TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1960
Pitt Shatters Matmen's Str ak
Stun Lions
With 14-14
Stalemate
By JOHNNY BLACK
It was a long fall and the
abrupt stop wasn't pleasant.
But the stately Nittany Lion
wrestling team, touted as the
class of the East, was knocked
from its lofty pinnacle by a
determined Pitt squad Satur
day night at Rec Hall.
The final score was 14-14.
But any question as to who
won and who lost was answered
by a glance into the respective
locker rooms after the last des
peration roar from the partisan
overflow crowd of 6,000 had
echoed and died.
Snapping towels. smiling faces
and wisecracks prevailed in the
visitors' locker room, while a
pall of deathly silence hung
over bowed heads in the Lions'
quarters.
The tradition-steeped battle
produced some of the most action
packed lightweight matches seen
on the Rec Hall mats in recent
years. But its ending was marred
by a head-butting, face-slapping
fiasco that dulled the meeting be
tween the two top teams in the
East.
Two last minute reversals and
two stalling points shaped the
destiny of the meet, as the com
placent Lions saw a perfect sea
son and an 8-meet victory string
shattered by the once-beaten
Panthers.
The Lions (8-0-1) must now
share the Eastern throne with
the Panthers (8-1), who are also
unbeaten in eastern competi
tion. Pitt's only loss was to
Michigan in an intersectional
fray.
A last period reversal plus time
advantage pulled Pitt 123-pound
er Dick Martin from an 8-7 de
ficit to a 10-8 win and three points
for the Pitt team score.
The Panthers pulled another
three points out of the fire when
147-pound John Zolikoff switched
Lion captain Sam Minor just 16
Brown Wins Duel
WithNationat Champ
By JIM KARL
Although Penn State's 2-
mile relay team had to settle
for second place in the New
York Knights of Columbus
Meet Saturday, Bobby Brown
kept the Nittany thinclads in the
limelight by winning the 80-yard
dash.
The junior speed merchant
flashed across the finish line in
6.2 with national dash champion
Paul Winder trailing by a full
step. Keith Gardner of the New
York Pioneer Club was third and
Paul Drayton of Villanova was
fourth in the final tune-up before
the IC4A Championships Satur
day.
Brown's impressive win reaf
firmed his position as one of
the best sprinters in the East
and the experts feel he will be
a top contender for the IC4A
crown.
State's 2-mile relay squad didn't
fare well, coming out on the short
end M a dual with highly regard
ed Manhattan.
The Jaspers, one of the major
threats to the Lions' bid for a
second consecutive IC4A cham
pionship, won the event in 7:45.
The Lions had been given a
chance in some pre-game pre
views to challenge their own meet
record of 7:35.6 set last year.
But off-days by' two of the
Lions' top middle distance men,
Don Davies and Dick Ham
bright, cancelled State's hopes
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—Collegian Photo by Charles Jacques
PREDICAMENT—Tony Scordo, rookie Lion 123-pounder, rocks
Pitt's Dick Martin to the mat with a cradle hold in Saturday
night's opening match. Martin got loose and won 10-8 decision.
*** * * *
seconds before the final buzzer
to nab a 4-3 decision.
Nittany soph Phil Myer was
charged with his first loss when
referee Stanley Mousetis pens- '
lized the cautious grappler and
awarded a stalling point to an
equally unaggressive Tom Hall
at 191. The penalty gave Hall a
2-1 verdict and the Panthers a
14.11 edge.
But things evened out in the
unlimited bout when Johnston
Oberly received a "gift" point
for the same offense this time
levied against Pitt's Bob Guzik.
The point gave Oberly a 2-1 mar
gin in a match that was stopped
three times because of butting
and slapping and tied the team
score at 14 all.
Pittsburgh Coach Rex Peery
had a plan of attack formulated
before reaching University Park.
Experts figured that if the Panth
ers were to halt the unbeaten and
'nationally third-ranked Lions,
for a win and the record.
Penn State graduate student Ed
Moran breezed to an easy victory
in the Columbian Mile, finishing
12 yards ahead of his nearest com
petitor.
Although his time was 4:11.8,
the former Lion great was never
pushed after the half-way mark.
The duel between Moran and
national indoor mile champion
Phil Coleman failed to come off
because the Chicago ace with
drew earlier in the week.
The win marked Moran's first
invitational banked-board victory
of his career. His previous victory
this year came on a flat track at
Washington.
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they would have to take the first
four matches and pick up another
along the way, probably at 191.
The Pitt matmen came very
close f o executing their plan
and erred only at 137.
This is where the Lions made
their only dent in the Panthers'
lightweight armor when Guy
Guccione wrestled Daryl Kelving
ton, probably the smoothest grap
pler of the night, to a 1-1 stale
mate.
These were the only two points
the Lions could manage till Ron
Pifer trimmed August Arrigone,
10-2, in the 157-pound match.
Larry Lauchle, who has never
scored a fall in a dual meet, had
kept Pitt on top in the 130-
pound contest by beating Art
Ravitz, 3-1, to notch his 26th
career triumph against one set
back.
The Lions' Jerry Seckler found
his hands full for two and one
half periods before gaining a 5-2
nod over Joe Schmitt at 167.
Schmitt, though winless, is prob
ably the most courageous grap
pler on the Pitt squad and had
the undefeated Seckler dead
locked at 1-1 till the final min
ute.
Hank Barone, senior Lion 177-
pounder, scored all of his points
in the last period to whip Lenny
Vuocolo, 5-2, and put the Nit
tanies back in contention with
the team score knotted at 11-11.
Then came Hall's 2-1 victory
at 191 and State's only hope
for salvation was a fall by
Oberly.
But salvation didn't come. The
250-pound Lion junior met an
other one his size, 230-pound Bob
Guzik, and the two bounced their
way to a 1-1 stalemate before the
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OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD—Lion sophomore Ron Pifer balances
on his nose while applying double grapevine to Pitt's Augie Arri
gone in 157-pound match. Pifer won 10-2.
*** * * *
penalty point allowed Oberly to FRESHMAN
123-14aul d i e n f g a s ul LPS) won over Dunbar (P)
escape with a decision and the'
Lions with a tie. 1130—Osniun (P) won over Slattery (PS)
The Nittany frosh sewed twos
137—nejfner (PS) by default.
falls, a default and a decision threw McKee (P).
to turn back the Pittyearlings,' iv Wiaa (PS ) nby
forfeit.
23-14, in the preliminary. Terry l 's7 7 -Be - any (PS) threw Stone (P), GAL
Shaffner, 137, and Chuck Beatty,ll67—Harrison (P) dec. Kolndy (PS), 8-1.
157, tallied the falls. Al Hastings,!l77—Lucas (PS) dec. Waddel (P), 6-2.
191—Shaffer (1') dec. Sabot (PS), 3 -2 -
123, won by default and ROD; Hwt.—Kaltenhach (P) dec. stile. (es),
Lucas, 177, picked up a 6-2 de-; 8-1
cision for the Lion Cubs
Summaries
VARSITY
123—Martin (P) dec. Siordo (PS), 10-R.
130—Lauchle (P) dec. Ravita (PS), 3-1.
137—Guccione (PS) and Kelvington (P)
drew, 1-1.
117—Zolikoff (P) dec. Minor (PS). 4- 3 .
157—Pifer (PS) dec. Arrigone (1'). 10-2.
167—Seckler (PS) dec. Schmitt (1'), 5.2.
177—Barone (PS) dec. Vuocol■ (P), 5-2.
191—Hall (P) dec. Myer (PS), 2-I.
Hwt.—Oberly (PS) dec. Guzik (P), 2-1.
Referee: Mot:setts.
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