WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 6. 1957
Nittcmy 'Fleet' Enters
Navy Cage Port Today
Penn State’s basketball fleet hopes to lower its anchor square in the center of the
Navy deck when the Lions test the Middies at 4:30 this afternoon at Annapolis, Md.
The cagers left for Annapolis at 2:30 p.m. yesterday following a light workout at
Recreation Hall. The contest marks their fourth consecutive ' ~ - the l :n-
igers
Frosh C
Open Season
Against -Navy
The Lion frost cagers open an
abbreviated 1357 schedule when
they meet Nark's undefeated
Plebe quintet at! 4:30 p.m. today
at Annapolis, Md.
Coach Don Swegan plans to
start Frank MagaVaki and Lou'
Meyers at forward, Paul Sweet- j
land at center and Wally Colen
der and Larry Freedman at guard.
Sweetland Is acting captain for
the game.
* The frosh mentor looks for a
tough contest against the power
ful Plebes considering Navy's ex
perience and Lion losses due to
academic deficiencies. The poten
tial starters, Don Early and Jack
Ray, were lost lor the semester
due to poor grades.
Jimmy Williams, graduate stu
dent assisting Swegan with the
frosh. had this to say after watch
ing the Middy juniors play last
Saturday: “We have a good
chance of beating them. Man for
man, we’re as good -as They are,
except they’ve .played eight
games."
. On the bench, Swegan has John
Moon, the number-one T>ig re
serve, Mel Ramey, -"Larry BiGia
cinto, Larry «id Bob Ar
ner.
Using previous .practice sessions
as a basis, the frosh coach said
that Sweetland was-probably his
top scoring threat. "H? drives-real
well for a big mao," he said. Col
ender, who has an- accurate jump
shot, and Freedman are the
team’s playmakers.
KDR Wins 25th Straight Cage Game
By 808 GULLO
In intramural basketball action
Monday night, Kappa Delta Rho,
shooting for its third-straight frat
ernity championship, maintained
its league A lead as -it kept an
undefeated record intact squeez
ing past Alpha Phi Alpha 14-12.
Eight other fraternity quintets
registered victories.
Paced by B i 1 l y Kane's eight
points, more than -half "the team
total, KDR overcame on -8-5 Al
pha Phi Alpha "lead *to -record its
fifth consecutive -win and Hath
straight in three -pears -in a -hard
-fought defensive ?battle. John
Coleman led -tire Hosers twith four
points.
Also in league ‘A.iße&aSigmn
Phi, holding a -ton do Jour -half
lime land. tuis«3 -back Theta
Della Chi. 32-39. Delia Sigma
Phi’s Bill Scatchard -was high
man wilh ten points -while team
mate Jim -Capone -scored five.
Jerry Olexa tiedftfae losers with
six.
In league ■ B contests. -Delta Up-’
sflon and Sigma :Fhi ’Epsilon were
victorious. BU ToTtawed-tip a half
time lead of 115-S and -handed Al
pha’ Epsilon Pi its fifth straight
loss, 25-17.
Dick Parry was high scorer
with nine tallies. Jon Plaut’s eight
points and Dick Schriger's seven
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secutive road trip on their sched-|
ule. ' !
The Lions, after completing the,
first half of their season with sur-;
prising consecutive wins over!
Temple and Pitt, will be looking!
for their first back-to-back vie- j
torv since the Panther game—
they split in their last four games, j
Coach John Egli plans lo start j
his usual five in his attempt to j
sink the Navy. Ron Rainey, the ;
team’s leading scorer, and soph- |
omore Bob Edwards will open
at forward, senior Bob Ramsay j
at center and Captain Bob :
Leisher and junior Steve Baidy
at guard. j
In reserve, Egli has Tom Han-’
cock, who is probably the tough-!
est rebounder on the club, Ted.
Kub i s ta, Greg SchwendemanJ
Paul Bauer and Jim Lysek.
Although the reserves par
ticularly Hancock, Kubista and,
Schwendeman are gaining;
steady experience in competition, l
Egli finds the bench lacking in
height. Only Hancock and Kubista,
better the six-foot mark. j
At present, the squad’s biggest
problem is physical condition, ac
cording to Egli. “We’re tired . . .
we need rest most of all,” he said.
Since the Pitt game, the team has
had only one hard practice ses
sion, and that was Monday night
when Egli scrimmaged it for ap
proximately one-half hour.
Egli does not believe that
ploying away games hurts the
team noticeably. Calling away
games a severe lest on a team’s
strength, be said be believed
the Lions play just as good on
the road as they do -at home.
The Lion coach -said foolish
fouling is the main deficiency in
the cagers game at present. “We’re !
fouling out front and under the!
basket when we don’t need to . ..
lit caused us trouble at Lehigh I
led the losers.
Sigma Phi Epsilon remained on
top of league B and ran its win
ning streak to five games by
handing Delta Theta Sigma its
fourth straight setback, 28-17.
Bob Fox of DTS paced the scorers
with ten points. He was followed
by SPE’s Jim Moore, who scored
nine.
In league E. three games
were played with Alpha Chi
Rho, Zeia Beta Tau, and Phi
Kappa Alpha emerging victor
ious.
Bela Sigma Rho moved dan
. porously dose a winless season
- bowing io Alpha Chi Rho, 39-34.
ACR’s BUI Cooper led the field -
with 15 points. Mowrey, also of
ACR, capitalized on seven free
throws to total nine points.
Harris Coleman's 12 points and
Joe Fenkel's 12 points were
high for Beta Sigma Rho.
Zeta Beta Tau registered its
first win of the season against
four defeats with a 22-21 win over]
■ Kappa Sigma.
Ernie Susanin was high scorer
■for Kappa Sig with ten points.
■ while ZBT scoring honors. went!
; to Harold Pezzner, who tallied 11.
. Pi Kappa Alpha downed Theta
“Xi, 20-14, in the only other league-
E contest. John Meyers and Bill;
McDade accounted for 13 of Pi-’
Bob Leisher
Cage Floor Leader
and almost at Army,” he said.
; Navy, featuring a fast-break-!
ing offense—its most effective!
scoring weapon—carries a 9-6,
record into today’s game. In their I
last game, the Middies edged a!
strong Duke quintet, 71-69, in;
overtime at Annapolis. j
Last year’s entire starting line
up of Captain Dave Smalley,!
Frank Petinos, George Bouvet,!
Andy Dulik and A 1 Swanson re-)
turns for another crack at the!
Lions. Penn State beat Navy, 70-
65, last season at Navy.
Egli plans to use his screen
and-cul possesion-type offense
and 3-2 sliding zone defense in
an effort lo bombard Navy's |
: fasl-bxeak. man-10-man game. j
After the middle tilt, the Lions;
“will get their well-deserved rest,
i Their next game is a Feb. 13 en
counter with Bucknell at Recrea-
L'tion Hall.
KA’s 20 points.
Sigma Chi made it five in a
row to stay at the top of league
F. Overcoming a two-point
halftime deficit. Sigma Chi took
a 32-23 decision from Phi Kap
pa Tau. Jim Keith and Dick
Boggs led Sigma Chi scoring
with ten end nine points re
spectively. Sam McKihben's
nine and Ron Caserella's seven
points paced Phi Kappa Tau.
Also in league F, Theta Chi
improved on a 22-9 halftime lead
to trample Omega Psi Phi, 42-25.
Ed Rhoads and Chuck Caldwell
each contributed 11 tallies to the
Theta Chi total. Jim Arnold
tapped Omega Psi Phi scoring
with eight.
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KDR REIGNS SUPREME
The publicizing of certain fraternity teams is a policy considered
definitely taboo and when violated it usually leads to an oversized
amount of “letters to the editor’’ by fans who feel partiality does not
belong on the pages of a college newspaper.
This column concerns the basketball team of Kappa Delta Rho.
A team I thought was so good (and records prove this) that it
definitely merited special mention.
KDR's team, composed mostly of vanity athletes, has in threa
years won 25 consecutive games, including two championships.
It wen ten straight in the 1954-55 and 1955-5 S seasons and has
won five straight this year.
Except for a loss in the final game of the 1953-54 season KDR
would have been over the thirty figure in undefeated games. That
season it won srx of seven. With three playoff games at the end of
each season KDR might have won 10 straight that year.
A unique point of the KDR team is the incredulous fact that
three of its players have never lost an intramural basketball game
since entering Penn State. Football players Billy Kane, Ray Alberigi,
and Dan Radakovich sparked the independent team of the Sinkers to
10 straight wins in- their freshman year, which incidentally was also
the third consecutive year that the Sinkers went undefeated. The
Sinker name was “retired” at the end of that season, -1953-54. and
hasn’t been used since.
Kane and Alberigi. along with varsity golfer Pat Rielly and
Stan Cheslock, continued their outstanding playing for KDR and
led it to its two championships. This year Radakovich joined the
team and bolstered a center spot weakened by the graduation of
George Simpson, 6-5 star of tha KDRs. Radakovich has since
dropped out of school, but an able replacement in Jack Arast.
football lelterman, has kept KDR on the winning road.
ALL HIGH SCHOOL STARS
The basketball prowess Of each of the KDR players dates back
to high school. Kane and Radakovich were both stars in the Pitts
burgh area, Kane with Munhall and Radakovich with Duquesna.
i Kane averaged 20 points a game, while Radakovich was an all-sec
; tion pick at the end of the season.
Alberigi was a varsity performer with Jessup High School in
the Scranton, area and was a top-flight eager for three years. Rielly
was on the Sharon team that advanced to the State finals before
being beaten by Yaeton and was one of its top playmakers.
Cheslock averaged 20 points a game and was All-Monroa
county for Barrett .High School in the Poc©no mountains, while
Arnsl was ana of the leagues top rebounders when he performed
for East Stroudsburg High.
As one can see KDR has an all-star lineup. A lineup that has
swept by most of its opponents by large scores. The closest tha
KDR’s have come to defeat was in the 1955 playoff contest with
Delta Chi, which they won 41-40 and last Monday when they
squeaked by Alpha Phi Alpha, 14-12. Except for these two games, and
possibly a few more, KDR has never been in serious trouble.
Kane has been one of the most prolific scorers in IM history be
sides being one of the all-time best ball handlers. Assistant IM direc
tor Clarence “Dutch” Sykes said: “Kane is one of the best player*
I have ever seen play IM basketball. He is an outstanding scorer and
a tremendous playmaker. His team is one of the greatest to ever
set foot on the Recreation Hall floor.”
KDR has three games remaining on its schedule. If it wins
all three and also the three playoff tilts an unprecedented third
championship will he assured.
Looking at it from this corner I can't really mo KDR loaing.
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