PAGE SIX State Grapplers Seek 31st At Lehigh Penn State’s unbeaten wrest lers embark on their first road trip today for their all important dual meet against Lehigh. The Nittany Lions will leave at noon from Rec Had via Univer sity station wagons. They are scheduled to battle the Engineers on their home floor after the freshman Lehigh-West Chester match. Both schools, which are noted for their wrestling talent, are un beaten this season. The Lions, who will be seeking their 31st dual meet triumph, have success fully notched the win column last Saturday when they, defeated Cornell, 20-6. Lehigh, which also opened its season against the Big Red of Cornell, won out over the Ith acacans, 17-6, and have since de feated Franklin and Marshall, 25- 3, and Penn, 23-5. Coach Gerald Leeman- possess es a list of new talent. Five to be exact. Nevertheless, his 1954 team has defeated each opponent more convincingly. Five of the eight starting matmen are unbeaten in varsity competition this season. They are Alex McCord, 123-pound EIWA champion; Gus Filipos, 130- pounder; Ken Faust, 137-pound er; Ed Eichelberger, 147-pound er, and Joe Comly, heavyweight. Concerning the season as a whole, Leeman has said: “I think that we will be much improved by the time the EIWA tournament comes around in March.' “Werner Seel, the EIWA heavy weight champion, might be off scholastic probation, and the soph omores will have had some var sity competition under their belts by that time. T’he situation for next season looks good since only McCord and Jim Mahoney are seniors.” Mahoney and Faust, co-cap tams for Lehigh, competed for the 137-pound berth before the season got underway. Faust won the starting position when he de eisioned Mahoney, 4-0, on a re versal and time advantage. Faust the junior who placed second in the EIWA 130-pound champion ships as a freshman, will be at the 137-pOund class where Coach Charlie Speidel is still uncer tain whether co-captain and EI WA champion, Dick Lemyre, will wrestle. ATO Remains 15 Games Are Alpha Tau Omega kept alive its undefeated record by thorough ly subduing Alpha Zeta, 41-16, Wednesday evening as 15 Intramural basketball games were played on the Rec Hall ‘courts. The greatest individual effort of the two-month old campaign was registered as jim Garrity led Delta TJpsilon to a convincing 48-8 runaway over Delta Theta Sigma with 31 big points. Many lop-sided victories were recorded as many championship contenders were paired with second-divisions squads. Eight of the games were won by a margin of ten or more points. Two other outstanding indi vidual performances were record ed as Glenn Gross, Lambda Chi Alpha, scored 18 and Don Bailey of Phi Delta Theta tallied 17 Other game scores: Pi Kappa Phi, 29, Chi Phi, 10; Beta Theta Pi forfeit over Kappa Alpha Psi; Phi Delta Theta, 40, Alpha Chi Sigma, 6; Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 24, Delta Phi, 15; Delta Chi, 27, Pi Kappa Alpha, 22; Lambda Chi Alpha, 37, Phi Mu Delta, 23. Alpha Epsilon Pi, 13, Phi Kap pa Tau, 11; Alpha Phi Alpha, 25, Theta Chi, 17; Sigma Phi Epsilon, 18, Phi Kappa Psi, 14; Phi Gamma Delta, 26, Phi Kappa Sigma, 20; Sigma Phi Sigma, 35, Phi Sigma Kappa, 19; Phi Epsilon Pi, 30, Acacia, 12; Theta Kappa Phi, 43, Phi Kappa, 1-8. Faces Three Tough Foes THE PENN STATE TEAM which last year won Eastern and National Collegiate gymnastics honors tomorrow will face Sweden's National championship team in an international duel at Recreation Hall. They are, left to right. Coach Lion Gymnastic Squad Boosts Nine Lettermen By RON GATEHOUSE Lion gymnastic coach, Gene Wettstone, will send a veteran team against the visiting Swedish National and Olympic team tomorrow at Rec Hall. With nine lettermen returning from last year’s NCAA Championship squad, Wettstone is well equipped with the experience and depth needed to furnish another outstanding team. Leading the Lions in th< Saddler, Bossio Fight Tonight NEW YORK, (JP) Feather weight Champ Sandy Saddler, due to get out of the Army before spring, makes his first start in al most two years tonight against little Billy Bossio at St. Nicholas Arena. It will be a “Mutt and Jeff” match between the lanky 5-foot-7 champion and 5-foot-1 Bossio with no title at stake. Saddler expects to weigh about 131 pounds, six over the feather limit. There is virtually no betting, with Saddler at least 3% to 1. The 10-round match, starting at 10 p.m. EST will be given the usual Friday network treatment on radio ABC and TV NBC.. _ With Madison Square Garden given over to an ice show, the In ternational Boxing Club has shift ed operations to the cld St. Nick’s. Unbeaten; Played Public elementary and high schools cost about $6 billion in 1952 and private schools about one billion dollars. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN eir bid for the first U.S. victo: nastic competition will be versa tile Jan Cronstedt. Cronstedt, a native of Finland, owns Eastern and National Collegiate all-around honors.. As a freshman in 1952, he won the National AAU honors in calisthenics. Cronstedt Excels in 3 Events Cronstedt’s specialties are calisthenics, parallel bars, and the horizontal bar. Penn State all-around perform ers who will assist Cronstedt, all of them veterans, are Karl Sch wenzfeier, Dick Spiese, and Man uel Procopio. Spiese and Procopio are seniors, while Cronstedt and Schwenzfeier are juniors. Others include Bob Lawrence, Eastern side horse champion, Co captains Frank and A 1 Wick, and Paul Heim. Al, who is a number one on the parallel bars, is backed by Cronstedt and Schwenzfeier. First Twin Co-captains The Wicks, are the first set of twins ever to captain a Penn State athletic team. Graduates of Olney High School, they stand 5-11 and weigh 140 pounds. Both are sen iors. Procopio and Hugh Cline give support to Cronstedt on the hori zontal bar while the standouts on the rings are Procopio, Schwenz feier and Spiese. These two events are expected to produce exciting competition in the meet with the Swedes. Tumbling aces are Bill Paxton, Warren Hommas, and Cronstedt. MIDNIGHT SHOW FRIDAY Doors Open [ Marring * "«»« j JOAN LESLIE • FORREST TUCKER STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Gene Wettstone, Co-captains Al and Frank Wick, Jan Cronstedt, Hugh Cline, Bob Law rence, Karl Schwenzfeier, Dick Spiese, Paul Heim, and Manuel Procopio. •y in international duel gym- Burritt Haag, Johnny Baffa, and Leroy Fritch excel on the ropes. Neither tumbling nor the rope climb is an international event, thereby eliminating them from the opening meet with Sweden. Standout of the visiting team, Olympic champion William Thor esson, will meet Cronstedt in at least two events—calisthenics and parallel bars. Each will represent his team in three of the six events on the program, and their per formances are expected to be the evening’s top attraction. The meet, one of four booked for the Europeans on their nation wide exhibition tour, will bring into sharp focus essential differ ences in gymnastic techniques and will also provide an Ameri can audience with its first oppor tunity to observe a crack foreign gym team in competitive action. 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Last year the Midshinmen had a perfect home record. Three Common, Foes Three common foes furnish one basis of comparison between the two teams. The Middies topped both American University and North Carolina State while Penn State beat American but lost to the'Wolfpack. However, the Lions beat Penn and the Quakers in turn topped Navy. So common foes don’t appear to tell much of a story. What may give a clearer pic ture, however, is. the fact that as a team Navy ranks 28th in the nation offensively with a 76.5 average per game, aiid both Clune and Lange are listed among the top 25 individual scorers. Clune is 21st with a 23.5 average per contest and Lange is 24th with 22.3. Navy picked up the remainder of its victories against the Uni versity of North Carolina, Johns Hopkins, Temple, Virginia, Yaie, Columbia, Princeton, and Rut gers. Its third loss came at the hands of Cornell. Tough Fight Expected It’s easy to see that the Lions will have a real fight on their hands. However, the fine team play of the. Lions along with the reserve performances of Jim Brewer and Dave Edwards bright en the picture - considerably. In winning six games the Nit tan ies have had . little trouble ex cept against Penn and West Vir- (Continued on page seven)
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