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Lions Face Memphis State
Tonight in Regional Test
Sixteen members of the 24-team National Collegiate Bas
ketball tournament field open first round action tonight on
four college campuses across the nation.
Penn State, heading back into the national sweepstakes
for the third time in four years, opens its bid for the coveted
championship crown against Memphis State in the second
half of a double bill in the Memorial Collesium on the Uni
versity of Kentucky campus in Lexington, Ky.
Radio Station WMAJ will
carry a reconstructed broadcast
of the game beginning at 10:30
p.m. EST.
The Lions, who finished the
regular campaign with a sturdy
17-8 record, meet the Tigers (17-4)
in one section of the eastern re
gional eliminations. Marquette
and Miami of Ohio, Mid-Ameri
can conference king, battle in the
opening game tonight.
Winners Go to Evasion
The two winners of tonight’s
doubleheader will move on to
Evanston, 111., Friday. The winner
of the Penn State-Memphis game
will play lowa and the Marquette-
Miami victor will meet Kentucky.
Both of these teams drew first
round byes. lowa won the Big Ten
crown and Kentucky is the South
eastern Conference champion.
Lion coach John Egli, making
his first appearance in the NCAA
tournament as a head coach, in
dicated yesterday that he will
make one lineup change for to
night’s game. The Lion coach will
insert guard Dave Edwards into
his starting combination. Ed
wards and Ron Weidenhammer
will handle the guard duties,
Jesse Arnelle will be at the center
position, and Jim Blocker and
Earl Fields will fill the forward
slots.
Lions Have Experience
All five of the Lion regulars,
plus reserves Bob Rohland and
Rudy Marisa are experienced
hands at NCAA play. Arnelle and
Weidenhammer, the Nittany co
captains, will be making their
third appearance in the tourna
ment.
Memphis State, ranked 19th in
the nation by the Associated
Press last week, will be making
its first attempt at NCAA honors.
The Tigers own a phenominal 42
per cent shooting percentage for
the season. Dr. Eugene Lambert’s
quintet swept to 16 straight vic
tories at one point during its reg
ular season play.
Last year, as an at-large entry
into the tournament, Penn State
battled to three upset victories —
Toledo, Louisiana State, and No
tre Dame—before being eliminat
ed by LaSalle in the semi-finals
at Kansas City.
The Lion 12-man squad will
leave by plane for Lexington to
day. The team will make its head
quarters at the Phillips Hotel end
will return to State College im
mediately after the game.
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4250 Tickets Sold
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Approximately' 4250 tickets
have been sold for the Eastern
Intercollegiate Wrestling Tour
nament to be held this week
end at Rec Hall.
Harold R. Gilbert, business
manager of athletics, has an
nounced the breakdown of the
advance ticket sales as fol
lows: Ist session—7so; 2nd ses
sion 800; semi-finals 1000:
and finals—l4oo. Included in
advance sale are 350 tickets al
lotted to Lehigh University.
Lions Win EIGA Title
By RON GATEHOUSE
Penn State’s gymnastic team,
compensating for two penetrat
ing injuries, turned in a brilliant
team effort to topple the Orange
of Syracuse Saturday by its slim
est margin of the season, 51-45,
and emerge Eastern champs for
the third consecutive year.
The victory also brought Gene
Wettstone’s gymnasts their third
undefeated season in EIGA com
petition in as many years.
Coach Paul Romeo’s Orange
men jumped iiito the lead in the
first event, tumbling, and the Nit
tanies saw their chances for
EIGA win number six move far
ther and farther away until they
went ahead in the fifth event,
parallel bars, with a slim two
point edge at 41-39. Then the
Lions submerged the Orange in
the final event, flying rings, by
a 10-6 count.
The Lions’ hopes for a repeat
title-victory were considerably
dimmed before their New York,
trip when two steady performers,
Dion Weissend and Tony Cline,
suffered injuries before their
final outing.
But Weissend recovered to ac
company the Nittanies on their
journey into Orangeland, and, al
though hampered considerably
with a bad ankle, entered three
evento and earned the Lions six
points, a duplicate of the Penn
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
in Tournament Opener
THE .ian. , secov . row are 80.
lap-oi . its game with - -mphu .tohlani *iorm Hall, co-captain Je»e Arnelle,
National Collegiate Basketball Championships. Bob Ramsey, Jim Blocker, Rudy Marisa. Weid-
Members of the Lion squad, left to right, are: enhammer and Arnelle will be playing in their
Joe Hartnett, Clarence Walts, Dare Edwards, third tournament together.
Earl Fields, co-captain Ron Weidenhammer,
State victory margin. He placed
third on the horizontal bar, fourth
on the side horse, and fifth on the
flying rings.
However, the sterling perform
ance of Nittany captain Karl
Schwenzfeier stood along side the
Penn State team effort in record
ing the win.
He and co-captain Milan Tmka
of the home forces combined to
offer the fans a see-saw battle
that provided a touch of suspense
right down to the wire.
They faced each other on three
events, H-bar, parallels, and rings.
And the Lion performer exposed
his mettle, winning out in two of
the three, and taking a second on
the H-bar. Tmka headed
Schwenzfeier in that event, and
took second honors on the twin
bars and rings.
Schwenzfeier’s 278 on the rings
was the best performance of the
day for a Penn State entry.
A 1 Poydock combined with
Weissend and Schwenzfeier to
give the Lions an eight-point tie
on the H-bar; Don Rehm in third
and Skip Heim in fourth coupled
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With the Nittany captain to give
Penn State the widest margin of
the meet on the parallels, 11-5;
and Chuck Marshall’s third along
with Weissend’s fifth on the rings
behind Schwenzfeier gave the
Nittanies a 10-6 edge in the finale.
Corky Sebbo, one of the best
tumblers in the nation,, headed
second-place Bill Paxton on the
mats, with Dud Potter and Chuck
Fegley placing fourth and fifth
for the Lions.
Skeets Haag failed to win on
the rope for the first time this
year, but was good for a first
place tie with the Orange’s Andy
Felice. Their time was 3.8. Leroy
FritCh and Bill Marshall took
third and fifth for the Lions with
4.0 and 5.2 clockings.
Heim also contributed a second
for the Lions on the horse.
Barbell Club Meeting
The weight lifting meet to be
held April 30 with Shippensburg
State Teachers College will be dis
cussed at 7 p.m. tomorrow in 102
Willard by the Penn State Bar
bell Club.
TUESDAY. MARCH 8. 1955
NCAA Lineups
AT MADISON SQUARE ,G ARDEN-WU
liama (17-1) va. Canistus (16-6), Duke
(20-7) vs. yillanova (18-9), LaSalle (22-4)
va. West Virginia Cl 9-10).
AT LEXINGTON, KY.—Miami (Ohio)
(14-8) vs. Marquette (21-2), Penn State
(18-7) vs.. Memphis State (18-4)»
AT OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA.—Okla
homa City U.-19-17) vs. Bradley (7-19).
AT SAN FRANCISCO —Idaho State (18-
5) vs. Seattle (19-4), West Texas State
(15-6) vs. San Francisco (28-1).
The winners then enter the second round
Friday:
AT EVANSTON, ILL.—Miami-Marquette
winner vs. Kentucky (23-2), Penn State-
Memphis State winner vs, lowa (17-4).
AT PHILADELPHIA—LaSaIIe-West Vir
ginia winner vs. Ivy League champ, Wil
liams-Canisius winners vs. Dufce-Vfllshova
winner.
AT MANHATTAN, KAN.—Bradley-Okla
homa City U. winner vs. Southern Methodist
(15-8), Colorado vs. Missouri Vdlley-champ.
AT CORVALLIS, ORE.—ldaho SUte-
Seattle winner vs. Oregon State (21-7 )•
West Texas State-San Francisco winner vs.
Utah (28-8).
Friday night's winners at each regional
location will play each other Saturday.
Then the Evanston-Philadelphia winners
will meet for the Eastern title and theCor
vallis-Mhnhattan winners will play for the
Western title in a Kansas City doubleheader
March 18. Those two games will decide the
finalists for the National title at Kansaa
City March 19.
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