TUESDAY, MARCH 29 Pen Cha By JOHNNY BL Locking his hands tral position on the a punishable offense i collegiate wrestling, in nationals. And Penn State soph has bereaved the fact days, for it cost him runnerup position and championship in t h wrestling tournament a last weekend. Five seconds remai match with Art Kraft western, who was ii The score was tie. 4-4, looked like a sure b In overtime when he l, hands and the referee a 5-9 verdict to Kraft. Kraft, the fourth place finisher last year, went on to cop the title, beating Lehigh's Thad Turner, 4-3, in the final bout. A win for Pifer would have pitted him against Turner, a match long sought by local fans. And thus the flashy Lion rookie, who made an auspicious tourney debut by upending last year's run nerup Sid Terry of Oklahoma, saw his title dream fade. But the former Bellefonte state high school champ scored a 6-3 decision over Portland State's Autry Ehler, who had earlier pinned Eastern champ Al Mar ion, and settled for a fourth place medal. Pifer and heavyweight Johns ton Oberly contributed most heavily to the Penn State team total. The Lions tallied 23 points to finish seventh in the team standings. Oklahoma walked away with the title, producing three indi vidual champs and compiling 59 points. It was the fifth national title for the Sooners who also bested their cousins from Okla homa State for the Big 8 title earlier this year. The Cowboys came in fifth. the lowest they've ever been and for the first time in NCAA history failed to produco a champ. Nittany Coach Charlie Speidel finally got the best of Pitt men tor Rex Peery when his Lion proteges finished two points ahead of the Panthers. State was the second highest Eastern team, trailing two points behind Lock Haven, The Bobcats entered only three men but one captured a title and another took a third. Oberly. who copped the East ern heavyweight title two weeks ago at Princeton, was surprised by Sherwin Thorsen, a big lowa farm boy who was unknown be- TWO HEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE, WE ALWAYS SAY BRING 'EM BOTH IN TO BE TRIMMED HOWARD SMITH BARBER SHOP 210 S. Allen St. Ity Kills Title ce for Pifer ISEISIMI at is not n eastern but it is Ron Pifer for three t least a a possible e NCAA 1 Maryland , fed in his .f North ing fast. nd Pifer 1 to win i•cked his awarded . title shot eludes him I fore placing third in the Big 10 championships this spring. But ''Big 0" made up his mind after that match and ripped through his next four bouts to win the consolation bracket and earn a third place ribbon. And he didn't let the Big 10 boys bother him any more. On his way to winning the consola tions, he beat the two Big -10 grapplers who had placed ahead of Thorsen—champion Roy Web er, Northwestern, and runner-up John Baum of Michigan. And to complete the circuit he threw in a victory over the Big 8 runnerup, Jan Schwitters of lowa State. Oberly's first win was a fall over Wyoming's Warren Dawson. College BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION HUB & BOUCKE CHEMISTRY & PHYSICS OSMOND LAB DIVISION OF COUNSELING HUB EDUCATION ENGINEERING & ARCHITECTURE HOME ECONOMICS LIBERAL ARTS MINERAL INDUSTRIES THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA RON PIFER VOTE FOR YOUR STUDENT 9a.m.-sp.m. Open during lunch Three Lions reached the con solation semi-finals before losing out. Captain Sam Minor, senior Guy Guccione and soph Dale Confer survived the spirited competition till Saturday afternoon's session. Minor was unscored upon through his first two matches before meeting his old nemisis. Jerry Frude of Wyoming. For the second year in a row Frude turned the tables on Minor and went on to take runnerup hon ors. But the 147-pound Lion tallied . another victory over Jim Hoppe] of Bowling Green before bowing to Ralph Clark of Lock Haven, 5-3. Guccione lost to Pat Semary, Kent State, 7-3, in the consola tions after fighting all the way to the upper bracket semi-finals before being edged by Syracuse's Les Austin in overtime. Confer, Lion 115-pounder who had not competed for three years, was a surprise point-getter for the Lions. He dumped two mid western grapplers before losing a tight 2-0 decision to Oregon State's Mits Tamura. lowa State captured second place with 40 points and Wyom ing was third with 36. Other lead ing teams were 4. lowa, 32; 5. Oklahoma State, 29; 6. Lock Ha ven, 25; 7. Penn State, 23; 8. Pitt, 21; 9. Northwestern, 20; and 10. Cornell, 17. FINALS 115—Gray Simons, Lock Haven State won over Dick Wilson, Toledo, ref. dec. 123—Dave Auble, Cornell dee. Masaaki Hatta, Oklahoma State, 9-5. 130—Stan Abet Oklahoma dee. Larry Lanai's. Pitt, 5-2. 137—Les Anderson, lowa State dec. Les Austin, Syracuse, 8-2. I47—Larry Ha)es. lowa State dec. Jerry Frode, Wyoming, 4-1. 157—Art Kraft, Northwestern dec. Thad Turner. Lehigh, 5-3. (Continued on page ten) COUNCIL NOW You May Vote From Freshman Gridders Seek Varsity Berths Freshman football coach Earl Bruce isn't predicting any Richie Lucases or Lenny Moores, instead he's adopting "a wait and see attitude" about the freshmen who will seek var sity berths when spring drills begin Thursday. We've got a lot of good boy do now," Bruce said. 'As the spring season progresses, we'll be able to' get a better line on them. "That's the purpose of spring! practice and sometimes you get a lot of surprises." Two of the prize prospects moving up from the freshman team (3.1) are quarterbacks Pete Liske of Plainfield, N.J., and Frank Sincek of Farrell. Pa. These two handled most of the quarterbacking chores for the frosh last fall and with All-Amer ican Richie Lucasgone, Rip Engle is going to need plenty of depth behind Galen Hall and Dick Hoak. "Sincek ha s plenty of speed, enough . to be come a . half- Bruce back," said. "He's ,an average passer, but his speed would make him very dangerous on the roll-out "Liske is a very good passer but isn't as fast as Bruce Sincek, however, they both call a good game and will improve with experience. "As for the rest of the fresh man backs we've got a lot of good ones and any of them could help out." Switching to the linemen, Bruce is real high on Joe' Bla senstein, a 190-pound linebacker from West Philadelphia High School. ''He's a tough boy," the veteran coach said, "and he'll really hit 'em for you. He's a vi- Place HUB SACKETT HOME EC HUB & SPARKS MI BUILDING By SANDY PADWE s but you can't tell how they'll cious tackler and if he stays in one piece he'll be a good one." Biuce said that Harrison Ros dahl (6-3, 210) and Ron Tietjans (6-0. 220) could help out at tackle where the Nittanies are in dire need of help after losing All- American Charley Janerette, All- East star Andy Stynchula and part-time starter Tom Mulraney. There also is a possibility that Dave Robinson, an end last fall. may be switched to tackle. "He's very versatile and he's one of our fop boys," said Bruce, "and he's played tackle. But we'll consider him more at end first." Bruce said Dick Andeison of East Paterson, N.J., John Dele gram of Prospect Park, Pa , and IJoe Gelardi of Bentlyville. Pa , have a chance to stick at ends. "Another boy who could be a big help is Charley Raisig. He's a good placekicker and it was his field goal that beat Navy last year," Bruce said. "I've mentioned a lot of boys, but there's a lot I didn't and quite often they're the biggest sur prises". TIRED ? ? ? 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