P AfTE SIX —Photo by Kiehl JESSE ARNELLE, Penn State center, and Syracuse's Ronnie Gillespie go after a rebound in last night's game with Syracuse University. Looking an are the Lion's Jack Sherry and Jim Brewer (background). The Lions won the game, their fourth of the season, 77-63. Arnelle Paces Scorers; 67 Free Throws Awardei Elmer Gross' once beaten basketball team won its fourth victory of the season last night, defeating Syracuse at Rec Hall, 77-63, in a wild and wooly, foul happy contest. Both teams combined to take 67 shots from the free throw line. With big Jesse Arnelle pacing the Nittany scoring attack, the Lion quintet overcame an early Syracuse lead in the first quarter. The Lions built their lead considerably and saw it slip dangerously in the second half. But then Penn State put the pressure on in the final minutes of the contest to win witn Teams Vie For Berths In IM Play Surges into contending posi tions by several teams in four fraternity leagues marked Intra mural basketball play Monday night on the Rec Hall courts. The Triangle hoopsters broke their second place tie with Phi Kappa by topping the latter in a low scoring 17-13 duel as Jim Babb scored ten points. In an other league C contest Theta Kappa Phi maintained a perfect 4-0 record and held first place via a resounding 32-16 senack handed to the seventh 'place Pi Kappa Alpha squad. Gabe Len sack and Rain Grapsy split 20 points for the winners. In league D play, Phi Kappa Psi and Sigma Phi Epsilon moved into a three-way deadlock for third place. The Phi Kappa's trounced Alpha Phi Delta 25-19. as Zeke Stianer and Bill Ziegler , poured in eight and nine markers.j Delta Theta Sigma, failing to win! in its four starts, fell before Sigma! Phi Epsilon, 17-12. Delta Sigma Phi picked up its first win o the campaign via a 2-0 forfeit over winless Acacia.; Elsewhere in league E, Sigma Al-1 pha Epsilon moved into a second slot tie with Theta Chi by down-i ing them 17-10. The SAE cagers ; bounced back from a 80-4 deficit at half time to win, aided by Bob Greenawalt's trio of two-pointers.l Beta Theta Pi accomulated the most impressive point total of the evening in walloping Beta Sigma Rho, 42-24. Bob Harris' 15 tallies sparked the winners to a second place tie with Sigma Phi Sigma in league F. Alpha Tau Omega. sporting one of the biggest victory totals in IM basketball competition, chalked up number 5 over Phi Sigma Kap pa, 23-9, after taking an 11-1 mid-point mar.: Tony Dorrell By DICK McDOWELL ease. Arnelle tallied 21 points. The game, second home appear ance of the Lions this year, began normally but soon developed in to a battle for loose balls, rough body contact, and heavy scoring from the foul line. The Nittanies went to the free throw line 41 times, converting successfully on 33 attempts, while Syracuse's Coach Marc Guley's capers con verted 13 for 26 from the line. Orange Score First The Orange opened fast when guard Jack Lamed took the open ing tip-off and drove in for a quick basket. Arnelle hit on a foul shot, Lamed added two free throws for Syracuse, and the Or ange had a 4-1 lead. However, two quick baskets by Arnelle af ter Besdin's fast break lay up; and a foul point and field goal by the .Lion's Ed Haag, gave the Nit tanies an 8-6 lead that they never relinquished. Arnelle and Haag combined their efforts for 12 points in the first frame to pace the Lions to an 18-9 lead. Arnelle Leads Attack Then in the second frame the big center continued his scoring barrage, while hte Lions' press ing -zone defense bottled up the Syracuse attack and State in creased the margin to 33-19. Haag creased the margin to 33-19. Syracuse looked pathetic in the first half as they tried vainly to crack the Nittany 3-2 defense. Most of their shots had to come from the back court and the cor ners and few were accurate. However, in the second half, the New York ball club suddenly came to ,life. Its offense began to click and its defense was able to apply the breaks to the Lions furious first half offense. Reserve guards August Castellini, and Dick Jasgot, who came into the game early in the third period, began to find the range from out side the Nittany wall and forward (Continited on page seven) OFFSET NOW! PRINTING In State College COMMERCIAL PRINTING 352 E. College Ave. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE, P..P.NST.._.7ANIA le Syracuse, 77m63 Wrestlers Open 28th Campaign, Seek 30th Win Penn State's unbeaten and National Collegiate wrestling cham pions will launch their 28th campaign under veteran and colorful coach, Charlie Speidel, when they open the 1954 campaign against once-beaten Cornell Saturday night. The Nittany Lions, who will be seeking their 30th straight win, will open the first part of a scheduled doubleheader at 7 p,m. The Penn State-Colgate basketball game will follow. Like the Lions, Cornell has been weakened via graduation— much more so. Lost are its two Eastern and NCAA champions— Frank Bettucci, 157-pounder, and Don Dickingon, 167-pounder. Nevertheless, the Big Red were strong enough to post two wins thus far this season. The Cornell matmen pinned Cortland 21-10 and Rutgers, 16-12. Their only loss was against always strong Lehigh, 17-8. Before the Big Red actually had its• season underway, there a 3 much talk that its '54 campaign would be hampered by the loss f Bettucci and Dickinson. However, the talk was quickly changed o a murmur with one report: "The team has sufficient manpower to fill these gaps." When the Big Red faces the Lions Saturday, they will be led by co-captain Paul Steiger and Bruce Blackman. Dick Soars, however, who has wrestled both 177 and heavy weight is one of the few wrestlers unbeaten on the Cornell mat squad. In last year's battle, in which Penn State finally won out, 18-10, Soars was decisioned by Speidel's "Pressure Boy," Hud Sam son, 191-pound NCAA champ. Coach Erie Miller, who had a 7-4 won and lost record last year, has juggled .his lineup against his first three competitors. It is more than likely that Miller will do the same when he matches his grap plers with the Lions. Against Cortland and Lehigh Coach Miller shifted his wrestlers in the 130-pound, 137-pound, and 167-pound classes. It is in the afore mentioned weights that the Lions are strong. • Spearheading the Nittany Lions, who last year won nine meets before winning the Eastern and National Collegiate team honors, will be two Eastern titlists and '54 do-captains—Dick - Lemyre and Jerry Maurey. The other major returnees who will aid Penn State are Bob Homan, Eastern 123-pound champion in 1952, Doug Frey, twin brother of Don Frey, who shared the 1953 captaincy with Joe Le myre; and George Dvorozniak, 167-pounder who will be available for the season's first three meets. Ben Hogan Named 'Athlete of Year' NEW YORK, Jan. 6 (2?)—Ben Hogan, called by many the greatest golfer who ever lived after he captured the British Open champion ship with a record-smashing final round last summer, was voted "male athlete of the year" for 1953 today in the 23rd annual year-end Associated Press poll. The mighty TLxas shotmaker, who won golfdom's triple crown in 1953—the U.S. and British Open championships, and the Augusta Masters was an overwhelming choice in the nationwide poll of sports writers and sportscasters, • The 41-year-old Bantam Ben re.: ceived 67 first place votes out of the 129 ballots cast, and rolled up 229 points on a 3-2-1 basis. For the second straight year, Rocky Marciano, world's heavyweight champion, was in the runner-up spot. Marciano, who was second to Bob Mathias, twice Olympic de cathlon champion in the 1952 poll, received 12 first place votes this time and had a total of 80 points. Third in the 1953 poll was Wil lie Shoemaker, the year's cham pion jockey who rode 485 winners, more than any other rider in one season in racing history. Two college football stars were fourth and fifth, respectively, Johnny Lattner of Notre Dame and. Minnesota's Paul Giel. 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With Phi Kappa Sigma leading the way, the 12 squads, due to a five-way tie for the final spot, fill the top eight positions. Phi Kappa Sigma's 260 points give them a 15 point bulge over the athletes of Acacia. Beta Theta Pi has a slim five point lead over Phi Sigma Kappa, 200 to 195. Rounding out- the top seven are Delta Sigma Phi, with 175 points, Sigma Nu, last year's title-winners with 160, and Delta Upsilon, the Sigs' runnerup with 140. Tied for the eighth position with 115 markers apiece are Beta Sig ma Rho, Phi Kappa Psi, Sigma Chi, Sigma Phi Sigma, and last year's third placers Theta Xi. The leaders piled up their 260 !points via a boxing championship worth 180, 25 in touch football, 35 in swimming, and 20 in the golf medal tournament. Acacia tallied 155 markers while winning the touch football crown, 1 30 in swimming, 40 in boxing and 10 in golf. Third place Beta Theta Pi annexed the swimming title ' and 130 points there, 40 points in football, 20 in the IM ring, and 10 in golf. Phi Sigma Kappa holds down fourth place via a second slot finish in boxing 135 points, foot ball 25, swimming 25, golf 10. Delta Sigma Phi • captured the fifth slot via a 1-10 effort in touch football, 35 in swimming, and 30 in the boxing tourney. Other heavy scorers in various sports include Sigma Nu, 75 in boxing, Sigma Chi, 90 in swim ming, and Sigma Phi Sigma with the golf medal tournament cham pion accounting for 60 points. A look to the future: In IM basketball play several of these top 12 are turning in winning performances. Some of these are: Phi Kappa Sigma, the leader— a 3-1 log, Sigma Nu, a 4-0 record, and Sigma Chi, Sigma Phi Sigma, and Theta Xi, all with 3-1 marks. Mittmen Open Season Penn State's boxers open the new season Jan. 30 in a home meet against Michigan State. Other dual meets will pit the Nit tany Lions against Maryland, Syracuse, Wisconsin, Army, Vir ginia, and Louisiana State.
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