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Lion Trackmen Finish 3rd
In IC-4A Finals at Garden
Led by Ed Moran and Captain Rod Perry, the Lion trackmen spoiled the New
York sportswriters' form sheets by taking third place behind Villanova and Manhattan
with 12 11.18 points in the IC4-A track championships at Madison Square Garden last night.
In their pre-meet predictions the Manhattan scribes had given Penn State only four
points—a second place in the 60-yard high hurdles.
The varsity performance was
overshadowed, however, by the
Lion fledglings victory in the
medley relay in 7:32.8.
Tyrone's Dick Hambright led
off with a strong 1:58.4 half mile.
Jim O'Conner with a :52.4 quar
ter and Cornelius Sharpe with a
:24.6 220 dropped 40 yards behind
Fordham and Georgetown.
Glenside's Dick Engelbrink
took the baton and closed the
gap to win by 15 yards. Engel
brink ran his first half in 2:07
and the mile in 4:17.4. The meet
was only the second of his
track career.
Ed Moran, frosh record-holder:
in the 880 and mile, took second:
in the mile in 4:192, :09.8 slower)
Than Maryland's Atlantic Coast:
Conference Champ i o n, Burr i
Grimm.
Following Moran were Villa
nova's John Kopil, St. John's Pete
Close and Syracuse's Bob Os
borne. Cross-country Captain, Don
Woodrow, placed seventh in 4:26
for Penn State.
Perry. the Lions' defending
IC4-A cham'ion, placed second
in the 60-yard high hurdles in;
:07.3, :00.1 behind Manhattan's;
Lou Knight. Knight, in winning,l
equaled the meet record.
Perry got off to a bad start
and was 1 21 2. yards behind Knight
at the first hurdle. Dick Winstoni
captured third place for Penn;
State.
Perry finished in a nine way:
tie for fifth place in the high:
jump at 6' 1 1 / 2 ". Villanova's Olyrn-i
pian, Phil Reavis, and sophomore'
Bison Coeds
By LIL JUNAS
Bucknell coeds won three
out of five events to snag top
honors in the annual Women's
Re'ereation Association winter
sports day at White Hall yes
terday.
The Bisons took first places in
The bowhng, swimming and vol
leyball competition.
Lock Haven grabbed the bas
ketball championship and tied
Lycoming for the badminton dou
bles match title.
Penn State won the badminton
singles championship for the sec
ond straight year.
Bucknell rolled to first place
in the bowling event with a 1021
team total, 39 points ahead of Ly
coming. Lock Haven came in
third with 936 points, and Penn
State took the fourth slot with
903 points.
Lane Keller of Lycoming bowled
the highest individual score of
In. Olive Stone of Lock Haven
was second with 162 and Ginny
Vollmer of Bucknell was third
with 158.
Penn State was sixth in indi
vidual scoring with a 133 score
rolled by Sally Stansbury.
Bucknell Wins Swim Meet
Bucknell swept first place in
all but ore swimming event to
edge its closest competitor, Penn
State. 36-30.
Judy Baymiller was the indi
vidual star for the Bisons as she
notched first places in the 50 yd.
backstroke and 50 yd. breaststroke
and swam in the 75 yd. medlay
and 100 yd. freestyle relay, in
'which it also came out on top.
Betty Spencer of Penn State
outstroked Baymiller in the 50 yd.
freestyle to give the Nittany
Lions their only first place score.
The Penn State coeds took second
place in the other events. The
Lion's 100 yd. freestyle relay
team ramie in two-tenths of a
second behind BucknelL
Lock Haven notched all third
places and Juniata ended up in
the fourth slot.
Bucknell snagged the volleyball
competition with a 3-0 record. The
Bisons nipped Lock Haven, 12-10;
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
By GEORGE FRENCH
'Chick' Werner
Receives IC4-A 25-Year Award
Charlie Stead tied for first at 9:06.6, a new IC4-A record
Delany came from 80 yards be-
Senior Harry Fuehrer and hind Connecticut's Lew Stieglitz
junior Ogier Norris tied for in the last two _laps to win with
fourth in the pole vault with la blazing :57.5 quarter mile. Fred
Penn's John Gray and New ;Kerr placed sixth in the two-mile
Hampshire's Morris Carter at levent and senior Ron Lewis failed
13'4". The event . was won by Ito qualify in the 1000.
defending champion Don Bragg f MEET RESULTS
at 15'. t 35 lb. Weight: 1) Bixby, Dartmouth
-159' : 21 Bagadonas, Army-51"
Villanova's Olympic 1500-meters, Knorr, Prinnceton-56' 5!:.": 41 Hamel,
champion, Ron -Delaney, steppediurvard—se 10":5) Banton): Manhattan—
out of the mile run in a surprisel s2 6 . ol 1
14 ::C . Rurs: lr Jenkins. Villanora
move to win the 1000-yard run!ingiey. Cornell: 3) Merritt, Holy cross;
in 2:14 and the 2-mile run in , (Continued on page three)
6' P',!"
Top 'Sports Day' Field
.ugh gt.
team is shown returning a Lycorning College serve in the opening
event of the WRA Sports Day. Lycoming won 13 to 8.
defeated Dickinson 17-8; and
smashed Lycomin 27-8. Lock
Haven was second, beating Penn
State, 23-7,' and Juniata, 40-5.
Penn State received its second
loss at the, hands of Lycoming,
losing 13-8.
Lock Haven Cops Cage Title
Lock Haven notched the bas
ketball competition by sporting a
2-0 record. Juniata came in sec
ond - with two wins and one de
feat.
Lock Haven dumped Juniata
for its lone loss, 16-10, with Judy
Eckman scoring eight points.
The cage winners copped its
second victory of the afternoon
by defeating the Penn State co
eds, 24-11, with Eckman hammer
ing in 13 points.
Juniata beat Lycoming, 19-4,
behind the 12-point scoring of
'Jeannette Lowe.
Lowe led her team in its sec
ond win over the Bisons of Buck-
STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
* * *
Ed Moran
Second in mile
nell, 13-10, when she scored eight
tallies.
Penn State rebounded from a
defeat at the hands of Dickinson
last Saturday and nipped Dickin
son, 26-23. Barb Knight was the
big gun for the Lions when she
scored 15 points. - Boots Galusha
and Pat Ulrich starred on de
fense for Penn State-.
Dickinson was unable to hit the
winning column as Bticknell dou
bled it, 14-7, in the final cage tilt.
Sally Thomas won the only
event for Penn State when she
whitewashed Juniata, Dickinson
and Bucknell in easy victories.
Lycoming and Lock Haven
called it a draw •for the doubles
championship, when both teams
were unable to break a 20-minute
tie.
Lock Haven beat Dickinson and
Bucknell, and Lycoming defeated
Penn State and Juniata in their
climb to The first place slot.
Scanning
411k.5.
SPORTS
PITT'S AMAZING RISE IN SPORTS!
In the Marshall Goldberg era (the late 1930's and early '4o's) the
University of Pittsburgh dominated college football with the power
of a modern-day Oklahoma. Its other intercollegiate sports, although
not as strong as football, were still representative of a fine sports
program. But the war came and with it a total de-emphasis of the-
Pittsburgh sports program.
Pitt's athletic teams hit new lows in the next few years and not
until the 1 - firing of Capt. Tom Hamilton as head football coach did
the Panthers emerge from this doldrum. The ex-Navy coach began a
gigantic recruitment program to build up his hapless gridders. It
payed off in better records, better schedules, and of course more
money.
Hamilton was made athletic director in the early 1950's and
from that point on it was a complete emphasis on all sports. Rex
Peery was hired as wrestling coach and given complete leeway
to get the boys he needed to put Pitt on top in a sport which had
been discontinued in the early '3o's. Soccer, gymnastics, basket
ball, baseball. and other minor sports were being rejuvenated and
were to be either tops in their field or near the top in the next
few years.
Hamilton was and still is doing an outstanding job as director
at Pitt. He has the reputation of being well-versed in all phases of
sports and of being a man with much integrity.
Besides building up Pitt to a point where it's feared in almost
every sport he has also kept its scholastic reputation, on paper
anyway, progressing.
Looking at Pitc sports in retrospect one can see that in only
two years a hapless gym team has emerged as the third strongest
behind Penn State and Army, a wrestling team that' lost something
like 28 in a row-before the Peery era is now the third best in the
nation, a basketball team that ranks with the best in the East, and
an equally strong baseball team. Emphasis at Pitt is amazingly ap
parent to even the most apathetic sports fan.
EMPHASIS ONLY ON FOOTBALL
At Penn State, where the only emphasis at the moment seems
to be connected with the football team, coaches have had winning
seasons year in and year out. Lion fans are used to winners and in
the four years I've been here losing seasons could be counted on
one hand.
Discounting football, scholarships alloted to each athletic team
are gravely scarce. The attitude apparently being: "Why give
more scholarships if the team is winning." (Football is winning
but it is also the money sport. The sport that pays the expenses
of almost all other sports here at the University, thus the need
for perennial strong teams.)
If Penn State hopes to keep up with other schools that give full
scholarships in every sport then it's going to need a change of
policy soon. But the only way this is going to occur is if one year
the majority of intercollegiate teams here have losing seasons plus
the fact their future doesn't_look too bright.
I personally think that the reason our wrestling, gymnastic,
baseball, and soccer teams continually boast 'strong teams is be
cause of the coaches. The reputation of Gene - Wettstone, two-time
Olympic coach; Charley Speidel, president of the National Wrest
ling Coaches Association; Joe Bedenk, an All-America football
player well known throughout the East; and Ken Hosterman, who
has an amazing record plus the fact he worked under the master
Bill Jeffrey, has probably caused more boys to come to Penn State
'than any other reason. These coaches always enjoy banner seasons
but how long will reputation take the place of a full scholarship
in the minds of high school students?
With the competition for fop athletes among colleges as it is
today, not very long, I would say. If the Lions want to dominate the
wrestling, gymnastic, baseball, and soccer scenes for a few more
years then follow the old saying, 'When in Rome do as the Ro
mans." To be a power in intercollegiate sports you have to do as
your opponents—give more aid to athletes. -
Don't close the doors after the horses run away!
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