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.
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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
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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