PAGE S!X Eight Meets For Nittany Gene Wettstone, who has hardly bad time to catch his Meath after tutoring the United States gym nastic team in the recent Olympic games at Melbourne, finds him self hard-pressed to whip his men into shape for the rapidly-ap proaching gymnastic campaign. The Nittany Lions open against West Virginia on Feb. 2. However, with final exams and registration sapping valuable practice time. the engagement is closer than the date indicates. After the University Park in augural, the Lions host Temple, at home, Feb. 6 and then hit the road for a pair with Navy, Feb. 9, at Annapolis, and the Orangemen of Syracuse. Feb. 16, at Syracuse. They return borne for an important encount er with Army, Feb. 23. The Pittsburgh Panthers pro vide the competition on March 2, at Pittsburgh, in the "must" win for the gymnasts. The Nittanies return to Syra cuse, Match 8-9. for the Eastern Intercollegiate Gymnastics As sociation Meet. Following the Easterns, the Lions will enter the NCAA test. The time and place will be announced at a later date. Two of Wetistone's top per formers will be ineligible for the orming match. Armando Vega, E.I.G.A. AII -R ound Champion and National Paral -3el Bars king, dropped out of ' school to participate in the Olympic games and will return to action for the Temple meet. Captain Dion Weissend will! also be on the sidelines for the/ West Virginia vendetta. Weissendl is scholastically ineligible at the, present time, but is in top form! and will be ready by Feb. 6. Vega's events are uncertain ac-, cording to Wettstone, but he will probably compete on the parallel bars, the horizontal bars and the' rings. Weissend is definitely set! t J rr 1 CIE SA" SILL JAIL" 1 : so Ex 517 EA ARIAN •••••••••• 1.... 1 Iti—.4.riJks 6 \ Al 4 pl f SC7c::tj't'l-:ktl s--.-\ (zsQl°°s Trippi Agrees ATLANTA. Dec. 20 k.l 3 l—Pro-: "After playing them (the Bears) fessional football coach Charlie the week before, I know what Trippi said today he agrees "100 Detroit Coach Buddy Parker says per cent" with the Detroit Lions - must be true. That Meadows tried charge that end Ed Meadows of ito do the same thing to our guar the Chicago Bears deliberately when we played them. tried to knock quarterback Bobby .1 played under Buddy Parker Layne out of a game. /for three years, and he's a very Layne was put out of action:quiet, mild-mannered man_ He Sunday after being tackled by doesn ' t pop off unless - he has :Meadows in the Western Dire-!something to say. I agree with slot title game. !Buddy 100 per cent on this thing." THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA Dion Weissend, Lion Gym Captain to lead the tumblers and will,starter on the parallel bars and more than likely get the and for; letterman Ed Sidwell will be back the horizontal bars. 'for another shot at honors on the Elsewhere, the Nitiany men- rings. for is a little more uncertain. ' Junior Phil Mullen, a rope "No positions have definitely climber, holds both the Eastern been clinched," he said. and National titles. The team He has eight lettermen on liand, l should cash in or_ several firsts including Vega and Weissend. ) here, according to Wetisione. Adie Stevens will back Weissend Dick Rehm also will enter the in the tumbling event. while rope climb. monogram-winner Jack Biester-1 Sophomore Gil Leu, the fresh feldt tops the Lions on the side-•man phenom from Switzerland, horse. Another vet, Walt Heiler has an inside track on the side will be pushing Beisterfeldt. horse, horizontal bars and paral- Bob Foht looks like another' lel bars. \\ - 1 With Lions Scheduled Gymnasts mg. 9EOO STA-M. FAA SECALLS soriE OF-100010i 110/451 Top Arika DF ic66 smkrs 'OAK ~ ~. ~~ 1 ~„ac.~ ~2 = ~'s~ ~tz~. Giles Drops Gore From Umpire Staff CINCINNATI, Dec. 20 (W)—Ar tie Gore. 49, an umpire in the Na tional League since 1947, was dropped today by President War ren C. Giles to make room for younger talent Giles announced the signing of Ken Burkhart from the Texas League and Tony Venzon from the American Association. ‘`' :'' 1 .1 ' 4 : : f.! ;':::'' 1 ,; . :., , - 7-:,''''; f - : ~', ';.',!,'•;',,,, A Glance at . . . SPORTS By VINCE CAROCCI Assistant Sports Editor LION SPORTS IN REVIEW- With the coming of Christmas vacation, another year in Penn State sport annals comes to a close. The Lion athletic teams, in keep ing with an old tradition, again posted outstanding records in prac tically all sports. Let's pause for a moment to look back on the Lions' athletic achievements for 1956. Individually, here's how Penn State will look in the local record books: BASKETBALL: The cage team posted a 12-14 mark during the regular season— the only Lion team on the red side of the ledger. However, Coach John Egli was faced with the tedious task of rebuilding after losing such standouts as Jesse Arnelle, Ron Weidenhammer, Dave Edwards, Jim Blocker, and Bob Rohiands through graduation. Using the now-departed Bob Hoffman, Earl Fields, and Rudy Marisa as a nucleus for his 1955-56 contingent, Egli molded an aver age team together, long on heart, but short on talent. WRESTLING: Led by Co-Captains Joe .Krufka and Bill Oberly, the Lion matment again compiled another outstanding record-7-1 during the regular season and a second place in the Eastern championships. Pittsburgh was the big Lion jinx, defeating Charlie Speidel's grapplers in a dual match . and topping them in the Easterns. How ever, Sid Nodland, Johnny Johnston and Oberly emerged as Eastern wrestling champs. Oberly was defeated in defense of his National Unlimited Championship at Oklahoma. GYMNASTICS: . For the first time in three years, Coach Gene Wettstone's gym nasts lost their first Eastern meet, bowing at Army in the middle of a 5-1 season. Led by sophomore Armando Vega, the Lions copped three individual championships in the Eastern Tourney at West Point. Vega won all-round honors and finished first in the parallel bars. Phil Mullen won the Eastern Rope-Climbing Championship. Mullen also copped the National Rope-Climbing Championship while Vega took honors on the parallel bars. The gymnasts ended the season in dramatic fashion by placing three men on the 1956 United States Olympic team—two competitors and a coach. Former gym captain, Karl Schw•enzfier was second in the all-round competition while Vega was sixth. Wettstone was selected as the Olympic Coach immediately after the trials were completed. BASEBALL: Coach Joe Bedenk's diamond aggregation-compiled a 16-4 rec ord during the regular season and earned its second consecutive berth in the District 2 NCAA playoffs. Individually, southpaw Ed Drapcho and Captain Bob McMullen were the big guns in the Lion season. Drapcho posted a 7- . 1 mound mark while McMullen batted a solid .420 for the year. LACROSSE: In their last season under veteran coach Nick Thiel, the Lion stickmen posted an 8-6 record. Sophomore Bill Hess set the Lion scoring record flying when he tallied 43 goals in his first varsity season GOLF: Coach Bob Rutherford's golfers was again one of .the east's top teams, recording a 7-2 season mark. The golfers finished second to Yale, a perennial champion, in the Eastern Intercollegiate Golf Association Championship. TRACK: Led by the sprinting of Captain Art Pollard, the middle-distance running of Bruce Austin and the hurdling of Rod Perry, Coach Chick Werner's cindermen finished the regular season with a 3-1 mark, losing only to Quantico's potent Marines - 1 TENNIS: Tennis, one of the weaker sports in the Penn State program, had a 7-5 mark. Fred Trust and veteran Dean Mullen were the big winners for Coach Sherm Fogg's team. FALL SPORTS: All Lion teams recorded corn mendable records during fall. Thel football squad finished with a i 6-2-1 mark, the soccer team had an 8-2-1 record, and the cross country team posted 4 wins against 1 loss, after going winless in 1955. 0 e #Oll 5 The last time for Good times In State College!!! For it's the last T.G.I.F. session and the best one before your long vacation The Jerry Miller Combo 4:30 to 6 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21. 1956 r:VO mo:%: r -- ..• .
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