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Schwenzieier Leads Gymnasts
Wins All-Around Title;
Illini Win Team Honors
Ignoring gloomy pre-season forecasts, the Penn State
gymnastics team soared through its 1955 season gaining
enough momentum to climax it with a tremendous weekend
finish at Los Angeles, Calif.—a second place finish in the
National Collegiate championships.
And an integral part of Coach Gene Wettstone's stalwarts
who gained 69 team points in their runner-up finish behind
Illinois, was the record-smashing performance of Nittany cap
tain Karl Schwenzfeier. He captured the 13th annual indi
,
'dual all-around title with 1620 points—oVershadowing the
557 record performance estab- '
lished by former teammate Jan
Cronstedt a year ago.
The Illini, runner-up to the
Lions last year and only dual
meet opponent to defeat Penn
State this season, scored 82%
points in winning the team cham
pionship. It was their sixth na
tional title, with Penn State sec
ond with three.
Other top finishers among the
field of 26 team entries were host
team and highly favored UCLA,
67%; Southern California, 56;
Michigan State, 55; lowa, - 54%;
and Florida State, 44%.
Five Qualify
The never-say-die defending
champion Lions, winners of the
past two NCAA tourneys had a
much greater challenge before
them than either of their two
Lion predecessors. The 1953 and
1954 entries qualified nine of ten
flien into the finals, where team
coring begins, while this year's
berformers moved up only five of
the eight gymnasts who made the
trip to Los Angeles.
Meanwhile, the Illini saw all
ten of their entries move into
final action.
But the five Lions, qualified in
seven events, overcame their stout
handicap to come with 13% points
of the victorious Uclans. •
Second on Parallels
In addition to capturing the
coveted all-around title, Schwenz
feier tied for second on the par-
I allel bars and side horse, was
third on ,the flying rings, and tied
for sixth in free calisthenics.
Skip Heim turned in one of his
best showings to tie Illinois' Tom
Gardner for a third on the side
horse. Chuck Fegley, a sophomore
making his first trip to the NC
AA's, scored 240 for tenth place
on the trampoline, 44 points be
hind Indiana's first-place winner s
Dick Albertson.
Dion . Weissend, another prom
ising Nittany sophomore, took a
slim one-point lead over Schwenz
feier for a second on the horizon
tal bars.
Haag Fourth
Skeets Haag, bowing to UCLA's
rope climbers, tied for fourth with
a 3.8 clocking. He bettered that
mark by four-tenths earlier in a
dual-meet outing. The host team's
Bob Hammond topped the list
with a 3.1.
Schwenzfeier, competing against
a host of all-around entries, some
of whom own Olympic and Pan-
American games experience, add
ed a first place in long horse
vaulting and a still rings fourth
in hid previous earnings.
Right on his heels was Carl
Rintz, Michigan State's winner of
six individual Big Ten titles and
former Philadelphia high school
league competitor. Last year
Schweizfeier finished sixth- in re-
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verse order behind the Spartan
performer.
The Lion led the entire field
going into the final event—tumb
ling—where they had no entry. It
was here that Illinois took over
with two performers that had
placed one-two on the mats in
the Lion-Illini dual-outing.
Summing up his team's inspired
performance following the meet,
Wettstone said "The big thing for
us was that a relatively new team
performed very well—having only
one veteran among eight team
members—only to lose to the liii
ni's tumbling strength.
Wettstone added that he was
highly pleased to defeat what he
termed the favorite, UCLA, and
the perennially powerful Florida
State.
Wrestling
(Continued from page six)
team finished: Oklahoma A and
M, 40; Penn State, 311 Pitt 28;
Oklahoma University, 26; Le
high, 25; lowa University.' 24;
Michigan U. 23; Navy, 21; Illi
nois, 19; Colorado U., 15; lo*a
State Teachers, - 14; West Vir
ginia, 13; • Cornell College of
lowa. 11; Colorado A and M, 10;
Michigan State, 9; Rutgers. 8;
Wisconsin, 7; Syracuse, 6; In
diana, 6; Temple, 5; Springfield.
5; Toledo. 3.
In the Saturday afternoon semi
final round Fornicola scored a pin
in the final 30 seconds to whip
Don Hart, Oklahoma's Big Seven
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Three pins for Chi Phi and a
pin and two decisions for Delta
Upsilon highlighted quarter final
action.
Armour Black pinned George
Bickelhampt, Kappa Sigma; Don
Farmello pinned Hillel Rosen, Phi
Sigma Delta and Ernie Young
pinned Don Dowden, Sigma Phi
Epsilon. Also, Jim Brubaker, DU,
decisioned Bob McMillan, Delta
Tau Delta; Paul Brown, DU, pin
ned Milt Netcher, Delta Sigma
Phi; and Frank Della Penna decil
sioned Winnie Doederlein, Kappa
Sigma, 3-0. Tom Bergesen, Sigma
Nu, decisioned Joe Peden, Phi
Sigma Kappa and Fuzzy Law also
decisioned pan Revie, Sigma Chi.
Willard "Bull" Smith pinned Jim
' Harding; Dick Shillinger, TKE,
pinned Paul Hood, Delta Sigma
Phi; Keith Horn, Phi Delta Theta,
I pinned Ray Alberigi, KDR; and
Norman Whitehouse, SPE, deci
sioned Dave Hubert, Phi Delta
Theta; Jess Darlington, Phi Gam
ma Delta, pinned Jim Leslie, Phi
Kappa Sigma; Ray Okamoto, Phi
Kappa Sigma, pinned Ted Garret,
Pi Kappa Phi.
Champ; Hart led 2-0 when the
final period opened, although
Fornicola rode him throughout
the second stanza. Fornicola
knotted the score with a reverse
before scoring the pin.
Frank Rosenmayer, Colorado,
Was a good six inches taller
than Krufka, but he failed to
catch Krufka as he slowly
ground out a 9-6 win after lead
ing 3-2 at the bell of the second
round.
Oberly and Konovsky, in their
heavyweight semi-final bout, end
ed the first period standing, but
in the second period Oberly
jumped off to a 5-2 lead. In the
final period Oberly scored a take
down and an escape while Kon
ovsky could do no better than two
escapes in losing, 8-4.
Everett Case, basketball coach
at North Carolina State, was a suc
cessful high school coach in his
native Indiana before coming to
State.
Intramural Volley
Class B play: Alpha Zeta B
stopped Kappa Sigma, 15-7, 16-14;
Phi Epsilon Pi beat Phi Kappa
Sigma, 15-11, 3-15, 15-6; Theta Xi
defeatSd Phi Sigma Kappa, 15-9,
15-10; Beta Sigma Rho won by
forfeit over Sigma Chi.
Class A play: Kappa Delta Rho
by forfeit over Chi Phi. Theta Xi
over Acacia, 15-2, 15-1; Alpha
Chi Sigma beat Phi Kappa Sigma,
15-13, 5-15, 15-7; Alpha Tau Ome
ga edged Alpha Zeta, 15-13, 15-13;
Phi Kappa Tau nipped Theta
Kappa Phi, 15-9, 13-15, 15-2; Theta
Delta Chi beat Delta Upsilon,
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