pA (7,'17 Yv Wrestlers, Cagers See Action In Rec Hall Twin Bill Tomorrow Weight Moves Seen for State Against Cornell When Penn State opened its wrestling dual meet season last year against Virginia, the Cavaliers we r e victims of Coach Charlie Speidel's weight moveups. And in shuffling his cards, the Lion mentor found an ace in every weight class. Tomorrow night his National champions take on the once-beat en Big Red of Cornell and there is reason to believe that there will be another mixed deal. Whether his cards will be stacked again remains to be seen. The Lion matmen who will wrestle will not be known until they take to the mat, however. The dual meet is scheduled for 7 p.m. in Rec Hall. Lineup Changes Speidel, who usually has cagey plans as to who will wrestle in each weight class, has made oc casional changes throughout his coaciing career, depending upon his opponent. Against Cornell some of his masterful wrestlers will remain in their own classes; but Speidel has indicated that the lighter men are mare than likely to be moved up in weights above their iegular divisions. His matmen will there by give their opponents one im portant edge in wrestling—weight advantage. If one were to question the Nit tany Lion mentor why he intends to make make any lineup changes, Speidel would sit back and ser iously say: "Team First" "We only make changes to help the team and not the individual. The team comes first." Despite the fact that Penn State wrestlers give their opponents weight advantage, the Nittany Lion grapplers have still won out over their adversaries. Although it may seem redund ant to say, Speidel says that his matmen walk onto the mat with one idea—wrestle to win. Junior Cadets Given Rating By Air ROTC Juniors enrolled in th e Ad vanced Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps program ha v e been placed into two categories, formal status and conditional sta tus, according to the AFROTC Communique. Formal status cadets will be as sured of a commission upon grad uation from the University. Those holding a conditional status will be placed in the formal status when the quota for commissioned officers is raised to include them. Most cadets accepted into the advanced program are flight training applicants, the rest being students enrolled in a technical field. Limited opportunities in ROTC will be available for exceptionally well qualified students to receive commissions for assignments in technical fields, according to the communique. Because requirements and de mands for officers change some what, no assurance can be given any student that he will receive a commission, the report said. Weather Conditions Remain Unchanged No change is seen in today's weather forecast, Dr. Charles L. Hostler, assistant professor of meteorology, said yesterday. Cloudy skies and low temp eratures are expected to con tinue today, he said. Light snow flurries will probably continue, but ro heavy snow fall is expected. TT-Tr nA Tr ,Nr C . OT ,T .T,7 GT A N ST ATE COLLEGE. .7=171!1/4Th7S71-,VANIA "Have You Heard?" Sam's Song By SAM PROCOPIO Collegian Sports Editor DID YOU KNOW That Penn State had only one individual champion in the 1953 National Wrestling Tournament but so strongly were they balanced in reserve depth that they could have won the title without a cham pion—a feat which no school has ever done . . . that Cornell, the Lions' opening mat foe, entered .only three wrestlers in the NCAA tourney and came out with two champions . . . that Penn State began wrestling in 1909 without the benefit of a coach . . . That baseball's famous brother acts—Dean's, Cooper's, etc.— racing's Myer boys, basketball's O'Brien twins, bike racing's Pedens brothers, track's Hideout brothers, hockey's Bentley masters, and football's Matthews' duo have nothing over wrestling—especially, at Penn State. The Nittany Lions' have had three brother acts in the last three years—the Maurey's, the Lemyre's and the Frey's ... that the Lemyre's and the Frey's made up half of Speidel's 1953 championship team . . . That in last year' Eastern championship matches, Coach Charlie Speidel's colorful 130-pound grappler, Dick Lemyre, had 11 points scored against him by two wrestlers and that seven of them were free points (an escape given to his opponent for a take down in return) . . . that Jesse Arnelle, who in 23 games last year scored 426 points for an '18.5 average, played most of the season with a broken toe. It was not revealed until the first week in March, just before State's final contest . . . That the. Swedish National Gymnastics team decided to send all its costly equipment—including' mats, uniforms, heavy ap paratus, spring boards, and other trappings—earlier by a freighter called the Oklahoma. University gym coach, Gene Wettstone, was asked to see that the equipment went to the right place after it landed in New York. Wettstone never saw it. The Oklahoma broke in two and sank about 400 miles off Newfoundland in the stormy North Atlantic Ocean. Arrangements have been made to send other equipment to this country in time for the tour . . . That it was necessary for most Swedish participants to obtain leave from military service, school, or employment in order to come to the United States . . . That the Swedish team will feature three events not commonly seen in this country—calisthenics, long horse vaulting, and the still rings . . . that Coach Rip Engle, who favors football's one-platoon, says that injUry-wise he probably suffered less than at any time in his six years at Brown and his four years at Penn State . . . That when the Penn State gridders play Pitt on Beaver Field in 1955, it'll be the ninth time that the Panthers traveled to State College ... that the Lions have beaten Pitt seven out of the eight meetings on Beaver Field and that the first five meetings were played at Penn State before the trend,. changed . . . that home attractions at the University are and will be few in 1954 because plans are being made for an attractive home card in every sport in 1955 . . . That Engle's four year football record at Penn State shows 32 victories, 12 defeats, and two ties . . . That he will reveal the fine points of his system at the National Football Clinic at Atlantic City March 8,9, 10, and 11 . . . that the year's football movies showed that Sam Green, guard and linebacker, led the parade with 45 tackles and four assists. Pete Schoderbek, who shared the backer -up position had 32 tackles and 7 assists . . . That three sophomore gridders did exceptionally ,well on de fense. They were tackle Otto Kneidinger, guard Earl Shumaker, and halfback Lenny Moore, who racked up 36, 28, and 'l7 tackles respectively . . . that Rio Grande made the headlines back in the 30s when it went four years and 32 games without a victory and three years without scoring a point in football . .. that West Vir ginia's football team claimed Georgia Tech was not the best nor toughest opponent it faced. The players and coach said it was Penn State. • Jazz Concert Slated Sunday The second organized jazz con cert will be held 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. Sunday in the Temporary Union Building. The concert will feature the Staters and will introduce Caro lyn Kirchner, first semester mu sic education major, as vocalist. Members of the Staters include James Murray, piano; Peter Kief er, guitar; Kenneth Lesight, trumpet; Warren Keefer, drums; and Francis Taylor, bass. The, concert will be recorded by Station WDFM to broadcast at a later date. The program is one in a Sunday afternoon series at the TUB sponsored through the Dean of Men's office. . • -30- Lion Quintet Seeks sth Win Against Colgate The Colgate Red Raider bas ketball team comes to town tomorrow night to. meet Coach Elmer Gross' quintet in the second event of a double head ar at Rec Hall. The Lions and Raiders will tangle immedia tely following the Penn State- Cornell wrestling match sche duled to begin at 7 p.m. Colgate Coach Howard Hartman will bring with him a team that is '-adly depleted. Last year the '.hiders won 12 and lost nine, , iolitting two gam es with the ',ions, and . Hartman is without 'he services of his top three scor .lrs of that team. This season the Raiders have won only one game, losing two. Seek sth Win The Lions' will be seeking their fifth win of the season, following their 77-63 win against Syracuse Wednesday night. Their only loss came against North Carolina State. One thing that Gross is prob ably not concerned •with as he prepares his team for tomorrow night's clash is the squad's foul shooting. The Lions went to• the charity line 41 times against the Orange and converted 33 shots for an almost unbelievable 81 per cent average. And it's just •as well that the Nittanies were so accurate from the line, too. The New Yorkers outscored them on the floor. 25 field goals to 22. but• registered only 13 foul points. Arnelle Top Scorer Leading the Lions against the Raiders will be big Jesse ..A.rnelle who tailed 2' markers against the Orange to increase his season's to tal to 93. However, one of the most notable features this season has been the ability of individual players to step in and take up the scoring slack when the big center is bottled up. Haag, Sherry Spark Win Against Syracuse Ed Hnqg came to life in the third quarter to score 'll points after Arnelle , lacked off his pace and in the fourth period Captain Jack Sher (Continued on page seven) FAMOUS NAME C . RED, HEAD HUNTING CLOTHES 40% Off HUTCH & TRU-TEST FOOTBALLS 20% Off NASSAU PENN STATE MUGS & ASH TRAYS . ' $2.00 -75 c STATE SOUVENIRS 20% Off - • Waltz & .Summers SPORTING GOODS 105 S. Pugh Across from the "Skater" FRIDAY, JANUARY 8,, 1954 Moore Says Duquesne Will Lose PITTSBURGH, Jan. 7 (W)—Du quesne University rides a 12-game winning streak today with a No. 2 rating in the nation but Coach Dude'y Moore feels "there isn't a team in the country that can go undefeated." Moore, usually a cautious soul, admits the story might be other wise if he could scratch four pos sible roadblocks from his sched ule. They are Niagara, ranked No. 12. with George Washington, and always troublesome Cincinnati, St. Bonaventure, and Villanova. The Dukes play Cincinnati next Monday, and Niagara Jan. 16. St. Bonaventure and Villanova are future opponents. Said Moore: "That Niagara team gave us plenty of trouble in the New York holiday festival. We had to go all the way out to win 66-61 after trailing 32-33 at halftime. And look what Cincinnati did to us last year after we whipped them 93- 76 at home. They turned around and trimmed us 72-69. "It takes great teams to win half of their road games and you don't do it playing teams like Cincinnati, Villanova. St. Bona venture, and Niagara. We've got a great team but we're not going to go undefeated. Neither is any_- body else." Moore predicted his, sharpshoot ers will win 20 of 27 games and "22 if they're lucky." The season is almost half over and Moore still sticks by those guns even with the terrific big three of Dick Ricketts, Si Green. and Jim Tucker. They call Ricketts, Green and Tucker the "giant killers" at Du quesne and it's, no wonder. Every time they take the floor it spells trouble fo• the opposition. If it isn't Ricketts of Pottstown, Pa., popping away at the opposi tion baskets and it isn't Green, the sophomore wond e r boy from Brooklyn, then it is Tucker, the lanky string bean from Paris, Ky. They've topped the scoring col umn in 10 of the Dukes 12 games. Ricketts turned the trick four times and tied once with Green. Tucker's done it twice and Green's been in the charmed circle three times plus once with Ricketts.' In all, the giant killers have scored 508 of Duquesne's 88 3 poin t s. Ricketts collected 194 points for an average of -16.2; Green 165 points, a 13.8 game av erage; and Tucker 149 points for a 12.4 ner game average:
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