PAGE SIX Lion Lagers Rout Powerless Rutgers Penn State's hustling basketball team scored its second victory of the youthful sea son last night, overwhelming an outmanned, outplayed Rutgers team, 90-58. The cagers, displaying the same aggressiveness and hustle that marked their play against Carnegie Tech last weekend, jumped into an early lead to run the game, but small Scarlet quintet to the floor. I * * * * * * Ron Rainey, junior forward. led the Nittany charge in the opening minutes scoring 12 of the first 29 Lion points for an indication of what was yet to come. The Scarlet never was able to get its offense in motion, the Lion defensive setup holding the losers to a scant seven field goals in the first half, The Lions, however. were lo score almost at will. pouring 19 two-pointers through the net both halves. Steve Baidy opened the scoring with a foul shot, only to have Rut gers jump into the lead on two quick baskets, one each by Bruce Webster and Bill Luhman. Baidy and Bob Ramsay com bined with Rainey to push the Lions into a 9-4 lead before Dick Hirschfeld cut the margin to three with two foul shots. Then the Lions began their first of many spurts, scoring 10 straight points while holding Rutgers scoreless. Ramsay's two consecutive jump shots and single baskets by Baidy. Rainey, and Captain Bob Leisher ac counted for The Lion scoring. After a jump by Hirschfeld was good. Rainey scored six points., two from the foul line. Leisher two, and Bob Edwards 'iwo for a 29-10 Lion lead. Dori Davis had scored two points from the foul line for the Scarlet's only tallies during that time. Coach John Egli's squad kept up the rapid scoring pace to take a 43-21 halftime lead. Webster, the game's high scorer with 22, lopped what little Scarlet scoring there was with two baskets and three fouls in the first half. Egli started his first unit again in the second half, but with 8:10 remaining, all sophomores with the exception of Ramsay, were in act ion. Little Greg Schwendeman and Edwards took charge of Lion scoring in the second half, Schwendeman hitting for 12 points and Edwards for IL Schwendeman was the take charge player for the second unit. heautifully an d scoring with a great variety of shots, including a nifty set from approximately 25 feet out. Webster, meanwhile, kept the visiting forces hustling with his neat ball-handling, accurate shoot ing, and good rebounding. He scored 15 points in the second half to top both squads in that department. The Lions played a much smoother floor game than they did against Carnegie Tech; their • S From our lingerie dreaming in g I • s.. i • va • 0 z' t, ca. rib.) a VA' i.;,•"*,.. , ,w.. •:- —9....... • ~ , . .-..•, . .., * ,..., . .t.n.k . : ..',- :.=,-.:; * - e.k.-.70:4,,,,. , 4'''' '' 11 ' --.,.'.' A . ~ -4,4. •,,‘, ~ ..,. . , £.;` . , ' ‘. '. e• , Smart Shop By VINCE CAROCCI —Alexia., Photo by George Harriron THE LIONS' Ron Rainey (5) and Carmen Palmeri° (7) go high in the air to grab a rebound from Rutgers' Don Davis during last night's Lion-Scarlet cage tilt at Rec Hall. Both Lions hit double figures in the Nittany romp. defense held the Scarlet in check; The Penn State soccer team blanked six opponents as it COM and their rebounding under both' piled a record of 8 wins, 2 de boards was an important factor in .feats and 1 tie in 1956. the large winning margin. TENN STATE RFTCERS Fla F TP 5 - 4; FTP Ruirmy 5 4-4 14 11.b•is 0 Palmeri,, 5 1-0 10 luhnum 1 0-0 -" Ramsay 7 4-1 15 Himcbtekl 2 5-4 5: Lei.her 4 0-0 15 Kali 3 5-1 7 IluidY 3 7-4 10 Bayard 2 1-0 4 JorfiS 0 0-0 0 Leonard 6 0-0 Hancock O 1,-2 2 Ent 1 0-0 Edward* 5 3-1 17 Osti 2 2-1 5 Perry 0-0 0 Puk 0 0-4) r Sehwe'4l•n G 4-2 14 Leaf 1 0-0 EubilLta 0 OA 0 WeLater 7 10-5 . new-lee -0-0 Totals 3$ 20-14 91 Totals 2125-1 G Sa Five of Penn State's eight let• ter-winners in cross-country it 1956 have two years of compe. tition remaining. collection ... • Dress the steeping 4 beauties and take A a • 4 A • that winter chill off with our pajamas. We have everything from tailored P.J.'s to frilly shorties. 123 S. Allen Street THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Russia 20 Points Behind Fading U.S. MELBOURNE, Tuesday, Dec. 6 VP)—Russian athletes have surged to within 20 points of the United States in the ding dong battle for the unofficial team honors at the 1956 Olympic Games, and Ameri can hopes of pulling out a victory virtually disappeared today. After Russian successes in gym nastics yesterday the score stood at 538 1 i points for the U.S. and 5181=2 for Russia. This was under the system of 10 points for each first place, and five, four, -three, two, one for the other five plac in gs. In Gold Medals, the U.S. leads with 31, to 23 for Russia. The Soviets lead in second place, or Silver Medals. with 25. as against 22 for the U.S. Bronze Medals show 24 for Russia and 12 for the Americans. Only a handful of swimming finals remain for the U.S. to pick up additional points, while Rus- Six Fraternities Win in iM Bowling Six fraternities copped intra mural howling matches in Tues day night's action. Theta Xi rolled to a 3-1 win over Sigma Alpha Mu; Theta Delta Chi shutout Phi Gamma Delta. 4-0 and Alpha Zeta out pinned Tau Phi Delta, also by a 4-0 whitewash. Phi Delta Theta and Tau Kappa Epsilon keglers battled to a 2-2 deadlock; Alpha Tau Omega beat Phi Sigma Delta, 3-1 and Kappa Delta Rho beat Delta Upsilon, 3-1. PENN State students prefer the diner next to the STATE theater for the best food served at any DINER THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1956 sia still has plenty to pick up in gymnastics, Greco-Roman wrest ling and fencing. Thus domination of the Unit ed States in the Olympics that began with - the first modern games in Athens in 1896 almost certainly is coming to an end. But by the irony of fate, Ameri can achievement of 15 Gold Med als in men's track and field and one in women's track represents a high water mark in this sport that is the center of the games. Despite the setback in unoffi cial points, this was a great day for red, white and blue. 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