SAGE SIX Hard Driving Lion Forward Um Cagers Just Hitting Stride, dross Comments “We are just hitting our stride,” Coach Elmer Qross com mented last night when asked about the team’s performance the past week. “The team in general has improved, and since the Colgate game, the squad has been playing on par with last' year’s team.” (Since the Red Raider’s loss, the Lions have averaged 76 points a game and in the past week have taken West Virginia and Pittsburgh by 20 points.) “Dunkel’s ratings in the Press (Pittsburgh) had us 56 out of the 60 best teams in the nation,” Gross said. “This was the ratings up to February 25th and included the West Virginia game. I don’t know where we are now since the Pitt contest.” As for a reason why the recent upsurge in playing, Gross couldn’t offer an explanation “except, may be we’ve had a chance to rest up!” Last night the Lions scrim maged the freshman team in prob ably the last scrimmages on home court. They’ll close their season this Saturday against the Temple IM Wrestling Begins Monday Intramural fraternity wrestling will get under way Monday and independent wrestling will begin Tuesday, March 17. All matches are scheduled for 7:30 p.m., but opponents who weigh in first will wrestle first. Weigh-ins will begin at 7 each night. Those wrestlers not weighed-in by 7:45 p.m. will for feit thou* match. ' Physical examination cards must be presented at the first weigh-in. The intramural department has advised that sweat suits be worn, rings taken off and finger nails kept short., By TED SOENS Owls in Philadelphia. Latest statistics from the NCAA place the Nittany five as 25th in the country in team defense. This rating was based on 21 games at which time/the Lions were hold ing their opponents to 61.4 a game. These ■ statistics don’t include the last two games in which the oppo nents were held to 57 and 53 points. Present average for State’s op ponents is 60.8 a game on a total of 1399. Leading the defensive teams was Oklahoma A&M who allowed only 53.5 points averaged against them. They were also the leaders last year on defense with 45.4. In the College tournament over Christmas the Lions man aged 61 points against the Aggies. Four Penn State opponents have accepted bids to the annual basketball tournaments. The Na tional Invitation tourney has ta ken in Western Kentucky and Georgetown, while the NCAA has signed the Aggies and Navy. The Lions only managed one win out of the above four and that was over Georgetown, 73-70. They lost to Western Kentucky, 78-91; Aggies, 61-68: and Navy, 53-77. NEWS LETTERS LETTERPRESS - OFFSET COMMERCIAL PRINTING Pusrh & Beaver State College THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA , Mat men Face Army In Season's Finale Dick Lemyre, State’s slippery, and agile 130- pound wrestler, is Coach Charlie Speidel’s only unbeaten starting grappler ps the mat mentor’s Eastern Intercollegiate champions prep for the season’s closing dual meet against ever-strong Army. v , The dual meet is set for 8:30 p.m. Saturday in Rec Hall. Lemyre, who sports a 5-0 log for the season and an unblemished record of 14-0 over a two year period, will seek his 15th dual meet verdict against Army’s John Eckhardt. _ ■ With Jerry Maurey and Co-captain Joe Lemyre getting back into the victory circle, the Nittany Lions will be almost at their peak for the strong West Point matmen. Army’s season record of seven wins and two losses does not reveal the obstacle which confronts the power-laden Lions. In fact, the two losses spot ting Army’s record were accomplished only be-1 cause Coach Lloyd Appleton was minus his de pendable wrestlers. Pitt and Syracuse were responsible for both defeats. The Panthers drubbed the West Pointers, . . /_ Inexperience Problem Troubles Army Next Lion Boxing Foe Army’s boxing team, last Nittany foe before the Eastern Intercollegiates, comes to Rec Hall Saturday with much the same problem that has bothered Penn State all sea son —inexperience. The Cadets have only two veteran performers on their squad and as a consequence have found the victory formula almost as hard to solve as have the Lions. However, Army has been more successful than State’s 0-5 record, even though the Lions have three veterans to rely on. The West Pointers have won twice in six starts and hold decisions over Catholic U. and City College of New York. Lost 2 Champs ' Coincidentally, Army has been beaten by four of the- five teams that tripped the Nittanies. West Point bowed to Michigan State, 5% -IVz, Syracuse, 6-2, Maryland, 5-3, and Virginia, 5%-214. In most cases, Penn State losses were by nearly identical scores. Although Army has lost EIBA champs Jim Mclnerney, 176, and Jerly Hughes, 165, they have one hotshot returning in Jim McGee, 132 pound Eastern runnerup last year. Then in the EIBA preliminary round last ye.ar, McGee also picked up a win over Sam Butler, State’s other 132 pound battler. One Other Returnee Army’s only other experienced returnee is heavyweight Frank Hicks. Hicks alternated at the starting position from week to week last year with Mike Heplar, EIBA participant. Otherwise, the Cadets will not be overly ring-wise. At 125 they will use either Stan Beck or Toip Turner. In the 139 pound division the Cadets will send either Baron Hendricks or Haywood Hansell into the ring against Nittany Tony Flore. ’ The 147 division for Army will have Andy Malofiey. At 156 it will be either Don Rundle or Harry Ruhf. Going at 165 will be Clyde Massey. and against un beaten Adam Kois in the ,176 division it will be Ed Mendell. Track Managership Candidates for assistant managership of track are asked to report to Chick Werner or Norm Gordon after 4 p.m. to day at Rec Hall. By SAM PROCOPXO Pitt, Orange Beat Cadets BAKED WWft, COOKIES and coffee or pi hot chocolate * 10c . , Served Daily \ W"""’ 'til midnight DUTCH PANTRY Sfei 230 E. College 20-6, while the Orangemen squeezed by 15-11. With its regular matmen taking to the mats, how ever, Army whitewashed Penn, 32-0, bested Yale, 16-10, handed .Columbia and Harvard identical setbacks, 24-8, and pinned Brown University, Army’s other two triumphs, nevertheless, are telling. Appleton’s matmen upset always-strong Lehigh, 18-6-(The Engineers were beaten by the Lions, 18-8). Tackling a tough Cornell squad, the West Pointers won I every bout but one—that to Cornell’s EIWA-champ, Frank Bettucci, who has been unbeaten in two years of competition. The final score read Army 25, Cornell 3. It was this same Cornell'team which put a scare into the Lions, holding Speidel’s matmen to an 18-10 victory. ” Included in Appleton’s fine team is a brother act, Bob and Jim Karns; a 177-pound EIWA champ, A 1 Paulekas; and one of the East’s best 167-pound wrestlers, Jerry Tebbeh. The Karns brothers will wrestle in the 123 and 137-pound classes. Of course, Speidel can fight' fire with fire. He has a double brother act—the Freys and Lemyres —and three EIWA champions, Bob Homan, and the two Lemyres. PIAA Swimming Titles At Stake Here Saturday Five individual titlists and Nor ristown’s team champions will de fend in the 1953 renewal of .the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Ath letic Association swimming cham pionships, in the Glennland Pool here Saturday. Several records are predicted. Joe Robinson, of Homestead, and Al Wiggins, of Pittsburgh All derdice, are two-time winners and will defend in the 200-yard freestyle and 100-yard backstroke, respectively. Bill Myers, of Norristown, who established the current State rec ord in the 50-yard freestyle last year, duplicated the feat in the regionals and also carried off sec tional honors in the 100-yard free style. His teammate, Bill Berar delli, won 100-yard breaststroke honors last year and repeated the achievement in the 1953 regionals. The fifth defending titlist, John Grabowski, of Erie East, may en counter difficulty since he relin quished his diving leadership in the regionals to Giles Holtzman, of Pittsburgh Allderdice. ENGINEERING SENIORS... f North American Aviation Los Angeles will interview here MARCH 19 THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1953 Brother Act WRA Results BADMINTON Zeta Tau Alpha over Delta Del ta Delta Theta Phi Alph over Alpha Chi Omega Phi Mu over Alpha Omicron Pi Kappa Alpha Theta over Alpha Xi Delta Gamma Phi Beta over Kappa Delta . Kappa Kappa Gamma over Delta Zeta Phi Sigma Sigma over Alpha Epsilon Phi Leonides over Atherton West (forfeit) BOWLING MacAUister over Philotes Chi Omega over lonians • Beta Sigma Omicron over Lit tle Lions (forfeit) _ BRIDGE N-S—Sigma Delta Tau E-W—Zeta Tau Alpha
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