#>AGE SIX Lions Face 'Must Win' At Syracuse Tonight SYRACUSE, NY.- Faced with what may very well be insurmountable odds, Penn State lays its hopes of a winning season clearly on the line here tonight when it tests the! Syracuse basketecrs in the first of a two-game weekend card. The Lions journey tomorrow night to Hamilton, N.Y. for a return engagement with the Colgate Red Raiders. - Penn Stale carries a 7-8 record into tonight's contest almost certainly put the eager: ★ ★ ★ in the red when the season ends. A win, although not guarantee ing a winning record, will still keep the chance open—and the Lions know it. Coach John Egli's team finds itself in this -unenviable situ ation because of a lethargic performance Wednesday night in a 63-56 loss to Bucknell. In that came, the Lions looked nothine at all like the team which gave West Virginia—the number two team in the nation—a run for its money Saturday night at Recreation Hall The Bisons outplayed the Lions most of the way and, with the ex ception Of one or two brief Penn State spurts, were never in any serious danger of being over taken. The contest had Lions fans wondering how a team could look so entirely different from one game to the next Egli, himself, is wondering a bit. However, he said he did expect a letdown for the Buck cfu,df't * x - I captains Steve Baidv and Ron pert those tad. to play another Ram 801 . Edtt . arfs ' Xom Han . game like that (Wes Vtrgmia) oock Wal!v Colender to start. t; .• This is the same starting team «d they were/’ Y E « U has used ■» P«t tw ° Now. the situation looks bleak. Ll “ n ga [ n ? s ' Evervone knows that the Lions tonight s contest is a return en will have to be at their best to « ageme ? l | or , b ° th clubs - P enn win these four remaining games—;State edged the Orange, 60-60, in or even the three necessary for a * eb 12 encounter at Recreation that winning season. Hah- That, incidentally, was the To make the situation worse, Lion victory. Penn Stale has not beaten both i Syracuse Coach Marc Guley Syracuse and Colgate on their is expected to counter with his home courts in the same year regular starting lineup of Larry ; lor the past six seasons. Last Loudis. Hal Noyes. Jon Cince year. the Lions nipped Colgate - box. Ed Goldberg and Bruce but in turn were nipped by Schmelzer. Syracuse. _ Syracuse, That’s what faces Egli and has had only one game since the company this weekend. In hopesj first Lion meeting, a winning of getting tluyNittanies off on the.effort over Colgate last Saturday light foot. Egli will call on co- here at Syracuse. Tennyson Bowls 628 Series Dean Tennyson. Sigma Chi, Kappa, 3-1. to retain its slight cave a fine exhibition of bowling first place edge over the dead- Wednesday night m leading Sig- locked second place teams. Delta ma Chi to a 3-1 victory over Al- Chi and Tau Kappa Epsilon. Eha Sigma Phi in Fraternity, Delta Chi blanked Delta Thetai cague B action. iSigma to register the only shut-) Tennyson bowled a fine 3 game out for the evening while TKEi series of G2B. the highest series defeated Phi Kappa Psi. 3-1. toi scored in the second half of the produce the second place tis. ] season, to «_•: course record the Delta Tau Delta and Theta Chi ■ high series for the night. That.beat Alpha Gamma Rho and Al- j scries also included the high sin*,pha Epsilon Pi respectively by j gle game for the night of 258. 3-1 scores to complete the circuiti Phi Epsilon Pi downed Phi:play. | THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA By VINCE CAROCCI Sport* Editor John Egli ..he's got problems 6-8, on the season, door and outdoor mile titles in j n the two-mile relay race at 1947 and 1948 and the N.C.A.A. the Millrose games two weeks .mile championship in 1948. | a go, he turned in his best per- I Moran appears to be the top’formance to date, running the |l_„ l/_J p r_i r iNittany prospect tor the IC4-A!final 880 leg in 1:51.6 —just .6 ilISu iXOfIrUUS OGTS 'meet at Madison Square Gardeniof a second off the unofficial r • . .. | -on March 1. Varsity track coach world’s record for 880 with a Swimming Marks ';Chick Werner 'standing start. _ pmnjw p.L ijn in. t—_ ’has ind i c a ted -- '-3 j next appearance for ; MELBOURNE FehWO ; that he wiu use , Lions w m be ifTsaturday’s :?pite a heavy cold, lisa Konrads,;the Kane speed- ia i meet with Ohio State at 113, clipped 1.5 seconds off her-ster in either the lumbus. world records for 880 yards and . . . at the New. York 800 meters tonight in winning' meet _ the Australian women’s free-stylej Moran has been swimming championship. only ! The slender, Latvian-born blond i obCb so * ar t ‘, lls won by 60 yards in the 880-yard V o^d STsec race half-mile with a time of 10 o nd place behind minutes, 16.2 seconds. En route, ‘t ea m mate Bill •the youngster also bettered her' Schwab > n the 1000-yard run ;800-meter 875 yards record m * ga j n t st Army - A!so ,^ the 1 i 3 Cadets Moran won the mile in .10:09.6. '4:20.4 and anchored the two-mile ■ That made a total of 12 World ;relay with a fast 1:53 half-mile.. record performances during the : Against Navy-, Moran won the championships in the 55-yard'; 1000, the mile and anchored the Olympic Pool. winning- two-mile relay team. and a loss to the Orange will 1 \ convair pomona in Southern Cali fornia is the first fully-integrated mis sile plant in the U.S. Here the Navy’s tebhieh supersonic missile is designed and built You, as a graduate engineer, can build an outstanding career in elec tronics and missiles systems at convair pomona. You will work with the most modem electronic equipment known. You will work with the kind of friendly, informed engineer-scientist groups that are pacing the advance into outer space. And you will live where the climate and opportunities for spacious country living are unsurpassed in America. ADVANCED DEGREES can be earned while a full-time employee of coMAiit pomona. 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