FRIDAY. MARCH 15, 1957
SPEIDEL (AS USUAL) PREDICTS NOTHING!
Wrestling Coach Charley Speidel, master at quotation'
juggling and sports double-talk, lived up to this reputation
yesterday when he issued a statement concerning this after
noon's Eastern Wrestling Tournament:
"Rash predictions bring about rash embarrassment."
"Listen," he said, "those lower weights are so confused
that it's impossible to say anything. What do you,want me
to do? Predict something and then fall flat on my face be
cause it didn't happen?"
But the cautious Speidel ventured out far enough to say
that "I'll stick with the cham
pions, especially in the 123 pound
class."
"The whole season has been
fouled up." he bellowed. "so
how can I say what will happen
during the tournament. Its (the
season) been going around in
circles all year. We lose to Le
high, Pitt beats Lehigh, and we
beat Pitt. That's how the entire
season for almost all the teams
has been. The only thing I can
say is to stick with champs
and top-seeded entri% in the
divisions."
Speidel, dean of coaches in the
53-year-old EIWA organization,
has been known throughout the
years to keep all strategy to him
self, discounting even his players,
and never to predict the outcome
of a meet. So whatever his plans
are for today's and tomorrow's
matches you can safely bet that
he's the only one that knows
tltem. -
"I guess my lineup will be the
same for the tournament as it
was during the year," he said,
"although I can't say definitely
because I might have to make
some changes."
Speidel agreed with almost
every sportswriter in the East
that Pittsburgh will be the team
to beat.
"Pitt is probably the strongest
because they have men in all
weights. Anyone of them can
get into the finals. But no use
going on because I'm not saying
anything anyone else couldn't
tell you."
Asked if he thought his team's
win over Pitt would mean any
thing, he answered: "I told you
before that we can't predict any
thing. Oh, we can boast about the
past, but when it comes to boast
ing about the future we just
don't do it. You can't under
estimate any teams in this tourna
ment because half of them usually
have sleepers that can make or
break a team. The Ivy league
boys could surprise. We don't
know how good they are because
we never wrestled them.
Speidel mentioned various Ivy
league wrestlers, but the names
ho apparently emphasized were
Columbia's Dave Clark, who has
swept through 10 matches un
beaten in the 123-pound class, and
Harvard's Bob Foster, who is un
beaten at 167 pounds.
Ed Amerantes, 123-pounder
from Springfield. is thought of
by Speidel as one of the "sleep
ers" of the tourney. Amerantes
has Won 10 straight matches
Scanning
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this year without a loss and
hails from the same school that
produced Joe Alissi, the only
wrestler to heal Pitt's Ed Peery.
But Speidel wasn't forgetting]
about his boys, who could domi
nate the first four weights. "I
think Nodland and Pepe will be
top-seeded," he said, "with Johns
ton and Adams either second
seeded or maybe top-seeded?'
Nodland and Johnston are defend
ing champs in -the 123 and 130-
' pound classes, Pepe and Adams
were runnersup in the 137 and
147 divisions in last year's EIVIA
tournament.
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escaped with a 74-73 edge over
the Nittanies.
The Panthers boast a 9-1 record
this year. including victories over
EIWA members Syracuse, Cor
nell. Army and Lehigh. Their on
ly defeat was to Penn State, 14-11,
and it ended a 27-meet winning
streak.
Despite the "favorite" tag
placed on the Pittsburghers, Penn
State, 6-2-I, Lehigh, 9-2-1, Navy,
5-2, Cornell, 9-2-1. and Syracuse,
5-5, are considered good enough
to upset the "dope bucket"
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from among the likes of Spring
field, 9-1, Brov:n, 7-2. and Frank
lin and Marshall, 8-2.
Other teams in the tournament
include Army, 3-5-1, Harvard, 6-4,
Columbia, 3-8, Princeton, 4-3-1.
Penn, 1-11, Rutgers, 5-3-1, Yale,
3-7, Colgate, 6-6, and Temple,
0-10.
Back to depend the titles they?
won last year at Lehigh Univer-i
sity are the Lions' Sid Nodland,
123, and Johnny Johnston, 130:1
Lehigh's Joe Gratto, 137; and:
Pitt's Dave Johnson, 157, who
will compete at 167 this year.
Pitt's Bill Hulings, 123, and Ed;
IPeery, 130, won championships in
1955 but they were unsuccessful!
in tourney aciton last year.
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i year who are back for another:
itry are Syracuse's George Crea-I
son, 123, and Bill White, 167: the
j
,Lion's John Pepe, 137, and Dave
Adams, 147; Pitt's Vic DeFelice,: at 130, and White at 177 for this
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Princeton's Bill Fortenbaugh, 147; Nodland, Peery, Adams, Schut
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