PAGE SIX Lion Quintet Drubs Bloomsburg, 74-43 With the 1953 basketball season swiftly approaching, Coach Elmer Gross is-busy smooth ing out the rough edges on the Lion quintet. Besides the regular practice sessions, exhibi tion contests with several neighboring colleges have been the order of the day for the floor men. The Lions met Lock Haven last week and tangled with Bloomsburg Tuesday night at Rec Hall, winning the contest 74-43. Gross announced yesterday that several more contests are on tap for the Nittany cagers. The Lions will meet St. Francis Friday and Lycoming Tuesday. Gross will take the squad to Lock Haven again Dec. 1. A basketball clinic for high school coaches is planned for Dec. 5. The clinic will be climaxed with the season opener that night against Washington and Jeffer son. 4* - r Lions Drop to sth In Lambert Ratings Penn State’s 54-26 win over Rutgers last Saturday failed to im press the Lambert Trophy committee as the Lions dropped from 3rd to sth-in this week’s poll. A trophy is awarded every year which is symbolic of the mythical Eastern college football championship. As the committee sees it, the .1953 award hinges on the outcome of the Army-Navy game in Phil adelphia Thursday. Navy is third ranked below top-rated" Army and Penn. The Lions won the award once, in 1947. Army has won the tro phy on five occasions. The standing of contenders for the week of Nov. 15-21. 1. Army 988 2. Penn 986 3. Navy 985 4. Pitt 984 5. Penn Stale 983 6. Syracuse 980 7. Fordham 979 , 8. Boston College ...... 978 9. Holy Cross 976 10. Boston U 975 11. Cornell ..: 973 12. Villanova 972 13. Yale 972 14. Princeton 971 15. Columbia 970 16. Harvard 969 17. Dartmouth 968 18. Colgate 967 19. Brown 965 I 20. Rutgers 965 j Beta Theta Pi, Sigma Chi Meet In IM Finals Beta Theta Pi and Sigma Chi will meet tonight at Glerfnland Pool in the fraternity intramural swimming title meet. Both teams came through with decisive wins last night to earn their right as finalists. The Betas took firsts in every event as they walloped Pi Kappa Alpha, 30-11. Theta Xi fell before Sigma Chi,' 26-15, in the other semi-final meet. Jean Cronstedt led the Betas to their victory, recording firsts in the backstroke and diving events. His time in the backstroke event was 42.1. Paul Ekert copped freestyle honors with a 33.4 and the breaststroke event was won by • Charles Turner, whose time was 42.5 seconds. The relay team came very close to the IM record when they won their event in 1:02 seconds. Sigma Chi were the winners of every event except one in their victory over Theta Xi. Andrew Smith swam the freestyle event in 33.5 and also took a first in diving to pace Sigma Chi. Other event winnei-s were David Heckle and Robert Vanner. Heckle’s 49.2 won the backstroke while Van ner’s winning br.eaststroke time was 40.4. Theta Xi’s lone first was earned by the relay team, who swam their event in 1:05.2 seconds. Also on the swimming card at Glenn land tonight is the independent title meet matching the Penguins and the Lions. headquarters Spidel, Gemex, Flex-let $4.95 and up MOYER WATCH; SHOP 218 E. College •'ftSsSggi§K||3 Lion Quarterbacks Marty Marion Receives No Managerial Offers ST. LOUIS, Nov. 18 (JP)— Marty Marion, dismissed last week as manager by the Baltimore Orioles, said today he has received no baseball offers and has not con tacted anyone about a job in base ball. Marion added the vacant man agership of the Brooklyn Dodgers would be a -“ready-made job” but that he doubted he 'would be con sidered. Only One Hud Samson owns the distinc tion of being the cnly Penn State athlete to compete on two per fect record teams in 1953. See It! the moon This Weekend Is the Last "at Center Stage" THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Bob Hoffman is bine S i ' • > The squad is still not at full strength as it swings into its third week of practice. Center Jesse Arnelle and co-captain rorwi.. . Jack Sherry are absent because of football and will not be ready until after the Pitt game. Gross said yesterday that the team’s biggest weakness is its lack of height. Arnelle, standing 6-4, is the tallest player on the team. However, Gross pointed out that both ball handling and play exe cution were coming along well. The Washington and Jefferson lid-lifter will be the first of 19 scheduled contests, of which nine games will be played on the Rec Hall hardwoods. Following the opener the Nittanies travel to Penn, American University and North Carolina State the only newcomer this season. Two sophomore prospects, up from last year’s freshman squad, have shown a lot of promise in early workouts., Rudy Marisa and Harry Holm, both 6-3, along with veterans Ed Haag, Ron Weiden hammer and Jim Brewer form Gross’ top five thus far. East Grid Leaderships in Doubt NEW YORK. Nov. 18 (#>)— With most league teams heading into their final game of the sea son, there still is a wide open bat tle for all individual statistical honors in the Eastern Intercolleg iate Football Assn. Not one of the leaders is as sured of ending the season on top. Columbia’s Dick Carr leads in to tal offense with 1034 yards, but Royce Flippin of Princeton is threatening with 1009 yards. Joe Ujobai of Gettysburg leads in rushing, 606 yards to 560 for Hofstra’s Tom Nunzia»a. Three are scrapping for the passing honors, led by Penn State’s Tony Rados with 68 com pletions. Carr is second with 67, followed by Pat Stark of Syracuse with 63. As for pass receiving, Dart mouth’s Dave McLaughlin and Fordham’s Andy Nacrelli are tied with 23 catches each. Jim Garrity of Penn State and Dale Hopp of Columbia have 27 and 26, respec tively. Nacrelli has the edge here, with two games to play. Jack Sudol of Albright leads in punting with an average of 41.3 yards, but Walt Hynoski of Penn has averaged 40.4 yards and Har vard’s Dick Clasby, 40.2 yards. Army is the team leader in of fense with 359.1 yards per game, followed by Gettysburg with 332.- 8 yards. Hofstra is No. 1 in de fense, yielding. 159.9 yards per game, to 184.5 for Gettysburg. By Sea By Air Literatu re Reservations Tickets STATE COLLEGE TRAVEL BUREAU .*• State Collcffe Hotel Phone 7156 Louetta Nenabaum Jo Geftisr Former High School Buddies JACK PINEZICH, PAUL DIERKS, AND DICK MATACIA (1. to r.) present Lion soccermen played ball together at Brooklyn Tech nical High School for three years. Pinezich, a junior, set a record last season, scoring 23 goals from his center forward slot. Dierks has been outstanding this season at his center halfback position. Matacia, promising sophomore, has scored, six goals. All three were picked as All-City all stars in high school. 3 Soccer Teammates High School Pals I Three former high school buddies who played soccer together for three years—Jack Pinezich, Paul Dierks, and Dick Matacia— have been serving as mainstays on Penn State’s soccer team this year. Pinezich and Dierks, both juniors, came to Penn State after their graduation in 1950, and Matacia followed one year later. The big three was spotted by Jeffrey af ter each had made impressive ac complishments while playing high school and independent soccer. . Both Dierks and Pinezich were four - year lettermen, although they didn’t play a soccer schedule in their senior year because of a coach’s strike. In his under graduate play, Pinezich was a wing. He set a school record with 12 goals during the season’s reg ulation play, in 1949. Although Pinezich was a stand out in his high school career, he said. “We 'really learned our soc cer with the German independent team, Entrachc. The foreign play ers are the boys who can run cir cles around most American teams ” Both boys were picked for the New York All-City All Stars which included nearly forty teams, and over five hundred players. “Before we came to State for the fall season of 1951, we were very excited and expectant to play for Jeffrey and with play ers of the caliber which Jeffrey coached,” Pinezich said, who set a seasons record with 23 goals last season, said. “And w : weren’t disappointed once we were in the activity of the season,” he con tinued. Dick Matacia, sophomore in dustrial engineer, followed the outstanding play of his former teammates in his senior year high school, and then to Penn State. During the same season, Mata cia’s team took the city champion ship after piling up a seventeen game win streak. The outstanding lineman tallied twenty goals in his senior year to break his for mer teammate’s record. He, too, was chosen with two teammates on the N.Y. All Star ,first team. Mixon Theatre Now Playing Nightly at 8:30 THE PLACE TO CO Friday and Saturday Nights WHILE IN PITTSBURGH Edward Dvryao Dowling presents ip, “An Evening With K BEATRICE LILLIE*’ I ~ii>. Reginald Gardiner Box Office Open Daily 10 a.m. to 9 p.nx. ORDER SEATS HOW! Phone Atlantic 1-6773 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 191 jjf)L v \ '* Jp-'h ' By ROY WILLIAMS independents Post Seven 1M Court Wins Seven victories and two for feits, was the sum of Tuesday night’s independent IM basket ball games at Rec Hall, The Dubs, losing at halftime, 15-6, rallied in the second half to beat the Tanks, 32-27. Dick Clark was high scorer for the vic tors with 11 points. The Spartans bowled over Beta Watts, 44-24, with the aid of Sandy Meredith’s 17 points, the high for the eve ning. In the Charlie Watts-Jets contest, the Charlie Watts five came out on top, 28-10. After allowing the Redskins only one point in the first half, the Wildcats went on to score 26 points over the losers’ 11, Roy Walker had ten tallies for the vic tors., Bill Pharaoh was high scorer for the Snakes in edging the Hor nets, 17-14. Don Kembram scored four points for the Hornets. The Lumberjacks’ Gene Werner was the kingpin in the win over Bea ver House. Werner had 10 points, one less than the Beaver House total. Final score, 27-11. The Epars beat Alpha Watts in a close con test, 24-20. With the score at 11-2 in Irvin Hall’s favor, the Hawks’ Dave Friedenberg hurt his ankle in a struggle for the ball and had to be carried from the court. The Hawks, with no substitutes, had to forfeit the game. In the other forfeit of the evening Nittany Co op won v when none of the Mib’s players 'was present. ! : j J ' ■ %
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