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Lion Cagers
Meet Penn
The Lion, basketball team is
back at the practice grind today
following its impressive 66-41 win
against Washington & Jefferson
Saturday night at Rec Hall.
The Nittanies take the road
Saturday to meet The University
of Pennsylvania in the, first of
three- straight road games. Fol
lowing their Quaker encounter
they tangle with American Uni
versity and North Carolina State,
rated eighth nationally on pre
season dope sheets.
Head Coach Elmer Gross said
yesterday that he .was “well
pleased” with the Lions’ show
ing against the Prexies Saturday.
“The boys did very well,” he
said, “considering < that it was
their first game.”
Trip To Be Test
However, he called the coming
road trip the real test for the
quintet. “You can usually tell
how good a team is by its per
formance on the road,” he said.
“For some reason most basket
ball teams always look good at
home.”
Gross called State’s new full
court press the most influential
factor in the win Saturday. The
Lion mentor is using the system
for the first time. In this type of
defense, the front line of the zone
presses the offensive guards as
they—.attempt to bring the ball
over the mid-court line and then
drop back into their zone defense
positions.
Allow Nine Field Goals
Gross, had good reason to be
pleased. The Lions allowed the
Presidents only nine field goals
in the contest while they con
nected on .36 per cent of their
shots for 29 field goals.
Gross had praise for all five
of his starting players. “Jesse Ar
nelle looks like the Arnelle of
old,” he commented. “He looked
much better on the backboards
than last year.”
The 6-5 center who led the scor
ing parade with 18 points gath
ered in 19 rebounds to top that
department.
Weidenhammer Faster
“Sherry and Haag both looked
good,” Gross said. “Both scored
at least ten points and were good
on the backboards. Weidenham
mer is faster than last year and
Marisa, considering that he is
only a sophomore, plaved very
well.”
He said he believed that the
team is further along this year
than they were last year in the
opening game. “We have more
pep and drive this year,” he said,
“and more speed too.”
The W&J opener was the first
of 19 contests scheduled for the
cagers this season. They won’t
appear at Ree Hall again until
after the holidays when they take
on Syracuse Jan. 6 at Ree Hall.
Group to Discuss Union
“Labor Relations and the
Union” will be the topic of dis
cussion at a joint meeting of the
Society for the Advancement of
Management and the Mining So
ciety at 7:30 tonight in 317 Wil
lard.
Gridders 24th
Penn State’s gridders were
rated 24th in the nation in the
final poll of 1953.
Rados First
Tony Rados is the first Nittany
Lioh gridder in 67 years to win
eastern passing honors.
BASKETBALL SWEDISH STYLE
Basketball, America’s top indoor sports attraction, has been
spreading like wild-fire throughout the world in the last few days.
The game has been introduced in Europe and the Far East by Ameri
can Gls. Its popularity has been increased through the goodwill
shenanigans of Abe Saperstein and his famous Harlem Globe Trot-;
ters with their world circling tours.
But in Sweden they aren’t worried about basketball. They play
a game there called Handboll (pronounced “honbol”) which compares
favorably with our game of basketball. It sounds just as interesting,
maybe a little more.
We learned about the game from a young Swedish student,
Torsten Bengison. who is attending a short course session at Penn
Stale. An athlete, former sports writer for a Stockholm paper,
• and recently a student ai the University of British Columbia in
[ Canada, Tor is en route back to his native country after a two
year stay in North America,
And one of the first things he wants to do when he gets hack
is play Handboll.
“The game is terrific,” he said, “and I can hardly wait to get
another crack at it.”
He told us that he started, to play the sport, like most other
Swedish children, at the age of six. There are organized leagues
in the country for athletes of every age, and just about everybody
plays it.
Played on a hardwood court, the sport approaches basketball
in every sense except that instead of tossing a ten inch ball through
a hoop, a score is made by firing a smaller ball into a netted goal,
six feet wide, defended by a goalie. Players are permitted to dribble
and pass, and body contact, known as “tackling” is used for check
offensive players.
The hall used is small enough to hold in one hand and can be
fired at the goal like a baseball. Each team uses seven men and is
allowed to keep three men on reserve.
"You have to be in very'.good condition to play well," Tor
commented, "since you are moving all the lime, and substitution
is limited. We only play two periods, each 25 minutes in length."
Because the ball can be thrown with such tremendous power
and'speed, the offensive player is restricted from entering a certain
area surrounding the goal. He must stay outside a 15-foot semi
circle but can cross the line in midair and take • his shot before he
touches the ground.
“One of the favorite shots used,” said Tor, who has taught the
game in Canada,* d‘is.- a back hand shot taken as the player crosses
laterally in front of the goal. It’s almost impossible to block it and
often slips past the goalie.”
We asked him about the amount of scoring done and found
that the average winning score runs about 20 points, at one point
oer goal. Some however, are as low as five or six.
Tor told us that teams use either a man-for-man type defense
or a “section defense” which would compare to basketball’s zone.
The object offensively is for the halfbacks and the center
forward (these could compare with the forwards and the center)
to deploy the defense away from 'the goal and allow the fullback,
starting in the backcourt at the middle of the floor, to come up fast
and take a running shot at the goal.
Penalty shots are granted from the restriction line in case of
a rule violation, corresponding to the basketball free throw.
All in all, the game sounds fascinating and thrilling, combining
speed, flashy offensive and defensive play, limited body contact,
and fierce competition.
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Basketball
Alpha Kappa Alpha 26, Kappa
Delta, 13
Zeta Tau Alpha 23, Gamma Phi
Beta 15
Kappa Alpha Theta 44, Go-op 16
Thompson 3-4 10, Atherton 9
McAllister 27, Spruce-Pine 11
Little Lions over Maple-Elm de
fault
Table ' Tennis
Theta Sigma Omicron over Alpha
Omicron Pi
Phi Mu over Theta Phi Alpha
Atherton over Kappa Kappa
Gamma
Alpha Xi Delta over Delta
Gamma
Co-op over McAllister
Little Lions over Spruce-Pine
Ring Officials
Shun NBA Plan
HARRISBURG, Dec. 8 (/P) —A
National Boxing Association plan
for a uniform system of scoring
prize fights today was turned
down by the Pennsylvania Ath
letic Commission.
“The commission as a whole
decided not to change our scor
ing system at this time,” said
Chairman Frank Weiner, of Phil
adelphia.
Under the present scoring sys
tem in Pennsylvania, officials de
termine a winner by the number
of rounds he has won over his
opponent. If a round winner takes
the round by a big margin he is
given extra credit.
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intercollegiate Ball
SATURDAY, DEC. 26
The Penn-Harris Hotel Ballroom, Harrisburg
9:00 to 1:00 - Dress optional /
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1953
Jensen Sent
To Red Sox
In Major Swap
NEW YORK', Dec. 8
ington traded Jackie Jensen to
Boston in a major three-man deal
today, Commissioner Ford Frick
awarded 18-year-old Ralph Terry
to the New York Yankees, and
the major leagues clammed up on
the pension plan hassle.
Jensen, 'a fleet, strong-armed
outfielder w j t h good power who
hit' 10 homers and drove in 84
runs for Washington despite a dis
appointing .266 average, went to
the Red Sox for lefthanded pitch
er Maury McDermott (18-10 j and
outfielder Tom Umphlett. Umph
lett surprised with a .283 rookie
season. '
The Washington-Boston swap
was expected to break the log
jam that has blocked trades
throughout the winter - baseball
meetings.
The Philadelphia A’s sold sec
ond baseman Cass Michaels to the
Chicago White Sox, where he
played for several years. No price
was announced but it was be
lieved close to the $lO,OOO waiver
limit for the 27-year-old infielder.
Commissioner Frick decided
Terry, a right-handed pitcher
from Chelsea, Okla., who report
edly agreed to terms with both
the Yanks and St. Louis Cards
on the same day, belonged to the
Yankees.