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."
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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.
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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.
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