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Undefeated LSU Tigers Declared National Champs
By MURRAY ROSE winning season in 50 yeaa - i. ,back. Only a year ago they woundlOhio State, 571, eighth; Syracuse,i
Associated Press Sports Writer I up with a 5-5 record. • 1340, ninth and Texas Christian,,
The Bayou Bengals (10-01 the ,
Louisiana State's iootball , . - ' 1 LSU, champions of the South- 311, tenth.
fnation's only major unbeaten ouisiana State will receive the''
Tigers Tuesday held the na- — ;eastern Conference, thus gave the
untiedwon the final Asso-ISEC the national title for the sec- second Associated Press National'
tional college championship to'ei team,
ated Press am ' poll by a landslicle , ond straight year. Football Championship Trophy.
complement their first all - :vote to climax en amazing come - IThis is the first back-to-back Six of the elite 10, headed by
LSU, L
;conquest fur the SEC since the-', will get a chance to display
their prowess in the post-season
lAP started the polls back in 1941.1
-‘
!Auburn was awarded the cham
bowl games. LSU meets 12th
ranked Clemson in the Sug a r pionship for 1957. Auburn wound Bowl at New Orleans; lowa faces
up fourth this year. 16th- r a nk e d California in the
The nationwide panel.of sports Rose Bowl at Pasadena.
writers and sportscasters gave the Oklahoma and Syracuse clash
,Tigers 139 first-place votes out of in the Orange Bowl at Miami and
a total of 212 and 1904 points. TCU and the Air Force collide in
lowa's Big Ten kingpins fin- the Cotton Bowl at Dallas.
ished second with 17 first plat- In addition, the fifth major
ers and 1459 points with Army's bowl game, the Gator at Jack
unbea t e n , once-tied Cadets sonville, Fla., will match 11th
third with 13 first placers and ranked Mississippi (8-2) and
1429 points. Auburn, unbeaten 14th-ranked Florida (6-3-1).
again but tied once, was fourth Dec. 27. Florida gave LSU a ter
. with nine and 1396. rific tussle, bowing 10-7.
Oklahoma, 1200 points, was The Gator Bowl figures to be
fifth; the Air Force Academy, 800, the closest of the five big ones:
sixth; Wisconsin, 797, seventh; The early line has Mississippi a
Jacks Is Player of Week
On Strong Pitt Showing
The "comeback" performance of the year.earned senior
quarterback Al Jacks the Collegian's "Player of the Week"
honor in the finale against Pitt.
Four of the five Penn State sportsmen cast their vote for
the Lion signal caller who closed ,his football career with
probably his best performance.
In commenting on his double
choice, Collegian sports editor
Lou ?rato said: "I couldn't de
cide 'between Jacks or Steve
Garban so I chose both. Both
were the sparks for Penn State
and I felt they were mainly re
sponsible for the win. It's too
bad Jacks didn't start his
'comeback' sooner. He was
great against Holy Cross but
even greater against Pitt And
as for Steve, he's been a captain
in the true meaning a real
leader and spark plug all sea
son.
Collegian associate sports edi
toi Matt Mathews cast the fifth
vote in the POW selections for
half Lack Dick Hoak, She sopho
more who had won the award
twice this year.
"Although there were many
heroes in the big win," Mathews
said, "I feel the sophomore back
field trio played about the biggest
p in in the win and of the three
(Jimmy Kerr, Don Jonas and
lloakl, I'm voting for Hoak,"
But Jacks' quartet of boosters
had similar praise for the final
POW winner.
Ile showed the Lion boosters
hat was coming in the second
half of the contest by moving
the Lions from their own 24 to
the Pitt 2 as the clock ran out
in the first half.
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AL JACKS
Iretary Ridge Riley wrote in his
!Alumni Newsletter: "Al brought
the team upfield with the most
'economical use of the few avail
able seconds. Pass receivers and
runners stepped out of bounds on
every play to stop the clock." .
On the second TD drive, Jacks
passed on an all-important
fourth-and-four play and hit
Norm Neff on the Pitt 18 for
the first down. A few plays
later, he fooled the Pitt secon
dary by pitching out to Hoak
who threw the TD pass to Neff.
Jacks hit Neff in the end zone
for the third score and threw an
other important first down pass
to Pat• Botula on the final drive.
Overall, he completed 10 of 17
passes for 91 yards.
The complete list of Collegian
POW selections this year and
scores:
Nebraska (7-14)—Pat Botula
Penn (43-o)—Charlie Ruslavage
Army (0-26)—Steve Garban
Marquette (40-8) Bruce Gilmore
Boston U. (34-o)—Richie Lucas
Syracuse (6-14)—Dave Kasper
i an
Furman (36-0)--Maury Schlei
cher
West Virginia (14-14)—D ick
foak and Jim Kerr
Holy Cross (32-01—Hoak
Pitt (25-21)—Al Jacks
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Lion Cagers Opener Hampered
By Poor Field-Goal Shooting
Most basketball coaches will
tell you that nine out of ten
g amesd are won or lost on the
foul line—and statistics will
prove their point.
But Monday night at North
Carolina State the Nittany cagers
met up with that "tenth" time.
Both Penn State and North Caro
lina State connected on the same
number of fouls-14. Penn State
had 14 for 24 and the Wolfpack
14 for 25. But the Lions lost the
game, 70-54.
The Nittanies lost the game.
according to Coach John Egli.
because they connected on only
30 per cent of their field goal
attempts while North Carolina
State hit on 40 per cent.
"We had a lot of chances to
break the game wide open and
move out in front," said Egli,
"but we missed too many easy
shots."
Overall the Lions made only
20 shots in 66 attempts and North
Carolina State poured 28 buckets
through the hoop in 71 attempts.
So last night Egli put his charg
es through an hour-long shooting
drill to prepare them for Satur
day's tilt with the high-flying
West Virginia Mountaineers at
Morgantown.
The Mountaineers boast one
of the top fives in the nation
this year and opened their sea
son Monday night with a 76-67
win over the Purple Hurricanes
of Furman.
All-American forward J e r r y
West was the top gun for West
Virginia with 29 points and he
Ice Skating Rink Opens
The University ice skating rink
opened for the new season on
Thanksgiving Day.
The daily - schedule of 1 to 5
p.m. and .7 to 10 p.m. began Fri
day and will continue throughout
the season. State College young
sters may skate on Saturdays
from 9, to 11 a.m.
* * *
Ted Kubisia •
... tops Lion scorers
will be the "man to stop" Satur
day.
Egli hopes that the Lion defense
will be able to slow down the fast
breaking Mountaineers and force
them to play "Penn State's game."
The Nittanies also will need
strong performances from their
big men—Ted Kubista— Tom
Hancock and Bob Edwards since
the Mountaineers ar a taller
man for man.
Kubista and Hancock turned in
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1958
slim six point choice. That's the
smallest spread of the five.
lowa is favored by 18 points
over California; Oklahoma by 13
over Syracuse; LSU by 16 over
Clemson, and TCU by nine over
the Air Force.
The top 10 teams with first
place votes and won-lost records
in parentheses
points on a 10-9-8 etc. basis.
1. Louisiana Si. 139 10-0.0 1904
2. lowa 17 7-1-1 1459
3. Army 13 8-0-1 1429
4. Auburn 9 9-0-1 1398
5. Oklahoma 10 9-1-0 1200
6. Air Force 2 9.0-1 800
7. Wisconsin 13 7-1-1 797
8. Ohio State 3 6-1-2 571
9. Syracuse 1 8-1-0 340
10. Texas Christian 8-2-0 311
Second ten: Mississippi (2) 303,
Clemson (1) 246, Purdue 196,
Florida 134, South Carolina 101,
California '7B, Notre Dame (1), 61,
'Southern Methodist 52, Oklahoma
State 49, Rutgers (1), 46.
strong showings off the boards
Monday night collecting 27 re
bounds between them. Hancock
had 15 rebounds and Kubista 12.
Kubista also led the Lions in the
scoring department netting 15
points.
After Saturday night's encoun
ter with West Virginia the Lions
have a 10-day schedule break.
They return to action on Dec. 16
when they host Gettysburg Col
lege in the home opener.
BASKETBALL BANTER Char
ley Eckman, the former coach of
the Fort Wayne. Pistons (now the
Detroit Pistons), officiated the
game Monday night ... After the
game, while the Lions were wait
ing for the train for Washington.
Eckman kept them laughing with
some of his amusing experiences
in the N.8.A.. . . Last year the
Lions also dropped the opener to
North Carolina State, 80-62.
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