PAG? SIX
Lehigh Mat
Test 39th
In Series
Lehigh, the second oldest Penn State wrestling foe, will
meet the Lions for the 39th time Saturday in the first half
of a Rec Hall sports twin-bill featuring wrestling and basket
ball.
The Engineers opened their series against the Lions in
1911, one year after Navy agreed to tack the Nittany matmen
to its schedule. Since 1911, Lehigh and Penn State have
missed meeting each other on the mats in only six instances.
But during those 38 meets, the Lions have been the vic
tors in 26 cases. Lehigh has dropped the Lions ten times
with two matches ending in ties.
Penn State’s 26 wins represent
the best margin of victory that the
Lions’ hold over any of its 1955
foes. Navy has narrowed its slate
with the Lions to 20-19. Syracuse
has lost 25 meets to the Lions,
while winning only three.
The most consistent weights for
Lehigh have been at 137-pounds,
147-pounds, 157-pounds, and hea
vyweight. At these four weights
Lehigh has picked up 32 individ
ual wins.
Larry Fornicola, the Lions
scrappy 137-pounder who has reg
istered four straight wins, may
draw undefeated grapplers Dave
Bates or captain Ken Faust.
Faust has also worked at 147 and
157 pounds with winning con
sistency.
Adams Unbeaten -
Also unbeaten for the Lions is
Dave Adams, 147 pounder who
has rolled over five previous op
ponents to make his bid as one of
the Lions most outstanding and
versatile matmen.
Adams may meet Faust or Ed -
Eichelberger ( another undefeated
Engineer. Eichelberger can also
work the 157-pound slot as he
indicated so well last week when
he pinned Eastern 157-pound
champ Ed Booney of Syracuse.
If Lehigh uses Bates at 137,
Faust at 147, and Eichelberger at
157 pounds, the 167-pound divi
sion will be nailed shut by Roger
Taylor who has piled up five
straight wins since his first and
only loss against Pitt.
Gallagher at 177
In the 177-pouild class and the
heavyweight division Lehigh con
tinues to field matmen with im
pressive records. At 177 pounds,
where the Lions will depend on
Joe Krufka with a 4-1 record,
Dave Gallaher will probably get
the nod for Lehigh. Gallaher, who
has a 5-2 card, will be followed
up by heavy Werner Seel. Lehigh
boosters have tabbed the un
defeated heavy as only second to
Navy’s Eastern and National
champ Pete Blair.
Penn State’s 123-pounder, soph
omore Sid Nodland, will see ac
tion in the only weight where Le
high has failed to register better
than a .500 record. Lehigh has
copped only two victories in seven
tries at this weight.
The 130-pound class, however,
resembles the rest of Lehigh’s
impressive lineup that has
notched repeated wins. Captain
Bob Homan, undefeated in five
matches, will probably draw well
built Parker Mangus who has
chalked up a 4-1 record.
NCAA Selects
Memphis State
Memphis Slate, an unherald
ed small-college team from the
banks of the Mississippi River,
has been selected as an at-large
entry to the National Collegiate
basketball tournament.
The Tigers, the last eastern
at-large entry to the 24-team
tourney, will join Penn State
and Marquette at Lexington,
Ky.. in the regional elimina
tions. The fourth team in that
group will be the Mid-America
conference winner. Miami of
Ohio currently leads that con
ference.
The NCAA also announced
that 1954 champion LaSalle has
been entered in the tournament
field. LaSalle received its bid
automatically after winning the
Mid-Atlantic Conference cham
pionship.
Forfeits Mar IM Play;
League C Title Is Won
Five losses via the forfeit route marred Wednesday night’s
intramural basketball schedule. The most important of these games
awarded Dorm 3 its sixth win in seven games. With Dorm 3’s sched
ule its only hope for an independent League A playoff
berth depends upon the outcome of the game between the league
leading Toppers (6-0) and the
Whiz Kids (2-4), March 1.
Dorm 31 needed two consecu
tive victories in its last games to
vie for the League C title, but the
Greensmokers put out Dorm 31’s
fire and, in doing .so, became the
first independent five to clinch
its flag. The Greensmokers had
little trouble capturing first place,
45-24.
On the fraternity side, Delta
Chi bowled over Alpha Chi Sig
ma, 38-20. It was Delta Chi’s sixth
straight win without a loss, and
it eliminated all its League D
competitors except Beta Theta Pi
(5-1). The league battle will come
to a head when the Betas play
Alpha Chi Sig and Delta Chi meet
Theta Delta Chi, March 8.
Theta Delta Chi looms as a real
threat to Delta Chi on the basis
of its finest showing of the sea
son against Pi Kappa Phi. The
winners’ scoring was divided
equally among the regulars, and
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Cagers Out
Aaainst Old
for Strong Finish
Rivals, Pitt, Penn
Anxious for a strong finish to its regular 25-game campaign, the Penn State basket
ball team meets the first of two traditional rivals tomorrow when it returns to friendly
Recreation Hall.
, The Lions meet Pitt in the final event of tomorrow’s sports triple-header and then
battle Penn Wednesday in the season wrap-up.
And nothing would be sweeter to coach' John Egli’s Lions than a double victory over
the two state rivals as a prelude to the Nittanies’ opening game in the National Collegiate
basketball championships.
A winning finish would
field March 8 at Lexington, Ky.
However, the Nittanies, cur
rently 18-7, will be doubly anx
ious to knock off the Panthers.
They fell to the up-and-down
Steel City team earlier this sea
son, 76-66, in Pittsburgh.
The Panthers have been a con
troversial club all season. At
times they have been hot, but in
most cases coach Bob Timmons’
team has been unimpressive. Led
by center Ed Pavlik, the Pitt quin
tet has won only 10 of 24 games
played, but claims among its vic
tims, Penn, Fordham, and New
York University.
Pavlik, a burley 6-4, promises
to give the Lions’ Jesse Arnelle
a real scoring battle in tomorrow’s
game. He’s probably the biggest
potential threat for scoring and
rebound honors the Penn State
star has faced this year. Arnelle,
who passed the 2000-point mile
stone in Penn State’s 83-64 vic
tory over Rutgers, is averaging
just under 27 points a game, and
Pavlik is not far behind with a 23
point average.
But even with the big junior in
the fold, Timmons hasn’t been
able to find a satisfactory com
bination this season. He’s backed
Pavlik with several sophomores,
however, who have shown prom
ise in spots.
At the opposite forward, John
Riser, a 6-4 first-year man, has
been impressive and sophomore
center Bob Lazor has been im
proving steadily. The guard posts
will probably be manned by A 1
Fenwick and veteran Bob Vim
movan.
Theta Delta Chi ran off with a
38-8 decision.
In other games. Dorm 11 smash
ed Dorm 34, 37-25; the Asps and
Dorm 24 both received forfeit
wins over Dorm 22 and the
Punchy Five: and neither Dortn
40 nor the Balok’s Bombers ap
peared.
;ive the Lions an 18-7 record when they tackle the tourney
Gymnasts Face Owls
In Final Home Meet
Coach Gene Wettstone’s Penn State gymnasts, making a strong
bid for their third. straight EIGA title, will face always dangerous
Temple University Saturday afternoon at Rec Hall in.their final
appearance of the season.
The Lions, fresh from a 54-42 rout over Pitt Wednesday night,
will be looking for their fifth win of the year against a lone defeat.
In a series that began in 1933,
the books show an even 8-8 log
between the two teams. In the
1954 encounter with the Owls, the
Blue and White gymnasts scored
a decisive 61-35 victory.
Navy's strong squad gave Max
Younger’s Quaker City gymnasts
their worst setback of the season
by a 57-39 count in the Owls’ first
EIGA outing.
Younger, in his 28th year of pil
oting the Temple acrobats, has so
far relied heavily on co-captains
Bob Zelinsky and Bob Darner jian
for most of the heavy scoring.
Zelinsky is the Temple stand
out on the horizontal bars and
parallels, and Darner jian is the
team’s top side horse entry. Bill
Rocco owns a fine tumbling rou
tine, and Ken Minyard is the Owls’
number one man on the rope.
Younger has also received top
notch support from Chuck Neely,
Ray Lunnurato, Tom Lieberman,
Jerry Santoro, Dick Brown, and
Tony Cocco.
The Nittanies have cleared their
two major hurdles Army and
Navy—t owa r d capturing their
third consecutive Eastern title.
Wettstone has found most of the
Nittany scoring ability in the form
of his all-around performer, cap
tain Karl Schwenzfeier.
Skeets Haag has an unblemished
record on the rope, with his best
climb in three years of varsity
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experience coming against Army/
Saturday. He scaled the 20-foot'
hemp in a good 3.5 seconds—best
time in the East for the past two
years and a new Rec Hall record.
Bill Paxton has been the main
stay on the mats and Skip Heim
is still holding down first-ranking
on the horse. Paxton holds four
wins in five outings.
Marciano to Fight
Cockeli, Sito Pending
NEW YORK, Feb. 24 (iP)—
Terms were settled today for a
title fight between Rocky Mar
ciano and England’s Don Cockeli.
Now all that remains to be com
pleted at a conference tomorrow
Is choice of the site and date and
that appears to be San Francisco’s
Kezar Stadium, May 19.
With all of the principals pres
ent except Marciano, President
Jim Norris of the International
Boxing Club quickly ironed out
the financial details. He said Roc
ky would receive 40 per cent of
everything and the challenger 20
per cent.
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