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A title-hopeful Penn State basketball team leaves for KansaS City this afternoon
where it will meet LaSalle College in the first of two semi-final games in the National Col
legiate Athletic Association basketball tourney.
The two teams square off at Municipal Auditorium Friday night at 9 p.m
Bradley and the University of Southern California meet in the nightcap.
A win for the Lions would bring them the eastern crown and put them within one
game of the national championship.
All four semi-finalist's are expected to arrive in Kansas City tonight and tomorrow
7 Eliminated
In Handball
Singles Tourney
Seven contestants in the intra
mural handball singles tourna
ment were eliminated in games
played last Monday at Bee Hall.
Scores of the contests were
Huber Kline, Beta Theta -Pi,
defeated Ed Tezekjian, Phi Kap
pa Tau, 21-4 and 21-2.
Don Ziegler. Pi Kappa Phi, won
over Russ Provenzano, Delta Sig
ma Phi, 21-11, 21-11.
Bill' Frengel, Lambda Chi Al
pha, beat John Iddon, Alpha Chi
Sigma, 21-8 and 21-15.
Gerry Gillispie, Tau Kappa Ep
silon, defeated Stan .Dore, Alpha
Tau Omega, 21-3 and 21-7.
A forfeit game was won by
Dick Longo. Theta Kappa Phi,
over Ron Weidenhammer, Alpha
Chi Rho.
Joe Pitoniak, Phi Kappa, also
won a forfeit from Jim Lewis,
Sigma Chi.
The third forfeit of the night
was won by Don Miller, Alpha
Zeta, over John Rautine, Theta
Xi.
WRA Results
VOLLEYBALL
Alpha Omicron Pi over Alpha Xi
Delta
Atherton over Beta Sigma 0.
Woman's Building over Pi Beta
Phi by forfeit
Thompson over Delta Gamma
Theta Phi Alpha over Phi Mu
Co-op over Phi Sigma Sigma
Alpha Epsilon Phi over Philotes
BOWLING
Delta Delta Delta over Thomp
son 1-2
Zeta Tau Alpha over Kappa Kap
pa Gamma
Gamma Phi Beta over Chi Omega
Penn State Cagers Ranked
ation; entucky Leads
NEW YORK, March 16 (AP) Going into the final stage of the 1954 basketball season. Kentucky's
undefeated Wildcats are rated as the nation's No. 1 college team by the sports writers and broadcasters
participating in the Associated Press ranking poll. And they appeared to be heading for a final top
ranking for the fourth time in six years.
Kentucky wasn't affected by the upsets that marked the big end-of-season tournaments, although
a few voters counted it against the Wildcats that they refused to play in the NCAA championship.
And with most of their leading
rivals already knocked out of
tournament competition, there ap
peared to be no one in sight to
displace Kentucky.
After beating Louisiana State in
a playoff for the Southeastern
Conference title to complete a
25-0 season, Kentucky declined
the NCAA tournament nomination
because three post-graduate play
ers were not eligible. LSU took
the job and was knocked out of
the tournament—and out of top
ten ranking—in the first round.
On'Top 10th Time
As a result. Kentucky was re
turned to the top place in the poll
for the 10th time in 14 weeks. The
Wildcats were named first on 47
out of 70 ballots and received 574
points on the basis of ten for each
first place vote, nine for second,
etc.
The final championship poll will
be taken next week, after the end
of the NCAA tournament. In five
previous years. Kentucky has fin
ished on top three times, was third
in 1950 and did not compete last
year because of a NCAA-imposed
suspcnsinn.
Indiana, upset by Notre Dame
By DICK McDOWELL
site of five of the 16 past NCAA
finals. The Lions will probably
work out sometime tomorrow and
then rest until . gametime Friday
night.
Have 24-4 Mark
LaSalle, coached by former
Penn Stater Ken Loeffler, breezes
into town with a 24-4 record. The
explorers are averaging 75 team
points per game and have held
their opposition to a 63.1 average.
Ironically. LaSalle beat two
Penn State conquerors in their
end of the Eastern Regional elim
inations to gain a spot in the semi
finals. North Carolina State and
Navy bowed to the Explorers in
Philadelphia last week. Navy
dropped the Lions, 62-58, and
North Carolina dumped the Nit
tanies, 89-74.
Face Third All-American
For the third straight game the
sensational Lions, who have as
tounded the • whole nation With
their upsetting tournament play,
will be facing an , all-American
performer. This time it's Tom
Gola, 6-6 scoring ace who is cur
rently cutting the cords at a 23.3
point pace per game. On top of
his scoring feats, the big forward
is averaging 22 rebounds a game.
Gala made the consensus All-
American team last year as a
sophomore and repeated again
this season. He has remarkable
speed and co-ordination and has
been described as the "coachable"
type _player.
Heavy Favoriies
With the big for Ward in the
lead, the powerful Explorers are
firmly seated in the favorite's role
Friday and have been picked to
go on and win the championship.
That makes Penn State the un
derdog for their fourth straight
contest since they entered tour
ney competition in the 24-team
field March 9. The Lions' opening
round victory against Toledo was
not too much of a surprise, but
when they toppled Louisiana
State and Notre Dame in the east-
in the NCAA tournament, held on
to second place in the poll with
420' points and Holy Cross, the
surprise winner of the National
Invitation Tournament, moved up
from ninth to thi rd with 389
points.
Although Notre Dame was an
upset victim, losing to Penn State
the night after beating Indiana,
the Irish moved up two notches
to fourth place as the voters ap
parently gave more importance to
the Indiana victory and a 22-3
final record than to that one loss.
Lions Take 9th
Penn State, however, got plenty
of credit for its two to , trnament
successes as the rankings received
a thorough shuffling. The Nittany
Lions, who never had showed
among the leaders all season,
turned up in ninth place with a
143 point total.
Others in the first ten were 5,
Duquesne, the NIT runner-up; 6,
LaSalle, one of four te a ins . to
reach the NCAA finals; 7, George
Washington, 8, Western Kentucky
and 10, Oklahoma A. and M.
The other two NCAA survivors,
Southcvn Californ'a t , nd Bradley,
filled the 11th and 12th spots.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE. PENNSVIVAI,:.-1A
TOM GOLA, LaSalle's All-
American forward who will
lead the Explorers against
Penn State in the NC A A
semi-finals Friday night. Gola
is currently averaging 22.3
points per gams.
em regional's, tournament follow
ers did a double-take.
The upstart Pennsylvanians, the
last "at large" choice in the tour
ney, became the most startling
team in the upset-filled tourna
ment. The three wins at lowa
City and Fort Wayne boosted the
Penn State record to 17-5.
Ever since the Friday pairings
Were determined, Loeffler has
been working his team against the
zone defense in practices. Lion
Coach Elmer Gross credits the
zone, combined with a pressing
man-for-man, as the key to the
Penn State success in the mid
west.
Willis Quits Pro Bon
• CLEVELAND, March 16 (iP)—
Bill Willis, a star guard for the
Cleveland Browns since the club
was formed in 1946, quit profes
sional football today to become
first assistant city recreation di
rector.
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Penn State's basketball and wrestling teams will take to the air
to travel to Kansas City, Mo., and to Norman, Okla.
• Elmer Gross and his fabulous cagers will travel by Trans-World
-Airline to the NCAA finals Friday and Saturday.
According to Edward M. Czekaj, assistant business manager of
Lion
Gagers.
athletics, th e basketball squad,
which is being hailed as the rags
to-riches team, will leave State
College this evening by station
wagon. The 16-man traveling par
ty will arrive in Pittsburgh by
10 p.m. and will spend the night
there.
(EST)
At 10:25 a.m. tomorrow the
Lions will board a plane that
will have Chem in Kansas City
by 3:45 p.m.
Leave K.C. Sunday
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The basketball team will leave
Kansas City at 9:50 a.m. Sunday
and will arrive in Pittsburgh by
4:35 p.m. Czekaj said the team
will arrive in State College at
about 10:30 or 11 p.m. Stinday.
Making the trip besides Gross
will be ten players; John Egli,
assistant coach, Chuck Medlar,
trainer; Ernest B. McCoy, direc
tor of athletics; James H. Coogan,
assistant director of public infor
mation; and John Chemsak, man
ager.
On March 25 the wrestling team
will fly to Norinan for the na
tional collegiate wrestling tour
nament March 25-27.
The Lions will be accompanied
by teams from Pitt and Lehigh.
Gilbert said the plane will make
one stop—at Indianapolis, Ind.
Speidel Taking Six
Wrestling Coach Charlie Spei
del will take six men to Norman
-to defend the national title which
the Lions won last year.
The six grapplers who will
make the trip are Bob Roman,
123; Dick Lemyre, 130; Jerry
Maurey, 137; Doug Frey, 147; Joe
Krufka, 177; and Bill Oberly, 191.
Medlarand Ronald Lench, man
ager, will also make the trip.
Gilbert said this is not the
first time State teams have taken
to the air. In 1952 the basketball
team, flew to Raleigh, ,N.C. for
the NCAA tournament, Gilbert
said. He pointed out that Nittany
teams have also flown to Tacoma,
Wash., Lincoln, Neb., and Boston,
Mass., for football games.
Board Named
For 'Engineer'
The new managing board of the
Penn State Engineer has been an
nounced by Harry Lesher, promo- -
firms manager.
On the new board are editor,
Albert Harman; business manager,
William Happersett; managing
editor, Edward Miller; features
editor, Robert Hennessy; national
advertisements manager, Hester
Anskis; and photography editors.
Shf - Adon BroWn, Dean Vesling.
Circulation manager, Charles
Brooks; illustrations manager, Ro
bert Kendra; promotions mana
gers, John O'Hara, Harry Lesher;
business accountant, David Shoop;
office manager, Helen Charvat.
9th
Poll
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 1954
Who Would
Win, Gagne
rMarciano?
MEW YORK, March 16 (EP)—
If Rocky Marciano and Verne
Gagne met in a dark alley some
night, which one do you suppose
would 'come out the other end?
Why Gagne, of course, says
Gagne—in less than five minutes.
Gagne, pronounced Gain-ya, is
the newest darling of television
wrestling fans. He is called the
symbol of a new trend in the
groan-and:grimace industry a
trend away from gimmicks and
toward oldtime science.
He wears a jewel-studded belt
proclaiming him "Heavyweight
Uhampion of the United States."
He is a bOyish, 27-year-old former
Minnesota football player.
Even his muscles have muscles
and, as a $lOO,OOO-a -year man, his
billfold has bulges he hasn't seen
yet.
He is sure he could whip the
heavyweight boxing champion in
an old-fashioned free-for-all. And,
if you want him to start tearing
phone books in half, just men
tion that pro wrestlers are thes
pians, not gladiators.
"That one really gets me," said
the unbeaten bone twister as he
sipped morning coffee in Ms
swank suite at the Waldorf-As
toria.
"I played four years of college
football; I played with the pro
Green Bay Packers. I wrestled
amateur for several years and
went to the 1948 Olympics. Let
me tell you, I've undregone more
damage in four years of wres
tling than I did in all the years
doing other things . . .
"Just to show the cynics, I have
challenged Marciano to a mixed
match, any way or any place he
wants it. He hasn't accepted ."
Golf Managers
Sophomore candidates for sec
ond assistant golf managers
should report to the caddy house
at 5 p.m. tomorrow, Dick Bruce,
head manager, has announced.
Barbell Club to Meet
The Penn State Barbell Club
will show movies on weight lift
ing and body building at 7:30 to
night in 102 Willard and will dis
cuss a club picture, Bill Pearce,
club president, said yesterday.
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