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Penn State's NCAA Tourney entry
PENN STATE players who will compete against powerful Louisiana State University in the East
ern Regional playoffs Friday are: first row, left to right, Captain Jack Sherry, Ed Haag, Jesse
Arnelle, Bob Rohland, and Jim Blocker. Second row, Jim Brewer, Ron Weidenhammer, Rudy
Marisa, Earl Fields, and Dave Edwards. The Lions meet the Tigers at lowa City. lowa.
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Jim Brewer has played a lot of good basketball for Penn State during the last two ,
seasons, but his coach, Elmer Gross, will tell you today that his fireball performance against
Toledo Tuesday night was his best.
A reserve guard for the most part this season, Brewer took charge of a slipping Lion
quintet in the second half of their opening NCAA playoff tilt, and sparked a 19-point
fourth quarter uprising that swept them past Toledo and into the Eastern Regional playoffs
tomorrow night.
The Lions left Fort Wayne yesterday for lowa City, lowa, where they trill prepare to
meet Louisiana State, the Southeastern Conference representative. The pairings for the
eastern playoffs were determined
Tuesday after Kentucky beat LSU
for the conference crown but then
waved its right to enter the play
offs.
Wildcat, coach Adolph Rupp
withdrew his team because of the
ineligibility of three of his top
performers. As a result, the Ti-
The folAnwing are the cor
rected individual scoring totals
for Penn State in the game with
Toledo Tuesday. The Daily Col
legian received incorrect totals
from Fort Wayne. Jesse Arnelle
led the scorers with 13 points,
followed by Jim Brewer, 11;
Ron Weidenhammer, 10; Ed
Haag, 8; 801. Rohland, 6; Jack
Sherry, 5; Earl Fields, 5; and
Jim Blocker, 4.
gers, led by All-American Bob
Pettit, got the tourney bid and
will meet the Lions at the lowa
University fieldhouse tomorrow
night.
Whether or not the Nittanies
win or lose, they still have at
least two games remaining in
tournament play. A win, of course,
would move them one step high
er in the bracket, and if they lose
to LSU they still get a chance at
Seven Advance
Seven men advanced into the
quarter-finals in the fraternity
handball singles held at Recrea
tion Hall Tuesday night.
Lloyd Eddings, Theta Xi, turned
in, the most impressive victory
of the night as he defeated Edrl
Glenwright, Phi Kappa Psi, 21-2
and 21-0.
Rex Bradley. Beta Theta Pi,
won over Norman Lebovits, Alpha
Epsilon Pi. in two sets 21-6 and
21-5.
Tom Ceraso, Delta Chi. defeated
Dan Grove. Phi Delta Theta, in
a close first set. 21-20. then won
the second set 21-14.
John Chillrud. Acacia, won two
straight sets from Don Holler, Al
pha Chi Sigma, 21-12 and 21-19.
Albert Coble, Alpha Tau Ome
ga. defeated Dick Blankenbeker,
Lambda Chi Alpha. in two sets
by the identical scores of 21-4.
Joe sfrqsset. Tau Phi Delta
won over Elliot Fox, Phi Sigma
MUNMS=MII
a consolation game with the loser
of the Notre Dame-I ndian a
game. The two Hoosier quintets
make up the other half of the
double header to he played to
morrow.
The two winners and two losers
tangle Saturday night to decide
the first three places in the re
gional eliminations.
The big problem for the Lions
now, of course, is stopping Pettit,
who towers 6'9", and has been
averaging 32 points a game this
year. He has been picke on just
about everybody's all-American
team. The big center will lead one
of the nation's best collegiate
teams against the Lions. Ranked
among the ten best in the coun
try, the Tigers pushed .Kentucky
all the way Friday before bow
ing, 63-56.
Some lineup changes may be
pending for Penn State. Brewer.
who. tallied 11 points and spear
headed ' the Nittany floorgame,
will probably be moved into one
guard spot. Gross said following
the contest that it was Brewer's
greatest game. He also had plenty
of praise for reserve Earl Fields
who lended a big hand in the
fourth quarter massacre in which
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Delta, in two sets, 21-4 and 21-16.
Henry Zeybel, Delta Upsilon,
eliminated Don Martin, Phi Kappa
Sigma, by scores of 21-1.1 and
21-18.
Dave Girard, Sigma Nu, de
fending handball singles cham
pion, opened the 1954 tournament
Monday night by defeating Jim
Lessig, Chi Phi, in two sets, 21-1.
21-1.
In other games Bob McMillan,
Delta Tau Delta, beat Bob Buch
wald, Pi Kappa Phi, by scores of
21-1 and 21-4. Dick Matacia, Al
pha Sig in a Phi, defeated Ed
Flack, Pi Kappa Alpha, 21-5 and
21-16. James Griffin, Kappa Sig
ma, edged Howard Thompson,
Phi Kappa Tau, 21-19, 21-9.
Newlin Grubb, Alpha Chi Rho,
won over Ed Tocker, Beta Sig
ma Rho, 21-12, 21-13. Bob Yoder,
Alpha Tau Omega, defeated Jo-
PEO.o. Delta Sigma Phi, 21-15,
21-16.
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Toledo could account for only
seven points.
Again it was high pressure de
fense that played the important
role as the Lions made their first
successful opening g-me bid in
NCAA competition. Gross' smooth
working sliding-zone screen Wield
the Rockets to only 14 field goals
and nine of these came from the
sure hands of forward Phil Mar
tin, top scorer of the evening.
However, all but one of Martin's
two-pointers came from outside
the Lion defense.
The Rockets simply couldn't
find a way to get the ball inside.
However, they made up for their
lack of field goals with 21 fo&
points.
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Gymnasts Seek
EIGA Titles
Nittany Lion gymnastic coach, Gene Wettstone, will send ten
members of his all-winning gym outfit against the cream of the crop
tomorrow and Saturday when the Lions enter the annual Eastern
Intercollegiate Gymnastic Association individual championship in
Temple University's South Hall.
The decade of Nittany season
long standouts, who farmed ther
nucleus of Wettstone's splendid
gym squad and had the big say
in the capturing of the EIGA
team crown for the- second con
secutive season, will be facing
the East's best, gymnastically,
'speaking.
The Penn State aggregation,
which Wettstone claims is the
best he has tutored in his 15-year
reign as head Lion gym mentor,
will be sporting a 15 game inter
collegiate winning streak when
they enter the individual compe
tition.
The EIGA, composed of. Syra
cuse„Army, Navy, Temple, in ad
ditiori to the Lions, is in its 27th
annual running.
All-around Compeition
The meet will be inaugurated
Friday afternoon with all-around
competition in EIGA and Olym
pic events. Individual champs
will be selected in each. The
EIGA all-around competitors will
compete in the six standard East
ern events; tumbling,. side horse,
rope climb, horizontal bar, paral
lel bars, and flying rings.
The Olympic all-around- con
tenders will compete in six
events; loa„,a horse, still rings, side
horse, calisthenics, H-bar, and the
parallel bars. The Olympic title
is one much' sought after by col
lege gymnasts seeking berths as
United States representatives in
the Interriational Olympics.
Competition in the six Eastern
individual events will follow the
all-arounds with action on the
horse, rings, H-bar and parallels.
Three Lions in All-Arounds
Karl Schwenzfeier and Tony
Procopio will represent the Nit
tany Valers in the, Eastern all
arounds. The two will also ac
company defending National all
around titleholder Jan Cronstedt
in the competition.
In addition to the two all
arotinds, Schwenzfeier and Pro
copio will compete individually
on the flying rings. Thus, the two
Lion stalwarts will be playing
iron-man roles as they see action
in a total of seven events.
Other N:tt any season-long
standouts who stand an excellent
chance of picking up individual
honors are Bob Lawrence, Co-
Captains Frank and Al Wick,
Dick Spiese, Skeets Haag, John
affa. and Bill Paxton.
Lawrence is the defending East-
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ern champ on the horse, and, ac
cording to Wettstone, has an ex
cellent chance of retaining his
title. Frank Wick will also be
competing on the horse.
Al Wick stands as a high-rank
ing contender on the parallel bars,
followed by Spiese. The latter
broke into the starting line-up
after performing a brilliant rou
tine in the Lions' last outing, the
West Virginia duel, which
brought him second honors be
hind Wick.
Haag is expected
,to run into
some difficulty in his attempt to
carry away rope-climbing honors.
His best effort has netted him a
time of 3.7 for the 20-foot climb.
The remaining two Nittanies,
Baffa and Paxton, will exhibit
routines, on the rope and the
rings, and in tumbling respec
tively.
13 Teams Win IM
Volleyball Openers
Thirteen teams posted victories
as intramural volleyball got un
derway at Rec Hall Tuesday
night.
Delta Sigma Phi inaugurated
its season by beating Pi ,Kappa
Phi, 15-12, 15-4. Triangle took
Alpha Epsilon Pi, 15-5, 15-10.
Acacia went down to the wire
with Alpha Zeta, but lost out
15-8, 9-15, 16-14. Alpha Sigma Phi
beat Sigma Chi, 15-1, 15-7, and
Kappa Delta Rho took Delta Tau
Delta, 15-2, 15-7.
Delta Upsilon was too much
for Zeta Beta Tau, 15-8, 15-1,
while Kappa Sigma won by for
feit from Phi Sigma Delta. Phi
Kappa Psi found little trouble in
Phi Kappa Tau, 15-0, 15-0. Phi
Delta Theta beat Alpha Chi Sig
ma 15-3,.15-12, and Theta .Xi took
Phi Mu Delta 15-4, 15-12. Beta
Theta Pi came from behind to
take Theta Kappa Phi, 2-15, 15-4,
15-4, and Phi Gamma Delta beat
Phi Sigma Kappa 15-8, 15-11.
Geneva Beaten, 79-52
KANSAS CITY March 10 (JP)—
East Texas State of Commerce,
semi-finalist last year, breezed to
an easy 79-52 victory over Geneva
of Beaver Falls, Pa., in the final
afternoon game of the NAIA bas
ketball tournament today.