tffftfoSßAY FEBRUARY Ift 1953
Gym- Lineup Set for Navy;
Boxers Prep for Champs
I By GEORGE BAJHEY
Gymnastics Coach Gene Wettstone put Penh .State’s twice-winless boxing team
the finishing touches on his starting lineup gets its first crack at competition in its own
yesterday for the all-important EIGA meet -league Saturday, but that in itself doesn t
with Nayy Saturday at Annapolis as he leave a royal road to victory. ,
named the number two and three men in On the contrary, the Lions will be up
each of the three undecided events. ' against ,the perepnial kingpins of Eastern m
' ..Those Wettstone named are: rope climb, tercollegiate boxing when they travel to Syr-
Johnny Baffa and Paul Boudreau; ~~ : acuse, N.Y., to keep a date with
parallel bars, A 1 Wick and Katl ' the Orange mittmen.
Schwenzfier; tumbling, Bob Krei- Syracuse, EIBA champions for
dler and Bill Sopper. the-last two consecutive years,
The Navy meet will be the gym- has a veteran team including
nasts’ EIGA opener this year. Last three former Eastern champs who
season Wettstone’sT crew finished were seen in Rec Hall last winter
second, in , Eastern standings. Ar- during the championships,
my is the three-time EIGA de- Already this season the Orange
j fending team champion. mittmen have been knocking off
3 r; Wettstones 16m Season all opposition in championship
ji Navy has already one EIGA style. They have won three times
win under- its belt, a 57-39 win and drew once in four starts.
< over Temple. Both squads will The Orange was held to a 4-4
t go into 'the early-season match draw by Maryland in the Sugar
ji with- perfect overall slates, Navy Bowl tournament but then Went
k at 4-0,- and Penn' State at 2-0. on to avenge that tie with a win
f The Navy meet will also mark over the Terps two weeks later
l| Wettstone’s 16th season in East- in dual competition. (Maryland
fern competition as head Nittany edged State two weeks ago,
| gym coach, dating from 1938. Dur- 41&-3%).
|ing that span, the. personable Also numbered among Syracuse
s Wettstone has gathered in. four victims is a strong Miami Univer
| EIGA team- championships, the s ity glove team which fell to the
|last one coming m 1948. Eastern champs, 4%-3%. Then
H Jan Cronstedt, the Nittany gym- last week Syracuse picked up its
I nast-par. excellence, will be the third win of the season over Vir
-3 number one man in the horizontal ginia
Ibar and the parallel bars events. Heading the Orange’s champion
| Cronstedt won the EIGA cham- studded aray are Artie' Nelson,
gpionship'on. the H-bar last year. Jack Sherry Johnny Granger, and Bill Miller.
| Hazen Number-One On Rings Nelson, 132-pounder, and Gran
fi Sophomore Schwenzfier will be i $ a****%**(?* ger, 139 pounder, both nabbed
3 the only gymnast entered in the i 80 IB EIBA titles last year. Miller, al
maximum number of events. Sch- "T" w " C? though, he lost to Army’s Carl
giwenzfier will work on the hori- ■ . ■» | Crews in last, year’s EIBA finals,
Lfizontal /bar, the flying rings, and I a 1 /OlWJT‘r'l copped the 156-pound champion
?S the parallel bars. f B Clll.ll ship two years ago.
Lj Behind' Cronstedt on the H-bar It was Granger who decisioned
siwill be Mario. Todaro and Sch- (Continued from page six) State’s current top man, Tony
Hwenzier. Performing on the rings 33-19 at half time. The. Eagles Flore, in the finals of last year’s
=|will be ace Jim Hazen, Tony Pro- had been able to score only seven Easterns to win the title. Miller
|copio and Schwenzfier. The side- points during that time and five holds a decision win over Mary
«horse trio will be Bobby Law- of these were on fouls. land’s Southern champ Ronnie
irence, second to Army’s Bob Rhoads, who scored a TKO win
:| Wheeler in the Eastern’s last sea- over State’s 165 pounder Dick
;|son, Procopio ( -and Frank Wick. Cameron. . ■
q The tumbling event will find Other Orange standouts include
Lj Captain Bob Kenyon in the top rugged 165 pounder Vince Rigo
/ slot, followed by Kreidler and losi, who makes a specialty of
■ ; Sopper. On the pafallel bars will knockouts and 125 pounder Tom
'’ be Cronstedt, A 1 Wick, and Sch- Coulter. A star at cross-country
/ wenzfier. also, Coulter lost to State’s East
's Dave SchuUz will be the top ern champ Sammy Marino in the
in the rope climb, fol- opening round of the EIBA’s last
N lowed -by Baffa and Boudreau. year.
;$ Schultz turned in a 4.0 clocking in In addition, three newcomers
| yesterday’s practice. have looked good. They are Larry
fc The gym Lions will go through O'Sullivan, 147, Eddie Martin,
«a light workout today before em- 156, and heavyweight - Bill Win
f, barking tomorrow morning for ney.
| Annapolis.
}\ (The meet will be held in Mc
|Donough gym, not Doquin Hall
S as. was reported in yesterday’s
| Daily Collegian.)
iMatmen
I (Continued from, page six)
QCharlie Assiff. When Penn’s As-
who starred as a guard on
|ithe Quaker football varsity, step-
Sped on the mat, it appeared that
Oall Assiff had to do was get Sam
pson down on the mat and the
.’•match would be concluded. This
Mid not hold true, for once the
‘.Lion heavyweight took Assiff
Mown, it was all Samson. Samson
-fchnished with an impressive 8-0
The win/gave him a 3-1
• log for the season.
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The Eagles started to take ad
vantage of the weak corners in
the third period with their for
ward Jim Baer hitting from the
outside. He managed to sink
enough points to come out the
game’s high scorer with 17. But
Sherry started to roll into high
gear and sweeping' the boards
nicely helped the Lions to control
the ball. He sank six of his 12
points in the third period.
The. game hit its low point in
activity in the final period with
the contest turning into a game of
foul shots. By this time all of the
regulars were off the floor. The
visitors outscored the Lions in th'e
final period 15 pomts to 10.
The Lions now ’have a 10 and
7 record andi will try for their
llth on Saturday against Buck
nell. American University . has
nine wins in 14 starts.
SUMMARY c \
Penn State American '
FG P PT FG F PT
Sledzik 4 0-0 8 Daly / . 2 1-1 5
Phillips 1 0-0 2 Havener 4 3-4 11
Sherry 5 2-3 12 Baer 6 5-9 17
Blocker € 1-1 13 Jones 1 3-4 5
Amelle 4 8-13 16 Williams - 0 2-3 2
Rohland 0 1-3 1 Greenfield 2 0-0 4
Weid'h’mer 3 0-0 6 Si?lby 2 3-4 7
Edwards 2 0-0 4 Parker 0 2-4 2
1 0-0 2
Brewer
2 1-2 5
DlSalle
Totals 28 13-23 691 Totals 17 19-29 53
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Between the Lions
An open letter to the “fair weather” Harrys:—-Last year the
Penh State basketball team was one of the surprise teams in the
East, winning 20 games out of 24 in regular season play and getting
a bid to the NCAA tournament. And did the Perm State Harrys
love them: “At last we’ve hit big times—what a team—what players!”
Everyone was rooting for the Lions and predicting great things for
the 1952-53 season.
THEN came the letdown. Not
much could be said about losses
to Western Kentucky and Ok
lahoma A&M—'they were .top
ranking teams. But when ihe
travel-weary Lions began los
ing to. teams such as Pittsburgh,
Penn, Navy, and Rutgers, that
was the last straw; and the
Harrys started to raise a rum
pus.-
“What a lousy team—why, they
can’t do a thing!” were the retorts.
“We have the same team back as
last year, so where’s the dif
ference?” And the Harrys began
to point to such teams as LaSalle,
Duquesne, Seton -Hall, St. Bona
venture —“look how good they’re
doing. Why can’t
we have such
teams?”
Sure those co'
leges such as il
Harrys me.
lioned are pow
erful baskeibi
schools the
should be! ThaJ
ihe only spo
they major in.
Penn State h:
teams in football,
baseball, wrestling, soccer, la
crosse, and gymnastics as well as
basketball. Do these'other schools
participate in these sports? The
answer is obvious—none of the
above have football teams and
few,-if any, play 'any of the others
except baseball. Basketball is
THE sport as far as they’re con
cerned!
"Well, then, what about teams
such as Pitt, West Virginia and
Penn how about their
schools?/' the Harrys reply.
"They have practically all those
sports."
Granted, they do have all those
sports and are also good in bas
ketball. NO, WONDER. If we had
as many scholarships as they give
out to their basketball players—in
fact, if we had, any basketball
scholarships—we’d be able to pull
in some top-notch players, too! '
Penn Slate has NO full-time
scholarships, for its basketball
team! All the coach has to work
with are a few fee scholarships
that only pay a part of an ath
lete's tuition! If it weren't for
football scholarships bringing
Jesse Arnelle and Jack Sherry to
* By TED SOENS
Assistant Sports Editor
State, the team would be in one
big predicament.
Why can’t our basketball team
get some full scholarships? I wish
I could answer that!
Other schools give them*
Here, just to mention a few,
are some of State's opponents
offering scholarships, and here
also is an explanation why they
improve and we don't. West Vir
ginia brought in three big fresh
men this year—all on full-time
scholarships and all above six
feel-four inches in height.
Gettysburg offers full scholar
ships and in fact got two players
Ohio State was bidding for; v Pitt
has 20 full basketball scholarships;
Penn, Georgetown, Temple, and
even little St. Francis College,
which State played, earlier this
year, offer scholarships.
So there is the situation. If
State is to have a good basket
ball team, it must offer some
full-time scholarships. At one
lime State could have had Jules
McCoy, who is now at Michigan
Stale, and Maur’ce Stokes, now
at- St. Francis. But the other
schools got them, and why?—
Because they offered more than
State could!
Give basketball some scholar
ships and then State could play
in the top league of basketball;
then all the fair weather Harrys
woifld be satisfied!
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representing the largest crowds
in Penn State’s 66 years of inter
collegiate, football.
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