y. MM H 31. 1955 From This Angle... A NEW BROTHER ACT Heavyweight wrestler Bill Oberly has a kid brother— a strapping high school sophomore who tips the scales at 210 pbunds and Who, the Lion wrestler happily, 'admits, is good enough to give him a rugged time on the mats. And with an even happier admission he gives his brother, Johnson, due credit for his heavyweight championship in the recent National Collegiate wrestling tournament. Johnson, who finished second in the New Jersey school hoy championships this year, was on hand for the eastern wrestling tourney at Recreation Hall and watched brother Bill lose his semi-final match to Lehigh's Werner Seel. Seel, a strongman on the mats, has been one of two wrestlers who have given the Lion znatsnen his share of trouble ever since 'he entered Intercollegiate competition two seasons ago. Seal beat Oberly last year and prior to the na tional tourney had tied him once and then scored a 2-0 win In' the eastern tournament. The btlor is Navy's Pete Blair, who held an even stronger hold on the popular Nittany heavy- PAO& Blair had topped Ober ly three times in two years and had disposed of Seel in the finals of the 191-pound class in the eastern& Johnson Oberly had all this in mind' when he watched his broth er lose to Seel at Rec Hall. So did Blair, Who has become a good friend of Oberly's even though a stiff .rivalry had developed be tween the two wrestlers. Blair and Johnson both Rig teSted to Bill that he move into he unlimited class for the NCAA tournament at Cornell. However, Oberly did not consider it serious ly at the time. A week 'before the nationals, however, Johnson called Oberly from their home in Asbury, N. . and suggested that the Lion mat man leave Seel and Blair to fight it out in the 191-pound class and that he shoot for the unlimited title "We must have talked for at least a half an hour," said Oberly. "lie had checked the records and knew who was en tering in that weight and was convinced that I could win there." . . So Oberly entered in the heavy weight only. to find that Seel had also dedided to move up. That meant that the Lehigh wrestler and Oberly might meet again— if Obe got past Wisconsin's Bob Konovsky, 1954 runner-up in that division. That, of course, was the first problem. So the Oberly brothers set up training headquarters in the Lion heavy's hotel room• and between matches the two worked on cer- $y DICK McDOWELL Collpias Sports Editor thin movements that Johnson had spotted while he watched the easterns. Oberly whipped Konovsky 8-4 in the semi-final match of the tournament and as was expected, had to face Seel for the chain pionship. Here brother Johnson entered the picture again. Bill had lost in the easterns when he couldn't break away from a leg ride that Seel continually used. But John son saw Blair break the same hold in the finals of that tourna ment and the tkvo brothers went to work in the hotel room be tween the semi-final and final session's on gaturday. Johnson's idea was for Bill to 'turn into Seel when ho rode the legs, grab an ankle, slip his knees across saws chest, and with this movement force the Lehigh ',restless back to the canvas and force him to re lease the leg. It worked like a charm. Oberly won the match, 5-2, ane came home with the national heavy weight championship. When the match was over and one 'well-wisher ran onto the floor to congratulate Oberly, the Lion wrestler turned and pointed to the beaming Johnson. "Congratulate him," he said. In wrestling, the "brother acts" have been traditional at Penn State; there were the Maurey's, the Frey's, and the Lemeyre's. Now the Oberly's have joined the parade. A little different, perhaps, but a very effective combination. Soccer Candidates Candidates for spring soccer practice are to report to coach ICen Hosterman in 202 Rec Hall to secure physical checkup cards. THE PERFECT PIZZA SALLY'S WE DELIVER AD 7-2373 Ira p 1 T C014.1131AN. MU COLLEGE. PENNwitvANIA 'Ck) It This Way . . .' FOOTBALL COACH Rip Engle has a few words didates through their paces for the next few of advice for grid candidates as they swing into weeks. The Lions opened drills Monday. They'll the 20-day spring practice. Good weather per- take a break at spring vacation and resume mining. the Lion coach will put some 80 can- workouts after the holiday. In 18'70 and 1880, University women students lived in a wing of Old Main, the building which also housed the men students and professors. The University first admitted Modern language study, which women in 1871 with the aim of began more than 80 years ago preparing a woman to be "a ma- at the University, nos• attracts tron instead of a parlor orna- about 2500 students annually. ment." 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