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Cagers, Matmen Battle Tonight
Lions Seek
Upset Win
Over W.Va.
By TED SOENS
' An upset-seeking Lion quintet
will attempt to prove an old
axiom—the bigger they are the
harder they fall—when they en
tertain a powerful squad from
West Virginia tonight in Rec Hall.
The game will start immediately
after the Maryland-Penn State
wrestling match. ,
The Mountaineers, winners of
17 games in 22 starts, can, if nec
essary, field a team averaging
6-6% with two of the tallest men
playing their .first year of college
ball Johnny Coil at« 6-10 and
Paul Witting at 6-7. The latter
man has been playing sensational
ball for the visitors, hitting in
the double figure column the last
four games.
Hit 100 Mark Five Times
The West Virginians already
own one win over the Staters and
that was an 82-72 victory last
month. This was the second high
est tally a team has been able to
score against a Penn fState bas
ketball squad. (West Kentucky
scored 91).
With such outstanding players
as Jim Sottile, Eddie Becker, and
Mack Isner, the visitors have a
good chance of stopping the Lions
23 home game win streak. They
have an average of 83.8 points a
game and five times this season
have been over the 100 mark in
scoring. The latest rout was a
110-84 thumping of Virginia last
Saturday. Incidentally, four of
five ‘over-century-mark’ games
have been on foreign soil.
Sofiile Big Gun
Still leading the Mountaineers,
and probably their greatest player
since Mark Workman, is forward
Captain Jim Sottile. He has scored
448 points in 22 games this sea
son for an average of 20.4 per
contest. He is also ■ leading in
shooting percentage with a re
markable 41 percentage team
percentage is 38%.
Sottile is the boy who wrecked
the Lions earlier in the season.
The 6-3 senior had 33 points
mostly on his accurate jumpshot.
Becker, a set shot artist, and
2d high scorer, has 324 points
and a 14.7 average. His field goal
percentage is 36% but in the last
nine games has been making 46%
of his shots. Isner is the leading
rebounder with an average of 10.4
a game.
Arnelle Paces Lions
Probable starting lineup for the
Mountaineers is Sottile, Isner,
Becker, Frank Spadafore, and
Witting. Spadafore will be in
place of Red Holmes.
Opposing the West Virginians
will be the same lineup that has
swept the Lions to 13 wins in 21
starts. Jumping center will be
sophomore Jesse Arnelle who is
the teams leading scorer with
349 points. He has an average of
16.6 points a game.
Captain Herm Sledzik, second
highest scorer with 314 points for
an average of 15 a game, will be
at guard along with- Ed Haag, who
is averaging 7.6 points in 20
games. In the forward positions
will be Jack Sherry with an av
erage of 10.3 a game and Ron
Weidenhammer at 5.9 a game.
WM Hestiifs
BOWLING
Leonides over Tri-Delts
Kappa Kappa Gamma over AE
Phi.
Gamma Phi Beta over Phi Mu
VOLLEYBALL
AKA over Co-op
Leonides over Atherton west
Kappa Alpha Theta over ZTA.
Alpha Xi Delta over Alpha Om
icron Pi.
Women’s Bldg, over Aye Sees.
Delta Gamma over Kappa Del
ta.
★ ★ ★
Unbeaten Gymnasts
Owls in EIGA Meet
Penn State’s only undefeated winter club, with
the exception of the ever-winning wrestlers, will
be unveiled at 7 p.m. Saturday in Rec Hall when
the gymnasts of Coach Gene Wettstone take on
the Temple Owls in an Eastern Intercollegiate
Gymnastics Association dual meet.
The cagers will wrap up the Rec Hall Saturday
night twin bill with a game with Pitt scheduled
for 8:30 p.m. /
Temple, the third Eastern foe of the season
for the gym Lions, has a perfect record in EIGA
play, dropping decisions to Army and Navy. The
Nittanies, on the other hand, are also perfect, 2-0
in Eastern play, 4-0 on the season, and 7-0 over
a two-season span.
Scholl—3.B on Rope
“The worst should be over,” said Wettstone yes
terday, “at least for the present. While Temple has
a few good men, it has little depth,” he added.
One performer of Owl Coach Max Younger who
is expected to give trouble will be ropeman Gene
Scholl. Scholl has been clocked at 3.8 in inter
collegiate meets. Dave Schultz, top man in the
ropeclimb, is the sole remaining Nittany gymnast
with a perfect seasonal record and has turned in
3.9 winning efforts the last two meets against
Navy and Syracuse.
Nighthawks Bears Tops
InTM Cage loops B,'A
Two winners came romping home and three squads in League
J ended the season in a dead heat for top spot as the intramural
basketball season went into its last week of play at Rec Hall Monday
night. The Night Hawks, B loop, and the Bears, in league A, ended
their court year with perfect records to take the championships in
their loops while the 29’ers, Crusaders, and Epars, each with identical
6-1 slates, will play off to decide
who is the best in league J.
The Nighthawks trimmed the
Cadets 30-11 in their final go of
the season with George Flickinger
tossing 18 points through the
hoop, highest tally of the game.
Other B league action had .the
Firehouse Five putting out a
Grizzlies’ fire, 28-27. Top scorer
of the night was George Grauer
with one field goal and seven out
of seven from the line for nine
markers in all. The winners
wound up behind the Nighthawks
with a final 6-1 record,
The Bears wound up their year
the easy way with a forfeit win
over the. Elms to round out their
perfect 7-0 record.
3 Teams Tie
1 The hardest-played-g a m e-of
the-night award goes to the
Sponges and the Penn Club, who
went into overtime before the
Sponges came out on top, 30-29.
At the end of the first half the
victors were trailing, 15-5. The'
Sponges rallied, however, to knot
the score at 24-24 at the close
of the official period of play.
Charley Aungst Of Penn Club
THE DATT V COT,LEG!AN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA
West Virginia set shot artist
By TOM WERNER
took scoring honors for the eve
ning with 20 tallies. ,
In league J the three teams
tied for first place fared this way:
the 29’ers handed the Crusaders
their first loss of the year, 25-18,
putting both their records at 6-1,
while the Epars took their first
licking from Dorm 35, 25-20, to
wind up with a familiar 6-1 final
account.
Another deadlock reared its
head in league C when a power
ful DIR five mopped the court
with an unfortunate Mob team,
64-18. This put the victors on an
even keel with the Irvineers at
six won and one lost. Top scorers
for DIR were 6-8 Wil Hauer, with
19 tallies, and Red Proffitt with
14 markers.
In the only fraternity action of
the night Alpha Tau Omega re
played a game with Alpha Phi
Alpha and won, 42-29. This puts
the ATO’s at the top of league
E in the interfraternity circuit.
Other independent action fea
tured . the Hamilton Fours for
feiting their game to Penn Haven
and Dorm 5 doing the same for
Dorm 12, in J loop.
★ ★ ★
The second top-billing duel of the night will in
volve Jan Cronstedt and the Owl’s John Jengo
on the horizontal bar. Saturday nights’ meet will
mark the fourth time the two stylists have faced
each other, Jengo holding a 2-1 edge. Jengo beat
Cronstedt last season at Temple in the dual meet,
and then Cronstedt turned around to dump Jengo
for the Eastern crown at Syracuse. Their third
meeting was a CYO meet during the Christmas
recess in which Jengo took the edge. . -
Former PI A A Champ
Jengo also works the flying rings and the paral
lel bars, while Cronstedt be the number one
man for the Lions bn the parallel bars.
Other point men for the Owls will be John
McCarthy, Bill Coco, and Bob Selenski. McCarthy
and Selenski will both work the horizontal bar
and the parallel bars, while Coco will go in the
sidehorse and the tumbling events. Selenski is a
former PIAA horizontal bar champion from Fotts
ville.
The other probable top men for the Lions, as
yet not announced by Wettstone, should be Bobby
Lawrence in the sidehorse, Captain Bob Kenyon
in the tumbling, and Jim Hazen in the flying rings.
Sophomore Karl Schwenzfeier, with 17 points
in the last two meets, should be in his customary
three positions in the horizontal bar, the paralle 1
bars, and the flying rings events.
ATO's Win. 42-29
★ ★
Bob Fischer
Terp 157-pounder
to Host
Saturday
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1953
Two Mot
Champs Vie
For Honor
By SAM FROCOPIO
Whenever two champions
face each other, one usually
bows into honorable defeat.
That is the situation which
t confronts the Penn State-
Mi aryland wrestling dual
meet at 7 tonight in Rec Hhll.
Much is at stake in “The Rec
Hall Match of the Year” which
comprises two of the finest wrest
ling aggregations—both two-tinie
team champion—in the East and
South.
Put on the line when the 123-
pouriders step on the mat to open
the “championship match” are: .
(1) Penn State’s 26 dual meet
winning streak. (Last defeat was
at the hands of Syracuse in 1950.)
(2) Maryland’s ten dual meet
win skein. (Last defeat was at the
expense of Penn State last year.)
(3) The reputations of Pehn
State’s two-time EIWA champion
ship and Maryland’s two-time
Southern Conference champion
ship. (Maryland recently clinched
its second title when the Tefps
defeated North Carolina.) ::
(4) Penn State’s and Maryland’s
identical unblemished 6-0 logs for
the ’53 campaign.
(5) Jerry Maurey’s unbeaten
string of ten matches; and Kis
string of five meets without being
scored upon—four wins via pins.
1 (6) Rod Norris of Maryland has
not tasted a defeat in 43 bouts.
(He will likely wrestle Maurey.)
(7) Bob Homan’s untouched rec
ord of eight successive dual meet
wins.
(8) Dick Lemyre’s 12 consecu
tive matches without defeat and
his brother’s, Joe, co-captain and
EIWA champion, unbeaten ten
dual meet record.
The list of outstanding perform
ances by the Nittany .• Lions and
the Terrapins exceed any normal
dual meet.
Penn State wrestling enthusi
asts will not only observe Coach
Charlie Speidel’s formidable
brother act, but will witness
Maryland’s excellent brother act,
too.
The battle of the brothers will
include the Terrapins’ accom
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