SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 9. 1956 Beta Theta Pi Wins I M Race By TT MATHEWS Beta Theta Pi staved off a determined bid by Phi Kappa Sigma during the final six tournaments in the Intramural competition last spring to become the number one athletic fraternity on campus for 1955-'56. Beta piled up a 134 point lead through the first 11 tourneys and coasted to the top spot while Phi Kappa Sigma gained 166 points in golf and track to' cut the Beta margin of victory to eight points. 925-917. Phi Kappa - Sigma was eight points behind the eventual cham pions on the last day of compe tition and was tied 2-2 with Al pha Chi Sigma for the golf title. Win Vital for Honors A win in that fifth and final game would have given the chal lengers 25 more points, the golf championship, and more impor tant, the all-year title by 17 points on the last day. But the Phi Kappa Sigma an chorman lost the game, match, golf title, and all-year crown by one stroke. Beta became the kings mainly on the strength of two firsts (swimming-155 and badminton —155), two seconds (bowling-150 and handball doubles-85), and consistent thirty and forty point scoring in the other 13 tourna ments. Phi Kappa Sigma won touch football honors (150), and was second in boxing (130), golf (90), and track and field (76). DU Third Delta Upsilon was third in the final standings after Leading most of the year on the strength of a high-scoring 240-point boxing ti tle. In the other contact sport, wrestling, DU could °ray finish third for 85 marks. Alpha Chi Sigma, which fin ished fourth, earned the distinc tion of the most improved ath letic house on campus. The Alpha Sig's improved 369 points over their 1955 finish and jumped 17 places from twenty first to fourth. The other top 20 are: s—Sigma Nu 726; 6—Alpha Zeta 659; 7 Kappa Delta Rho-645; B—Tau Kappa Epsilon 588; 9—Theta Del ta Chi 582; 10—Alpha Sigma Phi 581. 11—Delta Sigma Phi 552; 12— Theta Chi 488; 13 Phi Kappa Tau 479; 14 Phi Delta Theta 473; 15—Sigma Phi Epsilon 468. Ten Nittany Coaches Boast Fine Records (Continued from page seventeen) States Olympic squad after which he will resume his chores at the University. SPRING SPORTS—Baseball, long a Penn State power, starts its twenty-seventh 'season under the tutelage of wiry Joe Bedenk, considered to be one of the top college coaches in the country. His overall record bears this out-284 wins, 122 losses, and two ties. For the past two years, his clubs have gained berths in the District Two NCAA playoffs. Lacrosse begins the year un der a new coach the only coaching change at the Univer sity. Ernie Baer, one time Nit Welcome to Penn State Class of 1960 the TAVERN RESTAURANT Seixas Lone Yank Survivor lin Tourney Vic Seixas , veteran tennis com petitor and Davis Cup performer, remained as the lone Yank sur vivor in the U.S. Tennis cham pionships at Forest Hills. N.Y., ac cording to the United Press. Seixas 'e nte r s the semifinal round along with three Austral ian stars—Ken Rosewa 11, Lou Hoad, and Neal Fraser. Seixas will face Rosewall— probably the toughest foe of his lengthy career—while Hoad meets Fraser. Rosewall downed prospec tive Davis Cupper Dick Savitt while Fraser stopped Ham Rich ardson. Hoad defeated Australia's Roy Emerson in a quarterfinal match. 16—Phi Gamma Delta 465; 17 —Phi Sigma Kappa 457, 18—Zeta Beta Tau 455, 19—Delta Chi 450, 20—Delta Tau Delta 440. PKs Grid Victors The 17 tournament winners were: touch football—Phi Kappa Sigma; golf medal Alpha Chi Sigma; swimming Beta Theta Pi; boxing—Delta Upsilon; bas ketball—Kappa Delta Rho; wrest ling—Chi Phi; handball singles— Zeta Beta Tau (Iry Schimmel); handball doubles—Zeta Beta Tau (Schimmel and Don Schwartz). Badntin ton—Beta Theta Pi Bijur); volleyball—Alpha Zeta; bowling—Alpha Sigma Phi; horseshoes—Sigma Nu (Bartlett il-lyson); soccer—Alpha Chi Sig ma; tennis singles Tau Kappa !Epsilon (Joe Galiardi); tennis doubles—Theta Delta Chi (Roger I Beidler and Dick Kuhn); golf team—Alpha Chi Sigma; track l and field—Alpha Phi Alpha; and ,the All-Year Point Award—Beta 'Theta Pi (925). tam, star, replaces his former coach Nick Thiel at the stick men command post. Baer had served as assistant coach for the past three years. Bob Rutherford, Nittany golf coach, is another in the long line of mentors sporting outstanding, records. In the past three cam paigns, his teams have lost only twice—both coming last year. Tennis coach Sherm Fogg, seeking his fourth consecutive winning season, starts his elev enth season on the University staff. Tennis has always been one of the school's weaker sports, but Fogg has had only three losing season's during his tenure. THE DAItY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Hockey 0 By LIL JUNAS Penn State coeds will be seek ing more recognition, more inter est, and more victories when thel Women's Recreation opens its sev-, err-team intramural sport pro-' gram in two weeks—diving first into hockey. Along with fi e l d hockey in which a new IM setup was estab lished last season, will be basket ' ball, volleyball, bowling, softball, and tabl etennis, badminton and bridge. Golf and tennis are potential intramural sports depending on the volume of interest and play ers. No IM program is scheduled for swimming, but a meet is held be tween various colleges at the an nual winter sports day in March. Pungle hours and a swim clinic are conducted during the week for all coeds—beginners to life savers. Intercollegiate telegraphic meets are held in bowling and rifle. Recreational clubs are active in all sports. One sport—field hockey—dom inates the fall sports day, The "cream of the crop" of the various colleges are selected for the Cen tral Penna. team at this event. In March, bowling. basketball swimming, volleyball, and bad minton competition is held. Last year the Nittany coeds copped the ten-pin and swimming matches and notched the best five-sport record, winning eight and losing two. Atherton sophomores won the field hockey title on its third try against Thompson, 1-0. Hockey Standouts Return Bright prospects are seen for this year's Penn State hockey team, with the return of eleven members of the 1955 all-star team. IM basketball schedules leagues on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. and Thursday nights— each $lOOO Scholarship 'Open to MI Fresh A $lOOO scholarship, designed to encourage students of ability to enter the field of mining engi neering, has been established at the University by the Joy Manu facturing Co., Pittsburgh. The award, which will be made for the first time this semester to a freshman- enrolled in mining engineering, may be renewed for each of the four years if the stu dent maintains the required schol astic standards. ens WRA Program league comprising approximately sight teams. Atherton Wins Cage League Atherton won the second major sport of the season—basketball— when it beat Kappa Alpha Theta, 65-47. Ginny Lewis was the spark plug of the victory as she netted 25 points. Scheduled along with basket ball for the fall semester is table tennis, which is run on the same I league basis as the hoop sport, and includes about two dozen teams. Volleyball and bowling are also scheduled for the spring semester. Zeta Tau Alpha grabbed the volleyball championship when it edged Kappa Delta, 28-26. Leonides copped the bowling crown over Kappa Alpha Theta, 673-546. behind the superb rolling of Carol Bradt. Lee Hart. and Gail Lundgren. Leonides Snags Second Sport Leonides bagged its second event of the spring semester when it beat a strong Thompson team, 16-9, in the softball circuit. Badminton, played indoors, co incides with field hockey and promises to be a more-participat ed-in sport as the league matures. Bridge is a new IM sport and during the past year was played among 19 sorority and five inde- Compliments of The Peoples National Bank State College, Pa. Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. The University Look Neat, slim lines combined with fine tailoring and handsome fab- ncs comprise Look". For twenty years Penn Staters have been looking towards Kafins to provide them with fash- ion firsts. We invite you too, to inspect our clothing at your pleas.: de /1 0/ / / State College pendent teams. Alpha Kappa Alpha won the bridge league title. Every month colleges and uni versities throughout the country wire the results of their "all-star" bowling teams to Penn State, the tab - dating center. * Winners are picked under the following titles: highest ten five man two-game series; highest ten individual two-kame series; high est ten individual single game ser ies: and score by points. Penn State's best national per formail•-e came in December when the Nittany coeds placed second—only nine points behind first place Wisconsin State ,Col lege. Penn State was also represent ed in the top ten two-game series by Pat Farrell and Barb Cox, and in th'e top ten single game series by Cox, who bowled 201 to be Penn State's first 200 scorer. In the latter part of April WRA's mermaids get a chance to interpret the movements, stunts, and routines they had been prac ticing into music set to rhymic timing and syncronization for the annual aquacade. Each year a theme is selected, and the choreography, music, and movements are planned to depict "University Mens Store PAGE NINETEEN
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