PAGE SiX Over 150 Wrestlers Seek NCAA Titles Over 150 wrestlers from ail over the nation will converge on Stillwater, Oklahoma, to morrow for the NCAA wrest ling tournament with their principle desire being to upset '55 v/inner, Oklahoma A&M. The Aggie malmwi have been installed as .slight favorites to repeat ;u. team champion over their orth-rivaf, Oklahoma. Both learn* hauled to a 12-12 diaw ear lier this year, blit the Aggies were given the edge because the tourn ament is being held on their home tfi otinds Seven champions will be de fending their titles, and H men who advanced to the .semi-finals last year will also he hack. Returnees ere Terry McCann. lowa, 115: Ed Peery. Pitt, 123; Myron Roderick. Oklahoma Gymnasts In NCAA Couch Gone Wettstone's 10-man gymnastic squad faces a long and hard road to the National Collegiate Athletic Association title at the University of North Carolina, Friday and Saturday. The Lion entries come face-to-face with the most difficult schedule of events they have faced all season—lo events, including the all-round competition. The tourney will be run on a two-day basis, the preliminaries being held Friday with the finals on Saturday. i Friday's preliminaries will be divided info two sessions, after- noon and night. The free extr- cise and the side horse two events in the all-round as welf as the regular competition—and the rope climb will he run in the afternoon. third atl-round event, the still rings, will also be held during the first session. Trampoline Used in Meet The trampoline—not included in either Eastern or dual meet programs—the parallel bars, the long horse, tumbling, and the fly ing rings will be run that same night. In order to quatify for the finals, an entry must place in the top ten for that event. The finals will be a repeat of all the preliminary events, but this time with the blue chips on the line. j The all-round competitors, be-; sides competing in the six events for the title—free exercise, side horse, parallel bars, still rings, and long horse—are also allowed to enter any other event. Compete on Team Basis All entries wTH compete on a team rather titan on an individual basis as was the case in sectional meets. All points scored will go towards determining the National Champion. Wettstone feels that team strength rather than individual; stars will be the key to victory.; “With such a long list of I believe that a well-balanced. team will have a much better; chance to win than a team with one or two individual standouts,"! he said. Preliminaries Important He said, "After the Friday night preliminaries, you can get a pret ty good idea as to who will finish where in the final tabulation. 1 ’ The Nittanv mentor predicted that some ol the host perform ances would be during the pre liminaries because each entry would have to shoot the works in order to qualify. He named, defending champion Illinois, the pre-meet favorite, as the strongest entry m the tourney with f.os Angeles Slate and VC- I.A, the Pacific CoaM champion, trio final honor went to Lysek next in line. over Bill McCann, Beta Theta Pi. "However, Annv, Florida Stale,; or Penn State could be dark horse! Pnheaton foams in 1951. 1952 entries," ho added. He paid that .and 1953 contributed to Penn a team would have to score at State's lormert win streak in least 80 points to win the title. wvestlmg—-34 straight matches. To Round Out the Weekend THE TAVERN A&M. 130; Ed Ekhelebesger, : Lehigh- 14? and last year's moot ■ outstanding wrestler; Fred Da- ; vis. klaboma A&M- it?; Deis j Hedge. Oklahoma. 177: and Bill f Oherty. unlimited. t Pittsburgh, EIWA champion,! will enter 10 men m the tourna ment. three more than the Lions. Pitt Coach Rex Peery appears to be playing this tournament safe. He has switched Ed DeWitt back to his normal 167-pound position :and moved Don Huff to 177. whieh gives him a strong contender in both classes. His son. Ed, although wrestling almost every match at 130 pounds, was shifted to 123. This move could prove invaluable to the Panthers, because at 123 pounds I Peery 1 will not meet the quality 'of competition that is present at the 130 slot. Thtaa vintkn—Roderick. Face Cham Schimmel, Mullen Risk Titles Tonight Defending Independent Handball Champion Dean Mullen will meet Don Harnett for the 1956 Indie Handball Championship to- night white the Fraternity Champ, Erwin Schimmel, had to pass a semi-final test last night. Schimi match was Beta Theta Pi's A 1 Ja will meet the winner of the Jimi Lysek. Sigma Alpha Epsilon, vs.! Don Schwartz. Zeta Beta Tau i match in the fraternity finals: to- 1 night. Schimmel eliminated Elliot Fox. Phi Sigma Delta, in their quarter final match Tuesday night, 21-2, 1 21-5. His semi-final opponent, A 1 ■Jacks, stopped Alpha Zeta’s John Wright in two games, 21-7, 21-3. In th» Independant Semi final action, Multan stopped an other challenger. Bill Beeaee. 21-6. 21-7. Harnett had a much tougher time disponing ©f Bob Thomas. Harnett took the first game 21-10, dropped the sec ond by one point 21-29. than won tne match with a third game 21-16 score. Fraternity semi-finalist Schwartz defeated Phi Delta The da’s Milt Plum 21-4. 21-6, while SAE's Lysek lost the first game I to Delta Tau Delta's Bob Mc ;Mil!an, 8-21. but came back in the final two tilts with 21-12 and 21-15 wins. | In the Monday night matches I that determined the champions in the eight txeiezmir flights, Schiramel defeated AGH's Bob Neff for the flight 1 titile; Fox beat Phi Kappa's Don Zugaies in flight 2; Jacks won the third honor by downing Phi Deli's Paul Schombschlei; and John Wrighi took flight 4 oyer the efforts of Ron Grapsy. Thela Kappa Phi. In flight 5. Sehartz beat Tiers Walt Fresch; in 6'. Plum stopped Alpha Zota's Ken Sachs.; McMil han won in division 7 over Beta -’Sigma Rho’s- Gil Freedman; and Dinner THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA Tough Road pionship Bid mel’s opponent in the semi-final icks. The, Schimmel-Jaeks winner Seven Win in WRA j V-Ball, Bowling | . Leonides. Delt«\2«ta, and Alpha. Kappa Alpha copped victories in' the coed vntraroural volleyball; league and Alpha Gamma Delta, Beta Sigma Omicron; Atherton! southwest and northwest, and! Kappa Alpha Theta captured wins in the intramural bowling! league Tuesday night. [ i Mary Goode scored 13 points to; lead the Leonides squad in its 1 . ' 58-11 win Over Atherton. Gerril .Gross and Joan. Koch netted IT; points, for the winners. j Behind the .11 points of Barb; 'Parcel and Id of Barb Funk, Be!-; ;ta 2fita beat Theta Phi Alpha | 53-24. Chris Forte and Lee La-', losers. Alpha Kappa Alpha defeated (Continued on page seven} So* Humphreys 157-pound senior Johnny Johnson, and Spring field's Joe AKssi make the 130 division one of the strongest in the tournament. Alissi is the only man to beat Peery in three years ot college competition. i The Lions, on the other hand, have everything to gain and noth ing to lose. Coach Charley Spei ,del’s chances hinge on the lower .weights where he has two Eastern 'champions and two runnersup. j Sid Nodland, 123 pound EIWA champ, was defeated in the quar terfinals last year by Sam Cano, Cortland State, arter drawing a :bye in the first round. Cario was defeated in the semifinal action, Nodland’s principle opponent will .be Peery, who he lost ta in his freshman year. j At 130 pounds junior sensa tion -Johaston wOl be seeking I to add to his title awards. The 4 Fraternities, 7 Score Volleyball Four fraternity and seven inde-j In other fraternity games, Sig ipendent volleyball teams romped beat Sigma Phi Alpha, 15- U, Victoria nigh, Vs-TlS^ | Only one m hod to be tor- Tmr lndependents >, ad go rfeited. That was when the full three games before the I sal Six tailed to appear lor their v.-inner was decided upon. Dorm scheduled encounter with Dorm 25. b ea t Dorm 31, 15-1, 0-15, 15-11; a - |Dorm 30 topped the Cagers, 15-3, Two of the fraternity games, 13-15, 15-11; Twenty-rimers beat went the futl three matches. Phijthe Cadillacs, 15-I®, 14-16, 15-5; Kappa fought back from a 15-12: and Canadian Club stopped Dorm Toss in the first game to sweep[2l, 8-15, 15-4, 15-11. its series with Kappa Alpha PsiJ In other independent games 16-14, 15-12. Theta Xi topped Dorm 22 beat Dorm 40, 15-11, 15- Belta Sigma Lambda, 15-9, 13-13,111; Dorm 14 defeated the Baby ;15-T, in the other full three game!Sans, 15-6, 15-9; and the Buz . series. Izards topped Dorm 13, 15-7, 15-8. IT OPENS TONIGHT AT 7:30 DON’T MISS the Penn State Thespians’ colorful on-stage production of SOUTH PACIFIC Music by Richard Rodgers—Lyrics by Oscar Hammerslein H Book by Oscar Hammerslein II and Joshua Logan f ptod from James A. 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Leading the ! tirade of stars here is Eichel berger, who swept over all oppo nents in his bid for the title. | Joe Humphreys will carry the Lion hopes in the 157 class, with ■Joe Krufka, ’55 national runner up, out to upset last year's con queror, Hodge. | Bill Oberly is rated a strong favorite to repeat as unlimited champion, mainly because of his [strong showing in the EIWA tour ‘ney and his regular season record. Indies Wins this new cellar style ARROW Glen >th shirt with features college bum with an eye illar, (button-down, of :r t neater-looking model ith cook you throughout ahead. The trim checks color combinations, in snd grey. $5.00, an Arrow repp always iff an Arrow shirt just Tie, $2.50. ROW-* fashion it * HACKS
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