PAGE StX Lion Quintet Plays Wolfpack Tonight By _ VINCE CAROCCI The Penn State basketball team ;:;oe:.-: after win number, three tonight when it plays North Carolina State's potent Wolfpack at Raleigh. N.C. This is the first time .Coach John Egli's squad has taken the floor on hostile grounds and promises to he one of the tough +lA tests on the Nittany 25-game 'schedule. in view of the Wolfpack's out-, standing record over the past three or four years, and its open-• ing game 97-85 victory over Pitts burgh, the Lions will be definite underdogs at game time. Last year. Coach Everett Case's team romped the Lions in the opening game of the season, 78-42, on the, same Raleigh court. Egli pinned his upset hopes on a len-man traveling squad. regulars Ron Rainey. Carm Pal meri°, Bob Ramsay, Bob Leisher and Sieve Baidy and reserves Greg Schwendeman, Tom Han cock, Bob Edwards, Rod Perry and Ted Kubisia. Rainey, Palmerin, and Baidy have broken the double-figure scoring column in both Lion wins —BO-51 over Carnegie Tech, and 90-58 over Rutgers. Both Leisher and Ramsay have a two-game scoring average in the double column, however. Leisher hit for 78 against the Tartans and eight against Rutgers, while Ramsay scored nine against Tech, 15 against Rutgers. The creditable, play of his re serve unit has bolstered some, 431 Egli's hopes. Schwendeman and Edwards both hit double fig ures in the Rutgers tilt, while Hancock did a fair rebounding job against both the Tartans and the Scarlet. Bench strength could be a telling factor in tonight's test. Egli said that he would open Russia Wins Swim Star W MELBOURNE. Saturday, Dec. 8 I'M—The Melbourne Olympic Games formally close today with not Keller McCel mick of Los Angeles established as undisputed, but retiring queen of the diving boards, and a boyish Australian, Murray Rose. 17, king of modern swimmers. The Star Spangled Banner rang out for the last time last night for the magnificent Mrs. McCormick who completed an unprecedented Olympic "double double" by leading an all American sweep in the women's platformf diving competition. Juno Irwin • of Glendale, Calif., petite mother V alentine Named to AP of three, finished second and Paule Jean Meyers of Glendora,t Calif., was third in a brilliant dis- I-America 2nd Team play .off the tower boards. The United States ended its Penn State's Sam Valentine added another All-American competition with 593 points and , award to his collection when he was named to the Asso second place in the unofficial • team race, behind Russia's 712 S ciated Press' second allstar unit yesterday. point total. The Soviets have captured 36 Gold Medals to 32 I Valentine has been picked on every All-American team for the Americans and could ,that has been selected thus far, chiefly on the second squad. add another Gold Medal today , as they enter the soccer final I The Associated Press honor I .. favored over the Yugoslavian ,came shortly following the an- ;Michig an, and Joe Walton, Pitts team. nouncement that Valentine had ;burgh; the tackles are Alex Kar- Mrs. McCormick. 26, also a' been named to the 'Look' 22-man i ras, lowa, and John Witte, Ore mother and coached by her air-- All-America squad. Igon State; Oklahoma's Jerry line navigator husband. thus add-1 Ohio State's Jim Parker and iTubbs was an overwhelming y Baylor's Bill Glass were the first choice for center. ed the high dive to her previousl y iteam nominations at the guard won springboard title and match- The team was selected on the 'posts. Oklahoma's Tommy Mc ed the double victory she achieved l basis of recommendations from four years ago in Helsinki. , Donald was the AP's lone first- regional boards complete through This was my last competitive, team repeater, winning a halfback all games of Dec. 1. - dive." the smiling matron said;' pot. The second-teim backf i e 1 d Tennessee's brilliant tailback, afterwards. "Now 1 plan to attend' found Notre Dame's brilliant Johnny Majors, Miami's Don I to the business of being a house- . quarterback and winner of the ,Bossler, a pile-driving fullback,l - wife." , Heisman Trophy, Paul Hornung, 'and Syracuse's Jimmy Brown' Earlier in the evening Rose, round out the first-team am back-1 'leading the balloting. lowa's Ken ai handsome, superb 1 y con- field. Brown has made everylny Ploen, Texas A&M's John ditioned youngster who is the rs earn selectionso far. fi t-t f ;Crow, and Wake Forest's Bill son of Scotish-English parents, , won his third Gold Medal of The ends are Ron Kramer ' I (Continued on page eight) 1_ the games by upsetting Amer' ca's world record holder. Geors Breen. in the 1500 meter free style race, a thrilling contest c speed and endurance whit brought a packed house to i feet at the swimming stadiu: . _ Breen, 21, American champs from Buffalo, N.Y.. who had a world record of 17 minutes 5: seconds in preliminary tri: laded badly and finished third 1 hind Takeshi Yamanaka of Jap Rose's time last night 17:58.9. Yamanaka was timed 113:00.3 and the distraught Bro sin 111:0IL3. Carm Palmerio High-Scoring Forward with the same five that started against both Carnegie Tech and Rutgers—Rainey and Palmerio at forwards, Ramsay at center and Leis h e r and Baidy at guards. Tonight's game will be the first time that the Lions will find themselves "looking up" to an op ponent. North Carolina will be the taller ball club. headed by 6-11 Bob Seitz and 6-7 John Rich ter. Seitz. who spent much of last season in the shadows of departed All-American center Ron Shay lik. and Richter are expected to share the center chores. However, both will move into a double pivot set-up at times. Co-Captains Cliff Hafer, 6-5. and John Maglio. 6-0, are expect ed to be sure starters, Hafer at Olympics; U.S. ins Gold Medal THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA • W :g4 •. . k forward and Maglio at guard. Whitey Bell, 5-11, will prob ably share the starting guard roles with Maglio with either Nick Pond or Tom Hopper at the remaining forward post. Case did not dis close his starting lineup, prefer ring to use several combinations in an effort to find his most po tent unit. The Wolfpack, according to reports from Raleigh. are con sidered to be an excellent re bounding team with a great deal of speed. Case's teams have al ways had the reputation of being high-scoring outfits. This game should, answer one big question in Egli's. and prob ably most of the Lion fans', mind: how can the Nittanies operate against a taller unit? The answer will be known later tonight. Bob Edwards Reserve Center 1 T fit 2-, Scanning \tr. SPORTS SAM VALENTINE-SWEETHEART OF A GUARD! It was 10 minutes before game time. Coach Rip Engle was finishing his last-minute instructions to his now famous football team, which was about to meet a powerful West Virginia team on Beaver Field. Captain Sam Valentine, as is the usual procedure, was asked to speak to his teammates. He waited until the coaches left the dressing room before beginning his off-the-cuff talk. "I guess everybody thinks we'll be down for this game after beating Ohio State last week," Valentine said, "but I want this one just as bad. We're not Notre Dame so we can't win one for the Gipper, but there is one person that I think deserves it just as much— Chuck (Medlar), team trainer. "He's worked as hard as we have and not once did he ever ask for anything. I know everyone feels the same way about him as I do, so let's win this one for Chuck and then give him the game ball." Valentine or the team did not disappoint each other. They beat the Mountaineers rather handily, 17-7, and after the game gave the ball to a surprised Medlar. Dressing room scenes like this were common under Valentine, whose inspiring leadership was probably the greatest factor in the Lions' 6-2-1 record. His tremendous defensive play on the field was the highlight of almost every game and it earned him an All-America berth on Look Magazine's team and second team on almost every major All- America team in the country. 'The ninth player in Lion football history to accomplish that. But life was not always so cheerful for the rather small guard from Dußois. When he was only three his father died and five years later his mother passed away, leaving the family of 10 under the care of his three oldest brothers. In his junior year in high school his brother Pat took out guardian papers and Valentine moved in with him. At Dußois High School he was varsity center on the football team and because of his outstanding defensive performances the 5-11, 205-pound star was named to the All-State High School team in his senior year. Valentine chose Ohio State to play football, but stayed there only three days. mainly because no one at Columbus felt impelled to aid him since they had their own schoolboy sensations there. The following February. 1953. he enrolled at the University, a move which has probably added more sleep to Engle's nights than any other in the last four years. Valentine was immediately switched to guard in his freshman year and has played there for his entire four years here. He broke into the starting lineup last year and almost at once established himself as an outstanding linebacker and diagnoses of plays. Engle said Valentine is one of the "greatest linebackers I ever coached. He's a great defensive performer and an outstanding leader. He is one of the real reasons why our team did so well this year." Probably no captain in the past decade was so popular with the fans as Valentine was. His jarring tackles on kickoffs and punts brought cheers and screams from the entire stadium. To the student body he could do no wrong. His influence over his teammates and the respect they hold for him, both as a player and an individual, is obviously terrific. Dis sension was obsolete on this year's team. Asked if he intended to play professional football following graduation, Valentine said "yes, unless something more attractive shows up." He is slated to be drafted in January by one of the leagues' top teams. But if he attempts a pro career or not, he will still be regarded as one of the Lions' greatest linemen. And the picture of "big number 60" will stand, along with Penn State's eight other All-Americans, in the corridor of Recreation Hall. Ice Skates 15% off To Students We Lay-t-way WESTERN f AUTO , a n 4 200 W. College SATURDAY. DECEMBER B. 1956 By FRAN FANUCCI, Sports Editor T EMS that you always need for that extra Christmas present—belts, ties, socks, and shirts. Pen9shire's low fac tory-to-you price saves you money and you still get top quality goods. 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