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Cagers, Gymnasts
Lions Try
For 15th Win
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Against Pitt
The Lion cagers have faced
better men before and played
teams with better records, but
still tonight’s opponent ..will be
the toughest and the most impor
tant one of the season., For they
will be playing the Pitt Panthers,,
their oldest and bitterest foe, and
the rivalry factor will make the
statistics nothing but a list of
meaningless figures.
A win tonight for either team
will mean a successful season, but
more so for the Panthers because
this is the last game of the sea
son—a not so good season with
a 12-10 log—and what could be
more fitting than to bow out
with a win over the Liohs?
They already own one victory
over their country cousins, 57-56,
and a complete sweep of the ser
ies, especially when it would
mean snapping the 24 home game
win streak of the Lions, would
be sweet revenge for the three
beatings they took last year.
Panther Big Three
The Panthers have a strong
first string with plenty of ma
terial to draw from the bench.
At forward will be Captain
Mickey Zemick, 6-3 senior from
Aliquippa who was the most
sought after high school player
in 1949. At the other forward po
sition will be one of the best play
makers Pitt has eyer seen—Dutch
Burch. His passing and ball hand
ling in the last Pitt-Penn State
game was a major factor in the
victory. He was high scorer
against the Lions with 13.
The three big men of the start
ing five are Art Boyd, 6-4; Don
Virostek, 6-4; and Dick Dietrich
at 6-4. Virostek leads the team in
rebounding with an average of 20
per game, giving him fifth rank
ing in that department in the
nation (19 games statistics). Al
ternating in the backfield will be
Dave Duessel, a 6-5 sophomore
from Pittsburgh.
May Use Freeze
He pushed in 10 points against
the Liohs and all were made just
when the Panthers needed them
the most. Other substitutes likely
to see action tonight are Bemie
Artman, who sank the winning
two points against the Lions,
Chester Palesko, and Jim Can
anahan.
Rounding out the Panthers’
team is the most important figure
of all—Coach Doc Carlson. The
Doc has a knack for coming up
with the unusual, and it will be
interesting to see if he’ll use the
same freeze tactics as last year.
For the Lions, who have, won
five out of their last six games,
it will be Captain Herm Sledzik
(playing his last Rec Hall game),
Jesse Arnelle, Jack Sherry, Ron
nie Weidenhammer, and Ed Haag.
Game time is immediately after
the gym meet between the Lions
and Temple.
Boxers to face Virginia
If the Cavalier boxers prove as mild as the cigarette bearing
the same name, Penn State’s ring squad should make off with its
first victory of the season when it squares off with Virginia Univer
sity in Charlottesville today.
Despite defeats in four successive starts, the Lions are slight
favorites to repeat last season’s 5%-2.Vz, victory over the Virginians.
On season record Virginia
(2-2-1) has done much' better, but
State has met a far rougher
schedule. Against mutual foe
Syracuse, State bowed 5-3, and
the Cavaliers went down, 6V2-2%.
Nichols vs. Ahern ,
Virginia’s efforts to thwart
State’s first-win bid will depend
on two big guns in the 156 and
165 pound classes. In the lower
weight the Cavaliers will send
Pete Potter against Nittany Hank
Arnold. Potter lays a two-season
unbeaten dual record on the line.
Last year the Virginia junior was
5-0-2 and so far this season hasn’t
even drawn in five bouts.
At 165 will throw
EIBA runnerup Estel Nichols
JIM HAZEN, the top performer on the' Nittany flying rings, will
again be working fhe key ring position tonight against Temple.
Hazen is a senior majoring in physical education and is working
in his third year on the squad. Starting time is 7 tonight.
Between the Lions
A win over the Panthers tonight will be a very big one, for not
only will it be sweet revenge over the city cousins but would also
be a fitting way to close the playing career of senior Herm Sledzik.
Big, amiable Herm, the only senior on the starting five, has been
playing three years for Penn Stat
total of 672 points. His present oul
with ,an average of 15 a game he
has put in 331 points.
Herm graduated from a little
high school in Indiana county
named Elders where he was
a four letter man starring in foot
ball, baseball, track and of course,
basketball. The 6-4 Herm set a
scoring record for the school and
also for the county when he
dumped in 512 points in his senior
year—the record is still standing.
For this feat the newspaper men
and coaches picked him to third
string all-State and all-WPIAL
in 1949.
Three scouts from West Vir
ginia, St. Bonaventure, and Pur
due offered scholarships but the
influence of a Penn State grad
from Indiana told the story and
Herm matriculated at Penn State.
Farmed out to Dußois center,
Herm quickly grabbed a berth.on
the starting five and just as quick
ly went about setting a new rec
ord of 330 points. He also had a
very good 89% in foul shooting.
Great things were expected of
this freshman when he came to
State, however, in his sophomore
semester a broken wrist put Herm
out of action, for most of the sea
son. But he was still able to put
in 100 points for the remaining
few games—and still with his cast
on.
In his junior.year he put in 212
points in the regular season and
added 29'more points to this total
in the NCAA playoffs. He had 12
against Kentucky and 17 against
North Carolina.
A greatly improved Herm start
ed off this last year averaging
against State’s only new face in
this week’s lineup, Dick Ahern.
Nichols, who upset State’s rugged
Lou Kosarek in the EIBA semi
finals, is 3-1-1 this season.
On the other hand Nittany
hopes rest on three veterans, Sam
Marino, Adam Kois, and Tony
Flore, winning along with two of
Coach Eddie Sulkowski’s five
first-year fighters. . '
Lineups:
Penn State Virginia
Marino (2-1-1) 125 (2-1-1) Banerdt
Butler (0-2-0) 132 (1-2-0) Bush
Flore (2-0-1) 139 (2-1-2) Fite
Melmeclt (0-2-0) 117 (1-1-1) Whitcly
Arnold (1-2-0) 156 (5-0-0) Potter
lUicrn (0-0-0) 165 , (3-1-1) Nichols
Kots (3-0-1) 176 (1-3-0) Roberts
Andresevic (1-1-2) Hwt. (0-1-0) Garner
TfTE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
By TED SOENS
Assistant Sports Editor
;e and in that time has amassed a
tput is the best of those years, for
well over 17 points a game) Scor
ing most of his points on a hard
driving jump shot, he has been
able to keep within- the double
figure column in most of the
games. His greatest playing was
done in the Holiday tournament
when he was averaging 20 some
points against such teams as West
ern Kentucky, Bowling Green,
and the Oklahoma Aggies.
But while basketball has taken
up a lot of time, Herm has been
able to maintain an all-college
average of 1.8 arid was recently
honored by gaining a “berth” in
Who’s Who in American Colleges.
Other activities include Parmi
Nous (senior men’s honorary),
Druids (athletic honorary), Phi
Epsilon Kappa (Phys Ed honor
ary), and vice, president of the
Athletic Association.
Whitfield to Try
For 5 Records Tonight
NEW YORK, Feb. 27 (IP) —Mai
Whitfield’s iron man triple as
signment, in which he’ll go for
five world records, promises the
main excitement tomorrow in the
Knights of Columbus games, clos
ing the indoor track and field
-season • at Madison Square. Gar
den.
Niagara in NCAA's
NEW YORK, Feb. 27
agara University became the
ninth team today to accept a bid
to the National Invitation Bas
ketball Tournament and there
were indications the 12-team fiel'’
would be completed tomorrow.
Herm Sledzik
Sports
Briefs
Gym Men to Face Owls
In First Home Contest
, By GEORGE BAIREY
The Penn State gymnastics squad, riding high the crest of a
seven dual meet winning streak over a two-season span, will show
its wares at 7 tonight for the first time this year at Rec Hall'when
it meets the Owls of Temple in an EIGA meet.
For Coach Gene Wettstone,’s unbeaten crew, the mee.t will' mark
the first home appearance in five dual meet starts this season.
On the road the gym Lions
thumped Illinois and Michigan
State, and Eastern foes Navy and
Syracuse. The Nittany contingent
is the last of the* undefeated EIGA
clubs this season. ,
Only Temple and three-time
fending king, Army stand in the
way of the Lions’ perfect dual
meet season and the Eastern team
crown. Army will come, tq Rec
Hall next Saturday to . wrapV up
the dual meet season. - * •
Grappfers
To Ingage
Pit t Tonight
Winning streaks galore have
been put on the line when
ever Coach Charlie Speidel’s
wrestlers have taken to the
mat. Tonight’s dual meet set
for 9 p.m. in Pittsburgh’s Field
House will be no different.
At least eight untouched rec
ords will face a crucial test. The
most influential skein will be
Penn State’s 27th and Pitt’s 16th
consecutive victories.
Although Pitt (like Maryland)
is not in the EIWA league and the
Nittany Lions defeated the, Pan
thers, 23-5 last year, Penn State’s
reputation will be endangered.
Homan, Peery lo Clash
Should the heavyweight match
be the deciding factor as it was in
the Cornell and Maryland dual
meets, Penn State’s pressure boy,
Hud Samson, will have a test on
his hands. Pitt’s usual unlimited
class starter, Harold Hunter, with
a 2-4-1 record, .will .be . replaced
By Pitt’s All-American footballer,
Bldred Kraemer. Earlier in the
season, the grid star underwent
treatment for the removal of two
cysts, but in his. first outing this
season : he decisioned fcps.fp.e, .9-3.
. Bob Homari, who- has given the
Lions at least a three-point lead
in five of the five meets he open
ed, will be out .to-make it . six
straight in the 123-pound division
against Rex Peery. State’s sensa
tional sophomore will endeavor to
turn back Peery, who. possesses
22 wins in a row iri collegiate
competition. Pitt’s ace has one: de
cision against him—that' at the
V.ands of Homan. '
Seeking his 12th successive win,
Dick Lemyre will face John
George, who sports a fine 8-1-1
log. State’s 130-p ound EIWA
champ and Homan are the only
two starting wrestlers who .re
main among the Lions’ unbeat
ens. 1
Don Frey Meets Cook
Jerry Maurey will be out for
his fifth pin in seven matches
when ,he meets Pitt’s Bill.Kozy in
the 137 spot. Kozy has a 4-1-1 rec
ord. ,
The Frey brothers, Don and
Doug, will tackle two. outstand
ing. wrestlers ,in Bob Cook and
Charley Uram. Don’s foe, 147-
pounder Cook (7-1), is one of
Coach Rex Peery’s talented mat
men. • Doug’s opponent, .Ur.am,
who narrowly lost out last' year
in the national tournament, will
be in quest of his eighth triumph
in the 157-pound class.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1953
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Twin
Temple will bring a leaner
than-average squad to Rec -Hall
tonight with regard to team depth,
a quality that Wettstone’s .crew
has much of. The . Lions have
taken the meet the past two sea
sons, in 1952 by nine points)
52%-43V0, and in 1951 by eight,
52-44.
Beyond their first men in. each
event, the Owls are on the'.wkak
side. Big men John Jehgo, John
McCarthy, Gene Scholl, 'Bill Co
co, and Bob Selesnki will prob
ably give some form of trouble,
but after that the talent that
Coach Max Younger has to work
with is practically nil.”’*; r.
Jengo. is the fair-haired boy i in
the Owl attack. An all-or-nothing
performer oh the horizontal bar,
Jengo is also at home on the fly
ing rings and the parallel''bats:
Scholl Clocked at 3.8-
The Jengo-Cronstedt pairing
on the horizontal bar will be one
of the two top individual duels
tonight. The second race for indi
vidual honors, but by no means
secondary to the H-bar, will-be
in the rope climb, where Nittany
Dave Schultz will lay on the line
his undefeated slate in his match
with Owl Gene Scholl. Scholl’s
best, official intercollegiate clock
ing.. at- 3.8 is .1 better than
Schultz’s.
The Horizontal bar duel be
tween Jengo and Cronstedt will
be the fourth meeting between
the two, Jengo winning two.
Their meeting will pit the “try
anything” type of perfortner in
Jengo against the steady, form
H-bar worker in Cronstedt.
" Other first-lipe Lion starters
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