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Meet Tsui h Explorers
In NC L, e , ..-s
A tired, but happy band Of Penn State basketball players are
home for a brief stay before meeting ,LaSalle in the semi-final round
of the National Collegiate Atheltic Association basketball champion
ships in Kansas City, Mo., Friday night.
The ten-man Lion squad arrived at State College, early yester
day morning and ran into one of
the biggest welcome home rallies
ever staged at the University.
An estimated 4000 students
mobbed the bus that carried home
the current "Cinderella" team of
college basketball. Penn State, ig
nored as a' possible contender in
the sprawling national tourney,
baffled just about everybody last
week with three straight upset
victories during their mid-west
jaunt. Toledo, Louisiana State,
and Notre Dame, the latter two
heavy favorites, lost to the Lions
in two of college basketball's ma
jor upsets of the year.
Gala Big Threat
Basketkia2l•Tickets
A limited number of tickets
to the NCAA playoff games
Friday and Saturday to be held
at Kansas City are on sale to
day at the first floor ticket
booth in Old Main. Tickets can
be purchased for both basket
ball games only. The pair costs
$B.OO.
WRA Results
BADMINTON
sWomen's Building over Mac Alli-
ter Hall
Thompson 3&4 over Little Lions
Tri Vi over Alpha Kappa Alpha
Phi Mu over Pi Beta Phi
Alpha Gamma Delta over Chi . 0.
Beta Sigma 0. over Delta Gamma
BOWLING
Kappa Delia over Leonides b 3,
forfeit
Kappa A. Theta over Delta Zeta
Atherton over Theta Phi Alpha
Red Sax' Williams
To Be Released
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 15
(M—Boston Red Sox outfielder
Ted Williams probably will be
discharged from Santa Maria Hos
pital tomorrow, officials said to
day.
A special brace has been de
vised to support Williams' left col
lar bone which he fractured in a
tumble March 1 at the Sox train
ing camp in Sarasota, Fla.
The stitches from an operation
in which the bone was wired, will
be removed Thursday, under
present plans.
Golf Managers
Sophomore candidates for sec
ond assistant .golf managers
should report to the caddy house
at 5 p.m. Thursday, Dick Bruce,
head manager, has announced.
Archers to Meet
The Nittany Bowmen Archery
Club will meet at 7:30 tonight in
208 Engineering B. Students in
terested in archery may attend.
Lion 'Unknown' Wins
Eastern Ring Crown
Last week Penn State's Jack Stokes was just another boxer
slated to climb through the ropes in the 31st annual Intercollegiate
Boxing Association tourney at C
the new 147-pound Eastern cham
Stokes' victory in capturing t
result of a phenomenal rise. He
fooled the Collegiate fight fans in
the finals Saturday night, and
dumped Andy Maloney, Army's
defending 1953 champion. •
The clever sophomore made his
prospective opponents and coaches
from opposing Eastern ring teams
perk up their ears when his name
was mentioned. Art Nelson felt
the effectiveness of Stokes' men
acing counter-punching style in
the semi-finals at the Easterns.
Stokes, who drew a bye in the
preliminaries, easily handled Nel
son in every round. 30-27. 30-25,
30-25.
After winning the individual
weight crown Saturday night, the
former "unknown" was awarded
the tournament's Outstanding
Boxing Award.
Stokes \Vas first spotted by
Fran Patrick, assistant boxing
coach, in a very ordinary manner
—in the nhys'eal edtication boxing
class. Coach Srlkowski
later picked the quiet-mannered
By DICK McDOWELL
So the Lions have a lot to cheer
about. But they also have a lot
to think about. When they meet
the Explorers Friday they will
be facing their third straight
ranked opponent. And once again
they have to stave off an all-
American •threat. This• one is the
biggest—fabulous Toni Gol a—
called by many the "gratest al'
American of the current crop.
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But Penn State, especially Jach
Sherry, who played against Gola
in high school, know what they
have to face Friday night. Sherry
summed it up this way: "We had
everything to win and nothing to
lose out there. We played that way
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HIY ROY WILLIAMS
Ilarlottesville, Va. This week he is
Ile 145-pound 113 A crown was the
sophomore for his regular 147-
pounder.
That was just six weeks ago.
Now Stokes not only has the East
ern crown but boasts a win and
lost chart of 4-1-1. Penn State's
other Eastern champ, Captain Ad
am Kois at 178-pounds, is the only
man on the Lion team with a sea
son record to equal Stokes'.
Stokes is a veteran of two years
in the Army. During that time he
fought hi nine bouts in addition
to his regular service duties. Al
though he never met the champion
of the 300,000 men included under
the United State's European
Armed Service Theater, he de
feated the European runner-u'•
while in the service.
When Stokes entered the IBA
ring with hopes of claiming the
147-pound title, he was three
pounds under his usual fighting
weight. "I couldn't seem to
:when we were in Virginia,"
"I forced st^^lr.
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THE DAILY COl) EGIAN' STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Ron Weidenhammer
Lion Plawttaker
"Bewitched"
Sam's Song
By SAM PROCOPIO
Collegian Sports Editor
Fantastic! That's about the only word in the dictionary
that aptly describes Penn State's basketball team which
qualified for the NCAA semi-finals to be held this weekend
at Kansas City. When the Nittany Lion cagers won over
Toledo, it was just considered as one of those things—an
upset. But when Elmer Gross' cagers - defeated LSU and
Notre Dame, it was more than man bites dog.
Some people were bewitched. Some were -bothered. Some
were bewildered. But some are still trying to figure out how Penn
State ever got into the tourney!
"Tournament officials," according to an Associated Press release,
"took another long and disbelieving look today at the four semi
finalists in the NCAA basketball championships and remarked that
it's a good thing the paying public in Kansas City is basketball happy.
"They weren't worried about the class of competition—it's .
bound to be top notch. It is just that whereas they expected to
wind up with LaSalle, Indiana or Kentucky. Oklahoma A&M or
Kanasas and probably Oregan State or Santa Clara, they got in
stead LaSalle, Penn State, Bradley, and Southern California. Not
one of the four is among the nation's top ten;' the release said.
Anyway, we're glad that the Lions did receive the invitation
and that they won. It not only will give Penn State prestige, but will
help the sport at the University. For the past two seasons the Lion
basketball team has rarely filled Rec Hall to capacity. However, if
the Lions were to play this weekend at Rec Hall, the number of
students would probably exceed 6000—a crowd that a basketball
team hasn't had in many years.
Over the past weekend Penn State had more than its share of
success. Name the sport and the Lions deserve a round of applause.
Coach Charlie Speidel's matmen took second place in the
EIWA tourney at Cornell. There are some fans who may be in
clined to believe that the grapplers were a failure. But the fact
remains that Penn State was rated below Pitt and Navy, and were
given an even chance to top Lehigh for third place. The Lions,
. however, proved the experts wrong. Then too, two of the four
defending champs retained their titles. Both were Penn Staters;
namely, Dick Lemyre and Jerry Maurey. Lemyre was a three-time
winner in the 130-pound class, only, the third grappler in Penn
State's history to accomplish the feat.
An interesting sidelight to the Lemyre triumph is that he
wrestled and won despite an injury. During his first bout, which he
won by a fall. Lemyre injured a' muscle in his ribs. Although it
wasn't serious, it was painful. He failed to pin Dave Kline, of Penn
because of it. With his chest taped, he still decisively won over Dean
Oliver of Rutgers and Jim Mahoney of Lehigh.
Coach Gene Wettstone's gymnasts deserve a 21-gun salute for
their performances. The unbeaten gymnasts have had to capture
the fancy of the judges. And judgment is based on difficulty of
exercise, speed and rhythm of action, seeming ease of effort, dis
mount, and general appearance of competition. That assignment
was almost achieved to perfection several times.
Penn State's boxers, under the tutorship of Coach Eddie Sul
!cowski, came in third in their Eastern tournament, although they
had only won one match all season.
Well, the weekend may have been a hectic one as far as sports
were concerned, but then there was our trip to Ithaca this weekend.
Students• who travel on route 45 to State College have no complaint
to make. The roads to Ithaca are just as bad. Then too, we found
out where Froth (a word that should never be spoken) obtained its
photographs of Penn State fraternities in its parody issue. Someone
must have traveled to Ithaca recently because the samples shown
in the magazine are similar to those along the road.
Five of us, including Abe Schuster, Steve Fishbein, Has Simm,
and Jack Apgar, were enroute to Horseheads. The driver, influenced
by our day-dreaming navigator, Jack, took a left turn instead of
a right and put us on a dirt road fit only for horses. The only trouble
was we passed dogs at first. After traveling a mile, we approached
an encouraging sign: "Travel at Your Own Risk."
We did. And we weren't sorry. It's not too often that we look
for Horses Heads and find two horses.
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If all-American honors were
passed .out for sheer drive and de
termination, the entire Penn State
basketball team would probably
get the nod. That's about the con
sensus of opinion of everybody
who saw the Lions hi action last
week. Coach Elmer Gross and his
assistant John Egli credited the
success of the trip to just that,
Egli commented: "Those kids just
refused to give up. I've never seen
a team fight so hard."
The Lions had no idea that their
games were being followed so
closely in State College until
ter the LSU game when they
learned of the re-created broad
; casts done by station WMAJ.
lloweyer, a flood of telegrams
' kept them in contact with the fans
• at home.
TUESDAY. MARCH 16, 1954
Fri ;ay
NCAA
Sidelights
The team arrived in Altoona
by train early yesterday morn
ing and came on to State Col
lege by special bus. Settle d
down for the last leg of their
long journy home, everyone ap
peared somewhat dazed about
what they had accomplished.
"We're all tired but too happy
to feel it right now." came one
remark.
The Lions .all agreed that LS - U's
Bob Pettit was the best opponent
they faced in the tournament,
especially center Jesse Arnelle.
"Dick Rosenthal was good too,"
he said, "but he had a bad night.
I learned a lot from both of them."
Seems Jesse made a deal with
his teammates to throw his
prized hat n the river if Penn
State beat Noire Dame. His
boys held him to it. On the route
back to the hotel following the
game, Jesse had the taxi driver
stop the car on a bridge. The
big pivoiman strolled to the
ailing and flipped the chapeau
into the river below.
Captain Jack Sherry's comment
on the three-game win skein: "We
fought like hell."
As the Lion bus was about to
leave the Altoona railroad sta
tion Ernest McCoy, director of
athletics, siepped into the bus.
"Boys, the state, the town, and
particularly the Penn State
family is proud of you," he said.
but remember, there are two
more games to be won.",
Gross' comment on the triple
win' trip: "The boys just wanted
to play ball. They worked hard
and never gave up." He was
quick to add, however, 'We
have to play the same way
against LaSalle."
Arnelle's. 59 points in the three
_eines brings his season total to
464... Jim Blocker, who's dead
ly hook shot was devastating in
the late stages of both regional
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