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NCAA Gym
Due. for the most part, to the dominating role it played in the EIGA individual
competition meet at Annapolis over the weekend, the Eastern champion Penn State gym
team will enter the NCAA tourney March 25-26 at UCLA in top potential strength.
Eight Nittany Lions will travel to Los Angeles in defense of the title the Lions have
captured the past two seasons.
Captain Karl Schwenzfeier will be the top Lion entry, shooting for the coveted all
around title, which he won with ease in the Easterns. Don Weissend, promising Nittany
sophomore, will also enter the all-around competition, which consists of three Olym-
pic, and three standard, events.
Individual event entries, Skeets
Haag, Skip Heim, Bill Paxton,
Don Rohm, Leroy Fritch, and
Chuck Fegeley round out the
Penn State aggregation.
The Lion's, who won the East
ern title for the third straight
year by virtue of an unbeaten
season against Eastern foes, will
be the top representative from
East and will probably visit
UCLA with the largest single
unit east of the Mississippi.
Thirty teams, including over
100 individual performers, are ex
pected to enter the annual gym
festival, with the majority of top
flight gymnasts coming from the
west coast.
Wettstone, whose Lion team
last year shattered all tourney
records by scoring an unprece
dented 137 team points, picks Il
linois, Florida State, Southern
California, and the host team as
the major obstacles to clear if
the Nittanies are to succeed them
selves as national kingpins.
Three of these, the Illini, Flor
ida State, and UCLA were last
year’s runner-ups in that order,
and have a host of veteran per
formers set to make it rough
going for the Nittanies.
Wettstone also looks in Michi
gan State, lowa, California, Tex
as, and Louisiana State as poten
tial title-threats.
Gone from last year’s undis
puted winners, in addition to the
fabulous Jean Cronstedt who took
the spotlight with six individual
first places, are Bob Lawrence
and Tony Procopio. individual
event winners, and Frank and A 1
Wick, second and third place fin
ishers.
Thmclads Propping
For Season Opener
Four weeks from tomorrow Penn State’s defending IC4A track
champs will get their initial test of the 1955 season when they enter
a triangular meet including Penn and Navy at Annapolis, Md.
The Lions’ mentor, Chick Werner, will not return from Japan
where he is conducting track and field clinics for the Far East Com
mand until April 1, but the bulk of the Lion squad has already
opened practice.
Although the thinclads will
boast a crop of exeprienced re
turnees, the next four weeks will
be packed with a heavy practice
and training agenda. Because of
the uhpredictable spring weather,
the Lions will have to capitalize
on favorable outdoor conditions
to work off the extrs winter
poundage and prime themselves
for the season opener.
The Lions will run in a seven
meet card. After an expected
tough tussle in the triangular
meet with Penn and Navy in
the opener, they will compete in
the following meets: Ohio State
Relays (Columbus); Penn Relays
(Philadelphia); Michigan -Navy
(Home); Boston University
(Home); Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh);
and the Intercollegiate Amateur
Athletics Association of America
(IC4A) meet in New York City.
The Lions are expected to draw
much of their strength from their
record-breaking captain Rosey
Grier, a three-way man in the
weights with the shot, javelin,
and discus plus seniors Skip Slo
cum, Art Pollard, Bill Youkers,
Rod Perry, and footballer Charlie
Blockson.
Grier and Blockson, a junior,
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Contender in NCAA
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’ KANSAS CITY, March 16 (JP)—
Colorado’s Golden Buffaloes can
be the relaxed “spoilers” of the
National Collegiate Athletic Assn,
basketball tournament Friday and
Saturday nights.
Nobody seems to take much
note of the Big Seven champions,
who meet the nation’s top-ranked
team, San Francisco’s Dons to
morx-ow night.
lowa’s Big Ten champions, on
the other hand, are given a fair
chance to spill defending cham
pion LaSalle in Friday night’s
other semifinal.
But Coach Bebe Lee’s Colorado
team, winner of 15 of its last 16
games, may surprise the capacity
10,000 at the Municipal Audi
torium.
Sports Illustrated, TV
Will Spotlight Gymnastics
An article on the Penn State
gymnastics team appears in to
day’s edition of Sports Illustrated
magazine.
A composite color picture of the
top members of the team is feat
ured in the story. Photographs
were taken a few months ago by
Fernand Fonssgrives, world fa
mous photographer.
Lion gym coach Gene Wett
stone and Karl Schwenzfeier, cap
tain of the 1955 team, will travel
to Altoona this afternoon to ap
pear on the Ted Reinhardt sports
show at 6:45 p.m. on WFBG-TV.
have been the Lions’ one-two
punch in the weights division.
In the middle distances Slocum
and Pollard have been valuable
mainstays. Pollard was the IC4A
outdoor 100-yard king and set the
300-yard indoor record last year.
Slocum, in addition to the relay
and 880 chores, has been best in
the 440.
In the hurdling department the
Lions will be tough to beat with
Perry, Youkers, and possibly Gary
Seybert. Perry tied the world
mark of 6.0 seconds and beat Har
rison Dillard in the 50-yard high
hurdles in the Philadelphia In
quirer Games in January.
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Enter
Meet
KDR, SN
Set for IM
Cage Finals
Sigma Nu and Kappa Delta Rho
meet at 8:30 tonight for the IM
basketball fraternity champion
ship. The two cage teams earned
their way to the finals as a re
sult of wins over Delta Upsilon
and Theta Xi Tuesday night. The
independent playoff will start at
7:30 tonight.
The DU’s led Sigma Nu at half
time, 17-16, and built up a four
point margin with less than sev
en minutes remaining to play in
Tuesday night’s action. Then Sig
ma Nu poured 10 straight markers
through the hoop and was never
headed after that. Two main rea
sons accounted for Sigma Nu’s
38-31 victory. The first was the
brilliant scoring duel between the
winner’s Ed Ritter and Ed Bar
reird of Delta Upsilon. Ritter out
scored his opponent, 16-15. But
their value to the teams did not
end with total points. Both men
accounted for several more tallies
with their sensational feeding.
Meek Scores Eight
Ritter’s winning the individual
scoring duel, coupled with DU’s
Jim Garrity’s three quick per
sonal fouls, told the tale of the
game. In the first half, Garrity
held Richard Meek, Sigma Nu’s
big center, to one point, but be
cause of the danger of fouling
out, Garrity had to “keep hands
off” in the second half. Meek
poured in eight points and that
was the difference.
Theta Xi, for its tense one- and
two-point wins, had Kappa Delta
Rho on edge until late in the
game. At the half, KDR led 19-18.
But with only a few minutes left,
KDR, paced by Billy Kane’s 15
points, broke away and won,
36-28.
In the independent quarter
finals, the Geeche Birds and
Chug-A-Lugs advanced one step
further.
Win With Four Men
The Birds held the rare dis
tinction of finishing and winning
a playoff in overtime with just
four men. The Greensmokers bat
tled the Birds to a 21-21 tie at the
end of regulation time. In the
overtime, Barry Schriver drop
ped in a two-pointer to clinch
the game for the Birds, 24-21.
Late in the game one of the Gee
che Birds fouled out, but that
didn’t help the plight of the
Greensmokers.
The Chug-A-Lugs easily whip
ped a tall Topper team, 50-24.
Six membe rs of the winning
squad netted at least five points.
John Farls and Emil Caprara
each tallied 11 markers for the
winners.
Alum to Be Honored
For Athletic Service
Hundreds of sports-minded Penn State alumni ahd friends
will gather Tuesday in Pittsburgh to honor B. C. “Casey’'
Jones at the first annual Penn' State Sports Banquet.
The banquet, which will be held at 7:30 p.m. at the Wil
liam Penn Hotel, is expected to draw many alums and former
Penn State athletes from the Tri-State area. A large delega-
tion from the University—includ
ing former football Coach Bob
Higgins—is slated to be on hand.
Hig, who coached football for 19
years at State, will speak.
“Casey” Jones is being honored,
according to banquet chairman
David B. Ludwig Jr., “for his un
tiring, effective service to Penn
State athletes over a span of 35
years.”
In that time, Ludwig said,
“Casey” has been directly or in
directly responsible for raising
money to send over 300 athletes
to Penn State. Many of them, in
cluding some of the greatest All-
Americans turned out by State,
have shown their intention to be
present.
Jones plans to retire soon from
his position as assistant manager
of lines for the West Penn Power
Co. and move to State College.
Sponsoring the banquet are the
Lion Scouts of Western Pennsyl
vania, newly-formed sports-mind
ed group bent on helping Penn
State athletics. Robert B. Davis,
sportscaster and former football
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end for Penn State ahd the Pitts
burgh Steelers, heads the group
as executive director. Davis is
one of the many Nlttany athletes
who got their college Start
through “Casey.”
Many Penn State coaches —in-
cluding Rip Engle, Joe Paterno,
Earl Bruce, Charlie Speidel and
Johh Egll—will attend, as will
director of athletics Ernest B. MC-
Coy and others from the Univer
sity. Penn State notables such as
Judge James Milholland and
George H. Deike Sr.—who are
co-members with “Casey” Jones
on the University’s Board of Trus
tees—plan to attend. Toastmaster
will be Bob Prince, local sports
caster who broadcasts Penn State
football games.
A large delegation from Erie,
headed by Erie alumni president
Tim Wible, has reserved space
at the banquet.
Tickets can be secured by Writ
ing or phoning C. F. Sheakley Jr.,
246 Southvue Drive, Pittsburgh 36
(PL 1-1771, PL 1-2265). Price is
$lO. Tables for 10 can be reserved.