The daily collegian. (University Park, Pa.) 1940-current, February 05, 1960, Image 12

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Cagers Win 2; Play Tomorrow
Gettysburg Backcourt Combo
Challenging DuMars, Co lender
By SANDY PADWE
Victorious in five of their
last six outings, the Penn State
cagers get a belated chance to
increase their win streak
when they meet Gettysburg
at 8:30 tomorrow night in Rec
Ha 11.
The Lions, losers only to West
Vii ginia in their last six games,
topped Pitt, 75-64, and Carnegie
Tech, 77-73, during the semester
bleak to even their record at 6-6
and boost their winning streak to
three games.
Another mid-semester game
with Bucknell Feb. 2 was can
celled when University officials
decided there would not be
enough time to ready Rec Hall
for registration the next morn
ing. The game was re-scheduled
for Feb. 15.
Gettysburg. carrying a six
game win streak of their own in
to tomorrow night's game, ranks
as one of the most improved
teams in the East.
edominantiv a sophomore
squad, coach Bob Hulton's Bul
lets got off to a slow start this
year losing five of their first six.
Then against Muhlenburg the
Bullets broke the century mark
en route to a 104-67 win and the
tide turned. Since then they've
lost only to Navy, 64-61, and now
have a 9-6 record.
Gettysburg boasts the twelfth
best shooting team in the coun
try with a 44.5 percentage.
They also have the top-foul
shooter in the nation in little
Bobby Parker.
The Gettysburg sophomore, who
is averaging 16,7 points a game,
hag convected 40 of 43,
Parker, together with Ron War
ner, gives Gettysburg a back
court combination which is chal
lenging Penn State's Mark Du-
Mars and Wally Colender as the
best in the East.
Warner, another soph, is hit
ting at a 21.4 clip and gives the
Bullets added speed on the fast
break.
Bill Fitzkee who is averag
ing 11 rebounds a game is the
center, and Bill Hemsing and
George Burnett will be at for
ward.
C:3
With DuMars and Colender
playing their usual steady games
the Lions were able to get past
NIT Officials Contact McCoy,
Three Teams Accept Bids
Athletic Director Ernest B. McCoy confirmed reports
yesterday that Penn State had been contacted about playing
in the National Invitational Basketball tournament in New
York next month.
McCoy said he received a call from tournament officials
merely asking if Penn State
would be interested in the NIT
should they be invited.
He told tournament officials
that the Lions definitely were
interested, but he emphasized
that the call was just explora
toiy and didn't mean that Penn
State had been invited.
In order to receive a bid to ei
ther the NIT or the NCAA tour
naments, the Lions would have to
win almost all their remaining
games.
They have a 6-6 record to date,
but have been improving steadi
ly and have won five of then
last six. The only loss was to
mighty West Virginia, 75-73.
Coach John Egh's crew has
10 games left, four at home and
six away. They meet Gettys
burg at home tomorrow night
and round out the home sched
ule with Rutgers (Feb. 13),
Bucknell (Feb. 15) and Lehigh
(Feb. 25).
On the road, they must meet
Navy, Temple, Pitt, Syracuse,
Colgate, and Rutgers.
They lost to Temple 60-50 in the
first round of the Keystone Clas
sic in Harrisburg during Christ-
Inas vacation and lost to Colgate,
69-67 at Rec Hall, Dec. 19.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
—Collegian Photo by Marty Scherr
SWISH—Lion center, jumpin-Gene Harris (22), stuffs through
two points in Lion-Pitt battle won by Penn State, 75-64. The Lions
play Gettysburg in Rec Hall tomorrow.
* * * * * *
Pitt and Carnegie Tech for wins
five and six.
But it was the play of the "big
men"—Gene Harris, Paul Sweet
land and John Phillips which ac
tually carried the Lions through.
Against Pitt, Harris, a 6-3
sophomore, scored 19 and grab
bed 18 rebounds in a game
which threatened to break into
a bar-room brawl.
The Lions built up a 21-point
lead but typical Pt t t "foot
ball tactics" helped reduce the
lead to 11 at the end.
NEW YORK (iP) Dayton,
Villanova and Detroit will play
in the 12-team National Invita
tion Tournament in Madison
Square Garden starting March
10.
The selection of Dayton and
Villanova, the first two schools
named, was announced yesterday
by Ken Norton, chairman of the
selection committee.
In Detroit, John Mulroy, vice
president in charge of athletics,
said the Titans had accepted a
bid to the Garden tourney.
Norton said that more than a
dozen other colleges were under
consideration,
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DuMars had to leave the game
before the end of the first half
after suffering a head cut on a
driving layup attempt.
Little Mark, the 14th leading
scorer in the country, returned to
action in the second half and
wound up with 16 points.
Against Tech, DuMars had 17
and passed beautifully as
,the
Lions built up another 20 point
lead and saw it melt away to
four by the final whistle.
Colender was high man with
22 while Sweetland had 13. Phil
lips wound up as the leading re
bounder with 9.
Following tomorrow night's
game with Gettysburg, the Lions
travel to Navy for an all-im
portant encounter with high-fly
ing Middies Wednesday. They'll
be back home, Feb. 13 with Rut
gers and play Bucknell on the
15th.
Box Scores
(PENN STATE (75) I'ITT (64)
F 2 F Tp Fg• F Tp
I Du s 5 6-11 16 Fridley 3 2- 4 ts
Harris 8 3- 7 19 Sankey 1 0- 0 2
Coleoder 6 0- 1 12 Mauro 3 0- 0 6
Sweetl'ild 1 0- 2 2 Falenski 5 2. 412
uadood 3 2- 4 8 Mills 8 6-1.3 22
rhillina 4 0- 1 8 Smith 1 2- 3 4
Ramey 3 0- 0 6 Lettor 3 0. 1 6
Saul 1 1- 2 3 Ditka 1 2- 2 4
I Shea • 0 I. 2 1
Totals 31 13-30 75 Totals 25 14-27 64
Halt 40-24, Penn State leading
CARNEGIE T. (73) PENN STATE (77/
Fg F Tp Fg F Tp
S).alka 2 1- 4 5 DuMars 7 7- 1 17
Konier 4 3- 5 11 Harris 6 2- 3 12
Frazier 8 0- 016 Colender 9 4- 422
Flynn 6 2- 3 12 Sweetland 6 3- 4 13
Soffit 5 11-16 21 Trueblood 1 3- 6 5
,ieknig't 1 0- 0 2 Phillips 2 4- 6 8
Huff 1 0- 0 2 Ramey 0 0- 0 0
Williams 0 4- 6 4
Totals 26 21-32 73 C r otals 29 19-30 77
Halftime Score:
Penn State 43: Carnegie Tcch 31
Gymnasts Will Face
Navy in Key Meet
The Penn State gymnasts will take a big step toward
another Eastern Intercollegiate Gymnastics crown when they
meet Navy at 7 p.m. tomorrow in the first half of a gymnas
tics - basketball twin bill in Rec Hall.
The Midshipmen are a perennial Eastern power, having
won nearly as many titles as * * *
Penn State and Army, This year
the Middies have won three in a
row, beating Springfield, 48 1 / 2 -
47 1 / 2 , West Virginia, 74 1 / 2 -21 1 / 2 ,
and Pitt, 54-42.
Lion coach Gene Wettstone will
go with the same lineup that he
used in beating Temple and West
Jay Werner, Bernie Buhl and
Walt Crilley will tumble. Werner
,has taken a first and a third this
;season for the defending Eastern
and National champs.
Crilley and Buhl are both in
experienced but Wettstone said
they are rapidly improving and
could score some important
I points.
However, the Lion mentor said
this "does not counteract the fact
Ithat the mats are the weakest po
,sition on the squad." Werner,
Wettstone said, has not improved
since the 1958 Easterns when he
took fourth place.
Greg Weiss, Lee Cunningham
and Dave Palmer are slated to ap
pear on the side horse. In the
two meets this season, Weiss and
:Cunningham have each taken a
first spot.
Weiss is the Lion sophomore
sensation who placed first on
the horse in the Pan-American
games. Cunningham, in the two
years he has competed for the
Lions, has taken second and
third in the EIGL individual
tourney.
The horizontal bar appears to
,be the strongest event for the Nit-
6 Penn Staters
On Pro Rosters
The professional draft and sub
sequent signing of tackles Andy
Stynchula and Charles Janerette
brings to six the number of Pennj
State players currently active in
the National Football League.
Stynchula, a unanimous 1959
;All-East choice, signed with the
Washington Redskins. Janerette
was inked by the Los Angeles
;Rams.
Other ex-Nittany Lions playing
in the National League are quar
terback Milt Plum, Cleveland
Browns; halfback Lenny Moore,
Baltimore Colts; end Maurice
Schleicher, Chicago Cardinals;
and tackle Roosevelt Grier, New
York Giants.
Another former Penn State ace,
linebacker Chuck Drazenovich,
retired from the Redskins at the
close of the 1959 season.
Lucas Gets Award
All-American Richie Lucas,
who led Penn State to a 9-2 rec
ord last year, has received the
Maxwell Club Award as the out
standing collegiate football player
'in the nation.
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FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 5, 1960
Jay Werner
* * *
tanies. Weiss, Werner and Cun
ningham will work this piece of
apparatus. Cunningham ;s the
Eastern champ in this event.
Penn State has a strong trio
of rope climbers with Vince
Neuhauser. Bill Fosnocht and
Bill Mumau slated to climb the
20-foot rope. Neuhauser has
turned in the best time of the
three. Against Temple, he
climbed the hemp in 3.9. Coach
Wetistone brands Mumau as a
corner with a great deal of po
tential. -
Weiss, Cunningham and sopho
more Ken Morrow will work the
parallel bars. "Morrow could turn
out into a competant all-around
gymnast," Wettstone said.
Werner and sophomores Jerry
Schaefer and Larry Yohn will ap
pear on the flying rings. Schae
fer has been improving steadily
and against West Virginia he
turned in a fine performance
with a 240.
Navy has a combination of pro
ven stars and promising newcom
lers. The top star for the Middies
is Bernie Hulme. Hulme stacks
up as the beat rope climber in
the East, having just broken the
EIGL record with a 3.3 for the
20-foot distance.
Other outstanding performers
are Tom Carwin in all-around
competition, Jim Sparks, in tum
bling, Jack Perry, on the hori
zontal bar, and Ed Krueger, on the
p-bars.
The Lion freshmen also will be
n action against Navy tomorrow
but their meet is at Annapolis.
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