FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 24. 1956 Cagers Face Fourth Straight Road Game The Nittany Lion basketball squad moves into the final week of the cage season with the same type of schedule which it faced all season — t i e majority of the games on the road. The Blue and White will play their fourth straight away game Saturday evening when they face a Rutgers quintet which suffered through the Lion's hottest night of the season. The Nittanies rang up their highest game total against the Scarlet cagers with a 102-75 shel lacking at Recreation Hall in the fourth game of the season. The Lions' fifth consecutive road encounter will be in Pittsburgh Wednesday evening when they' meet the Tartans of Carnegie, Tech for the second time this year. l The Tartans upset the cagers just after the Christmas recess by a 69-62 margin. Next Saturday evening the ) Nit tames will round out a triple-I header at Rec Hall when they en counter the Pitt Panthers. The gymnastic and wrestling squads will also pair off against Pitt in , earlier contests. The Panthers handed the Lions a previous set back in Pittsburgh, 78-60. The Nittanies must cop wins in each of the next three contests to keep from finishing in the red, something that a Penn State quin tet hasn't done since 1949 when their record was 7-10. Their record is now 10-13. The team will leave tomorrow morning for Rutgers. Coach John Egli called off practice last night to give the cagers a chance to rest. They traveled by bus all Wednes day night returning from West Point. Egli said they would have to practice in White Hall tonight because of the Waring concert in Rec Hall. Egli said he was pleased by the Lions performance against Army. He said Army was quick and fast, but the Nittanies' zone defense stopped them, especially the Ca det's high-scoring guard, Mark Binstein. Binstein hit for only 15 points, one of his lowest game to- tats of the season. Gymnasts (Continued from page six) all opposition en route to what it hopes to be an undefeated season and an Eastern champion ship. The Midshipmen opened their season with a 71-25 walloping of North Carolina. They hit the 70- mark for the second consecutive week, downing Georgia Tech, 73-23. Then came West Virginia's Mountaineers and a 59-27 Navy victory, followed by a 69-26 wal loping of Temple. The Middies won their fourth victory by a 56-40 score over Pittsburgh . Last week, the Middies hit a slight snag in their scoring and barely edged the Orange, 52-44. WILBUR JUST WOKE UP TO THE FACT THAT HE IN CLASS! KEEP ALERT FOR A BETTER POINT AVERAGE! Don't let that "drowsy feel ing" cramp your style in class . or when you're "hitting the bo9ks". Take a NoDo* Awakener! In a few minutes, you'll be your normal best... wide awake . . alert! Your docior will tell you—NoDon Awakener., are safe as coffee. Keep a pack bandy! 15 TABLETS, 34 X Wilds IM Handball Tourney Opens Intramural Fraternity handball' singles opened the season with 15 matches and 17 first round byes Wednesday night. The first match of the evening was between the 1954 and 1955 handball champion, Erwin Schim mel, Zeta Beta Tau. and Beta Theta Pi's Jim Anderson. Ander son won the first game 21-18, while Schimmel won the final two games, 0-21 and 2-21. Chet Buckenmaier, Phi Kappa Sigma, defeated Chi Phi's Lee Lewis, 21-18, 21-8. Sigma Chi's Jim Keith downed Hugh Cooper, Alpha Chi Rho, 21-9, 21-2. Jack Reno of Alpha Tau Omega lost to Alpha Gamma Rho's Bob Neff, 21-0, 21-4. Delta Chi's Bill Hast ings defeated Jack Calderone, Lambda Chi Alpha, by 21-3, 21-12. John Ferrari, Theta Delta Chi, stopped Tau Kappa Epsilon's Fred Donohoe, 21-14, 21-9. Beta Sigma Rho's Shelley Amsel took two from Emil Caprara of Alpha Phi Delta, 21-16, 21-14. Sigma Alpha Epsilon's Russ Mandeville de feated Ted Hermanson of Phi Mu Delta, 21-3, 18-21, 21-17. record-breaking run for THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA Atherton Cops !loop Crown; Lewis Shines Atherton copped the coed intra mural basketball championship last night when it dumped Kappa Alpha Theta in a hotly-contested battle, 65-47, The game was close all the way. but the winners took a jump on KAT when they took a 16-13 first quarter lead. KAT put the fire on during the next two stanzas, and held the short end of a 37-35 third-quarter score. But it was the final quarter where Atherton exploded and poured in 28 points to the soror ilty's 12. High individual scorer for the night and sparkplug for the Ath erton sextet was Ginny Lewis, who tallied 25 points in addition to grabbing an overload of re bounds. Aggressive Barbara Drum and Judy Godrich were mainstays for the winning combo. They shared 36 counters evenly. Showers Leads KAT Mary Showers displayed one of her best performances of the sea son for the KATS. Showers led the losers in scoring with 19 tal lies. Pat Brown chalked up her usual good game by sinking 15 counters. Penny Erb, playing a fighting forward position, dunked 13 points to account for the loser's total of 47. Tri Sigs Notch 3rd Place Tri Sig nipped Thompson I 28-27 to notch the third place slot in the league. Eileen Johnson was: high for the winners with 13 points. Rachel Waters also sunk' 13 markers for the freshman sex- I tet. Get your money The Bel Air Sport Sedan—one of 19 new Chevrolet beauties. AB have directional signals as standard equipment. See Your Chevrolet Dealer Blockson, Hollowell Added to Lion Entry Nittany Lion indoor track coach Chick Werner has added Charlie Blockson and Herb Hollowell to his IC4-A team in a final effort to strengthen the Lion's chances to place high in the team standing. The veteran Blockson will throw the shot, while Hollowell wilt 'enter the broad jump. Both men - icompeted in last year's IC4-A I M Cage r5.......:meet, Hollowell finishing ' fourth lin the broad jump finals. (Continued from page six) I Although the veteran mentor trail of KDR for the League A believes that Villanova far out lead, pinning a 36-23 defeat on:shines all other team entries, he Delta Sigma Lambda, 'looks for a close light for the Phi Sigma Delta managed to third spot in the ratings. squeeze by Alpha Chi Sigma. , He mentioned Cornell. Pitts -16-15, and remain in the run- 'burgh and Penn State as possible ning for the loop £ title. With ;contenders for third' place. a 5.1 mark. the Phi Sig Delta's 1 Hall Heads Cornell are deadlocked with Phi Kappa 1 Cornell's entry is headed by Sigma for the runner-up spot. !veteran Alan Hall who has been The Collosal Five and the Fight- shattering all college marks in ing Frosh remained in consider-'the the 35-pound weight throw. ation for the Indie loop F crown! Pittsburgh rests its chances on by scoring triumphs. The Collosal.the shoulders of its brilliant run- Five knocked the Red Raiders!ner, Arnie Sowell. Sowell wilt from a league tie with Jordan I.ldefend his 1000-vard run chain -34-22, while its opponent for Mon-:pionship which he won last year, day night—the Fighting Frosh, and will also anchor the IPan trampled the 69ers, 41-20. Ither's unbeaten two-mile relay In other independent attrac- ' entry. lions Wesley Five closed its Perry. Mile-Relay Lion's Best season edging the Phantoms. Werner named the mile relay 25-22: the Marauding Lions top- 'team and hurdler Rod Perry as ped the Yo Yo's, 17-15: the Vik ings blasted the Eunuchs. 34.12: and the Centovards picked up their first win in loop E on a forfeit over the Dickers. Three other Fraternity games,ton, and Bruce Austin form the were played, but their outcome! relay contingent which carries had little to do with the League; the bulk of the Lion's hopes. standings. Lambda Chi tripped Perry's toughest opposition is Alpha Chi Rho, 31-24; Alpha Phi expected to come from Manhat- Delta whipped Zeta Beta Tau;i tan's Louis Knight—considered to and Phi Kappa lost to Beta Sig-Abe one of the outstanding hurd ma Rho, 32-10. Hers in the New York area. Only Chevrolet/ puts you in charge of the dynamite action and sure-fire handling qualities it takes to break the Pikes Peak record! Better try it before you buy any car at any price. Almost everybody likes a real road car. And nowadays you no longer have to pay a king's ransom to own one. They're going at Chevrolet prices! For the new Chevrolet is one of the few truly great road cars being built today! It has to be to hold the stock car record for the Pikes Peak climb. It has to have cannonball accelera tion (horsepower now ranges up to 225!) and nailed-down stability on turns—plus lots of other built-in qualities that make for more driv ing pleasure and safety on the road. Come on in and try a record breaking Chevrolet! the Lion's strongest entry. Art Pollard—star sprinter run ning in his first meet since he suffered a spike wound two weeks ago--Bob Matz, Jim Nor- PAGE SEVEN
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