PAdE SIX Cagers After 2nd NCAA Win Lions Meet lowaTonight At Evanston By dick mcdowell Penn State moves into the second round of the National Collegiate eastern regional basket ball eliminations to night when it meets rugged lowa at the Northwestern University fieldhouse in Evan ston, 111. The Lions play the Big Ten kings in the nightcap of a dou bleheader that pits Marquette against Kentucky in the open er. The Penn Stale - lowa game will get underway at 10:30 p.m. EST. Radio. Station WMAJ will carry a reconstructed broadcast of the game. , lowa, buried in 62nd place in the Associated Press poll last week, leaped to the number five spot in the final selections this week after dumping Minnesota, 72-70, to win the Big Ten title. The Hawkeyes, who rely on re bounding strength and good per centage shooting, go into tonight’s contest with a the Lions car an 18-8 mark i; to the game. Ii wa drew a bye the opening el initiation rouni while Penn Stat topped Memphi State, 59-55, ; its first tourni ment test Tue: day. Lion coach John Egli will open tonight’s game with the same lineup he used against Memphis State. Ron Weidenhammer and Dave Ed wards will be at the guards, Jesse Arnelle at center, and Jim Block er and Earl Fields at the forward positions. The lowans will probably have a height advantage. Coach Howie Rollins’ starters all top the six foot mark, averaging 6-3, while the Nittanies reach to about the 6-2 mark. The big man, literally and figuratively is 6-7 Bill Logan who is snagging rebounds at a 10-per-game clip and scoring bet ter than 15 points a game. He and Arnelle appear to be the key scoring threats for both teams. Arnelle, currently averag ing 27 points a game, scored 20 in the Memphis State contest. The big Lion center also took 22 rebounds. Win or lose to night the Lions still have one game remaining. The two losers in tonight’s ses sion will play tomorrow in the regional consolations and the two winners will battle for the cham pionship. This is, in actuality, the eastern championship quarter-fi nal round tonight. Tomorrow night’s game will be the semi final. The winner moves on to Kansas City next Friday to play the other eastern finalist and that victor will meet the western king for the national champion ship. The 17-man Penn State party, including 12 players, two coaches, a trainer, and manager, flew to Chicago yesterday morning. Wrestling Tournament Opens Today Larry Fornicola Undefeated, at 137 8 Lions Seek EIGA Victories Eight Lion gymnasts will represent Penn State in the 28th annual Eastern Intercollegiate Gymnastic Association tourney at Annapolis tonight and tomorrow afternoon. The Nittanies departed for the U.S. Naval Academy early this morning, and will arrive about four hours before tonight’s all-around competition gets under way at 7:30 p.m. Karl Schwenzfeier will be the single Penn State entry in the “competition for the versatile”, and Lion mentor Gene Wettstone maintains tjie Lion captain stands a good chance of copping the coveted title. . Tonight’s session will include only three of the six pvents which comprise the all-around compe tition—calisthenics, table vault ing, and the strength-demanding still rings. The remaining three, all of which are regular EIGA events — paralle bars, horizontal bar, and flying rings—will take up half of tomorrow’s three-hour session which is scheduled to get under way at 2 p.m. All Seeking Wins A host of Eastern competitors, including the seven remaining Lion entries, will be vying for individual laurels in these three events, plus the side horse, rope climb, and tumbling. Following tomorrow’s three hour session, Wettstone and his Penn State gymnasts will be pre sented the EIGA trophy, which they won by virtue of an un defeated season against Eastern foes. It is the third consecutive year Wettstone’s forces have tak en the Eastern title. Yesterday Wettstone said that Schwenzfeier and rope climber Skeets Haag appear to be the best bets to take individual honors for the Nittany Vale, although both will find a host of competitors pushing them all the way. Top All-Around Threat Syracuse’s Milan Trnka will be Schwenzfeier’s biggest hurdle to clear when he goes for the all around crown and top honors on his three individual specialties— H-bar, parallels, and rings. Schwenzfeier looks strongest on the parallels, but routine break could throw the results either way. Haag will find Army’s John Funkhouser the biggest threat to keep him from taking top honors on the vertical climb, and once again anything could happen. Haag’s best seasonal perform ance, 3.4, was also the best per- THE DAfLT CUUCGIAIN siaic COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA : Joe Humphreys Lions 157-pound Entry Freshman Baseball Freshman baseball candi dates will report between 3:15 and 5:15 p.m. Monday at Beav er Field, diamond number 2. In case of rain candidates are asked to meet in Recreation Hall. formance on the hemp in the East this year, but the Cadet en try has come as close as 3.6. Leroy Fritch will also be en tered in the 20-foot climb for the Lions. Skip Heim is the lone Penn State eitry on the horse, with his top competition probably com ing from Navy’s Steve and Bill Arnold, and Syracuse’s Dan Tra facante. The Orange’s Corky Seb b o should have little trouble in win ning tumbling honors, with the Lions’ Bill Paxton, Navy’s Burt Munger, and Pitt’s Bob Kennedy all fighting it out for runner-up honors. Dion Weissend, Don Rehm, and Chuck Marshall round out the Lion entries in the gym festival. Weissend, just recovering from an ankle injury, will be on. the H bar, Rehm will be the second Nittany on the parallels, and Mar shall will appear on the rings. Plan Now for Executive Career in RETAILING Unique one-year course leads you to Master’s degree. Indi vidualized training for those College Graduates who desire top-paying positions, have average or better aca demic records, broad educa tional backgrounds. Training in nationally known retail or ganizations with pay (covers tuition, books, fees). Scholar ships. Coed. Graduates placed. Next class begins Sept. 6,1955. ‘•'ins ac- Write Only Lion Entry L OF ING ITy OF RGH 11 S t Lions Enter 8-Man Squad; 16 Teams Will Compete Coach Charlie Speidel, host mentor for the 51st Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association tourney, will enter an eight-man team when the Lions make their initial bid for Eastern honors this afternoon. The preliminary bouts will start at 2 p.m. The quarter finals will be held at 8 p.m. tonight. Speidel said yesterday that he would weigh in an eight man squad at the two-hour .weigh-in session this morning. The following men will represent the Lions in the Eastern tilt: Sid Nodland (123); Bob Homan, (130); Larry Pomicola, (13?).; Dave Adams, (147); Joe Hum phreys, (157): Ed Pasko, (167); Joe Krufka, (177); and Bill Oberly, heavyweight. The Lions are expected to be best fortified at 123, 130, 137, 147, 177, and heavyweight. Nodland, undefeated sophomore and 1952 National AAU champ, is unde feated at 123 but was tied by Pitt’s Bill Hulings and Cornell’s Ernie Boda after taking a 3-0 -lead. Boda, Hulings, Nodland, and Tom Deppe of Lehigh, along with Rutger’s Gene D’allesandro are considered the top contenders, Homan Has 6-1 Mark Captain Bob Homan, New York senior with a 6-1 season record and a career card of 32-8, lost only to Pitt’s Ed Peery this year. Peery plus Bill Simmons (Tem ple), Parker Mangus (Lehigh), Rex Boda (Cornell), and Dean Oliver of Rutgers will .be likely contenders for the 130 pound ti tle. At 137 pounds Lehigh may move in with Captain Ken Faust, runnerup last year in the East erns, or Dave Bates. Larry Forni cola will get the nod for the Lions; the Bellefonte senior, with a 4-0 record, will be accompanied in the 137 pound weight by Bill Simons of Temple, Pete Fikaris of Army, and Fred Thomas of Navy. Fornicola defeated Thomas, 4-1, and Fikaris, 5-1. Had Five-Match Streak Dave Adams, the Lions’ 147 pounder who boasted a 5-0 record until his last two matches'when he lost against Lehigh and Pitt, has his major opposition nar rowed to three men—Ed Eichel berger (Lehigh), Bob Daughen baugh (Navy), and Rutger’s Fred Futchko. Eichelberger wrestled ten bouts, three at 147 and seven at 157. He won all of them—six by pins and four by decisions. He tripped Adams, 14-11 and pinned Futcnko in 5:14. Defending champ Ed Rooney CELEBRATE ST. PATS DAY By Having PISTACHIO ICE CREAM and LIME SHERBET FOR ALL OCCASIONS University Creamery FRIDAY .MARCH 11. 1955 By ROY WILLIAMS and last yearns runnerup from Pitt, Ed i DeWitt, will be among the standouts for the 157-pouna fracas. DeWitt, who has defeated Rooney,- three times, scored his most recent win over Rooney, 8-7, whei} Pittsburgh whipped the Orange, 23-9.. Penn State’s Joe Humpreys will have two more stout com panions at 157 with Dale Ward —recent 8-6 victim of Eichelberg er—and John Brainerd of Navy. Junior Ed Pasko was picked by Speidel to represent the Lions at 167 pounds. Cornell’s Otis Kel ler and Army’s Jerry Tebben may move into the 167-pound division. Last year Joe Gattuso and Joe Solomon dropped down to enter the same division. . Gattuso edged Solomon for the Eastern 167-pound title in an ov ertime bout decided by a ref eree’s decision. Solomon however, Weht on to win the NCAA title with Gattuso taking a third-place honor. If Solomon and Gattuso Work at 167, the 177 bout will be highf lighted by Dave Gallaher of Le high, Joe Krufka of Penn State, John Kousi of Yale, and Naivy’s Ed Zabrychi. Krufka defeated Gallaher, 3-0, in earning -a 5-2 record. In the heavyweight scramble. Bill -“The Obe” Oberly will meet familiar faces in Pete Blair of Navy and Werner Seel of Lehigh. Blair and- Oberly have met four times—in a 1954 dual meet, in the 1954 Easterns and Nationals, and this ye&r—and Blair has man aged to stop Oberly each time. Seel and Oberly tied 5-5 in their most recent match when Oberly after losing the lead three times, tied the score with a point for riding time. Oberly tacked up a 6-1 record losing only to Blair by a fall in 7:48. Blair defeated Seel one week ago, 4-2. Pasko si 167 Familiar Faces
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