PAGE SIX Owls Top Lion Cagers, 64-45 Coast Home On Halftime Lead of 18 By VINCE CAROCCI Sports Editor Jumping to an 18-point lead at the end of the first half, Temple's racehorse cage club never faced serious danger in rolling to an easy 64-45 victory over Penn State last night at the Penn'Palestra in Philadel phia. The Lion-Owl contest cam" on the heels of a fiat-game Limner between West Virginia. the na tion's number one team.- and a surprising Valanova five. The Mounties maintained their un defeated (11-0) record on a bas ket by Lloyd Sharrar with two seconds left, 76-75. Paced by everybody's All . America Guy Rodgers. the Owls rebounded from a 4-0 deficit in the early minutes to take an 11.4 lead and therein lies the complexion of the ballgame. From there, the Owls rolled to an insurmountable 34-16 halftime advantage—the Lions were never in the ballgame Thereafter. Making the most of every op portunity given them by poor Lion ball handling in the first half, the Owls fast broke for score after score—and there were plenty of them. Bad passes, stolen balls. inter cepted passes. etc, gave Temple —more specifically, Rodgers— the fast break release. Once off to the races, Temple seldom missed_ Here's an idea how the scoring went: The Lions jumped off to a short-lived 4-0 lead only to have Temple retaliate with a succession of fast breaks for an 114 margin. Bob Edwards cut the margin by two with a pair of fouls but a three-point play ' by Rodgers bettered it by one. 14-6. With 14 minutes to go in the, half, Wally Colender hit from, the corner but Bill Kennedy's, basket and fouls by Mel Brodsky; and Tink Van Patton boosted the' Temple edge, 18-8. From there,: the Owls went on to score 16—i six by Kennedy and four by Rod-I gets—while limiting the Lions to', only eight. The second half was played onl an almost even level—but it was too late: the damage was already done. Temple, with the game safely in its nest, substituted fre quently and could do no worse titanl match the Lion point-total The Owls' first five was on the bench with four minutes still -to go. For Penn state. Edwards and Colender led the scoring par ade. Edwards won Lion scoring bonors for the fourth consecu tive time, this time with 12 points. The rapidly improving Colender was next with 10. Rodgers was the game's hign scorer with 19. followed by the sophomore Kennedy with 14. A look at Rodgers' shooting percen tage could accurately describe the lune of the game. He hit nine of Forfeits Mar 1M Cage Play Forfeits marred Tuesday night.; evening. basketball play at Recreation Hall : In other scheduled games, .as four teams failed to answer Stan's Men won over the Nimblz, the referee's opening whistle. Nittanys, 25-14; the Terrapins The All Stars defeated the Hub beat H.amilton-A. 33-20; the Ham- Boys and the Fierce Frosh beat ilton Hillbillies wort over Hamil the Bull Shifters by forfeit. Nei- ton-B. 29-19; and the Cardinals Cher learn could put the necessary defeated the Bullets, 29-19. five men on the floor in ths:! The leading scorer of the night Hounds-Travelers game. was Ron Derby, Hamilton Hill- The Hamilton Wildcats cap- billies, with 15 points. Runner-up lured their fourth win as they de- was Bill Corson. Cardinals, with , feated the Bruins. 31-21, and the'l3 counters. Shieks edged the Fortinsky Lions. 19-17, in the leading tilts of th Jong 3 Barber Shop HAIRCUTS By Turn or Appointment 221 E. Beam AD $4012 THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA * * Guy Rodgers . . . leads the fast break le!IMMI!!! , The convention approved a tel ievision report which called atten tion to the possible dangers 3f subscription TV but virtually gave the 1958 committee a fre. 13 from the field—indicative of hand in arranging a football pro- Temple's clear shooting advan-gram. It also added three football tage. 40 per cent to 28 per cent games to the approved list for for Penn State. the coming year. Bob Edwards . . . tops Lion scorers Kennedy shared the Owl spot light with his All-American coun terpart Fast and tricky with q good shot, the soph sensation teamed with Rodgers on the un stoppable Owl fast break. The Lions, now 3-3 on the season, leave for Lehigh today where they test the Engineers tomorrow night. Saturday night. they travel to Rutgers for their third game in four nights There's no rest for the weary__ not even with losses to West Virginia, North Carolina State and now Temple. The Box Score . . . PENN STATE FC F Ttl FG F Ttl ,Kulribta 0 2-3 2 Norman 2 1-: 5 ;Hancock 1 0-0 2 ttr o d o ky 2 2.2 6 Ed.,'/cis 3 4-9 121'an Pa en 4 1-2 9 Hain') 2 0-0 4 Kennedy 4 6-7 14 It. idr 3 9 Rodgers 9 1-2 19 Colender 4 2-2 10 Franklin 1 0-1 2 S. ertrd I 1-2 3 Flemins 0 11-0 0 Fre'dm'n 1 0-0 2 Goldeatig 1 0-0 2 Hauer 1 04 2 Gus 1 14 3 Bosick 0 04 0 Pespir 1 0-0 2 Albrana 0 04 0 Cr en 1 0-0 2 Litmon 0 0-0 0 Tom/P 16 13-15 45 Totals 24 12-24 64 HaMilne Sopre: Temple 34: Penn State It SALE NOW IN PROGRESS.I Values to 1 / 2 off sown and Country 128 E. COLLEGE AVE. Service Schools Unbeaten Engineers Get Temporary Oka Recruiting,y Loaded with Veterans - 1 If Penn State's wrestling team beats EIWA leader Lehigh Final Vote Slated , ,at Bethlehem Saturday night, the event will probably cause more jubilation on the Nittany campus than the firing of a For 1959 Meeting United States man-carrying missile. At least, to Penn State PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 8 oz. ) , sports fans. The National Collegiate Ath-, For in Lehigh, the Lions will be facing an unbeaten (3-0) ,letic A s s o ciation convention:and veteran-laden national pow ac —rated in some corner. ;voted at least temporary ac- . as the best in the East. ' ceptance today of a controver-, The Engineers are load e d. i sial proposal from its council They have six lettermen in to exempt the Army, Navy and their starting lineup, four of , Air Force Academies from some whom placed in last year's . recruiting restrictions. The final, EI W A tournament—including 'vote will come at the 1959 eon - the 1957 137-pound NCAA vention. , champ. Joe Gratto. Today's action wasn't taken, Gratto finished second to Penn • however, before several delegates State's John Pepe in last winter's: had voiced strong objections to ,EIWA festival hut later reversed 1 the waiver plan and Eastern cal- that loss by stopping the Lien ) leges indicated they may pass a stalwart in the. national finals. +stronger rule. Gratto won the 137-pound eastern The proposed rule says that title a as a sophomore two years colleges may not sponsor or fi- go ' , The Engineer captain is unbeat nonce pre-college or post-grad- ;en thus far in the 1958 season I uate education for prospective 'with a 3-0 record, compiled on 1 athletes but that the NCAA two decisions and a forfeit. 1 Council may exempt the liar- , But Gratto i sn ' t the onlyLa_ 1 vice academies if two thirds of : high star. There's also 130- i the Council members vote ap proved of the plans the institu Do - und Leon Harbold, third in the East last year; 47-pound lions propose. Dick Santoro, runner-up in the : Army and Navy have provided; 1957 EIWA's and Ed Hamer special tutoring and preparatory' the defending 157-pound east 'education for athletes and say ern champ now wrestling in the ,their sev e r e entrance require- 177-pound division. All are un ments make such special prepara• , beaten with 3-0 records. tion imperative. The proposeii Harbold has two decisions and waiver was the council's recogni :a forfeit to his credit; Santoro' tion of these unique problems. 'owns three overpowering deci : The waiver stirred up the on- 'sions: and Hamer has claimed two , ly real debate of the smooth, decisions and a fall. swift NCAA business session, i Santoro is averaging 10 points although there were a few other a match and limiting foes to 3 delaying actions. per bout. He clobbered Cornell's Jim Carter, 13-5; hammered Syra cuse's Bill Waples, 10-5; and, stopped F&M's Joe Yeats, 8-0. Hamer, who along with San toro has been the Engineer's most impressive grappler to date, recorded his fall over Syracuse's veteran Marty Lev anhar. The other two Lehigh veterans are 123-pound Bob Myers and heavyweight Pete Davidson. How- Lions' Joe Schmidt :ever, Myers has yet to see varsity Is Top Lineman 'action because of a tonsilectomy ( operation. He's expected to be In Pro Football ready for the- Penn State inva- Ision. Myers p - o sted a 64 dual By THE ASSOCIATED CRESS meet record last year, losing only Joe Schmidt, the demon line to Pitt's Bill Hullings. backer of the champion Detroit) Ed Slater, who has bee-A Lions, was voted the outstanding ; 'lineman of the National Football' League in the annual Associated Press poll, The quietly efficient defense-. man, an ex-Pitt star, is attributed' by his Lion teammates to have made 50 per cent of his team's' tackles this season. He received , 18 of 36 votes cast by pro foot-' ball writers to easily outdistance' the rest of the field. In all, 11 Mayers were nomin ated for the honor with Balti more's Gino Marchetti a distant second. The Colt's brilliant de fensive end received six votes.' Gene Brito, veteran Washington end, who also stars on defense, was third with four votes. TEMPLE The remaining eight votes were! divided among eight players--; tackles Lou Groza and Bob Gainl of Cleveland; Danis McCord oil Detroit; Roosevelt Brown of Newt, York; guard Duane Putnam - of! Los Angeles; center Jim Ringo of! Green Bay; end Billy Wilson of San Francisco and middle guard: Bill George of the Chicago Bears. Well, I'll Be! A credit card for a laundry? Certainly. And you get a 50 cent service bonus on each $5 card. It's easy . . . con venient . . . and you save. Ask for a credit card the next time you bring in your laundry and dry clecming. Launderette 210 West College Avenue THURSDAY, JANUARY Y. 1958 handling the 123-pound slot is 8-3, losing on two decisions and a fall to Syracuse's captain Ed Davidson, one of the biggest surprises for _the Engineers this •year, is 2-1 for the season. He was beaten for the first time last Saturday by F&M's Chuck Pitfxo mer, fourth in the easterns last winter. Two highly-regarded sopho mores fill out the rest of Coach Jerry Leebmares starling array. Bob Guise, 0-14. is at 137 and Clearfield's Russ Triponey."l-2. is at 167. Triponey's first victory came last week on a 4-2 win over Hor ace Taylor. Gunst didn't wrestle against F&M, giving way to John Driico (who won by a decision, incidentally), but he will prob ably get the nod against the Lions. W.Va. Edges Villanova On. Last-Second Goal PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 8 (11 3 ) —Lloyd Sharrar's drive-in field goal with two seconds to play climaxed a sensational rally by unbeaten West Virginia. the nation's No. I basketball team. giving the Mountaineers a 76-75 victory over Villanova University tonight in the first game of a doubleheader at the Palestra. AINiMiIiNIOMIa, Addressograph Service 1.0.-n be amazed when you learn how much time and money you save on ad dressing notices, statements, advertis ing, alumni lists, etc. Latest automatic Addressoaraph equipment. No mailing too large or too small. 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