FRIDAY. DECEMBER 18. 1959
Grapplers Beat Michigan, 19-12
As Guccione. Pifer Score Fails
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PANCAKE—Guy Guccione, Lion 137-pounder slams Michigan’s Fr:
him in 245 of the fust period as Nittany grapplers score 19-12 v:
Carl Frankett starts to signal fall.
By JOHNNY BLACK
Assistant Sports Editor
Two first period falls by
senior Guy Guccione and soph
omore Ron Pifer provided the
Penn State matmen with their
margin of victofy as Coach
Charlie Spiedel’s grapplers de
feated a staunch Michigan
wrestling aggregation, 19-12,
before a packed Rec Hall au
dience of 5500 last night.
Guccione, veteran 137-pounder,
and Pifer, 167-pound sophomore
sensation, contributed five points
apiece to the Nittany Lions’ total'
while Jerry Seckler added three
more with a decision in the 157-
pound bout.
The Wolverines, one of iha
fop-rated Big Ten contenders
this year, captured two matches
by decisions and three bouts
ended in draws.
Guccione pancaked Michigan’s
Futz Kellerman in 2:45 of the
137-pound match and pinned him
without changing his hold. His
pinning combination was a bar
and chancery.
Pifer who has thrown every man
he has faced this year—and al
ways with the same hold—parried
with the Wolverines’ John Hol
lenbeck long enough to slip his
famous double grapevine on him
and that was it. Only two minutes
and 34 seconds elapsed before the
referee’s slap on the mat signaled
the fall.
Pifer's fall pushed the Lions'
team advantage to seven points
(15-8). a spread that they main
tained till the end as the,last
two bouts ended in draws.
Seckler scored a takedown and
a predicament point on Dick
Fronczak in the first period of the
157-pound battle and these three
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points proved to be the winning
margam as the Lion junior gained
a 7-4 decision.
Fronczak escaped twice and 1
scored a takedown, but Seckler
reversed and escaped m the third
period and added 1.04 time ad
vantage for the triumph.
Five Lions saw their perfect
records marred for the first time.
Ambrose Wilbanks, smooth
working Michigan sophomore,
edged Gordie Danks, 3-2, at 130.
Both gained reversals in the
third period but Wilbanks had
escaped in the middle stanza.
Jim Blaker, a confident 147-
pound Wolverine, nipped Penn
State’s captain Sam Minor, 2-1.
The win put Michigan into an
8-7 lead at that point.
It was the second time in the
evening the Maize and Blue had
taken charge. Wilbanks’s victory
at 130 had given them a momen
tary 5-2 lead before Guccione’s
fall put the Lions in front.
Tony Scordo’s jinx over oppos-
TCU Tackle Will Be
One of Bowl's Smallest
HOUSTON f/P) All-America
Don Floyd, a 220-pounder, will be
one of the smallest tackles on the
field Saturday when his Texas
Christian Horned Frogs meet
Clemson in the inaugural Blue
bonnet Bowl.
Of the 12 tackles on the first
three units for each team, Floyd
will be outweighed by nine.
Two teammates will outweigh
Lou Cordileone, 245-pound Clem
son tackle named to the third All-
America squad.
1M Bowling Results
In IM bowling last night Alpha
Sigma Phi defeated Phi Kappa
Tau, 4-0; Delta Chi edged Pi Kap
pa' Phi, 3-1; Alpha Gamma Rho
downed Theta Chi, 4-0; Zeta
Beta Tau beat Kappa Sigma, 4-0;
Sigma Alpha Mu defeated Alpha
Zeta, 3-1; and Phi Kappa Theta
and Delta Upsilon battled to a
2-2 tie.
Bill Walton of Alpha Sigma
Phi bowled a 219 singles and a
580 series to take honors for the
evening. Zeta Beta Tau took high
game laurels with a pinfall of
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—Collegian Photo by Wayne Benjamin
itz Kellerman to the mat and pms
ictory in first home meet. Referee
ing captains ran out last night,
but the 123-pound Nittany soph
gave a good account of himself
in tying Mike Hoyle, the Wolver
ines’ leader, 3-3.
Lion senior Hank Barone and
Karl Fink fought to a 1-1 stale
male in a defensive duel at 177.
The meet wound up the way it
started—with a draw.
Johnston Oberly, a 250-pound
Nittany behemouth, and 220-
pound Fred Olm hooked up in
what looked like a royal battle
of barroom bouncers in the hea
vyweight match. Neither could
score and the bout ended in a
0-0 deadlock.
Summaries:
I*23 —Seorda (PS) and Hoyles (M) drew,
3-3.
!l3o—Wilbanks (M) def. Danks (PS), 3-2.
1137—Guccione (PS) threw Kellerman <M),
I 2:45.
,147—Blaker <M) def. Minor (PS), 2-1.
,157 —Seckler (PS) def. Fronczak (M), 7-1.
167—Pifer (PS) threw Hollenbeck (M).
2:34.
177—Barone (PS) and Fink (M) drew, 1-1.
Hwt. Oberly (PS) and Olm (M) drew. l)-0.
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State Scared USC,
Mustangs in Bowls
(Continued from page six)
Walker and his SMU Mustangs
to a 13-13 tie.
The game produced a stirring
finish in which both teams saw
victory slip from its grasp as
players missed TD passes in the;
waning minutes of the contest.
The rampaging Lions had tallied
the amazing total of 319 points]
against their opponents’ 27 in mne|
games that fall, holding six of|
their foes scoreless. They swash
buckled their way past Washing
ton State, 27-6, Bucknell, 54-0,
Fordham, 75-0, (no wonder they
dropped football), Syracuse, 40-0,
West Virginia, 21-12, Colgale, 46-
0, Temple 7-0, Navv, 20-7, and
Pitt, 29-0.
But all this failed to impress the
Texans.
While the congenial Cotton
Bowl hosts treated the North
ern press delegations to south
ern fried chicken in the press
box, the incomparable Doak
Walker started the Mustang's
first-half stampede by tossing a
50-yard scoring aerial to Paul
Page in the early minutes of the
fray.
As Penn State Alumni Corres
pondent Ridge Riley described it. i
‘Their hospitality to all of us was 1
natural, it was friendly and sin
cere. But at the same time you
felt their supreme confidence that
SMU was going to to kick hell
out of us on the football field.
(You know, we thro’ that ole ball
aroun’ down heah ”
SMU scored agc:n and held a
13-0 lead befoie Elwod Petehel
aroused the Lions from their lair
with less than two minutes left
in the half.
The deft little tailback passed 12
yards to Bobby Hicks, who made
a circus catch. Petehel next ran
for 15, then hurled a 65-yard
strike to Larry Cooney in the end
I zone. Ed Czekaj, present business
jmanager of athletics at the Uni
versity, kicked the extra point
1 Coach Bob Higgins' fired-up
Lions completely dominated
play in the second half as their
old single-wing machine ground
out the yardage while the de
fense held SMU to a mere 15
yards rushing and 24 passing.
Again it was Petehel who played
the starring role in the Nittanies*
second touchdown drive. The fleet
145-pound scatback returned a
jMustang punt to the SMU 9-yard
|lme, and later on fourth down.
I passed to Wally Triplett in the
| corner ot the end zone.
Czekaj’s conversion attempt
was high and hard to judge, but
the ref said no, and when, on the
last plav of the game, Donnie
lloggard couldn’t get his mitts
on Petchel’s desperation pass af
ter the clock had run out the
Lions had to settle for a tie.
But the 1959 Lions will attempt
to add another more glamorous
page to Blue and White gridiron
history when they go after their
first bowl wm tomorrow in the
first Liberty Bowl
Lions Meet Air Force
During 1962 Grid Season
Athletic director Ernest B. Mc-
Coy announced that the Air
Force Falcons will visit here on
Sept. 29 of that year.
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