FRIDAY. DECEMBER 9. 1955
Ptnii State Sports—
ON the
LINE
SKIOCL AND W.W. H
If we learned anything yesterday during a two-hour talk
with wrestling coach Charlie Speidel, one thing is paramount
—the slightly balding mat mentor is a veritable storehouse
for newspaper copy.
As we entered his office in 237 Recreation Hall, Charlie
was busily penciling in notes on a report on one of his coming
wrestling foes. He didn't look up but issued a cheery “Hi-ya
Doc/' a greeting that is synomous for all those who know him
—whether it's his boss or squad members, or friends and
itnagen alike.
As we sat down, Charlie fin
ished his work, and cleared a spot 1
m his desk which was Cluttered
with wrestling brochures, notes,
and figures and motion picture
reek
“What d’ya want. Doc," Charlie
smiled as he put his feet on his
desk and leaned bade in his swivel
chair. Jokingly, we asked him for
a starting lineup for' his first
wrestling meet in January.
We didn't wait for ah answer
because on such things Charlie's
particularly mum: instead we
said we were looking for a law'
personal notea for a column
about him.
"Go ta" Charlie said, "don't
write about me: here, write
about this."
From his files he pulled a yel- tenant Commander. Serving from
lowing, lorn clipping datelined early 1942 until the middle of
Stale College. 1946, Speidel first served at North
The headline read: “Penn State Carolina Pre-Flight for two years,
Points With Pride to War Record and then ten months at sea. After,
of Hardy Matmen.” globetrotting, -he took over as 1
This was a story on wrestlers commander of a Pacific atoll j
—Speidel’s former proteges— r where battle-weary seamen went
which were included among ap- for Recreation and physical recori
proximately 50 former athletes ditioning.
that were reported dead or miss- He was so active he owned a
ing along with 150 or more of reputation as one of the best
their classmates in World War 11. rough-and-tumble fighters in the
Charliepointed to a full-length Navy* When a New® York Times
picture. There s one for you, he War correspondent visited the is
said. It was land recluse, his dispatch to his
Jp? Xa 11 a of |*R. newspaper said: “The boss of the
Blairsville, hated |g i V| island is a lieutenant commander,
with an anti-air-p ; the only naval officer this corres
craft unit m It-h* pondent has seen Who has cauli
aly- w— jSLA flower ears.”
“He’s coaching! JgLJ Asked if he wrestled, Speidel
at Amity, ville ksi. quipped as he pointed to his
H:S. in Long @§l head. "Do yon -think I got these
land, New York,” f; jJPj from brick buildings falling on
Charlie me?" 1
ed. His team thisf A Seven of Speidel’s former mat
ye ar won the kmmmkAk. M 3 men were spread halfway around
champ ionship SpdM the world in action in Normandy,
that had , been - dominated by Holland, Africa, and China. They
Mepham H. S. which boasted a did everything from instructing
string of 135 wins with teams that future bombardiers to blowing up]
handily dominated high school more than 150 bridges, 20 to 30!
wrestling throughout the East. ferries, 50 roadblocks, and an as-
Locally, however, Valla is one sortment of locomotives in China
of the many who have played ah (this was handled by Major Frank
instrumental part in the phenom- Gleason, 25-year-old Wilkes-Bar
enal success of Penn State wrest- re native).
ling—particularly in the last five With the cl ode indicating
years when Speidel saw his team Bpoidsl was aoah due at prac-
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By BOY WILLIAMS
Spacto Editor
tria 34 straight from 1950 to 1954.
Yalta sent Dick and Joe Lemyre
to Pern Slate from .his high
school team; The elder Joe was
1952 National and Eastern chaitip;
younger Dick was'a three-time
winner of Ibe 130-pound Eastern
crown.
. ▼aUn sent katynac** captain. I
Bob* Koruul who rnpnod Iho
123-pound Easton tillcin H 52.
And ami lacwUy. Valla sant
Sid Moiiadi. aov a junior; who
wrestled to a' 9-1-2 caad last
T—*- lasing hk only match to
I Pill's BUI Hidings in tha sami
fihal action of the Easterns. j
i While Speidei’s wrestlers crop
ped up across the pages during
wartime, Charlie saw his World
War II action as a Navy Lieu-
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Phi Kappa's
Spark Bowling
With 3-1 Win
Phi Kappa's Intramural bowl
ing team highlighted the action
at the Recreation Hall bowling
alleys oh Wednesday night
The fraternity men not only
knocked Theta Delta Chi from
the League B lead with a 3-1 win,
but also dominated the high scor
ing of the night Phi Kappa is
now in a three-way tie for second
place with Theta Delt and Beaver
House.
Delta Sigma Lambda moved in
to first place thanks to the help
of Phi Kappa. Delta Sigma Lamb
da, with a 24-7 record, ' shut out
Phi Mu Delta, 4-0. 1
In other games, Beaver House
stopped Delta Theta Sigma, 3-1;
and Alpha Rho Chi copped a for
feit from Phi Epsilon Pi.
Chuck Hot vat Phi Kappa,
rolled a 197 to win the high in
dividual single.. Earlier he had
scored 187 points in the first game
and 176 in the' second. This gave
him a grand total of 560 points,
high for the evening.
His teammates backed him up
when they bowled,Bs3 in the first
game to walk off with the high
team single. They kept up their
power m the two other games to
win the high triple with 2501.
IM Boxing -
(Continued from pope six)
Phi, in the slowest bout of the
night.
Epstein, wanting to mix it up,
could not get his attack, started
as Klose kept swinging and
clinching throughout the fight.
However, the AEPi landed a few
good left hands to win the battle.
Earl Cairns, Theta Xi, grabbed
a split decision over Bernie Hue
bel, Delta Sigma Phi, in the clos
est fight of the evening. Both
handled themselves well, but
Cairns - scored with the more ef
fective punches to sway the votes
of the judges.
Ben Wright, Kappa Alpha Psi,
decisioned Fred Martin, Pi Kap
pa Phi, in another well-matched
fight. Both men displayed a
willingness to fight, but the tall
er Wright used his height to an
advantage as he banged away at
Martin’s head and body.
In the final bout, Dick King,
Lambda Chi Alpha, defeated
Owen Best, Phi Kappa Sigma,
when the bout was stopped early
in the third round.
Forfeit winners were Joel Gam
ble, Phi Sigma Kappa, and Don
Tremonte, Delta Upsilon.
tice, we returned to our origi
nal question.
"How about a lineup. Char
lie." wa asked.
This time we got an answer,
but not exactly what we wanted
—though we expected it—when
Charlie mused: “Come back in a
couple of weeks.”
3 Booters in New York
For Olympic Tryouts
Three Penn State soccer players
-All-American Pick Packer, Itaor
Stelnyk, and Per Toreersen—left
yesterday for the Olympic try
outs in. New York.
The three will join a group of
other college players in New
York, and will hold a practice
session this afternoon. The col
lege players will play an Eastern
amateur team tomorrow in a
game which will decide the play
ers to be picked for further
Olympic tryouts.
The selection of the top 24
players in tomorrow’s game will
be'made by three coaches of the
Association of Coaches Glenn
Warner, Navy; Jim Reed, Prince-,
ton: and Carlton Riely, Brooklyn
College.
Where the 24 players will go,
or whom they will play after to
A Gift for Him
FROM
Sltor
Going to the Mil Ball?
It all started this Fall when I took my physical with all
the other ROTC boys. I passed the eye, ear, nose and throat
parts but when they inspected my shell they found out that
I■ had shell-lumbego. I went to see the General and he told
me that if it weren’t for my lack of speed he could overlook
the shell disease. He said he was sorry but I was still out
in the cold. I really planned on another gung-ho semester
in the corps and the biggest disappointment is not being able
to go to the Mil Ball. I had made plans to borrow my room
mate’s sharp Navy uniform, I had a date with a cute little
blond turtle from Simmons and now I’ll have to stand her by.
This is worse than not being able to go to the Junior Prom.
At least that week-end I went party hopping and humans, did
I have a good time. I went to a cave man party where there
seemed to be all sorts of monsters running around with clubs
and bear skins. I went to a beach party and it was fine until
they buried me alive with an empty keg of root beer. This
week-end it's a different story—l feel so bad missing the dance
and I can’t even afford a tux for the Pledge dances. Of
course I could go to the Sigma Phi Nothing house wearing my
new turtle tweed sport coat but that wouldn’t sell either
because they’ll all be wearing white dinner jackets.
So anyhow, 1 hope you’ll all enjoy the Mil Ball week-end
and don’t forget to stop in at the Finer Diner ’cause all your
friends will be there throughout the week for one of those
swell snacks after the dance and all the parties.
Penn State Diner
"Stop at the Sign of the lion"
West College Avenue
morrow's game, is still undecided,
and will not be known for at least
a week.
. Selection of players by their
coaches was instituted this year
because the shortness of time
would not allow a North-South
game to be played, and the only
other possible way to pick players
of Olympic caliber was to nave
the coaches do the job.
Soccer Coach Ken Hosterman
gicked his three, including a
•eshman, late in October. The
freshman, Torgersen, hails from
Norway, and is considered one of
the finest freshman players to
enroll here by Hosterman.
Packer, and Stelnyk were mem
bers of this year’s undefeated
team, and were main cogs in the
winning record established by
the. hooters.
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