WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 18. 1956
Lions Visit Bisons Tonight
Coach John Egli’s Penn State basketball quintet, hoping to snap a three-game losing
streak, visits Bucknell University tonight in a game which will mark the close of the first
half of the 1955-56 Lion cage season. Egli’s “Touring Lions” will be appearing on a for
eign court for the seventh time this year, and still have 10 away contests remaining after
tonight’s game.
The Lions, 5-7 for the season, will be hoping to gain ground on the .500 mark once
again. At no time this year has their record been more than one notch heavier in the win
Frosh Five
Look for 2d
At Bucknell
By LOUIE PRATO
With a revamped starting line
up in the offing, Coach Don Swe
gan will send his freshman floor
men against Bucknell’s frosh
quintet tonight at Lewisburg. The
game, slated to start at 6:30, will
precede the Lion-Bucknell varsity
attraction.
The Little Lions, who will face
a more experienced foe in the
Little Bisons, will be seeking their
second win of the season. Last
Saturday the frosh inaugurated
the 1955-56 campaign with a 85-
62 conquest over Altoona Center.
Swegan is planning two changes
in the lineup that opened against
Altoona. Because of their spark
ling performances against the
Mountaineers, 6-5 Tom Hancock
and 5-10 Joe Fenkel have been
elevated to first string berths.
Hancock will replace Dick Geesy
at a forward position, and Fenkel
will move into John Myers’ guard
spot.
It was Hancock and Fenkel who
led the second half drive that
squelched' Altoona’s hopes. Al
though he didn’t get into the game
until the last 10 minutes of the
first half, Hancock was the game’s
high scorer with 22 points.
. Fenkel, a second semester fresh
man, contributed 12 markers to
the cause, and was outstanding
on defensive.
Another starting slot, that of
5-11 Greg Schwendeman, is also
in doubt. The Little Lion guard
injured a shoulder in the Altoona
contest, and may not be ready at
game time. If not, his place will
be taken by Myers.
Forward Carmen Palmiero, 6-
5%, and center Bob Edwards, 6-6,
will fill out the starting five.
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column than in the losing cate
gory.
Egli will take the usual 10-man
traveling squad to Lewisburg,
with Co-captains Bobby Hoffman
and Earl Fields and Bob Ramsay
listed as sure starters. Four candi
dates are listed as possible open
ers at the guard posts—Rudy Mar
isa, Norm Hall, Bob Leisher, and
Steve Baidy. Also making the trip
will be Joe Hartnett, Ron Rainey,
and Ed Ritter.
Several Tough Foes Remain
With several better-than-aver
age opponents still remaining on
the Nittanies’ schedule, a win
over the Bisons is almost a must
if the Lions are to finish the sea
son with a better than .500 win
ning percentage.
In last year’s meeting between
the two schools, Penn State
walked away with a resounding
94-45 win at Rec Hall. In that
game, all-time Lion basketball
great Jesse Arnelle set the Rec
Hall individual game high scoring
record with 44 points. The Lion-
Bison cage series began way back
in 1896, and since then Penn State
has defeated the Bisons 41 times
in 52 meetings. Thirty-four of the
Lion wins have come at home.
Bucknell Coach Ben Kribbs and
most Lewisburg observers gave
out with a pre-season forecast that
the Bisons would have a better
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
record this year than their 1954-55
3-18 slate.
Kribbs, in his fourth year at
Bucknell, has been blessed with a
fine sophomore crop up from last
year’s freshman team, which won
at a 13-2 pace. The sophs have
provided Kribbs with both depth
and height.
Last year’s team lacked three
prime ingredients—height, depth,
and experience. Only two men on
this year’s squad 6-4 centers
John Beatty and A 1 Kenzie —could
rate in or near the “big man”
category. No other member is
above the 6-2 mark. The fact that
five sophomores comprised the
starting line-up during most of
the 1954-55 campaign was evi
dence of the dire lack of .exper
ience.
Depth No Longer Problem
With 15 members now listed on
the Bison roster, depth should be
much less of a problem.
This year’s quintet is built
around the five juniors who made
up Kribbs’ starting five as sopho
mores—Beatty, 6-0 Joe Baccelli,
6-1 Norm Voorhees, 6-0 Marty
Tannenbaum, and 6-2 Mike Corri
gan.
Penn State and Bucknell have
had three common foes—Lehigh,
Colgate, and Carnegie Tech. The
Lions lost to the Tartans, and the
Bisons were beaten by Colgate.
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Nine Intramural Cage teams, representing Independent Leagues
A, B, C, D, and E, scored triumphs Monday evening on the Recrea
tion Hall basketball courts.
All of the “Indie” five’s saw action in their fifth game of the
season. One of the wins came on a forfeit.
The forfeiture occurred in a loop A encounter when the Western
Boys failed to appear for a sched
uled contest with the Fighting
Eight. The win was the first for
the Fighting Eight after four
losses.
Czekaj's Wish :
Eliminate 'Bowl'
Post-Mortems
If Ed Czekaj had one wish it
would probably be to eliminate
bowl game post-mortems from
college football. His reasons are
simple and plain:
It was Ed who missed the sec
ond of two extra points to bring
the 13-13 tie in the 1948 Cotton
Bowl between Penn State and
Southern Methodist.
Now ticket manager for all
Penn State sports, Ed is always
introduced to alumni groups as
“the player who missed the extra
point in the Cotton Bowl."
Ed complains that nobody ever
introduces him as “a member of
the unbeaten 1947 team or as the
player who matched Doak Walk
er’s extra point in the Cotton
Bowl.”
He still shares with Pete Mauthe
the Nittany Lion record for extra
points in one game, eight, and is
sole owner of the record for extra
points in one season, 32.
Penn State will play its first
two football games in 1956 on the
road, against Pennsylvania and
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In two League B matches, Col
lege Co-op defeated the Erieites,
27-17, and the Nice Guys trounced
the Bill Towners, 39-24. The Co
op win was the fourth in five
games; the Nice Guys’ record now
stands at 3-2.
Lenn Clark ripped the cords
for 17 points in the Co-op con
quest, giving him the top scoring
mark of the night. Bob Thomas
and Rich McMillan split 20 to
lead the Nice Guys.
The Geecho Birds brought its
slate over the .500 mark in Lea
gue C by squeezing past the Mc-
Elwain Men, 16-12. Jim Erb and
Jim Beatty each tallied six for
the victors, but McElwain’s Joe
Matos topped all scorers with
eight.
Another Loop C fracas saw the
Engineering Colts upset the pre
viously undefeated Barters, 31-23.
The loss, first in four games,
dropped the Barfers from a first
place deadlock with 8.M.0.C.
Andy Pyetl, 10, and Fred Fitch,
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The Phantoms edged the Jok
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