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Wrestlers S top - Olciationia.
Gym ''Team ‘ Scores .- in itoOt
Penn State is the new National Collegiate team wrestling champion and rightly claims
1953 as the "Year of Penn State" in going through 29 straight dual meet matches with
out defeat and also winning the Eastern Intercollegiate team honors.
With Hud "pressure boy" Samson showing West Chester's 191-pounder, Chuck Weber,
Ric Hall's lighting system last night, he not only clinched the East's and State's first title
in 23 years but gave Coach Charlie Speidel's matmen their third NCAA individual cham
pion. The pin had a record crowd of some 6000 fans on their feet screaming with joy.
The Nittany Lions gained a to
tal of 21 team points to 15 for
defending champion, Oklahoma,
while Penn State carried one
NCAA champion, one runner-up,
and three third-place winners.
Oklahoma IL did not place a tit
list. It did, however, win two sec
onds, one third, and one fourth
place.
Take Down by Hud
Samson's dramatic win was the
fourth of 1953. During the dual
Meet season, the talented--191-
pounder proved to be the deciding
factor in keeping the Nittany
Lions' fine victory skein alive
against Cornell, Maryland, and
Pitt. Last night he again exhib
ited the excellent team balance
that Speidel possesses.
Hud began his battle for Na
tional honors with a take down
, and rode Weber the remainder
of the period. Then in 4:15, Hud
had his foe , "sunny side up" with
a body press.
When Dick Lemyre stepped on
to-the mat, Penn State was math
ematically tied with the Sooners
in team points, and after he
dropped a hard-fought 7-5 deci
sion to Michigan's Big Ten 130-
pound champion, the Nittany
Lions led 1 4 4-11.
'Dickie' Evens Terms
Just before the end of the first
period, Lemyre narrowed his 4-0
deficit by two, points on a reversal.
In the third period Lemyre's
chances were brightened when
the referee awarded "Dandy
Dick" one point for Nalan's stall
ing. Nalan's exceptional balance
gave him another two points on
a reverse.
Nevertheless, State's EIWA
champ brought everything to even
terms by the same token and even
had Nalan at .a near fall position
until the Big Ten champ, success
fully slid off the mat.
Jerry Maurey gave Penn. State
a "good" lead the consolation
scoring when he defeated Ron
Scott of Oklahoma U., 10-2. Mau
rey commenced his 137-pound
battle with a quick take down and
wasted no time in trying for a
fall. But the Clearfield product
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By SAM PROCOPIO
NCAA Mat Champs
115 pounds—Hugh Peery, -
Pittsburgh
123 pounds—Richard Mueller.
Minnesota
130 pounds—Norvard Nalan,
- Michigan
137 pounds—Leonard DeAugustin°
Lock Haven
147 pounds—Frank Bettucci,
The Lion's Eye
Collegian Sports Editor
The East is risen, Hallelujah! Risen victoriu,
West's once iron-ruling but now fallen monarchs of National
Collegiate wrestling—Oklahoma and Oklahoma A&M. Never
before able to get within smelling distance, the East 'rode
to its first victory in the 23 year history of the tournament by
smashing through hitherto 'believed invincible Oklahomans
On the strength of five indi
vldual champions and 'P en n
State's spectacular team sham
. pionship, the East obliterated
the • tourney's sub-title, OCAA
—Oklahoma Collegiate :Athletic
Association—and put the NCAA
back into the ,NCAA. •
This was blasphdriy of the worst
sort to - the Oklahoma wrestling
gods. Only three of the 22 pre
vious titles had they allowed to
leave the Sooner State and were
largely responsible for the un
happy status of -the -_ East's never
getting more than champions•
in one meet.
* * *
The East's break with the '
West was greatly aided by a
Rec Hall rooting "gallery of 6000
fans who made a solid mass
from the balcony track all the
way down to mat side. Grizzled -
Nittany . habitues of Rec Hall
said, if was the - largest eVer .
—or at least since -the blizzard
of 'BB.
Even though • it is customary
among the sports writing frater
nity to call every victory a team
victory, that's the only way, you
can • describe . State's win. The
Lions only . . had. one individual
champion•:but "So strongly were
they balanced"• - iii reserve' depth
that they could , -have mon the
STATE COLLEGE, PA., SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 29, 1953
Cornell U.,
Sports Thru
By JAKE HIGHTON
* *
NCAA Sports Issue
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
157 pounds—James Harmon.
lowa State Teachers
167 pounds—Don Dickason,
Cornell U.
177 pounds—Ned Blass,
Oklahoma A&M
191 pounds—Hud Samson,
Penn Slate
Heavyweight—Dan McNair,
Auburn
title without a champion—a feat
which no school had ever done.
* *
However, Hud Samson's bril
liant pinning championship was
not anti-climatic even though
State had• already cinched team
honors.-As the beaming Nittany
Coach Charlie Speidel said to
Hud, "Doc, you gave us honor."
Previously, to Charlie, it was a
"wonderful whole team victory
earned by fighting for it."
Beginning with the preliminary
round- ., -and going right through
the semi-finals, State matched
Oklahoma man for. man. But not
until the completion of the con
solation bouts just , before the
finals, did the compass needle be
gin to point to State. First Jerry
Maurey bumped off a red-shirted
Oklahoman—the way the crowd
rooted, against the Sooners you
would have thought them real
Reds—to take third place at .137.
Then Don Frey and Joe Leriiyre
likewise took thirds to . give State
the saturation- placing which Ok
lahoma could not match.
Actually the Clincher •came in
the 123 pound match-when Minne
sota's Mueller upset_ Sooner hot
shot Don. Reece with a -surprising
pin. The mass hysteria which
shook" Rec Hall signified a Nit
tany championship except for the
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SYRACUSE, N.Y., March 28—Brand-new gymnastic kings
of the nation—that's what they are calling Coach Gene Wett
stone's ambitious young crew today.
And small wonder. For Wettstone's top ten athletes met
the best in the country here in the last two days and came out
on top by 23 points.
Penn State accumulated 91 team points. The closest the next
team could come was a distant 68 picked up by the Western Con.
ference champions, Illinois.
Florida State, two-time 'defending team champion, yet named
by some experts as not in the running this year, just didn't have it.
It finished far down the line in fifth place with 43' team points.
Other team leaders were SyTacuse, third place with 51 points;
UCLA, fourth place with 48 points; Florida State; Minnesota, sixth
place with 40 points, Michigan State, seventh place with 38 points;
Army, eighth place with 31 points; Southern California, and lowa,
tie for ninth place with 28.
The Lions' terrific sophomore, Tan Cronstedt, won the 1953
all-around title last night, and then proceeded to take the parallel
bars national crown, a second on the horizontal bar, and a fifth
in the free exercise today. ,
Cronstedt, with two national titles, was deprived of a third in
the horizontal bar event when his old Eastern nemesis, Hal Lewis
of the Naval Academy, beat him, 286-276.
Friday's ropeclimb by UCLA's Don Perry of 3.0 which broke
his own world record stood for a little under 24 hours. Today the
phenomenal Mr. Perry managed the 20-feet in an almost-unbeliev
able time of 2.9.
To show how far and above •the field Perry really is, the next
best time in the event was a distant 3.3, still a very good time.
Perry's UCLA mate, Jim Hammond, got the 3.3.
Other Lion gymnasts in the top six finishers were Karl Schwenz
feier, fifth in the all-around, fourth in the free exercise, fifth
in the flying rings; Bobby Lawrence, fourth in the parallel bars,
sixth in the sidehorse; Jim Hazen, tie for third in the flying rings.
Two defending champions, both from second place Illinois, were
dethroned. Frank Bare, and • Bob Sullivan, holders of the 1952
sidehorse and tumbling crowns, both were defeated.
Bare lost to Michigan State's Carl Rintz, 285-271, while Sullivan,
who last season, just nipped Syracuse's Jim Sebbo by a lone point
for the '52 tumbling title, 276-275, found the situation somewhat
reversed today. as the Orange sophomore 'took a 283-281 decision.
' Other individual crown winners were Jim Hazlett, lowa, on the
trampoline, and Dick Bartlett, of Minnesota, on the flying rings.
Bartlett also picked up a third in the parallel bars and fourth
in the all-around.
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ALL AROUND (1) Cronstedt; Penn State, 1275; (2) Rintz,
Michigan State, 1258; (3) Bare, Illinois, 1210; (4) Bartlett, Minnesota,
1202; (5) Schwenzfeier, Penn State, 1198; (6) Procopio, Penn State,
1176.
FREE EXERCISE—(I) Sullivan, Illinois, 276; (2) Taber, UCLA,
275; (3) Toliver, .Southern California, 273;. (4) Schwenzfeier, Penn
State, 264; (5) Cronstedt, Penn State, 252.
TRAMPOLINE--(1) Hazlett; lowa, 275; (2) Norman, lowa, 275;
(3) Austin, Illinois, 263; (4) Walker, Michigan State, 257; (5) Ireland,
Florida State, 256.
PARALLEL BARS—(I) Cronsfedt, Penn State, 288; (2) Colvin,
Army, 273; (3) Bartlett, Minnesota, 271; (4) Schwenzfeier, Penn State,
269; (5) Bare, Illinois, 257.
HORIZONTAL BAR—(1) Lewis, Navy,' 286; (2) Cronstedt, Penn
State, 276: (3) Hintz, Michigan State, 269;(4) Linnes, USC, 264;
(5) Holder, Florida State, 257.
SIDE HORSE—(l,l.Rintz , . Michigan State, 285; (2) Bare, Illinois,
271; (3) Barkal, Syratuse, 270; (4) Sibley, Army, 258; (5) Traficante„
Syracuse, 254.
FLYING RINGS—(I) Bartlett, Minnesota, 273; (2) Regna, Florida
State, 264; . (3) Hazen, Penn State, and Robin, USC, 258 (tie); (5)
Schwenzfeler. Penn State, 247.
ROPE CLIMB—(1) Perry, UCLA, 2.9; (2) Hammond, UCLA, 3.3;
(3) Pendleton, USC, 3.5; (4) Paley, UCLA, 3.6; (5) Forneies, Syracuse,
and Ballantyne, Army, 3.8 (tie). ,
TUMBLING—(I) Selbo, Syracuse, 283; (2) Sullivan, Illinois, 281;
(3) Graff, Navy, 264; (4) Perry, Ohio State, 253; (5) Hazlett, lowa, 2,
By GEORGE BAIREY
Syracuse Finishes Third
Perry Sensational on Rope
Schwenzfeier Shines
The Summaries:
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