ATURDAY. FEBRUARY 13. 1956
Penn State Spods—
ON the
LINE
A recent magazine story that carried a line that Bethlehem, Pa.,
home of Lehigh University, is the No. 1 wrestling town in the U.S.
drew criticism from a former collegiate wrestler who now lives
in Princeton, N.J. Where did he wrestle—you guessed it—Okla
homa A & M.
This fellow says, in effect, that Lehigh and its Captain and
National champ Ed Eichelberger ate to be congratulated, but that
Bethlehem is not the No. 1 wrestling town for you know what.
This is so. For Oklahoma A & M has the digits to back up
such a claim—when it makes it.
Since 1928 the Aggies have chopped down the line of opposi
tion with murderous effectiveness. They have strolled off with
the title some 17Ih times. They man-handled opposition to get the
title each time from 1928 to 1931; six years later in 1937 they moved
in again, and took six championships from 1937 till 1942. In the
interim they took two more titles, plus a co-championship with
lowa State.
Since the war they've won it five times—the two most recent
coming in 1954 and '55.
They've been equally successful under two coaches; first
E. C. Gallagher from 1928 to 1940, and then Art Griffith who
has picked up seven team championships in 14 years. Gallagher
had 11 to his credit.
After gaining the title last year in a run away from the East's
powerhouses—Pitt and Penn State—Oklahoma A & M boasted two
champs. This gives them a total of 63 individual crown bearers
in 26 years of national mat opposition. (no meets were scheduled
from 1943 to 1945).
Oklahoma leads the pack, naturally, but by what a lead—that's
what's astounding. lowa Teachers is next with 19, then Oklahoma
(in the same state?) with 17, and s- on. Lehigh is tops in the
East with six, and is tied for ninth place with Cornell and Minne
sota. Pitt, lowa, and Penn State each have five for a three-way
knot for the 12th slot.
As for attendance. When Penn State visited Lehigh—notor
iously lacking in adequate seating arrangements at Grace Halt—
it pulled in an overflow crowd of 3200 spectators. Lehigh was
forced to close the doors on people, while those inside saw the
Lions close the doors on the Engineer's unbeaten string. 1943.
One week later and more than a 1000 miles away, in Stillwater,
Oklahoma,—a town of 20,238—Oklahoma and Oklahoma Aggies—
traditional interstate rivals such as the Lions and Lehigh and Penn
State and Pitt, drew 8200 spectators. The meet incidentally, ended
up in a 12-12 stalemate.
Other facts: Penn State, in 1953, was the first Eastern team
to win a team championship. The East may claim 29 individual
champs since 1928: a major portion of the remaining 169 come
from the midwest.
Enough said.
Bill Hulings, Pitt's 115-pound national semi-finalist last year,
missed the Panther's 19-9 victory engagement against Lehigh Jan.
23. It was thought Hulings may have had his collegiate wrestling
•career cut short because of an ulcer.
Since then he's wrestled three times, winning each time; one
victory came by a 7-1 tally, the other, 4-1.
Hulings and Ed Peery. 130-pounder and 1955 National cham
pion, will figure prominently in the Lions season finals with
Pitt March 3 at Recreation Hall.
Syracuse mentor Joe McDaniels saw his - team shellacked by
Pitt, and then Penn State. When asked what he thought the out
come of the Lion-Pitt duel would be after seeing both" teams in
action, McDaniels said: "I think State should be able to stop Pitt."
McDaniels qualified this, "but not by much.
"You have Kruflta and Oberly, and they should win; the con
test well could be decided in the first two weights. If State wins
either of the two they could take it."
What about a draw? McDaniels was asked.
"That may .do it, but I doubt it, he said.
Hulings and Sid Nodland, the Lions' undefeated 123-pounder
have met before. Their meeting in the dual meet ended at 1.1;
Hulings edged Nodland 2-1 in the Eastern semifinals; this year
at the Wilkes tourney Nodland gained a slim victory.
Perry, son of Rex Perry, Panther coach, and Rulings will open
the season finale with some of the toughest action either Nodland
and soph 130-pounder John Johnston have seen all season.
Penn State lost more basketball
games than it won only three sea
sons in the last 15.
By ROY WILLIAMS
Sports Editor
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Alpha Sig, Delta Sig, Canadians,
Theta Delt Pace IM Cagers
Sparked by the 21-point bombardment of Dick Ferrari, Alpha Sigma Phi halted Alpha
Phi Alpha's five-game win streak, 41-26, Thursday night blasting the losers from a first
place deadlock in Fraternity League B of Intramural basketball.
Ferrari tallied 18 of his points from the field. Buster Thomas led the losers with 11
markers.
The loss dropped Alpha
bolted the high-flying Sigma
Track Records
Seen Falling
In AAU Meet
NEW YORK, Feb. 17 VPl—The
bit, one of the indoor track sea
ion—the National AAU cham
pionships—will be held in Madi
son Square Gar'clen tomorrow and
now that the athletes have caught
the bug, there's no telling where
their record-shattering „efforts
will end.
Charlie Jenkins, Villanova
junior, has been ogling Mal Whit
field's world indoor 600-yard mark
of 1:09.5 all season.
Parry O'Brien is the only hu
man being ever to heave the shot
60 feet, but he's never done it in
doors. He gets the nomination as
the most likely to succeed in his
effort tomorrow.
Jenkins is unbeaten in fiv e
races and a week ago lowered
Whitfield's world 500-yard stan
dard to 56.4. If anyone is to chal
lenge Jenkins, it will be Tom
Courtney, late of Fordham, now
of the Army.
Pitt', Arnie Sowell is the big
man in the 1000, and he'll be chal-
Ineged by Joe Deady of Washing
ton, who has given up chasing
Ron Delany in the mile.
They're the three most likely
marks to fall, although in this
meet anyone might come through.
IM Deadlines
Entries for intramural wres
tling and volleyball should be
turned in at the IM office in 202
Recreation H all by 4:30 p.m.
Thursday, Dutch Sykes, intra
mural assistant director, has an
nounced.
An organization may enter one
contestant in each weight class.
However, independents may en
ter as individuals, and not neces
sarily as members of a team. En
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Phi Alpha to a second place tie with the Alpha Sigs, and
Alpha Epsilon quintet into the circuit lead. SAE's record
is at 6-0, while the runner-ups
now own 5-1 slates
In another loop B encounter,
Theta Delta Chi romped to its
third straight win after three suc
cessive defeats earlier in the sea
son with a convincing 34-18 tri
umph over Sigma Pi.
Wagner Scores Nine
It was a team victory all the
way as no Theta Delt hit double
figures. John Wagner led the win
ners with nine followed by Bob
Ferrari, eight, Dick Kuhn, seven.
and Ron Falk, six.
The other League B attraction
saw Phi Sigma Kappa knock Al
pha Epsilon Pi deeper into the
circuit basement with a low scor
ing 17-12 conquest. The AEPi's
have now lost six in a row.
Another cellar-dwelling team,
Kappa Sigma of league C, added
to its troubles with a 34-13 loss
to Theta Xi. Dick DeLuca topped
the Theta Xi scorers with eight
points.
Delta Sig's More Into Lead
Norm Schue tallied 11 points
for Alpha Zeta but it wasn't
enough to stop Delta Sigma Phi
from chalking up a 21-16 victory.
The win moved the Delta Sig's
into. the League C lead with a 5-1
record.
Canadian Club jumped into the
lead of Independent League G by
handing Stalag 10 a 43-14 pasting.
Don Shearer ripped the cords for
14 points to cop game-scoring
honors. Denny Uhrin and Carl
Bennett also hit in the double fi
gures, splitting 20 points.
Dorm 9, Playboys Also Win
Both Dorm 9 and the Playboys
scored wins on Thursday night.
Dorm 9 plastered Pollock 4, 46-25,
while the Playboys squeezed by
the Rebels, 16-15.
Seven of the Dorm 9 cagers en
tered their names in the scoring
column with Harold Peak's 19-
point outburst leading the parade.
Tom Botlock scored 10 for the los
ing Pollock 4 quintet.
In the other League G fracas,
Pollock 12 pushed its season rec
ord over the .500 mark by sending
the A.H.'s to a 22-16 defeat. Bill
Forbes scored six to lead the vic
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markers for the evening, the tops
for the Nittanies.
Syracuse matched the Lion
scoring in the early minutes and
moved to a two-point spread mid
way through the period. The bas
ket-for-basket routine continued
throughout the opening half as
the largest lead taken by either
squad was three. Snyder collected
five of his 13 field goals in the
opening round and Brown con
tributed four,
Penn State's two-one-two zone
defense baffled the New Yorkers
for the first thirty minutes and
was the major fact in holding
Syracuse in check. The Lions
clogged up the pivot and pre
vented Vince Cohen and Gary
Clark from driving through.
Marisa was second high man for
the Nittanies as he hit for 18
markers and guard Bob Leisher
collected 12. Brown supported
Snyder's 34 point effort with 23
of his own, for Syracuse.
PENN STATE SYRACUSR
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Marisa 7 4. 6 18 Cohen 3 2- 7 4
Rainey 1 0- 1 2 Brown 11 5- 8 23
Jordy 0 0- 0 0 Clark 3 0- 0 0
Fields 6 10-13 22 Cilleptpie 1 0- 0 2
Leisher 4 4- 612 Snyder 13 3-12 24
Hall 2 0- • 4 Lau.iie 0 0-
Roffman 1 2. 2 4 Aloiae 1 0- 0 2
Ramsey 1 2. 2 4
Totals 22 22-30 66 Totals 30 lfi-27 71
Penn State . 31 33-44
Syracuse 32 43-15
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