FRIDAY. JANUARY 14. 1955
Rough Schedule
Awaits Runners
Chick Werner and his indoor track team will give the
road map a good workout starting Jan. 21. From that day
until the start of the spring semester, the Lions will take
part in four meets.
Philadelphia's Convention Hall will be the first stop. On.
Jan. 22 the squad will see action in the Washington Evening
Star meet in the nation's capitol. A week later the Lions will
travel to Boston, and on the following Saturday will be - in
New York for the Millrose Games at Madison Square Garden.
Many of the country's top track
ar_a field, stars, plus several for
eign standouts, will take part in
this season's indoor action.
• Relay Team
When Penn State opens its sea
son at the Philadelphia • Inquirer
Games it will be faced with the
task of defending the mile relay
title it copped last year. Werner
will use-Art Pollard, Skip Slocum,
and Roy Brunjes on the r e l a y
quartet, with the final runner to
be selected from among Bob
Matz, Bruce Austin, Rod Perry,
and Dick Mohler. Should 'the Blue
and White harriers' win the event
again this year they will retire the
second Liberty Bell One-Mile Col
lege Relay Series trophy.
Much interest will also be cen
tered around the Inquirer Mile
and the Lawson Robertson Me
morial Two-Mile.
Santee in Mile
In the mile battle Wes Santee
will be pitted against Freddie
Dwyer, 1953 winner, and Len
Truex, last year's victor, among
others. Olympic 3000-meter stee
plechase champion Horace Ashen
felter will be seeking his fourth
straight win in the two-mile
event. The top threats to the su
premacy of the former Penn State
great are Bob Sbarra of Manhat
tan; "Scot titlist Alex Brecken
ridge, who is attending Villanova;
Joe LaPierre, IC4A champ; and
Fred. Wilt,
.the "FBI Flyer." Wilt,
whose two-mile record was brok,
en by Ashenfelter last season. is
attempting a spirited comeback.
'The ,comuetition will also be ex
ceptionally keen in the other
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meets. This year's mile run at the
Washington meet is being billed
as one of the greatest of all time.
Santee, who is now the top active
miler in the world, will match
strides with Denmark's Gunnar
Nielson, the No. 2 runner at this
distance. Two other ace Ameri
can milers, Bob McMillen of Oc
cidental College and LaPierre, are
booked for the race at the Nation
al Armory. The meet mark of
4:13.4, set last year ay Truex, is
expected to fall.
Besides the mile relay foursome,
Werner will put his pole vaulters,
hurdlers, and sprinter Pollard into
action in` the first four meets.
Frosh Grapplers
List Three Meets
For '55 Campaign
In preparation for their three
encounters of the current season
with Navy, Lock Haven and Pitts
burgh, Penn State's fr e s h m an
wrestling crew hae been busily
engaged in practice sessions on
th Rec Hall mats for the past two
months.
The freshman grapplers will re
ceive their first taste of competi
tion Jan. 29, when they travel to
Annapolis, Md., to meet the first
yeg.r midshipmen.
Chis is the second successive
ye_.r that Penn State has fielded
a freshman wrestling squad. Last
year's, yearlings finished with a
1-1 record, losing to Pitt and fin
ishing on the other end against
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
From Thit Angi Bp PICK McDOWELI
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eCollegian Sports Editor
The nation's basketball dopesters, who sighed
with relief after they dragged themselves through
ten dizzy weeks of football upsets, are back in hot
water again finding the most unpredictable "pre
dictables" at every turn. It just isn't an, expert's
year.
Almost every major cage powerhouse, many
seen as untouchables when the 1954-55 season got
underway, have been victims of at least one upset
and some have been startling to say the least.
Of course Kentucky's loss to Georgia Tech top§
the list. Adolph Rupp's Wildcats
were riding their usual victory
wagon, 'heavily favored to win
their 121st consecutive ho m e
game when the Rambling Wreck
came to town. The Engineers won
it, 59-58.
Even more puzzling, have been
the ups and downs of such highly
rated teams as LaSalle and Du
quesne. The Dukes' first startler
came at the hands of George
Washington but it was discounted
as just a bad night after coach
~;F Dudy Moore's team swept to the
Dick McDowell Holiday tournament at Ne w
York's Madison Square during the yule season.
It had to top' LaSalle to win that one.
Then St. Francis (Pa.)—another highly rated
team that fell to several nobodys—whipped them
after already losing an early season contest to the
Pittsburgh club. Then Dayton, a 15-point victim
earlier, whipped the Dukes on their own court.
Of course Moore has had his' star Dick Rickets
for only limited duty because of an ankle injury
and that could make the difference.
LaSalle, however, is, and has been at full
strength all season but still took its unexpected
lumps. The defending national champs (National
Collegiate AA) dropped games to Utah and the
Dukes despite the presence of super-star Tom Gola.
Any one who can -figure out what's going on
among several of Penn State's coming opponents,
Pitt, West Virginia, and Penn must possess some
sort of mystic power because these teams have
the Lock Haven State Teachers
Coach Charlie "Doc" Speidel
will have the problem of select
ing eight starters for the Navy
meet from an early turnout of
32 men.
However, as the Navy encoun
ter is more than two weeks away,
the problem of "weeding out" will
not become intense until the near
future.
The freshman grapplers will al
so meet the Lock Haven State
Teachers squad on Feb. 14 at
State College and on March 5 will
travel to Pittsburgh to engage
their other 1954 opponent.
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is so rich= x sting,
been creating quite a little hubbub of their own-
Penn was named as the class of the Ivy league
in pre-season callings and has been proving it
most of the way. However, after winning aix
straight games, the Quakers' bowed to Pitt 81-15
at the friendly Palestra. It is questionable, hoW
ever, whether that one could be considered an 1,43-
set or not because the Panthers have been probably
the hottest—coldest running team in the east.
Given plenty of rope in the pre-seasdn picture,
the Panthers began poorly and lost their first four
before they finally began to win. Then they be
came sensational for three games, lost another,
and won three more before unheralded. Geneva
knocked them off on their] own . floor. Westthinster
followed it up and the latest team to whip the
floundering Pitts. - v,Ta, Syracuse, which breezed
into town with a 2-7 record. •
The Nittanies moved into town on the crest of a
90 point , per game average and were given the
favorite's role in the tourney. But unnoticed
Wayne, carrying a 2-5 record, bumped them in the
opening round. To add to the mix-up, the Tartans
went on to upset St. Francis in a later ball game,
revenging an earlier defeat by that team.
There have been many more npsets, too nurnees.
ous to mention here, and at the present rate they
probably will fill a good sized volume by season's
end.
Maybe the_ best thing for the press to do right
now is forget the word upset and let nature false
its course, because at the rate the unexpected ~is
happening this year, maybe there really isn't such
a thing as an upset. It still makes a good story,
though, and probably always wilL
The Mountaineers have found themselves Vic-
tirns of the - upset dilemma, too. Reportedly loaded
with enough material to field a. pair of teams, the
West Virginians started with a bang. They won.
five, then lost three straight, and were just be
ginning to move again' when Carnegie Teal—an
earlier victim—bumped them off on their home
floor.
John Egli, the genial Penn State coach, got a
first hand taste of upSet with his own team this
season, when his Lions went to Detroit for the
Motor City Tourney.
-m-man,
that's PURE PLEASURE!