Nittanies, Lehigh Lead Tourney Squeeze by Pitt, Navy On Eve of Semi-finals Penn State and Lehigh wound up on top of A 16-team pack last night at Rec Hall as each stacked up 18 points on the eve of the semi-final round of the 1 EIWA tourney. Pitt moved into third place with 15 tallies with Navy trailing the “big four” of Eastern mat teams with 14. The Lions copped six of seven bouts last night after losing only one man in the afternoon preliminary session. Penn State wilj boast six men in the semi-final round this afternoon starting at 2 p.m. Five men from Pitt and Lehigh have weathered the first two elimination rounds, while Navy has four semi-finalists. Rutgers has three men going this afternoon, and Army and Temple each have two. Penn State scored four pins and two decisions last night to run up ten points and boost its afternoon total of eight points to eighteen. Penn State’s 123-pound victory was handled by Sid Nodland who decisioned Bill Jemison of Cor nell, 9-4. Nodland had no trouble with Jemison as he led all the way and stacked up four points in the last period. Captain Bob Homan of the Lions scored a pin at 130 pounds over Dave Kline of Penn at 8:16. Homan led 5-0 when he scored with a reverse cradle. Fornicola Pins in 4:10 Penn State’s second straight pin was at 137 pounds when Larry Fornicola pinned Brown’s Frank Smith at 4:10 after holding a slim 2-0 lead over his scrappy, iight ening-fast opponent. Sophomore Dave Adams man aged to cop an 8-2 decision over George Mulligan of Rutgers. Ad ams, who led 3-2 at the outset of the final period, capitalized on his tiring opponent to earn live big points in the third period. Joe Krufka. 177 pounds, and Bill Oberly, heavyweight, the Lions’ “big two,” both scored falls to add four points to the Lions’ total. Krufka pinned Hay Walk er of Penn at 4:03 after leading 4-0 at the end of the opening stanza, Oberly Tops Finck Oberly piled up a six-point lead including a near fall in the second period before he pinned George Finck, Syracuse, to cop his second win of the season over the Orange grappler, at 7:21 of the final period. Lehigh, entering the semi-fm als with nine points, pushed its total to 18 with four pins and a decision. Tom Deppe, Lehigh, pinned Bob Theriault of Yale. Top-seeded Gene D’Allessandro, Rutgers, decisioned Don Clark, Syracuse, 8-3. Navy notched wins in its* four final bouts to net six points.. Top seeded Joe Gattuso, 167, pinned Ron Cardell, Rutgers, while dark horse Ed Zabeycki dropped Le high’s Dave Gallaher, 10-3. Pete Blair, the second of Navy’s top seeded duo, pinned Chuck Eger ton, Cornell, at 3:53. Larry Marr, Navy, edged Steve DeHaven, F and M, 4-3. Pitt Opens Fast Pitt opened with a fast start and a strong finish with pins at 123, 130, and 177 and decisions at 157 and 167. Ed Peery, Pitt’s top-seeded 130 pounder, pinned Dick Samuels, Franklin and Mar shall, in 7:04. Bill Hulings pinned John Buchanan, Columbia, at 5:52 for Pitt and 177-pounder Joe Solomon pinned Mike' Fisher, Rutgers, at 7:15. Ed DeWitt, 167, and Don Huff. 157, each won de cisions for the Panthers. Rutgers, entering the quarter finals with six men and seven points ended up with three men for the semi-finals and 11 points. It won at 123, 130, and 137 with its win at 130 a pin by Dean By ROY WILLIAMS Semi-Final Pairings 123-POUND CLASS D'Alletandro (Rutgers) and Deppe (Lehigh) NODLAND (Penn State) and Hulings (Pitt) 130-POUND CLASS Peery (Pitt) and Oliver (Rutgers) HOMAN (Penn Stale) and Mangus (Lehigh) 137-POUND CLASS Faust (Lehigh) and W. Simmons (Temple) FORNICOLA (Penn State) and Futchko (Rutgers) 147-POUND CLASS Eichelberger (Lehigh) and R. Simmons (Temple) Muse (Brown) and ADAMS (Penn State) 157-POUND CLASS Rooney (Syracuse) and Huff (Pitt) Ward (Army) and Marr (Navy) 167-POUND CLASS Gattuso (Navy) and Tebben (Army) DeWitt (Pitt) and Kousi (Yale) 177-POUND CLASS Solomon (Pitt) and Culbert (Harvard) KRUFKA (Penn State) and Zabrycki (Navy) HEAVYWEIGHT CLASS Blair (Navy) and Macaleer (Princeton) Seel (Lehigh) and OBERLY (Penn Slate) Oliver over Chuck Gratto at 8:23. Army enters the semi-finals with two men—one at 157 and one at 167. Gerry Tebben won the 167 pound scramble 11-8 over Ron Cardell of Rutgers; Dale Ward pinned Joe Humphreys at 6:18 after he led 4-2 during the second period. Yale has three points and one semi-finalist; Cornell, Columbia, Franklin and Marshall, and Penn are out of the race. Harvard and Princeton enter one semi-finalist each and each has four points. Yale, with three tallies, has one semi-finalist while Syracuse, still in the hole by one point, will have two men going this after noon. In the four-hour round of pre liminary eliminations, Lehigh fin ally managed to lead the' pack with nine points, followed by Penn State, Cornell, and Navy with eight; Pitt and Rutgers with seven; Franklin and Marshall, five; Army and Princeton, three; Penn, Harvard, Brown, Yale, and Syracuse, two; Columbia one; (Continued on page seven) Theta Alpha Phi and Players. present . . SHIVARAM and JAHAKI In or classical Hindu Dance Recital narrated by . . . Louise Lightfoot Sat., March 19 Schwab Aud. 8:15 p.m- Tickets—sl.oo at HUB me uailt ccn-ttwiAiv si Ait. COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA FRANK SMITH of Brown and Larry Fornicola Smith in 4:10 and move into the semi-finals of Penn State tangle early in their 137-pound of the tournament against Fred Futchko of battle last night. Fornicola went on to pin Rutgers. Schwenzfeier Leads In EIGA Tournament By ED DUBBS Karl Schwenzfeier, Penn State’s lone entry in the “competition for the versatile” of the Eastern Intercollegiate Gymnastic Association individual tourney, forged ahead of the pack as he racked up 801 points by capturing first place in two events and a runner’s-up spot in the three events held last night at Annapolis. 1 Schwenzfeier took the calisthenics and still ring events and landed a second place in the table vaulting. The Penn State captain leads Milan Trnka, of Syracuse, by 37 points. Trnka scored 764 in the three events. Trnka looks to be Schwenzfeier’s toughest competitor in the remaining three events, which are the Nittany Captain’s specialties. Today’s events are the horizontal bar, parallels, and flying rings. Today's events are/ scheduled to get underway at 2 p.m. Placing -third last night with 694, 107 points off the pace, was Charles Neely of Temple. In fourth place was Chuck Luttinger of Syracuse with 636 points. The three events shaped uo as follows Calisthenics: Schwenzfeier, 269; Trnka, 247; Neely, 227; Luttinger, 210. • Long horse: Trnka, 283; Sch wenzfeier, 268; Luttinger, 246; and Neely, 235. Still rings: Schwenzfeier, 264; Trnka, 234; Neely, 232; and Lut tinger, 180. On Thursday Gene Wettstone, the Nittany mentor, said Skeets Haag appeared to be the best bet to take today’s individual rope climbing honors. However, Haag may get rough competition from Army’s John Funkhouser, the biggest threat to keep the Nittany climber from capturirig the vertical climb. Haag’s 3.4 sec. stint was the best performance on the hemp in the East this year, but the Cadet entry has come within two tenths of a second of the mark. Leroy Fritch will also be en tered in the 20-foot climb for the Lions. The Orange’s Corky Sebbo should have little trouble in win- ning the tumbling honors. The Lion’s Bill Paxton, Navy’s Burt Munger, and Pitt’s Bob Kennedy should be fighting it out for sec ond place honors. Also representing the Lions in today’s events will be Dion Weis send, Don Rehm, and Chuck Marshall. Weissend, just recover ing from an ankle injury, will be on the H-bar, Rehm will be the second Nittany on the parallels, and Marshall will be featured on the rings. SATURDAY. MARCH 12. 1955 The percentage for foul shots made by the Penn State basket ball team over the past six years is 63.8. Freshman Baseball Freshman base ba 11 candi dates will report between 3:15 and 5:15 p.m. Monday at Beav er Field, diamond number 2. In case ol rain candidates are asked to meet in Recreation Hall*.
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