tIDAY. MARCH IT. 1955 From This Angle... By DICK McDOWELI* ccucgiaa 89** Edito* SPORTS POTPOURRI A full slate of 128 wrestlers, representing 16-member schools of the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association, converge on Recreation Hall today for the opening round of tiie EIWA mat tournament—'-a two day affair that premises do be ene of the most thrilling in the. Association’s long, history. i From all indications, this could be the tightest in years. Four teams are all heavy contenders and be a-full load of outstanding in dividuals from several other en tries. Pitt, Penn State,, Lehigh, and Navy figure to be in the thick of the fight for the champion ship when the final round gets underway tomorrow riight. But at this point its just about im possible to name a real favorite. The four teams really mixed It up during the regular dual meet campaign. Pitt, given the pre-tournament favorite's role —simply because there always has to. be a favorite—dropped the LlOps but lost io Lehigh during the regular seasdn. Le high In turn lost to Penn State jbut whipped Navy^—which had beaten Penn Stale. PUt didn't 4 meet Navy during the dual meet season. So these four teams, based on their topsy-turvy records against each other .this season, are run ning almost abreast on the tour nament' done sheet. Any one of them could conceivably win the championship. An . EIWA ruling requires member schools to enteif a full eight-man team, enhancing the possibilities of some early up sets and a darkhorse contender. • * * Lion gymnastic coach Gene Wettstone, who takes his squad to the eastern championship meet tomorrow, is marveling over his captain Carl schwenzfeier. “He has been simply tremen dous for us this year. I never t dreamed we could do so well without Cronstedt, but Carl has been great. He certainly made a difference.” Wettstone’s team, already the eastern team champion by virtue .of its record over EIGA oppon ents, will be after individual honors when it compete at Tem ple University today and tomor row, and Schwenzfeier is the favorite to win the all-around title, along ‘ with several individ ual events. * * * The University of Kentucky Brand...OWE Grade...ONLY Thm Nnmtf yov cm In/yl basketball team has lost the services of captain Tom Evans for its try at-the NCAA basket ball championship. Evans is a graduate student and the NCAA says no soap on tournament play. The Wildcats refused to enter the tournament last year wheu several of the team mem bers were rejected for the same reason. Coach Adolph Rupp had previously lost two other mem bers of his original starting five. Overheard after the Penn State- Memphis State game: “Memphis State ought to have a pretty good football team next yealr If any of the basketball team plajrs. They have beautiful downfield blocking and know how to throw a fore-arm shiwer. 3 More Fives In IM Playoffs Three more Independent bas ketball teams clinched their lea gue crowns Wednesday night. Town Council met the Deltasigs for the League H crown, both sporting 6-1 records. Town Coun cil, trailing through most of the game, suddenly caught fire with five minutes to go and stopped the Deltasigs, 24-21. Harold Mc- Allister netted 13 points for the winners. ' Hamilton Six defeated the Watts Warriors in their last game of the regular season, and ran off with the League G title. The winners virtually clinched the game in the first half when they outscored the Warriors,, 13-4. From then on, the losers matched point for point, but the Six won, 27-18. In the last major league score, the Vikings came from a 12-11 halftime deficit to overcome the Wenshobees’ attack, 24-21. Team work played the top role in the Vikings* win, Hf SAP COUEOIAN; SffATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Heavies/177 Pounders Should Provide Thrills (This is the last in a series of three stories r eviewing some of the top wrestlers in each weight expected to compete in the EIWA tourney set to begin today at Rec Hall. Today the review cow ers the 177-pound and heavyweight divisions.) If the records of the 177-pound wrestlers from Pitt, Navy, Lehigh, and Penn State can give any pre-toumey hint of the caliber of competition that will enter that division, wrestling fans can expect some hotshot firework this weekend at Rec Hall. Joe Solomon, defending 177-pound National Collegiate Athletic Association cham pion from Pitt, will be out to retain his title after scoring an impressive undefeated season with an 11-0 record. Joe Gattuso of Navy will be tabbed as a likely candidate to give Solo- mon his toughest competition. • Dave Gallaher, Lehigh’s prob able choice for 177 pounds, scored a 8-3 record, losing to Solomon, 8-3, Gattuso, 8-1, and Penn State’s Joe Krufka, 3-0. Krufka regis tered a 8-2 slate in losing to Gat tuso, 7-3, and Solomon, 5-4. team race there will Yale will also be vying for 177- pound honors with John Kousi. Wrestling eight bouts, Kousi notched a 7-1 record, losing only to Lehigh’s Gallaher by a fall. Gattuso and Solomon, however, may be involved in a switch that will virtually clean out the 177- pound division. In three meets Solomon slid down one weight to wrestle at 107 where he won in each instance. Gattuso also was conditioned well enough to drop to that weight and win in- three matches. Because the Gattuso-Solomon jtfjwMjaAmaaMuvMnr WILL CO.NDUCT PERSONAL INTERVIEWS Boeing has many positions open fbr graduating and graduate students. These opportunities ars in all branches of engineering (AE, CBS, EE, ME and related fields). Also needad are physicists and mathematicians with advanoed degrees. Fields of activity include DESIGN, RESEARCH and PRODUCTION. Year choice of location: Seattle, Washington or Wichita, Kansas. 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Navy sits in the driver’s seat with defending NCAA and EIWA champion, Pete Blair. Wrestling seven of Navy’s eight matches, Blair was undefeated. He de feated Werner Seel of Lehigh, 4-3, and pinned Penn State’s heavy, Bill Oberly. 1 Seel of Lehigh stacked up a 6-1-1 record. In addition to his ON CAMPUS March 22 and 23 PLACEMENT OFFICE PAGE SEVEN loss to Blair, he was tied by Oberly 5-5 when Lehigh had its seven-match victory streak brok en at Rec Hall. Oberly scored a 5-1-1 slate, losing to Blair and tying Seel. Princeton will have one of its most outstanding grapplers, Jim Macaleer in the heavyweight scrap. Macaleer was 4-2 at heavy weight, suffering one loss to Seel, 2-1. Macaleer defeated Dave Gal laher of Lehigh, 3-2 in the 191- pound class of the pre-season Wilkes Tourney. I THE PERFECT PIZZA < SALLY’S WE DELIVER AD 7-2373
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