PAGE SIX 3 Lions in NCAA Semifinals Johnston, Pepe, Adams Hold Key By LOU PRATO PITTSBURGH, March 29 Johnny Johnston, John Pepe and Dave Adams hold the key to Penn State's chances of winning the 1957 NCAA mat crown as the tournament en ters the semifinal round here at the Pitt Fieldhouse tomorrow ,afternoon. Coach Charlie Speidel's original eight-man entry was cut down to the Johnston-Pepe-Adams trio, but not before Penn State had shot into a third place tie in the, team standings with Oklahoma A&M with 13 points apiece. Oklahoma leads the 64-team • field at the halfway mark with 23points and has four men • - - going into the semifinals. Pitt 130-POUND EASTERN titlist, Johnny Johnston is awarded a trails the Sooners with 16 , point for an escape against Dick Chellevold. Wartburg, in the points. but will send five men Lion's first encounter. Johnston won the match, 5-0. into tomorrow afternoon's ac- ' lion, including the 167-pound sophomore, Tom Alberts, who reversals, an escape and riding had been ineligible for the ma- !time to stop lowa State's Dean jar part of the school year. !Homer, second in the Big Seven! Oklahoma A&M will also have!this year, 8-5. three men in tomorrow's matches) Pepe gained revenge for his Michigan, lowa, and lowa State only loss suffered in the regular ; are tied for fifth place with 11 season when he shutout Mary-; points apiece. Michigan and lowa!land's Atlantic Coast Conference' State have two men left in the champion, Rod Norris, 4-0. It was, tourney, while lowa has three re;Pepe's third bout of the day' training. against a conference titlist. Earlier, Sid Nodland and Les Walters he had beaten the Mid-American were beaten in the quarterfinals,winner and the Big Seven champ. , while Earl Poust and Sam Markle Adams moved into the semi were stopped in the second round.] final bracket when he took his George Gray lost a first-round! second default win of the day decision. against Oklahoma A&M's Clad All three Lim semifinalists Wright. Adams was ahead. 7-2. will have to be at their best to. when Wright dislocated his morrow afternoon if they ex- shoulder. pect to be around when the ! Walters lost a heartbreaker to' finals start at 8 tomorrow night. Oregon State's undefeated John' Johnston meets Oregon's Lee .Dustin 2-1 on the basis of a 1:14! Allen. the 1956 Olympic entry . t • " me advantage. Dustin, who has and AAU Champ; Pepe runs in- ' von 18 matches in a row, got most' to another conference champion .of his time in the second period.l in the presence of Big Ten titan, • Ralph Ricks: Adams faces lowa I Five of the Nittany entries es-1 State's Big Seven champ. Ron caped r unscathed in the secondi Gray. !round of the tourney, which did! A lack of nine seconds riding , not end until 10 p.m. Only Foust, time cost Nodland his chance for and Markle failed to advance a: the 123-pound title when Okla-!notch. homa's Harmon Leslie, last year's! Nodland gained his berth in NCAA runnerup, edged the Lion! the quarter finals with a nar grappler, 8-7. Nine more seconds, row 4-3 win over lowa State's would have given Nodland enough Dave Harty. The Lion co-cap time advantage to send the match! lain scored a takedown in the into overtime. ! first and a reverse in the sec- Johnston used a takedown, two' ond, while Harty could only No You Don't —Daily Collegian Photo by Ron Walker CO-CAPTAIN Dave Adams counters an attempted escape by Bernard Wood. CCNY, in a first round match. Adams won the THE DAILY COLLEG,AN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA manage three escapes—one in each period. Wartburg's Dick Chellevold gave Johnston little strain as the Lion 130-pounder rolled to an easy 5-0 win. Johnston completely out classed Chellevold with a take down, a reverse and riding time included among his five markers. Pepe tried vainly for a fall against another conference cham pion—this time it -was Colorado's Lyle Neville, the Big Seven titlist —but he could only come through with a 9-3 conquest. Pepe, who made Neville look lilte a begin ner, had two takedowns, a near fall, a reverse and riding time in his favor. Adams picked up a win via de fault over Colorado's Will Derby— the Rocky Mountain and AAU champion when Derby aggra vated a knee injury that has plagued - him all year. The victory came with 13 seconds remaining in the second period with Adams ahead by a 4-1 count. Poust put everything he had in to his second-round match with Michigan's Mike Rodriguez, and at times showed signs of pulling a major upset. But Rodriguez, the Big Ten win- Hodge Focal Point at MA Tourney By MIKE MOYLE Daily Collegian Editor PITTSBURGH, Pa., March 29—As expected. Oklahoma's Dan Hodge was the center of 'attention at yesterday's open ing action in the Pitt Field house. In his first match, Hodge drew a majority of the sports crowd down from the stands to gather around matside to see him pin Rutger's Rich Gar retson in 5:50. Garretson scored one point on the Oklahoma power house —it was only the second point scored on Hodge in his collegiate career. In his evening match, Hodge ,met Pitt's Alex Skirpan, who hasn't seen much action this sea son. Skirpan was overheard tell ing teammates before the match, "I'm going to be on the offensive I all the time. I'm going to show him I'm not afraid of him." Hodge disposed of Skirpan in exactly 50 seconds. * During Les Walters' win over :Earl Luctoniski. Michigan, Ref eree Leland Merrill, kidding ;Coach Charlie.Speidel about the / 1 q' l '.("; c - :: ttl M 1 11 All 11 • • k -- . /) I LOVE . , 1 2 i y : ?: ,:: the at food --- THE ' PENN STATE DINER LION COACH Charlie Speidel peers anxiously toward the mats to watch John Pepe's narrow 1-0 overtime victory over Tom Nev its, Ohio University, in the preliminary round yesterday afternoon. ner who was second in the Na tionals as a sophomore two years ago, floored the game Poust with a half-nelson and crotch at the 6:30 mark. The Michigan ace led 11-4 at the time. One minute and 11 seconds riding time brought Walters his victory over Michigan's Carl Leutomski, 3-2. Walters reached Leutomski for a takedown mid way through the first period and rode hint out for the rest of the frame. Leutomski scored a near fall in the second period. but Walters offset this with three minutes of riding time in the final quarter. lowa's Gary Kurdelmeir scored a comparatively easy 7-0 win over Markle. Kurdelmeir's points came on a takedown, reverse, near fall and riding time. Because of the heavy entries in, the 137, 147, 157 and 167-pound classes, Pepe, Poust and Gray were among the 121 wrestlers that saw first round action., Gray was the only Lion to lose. An escape with 15 seconds ,re maining in the second period of a double session overtime gave Pepe a narrow 1-0 win over Ohio Uni large number of well-wishers which had crowded onto the mat side, commented: "You brought everybody but the athletic direc tor down here." In the strain of championship competition, coaches have been apt to do a great deal of grousing to the referees. The Kansas Uni versity coach, after his 123-pound grappler, James Miller, lost a close decision on a last-minute takedown, screamed indignantly at referee Godron Dupre of Okla homa City. Dupre calmly walked over to the angry coach and countered in a broad drawl: "He was 'on his fanny, wasn't he?" Sports Illustrated's Don Parker, who wrote a feature article on Hodge this week, was on hand. to see his subject in action. Parker Smart looking and distinctive styles For arrangements with creative surprise— Be Wise WOODRING'S FLORAL GARDENS SATURDAY. MARCH 30. 1957 versity's Tom Nevits, the Mid- American Conference champion. The regular bout ended in a 1-I. deadlock. Pepe rode out the Ohio battler in the first . overtime period and then made his escape in the wan ing moments of the finale. Adams had a much easier time disposing of Bernie Wood, CCNY. 7-2. Wood. who was un defeated in dual competition this season with an 8-0 mark, was held scoreless by Adams until the last few seconds of the last period when he pulled off a reverse. Adams scored * his points on a first period takedown, a second period reverse and near fall and time advantage. Poust eliminated Baldwin-Wal lace's only entry, George Assador ian, 3-1. Poust had a reverse in the second frame and time advan tage, while his opponent's only score was a third period escape. Gray was soundly beaten by Tim Fergueson, Michigan State, 4-0. The first period was scoreless, but Fergueson had an escape and a takedown and rode out the rest of the match. had the misfortune to wrestle briefly (how else with "Homi cide"?) during his interview, so he probably knew just how Skir pan felt for those agonizing 50 seconds. The Indiana U. team . is made up nearly completely of former Pennsylvania schoolboy wrestlers. Only one "Hoosier" - wrestler re ceived his high school training outside the Keystone state . . . Famous Pittsburgh personalities encountered yesterday were for mer Pirate baseball star, Frank Gustine, and Olympic track star Arnie Sowell, who stopped long enough to ask Pitt coach Rex Peery how his boys were faring . . . Oklahoma's Dick Delgado racked up the most lopsided score of the opening day when he mauled Dave Moore of Illinois, 21-5. it's time to order Corsages for the IFC Ball from $1.50 up
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