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cagers Season Ton
ight
Meet
Lions
Dickinson
At Rec Hall
By DICK McDOWELL
The 1954-55 basketball sea
son gets underway tonight at
Rec Hall when potentially
strong Penn State meets Dick
inson in the first of 25 sched
uled contests.
The Lions, third place fin
ishers in the National Colle
giate tournament last season,
but given little mention in pre
season ratings this year, will
be after their 11th straight
victory over the Red Devils in a
series that began in 1900.
Game time tonight is 8 p.m.
Coach Don Swegan's fresh
man team gets its first taste of
action in a preliminary game
- •rich the jayvee quintet. The
-acne will begin at 6:15 p.m.
Experienced First Team
John Egli, in his first year as a
x7arsity coach, has an experienced
first team on hand but will rely
on a young reserve- corps as the
Lions swing in to their biggest
schedule in recent years.
Egli, who has revamped the
Penn State offensive game, indi
cated yesterday that he probably
will start the contest with Ron
Weidenhammer and Earl Fields at
guards, Bob Rohland and Jim
Blocker at forwards, and Jesse
Arnelle at center.
However, he made it clear that
any one of three other players
might get a last minute call for a
starting assignment and that he
plans to use his bench extensively
Hoffman Could, Start
Junior guard Bob Hoffman. and
sophomores Joe Hartnett and Bob
Ramsey might be inserted in the
starting lineup.
Egli said yesterday that he
wants to use his reserves as much
as possible since this will be
the Nittanies' only game before
they meet top-rated North Caro
lina State Thursday night.
Hampered by a late practice
start and the absence of Arnelle,
Rohland, and Hoffman because of
football, the Lions are just "be
ginning to come along," Egli said,
Feels Team Will Be Strong
The Lions coach, in the process
of installing a fast breaking of
fense in replacement of the de
liberate style of play used in past
years, feels that given a little time,
the Lions will develop into a very
strong team.
Arnelle, of course, will be the
key man. He averaged over 21
points a game last year, and has
passed the 400 point mark for
three seasons. .
The big men for Dickinson fi
gure to be 6-4 center John Kohl
meier and forward Lee Huber.
The two carry most of the Red
Devil scoring power. The rest of
the starting lineup will probably
show forward Bob Varano, and
guards John Dudas and John
Perkner.
'Will Mean a Lot'
"I really don't know anything
about Dickinson," Egli said, "but
they'll give us a good test. We
aren't completely acclimated to
this type of offense and besides
its our only game before we go
to North Carolina. This game will
mean a' lot to us."
Behind his first eight players,
the Lion coach has chiefly in
experienced sophomores and jun
iors. However, Rudy Marisa and
Dave Edwards, two holdovers who
are expected to see their share
of action, may be helpful.
CO-CAPTAINS JESSE Arnelle and ROn Weidenharnmer, and hea,.
coach John Egli get ready to open the 1954-55 basketball season
against Dickinson tonight. The two Lions stars will begin their
fourth year of varsity play. Egli, in his first season as head coach,
took over the job last spring. The Lions will play 25 games.
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The University will today host clinics in wrestling and basketball
in Rec Hall for high school coaches.
Charlie Speidel, Penn State wrestling coach, will be in charge
of the mat program and Nittany basketball mentor John Egli will
handle the, floor demonstrations.
Registration for the wrestling clinic will be from 10 a.m. to
10:30 a.m. in the Armory. Basketball registration will take place
from 1 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the lobby of Rec Hall,
The morning session of the
wrestling ,clinic will include:
10:40 A School Administator
Looks at the Future of Wrestling
in Our Joint School System—Roy
Jamison, principal, Penns Valley
Area Joint High School.
11:00—The Coach's View of
Good Officiating Hubert Jack,
wrestling coach Lock Haven State
Teachers College.
AFTERNOON
2:oo—Takedowns and Escapes—
James Mohney, wrestling coach,
Tyrone High School.
2:4O—(A) Teaching Drills and
(B) Simple Legwork for Begin
ners—Glenn Smith, wrestling
coach, Allentown High School
3:40 Mat Panel of Program
Personnel.
The highlights of the basketball
clinic will include:
AFTERNOON
1:40 Man-to-Man Offenses
Don Swegan, assistant Penn State
basketball coach.
3:15 —Rules Demonstration—
"Yib" Bolton, faculty manager,
State College High School.
3:3o—Full Court-Press—Edward
McCluskey, coach of the 1953
championship team of Farrell
High School, Farrell, Pa.
4:ls—Training Demonstrations
—Chuck Medlar, Penn State train
er.
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ROCHESTER, N.Y., Dec. 3 (R)—
Peter Mueller, 27, the former Ger
man middleweight champion, gets
another chance to display- his
boxing talents before a national
audience tomorrow night when he
tangles wtih Ralph (Tiger) Jones
in a 10-rounder at the Sports
Arena.
The nationally, televised fight
(9 p.m., EST, ABC) will be Muel
ler's second U.S. start. In his first,
he lost a wild 10-round decision
Nov. 15 to Gene Fullmer of West
Jordan, Utah, in another national
ly televised event.
In Jones, Mueller will find a
sturdy, hard-punching TV regu
lar who has held his own with
top contenders in both the middle
and welter divisions.
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Swede Show May
Top Last Visit Here
Twenty youthful Swedes,' who will put on a show at Ree Hall
Jan. 15,- undoubtedly comprising the finest group of amateur gym
nasts ever to appear in the United States, are expected to surpass
the tremendous show exhibited in their stop here. last January.
A year ago, the visitors attracted the largest crowd ever to wit
ness an indoor athletic event,in Fox-the first time, a sell-out
crowd was announced in advance
of an indoor event,
The present edition of womanly
grace and manly strength will be
displayed by the world-renowned
Swedish National and Olympic
Women's team and the National
Men's team, off on a goodwill tour
which will include 32 stops
throughout the nation and Canada.
Nation-Wide Competition '
As in 1954, the Swedes will
conduct nation-wide competition
in NoveMber to determine the
personnel of its touring teams. At
least three of last year's foreign
performers are expected to return.
Penn State coach Gene Wett
stone, who directed the 1954 tour,
again is handling rearrangements.
Addition of the women's team
was Wettstone's idea and . caine as
an aftermath'of his visit to SWe
den last summer. He said the wo
men's routines are even more
colorful and more exciting than
those of the, men, who last year
- rew capacity crowds at every
- ..a.rnpus on which they appeared.
National Understanding
Wettstone, who again became
interested because of his personal
belief that the 1954 tour contrib
uted to national understanding,
was impressed by what he saw on
his visit to Sweden last summer
and predicts that American aud
iences will be doubly enthralled
by the combined exhibition this
year.
The Swedish women in 1952
won Olympic honors in team drill.
The Swedes' best ten among
the men and women will perform
in a two-hour program of new and
modern synchronized calisthenics,
tumbling, vaulting, apparatus
work, high table leaping, grace
ful balance beam skills, and the
world's best free-standing rou
tines.
In addition to Penn State, other
standout stopping points for the
Swedes are "West Point, Pitt, No
tre Dame, Minnesota, lowa, Illi
nois, Louisiana State, Texas, Flor
ida State, Georgia Tech, and North
Carolina.
Prankster Drives Car
U:i• Forestry Steps
A car owned by a member of
Tau Phi Delta was involved in a
prank Wednesday night when it
was driven onto the steps of For
estry Building and left there until
Thursday morning._
Campus Patrol discovered the
car. No action is expected to be
taken against the pranksters as
no damage was reported.
SATURDAY. rrcrmßEß 4, 1954
Hopes Rise
On Transfer
Of Omaha
HOUSTON, Dec. 3 (IP)—Negoti
titions that would place Omaha in
the American Association were
recessed without a decision today
but with indication that the trans
fer will be completed within 10
days.
Western League officials and
representatives of the St. Louis
Cardinals said they recessed the
negotiations at m i,d-afternoon
`p ending further study."
• Prepared Statement
"We have' every reason to be
lie „re that our negotiations will be
brought to a successful conclusion
within the .next 10 days;" Senator'
Edwin C. Johnson, (D-Colo),
Western League president,. and
Dick Meyer, Cardinal general
manager, said in a prepared state
ment.
The Cardinals have proposed
tl_at they transfer Columbus,
Ohio, American Association Triple
A franchise to 'Omaha, now. the
Class A Western.
Western League officials - origi
nally demanded $lOO,OOO in dam
ages from the association for the.
Omaha territory but later dropPed
the figure to $60,000. There,wera
reports today they might -;settle.
for $50,000.
No Comment
Johnson and Meyer had ho com
ment, but there was spectilation
th e Omaha-Columbus situation
would be concluded dining next
week's major leagues convention
in New York.
Senate sessions in Washington
had prevented Johnson. from par
ticipating in the minor leagues
convention• here this week but he
returned today and began a series
o conferences on the transfer of
Denver and Omaha to the Amer
ican Association.
Until this afternoon's announce
ment, however, there had been
hop e negotiations for damages
for both the Denver and Omaha
territories would be concluded
here.
Harry Bads' Sir Mango, son •ot
Gilded Knight, is being mention
ed for "Horse of the Year" honors
for his many mid-west victories.
Johnny Vaught is the 20th foot
ball coach at the University of
Mississippi. The game was first
played by the school in 1893.