PAGE SIX Lions Surprise Tourney Fans Penn State's wrestling team certainly lived up to Its pre-tourney darkhorse rating at the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association Tournament at Cornell University over the weekend. Everyone from Coach Gerry Leeman of title-winning Lehigh to the Cornell ticket-tak- * * * cis agreed that the Lions' show ing--a ielatively close secora place finish—was by far the bit }'e't surprise of the 55th annu, cal nival "I thought Penn State wow be a threat all the time," au jubilant Leeman said after see ing Lehigh win its first EIW crown under his tutorship. "Bt I didn't think they would do th pond They were right in thei down to the finish. Charlie (Spe del) ceitainly brought the teal Wong quickly" Cornell Coach Jimmy Millen whose defending champion Big Red team placed third—far be. hind the Nittanies—in the fina standings, agreed with Leeman. "There's no question that Penn State was a real big surprise," the youthful Miller opinioned, "I knew they would be tough, but not that tough," 4. Although Penn State held the tour nament lead from the opening round until the finals, the ma jority of the press corps cover-I ing the circus never doubted the ; superiority of the Lehigh gang I And the reason was simple—the! Engineers had a more winning' potential, what with six men be -1 ing seeded including Dick San torn, Greg Ruth, Thad Turner ; end Ed Hamer at top-seeded posi tions. Santoro and Hamer camel through with eha in pion ships. while Ruth finished third and s Turner second. John Driscoll, who had been seeded third at' 147. also won a title and Leon Ilarbold, fourth-seeded at 130, wound up third. Leeman called this array "the best I've ever had at Lehigh" "At the beginning of the season, I didn't think I would have as good a team as I did." the ex-lowa State national champion said. "But once I got Harbold and Santoro down to a weight where I could use the full potential of Driscoll, I knew we were good." Lee m a n was semi-optimistic Athletes-- (Contintied on page six) end of his freshman year, 1.6 at the end of his sophomore year and 1.8 by the completion of his junior year. A 2.0 is necessary for graduation. How do the academic require ments for Penn State athletes compare with the requirements of other universities? "I think our eligibility require ments are much higher than most other schools although I don't know the figures," Walker said. "But the measure of this is in the number of athletes that get de grees—and most Penn State ath letes do (get degrees)," McCoy agrees with Walker on the high standards of Penn State's acadenuc requirements. "Wisconsin, for example, must admit every state high school graduate who applies for ad mission regardless of his aca demic ability." McCoy sai d. "Consequently, they have many Instances where athletes are taken in with very poor aca demic records and given full grants." "We have high academic stand ards," McCoy concluded "and they're getting higher." Repairs Car Radios Television Phonographs — Ridioi television service Ij i center- , t , , , . . 1 at -- State College TV 232 S. Allen St. By JOHN BLACK Cleveland. All 12 men ran under Don Davies, Chick King, Dick two minutes, and three of them Engelbrink and Ed Moran have!are only freshmen. To have 12 earned positions on the Penn i trackmen on the same team who State indoor two-mile relay team:can run a half-mile in less than which has set its sights on break-;two minutes is enough to strike ing the world's record at the rapture into the heart of any Cleveland Knights of Columbus'coach. !Games Friday. 1 The combined time of the And they proved that their pre- , fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh meditated attack on the world' place finishers—LaHoff. George mark is not mere rash specula- Jones, Bill Schwab and Steve tion, for the combined calculated' Moorhead—was seven seconds times that these top four fin- lower than any relay time run ishers ran in the qualifying time in any of the Lions' dual meets trials is 7 - 31.2-2 7 seconds under this year. the world's record! i The three team lineups, as These four turned in the best they competed Sunday, ran times individual clockings in time of 7:40.1, 7:45 3 and 7:46 9. Any trials Sunday afternoon on the ,of these times would have word Rec Hall boards. Twelve track- ;the relay event in all the dual' sters ran in the trials as Coach meets the Wernermen ran this, Chick Werner aligned his best past season. distance runners in three corn- ; One deterrent in the path of i Feting teams. 'the Nittany foursome is the com ' Track captain Ed Moran quali-'Parative smallness of the Cleve fied with the fastest time of .land track. The oval is only 1/12 '1 . 50 3 for his converted half-mile'of a mile in circumference. This leg. Engelbrink came in second means 24 circuits of the oval must on the time chart with a 1.52.6. be negotiated in the course of the !King registered his fastest time two-mile distance. This will re 'of the year, a 1:53.5, and Davies' dust edged Dave LaHoff for the ijka Badminton I fourth slot by one-tenth of a sec-i'm " Cal l fond in 1:54 8. I Entries are now open for in- A look at the statistics will re- tramural badminton and hand veal some astounding facts aboutHball doubles. All entries must be 'the competition among team'submitted by 4:30 p.m. tomorrow State's guy . _G .. 13uccione, wholmembers to make the trip to'in Recreation Hall. placed third at 7, was some-J— -what pleased with himself afterti GUY GUCCIONE . . . wins 'grudge' match about Lehigh's chances in the up coming NCAA tournament. "We should do rather well," he said, "but there are a lot of tough teams to compete with such as Oklahoma and the Oklahoma Ag 'gies. But I'm hopeful. I think the East, as a whole, will do a good job." ri:l Santoro and Cornell's two-time 123-pound champion Dave Auble won the individual awards at the tournament . . . Santoro. who never lost a collegiate dual meet in his career (29-0-4), captured the John A. Fletcher Award given annually to the senior who ac quires the in os t tournament points in his career . . . he won two championships and finished second in three years. Auble, a home-crown Ithaca boy, was voted the tourney's outstanding wrestler award by a close margin over Santoro Discroll, another Ithaca boy who migrated to Lehigh, fin- ished third. Saturday night's consolation win over Syracuse's Les Austin . . Guccione and Austin are high school buddies from Long Island N.Y., although they went to dif ferent schools—Guccione to Bay Shore and Austin to Amityville . . . and they had been waiting three years for a meeting . After winning 4-2 in overtime. Guccione remarked: "Well, at least that doesn't make the tourn- ament a complete loss." . . . he was beaten in the semi-finals by Santoro. ✓oily 3 Barber Shop Open Wed. Afternoon Closes Sat. at Noon 231 E. Beaver AD 0.8012 JACK WIMMER SAYS: Get the winter's grit and dirt out of your car's shac kles and running gear with a complete Sunoco A-Z lub rication. WIMMER'S SUNOCO 502 E College AD 8-6143 THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Davies, King, Engelbrink, Moran To Run in Cleveland Games —Prato Don Davies Chick King Dick Engelbrink Ed Moran STUDENT COUNCIL ELECTIONS Business Administration Home Economics . . Education . , . , . Engineering. and Arch . Liberal Arts . . . . Chemistry-Physics . . Mineral Industries . . Wed., March 18 & Thurs., March 19 Vote Now! WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18. 1959 quire running around eight more curves than the batonmen navi gated on the Madison Square Garden boards. State's competition in Cleve land will include Notre Dame, Pitt, Michigan, and Manhattan. Manhattan may attempt a come back after recently relinquish ing the IC4-A title to the Lions. The Jaspers also finished a weak third to Penn State and Georgetown in the highly publi cized "grudge match" at the New York Knights of Columbus Games March 7. Georgetown, who set the pace in the New York race and came in eight yards behind Lion anchor man Moran, may be invited to Cleveland. If so, they could pro vide the rush the Nittanies may need to force them to the wire in record time, Illinois Track Star Penn State track coach Charles (Chick) Werner was captain of the University of Illinois track team in 1926. Werner, a star hurd ler as an undergraduate, will be gin his 25th season as Penn State coach this Spring. Frosh Baseball Meeting All candidates for the freshman baseball team will meet at 5 p.m. today in 241 Rec Hall. Boucke and HUB cardroom Home Es Building HUB cardroom Engineering Library HUB cardroom Osmond M.I. Building
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