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Soccermen Win 15th Straight
Top Terps,
6-1; Packer
Boots Four
By FRAN FANUCCI
Penn State's high-flying soc
cermen ran their undefeated
streak to 15 games and scored
their sixth victory of the 1955
season yesterday afternoon,
beating Marylands' Terrapins,
6-1, on a muddy,Beaver Field.
All-American Dick Packer ran
the Maryland defense ragged by
scoring four goals, and increasing
his season's total to 16, seven
short of the record 23 set in 1952
by Jack Pinezich.
The other two Lion scores were
tallied by Dick Matacia and Don
Shirk. The Lions scored at least
once in every quarter while the
Terps' score came in the second
period.
Lions Eye New Record
The Lions have to win the re
maining three games on their
schedule to establish a new rec
ord of having an unbeaten and
untied team for two consecutive
years.
Outside of the first quarter, the
game was dominated mostly by
defensive playing. Both Lion
goalies, George Geczy and John
Lawrence, stopped numerous
scoring attempts and thwarted
many Maryland drives.
The contest was only three
minutes old before Matacia slip
ped one by the Terp goalie for
the first score of the game. Shirk
followed a short time after with
the second goal and Packer got
the first of his four consecutive
goals midway in the quarter.
Packer Continues Scoring
Packer cnntinued his scoring
with a goal in the opening min
utes of the second quarter, but
Maryland tallied before the half
ended on, reserve Roy Beau
champ's shot, making the score
4-1 when the gun sounded.
In the second half the Lion de
fense tightened and held the Ter
rapins scoreless, while the Lion
offense, spearheaded by Packer,
continued to move the ball al
most at will.
Packer scored the only third
quarter goal on a penalty kick,
awarded after he was "roughed
up" on an attempted scoring play.
He ended the game's scoring
with a goal at 11:23 of the fourth
quarter, smacking in a terrific
head shot which faked the Terp
goalie out of position.
Attempted 32 Shots
In shooting attempts the Lions
held a seven-shot advantage, try
ing 32 to 25. Shooting in the first
half was eqtial with both teams
ail - emoting 13.
Maryland came into today's
game with a 3-1 record. The first
loss was inflicted by Navy, the
Lions' next opponent, 4-1.
In order to break Pinezich's
record, Packer will have to av
erage three goals a game for the
remainder of the season. The
Lions' final three games are with
Navy on Tuesday, Pittsburgh, and
Temple.
The Lions will drill today and
tomorrow in preparation for the
Navy tilt, their last away game.
Frosh Grid Brothers
Two brothers, Mike and Clem
New bold, of Jenkintown, are
teammates on the Penn State
freshman football team. Mike is
an end. Clem plays tackle.
PENN STATE ALL-AMERICAN Dick
Packer (arrow) scores the Lions third tally
in the first quarter of yesterday's game at
Beaver Field. Maryland's goalie. Carroll
* *
Matacia's Stellar Play Earns
Him Alias of 'Crazy Legs'
Imagine a male octupus turned loose in a girls dormitory and you'll have approximately the pic
ture opposing soccermen receive of Lion hooter, Dick Matacia.
For Richard Bagby Matacia, known to friends as just plain Dick, is possessed of that rare name
known as "crazy legs." •Indeed, Matacia draws' that and other aliases from his teammates including
"Gazelle" and "Limber Limbs." However, the six-foot senior has a drive like the bite of the deadly
Tri-Sig's, DG's
Win as Coed
Badminton Ends
The women's Intramural Bad
minton League ended last night
when Tii-Sigma beat Gamma Phi
Beta 3-0, and Delta Gamma took
two out of three from Kappa Ka .
pa Gamma. Thompson Three and
Four and Alpha Xi Delta won re
spective forfeits over Sigma Del
ta Tau and Kappa Delta.
Sally Rosser, Mary Hudcovich,
Ellen Johnson, and Carole Hite
were the winners for Tri-Sig. •
Suzanne Aiken defeated Mary
Sensenig for the lone Kappa
Kappa Gamma victory. Delta
Gamma's Joan Gray won the
other singles match, while
Edith Gross and Patty Stocker
teamed up to take the doubles
set.
Playoffs will begin in two
weeks.
On Saturday afternoon four
teams will try out for the Mid-
East Field Hockey Team at Ship
pensburg. Penn State will be rep
resented by seven players. The
Mid-East finalists will then com
pete the following week for the
National Team at Wilson College.
Continuing with their recrea
tional program for the winter,
the Women's Recreation Associ
ation is setting up an Indi
vidual Badminton League for
all campus coeds. Players can
sign up in 103 White Hall, or
with Pat Barnits. IM chairman.
A "play night" for all dateless
coeds is scheduled for Saturday
night at White Hall. The swim
ming pool will be open from 7 to
9 p.m. Basketball, badminton,
ping pong, bridge, and volley
ball facilities will be available in
the gymnasium. The bowling al
leys will also be open.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
By JOHN LAWRENCE
Fer-de-lance. (Known to all as
the dealiest snake in the world).
And like the Fer-de-lance, he's
quick and accurate!
As many opposing players( and
teammates) will testify, Matacia's
legs appear to move in five dif
ferent directions at once. How
ever, when trained on the goal,
those same directions form a. path
that would do justice to a tracer
bullet.
Scored 2 Against Penn
In last year's season final,
against Pennsylvania, Matacia
turned in a performance that will
be replayed many times. In a
game which was considered to be
a prelude to the national cham
pionship, Penn had taken a - "very
big" lead of 2-1 in the final quar
ter.
With less than six minutes re
maining, Matacia leaped among
the center of the Quaker back
field, got his head on a corner
kick and scored in -the corner of
the goal.
With unashamed tears staining
their face, the Lion booters bat
tled to what seemed to be an in
evitable deadlock. One complete
swing of the minute • hand re
mained on the clock • when Ma
tacia again entered the picture.
Taking a pass from all-America
Jack Pinezich, Matacia got • his
left foot on the ball. From six
yards out, he electrified the
crowd by driving it in the right
hand corner of the goal. The score
gave the Lions the game and the
national championship. •
A senior in industrial engineer
ing and a member of Alpha Sig
ma Phi, Matacia entered Penn
State from Brooklyn Technical
High School, N.Y., where he led
his squad in 1951, to the All-City
title. That year he earned a berth
on the All-City team.
Having played with Jack Pine
zich and Paul Dierks on the 1949
squad, Matacia chose Penn State
lover three other schools.
Reynolds. tries frantically to stop _ score.
Packer scored three other times in leading
Penn State to its sixth straight win of the
year. 6-1.
* *
Breaks Deadlock
* * *
3 Wins Posted
In Intramural
Swimming Tilts
Three teams, two by victory,
one by forfeit, last. night moved
into the second round of intra
mural swimming for independent
teams. Dorm 26 forfeited to the
Twenty-Niners, Dorm 22 spilled
Neptune's ugh t e r, and the
Rocks defeated Dorm 9.
.-In the first match, Dorm 22 took
three first places and two second
places to outpoint Neptune's
Daughter, 27-13. The winners' Jim
Schnupp took a first in the free
style race. Teammate Wes Logan
came in third and the. Neptunes'
Bob Hopkins was the runner-up.
In the back stroke, 22's Bill
Logan captured first place. Dave
Hitchings took the runner-up spot
and the losers Bo b McCarron
came in third. Dick Matz of Nep
[tune triumphed in the I) r east
stroke. The winners' Roger Rade
macher was second. Long, Hitch
ings, Schnupp, and Logan tri
umphedumphed in the relay. Lo
gan was the evennig's top diver,
with Hppkins runner-up.
Ed Milford was "Mr. Big" for
the Rocks. He picked up first
places in the freestyle and back
'stroke races. The winners' relay
team - of Jim Seibert, John Col
lins, Charlie Hattman and Bob
Vietmeir took the only other first
place for the winners. - Dorm 9's
Russ Scott came in second in the
freestyle while. Seibert took a
third. Dorm 9's Harry Bomberger
splashed, to a second in the back
stroke, and teammate Paul Chris
topher came in third.
` IHURSDAY. NOVEMBER 3. 1955
Indies Open
With Nine
Cage Wins
Nine independent basketball
teams won their first games in
the Intramural basketball tourney
Tuesday night as play moved in
to the third night of action.
In the first game of the evening,
the Hawks eked out a 15-14 win
over the Birds in a game high
lighted by sterling defensive play
on the part of both clubs. Charlie
Hershelman led the winners with
seven points.
The Toppers defeated the Cen
trovards, 37-28, despite a 14 point
effort by Jerry Cornell. Gene
Hilty sparked the winners attack
with 10 points.
The Colossal Five chalked up its
first tourney victory by downing
the Sixty Niners, 18-14. After
playing to a 8-8 standstill in the
first half, Marty Merrg—Colossal
Five forward—began to find the
range, hitting for six .of his 10
points in the second half.
In the fourth game of the eve
ning,. the Red Raiders outscored
the Vikings, 10-6.
Jordan One edged the Warriors
20-18. Tom Wagner ripped the
cords for 10 points to spark the
Jordan One attack. Bill Duey
scored nine points in a losing
cause.
The Fighting Freshman- com
pletely outplayed the Eunuchs en
route to. a 41-15 victory. After
being held to an eight point lead
at the end of the first half, 18-10,
the Freshman opened up to glide
to victory. Dan DeJoseph scored
15 points for the winners while
Ed Stocker had nine for the losers.
The Playboys trounced a hard
fighting, but outmanned Pollock
12 aggregation 29-17. Don Davis
scored eight points to lead the
winners.
A strong Canadian Club team
humbled the Rebels, 50-12, hold
ing its opponents to only two
points in the second half. Nielsen
Lambert with 13 and Dennis
Uhrin with 12 led the winners
attack.
Pollock 4 walloped the Nema
todes 30-10 in the last game of
the evening,
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