FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 17. 1956 Cagers Face Syracuse, Colgate in Weekend Series The Penn State cagers face their second tough weekend road trip al row as they travel to New York to meet Syracuse tonight and Colgate tomorrow evening. A win both nights would push the Lions' season record back up to the .500 mark, but the Nittanies will have to be at top strength to perform such a feat. Syracuse owns a previous victory over the Blue and White, defeating them in Recreation Hall 71-64. Colgate, on the other hand, met the Lions on one of their "red hot" nights when they shot a percentage of .525 to defeat the Red Raiders, 83-75. If the Lions can match their performance against Bucknell in Indoor Trackman Hold Time Trials for IC4-A's The Nittany Lion indoor track'team has begun running through preliminary time trials in preparation for the IC4A meet at Madison Square Garden Saturday, Feb. 25. Coach Chick Werner plans to hold another time trial to morrow afternoon, and possibly another some time next week. The Nittanies' hopes suffered a stiff blow with the injury of star sprinter and Captain Art Pollard at the New York Athletic Club games at the Garden last Saturday night. Pollard was spiked in the left foot while participating in the mile relay. Seven stitches were required to close the wound. Hurdler Dick Winston and dis tance runner Don Woodrow are also on the injured list. Winston is still recuperating from a pulled muscle suffered earlier in the season while Woodrow is suffer ing from a bruised tendon in his left foot. Werner expressed some doubt as to whether any of the three will be ready to participate in the meet. Austin Tops in 600 Bruce Austin turned in the most impressive performance of the day when he ran the 600-yard, trial in 1:16 . Freshman Ed Moran was also impressive as he posted a time of 2:16,6 to finish ahead of vet eran Doug Moorhead who ran the course in 2:18.7. Moran—a standout on last sea son's star-studded cross country team—is a leading contender for the mile entry on the freshman medley team. Clem Schoenebeck, of State College High School—ran away from the field in the half-mile race open only to freshmen Olympic Emphasis Urged NEW YORK, Feb. 16 (.41 =- Avery Brundage, president of the International Olympic Commit tee, warned today that America must gain a new concept of ama teur sports if it is to meet the growing challenge of the Rus sians. "As you know, I am opposed to this idea of throwing one nation against another in the Olympic Games," he said. "It is not the Olympic idea. But we cannot ig nore the fact that Russia is put ting tremendous emphasis on de velopment of its sports teams." "We hear stories of subsidiza tion of athletes in Russia, of train ing camps, state-supported pro gram and so forth," Brundage said. "Maybe this is so. Every thing in a Communist country is subservient to the state and there's not much we can do about it. "Understand, I don't attempt to defend the system. But I do know GUADALAJARA SUMMER SCHOOL The accredited bilingual school sponsored by the Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara and members of Stanford Univer sity faculty will - offer in Guad alajara, Mexico, July 2-Aug. 11, courses in art, creative folklore, geography, history, language and literature. $225 covers tui tion, board and room. Write Prof. Juan R. Rael, Box K, Stanford University, Calif. this weekend's encounters, they could supply some pretty still competition for the New Yorkers. The Nittanies combined a stone wall defense and" a sharp pass. and-cut offense to down the Bi- sons Wednesday night 79-67, foi one of their best games of Oil year. Coach John Egli said he wai "very pleased" with the Lions' showing against Bucknell and said he was going to stick to the win ning combination in the weekend series. His "winning combination" is composed of Rudy Marisa and Ron Rainey at the forwards, soph omore Jim Jordy at center. ani Earl Fields and Bob Leisher at thi guard positions. He conceded that the lineup lacked height, but said it made vieing for berths on the medley team. Kerr. Thomrson Schoenebeck finished ahead of I teammate Fred Kerr with a time of 2:01. Kerr ran the course in 24)2.5. Bob Thompson and Char lie King followed the two leaders across the wire in that order. Jim Norton turned in a credi table performance by winning the quarter-mile race in :53.3. Veteran Bob Matz and Paul Ro berts both finished with identical times of :54. Werner said that Roberts was also making a spirited bid for the mile relay team. Rossi Ist in 220 'Sophomore Dean Rossi finished first in the 220-yard dash in :25.1 followed by Gary Seybert in :25.5. Frosh Bob Manning, bidding for the 220 spot on the medley team, was third %in :25.7. The Lion coach emphasized that because of its square corners, the indoor track at Recreation Hall is three seconds slower than the Garden track. Although he had not made any definite decisions Werner named high jumper Bob Findley, pole vaulter Ogier Norris, broad jump er Herb Hollowell, and weight men Charlie Blockson, John Tul lar ,and Fred Urban as the lead ing contenders for the field entry berths. that Russia puts amateur sport on a far higher level than we do in the United States. "Over here we glorify our suc cessful business men. We make heroes of our professional ath letes, but not our amateurs. In Russia, the athlete is put on a pedestal beside top party men. He's a national hero. "So in making comparisons we must remember these three things. First, sport is a bigger thing in Russia than in America; two, the athletes over there haven't the distractions which confront our boys and girls; third, they train constantly." CIRCLE THESE DATES • February 20 , 21 , 1956 You can discuss career opportunities with our representative at this time. Our Three-Minute Story is in your Placement Office - Electra MetallurgiCal Co. A Division of • Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation ' THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA . , "1 - Freshman Lacrosse All candidates for the fresh man lacrosse team are asked to report to the water tower between 4 and 5 p.m. Friday. Monday. and Tues d a y, by freshman lacrosse Coach John McHugh. Experience is no t necessary, McHugh said. Gymnasts Risk Perfect Record Against Army The Nittany Lion gymnastic team will attempt another step up the ladder to defending its Eastern title when it meets Ar my's presently unbeaten gymnasts tomorrow afternoon at West Point. The Lions—who have defeated West Virginia, Temple. and Syra cuse on the road to retaining their crown—look for their stif fest test of the season against the Cadets. According to reports which Coach Gene Wettstone has re ceived, the Cadets are not too strong in tumbling but possess a fairly well-balanced lineup in the five other events—especially the side horse. Wettstone said that he may make one or two changes in his starting lineup in hopes of in creasing his team's strength in, some of its weaker events. The Lion coach said that he i may start Mario Todaro in place! of John Coller on the horizontal bar. Todaro—who will be making, his first start of the season—may' also replace Captain Tony Cline on the swinging rings. "Armando Vega will again en ter the side horse competition, even though it is probably his poorest event," Wettstone said. Vega mustered a third place against Syracuse in the side horse last Saturday night. After the Army meet, the Lions will test Navy at Recreation Hall next Saturday night. Mat, Volleyball Entry Deadline Is Thursday Intramural volleyball and wres tling entries must be turned in at 202 Recreation Hall by 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Dutch Sykes, intra mural assistant director, has an nounced. Each organization. may enter one volleyball team. Entry fee is $1 per_ team. Matches will b• scheduled between 7 and 9:30 p.m. Some matches will be scheduled on Friday nights. Play will start about March 15. Bob Leisher Starts again tonight up for it with speed and hustle. He supported his confidence in the five cagers when se usel only one substitute in the Bucknell en counter. Bob Ramsey replaced Jim Jordy midway in the secend half while Marisa, Rainey, Fields and Leisher played th?. entire 40 minutes. The Lions will :main have to stop several "big men' to earn themselves a victory over the Or ange. The biggest threat will be' Vince Cohen who led the Orange men in scoring as a .5 phom ore last year and racked up 20 points in the first game with the Lions. Cohen, 6'l" is also a valuable man on the backboards. Another hurdle which the Nit tani`es will have to get wee is Jim Brown, remembered most for Phi Tau Cagers Lead Loop E; Phi Sig 2d Phi Kappa Tau held onto its led the evening's scorers with a half-game lead in League E of 19 point outburst. Pete Cano was !the big gun for the losing Lions— the fraternity IM basketball lea-1 . Iscoring 13. gue by beating Alpha Chi Sigma Also in League D, the Mounties 20-13 Tuesday night at Rec Hall.;defeated the Jokers 23-14. Valdi- Howie Thompson threw in 10,mir Karba and Bob Kropcheck markers to account for half thelscored seven apiece to pace the Phi Tau scoring in the game. , winners. The defeat was the sixth Second place Phi Kappa Sigma straight for the Jokers. kept hot on the leaders by romp-' Hamilton Rallies to Win ing to an easy 40-18 over Phi Hamilton Six won its fourth Kappa. Six of the winner's team successive League E win, a 29-20 members broke into the scoring."come from behind" thriller. The column. They were led by Guy iSixers trailed 14-10 at halftime, Tirabassi, Lou Schneider, and but rallied in the stretch to win. Jake Shook who scored eight, George Vin c e contributed 10 points each. points to the winners' cause, and In one other fraternity game r i wound up as the game's top paint in League D, Pi Kappa Phi won produce .. its second game of the year byt In another League E game the getting a forfeit over winless Chi i Eight Angels, paced by Dave Mar- Phi.nti ez's 12 points, dropped the Top 1. _ _ _ _ Four independent games were' pers, 28-14. The Angels were al,O played—two each in Leagues E forced to come from behind to and D.. , I win. Iron Men Win Ist I The Angels are now knotted In League D, the Iron Men won with Hawks for third place in the their first game of the campaign.; loop , each sporting 4-2 records. a 29-27 thriller over the Maraud- ing Lions. The winners had lost Horace Ashenfelter, erstwh;le five in succession before last Penn State great, was named to night's win, the National AM., all-America John Grundon, of the Ironmen, track team again in 1953. his outstanding performance with the Orange gridders oa Bearer Field last fall. Brown has speed, and also tough in the rebounding department. The remainder of the Syracuse lineup will include Gary Clark, who hit for 18 against the Lions in the previous game, Ron Gillespie, and Jim Snyder. Colgate. an inexperienced team when the Lions defeated them ut December. have lost their green ness and wilt have the edge on their home boards. Jack Nichols. 16'4" forward, tallied 29 points in the first encounter and couples with 6'6" center Milt Graham to .control the rebounds for the Red !Raiders. The remainder of the squad lacks height but is fast and has several better than average outside shots. PAGE SEVEN
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