs will.receive
the nod in the 157-pound class. His opponent will be Captain Ed
Agnew. Agnew is one of Ridenour’s outstanding grapplers.
George Dvorozniak, 167-pounder: who needs more seasoning, will,
endeavor to notch a match in the win column when he faces Russ"
Down.
Co-captain Joe Lemyre is Speidel's candidate for the 177-pound
division. The EIWA and NCAA champion will ..be in search of his
fifth consecutive win—eighth unbeaten dual meet win. Lemyre
drew against his Cornell foe last year. Penn’s Ray Walker will oppose
Lepiyre.
The battle of heavyweights will include Penn State’s Hud Sam
son and Penn’s Charlie Assiff. Samson in his last outing pinned his
Navy adversary.
Other possible State weigh-ins- are Hal Chamberlain, Don and
Doug Frey, and Dick Lemyre.
"HURRMPH”! trumpeted Sheedy, "What a elephant time to
have my hair act up. Might as well break my date and get
trunk!” Luckily he was overheard by a Pachydermitologist who,
said, "Tusk, tusk! You’ve got a messy big top from pouring
those buckets of water on your head. Get out of your ivory tower
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1953
By SAM PROCOPIO
Twin Weigh-ins
J. Lemyre Seeks sih
Charlie Ridenour
(War-time photo)
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