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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
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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.
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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
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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.
Pretty, Shelley Mann from Ar
lington, Va., led a grand slam
sweep of the women's 105 meter
butterfly swimming event, and
set a new Olympic record of 1:11.0.
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