PAGE SIX lagers Test Oran Seek sth Victory Of Season The Syracuse University basket ball team invades Rec Hall to morrow night as Coach Elmer Gross' once-beaten squad returns to the home court after three con secutive road games. The opening tip-off is set for 8 p.m. The Lions sport a 4-1 record, opening a post-vacation schedule that brings highly-ranked Colgate here Saturday. The game will mark the first home appearance for the Nittanies since they whipped Washington & Jefferson, 66-41, Dec. 5. After beating Penn at Philadelphia, 72-67, Gross took a ten-man squad into the south lands during the Christmas vaca tion period and split two games on that trip. American University fell to the Lions, in Washington, D.C., 65-52, with Jesse Arnelle leading the Nittany scoring. The big center tossed in 13 points and Captain Jack Sherry was right behind him with 12. State had little trouble winning its third in a row, out scoring the Eagles in every quar ter except the fourth.' Suffer First Loss From Washington, the Lions traveled to Raleigh, N.C., where they lost to nationally ranked North Carolina State, 89-74. This was the big one for the Lions and they came close to getting it too, before they faded in 'the final quarter after trailing by only five points at the three quarter mark. With Arnelle, Sherry, Ron Weidenhammer, and Ed Haag charged with four personal fouls apiece, the Lions were forced to relax their pressure in the final frame and the Wolfpack widened the gap to 15 points. Go to Line 41 Times In all, the Pack collected 41 shots from the foul line while the Lions were given 19. North Caro lina held a slim edge on field goal totals, 33 to 31. The big men for the Lions were Weidenhammer and Haag.. Haag cut the nets for 17 points and Weidenhammer, with his deadly outside set shot working to per fection, fired in eight field goals for 16 points. Top men of the night, however, were North Car olina's Bob Thompson who to (Continued on page seven) . . . N Frosh Cagers Detect :4(.irks* .1 • Cooper, Lysek p *rk Penn State's freshman basketball team evened its record at 1-1 when it came from behind to defeat the Altoona center Dec. 18, 64-53. John Egli's yearlings trailed at the half, 24-31, but rebounded with 20 points in the third period to take the lead 44-36. In the first half the freshmen hit for only ten field goals and foul fouls. In the second half they found the range for 15 double deckers and ten fouls. The game was marred by many fouls-39 foul shots were taken in the first half and 36 in the sec ond. Egli's cagers missed seven foul shots before intermission. In the latter half they converted ten of 15. The Altoona cagers had 49 free throws, hitting on 11 of 28 by half-time and then adding ten of 21 throughout the remainder of the game. Hugh Cooper paced the attack for the frosh with 17 points on seven field goals and three fouls. He collected four of his two-point ers and all his foul shots in the final half. Frosh Lost to JVs In the only other game the frosh have played Cooper of Slippery Rock, towering 6 feet 3 inches, failed to hit the scoring coluinn. The yearlings lost that game to the junior 'varsity 44-43 in Rec Hall. Jim Lysek once again sparked the come-from-behind drive of the frosh with seven field goals in the second half to account for his 14 markers. In the JV game the little five-foot ten-inch sharp shooter led the frosh's late bid for victory. The Hellertown ace hit for six .points in the JV en counter and now leads the scoring Ed Haag Lion Basketball Standouts Pros Eye Alabama's Bench Enthusiast PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 4 (?P) —Alabama's, 12th man in the Cot ton Bowl should make a darn good professional football player. Both line coach Vic Lindskog and Steve Van Buren told coach Jim Trimble of the Philadelphia Eagles today to make Tommy Lewis an early choice when the pro team draft prospects from the 1953 college field lat e r this month Lewis, is the Alabama fullback who came off the bench New Year's Day to tackle Rice's Dick Moegle and automatically gave the Owls a Cotton Bowl touch down. Moegle was in the clear and heading for the Alabama end zone When Lewis charged off the bench to bring him down. Van Buren scouted Lewis ear lier in the season and came back with nothing but high praise for the 195-pound' Greenville, Ala.; fullback. "He's a two-way player who loves the game and' would be a valuable addition to any pro team. "I talked to him two or three times and found out he's interest ed in playing pro ball. He's a runner, a good defensive back and an excellent blocker," said Van Buren. I.4indskog scouted the Cotton Bowl game and came home early today with the same recommen- parade with 20 points on ten two po:nters. Hartnett Hit for Eight Joe Hartnett of Johnstown, who tied Bob Benson of Haverford Hill for scoring honors in the JV game with eight points, hit for three field goals and four fouls to up his two-game total to 18. Benson hit for half as many points in Altoona, getting one foul and one field goal. Jack. Houser added seven points to the Nittany total on three two pointers and one foul. Hoover of Altoona hit on only one of nine foul shots. BOX SCORE Penn -State Frosh !Altoona Center fg fp ti fg fp t Lysek 7 0 141Bohner 1 1 3 Benson 1 2 41Kleiner, T. 1 5 7 Pytel 0 0 OlAdams 1 2 4 Bitch 2 0 4 Taylor 6 2 14 Ramsay 2 2 6 Kleiner, F. 0 0 0 Cooper - 7 3 17 Weakland 4 1 9 Hartnett 3 4 10 Julian 0 5 5 McKibben 0 2 2lHoover 1 1 3 Cramer 0 0 01Howsare 2 4 8 Houser 3 1 7 Totals 25 14 641 Totals 16 21 53 PRINTING Letterpress • Offset • Commercial 352 E. College Ave. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE, PENNSVI.VANIA dation. "Draft Lewis if you can get him," he told Trim')le. • "In addition to being a good football player, the kid is of good character. He's very modest and has class both on and off the field," said Lindskog. "I didn't mention the 12th man incident to him since he was 're luctant to talk about it, but act ually, that sold me more on him than ever," said the Philadelphia line coach. "He has' a tremendous competi tive spirit. He wants to win and it was that intense desire that drove him off the bench to tackle Moegle. We want kids who have that desire to win." 4 Lion Teams Unbeaten Four Penn State athletic teams posted unbeaten records in 1953. The clean slates belonged to wrestling, gymnastics, golf, and cross-country. WRA Results BASKETBALL Thompson 3&4 25, Wom.e n' s Building 20 hompson 1&2 31, Atherton 29 - ac Allister Hall over Maple and Elm, forfeit. TABLE TENNIS Mac Allister Hall over Little Lion Co-op over Spruce and Pine Three Setbacks Penn State's three 1953 football defeats came at the hands of Wis consin, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. e , a ' ......„. We are very proud to present at the Town ...t - House the versatile Rudy Black on piano SO. AMERICA and Jay Cave on bass. This group d eve l o ps By sea By Air complex rythms and stylings of jazz with Literature Reservations Tickets remarkable sensitivity and originality. See i . ----r------. - - 1 them daily: matinee at 4 p.m.; supper music STATE COLLEGE TRAVEL' il II BEAU State College note' Phone 7136 5:30 and evenings at 9 p.m. Thank you. A.G. Leoetta Neusbount Jle Gettig Jack Sherry e Tomorrow Swedish Tour Draws Nearer The Swedish National gymnastic team which will visit the Nit tany Vale Jan. 16 possesses one of the finest records, both competi tively and exhibitorily. They have successfully toured almost every European country, including Russia.' Throughout these tours, the Swedes have established an outstanding reputation, for their ex cellent team spirit and high class of gymnastics. One of well over 50 partici pating teams in the Gymnaestrada —the great international gymnas tics festival in Rotterdam, Hol land this summer—the Swedish gymnasts were unanimously rated as the number one exhibition team by the press, despite the respectful showings of the Swiss, Germans, Finnish, Norwegians, and Hungarians The Swedish team will arrive in New York at the Idlewild Airport Friday for their United States good-will - tour. There will be 13 gymnasts in the visiting party, eight of whom represented Sweden in the 1952 Olmpics. Coach Erik Linden, an interpreter and a manager will also make the trip. In their tour of American towns and cities, the Swedish party will travel by motor bus. They expect to remain in this country for a period of two months. Penn State gymnastic mentor, Gene Wettstone, revealed yester day that the Swedish intinerary will take them into 18 of the 48 'states, including 19 college and university campuses. Except for . four meets, three of them against university teams, the Swedes will concentrate on exhibition rou tines during their tour. Lion Gridders Star In Holiday Bowl Classic Although Coach 'Engle's Blue squad finished on the wrong end of the 40-20 count to the "rebels" from the South, the combination of Engle, quarterback Tony Rados, halfback Dick Jones and guard Pete Schoderbek almost led the underdog Blue squad to a holiday upset. The combined strategy of En gle and fifth-ranked NCAA passer Tony Rados put the North out in front early in the second quarter a position they enjoyed until the start of the second half. Added to the squad as a last minute addition, the Lions' Dick Jones was nominated by several sports writers as the outstanding performer for the Blue squad. Jones had himself a fine after noon, running Gray kickoffs back for 20 and 22 yards and nearly breaking into the clear after elud ing half-a-dozen would be tack lers. A play which is very familiar to Lion fans is the famous "draw" play—only this time it was Jones roaring through the line, instead of Moore. The first time Jones got his hands on the apple, on this particular play, he almost "legged" it the whole way to the double stripe. Although Rados shared his quarterback duties, he neverthe less completed seven passes good for 70 yards, in addition to keep ing the Rebels off balance by mix ing up his plays. Guard Pete Schoderbeck was a con s t ant threat to the Gray throughout the contest playing better than half the game. End Don Malinak recovered two fumbles for the North squad, in the annual North-South classic. He will also take part in the sen ior bowl, to be held Jan. 9 at Mo bile, Ala. TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1954 The Swedish Gymastic . touting schedule: January 10, U.S. Military Acad emy, West Point, N.Y.; 13, Pan zer College, Newark, N.J.; 14, New York Athletic Club; 16, P enn State, State College, Pa.; 18, Lock Haven (Pa.) State Teachers Col lege; 19, University of Pittsburgh; 21, Kent State, Kent, O.; 22, Cleve land, 0., Gym Societies; 24, Amer ican Turners, Detroit, Mich.; 25, Bowling Green University, Bovtrl ing Green, O.; 27, Vikings As sociation, Chicago, 111. February 2, Notre Dame, South Bend, Ind.; 3, Baltic Club, Rock ford, Ill.; 4', LaCrosse (Wis.) State Teachers College; 6, University of Minnesota; 8, University of Iowa; 9, Moline (Ill.) Turners; 11, Uni versity of Illinois, Champaign, Ill.; 12, St. Louis University; 14, Kansas City Turners; 16, North western State College, Natchi toches, La.; and 17, Louisiana. State University, Baton Rouge, La. February 19, University of Tex as, Austin, Tex.; 23, Texas A. &. M., College Station, Tex.; 25, New Orleans Athletic Club; 27, Florida State University, Tallahasse, Fla.; March 2, Auburn (Ala.) Civitan Club; 3, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Ga.; 4, North Carolina University, Chapel Hill, N.C.; and 6, Swedish American Club, New York City. Hall of Fame Voting to Begin NEW YORK, Jan. 4 (JP)—About 300 ballots have been placed in the mail for the annual Hall of Fame voting by 10-year members of the Baseball Writers Assn. The results are expected to be an nounced in mid-January. No bal lots will be opened until that time. Voting is restricted, under a change in the rules," to players active from 1928 through 1948, with two exceptions. Joe DiMag gio and Bill Dicky were except ed because they received 100 or more votes in the 1953 balloting, before the rules were changed. Walker Cup Tourney Scheduled for Britain NEW YORK, Jan. 4 (W)—The 15th International Amateur Golf match between the United States and Great Britain for the Walker Cup will be played in Britain, May 20, 21, 1955, the Unit ed State Golf Assn. revealed today. The match will be played at. St. Andrew's. The matches we r e played at the Kittansett Club, Marion, Mass., last Selitember with the U.S. winning 9-3.
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