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Maurey r Krufko,
Place 3d; Aggies
Wrestlers from the east went "whole hog" last weekend
and came home with most everything but the bacon. It takes
lOt of heart to lose a NCAA mat tournament. But when the
defeat comes at the hands of a team which literally "owns"
the tOurney, the sting no iquger remains. •
Penn State, Pitt, Lehigh, Navy, and Syracuse sent an ag
gregation of 20 matmen to keep the National Collegiate Ath
letic Association wrestling team title in the East. Ten of the
20 came back with honors and prestige, leaving behind the
team championship with the Oklahoma Aggies.
The A.‘ggies, who had three individual champions, won
their 17th NCAA team crown in 24 tries before 4,000 specta
tors Saturday night at Norman, Okla.
Penn State, which was defending champion, captured
third place in the tournament. Coach Charlie Speidel's grapp
lers with 13 points were behind Oklahoma A&M, which had
32 points, and Pitt, which had 17 points.
For the Lions it was more than a victory. Although they
were rated just an outside chance with Oklahoma University
to win the tourney and rated below such teams as Michigan,
Colorado State, Purdue, and lowa, the Lions still jumped
ahead of the aforementioned teams in the scoring. The Nit
tany Lion grapplers not only had to meet the champs before
they lost, but in losing to the titlists they had to start from
nowhere and to wrestle three
matches in one 'day to take run
nerup positions.
Score Most Falls
Speidel's five entries scored the
most fall points in the tourney
with seven—one more than the
Penn State matmen made in place
points.
"They were wonderful," Spei
del exclaimed. "Chuck Medlar did
a great job in keeping the boys
in condition. Even Ron Lench, our
manager, did a great job."
Penn State failed to enter any
men in the finals, but three of
the four matmen who entered the
consolation matches for the semi
finals, took third place. They were
Jerry Maurey, 137-pounder; Joe
Krufka, 177-pounder; and Bill
Oberly, 191-pounder. Doug Frey,
Penn State's 147-pound entry,
won his first consolation match,
but was eliminated in the last at
tempt to make the semi-finals.
Dick Lemyre, only other Penn
State representative, was defeated
in the quarter-finals Friday night.
Maurey Beats Kaul
Speidel's first third place winner
vas Maurey, who was eliminated
Dy Myron Roderick, the Aggies
137-pound king. Michigan State's
L37-pounder, Ed Casalicchio, for
feited to Matirey in his consola
tion bout. The Lion standout then
impressively won over Andy Kaul
Df Michigan in the semi-finals, 8-2.
Kaul, a Big-Ten champ, was un
'3eaten in 24 matches.
Third-seeded Maurey scored an
early takedown and then had the
Big-Ten champ in a pinning pbsi
tion. Maurey's effort, however,
was only good for a nearfall. In
the second period Kaul escaped.
The third periOd found Maurey
at the disadvantage, but not for
tong. He reversed Kaul. Kaul es
2aped, however. T w o-minutes
time advantage erased Kaul from
the "unbeatens."
Krufka A Surprise
Krufka was undoubtedly one of
:he biggest surprises for the Lions.
He not only defeated Fred Draay
11.r of Utah, a 177-pound Skyline
conference champ, out was the
:alk of the tourney when he
)inned Ted Weaver of Kansas
State with a three-quarter nelson
and leg lock.
Before Krufka had the Kansas
hate matman sunny side up, he
vas trailing 2-0 with riding time
Why Not Laugh
This Weekend?
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By SAM PFtOOOPTO
NOVA Champs and Place Winners
115-lbs—Hugh Peery, Pitt Charles Ofsthum, Minn.
123-lbs—Dick Govig, lowa • Joe Lobangh, Okla. A&M
130-lbs—NOrvard Nalan, Mich. Jim Howard; Ithaca
137-lbs--M. Roderick, Okla. A&M Ed Eichelberger, Lehigh
147-lbs—Tom Evans, Okla. .Don Thompson, Okla. ABz.lvl
157-lbs—Bob Hoke, Mich. St., Ed Rooney, Syracuse
167-lbs--Joe Solomon, Pitt Ernie Fischer, Maryland
177-lbs—Ned Blass, Okla. A&M Royal Smith, Colorado
191-lbs—Pete Blair, Navy, Joe Cumly, Lehigh
livwt.--Gine Nicks, Okla. A&M• Bob Konovsky, Wisconsin
Oklahoma A&M 32, Pittsburgh 17, PENN STATE 13, Navy 12,
lowa 12, Michigan State 1/, Oklahoma 10, Michigan 10, "Lehigh
9, Syracuse 6, Purdue 5, Illinois 5, Minnesota 5, Ithaca 4, Mary
land 4, NebraSka 4, Wisconsin 4, Colorado 4, Kansas State 3,
Kent State 2. Cornell (loWit) 2, Colorado State 1, Springfield 1,
Toledo 1, Brigham Young 1.
in favor of his opponent. How
ever, at 5:40 of the match, with
Krufka at the advantage position',
the Lion Olympic alternate se
cured his peculiar hold.
Everybody was so surprised that
they ran to shake his hand and
wanted to know how he did it.
Nobody ever saw the hold used
before, but after the coaches and
wrestlers had seen it they said
that they Were going to use it.
Krufka lcist his only match to
177-pound NCAA champ, Ned
Blass. Weaver eliminated Pitt's
177-pound Eastern champ. George
Beresford. -
Oberly Scores Fall
Oberly's first opposition in the
consolations was John Robinson
of Brigham Young. Oberly took
him down in the first period, re--
versed him in the second and then
had hi s adversary's shoulder
blades flush with the mat in 3:36.
Oberly, dropped • only by Pete
Blair, 191-pound NCAA champ of
Navy, won a referee's decision
over undefeated Gus Gat t o of
D ek!LY COI LEGIANI STiTF COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA
Oberly
Champ
CHAMPIONS
TEAM SCORING
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lowa State Teachers. Although the
'match was even, Oberly's predic-
I ament point was telling.
To win third place in the tour
ney Oberly had to decision Street
er Shining of lowa, 6-1. The Lion
sophomore scored his points with
a nearfall, reversal, and two min
utes time advantage.
Speidel's 147-pound hopeful,
Frey, was again outstanding. Al
though he didn't place, he - did
wrestle five bouts, winning three.
Frey decisioned Clyde Whitman
of West Chester State Teachers,
4-2; he lost to previously unde
feated Ben Bronstein of Colorado
State. Bronstein, Rocky Mountain
conference champ, was trailing
1-0, going into the final period.
However, he won out when he
escaped, took down Frey and had
hith in a predicament position in
the final frame.
Ed - Rooney, highly regarded
Syracuse 175-pounder, who set a
new tournament record when he
pinned John McMahon of, Michi
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CA.As
THIRD
Terrance McCann, lowa ,'
Alfonso Vega. Purdue
Jim Sinedinos; Mich. St.
JERRY MAUREY, Penn State
Lloyd Corwin, Cornell (Iowa)
Larry Tenpas, Illinois
Joe Gattuso, Navy
JOE KRUFKA, Penn State
BILL OBERLY. Penn State '
Max Kitzelman, Nebraska
FOURTH
115-lbs—Jack Love, Kent St.
123-lbs—Ed Anderson, Minn.
130-lbs—Bill Kozy, Pitt
137-lbs-=-Andrew Katz', Mich.
147-lbs—Ben Bronstein, Colo. St.
157-lbs—John Eagleton, Okla.
167-lbs—Fred Davis, Okla. A&M
177-lbs—Ted Weave'', Kanasas St.
191-lbs—Streeter Shining, lowa
Hvwt.—Ken Ellis, Kansas St.
WRA ,Results
BADMINTON
Little Lions over Mac Hall
Woman's Bldg. over Thomp. 3&4
Sigma Sigma Sigma over Phi Mu
Pi Beta Phi over Alpha Kappa A
Alpha G. Delta over Beta Sig. 0
Chi Omega over. D„elta Gamma
BOWLING
Kappa Kappa Theta over Theta
Phi Alpha
Kappa Delta over Atherton
Phi Sigma over Leonides (fe ;• •
FOR BEST RESULTS USE
COLLEGIAN CLASSIFIEDS
TUESDAY. MARCH 30. 1954
DU Takes
Early IM ,
Mat Lead
By EARL KOHNFELDER •
Art Marks of Delta Upsilon pin
ned his opponent in the last intra
mural match held at Recreation
Hall last night, and, in doing so,
broke a 62-62 tie that had existed
between the DU's and Chi Phi
for team point honors.
Delta Upsilon had gone into
last night's matches with a seem
ingly comfortable 57-49 lead, but
pins for Chi Phi's Tom, Webb and
Bill Roberts combined with a de
cision for Armour Black read
pulled them even With Delta Lip
silon. It was the final pin of the
night by Marks that pulled the
DU's intc their current 67-62 lead
with three nights of wrestling re
maining.
Marks' victim was Mart Zieve
of Beta Sigma Rho who bowed at
the 1:53 mark in the 128-pound
contest. Delta Chi is in the thick
of the race with 60 points.
Edward Klose, Delta Sigma Phi
and Charley DeLuca, Delta Chi/
won to enter the semi-finals in
the 121-pound division. Klose pin
ned Tom Morgan, Phi Sigma Kap
pa, in 56 seconds of the middle
period, while DeLuca won by de
cision over Ed Holt of Sigma Pi,
5-2.
Gaining the 128-pound semi
finals were Tom Webb, Chi Phi;
Bob Wylie, Pi Kappa Phi; 'Mur
ray Horewitz, Phi Sigma Delta;
and Marks. Webb used a half
nelson to pin David Rimple, Phi
Sigma Kappa, in 40 seconds of
the central stanza. Wylie stopped
Daniel Land of Sigma Nu in 1:40
of the middle round, and Hore
witz needed a . time-advantage
point to defeat Ralph Hoffman,
Sigma Pi, 5-4.
The lone 135-pounder to make;
the semi-finals was, Armour Black
of Chi Phi who decisioned Chuck
Leech, Theta Chi, 5-1. Four wrest
lers reached the 145-pound semi
finals. They were Stephen Pierce,
Pi Kappa Phi; Peter Huey, Phi
Delta Theta; Robert Brubaker,
Delta Upsilon; and Allan Davies,
Phi Sigma Kappa.
Pierce edged Norm Whitehouse,
Sigma Phi Epsilon, 6-4. Huey won
out over Dave Barney, Sigma Nu,
6-3. Brubaker applied .a half-nel
son and a crotch to Dave Lesser
to win at 1:14 of the last period,
and Davies collected a take-down
and two escapes to nip Sid Ziff
of Phi Sigma Delta, 4-3. •
Five of the six grappler's. who
reached the 155-pound semi-finals
went the full route to win by
decision. Independents Knipe and
Tom Larsen defeated Jackson and
Duane Campbell by the respective
scores of 4-1 and 7-0. Other shut
out winners in this group were
Charles Groff of Kappa Delta
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