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1* We ights in EIWA
Key to rattamesj Success
(This is the second in a series of three_ articles on Penn State's chances at the Eastern Inter-
collegiate Wrestling tournament to be held at Ithaca, N.Y. this weekend.)
If Coach Charlie Speidel had to concede defeat in any weight class, as far as individual
champions are concerned in the EIWA tournament at Cornell Friday and Saturday, he
would have to list the 147, 157, and 167 pound divisions.
Not only do his grapplers fail to show impressive won and lost records in the afore
mentioned divisions, but the Nittany Lions will compete against "sure" winners and mat
men who have already scored victories over them.
Despite this fact, Speidel may be able to count on a few points—either by falls or by
any of his 147, 157, and 167-pound matmen getting by the preliminary and quarter-finals
rounds. In the 147-pound - class Doug Frey will most likely receive the nod. During the regu
par campaign, he wrestled only
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two matches in this class. He won
against Penn's Steve Freidberg
but dropped a 2-1 decision to
Pitt's Ch^•''~g
The latte_ matanan may give the
newly admitted members, Pitt, a
second champion. He is unbeaten.
hut shows two draws marring his
won and lost record. The biggest
threat seen in the 147-pound class
was Ed Eichelberger of Lehigh
who had gone through nine bouts
without defeat. including a draw
to State's Jerry Maurey. How
ever, Uram won a 5-4 decision
from the Lehigh grappler in an
over-the-weight assignment for
chelberger.
The other 147-pounders who
should provide some opposition
are Paul Steiger of Cornell and
George Mulligan of Rutgers. There
is a possibility. 'however. of Mul
ligan moving down to the 137-
Pound class.
In the 157-pound class, two
tournament favorites are Don
Rumsefeld of Princeton and Ed
Rooney of Syracuse. Both grapp
lers were contenders last year.
Rooney is most likely to carry
the honors this year. He won
the 167-pound title at the
Wilkes-College tournament dur
ing the Christmas holidays last
year. In doing so he defeated
one of the East's better Wrest
lers, Pitt's Joe Solomon.
Dropping one weight class for
the EIWA tourney, Rooney's 1954
unbeaten record wi 1 be chal
lenged by Ed DeWitt of Pitt and
Dale Ward of Army. DeWitt was
unbeaten in nine dual meets this
year.
Dukes Beat
St. Fronds
In NIT Play
NEW YORK., March 9 VP)
Top-seeded Duquesne beat off a
tremendous threat by little St.
Francis of Loretto, Pa., to w;n
its first game in the National In
vitation basketball tournament
tonight 69-63 and enter the semi
finals. The Dukes , will play Ni
agara Thursday.
St. Francis, cheered on by a
crowd of about 12,000 in Madi
son Square Garden, called on big
Maurice Stokes and scrap in an
effort to upset the favored Dukes.
It almost worked as Stokes,, play
ing every min'ute of the game,
dominated the play and scored• 28
points.
The Frankies played Duquesne
on even terms for three quarters
before they finally yielded to 'a
team that had beaten them by 30
and 25 pOints in two regular sea
son games.
It wasn't until Duquesne Coach
Dudey Moore switched his de
fense to put two men on Stokes
and force him to shoot from out
side that the Dukes finally took
charge.
Duquesne, with Jim Tucker
badly off on his shooting, didn't
look like a team that won 22
straight games this season and
finished with a 24-2 record.
Still the Frankies and Stokes
gave the crowd its money's worth.
Jumping into the lead midway
through the first quarter, they
had the score tied at 18-18 at the
end of the first quarter and 33-33
at the half.
Duquesne finally went ahead to
stay in the last couple of minutes
of the third quarter, but wasn't
until the final period was well
underway that they held a lead
as big as six points.
Duquesne's top scorers were Si
.Green with 26 points and Dick
Ricketts with 23.
Baseball Star, Too
Keith Vesling, right halfback
on the Nittany football team last
year, is also a star pitcher on the
Lion baseball squad.
Krebs
Policy
By 808 DUNN
For years the rugged Dis
trict 6-9 of the Pennsylvania
Interscholastic Athletic Asso
ciation has been a main sup
plier of talent for Penn State
wrestling teams. Bill Krebs,
Lion 157-pound grappler, is
another area wrestler who
chose to further his mat educa
tion under the expert tutelage of
Charlie Speidel.
Krebs attended Bellefonte High
School where he madc his mark
as an outstanding competitor un
der Coach Glenn Smith, who was
once a Eastern champion at State.
Krebs won two district titles in
the 145-pound weirf.ht. and nar
rowly miss , yl e crown. The
one who deprived him of this
By SAM r ROCOPIO
Speidels hopeful will most
likely be scrappy Bill Shawley.
He may not be a champion, but
he will more than not giPe his
adversaries something to think
about.
Penn State's coach is still un
decided about his 167-pound
choice, but indications have been
made that Joe Humphreys will
win the verdict.
Whoever it is, he finds him•
self among Solomon of Pitt and
Joe Gattuso of Navy; two wrest
lers, a class in themselVes. Gat
tuso, who , is Navy's hope for an
individual champ, will be carry
ing an undeefated record into
the tourney. rive of his eight
victories. were registered in the
177-pound class this season.
If one had to go by records
alone, Pitt's chances for a possible
third champion up to this point
is practically nil. Gattuso already
owns one triumph over Solomon.
Nevertheless, when there is a
Follows Long-Time
of District Wrestlers
honor was Joe Solomon, now an
ace on the Pitt squad.
At Penn State, Bill found he
was seeing double when he pon
dered over whom he would have
to beat out for a starting assign
ment. Twin brothers Don and
Doug Frey alternated, at the 147
and 157 pound spots, with the re
sult that Bill saw limited service
for the Lions in the last two years.
This season Krebs has handled
the 157 and 167 pound chores,
while Doug Frey is at the 147
pound slot. Bill's first three bouts
were at 167, in two of which he
came out victorious. At 157 he met
two of the East's best, Pitt's Ed
DeWitt and Ed Rooney of Syra
cuse, dropping both matches.
A seventh semester physical ed
ucation major, he is married and
commutes daily from his home in
Bellefonte.
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championship at stake. record
books, predictions, and opinions
must be thrown out of the win
dow.
Other wrestling personnel who
should be considered in this
weight class are Sal D'Amico of
Franklin and Marshall. Bob Sher
ry of Columbia, and Hugh Cher
rie of Temple.
Cherrie, who has wrestled in
three different' weight classes,
has been in nine dual meets for
Temple this past campaign
and came out on top seven
times. His only loss came at the
expense of a 177-pound foe. One
of his 167-pound matches ended
in a draw.
All-in-all, Pitt appears a good
bet to enhance to its point total
with several runners-up. Navy
and Lehigh changing hands, with
the Lions in the back seat, with
hopes of being more than just a
hack seat driver.
1M Mat Entry
list Is Record
A record number of 334 entries
make up the fraternity section of
the intramural wrestling tourney
this year. The first IM bouts are
scheduled March 17.
This year 321 bouts will be run
off as compared to 298 matches
last year. This is the largest num
ber of matches ever to - be held in
the tournament, according to the
IM office.
Five individual champions will
be on hand but cannot defend
their crowns since they are re
quired to move up one weight
class. They are Bob Wylie, Pi
Kappa Phi in the 128 pound class,
John Baffa, tit' DU at 135, and Bob
Brubaker, also of DU, at the 145
pound spot, Chuck Groff, of KDR
in the 155 pound class, and Andy
Krassowski, also of Pi Kappa Phi.
in the unlimited class.
Sigma Nu is the defending team
champion and has entered a full
team.
Former Lion Athlete
J. Neil "Skip" Stahley, newly
appointed Utah State football
coach, is a former Penn State
all-around athlete.
Arnelle Hits 1000 Points
Lion eager Jesse Arnelle has
scored over 1000 points in his
three years on the Lion basket
ball team.
Bellefonte's school system starts
wrestlers at an early age, and
Krebs wrestled his firSt match as
a freshman. In fact, many grade
school children are started with
the .mat fundamentals and have a
fine background for the sport
when they finally reach the var
sity. An overall program such as
this is helping supply Eastern
colleges with the kind of talent
to catch up with western powers
like Oklahoma and Oklahoma
A&M. The Lions last year were
the first eastern school to ever
.capture the NCAA championship.
What about the Lions' chances
in the forthcoming Nationals as
well as the Easterns this week, he
asked?
"The pairing will have to lot to
do with the success of contenders
such as our team, Pitt, Navy and
• 1 1' , 1,h." he said. "But I think we
have a good chance."
raternity Champs
THE PHI SIGMA DELTA basketball team won its second con
secutive fraternity championship Monday night. First row, left
to right, are Mark Weiner, Stan Vogin, Don Devarras, Arnie
Esdalmen, and Warren Glitten. Second row: Len Frankel, Jay
Poser, Bob Seigal, Milt Linial, Bob Kauffman, and , Murray
Jacobson.
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Es sterns
Penn State's victory-starved boxing team will travel to
Charlottesville,. Va., this weekend to compete in the 31st annual
Eastern Boxing Association tourney. •
While currently carding a dim 1-4-1 record, the Lions are con
fidently preparing to "reboUnd" against the same teams that have
caused them so much trouble this
season
Entries are expected from six
schools—Maryland, Virginia, Ar
my, Syracuse, City College of
New York, and Catholic Univer-1
sity—in addition to Penn State.
Everybody will be gunning to
knock Coach Roy Simmons and
his Syracuse team from the top
perch. Since 1947, the Big Orange
has won the Eastern title six
times. The dominance of Syra
cuse in the Eastern boxing ranks
has been so formidable that it
has copped the coveted crown
five consecutive times since 1948.
Supremacy Threatened
But Syracuse's iron-fisted grasp
of the crown may be slipping.
In comparing different team
scores against the Orange this
season, indications show that
Syracuse may face serious • op
position from other Eastern ring
squads.
Virginia's Cavaliers came up
with a 4-4 score against Syracuse,
after Penn State accomplished
the same feat earlier in the sea
son at Rec Hall. Syracuse just
edged Army. 4 1 / 2 -3%, before the
Cadets rallied to clip the Lions
by the same score last Week.
Last year the Orange won three
of the eight individual titles, and
also had three runners-up as it
totaled. 36 team points for a new
high.
Orange Boasts 2 Champs
The Orange will be boasting the
return of two of its Eastern lau
rel winners, and also two runners
up.
John Grange r, 139-pounder,
and Vince Rigolosi, co-captain
and 165-pound titlist, will both
return to defend their individual
weight titles.
•Simmons will also be heavily
relying on Larry O'Sullivan and
footballer Bruce Yancey. O'Sul
livan was runner-up at the 147-
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Enter
Friday
pound slot last year, while Yan
cey was defeated by Penn State's
captain, Adam Kois, in' the finals
of the 178-pound division.
But Syracuse will heed more
power than what is displayed in
four of its definite starers at. Vir
ginia this weekend. Both O'Sulli
van and Yancey were defeated
at Penn State. Sophomores Frank
Della Penna and Jack Stokes
ground out decisions over both
the experienced Orangemen.
100 Schoolboys
To Enter Meet
More than 100 schoolboy swim
ming representing some 30
schools will vie at Glennland Pool
Saturday for State honors in the
annual PIAA championships.
York High is the defending
team titleholder and once again
stands as a strong contender along
with Lancaster, Coatesville, Erie
Strong Vincent, Clairton, ail d
Oliver of Pittsburgh. Lancaster
nosed the Yorkmen out in the
Eastern regional qualifying
events last week.
The individual field appears
wide open, with no defending
champions entered. Ed Schwar of
Lancaster is conceded a chance
for a double victory. Schwar was
medalist in both the 50 and" 100-
yard freestyle events in the re
gionals. Bob Mohr, second to
Schwar in the 100, won the indi
vidual medley race in the quali
fiers,
Cliff Pifer, Erie Strong Vincent,
set a new regional record in win
ning his 100-yard breast , stroke
qualifier and will be out after the
State record of 1:03.3 set by
Schmidt, of York, in 1942.