PAGE TEN Matmen First; Visit Middies, OSU Over Vacation As far as wrestling Coach Charlie Speidel is concerned, his squad members will soon face their toughest obstacle of the 1956 season. When asked about his coming foes after his team registered' its second straight win'by stopping Lehigh Saturday, Speidel said: "We’ve got the battle of the books facing us now. That’s all we're thinking about.” Obviously, Speidel will need his team at full strength once the final examinations end and the semester vacation begins. The Lions’ 1956 record stands! at 2-0 with wins over Cornell,! 20-6, and Lehigh, 17-13. Speidel and his matmen, how ever, still face the toughest grind of the 1956 campaign with six meets between Jan. 28 and March 3. After the regular eight-meet duel season is over, the Lions will travel to Bethlehem again to the Eastern Intercollegiate Ath letic Association tourney, March 9-10, and finally the National tour nament at Stillwater, Oklahoma, March 23-24. The Lions go on a two-match road trip starting Jan. 28 when they meet Navy away. One week later Ohio State will host the Lions at Columbus Feb. 4. Five days after the spring semester opens, Penn State returns to Rec reation Hall to meet Syracuse, 23-5 victim of Pitt Saturday. Speidel and Co. will travel to Illinois and Maryland in that or der after facing Syracuse, and will not return home until the season finale with Pitt, March 3. Pitt, Penn State, and Lehigh have been rated the Eastern wrestling teams most likely to succeed during the ’56 college season. Wrestling News, in its debut as a national intercollegiate wrest ling publication, however, named perennial powerhouse from the midwest, Oklahoma A & M, as Campus Day Sweater... V-Neck and Crews 25% off Button-down and Round Elbow Shirts Vi Pr. Khaki Slacks Reg. 4.93 Now 3.85 * Also Continuation of Our Sale on Winter Jackets as? 25% off Face Books By HOY WILLIAMS the prospective national champ, followed by Oklahoma, Pitt, and lowa in that order. Oklahoma A & M won the title last year at the NCAA’s held at Cornell. The Aggies won with 41 points, followed by Penn State, 31, and Pitt, 28. lowa nosed out Penn State for fourth place in the selection, largely because of two first place votes. Penn State polled a large number of third place votes. Oth ers in the first ten are Michigan, Lehigh, lowa State Teachers, Illi nois, and Colorado. Eight of the teams that were tabbed for a spot in the “top ten” finished in the first ten in the NCAA tourney last year. lowa State Teachers, 11th last year in the NCAA’s with 14 points, jumped into the top ten by gaining a nod for eighth place. Michigan and Navy—the Lions’ next foe—were the only teams which finished in the first ten in last year’s national tourney that did not get_ a position in Wrestling News’ poll. Cagers Top 100 4 Times Penn State, a 102-78 winner over Rutgers in the current cam paign, only lopped 100 points four ! times in 59 prior seasons of in tercollegiate basketball. Penn State’s golf coach, Bob Rutherford, Jr., succeeded his father, founder of the sport, at the coaching helm. JACK HARPER Annual TODAY A Selected Group of All sales'final—all sales cash Alterations at cost i^Kipfr CUSTOM SHOP THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Sale 3 Trackmen to Enter 'Games' Captain Art Pollard, Rod Perry, and Dick Winston will represent the Nittany Lions’ indoor track team in the annual Philadelphia Inquirer Games Friday night in Philadelphia’s Convention Hall, Coach £hick Werner said yesterday. Pollard will run in the sprint events while Perry and Winston will be the Lion entries in the hurdles. The Inquh'er Games, which are based on individuals rather than team entries, attract some of Tatum Replaced By Ex-Terp COLLEGE PARK, Md., Jan. 17 </P) —Tommy Mont, 33, strictly a home, grown product, was chosen today to direct the football empire built at his University of Mary land by Jim Tatum in the past nine years. Mont has been an assistant coach since 1951 to Tatum, who abdicated on Jan. 8 to return and coach his alma mater, North Car olina. Mont was given a three-year contract. William W. Cobey, who has been graduate manager, was named director of athletics, a post Tatum also held in addition to head football coach. Mont is from Cumberland, Md. He quarterbacked University of Maryland football teams, played for the neighboring Washington Redskins for three years after graduation, in 1946, and helped coach the pros in 1950. The Air Force introduced Forrest I. Hurst to communications. In 1953 he was Communications Officer at Lowry Air Force Base near Denver, Colorado. He was partially responsible for the com munications setup of the President’s “Summer White House,” and in this assignment he met members of the local Bell telephone company. “The telephone people I met,” says Forrest, “were always helpful. I con sidered them the experts. They gave a very good impression of the Bell System.' So three months before I was discharged I wrote to Indiana Bell for an interview, and subsequently I was hired as a Student Engineer.” Today Forrest is in Indiana Bell’s Engineering Department, working with Forrest graduated in 1952 from Purdue University with an E.E. degree. His career is typical of those which exist in other Bell Tele* phone Companies, and in Bell Telephone Laboratories, Western Electric and Sandia Corporation. Your placement officer has more Information about Bell System companies. The outstanding trackmen of the !day— such as the Rev. Bob Rich ards, Harrison Dillard, and the Lions’ former track great, Horace Ashenfelter—to its starting lines. This will be Pollard and Perry's second consecutive year of compe-j tition in the Philadelphia races. Last year Pollard finished fourth in the sprints while Perry won the hurdles, beating Dillard in the final heat in 6.0 seconds —equal- ing the world’s record for that] event. I Since Winston wets ineligible for the indoor track , squad last season, this will be his first ap pearance in the Games. Running against the veteran Pollard will be Villanova’s George Syd n o r and former Olympians Jim Gathers, Lindy Remigino, and Andy Stanfield, to mention only a few.' Dillard will again top the en tries in the hurdles, and track ex perts throughout the country look with great expectation to the re newing of the Perry-Dillard rival ry in Philly. After the Friday night races Perry and Winston will move on to Washington for the Wash ington Evening Star Meet Satur day night. Pollard will be un- ampus-to-Career Case History "I take a job from scratch” WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 18. 1956 "Indies' Win- (Continued from page nine) nicked the Marauding Lions, 22- 21, in the closest games of the night. Dennis Straiter’s six was high for the Phantoms and Valdi mir Korba sank eight for the Mounties. Bill Halli, Jokers, and Pete Gano, Marauding Lions, scored nine and eight respectively, in losing causes. In the final games of the night Hamilton Six stopped the Top pers, 24-17, and the Hawks blasted the Centrovards, 26-13. The win ners are now deadlocked for sec ond place in League E, both own. 4-1 records. able to make the trip because of final examinations. Although the Lions have no more regularly scheduled dual meets for the season, Werner said there may be a slight possibility that a few team members may enter one or two more invitational meets before the IC4A’s late in February. “However, there is nothing defi nite as yet,” he said. carrier facilities—the means by which a number of telephone calls can be sent simultaneously over one circuit. Forrest is given the basic circuit and equipment requirements for a job. “My boss farms it out to me,” Forrest says, “and I take it from scratch.” Forrest does the complete engineering job. He writes the specifications, including wir ing plans and the list of equipment for the job. Then the instaljers take over. “I really feel that I’m contributing to the telephone business,” Forrest says. “My wife does too. When we’re in the car we get a kick out of driving by a job that I engineered.'' Nothing can com pare with a career in a business that’s growing as fast as the Bell System. It’s the place to move ahead.” BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM
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