THURSDAY. DECEMBER IM Box Action-1 The power-punching of Sam Ryan and Gary Rickard combined with the adept boxing artistry of Chet Lucido were the main features of an action-packed IM boxing card last night in Rec Hall. Ryan, fighting as an independent in the 142-pound weight class, completely overwhelmed Jonathon Yolles as he swarmed right into Yolles and scored re peatedly with both hands. The bout was stopped in the second lound after a hard Ryan right. Gary Rickard bounced out of his corner and ran into a senes of stiff left jabs in the first round before he got under way and dazed his oppo- nent, Charles Houck, with a strong light hand thrown lett field. Houck scored in each round with his stinging left, but he couldn’t cope with the right- handed bombs tliown by Rick ard, who used his left sparing ly. The match was halted by the referee in the third round and Rickard was de clared thfr winner. Lucido, Phi Kappa Psi, com pletely out-classed Sigma Nu’s Jack Sundstrom. Lucido drew Sundstrom in, forcing him to toss the first punch and then countered with both hands in a frenzied at tack that sent Sundstrom reeling. The final slanzs was all Lu cido- as. little 1 Chet, fighting in the 142-pound weight class, pressed the attack and had Sundstrom hanging on the ropes at the final hell. The first match of the evening was a 158-pound affair featuring two boxers with the same straight-up boxing style. Bill Bar rick and Jim Dawson squared off, with Dawson coming out on the winning side of a split decision. Jim Anderson, an independent, defeated John Lang in a match of 167-pounders. Lang, a varsity football player, started strong and scored early with good punches to the head and body; but as the bout LSU Star Gets HeismanAward NEW YORK (JP) Billy Can non, Louisiana State’s two-time All-America halfback, was hon ored yesterday as the 1959 Heis nian Trophy winner and said he owed much of his football prowess to weight-lifting The 6-foot-2, 208-pound senior from Baton Rouge, La, received tlie trophy, emblematic of the na tion's top football performer, from Vice President Richard M. Nixon at a banquet at the sponsoring Downtown Athletic Club. “I started lifting weights in high school to become a better football player,” Cannon said. ‘‘l never stopped and I’ve found it has made me a stronger player ” His coach, Paul Dietzel, backed him up. “Alvin Roy, the Olympic weight lifting coach, has worked with Billy and calls him the strongest man in the world for his size,” Dietzel said, “and you can see it on a football field.” GET CUPPED QUICKER Lemmon's Drive-in Barber Shop 729 S. Atherton St. OPEN EVERY NIGHT 10. 1959 ing Features rilled Bouts By JOHN MORRIS progressed, Anderson came on' strong to win a split decision. j In another split-decision bout, : Bill Brown of Tau Phi Delta : defeated Steve Klein, Beta Sig- j ma Hho. Klein waded into Brown football-style and man- ; aged to shove him around the ring through most of the first ; round before Brown regained ' his balance and used his super- ; ior reach to counter punch to the win. In the unlimited division, Phil Kreitner, Tau Kappa Epsilon, de cisioned Wayne Morison of Sig ma Nu. Moiison started fast by solving 1 the unorthodox crouch used by, Kreitner. He rocked him back on his heels with a pair of uppercuts and then neatly side-stepped a lunge as Kreitner fell through the ropes out onto the ring apron. Morrison ran out of steam in the final two rounds and Kreitner won by a unanimous decision. Frank Pittman, Beta Theta Pi, decisioned Watson Brown of Omega Psi Phi; and Dave Barnett, Phi Epsilon Pi, defeat ed Robert Burlbaugh of Theta Chi in the other two matches of the evening. Tom Durst, Phi Kappa Psi, won by forfeit over Joe DeMimeo of (Continued on page twelve) (Rf. 322 south) except Saturday THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA Eagles Sign Cummings {Hockey Players Wanted PHILADELPHIA (R) The! 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