SATURDAY. MAY 12, 1956 1948 Golf Team Ranks With Best With the amazing Won and lost record of the Penn State golf teams, it would beidifficult to select one team as 'standing out above the rest. On the record of achievement, however, the 1948 team must be ranked close to the top. That team romped through an undefeated 10-game regu lar season and then topped it off by winning the Eastern championships and placing 15th in a field of 35 in the NCAA championships at Palo Alto, Calif. Included in its victory log were two wins each over Bucknell and Georgetown and single victories over Pittsburgh, Cornell, Army, Yale and Colgate. It also won the Eastern sectional title over Pitt, Cornell and Army on the Oak mont Golf Course in Pittsburgh before winning ihe - "big one" at Atlantic City. Boyle. Hart Top Players The team's- top players were Joe Boyle, now the Lion's assis tant coach, and Don Hart, the team captain. Others were Jerry and Tom Smith, Jim Noble and Al Hack. The team's top alter nate was Ramon Peterson. Hart and Boyle compiled iden tical 8-2 won and lost records. Jerry Smith won 9 and lost 1, his brother Tom won 6 and lost 1, Noble ran up an 8 and 2 slate and Hack copped 8 and dropped 1. Peterson, appearing in four matches, split even at 2 and 2. Hart, Jerry Smith, Noble and Hack were seniors, while the others remained to form the nu cleus of another fine .team in 1949. Veterans Dominate Squad The team was made up mostly of wartime returnees and had a wealth of golfing experience be hind it when it began. Most of the squad members still play golf, and rather well, as the records indicate. Tom Smith was runner-up in the Pennsylvania State Amateur Championships last year, after winning the West ern Pennsylvania Amateur Cham pionship. Noble is a former West ern Pennsylvania title winner, and was a finalist in last year's State Amateur tourney. Boyle competes in many of the Pro-Amateur tourneys through- NAVIGATOR AND PILOT THAT DEFENDS Graduate —Then Fly...U. S. AIR FORCE AVIATION CADET PROGRAM By JOE CHEDDAR 1 West Dorm 1 1 Softball League "A" Won Lost McKee IV 2 0 Hamilton II 2 0 McKee I 1 0 Irvin I 1 1 Jordan I 0 2 Hamilton V 0 3 League '11" Won Lost Jordan II 2 0 TIM A.F.C. 2 0 Hamilton 111 1 1 McKee II (T.H.) 1 1 Hamilton VI 0 2 Watts I (Ist FL) 0 2 League "C" Won Lost Watts I (2nd FL) 2 0 Hamilton I 2 0 Hamilton VII 2 1 TIM Vets 0 1 McKee II (Pansies) 0 2 Hamilton IV 0 2 League "I)" Won Lost Haughmen 1 0 Heile's 1 0 Pew St. Cats 1 0 Snack Bar 0 1 Hi Balls 0 2 Cadets Here in 1957 An Army football team will make its first visit to Penn State in 1957. Other home games will bring William & Mary, Vanderbilt and West Virginia to Beaver Field. The Lions will play Penn, Syracuse, Marquette, Holy Cross and Pitt on the road. out the state and does well each time. He has shot a 5 under par 64 on the University greens, and has hit 65 several times. Boyle and Hart were also among the qualifiers for the NCAA Indi vidual Championship in 1948. THE TEAM AMERICA THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Syracuse Hosts Lion Net Squad The Syracuse tennis squad, an easy touch for the Nittany court men in past years, will host the traveling Lions this afternoon. The Orangemen have lost 15 of 21 decisions since the series started in 1922, with one tie. De spite this optimistic note, tennis mentor Sherm Fogg refused to predict a runaway for his team, sensing a battle for the erratic Nittany netmen. Fogg said that would field much the same line-up that scored the second Lion win against Le high last Wednesday. Captain Chuck Christiansen will be switching places with number two man Ed Soiling, followed by Fred Trust in the three spot. Dean Mullen, holding the long est winning streak on the team at four, will play as the number four man, followed by Larry Ad ler and Doug Zuker. Replacing the routed Jack Gru ber-Dick Jacobs duo, who were run off the court in two fast sets against Lehigh, will be Dean Mul len and Zuker in the third dou bles position. The number one and two teams of Joe Eberly-Chuck Christiansen, and Seiling and Trust will be car ried over from the Engineer match. Seeking their third victory in eight starts, the Lion team will have to win the remaining mat ches of the season to equal last year's 7-5 slate. After the Orange match the Nittanies will face Juniata at home on Wednesday for their last campus showing this year. West Virginia, Bucknell, and Pitts burgh will be played away and in that order. Fetus Presses Regulars "Mr. Five Foot Two" of the Penn State golf squad is Johnny Felus, of Gallitzin. 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Intramural VOLLEYBALL-. Alpha Zeta dethroned Delta Chi as fraternity Intramural Volley ball Champions Thursday night at Recreation Hall. Alpha Zeta captured its ninth win in a row by defeating the de throning champs, 15-8. 10-15, 15-8. Instrumehtal in Alpha Zeta's drive were spiker Walt Edelen, and setters Norm Schue and Bill Suro. Rounding out the title-win ning six were Ken Sacks. Don Snyder, and Dave Myerson. Co-op wo n the Independent championship. Having found the Fighting Frosh an d the 69'ers easy prey in championship brack et play, Co-op had its hands full in turning back the Cougars, 15- 11, 11-15, 15-8. A last-game collapse by the Cougars enabled Co-op to come through with the victory despite a "pressure" tightness which was evident in the second game. Main cogs in Co-op's win were spiker Glen Carter and setter Larry Fitz Gerald. Bud Mattern, Dick Williams. Jim Keener. Bill Barkley, and Jim Mt completed the squad. TENNIS DOUBLES: Friday standings in the unsched uled fraternity tennis doubles tournament showed eleven teams have reached the quarter-final rounds in the "two flights. Heading the list of contenders is the top-seeded Theta Delta Chi entry of Roger Beidler and Dick Kuhn_ Seidler and Kuhn advanc ed to the quarter-finals via a 6-0 6-1 win over John Hartman and John Heinze, Phi Kappa Psi, and a forfeit from Al Rose and Al Robbins, Sigma Alpha Mu. Alpha Chi Sigma's Ralph Kauff man and Bill Sekaras defeated 'Joe Myers and George Seiders, Triangle; Phi Kappa Sigma's Dick Lindfors and Torn Scheider downed Sigma Phi Alpha's Frank Moore and Jer r y Kroninger; IDTD's Jim Quinn and Art Moyer edged KDR's Garry Crothers and Blaze Barron; and Phi Delta Theta's Jim Schry and Tom Fitz patrick stopped AGR's Dan Van Duyne and George Olmstead to PAGE SEVEN Roundup become flight one quarter-final ists. Flight two quarter-finalists are TKE's Joe Galiardi and John Ber• gey; Phi Mu Delta's Joe Godzik. and Al Krall; Lambda Chi Al pha's Carl Buss and Fred Thomp son; Theta Xi's Jim Machlan and Bob Haslett; Zeta Beta Tau's Ery Schimmel and Mary Trimas; and Beta Theta Pi's Dan Gray and Jerry Bijur. In th e Independent division. the two top-seeded entries of Dave Bronstein and Stan Glick and Jim Hepler and Ronald Wal ker have reached the semi-final round and will oppose each other this weekend. In the lower half of the Indie tournament, only one match has been recorded. Bob Murray and Dave Ritchie defeated Larry Mil ler and Larry Wertz, 6-3, 6-2. HORSESHOES: The opening three horseshoe matches pared the field down to 32 as Alpha Chi Sigma, Kappa Sigma and Tau Phi Delta were eliminated by Delta Theta Sig ma. Tau Kappa Epsilon, and Del ta Chi. Delta Theta Sigma's Gordon Wi ser and Bob Fox, the 1955 champs, won their first match Thursday night. The defending champs de feated Alpha Chi Sig's Rog Levin and Carroll Mac Donnell, 21-4, 21-9. -- The_closest match of the night featured Sigma Nu's Larry Bart lett and Joe Hyson when they edged Pi Lambda Phi's Don Schrieber and Harvey Miller, 19- 21. 21-20, 21-10. Pi Kappa Alpha's Bob Ed wards and Joe Slotnik, DU's Bob Brubaker and Cy Dubinsky, Phi Mu Delta's Jack Harmon and Bill Updegraff, Theta Delta Chi's Ron Carey and Don Patterson; and KDR's Billy Kane and Garry Crothers recorded the other Thursday night wins. PENN STATE CLASS RING Better Hurry! L. G. Balfour Co.
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