WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 17. 1960
Gymnasts Look for Revenge
In Up-corning NCAA Tourney
By LARRY ROTH
Penn State's gymnasts lest
the Eastern Gymnastic League
championship to Army last
Saturday.
But on March 18 and 19, the
game that deals everyone in—
the NCAA tournament rolls
around, and the Lions have their
sights set on raking in all the
chips.
And the defending champs will
have certain advantages over the
other participants.
The Lions will be performing
on their home grounds with
their own apparatus and will
have a partial crowd expected
to exceed 500 to cheer them on.
The champs have three aces in
Jay Werner, Lee Cunningham,
and Greg Weiss. Any team aspir
ing to beat the Lions is going to
need a full house of competent
gymnasts.
As for the depth-laden Cadets,
Lion Coach Gene Wettstone pre
diced, "We'll take Army in the
Nationals like Grant took Rich
mond."
The Lion mentor has good rea
sons for making this statement.
One reason seems to be the
differences in the apparatus at
Army and the ones to be used
here in the Nationals.
AU apparatus varies in either
size. spring or texture. An exam
ple is the flying rings.
The Penn State ringmen are ac
customed to practicing on stan
dard rings with a diameter of
NCAA Will Probe
Dirty Play Charges
AUSTIN, Tex. (ill The Na
tional Collegiate Athletic Assn.
will investigate charges of dirty
play in the 1960 Cotton Bowl, the
Austin American reported yes
terday.
The newspaper quoted H. J.
Dorricott, president of the NCAA,
as saying a poll of the group's
Executive Committee showed a
majority of its 18 members favor
an investigation.
Texas asked for a hearing by
the collegiate sports governing
body after some Syracuse players
and some national news media
charged Texas played dirty and
leveled racial slurs at Syracuse
Negro players.
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eight inches. At Army they had
then• choice of 7 1 / 2 or 10-inch dia
meter rings. Both felt foreign to
the visitors as did the shorter
length, which made the arc of
the swing different.
Rope•climber; tend to have
better times on the rope to
which they are accustomed than
on a foreign rope.
Since this holds true in every
event, the Lions should be at an
advantage, not only against Army,
but the rest of the field as well.
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Army's depth won't do them as
much good in the Nationals as
it does in dual meets, since only
10 men per team are allowed to
enter the Nationals.
The Nittanies three all-round
men, by competing in five or six
events apiece, enable seven other
Lions to compete in an attempt
to gain points.
But the Cadets have used
their resourcefulness in assign
ing a gymnast to only one event
and therefore won't have the
all-around strength the Lions
possess.
Last year, when Penn State won
the title in Berkely, Calif., with a
record breaking total of 152 points,
Werner and Cunningham amassed
58 points.
If the two had represented Penn
State alone, the Lions would have
placed third in the final team
standings.
With their expected improve
ment and the addition of Weiss,
Penn State could have a hand
that would take the pot.
Moore Gets Title Offer
NEW YORK (IP) Archie
Moore, stripped of his light heavy
weight title by the National Box
ing Assn., but still recognized in
New York, yesterday was offered
a June 10 title defense against
Von Clay of Philadelphia June 10
at Madison Square Garden.
Harry Markson, managing di
rector of the Garden's boxing de
partment, said Clay already has
accepted and Moore and his man
ager, Jack Kearns, have shown
definite interest.
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Soph Moor head Indicates
Additional Track. Strength
By JIM KARL
When Penn State sophomore
flash Steve Moorhead won'
the 1000-yard run against
Navy and Pitt at Annapolis
Saturday it was only the sec
ond time in his life that he
had run the event.
The only other time, including
practice, that Moorhead ran the
1000 was against the Army frosh
last year, when he breezed to a
win in 2:17.6.
Such performances from a
runner with no previous experi
ence in an event are indicative
of even better things to come.
The boy from Harborcrec,k, Pa.,
whom Coach Chick Werner
,calls
"one of the best sophomores' in
the East," came to the Nittany
Valley with superlative schoolboy
credentials,
While a senior at Harborcreel:
High School, he won the State
Championship in the mile and
finished second in the hilf-mile
to Mike Miller, who is now his
teammate on the Lion track squad.
Last year Moorhead wrote his
name into the Penn State record
books by running a 4:17.3 mile
against Cornell. This was the
fastest time ever recorded by a
Nittany freshman.
In the same meet he tied for
first in the half-mile with Mil-
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ler and against Army he won
both the mile and the 1000.
In freshmen cross-country he
was just as succesful, finishing
first in all three meets against
Cornell, Navy, and Gettysburg,
and capturing fifth in the fresh
man intercollegiate championship
at Van Cortland Park, New York.
If Penn State expects to retain
its IC4A, outdoor championship
this spring, it will be up to sopho.
mores to take up the slack left
by the graduation of thinclad
stars Ed Moran, Chick King, and
Fred Kerr.
Judging from the performance
of Moorhead, along with other
promising sophs like Miller, Fred
Larson, and Tony Wayne, the
Lions have a better than fighting
chance.
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