#>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
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