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Top Six Lion Cogers...
THESE SIX Lion basketball players will prob
ably see most of the action in the coming
basketball campaign. Left to right, Jesse Ar
nelle, Hon Weidenhammer, Jack Sherry (cap
Lion Cagers to Open
'53 Season Tomorrow
A strong Penn State basketball team opens the winter sports
schedule tomorrow night at Rec Hall when it meets Washington and
Jefferson in the kick-off tilt of a 19-game slate.
The Lions , will be out to match or better the 62-50 win they
gained against the Presidents last year when they won 15 and lost
nine games over the season. ,
With eight lettermen, four of
them veteran, regulars, and sev
eral promising sophomores
brightening the roster, the Lions
should be ready for the Wash
ington, Pa. squad which won only
half’ its games last year.
However, it was the Presidents
who two years ago upset a highly
rated Nittany quintet in the last
seconds of play. That year the
Lions went on to receive, a bid in
the NCAA district playoffs.
Top Scorers •
Gross’ main scoring punch will
probably lie in the hands of cap
tain Jack Sherry and rangy cen
ter Jesse Arnelle, although the
pair has not been practicing long.
Both played football this fall and
reported to the squad late.
Arnelle has been the top scorer
for the past two seasons, totaling
900 points. Last year he scored
408 markers for a 17 point per
game average. Sherry was the
number three man in the scoring
department last year trailing be
hind Arnelle and Herm Sledzik
who was graduated.in June. Sher
ry scored 248 points in the 1952-53
campaign for a 10.3 point aver
age.
Scoring Records Sei
Should the pattern of the past
two seasons follow true to form,
Nittany cage fans can expect new
team and individual scoring rec
ords to fall, The 1951-52 team set
a hew single game scoring record
when it tallied 94 points. Then
last year the Nittanies poured 105
tallies through the Rec Hall nets,
swamping Ithaca.
The 1951-52 club also set a new
Penn State record for average
points per game only to have it
erased by last year’s team. Last
season Gross’ quintet scored an
average of 67.3 points per game
to top the old mark of 65.7.
Of coulee one individual record
By dick McDowell
is certain to fall. Every time Ar
nelle scores he will better,, his
career total, a record set in two
years of play. He topped. Lou Lsf
mie’s (1949-51) 666 points last
year when he hit the -900 mark.
Three Games on Hoad
Gross will naturally be hoping
for a fast start in this campaign.
After Washington and Jefferson
the Lions take the road to meet
Penn, American University, and
North Carolina State in succes
sion, three of the toughest oppo
nents on the schedule.
Last season the Lions opened
strongly, winning their first three
contests, and then dropped three
of their next eight. After plaster
ing Ithaca they slumped badly
when they hit an overload of road
contests. They regained their com
posure, however, and finished
strong with wins over West Vir
ginia and Pitt to revenge earlier
setbacks.
Leonard Top '52 Scorer
In 1952, Penn State’s leading
scorer in football did not score
one touchdown. Bill Leonard
booted* two field goals and 21
of 23 extra points- to lead with 27
points.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
tain), Ed Haag, Rudy Marisa, and Jim Blocker
eye one of the Rec Hal) baskets they'll be aiming
for tomorrow when the Lions open a 19-game
season against Washington and Jefferson.
A P Names
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All American
Gridders
NEW YORK, Dec. 3 (#■)—Two
great Midwestern backs, John
Lattner of Notre Dame and Paul
Giel of Minnesota, occupy the
spotlight on The Associated Press
1953 All-America football team
announced today.
They are the only repeaters
from the .1952 team. Paul Cameron
of U.C.L.A. and David Kosse
Johnson of Rice, round out the
first team backfield.
The team:
E.—Don Dohoney, Michigan State, Ann
Arbor, Mich.
T.—Stanley Jones, Maryland, Lemoyne,
Pa.
G.—J. D. Roberts, Oklahoma, Dallas, Tex.
C.—Larry Morris, Georgia Tech, De
catur, Ga.
G.—Crawford Mims, Mississippi, Green
wood, Miss.
T.—Jack Shanafelt, Penn., Akron, Ohio.
E. —Sam Morley, Stanford, San Marino,
Calif.
B.—Paul Giel, Minnesota, Winona, Minn.
B.—John Lattner, Notre Dame, Chicago,
111.
B.—Paul Cameron, UCLA, Burbank,
Calif.
B.—David Kosse Johnson, Rice, Bay
town, Tex. f
former Stars
Warn Players
ATLANTA, Ga., Dec. 3 (JP)—
The major league’s first player
representatives today charged the
current delegates with violating
the trust of .their fellow athletes
but this feeling was not reflected
in first comments from the pres
ent day players.
Former player representatives
Fred Dixie Walker and Johnny
Murphy, now serving big league
organizations as manager and
farm director, respectively, ac
cused the current 16 player rep
resentatives of jeopardizing the
pension plan by yesterday’s defy
of Commissioner Ford'Frick.
Murphy appealed to all active
American League players to send
wires to Commissioner Fri c k,
throwing their full support be
hind an effort towarda peaceful
solution.
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Calling Y
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and America’s N<
Band is calling all you military
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danceable tunes are singing the praises you’ll be
singing, if you have your uniform (or extra special
formal) cleaned at Balfurd's. We’re prepared to give
your ROTC uniform a personalized dry cleaning
and pressing that’ll make you the general of the
evening.
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1953
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Tom Fool Cited
As 'No. 1 Horse
NEW YORK, Dec. 3 (/P) —Tom
Fool, winner of 10 straight races
and $256,355 for the Greentree
Stable, this year, was named to
night as the American champion
race horse of 1953 by the Thor
oughbred Racing Association;
The . election, made by a board
of 18 racing , secretaries, was an
nounced at the annual TRA din
ner. At the same time awards
were presented for the champion
horses in various divisions.
Tom Fool gathered 34 of a posr
sible 37 votes in the secretaries’
poll, with the other three going
to the champion 3-year-old colt,
Native Dancer. Tom Fool was the
unanimous choice in' his own di
vision—colts and horses fo u r
years and older. -
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