PAGE SIX Rodgers Against Led by All-America candidate Guy Rodgers, Temple's highly-rated Owls invade the Recreation Hall hardwood tonight for an 8 o'clock engagement with the Nittany cagers. Rodgers is the first All-America candidate to visit the Nittany Valley this year—Syra cuse's Vinnie Cohen and West Virginia's "Hot Rod" Hundley will appear later—and with him comes one of the East's top quintets. The Owls, coached by Harry Litwack, carry a 6-3 record into tonight's game. They lost to Ken tucky. :3-58, Ohio State, 64-63, and Wake Forest, 67-59—three of the top cage teams in the country. They defeated Gettysburg, Muh lenburg, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Fordham. and New York Univers ity. Rodgers flashed his All- America potential in all Owl games, with the exception of the Gettysburg contest. He scored only seven points against the Bul lets. The biggest problem lacing She Owls is replacing the strong *coring punch lost through the graduation of Hal Lear. Hal Relate.ld, and Fred Cohen. Lit 'week may have corn, up with a solution in Jay Norman and Mel Brodsky. two unexpected 'Temple scoring threats. With Rodgers heading the Owl attack. the Owls use a fast-break ing offense—the same offense which carried them to 27-5 record and third place in the NCAA's last year. However, Lear, the second half of that fast-breaking duo is gone, and with him the tremendous speed which accounted for the success of the play. According to Litwack, the key to Temple suctess lies in his big men. They must take up the scor ing slack created by Lear's grad uation. Although Temple's starting line uplis unknown, it is very probable ihe Litwack will open with Rod-i gers (6-0), Norman (6-3), Brodsky 16-2). Don Fleming (6-6) and Tink ' Van Patton (6-8). Bill Smith (6-4) could also be a starter. Turning to Lion prospects, Coach John Egli finds himself in doubt concerning his starting lineup for the first time this season due to Ron Rainey's an kle injury and Steve Baidy's cold. Rainey injured his right ankle in closing minutes of the first half of the Gettysburg game, forc ing him to miss the full second period. At first, the injury was diagnosed as a slight sprain and the high-scoring junior was ex pected to play tonight. • ' However, closer examination showed the injury to be more serious than first believed and his status will not be decided un til game time. He did not run on the ankle during last night's prac tice session. Although Baidy played against Gettysburg, he is not in the best physical condition because of a head cold. Egli planned to rest him during the second half of the Bullet game, but Rainey's injury forced him to play. Egli admitted that Baidy was tired, but expects to use him tonight. Should the necessity arise. Egli said be ,ould use either Kaline Sought By White Sox CHICAGO. Jan. 8 (/P)—Three package deal offers, including $250,000 in cash. were made today by Vice President Charles Comis key of the Chicago White Sox for outfielder Al Kaline of Detroit, the club announced. Comiskey said he offered play ers. a combination of players and cash, or straight cash in the sum of $250.000. He said the players would include one regular out fielder. a starting pitcher, a util ity outfielder and possibly a re lief pitcher. He would not iden tify them. "I note that the Tigers are hav ing a little difficulty signing Ka line," said Comiskey. "We cer tainly could use him in our No. 4 batting order." Comiskey said the Tigers were somewhat cool towards his bid for the young star, who hit .340 in 1955 and .314 last season, but that he thought some other kind of deal might develop. Nobody ran over the Penn State football team in 1956. In nine games, the Lions gave up an av erage of only 6.7 points per game —fifth best record of its kind in the swatiosk THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. • STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Leads Temple Lions Tonight Tom Hancock or Greg Schwen deman for Rainey and Ted Ku bista for Reidy. AU three are sophomores. The rest of his lineup will re main the same with Bob Ramsay at center, Bob Edwards at for ward and Captain Bob Leisher at guard. Edwards has been a pleasant surprise for Egli. Joining the starting unit after Carmen Pal micro's tragic death, he has de veloped into one of the Lions' best scorers, hitting double figures in each game he started. He has combined with Ramsay and Hancock to provide the Lions with a strong rebounding detaiL All three were bulwarks off both boards against Gettysburg. Ramsay has pleased Egli'with the new-found aggressiveness he displayed in the past three or four Lion games. "He's doing his share at getting the ball," Egli said. "but still needs to take his time when shooting." Egli was pleased with his first team's smooth ball-handling dur ing the first half Monday night. "Our ball-handling was excellent during the first half," he said. With both coaches substituting freely in the second period, fouls and wild, race-horse basketball dominated play. Egli said that the cagers would stick to the 3-2 sliding zone (Continued on page seven) 8 Veterans to Aid Gymnasts Tw•o National champions and six other returning let termen should help keep any possible ulcers away from Penn State's Gene Wettstone, veteran gym nastic coach. Wettstone is fac ing the prospect of his inaug ural meet with West Virginia, Feb. 2. With slightly more than three weeks to shape up his perform ers and iron out the rough spots, Wettstone has been con centrating on the veterans of the squad. Armando Vega, E.I.G.A. All- Round titlist an d National parallel bars champion, will not be on hand for the opener, but will be back in action for the Temple meet, Feb. 6 at University Park. Vega took a semester's leave of absence to go to Australia with the Unit ed States Olympic Team and will return to class Feb. 4. Vega has been working out with the team and is in top-notth physi cal shape. • `usher LIR ISVI C r 'TATO CAPT. WILL LEAD THE CAGERS AGAINSTi R'f TQ 5T0P... R ed d THE OWLS L CANlllbat. AME. R IC LEADIN6 tional title-holder. The power ful junior from New Bloom field, Pa., holds the Eastern as well as the National rope climbing crowns. Mullen will be on hand, and Wettstone is counting on several first places here. Captain Dion Weissend is an other talented performer that the Nittany mentor will have to do without in the opener, due to scholastic difficulties. Weissend is the top tumbler on the squad and will probably get the call for the horizontal bars too. Sophomore Gil Leu, who did a tremendous job as a fresh man last season, has great pos sibilities, according to Wett stone. Leu could quite likely fill the gap while Vega and Weissand are Irking on from the sidelines. The Swiss native will participate on the side horse, horizontal bars, and parallel bars. The rope-climbing event ap pears to be the Lions' strong point at the present time. , Talk of Job Changes Stirs Grid Conclave ST. LOUIS, Jan. 8 (JP) —A horde of muscular, greying I football coaches, some with their eyes glinting with thoughts of new jobs and others saddened by the loss of old ones, poured into St. Louis today for the start of the 34th annual American Football Coaches Association meeting. GUY In addition to Mullen, Wett- Phil Mullen is the other Na stone has another veteran in Dick Rehm, a senior from Tur tle Creek, Pa. Rehm was right behind Mullen in most of the meets last year and should continue to push the champion to greater heights again this year. Adie Stevens, a junior from Pittsburgh, seems to have the number two spot in the tumb ling event. Two monogram-holders are the top contenders on the side horse. Senior Jack Biesterfeldt, from Woodhaven, N.J., and Walt Heiler, a junior from Crofton, Pa., have plenty of experience and can both be counted on under pressure. New Castle's Bob Foht, a junior, will take over for Vega on the parallel bars for West Virginia and then will team with the champion as the sea son progress's. The squad is still rusty in, many spots, but Wettstone's training program is expected to bring them around by Feb. 2 WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 9, 1957 The result was that the talk around hotel lobbies rather over shadowed the routine doings of the 51st NCAA convention, which still is in the committee stage, and the other allied groups. About a dozen major college football coaching positions are open at this stage and there probably• are a dozen peeple here who would like to get each job. A lot of assistant coaches probably will be hired or interviewed this week. too. As usual, the men who should know the answers are being very close mouthed about the whole matter while the ones who keep hearing reports will tell almost anybody. Roughly, here's the situation: Missouri Athletic Director Don Faurot, who has to pick his own successor now that he has retired from active coaching, says that interviews have been suspended until the coaches' meetings end. He has talked to some 14 candi dates so far but hasn't made any selection. Most prominent names re cently added to the list were Frank Broyles, Georgia Tech assistant, and Phil Bengston of the San Francisco 49ers, who came to Missouri with Faurot as line coach in 1935. Syracuse Cites Lion Gridders Syracuse University's Cotton Bowl football team named three Nittany Lions to its 1956 all-oppo nent team. Quarterback Milt Pluin, whose field goal and masterful punting kept the Lions in the game against the Orange; halfback Billy Kane, and center Dan Rad akovich, both of whom played outstanding ball, were the three chosen. Pittsburgh also placed three men—halfback Jim Theodore, end Joe Walton, and tackle Bob Pol lock. Rounding out the rest of the team are fullback Larry Krutko. of West Virginia; end Dick Ste phenson, of Army; tackle Mike Sandusky, of Maryland; and guards Jack Davis, also a Terp, and Jim Healy of Holy Cross. This is the second consecutive all-opopnent team that- the Nit tany Lions have dominated. West Virginia placed three Lions on its all-star squad, giving the Lions more recognition than suds teams as Pitt and Syrainse.
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