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Lions
Snap Four
Year Jinx
For 2d Win
By DICK McDOWELL
Just as records are made to
be broken so are win streaks.
Penn found that out Saturday
night when Co ac h Elmer
Gross' basketball team wiped
out a four-year blemish, whip
ping the Quakers, 72-67, at the
Penn Palestra.
With Big Jesse Arnelle leading
the scoring attack, the Lions spur
ted ahead in the third quarter af
ter trailing at the half, to set a
burning pace that Coach Howard
Dellmar's quintet failed to match.
Arnelle dumped 26 points
through the hoops and gathered
in 15 rebounds as he led the Nit
tanies to their second straight win
of the season. Ed Haag and Ron
Weidenhammer added plenty of
help with 27 points between them.
Haag tallied 15 points and Wei
denhammer had 10.
Open Gap in 3rd Period
After a nip -and-tuck first half
with Penn in the lead most of the
way, the Nittanies opened the
throttle in the third period and
poured 24 points through the Pal
estra nets while Penn could coun
ter with only 11. From there on
State had only to hold back Penn's
high pressure offense and s t i 11
maintained a five-point edge at
the final buzzer.
Penn Gels Early Lead
Penn opened the scoring at 1:30
p.m. of the first quarter with Joe
Sturgis' one-hand push from the
comer and the fire works were
started. While Arnelle and Haag
paced the Lions, Sturgis, who had
17 points, and Dick Heylmun, with
15 for the evening, kept the Quak
ers out in front, a lead that never
ran higher than three points: At
the end of the period the Quakers
held a 16-15 lead.
In the second period it looked
like the Quakers were going to
break the contest open as they
moved into a 30-20 lead with only
two minutes remaining. But the
Lions caught fire again as Jim
Blocker and Jim BreTver, along
with Arnelle, fired fast and fur
iously to narrow the gap to 32-29.
Sherry, Arnelle Tie Score
Jack Sherry's 'foul point and
Arnelle's jump shot tied the game
at 32-32, early in the third period
and from there on in the red hot
Lions were flying high. Weiden
hammer connected on four' field
goal attempts and Arnelle con
tinued his scoring barrage as State
moved into a lead which they
never relinquished. While the
Lions were piling up points the
Quakers went five minutes before
they could sco r e. The quarter
ended, 53-43.
Penn outscored the Lions 24-19,
in the fourth period, but it wasn't
enough to catch Gross' quintet.
The scent of a long awaited vic
tory was strong and the Lions
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were not to be outdone at that
stage.
Penn's poised offense was work
ing hard, though, as the Red and
Blue sought its fifth straight win
of the season. However, they could
never quite master Gross' press
ing zone defense.
32 Per Cent Shooting
In winning their - second contest
the Nittanies hit on 32 per cent
of their field goal attempts and
were successful in 23 of 32 at
tempts from the foul line.
Gross takes his cagers on a two
game road trip Friday, and Satur
day to meet American University
and North Carolina State. They
return to Rec Hall Jan. 6 when
they engage Syracuse.
BOX SCORE
Penn State fg fp t Penn fg fp t
Weiorh'r,g 5 0-1 10 Sturgis,c 6 5-9 17
Edwards,g 1 2-2 4 Vitetta,c 0 0-0 0
Haag,g 4 7-S 15 Leach,g 1 6-9 S
Brewer,g 2 0-0 4lGramigna,g 0 0-0 0
Arnelle,c 10 6-10 26!Roagland,g 6 2-2 14
Lacing 0 0-2 2
Heylmun,f 5 5-7 15
Curley,f 0 0-0 0
Mulroy,f 1 • 2-2 4
Laferty,f 0 0-0 0
Demir,i 0 0-0 0
Smith,f 2 3-4 7
Totals 21 25-33 67
__ 15 14 24 19-72
__ 16 18 11 24-67
Eilocker,f 2 1-3 5
Sherry,f 1 5-7 7
Marisas 0 14 I
Rohlandl '0 0-0 0
Totals 25 22-32 72
Penn State
Penn
I'HE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
McCoy Is
To ECAC
Ernest B. McCoy, athletic director at the University, has been
elected to the eligibility committee of the Eastern College Athletic
Conference and to the executive committee of the Eastern College
Football Association at separate league meetings over the weekend
in New York.
The ECAC took over the spon
sorship of the holiday basketball
tournament in Madison Square
Garden, beginning in 1954.
The 100-member conference,
which includes all the major east- ;
ern colleges, went into the sports
promotion business for the first
time: The ECAC has been mainly !
a regulatory body. •
Recommended by its executive ,
council, the ECAC accepted the
offer of the metropolitan inter
collegiate
basketball committee to
tiirn over the holiday event. The
association admitted that the pur
pose in taking over the tourna
ment was to find a source of rev
enue, since it has been operating)
at a deficit.
Lions To Be Considered
With Penn State as a member
of the ECAC, its basketball team
will be considered against other
members for a possible bid for
the holiday tournament.
The metropolitan committee,
composed of Manhattan College,
St. John's, and New York Uni
versity, was organized last year
to sponsor the first Garden holi
day festival. It will continue to
control the event this year. The
three colleges specified that they
must be represented on the ECAC
committee in charge of the event.
They suggested that all three,
or at least two, of their teams
should be invited to compete each
year.
By July 1944, G. I. Joes were
using scarcely a single weapon
that was the same as those in use
when Pearl Harbor was attacked.
100-Member Conference
PRE-CHRISTMAS
Elected
Positions
Saylor Rates
Nittany Lions
37th in Nation
Roger a Saylor, professor of
economics, - who earlier listed his
eastern football ratings with Penn
State third, released his 1953
national collegiate ratings with
Penn State a distant 37th.
Saylor compiles football statis
tics as a hobby. He has placed
Unbeaten, untied Maryland in the
No. 1 position, edging out un
beaten but once-tied Notre Dame.
The statistician predicts keen
competition in at least four of the
five major games. "My ratings
would indicate that Georgia Tech
is a little too strong for West
Virginia," Saylor says, "but other
wise the Bowl pairings are even
better than they were a year
ago."
Saylor's top ten collegiate foot
ball ratings:
WLT Rating*
1. Maryland 10-0-0 534
2. Notre Dame 9-0-1 528
3. UCLA 8-1-0 510
4. Illinois 7-1-1 504
5. Michigan State 8-1-0 503
6. Rice , 8-2-0 500
7. Oklahoma 8-1-1 499
8. Georgia Tech 8-2-1 489
9. Auburn 7-2-1 487
10. Kentucky 7-2-1 486
*Only games against intercollegiate com
petition are used In the ratings.
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1953
Indiana
Tops AP
Court Poll
NEW YORK, Dec. 14 (AP)—ln
diana, Kentucky and Duquesne,
tabbed as this year's Big Three of
college basketball before the sea
son began, held on to the top posi
tions in the national ratings in
the first weekly Associated Press
ranking poll today.
With Indiana's NCAA cham
pions at the top, these three te,ams k
kept their records clear of defeat
through the past week and split
up most of the first-place ballots
of 78 sports writers and broad
ca-t2.rs participating in this week's
poll.
Indiana Holds Top Spot •
Indiana brought its record up to
3-0 with a convincing '76-57 vic
tory over Butler Saturday to hold
its top r atin g. The Hoosiers,
awarded the No. 1 rating in last
week's pre-season forecast poll,
collected 35 of the 75 first-place
votes and a total of 743 points on
the usual basis of ten for first
place, nine for second, etc.
Kentucky, kept out of intercol
legiate competition all last season
and playing only two games so
far this year, drew 20 first place
votes and 621 points. Duquesne
drew five• firsts and 584 points.
After the first three, nearly
every team that has won a game
this season, managed to' do enough
to attract the attention of at least
one voter.
Kansas Drops
Kansas, losing its first two,
starts and La Salle failed to justify
their high pre-season , ratings and
dropped far down the list while
Illinois, Louisiana State and Min
nesota moved up on the strength
of unbeaten records.
The rest of the first ten lined up
this way: Illinois, Louisiana StAe,
Minnesota, Oklahoma A. and M.,
North Carolina State, Fordham
and Western Kentucky. •
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