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Gym Trials Set for Tonight
Vega, Weiss ,
For Positions
Olympic gvm coach Tom
Maloney arrives on campus
today with just 48 hours to
choose a team to face the visit
ing Russian Olympic squad in
Rec Hall Saturday.
Maloney has scheduled a try
out in Rec Hall tonight for eight
of Uncle Sam’s finest, including
three Penn Staters. The informal
tryout will start at 6 and admis
sion is free.
Penn State stars Armando
Vega, Jay Werner and Greg
Weiss will compete with five
other Americans for the five
starting berths against the So
viets.
Olympian Jack Bcck.ier is
teaching in California and won’t
arrive on campus until tomorrow,
but he has been awarded a place
on the United States team based
on past performances.
Beckner has been one of Uncle
Sabi’s best all-around gymnasts
for teh'years and is reported to
be in good shape.
Vega, Werner, Weiss and Cali
fornia’s Bob Lynn will compete
against Olympians Gar O'Quinn,
Don Tonrv, Abe Grossfeld and
Fred Orlofsky for the remaining
spots.
Three other outstanding gym
nasts declined Maloney's invita
tion to try out. Larry Banner
will not be able 16 attend be
cause of grad work at UCLA.
Banner was the outstanding
star for the U.S. in the 1960
Olympics.
Jeff Cardinal!. Springfield star,
and Illinois’ John Culbertson are
both injured and won’t be able to
compete. Cardinal! injured his
shoulder earlier this .year and
aggravated the injury against
Penn State Saturday.
Penn State coach Gene Wett
Cortice Succeeds Enqle
PITTSBURGH i.P) Jack Cur
tice of Stanford has been elected
president of the American Foot
ball Coaches Association. He suc
ceeds Rip Engle of Perm State.
Engle was appointed a member
of the NCAA rules committee for
football, representing District 2.
Ernest McCoy of Penn State
was appointed chairman of the
sports injury and safety commit
tce.
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Werner Compete
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stone gives his three stars “a real
good chance to make the team,”
and thinks that the “real Competi
tion may be between Lynn and
our three Penn State boys.”
Maloney will be the only judge
at tonight’s tryout and he may
not announce his starting team
until tomorrow, according to
Wettstone.
Wettstone said that the scoring
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would be kept completely secret
and Maloney would lake many
things into consideration before
making his final selections.
"The main thing he will look
for will be team balance. A
performer who is outstanding in
only a couple of the events
probably won't make the team/'
the veteran coach added.
In international scoring each
team enters six men in each of
the six events. Only the top five
scores for each team are counted
in figuring team totals. However,
the individual’s all-around scor
ing is based on his performances
in all six events.
The six events for tonight and
Saturday are free exercise, still
rings, side horse, long horse vault,
parallel bars and horizontal bar.
The Russian team is scheduled
to arrive tomorrow afternoon and
may hold a brief closed workout
in Rec Hall to familiarize them
j selves with the apparatus and
lighting.
I Chicago Signs Ditka
CHICAGO UP) The Chicago
Bears Wednesday signed All-
America ehd Mike Ditka of the
University of Pittsburgh.
Bear owner-coach George Halas
Ditka’s signing at a
special news conference.
Matmen Will Meet
lyy League Champs
The Penn State grapplers meet Cornell at Ithaca, N.Y.,
Saturday, and the Big Red will be mighty welcome opposition
for the Lions after consecutive losses to national powerhouses
in their last two outings.
Cornell, the perennial Ivy League champion, is no push
over by any means, but after ★ ★ is
shellackings by the nation’s third
and sixth ranked teams, almost
anybody except Oklahoma would
look good to Charlie Speidel and
his crew
The outlook was rosy for State
after early season wins over Ar
my and West Virginia, but then
the grapplers ran into a brick
wall at Michigan, losing 17-8.
Lehigh made if iwo losses in
a row Saturday night with an
easy 24-8 triumph.
Bob Gunst triggered the Lion
loss with a 6-1 decision over co
captain Jerry Seckler. This put
Lehigh out in front, 8-5.
Kirk Pendleton followed with
a pin over Ron Pifer and then
Thad Turner scored a fall over
John Barone to give the Engineers
a commanding 18-5 lead.
Leeman, who called his team
"as good as any I've ever
coached" after the win, is al*
ready talking of a possible
Eastern title. I
He said if his boys performed
up to their capabilities the Engi
neers had a fighting chance to
capture a crown in every weight
iclass from 130 through 191.
j But Leeman cautioned on leav
ing Penn State out of the picture.
“With boys like Dan Johnston,
;.Terry Seckler, Ron Pifer andj
Johnston Oberly you'll be right!
up there,” he said. !
j Lehigh’s victory was a tough j
1 one for Slate coach Charlie
: Speidel, but it wasn’t entirely
unexpected.
i “Everyone knew of their,
strength even before they met:
jus,” Speidel said yesterday. “Now
Pitt is the only team that has a:
chance to squeeze past them. 1
“But Pitt only has four solid
men—possibly five, and I’m not
even sure that they can do it,”,
he said. i
"Maybe if we met Lehigh to-
Financial Losses
Fail to Stop AFL
HOUSTON, Tex. UP) Ameri
can Football League club owners
today begin their winter meeting,
iwith no indication that heavy in
augural season financial losses
ihave dampened enthusiasm for
1961.
There had been predictions
from some areas a year ago the
! AFL would not get through its
first season. But the eight club
.owners will begin two days of
•discussions with expansion as one
lof the items on the agenda.
THURSDAY. JANUARY 12. 1961
By JIM KARL
CHARLIE SPEIDEL
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morrow we could edge them,
but you can't conjecture or post
mortem after it's over."
Now that the Michigan and Le
high disasters are past, State is
over the roughest part of its
schedule.
The Lions still have to meet
two other Eastern toughies in Pitt
and Rutgers, but if pre-season
form sheets hold true State should
be favored over its other four
opponents.
Cornell, Maryland, Navy and
Syracuse round out Ihe Lions'
schedule..
State will try for its third win
of the season against the Big Red
Saturday. Cornell has victories
over Yale and Penn, two Ivy
League foes, and losses to Le
high and Pitt.
The Engineers shut out Cor
nell, 27-0, while Pitt downed
them 20-8.
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