THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1956
Trackmen to
Quantico Marines
In Ist Home Meet
A Penn State track team, with three experience-gaining relay
tests and one triangular meet behind them, gets set to face the
Quantico Marines in the Lions' first dual meet of the season at 1 p.m.
Saturday on the Beaver Field oval.
The Quantico meet also marks the Lion trackmen's home debut
for the 1956 season. In•their only meet competition of the year thus
far, the Nittanies topped Navy and Georgetown at Annapolis, Md.
The Quantico squad, hampered severely by the AAU suspension
of standout distance runner Wes Santee, figures to provide a for
midable test for the Lions.
According to a report from Quantice. the Marine weightmen,
headed by Fred Stark, have been the backbone of the learn. Stark.
Quantico's all-lime discus record holder, is the squad's number
one shot putter and discus thrower. He holds the Marine Corps
School discus record with a 14'1Y2' . loss in a dual meet with
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Les Noel
Two-mile entry
232'11" this year, was a three-time winner in the Penn Relays and
made the All-American track squad twice.
Last year, Cantello finished second in the National Collegiate
Championships at Los Angeles with a 245'3VE" throw behind Kansas'
Les Ritzier.
Bill Taylor, former University of Southern California stand
out, paces the Marine distance runners. Taylor. who paced Santee
during the indoor season, will also run the 880 :and ad ai the
anchorman on the Leatherneck mile relay team.
Taylor recorded his best time of the season when he ran the
mile in 4:18.2 in a triangular meet against VML and Georgetown
at VIAL
Les Noel tops Quantico's two mile entry and may be called
neon to run with Taylor in the mile. He is rated the number two
Leatherneck distance man.
The Marines are exceptionally weak in the sprints, having
lost every 100-yard dash this year. Cordell Brown, formerly of
Utah State, tops the Quantic' o entries in the 220 and 440-yard
dashes. His best 220 mark so far was a :23.4 effort while a :49.3
was his best lime in the 440. .
Possessing only a fair high jumping contingent, the Marines
are headed by Bernard Bruce in the broad jump. Bruce has gone
over the 23 foot-mark before-23'9%" being his best effort of the
season.
Tom Flaherty, Georgetown, and Bob Ehrhart, former North
western star, are the two top Marine entries in the pole vault Both
have hit over 13' in every attempt this - year. 'Ehrhart soared to a
14'9" height while competing for the Wildcats against Ohio State.
He was also a two-time All-American.
Coach Tom Rosandich's crew sport a 4-1 record, losing to Yale
while whipping Princeton, William and Mary, Georgetown and VMI
in a triangular meet, and the Camp Lejeune Marines.
NCAA Bans Auburn
NEW ORLEANS, May 2 (W)—
The National Collegiate Athletic
Association's Council today placed
Auburn on probation for three
years and warned the school that
any infractions during the period
may lead to expulsion from. the
Auburn's probation period
was the longest ever handed
down by the NCA A. One
other Southeastern Conference
school. the Universit' y of Flo c
ida. and the University of Louis
ville, also were placed on pro
bation. Their probations are far
Iwo years.
The probations are effective im
mediately.
The penalty against Auburn was
fax more severe. .
Host
great, and Frank Delfries, Tulane
velin entry. Cantello, who has hit
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Bill Taykte
Top distance runner
For the first two years, the Ala
bama school's athletes are barred
from those selected invitational
events which cooperate with the
NCAA in the administration of its
enforcement program. The events
include post-season bowl games
and all NCAA events.
The school's football team was
made ineligible also for participa
tion in the national television ser
ies administered by the NCAA.
The University of Louisville's
basketball team was ruled ineli
gible to participate in the NCAA
Tournament and a selected group
of invitational meets which co
operate with the NCAA. Those
tourneys include the All-College
Tournament at Oklahoma City,
Okla., the Holiday Festival at
New York, and National Invita
tional Tournament and the Sugar
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Three Athletes
Compile Perfect
Semester Grades
Twenty-five Penn State stu
dents representing the univer
sity's eight major spot's ap
pear on the annual athletic
honor roll released by Ernest
B. McCoy, dean of the College
of Physical Education.
Three of these received special
recognition for having compiled a
perfect academic average (4.0)
, during the first semester of the
11955-56 school year They are soc
cer player lan Springer, golfer
John Boyanowski, and baseball
catcher Phil Saunders.
Only 96 of Penn State's 12,000
students matched this feat during
the first semester.
Eberly, Hill Recognized
Joining the "Big Three" with
particular note are Paul Hill, soc
cer p 1 aye r, and Joe Eberly, a
State College resident and tennis
player Each has compiled an all-
University average of 3.77 in his
first five semesters.
On the honor roll, which Mc-
Coy says "indicates quite conclu
sively that we have very excel
lent students competing on our
teams," are five baseball players,
four each from football, soccer,
and tennis, three from golf, two
each from track and gymnastics,
and one from wrestling.
An athlete to qualify for the
honor roll. must compile a semes
ter or all-University average of
3.0 or better.
Baseball Contributes Five
The five baseball players to
make the honor roll are Saunders,
liberal arm• Norm VanOrd, agri
culture: Lou D'Orsaneo, agricul
ture; Guy Tirabassi, chemistry
and physics; and Bob McMullen,
physical education.
Football players to make it are
Jim Harding, agriculture: Frank
Reich, education; Otto -Kneidin
ger. physical education; and Clint
Law, business administration.
Soccer representatives are
Springer, physical education; Jim
Benton', mineral industries; Jim
Hedberg. mineral industries; and
Hill, agriculture.
Tennis contributes Eberly,
chemistry and physics; Dean Mul
len, physical education; Rhymes
Humphreys, engineering; and
Larry Adler, liberal' arts.
Schwenzfeier Included
Golfers breaking par scholasti
cally are Boyanowski, Jim Gins
berg, and John Branish, all in
business administration.
Paul Roberts, hotel administra
tion, and Doug Moorhead, agri
culture, and trackmen listed
while Hugh Cline, liberal arts,
and Karl Schwenzfeier, physical
education, are gymnasts making
the honor roll.
Joe Krutka, education, is wrest
ling's lone contribution to the
honor roll.
St. Louis Purchases
Hagan From Celtics
ST. LOUIS, May 2 (R)—The
purchase of Cliff Hagan. former
Kentucky All-America, from the
Boston Celtics was•announced to
day by• the rookie-collecting St.
Louis Hawks of the National Bas
ketball Assn.
• The 210-pound . 6-4 Kentucky
stalwart currently is a second
lieutenant at Andrews Air Force
Base, Washington. D.C.
and Cotton Bowl Tournaments.
Walter Byers. executive direc
tor of The NCAA. said the Au
burn rule infractions occurred
in football, while Louisville's
infraction came in basketball.
Florida's violation apparently
occurred in all sports. Byers
said.
The NCAA's action on Auburn
supported rulings earlier this year
by the Southeastern Conference.
The Council said it found that
a staff member of the university.
assistant football Coach Hal Her
ring, during Nov. 1955, offered fi
nancial aid to two prospective stu
dent-athletes in excess of that
permitted by the NCAA and the
Southeastern Conference.
The boys involved were Harry
and Robert Beaube, Alabama City,
Ala., twins.
Lary 3-Hits Yankees;
Red Sox Defeat KC, 2-0
NEW YORK, May 2 (LP)—Detroit's Frank Lary set back
the New York Yankees with three hits today 8-1 as the Tigers
battered Johnny Kucks, Rip Coleman and Mickey McDer
mott for 15 hits including a three-run homer by Frank House.
Mantle's sixth homer leading off the ninth robbed Lary
of his shutout bid but the defeat
sunk the Yankees into second
place, 22 percentage points behind
the idle Chicago White Sox.
Lary, 25-year-old righthander
from Northport, Ark., allowed
only a single by Billy Martin in
the second, a double by Yogi Ber
ra in the seventh and Mantle's
clout into the lower right field
,stands in the ninth. He struck out
[ five, walked two and hit one bats
man.
'Ring' Rates
Moore Top
Heavyweight
NEW YORK, May 2 (4")
Archie Moore, the light-heavy
weight champion is listed as the
No. 1 heavyweight in the. world,
now that Rocky Marciano has re
tired, in the latest monthly ratings
by Ring Magazine.
Floyd Patterson, previously
ranked as Moore's top challenger
in the 175-pound division, moves
up to become the No. 5 heavy in
the scrambled division.
Moves Up Patterson
Nat Fleischer. Ring editor, said
he moved up Patterson because
his manager, Cus D'Amato al
ready had claimed the heavy
weight title and also because a
match w a s imminent between
Patterson and Tommy (Hurri
cane) Jackson, the No. 2 heavy.
The Patterson-Jackson match has
not been signed but there are in
dications it will be staged in
Madison Square Garden in June.
Baker Number 3
Bob Baker, the hulking Pitts
burgh contender who lost a dis
puted decision to Jackson during
the winter, is No. 3. Then comes
Johnny Holman of Chicago who
boxes Baker in a 12-round elim
ination match at Miami Beach,
May 9.
After Patterson is Johnny Sum
merlin of Detroit as No. 6, fol
lowed by Willie Pastrano of New
Orleans, Harold Carter of Linden,
N. J.. Bob Satterfield of Chicago
and Eddie Machen of Redding.
Calif. Summerlin and Satterfield
are matched for a May 23 bout at
Detroit.
The University's overall record
in track and cross-country com
pares favorably with the best in
the nation_
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PAGE SEVEN
Kaline Has 3 Hits
Al Kaline, Harvey Kuenn and
Bill Tuttle each had three hits in
Detroit's biggest hit total of the
season.
The Tigers knocked out Johnny
Kucks during the six-run third
inning in which 11 men went to
bat and Al Kaline collected two
singles.
BOSTON, May 2 (Nl—Tommy
Brewer, 24-year-old Cheraw, S.C.,
righthander, tossed a three-hitter
today in pitching Boston to a 2-0
victory over Kansas City.
Zernial Big Hitter
Gus Zernial's singles with two
out in the first inning and the
ninth and Spook Jacob's two
down scratch hit off first base
man Mickey Vernon's .glove in
the fifth were the only Atheltie
safeties.
Tommy struck out five while
giving only two walks—both to
leadoff man Vic Power.
Mickey Vernon paced Boston's
eight-hit assault .on three A's
pitchers with two doubles and a
single. His single in the first set
up Jackie Jensen's run-producing
single.
Mickey doubled in a run in the
fifth. Re was thrown out trying
for a triple in the third.
Third baseman Steve Baidy
and outfielder Jim Lockerman are
the only two-sport athletes on the
current Penn State baseball team.