PAGE SIX Lehigh Weight-Switch Changes 137-147 Pound Class Outlook A relatively surprising move by Lehigh's Coach Gerry Leeman has thrown the 137- pound and 147-pound divisions fur the upcoming Easter3l Intercollegiate Wrestling Associa tion tournament into a mild uproar. Leeman, who has yet to see lie,t year's 147-pound champ Dick Santoro down to the 137-pound braeliet and move ,entor vetelan John Driscoll' in at 147 Santoro has been the regular Lehigh 147-pounder for the last three seasons and was ex pected to be top seeded at 147 for this year's tourney. Driscoll was the Engineer's heavyweight entry during the past dual sea son. although his natural weight is 157. Leeman feels that his maneu vers, along with the shift of Leon Ilarbold dow n to 130 from 137. will give the Engineers the inside Ii k toward , : the team title "Now." he haul. "we Ire lust as stunt; a' any other team." Lehigh',, other entiy in the mid dle weights is sophomore Greg Ruth at 157, who foil es to be ;timing the top contenders at this weight. In fact, the way Leeman tells it, Harbold, Santoro, Ruth and two other Engineers—Thad 167 and Ed Hamer at' 177—are all capable of winning, an individual title. Santoro, who was never beat- en in his 3-year dual meet ca• reer, seems a cinch to he the top seeded man at 137. Besides I winning last year's EIWA crown. Santoro also includes a third place finish in the NCAA tourney (last year) and a run ner-up spot in a nrevious East ern carnival (1957). Before Santoro's entry, the top seeded snot at 137 was expected to go to Svracuse's unbeaten junior. Les Austin. Austin ished fourth in last year's EIWA event. The other top contenders a 137 include Penn State's Guy Guc cione, runner-up in 1958, Pitt's Sherm Moyer, Rutger's Tom Gri fa and Franklin and Mar shall's Cordon Muse, Santoro has not met any of the above five men on the mats this season but Austin has beaten Moyer (on a fall) and Muse (9-6). The only other clash was be tween Moyer and Guccione with Mover grabbing a 3-2 decision. With Santoro gone at 147. the post position will go to either Penn State's Sam Minor or Pitt's once-beaten Bob Bubb. Minor edged Bubb during the regular season, 5-9. However, it must be noted that Bubb had tied Santoro, 4-4. who in turn had stopped Minor, 2-0, The other top contenders at 147 include Harvard's John Noble and Army's veteran John Hyde. Hyde lost a close 5-4 decision to Bubb during the regular cam paign Cornell's veteran "bridesmaid" Steve Friedman heads the pow et ful array of wrestlers entered in the 157-pound division. Fried man, unbeaten in dual meets this tear, finished second to Pitt's three time champion, Dave John son, at 157 last year after nlacing behind Johnson at 167 the pre vious year The rest of the division is filled with the likes of Lehigh's Prfh, Pitt's Alex Skirpan. P- 4 1ceton's unbeaten captain B'll Tvlacaleer and Brown's cap tein Lou Winner. Of these contenders. Ruth has i.tuen Skirpan, and tied Man leer. New York Gets Patterson Fight NEW kYORK (rP)—The guessing game over the site of the Floyd' Pa t t e rs o n-Ingemar Johanssoni heavyweight title fight ended} Tuesday when promoter Bill Ro-1 sensohn named New York as the' place. "The target date is June 23 for either the Yankee Stadium or the Polo Grounds," the 33-year-old New Yorker told a press confer ence. "My inclination right now is for home television. But theater tele vision is a possibility. New York will be blacked out in either ease. Second of fi Series a team of his win ... threat at 147 Kubista Gets ECAC Scholarship Award Although Ted Kubista missed the last half of the 1958-59 basketball season, the 6'5" Lion senior_has managed to walk off with more individual honors than any of his teammates Just this week Kubista won the first Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Award for excellence in scholarship. Hereafter, the award will be * * * presented annually to an outstand ing student-athlete at any ECAC member school. Kubista is a pre-medical stu dent who has a 3.48 All-Uni versity kvera9e. Following grad uation Kubista hopes to enter Jefferson Medical School in Philadelphia. Earlior this season the Nittany forward received the Most Valu able Player Award in the Rich mond Invitational Tournament. Kubista earned the Richmond award on some fine all-around work. His play was one of the biggest factors behind - Penn State's win in the'tournament. His rebounding in the cham pionship game was the big fac tor in the Lions' win over Rich mond in the title game. He kept up his steady play through the first ten games but then suffered an ankle injury during a practice session' in Jan-I uary. At first it was thought that I he just had a bad bruise but 1 x-rays later revealed a hair- I line fracture. The fracture was serious enough to sideline him i Cards Edge Bues for the rest of the season. , In 10th Inning, 5-4 At the time of his injury he, was averaging 10.4 points perf 1 ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. gm game and was second in reboun d- ,Chuck Esegian's triple and Lee ing. i Tate's single gave the St. Louis Kubista will be one of three t Cardinals their first spring vic- Lion seniors who will play in,tory in five exhibition games, a the Maurice Stokes benefit bas- , 5-4 decision over the Pittsburgh ketball game March 24 at the,Pirates in 10 innings yesterday. Pitt Field House. Pittsburgh 002 200 000 0-4 6 1 The others are Tom Hancock St. Louis 100 000 021 1-5 8 1 I and Bob Edwards. The game Daniels, Law (5), Jackson (9) will feature a squad composed .and Foiles; Blaylock, Broglio (4), of players 6-feet or und e r :Clark (9), Grissom (10) and against a team 6'5" or more. ;Green, H. Smith (8). W—Grissom. The three Lions will play for , L—Jackson. the "big men" who will be coaehd Home run—Pittsburgh, Goss, ed by Dudey Moore, head coach at LaSalle WPIAL CLASS A FINAL i Farrell 70. Charleroi 47 Wonderful Memories foi IFC Ball Color or black-white portrait with your lovely date Waring Hall Lobby Friday 8:00 -- 10:30 p.m. PSCPS - Free Photo Service THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA am crown, is planning to shift TWA to Repairs Car Radios Television Phonographs ~ Radios television service - center State College TV 232 S. Allen St. * * ... top 137 threat Ted Kubista . . . another award Education and Athletics Series McCoy, Difficult By LOU PRATO, Sports Editor Third of a Series On Education and Athletics The growth of intercollegiate athletics from its neighbor hood cowpasture days to the organized nationwide system of today has brought about many complications and problems. And with these complications, there has emerged a necessity for a code of rules and regulations to keep college athletic programs operating on an equal basis That is why the Na tional Collegiate Athletic Asso ciation, more familiarly known as the NCAA, came into being. Penn State's Athletic Director Ernest B. McCoy is one of the leaders in the current NCAA or ganization. And he is a firm be liever of its policies. . . "I think the NCAA is doing a good job, today, in controlling collegiate athletics," McCoy told The Daily Collegian recently. "There are many evils that exist in college sports, but the NCAA is on the right road to eliminating them." McCoy admits that the NCAA has been slow in its action, but the reason can easily be traced to the failure of cooperation with in the group. However, McCoy pointed out that in the last few years much progress has been made. President Eric A. Walker agrees who heartedly with McCoy. "The NCAA is doing a remark able job with their legislation," Walker said, "and an unhappy job. Remember, every time they crack down they are making ene ,mies. It's like that old saying, 'the ( policeman's lot is not a happy Perhaps the biggest hindrance in the path of the NCAA is the failure to provide documentary proof when there is a suspected violator. "The NCAA can do a lot if it can get documentary proof of a violation," McCoy said. It must be able to get a signature (of a witness) in black and white -be fore it can prosecute. You can sit down with a boy, an alumnus or anybody else and listen to him tell you about a violation. But the minute you ask him to put this in writing, he backs down." McCoy traces the investigation 'into athletics back to the depres sion years. "The first official investigation into athletics was in 1929 or '3O by the Carnegie Foundation. They sent representatives out to inves tigate but they didn't have any power. However, they did find out that people were enticed, al thoueh not as much as today. "The real problem of finan cial aid and pressures that have brought out criticisms—and rightly so —started just after World War II," McCoy said. "I think it was about 1946 or '47 ' when the NCAA passed what was known as the Sanity code. This was to control as far as possible, athletic grants-in-aid I and under-the-table deals. "It was the first time that pun ishment powers were given to, the NCAA. But the code was thrown out after one year be cause there was no enforcing or policing." The NCAA's next plan was to legislate what a boy could re ceive in his scholarship aid room and board, tuition, books, laundry money and a job. "The only controlling factor e - ORCHIDS i IFC WEEKEND I,' ,--- - -,"-7- - ; , •.,i , ;,,, 1 .. 2.00 vi i , and up Make it a real weekend with a PENN STATE Truly magnificent cymbedium CRESTED FAVOR ORCHIDS— cream, yellow cream, pink, gold for that favorite Also— gal roses, carnations, gardenias • Ii stock -- at prices i tailored to your . Stale College 1 measurement floral Shoppe L. G. Balfour Co. 127 W. Deaver Ave, AD 7-2342 in the Athletic . Store THURSDAY. MARCH 12, 1959 Walker Task of was that the boy could not be paid more on a job than any non-athlete student would be paid with the same job," McCoy said. "But now, they cooed create a job for another student at four or five dollars an hour and get away without actually breaking the rules. The tempetation was too great and there were still many under-the-table deals. "Then, two years ago, the NCAA came through with leg islation that made the policing and penalties greater. Now, they spell out in words the aid that an athlete can receive. He can get room and board, tuition, books, $l5 a month laundry money and a job, but he cannot receive as wages more than normal living expenses. Thus, everything depends on the lo cale and cost of living. "In other woids, it an athlete gets these provisions, he cannot work for a dime more under any consideration. Let's say he gets partial aid consisting of fees and books. He can now get an outside job, but he can't earn more money than a full scholarship would pay —that is, he can't earn more than the room and board established by the university. That makes it tough on some kids, for some times they cannot earn enough , to equal the NCAA's full allow ance." The recent crackdown on Pa cific Coast and Southern insti tutions prove that the NCAA legislation is•doing its job, Mc- Coy said. "The co n ferences themselves are helping, too," he said. "They're sending out representatives. Look at the case in Auburn. It was the (S ou t h eastern) conference that first took action against them. Then the NCAA went into action. This is a very good sign of overall cooperation." Kan. State Rated Cage Title Threat By The Associated Press The NCAA Basketball Tourna ment moves into its regional eliminations Friday with Kansas State established as the title fav orite and surprising Navy tabbed a dangerous threat. The Kansas Staters, who have lost only one of 25 games, were picked as the best team in the country in the final poll of sports writers and broadcasters by The Associated Press. Navy, with five defeats on its record but riding the impetus of late season surge, shot into the picture with an upset 76-63 triumph over North Carolina (COntinuert on page eight) Praise NCAA
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