WEDNESDAY. MARCH 8. Is6l Grandstand Views WVo Deserves NCAA Spot It’s hard to believe that West Virginia won’t be in the NCAA basketball tournament this year. The Mounties lost their chance Friday night in the Southern Conference Tourney semi-finals when William & Mary came through with an 88-76 upset win at Richmond, Va. Then Saturday night George Washington turned around and upset William & Mary to earn the NCAA spot. Saturday's win gave the Colonials a final record of 9-1$ com pared io 23-4 for West Virginia, which had won 13 straight before running into William & Mary. Maybe the Colonials will surprise everyone and go all the way to the NCAA finals at Kansas City, March 24-25, but right now the experts figure they’ll have trouble getting past Princeton in the opening round at New York next Tuesday. The whole situation points out how ridiculous post-season con ference tournaments are. When one upset deprives the regular-season champion from going to a tournament, league officials should re-examine their present policies and do away with post-season play, even if it hurts the pocket book a little. An Athlete-Editor-Intellect Speaks The air can’t be too rarified where Dale Peters pole vaults, so we wonder how he comes up with a statement that most athletes are “dunderheads.” Peters, who dabbles in athletics when he isn’t occupied with Froth, considers himself an intellectual and apparently bemoans the fact that few of his fellow athletes can amuse him on road trips by discussing Sartre’s Existentialism. To set the facts straight about these "dunderheads," let’s take a look a 1 the fall averages of Penn State's athletic teams. Football had a 2.43; basketball, 2.80; baseball, 2.72; cross coun try. 2.57; golf, 2.89; gym, 2.80; lacrosse, 2.41; soccer, 2.65; tennis, 2.41; wrestling, 2.53; and track, 2.30. Peters, an LA student with a 2.30 all-university average, argues that most of the athletes especially football players are in physical education and “are being pushed through.” That, in his opinion, is why the averages are so high. Of the U 9 letterwinners, 29 per cent were in physical education. The rest came from nearly every curriculum offered. It's 100 bad that Peters can't get as "high up" as he is "way out" because if he could. Don Bragg wouldn't stand a chance. Phillips Had Highest Average John Phillips, who lettered in basketball and baseball, had the higest academic average of all Penn State athletes, a 3.89. John Egli, Phillips’ basketball coach, says the Lion junior missed a perfect average because of a “C” in swimming. “When he told me that I couldn't understand it,” Egli said. “I told him that I would have drowned myself if that happened to me. So you know what he says. ‘Coach, I darn near did every time I got in the water’.” NIT Sets Dates For Openers NEW YORK (A>) The Nation-{l6 at 7:30 p.m. Holy Cross plays al Invitation Tournament Com-[Detroit at 9:15 p.m. mittee yesterday seeded four! On Saturday afternoon, March teams for the annual basketball: 18, Temple and Army, a pair of event opening March 16 at Madi- Penn State foes, clash at 2:15 son Square Garden, and an- p.m., with DePaul and Provi nounced opening round games, dence meeting at 4 p.m. Dayton, Memphis State, Niagara: The quarter-finals start Satur and either Utah or Colorado State day night and win be completed University were seeded and drew Tuesday) March 2 1. Semifinals byes into the quarter-finals. will be played Thursday night, Utah and Colorado State Uni- March 23, with the championship versity will meet Saturday at and championship and consola- Provo, Utah, to play off for the tion games on Saturday afternoon, Skyline Conference championship, March 25. with the loser entering the NIT —— as the twelfth team. The winner Rnckafknll Srorea will go to the NCAA Tournament. Basketball SCOrtS Earlier in the day the commit- Bos( „ n m cmnnn»u n* tee announced that St. Louis (18- 8) will compete as the 11th team. NA semuriniiu ** St. Louis will meet Miami of Mansfield 57 Alliance' 49 Florida on opening night, March WcatminUer M CLEAR POOL CAMP of the Madison Square Boy's Club Carmel, New York Interview: On Campus, March 17; 9 a.m. to 12 noon For all types of counselors Information 8c Applications OFFICE OF STUDENT AiD 218 Willard Building By Sandy Padwa Collegian Sports Editor * * * THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Disappointed Swedish Coach Pays Rod Thorn |/j on jfilaclads Visit Packs Bags Special to the Collegian Morgantown, W.Va., March 7 —Rod Thorn, West Virginia’s sophomore scoring star, left the University today amid ru *• v i mors that he was depressed over his showing in the! Southern Conference Basketball Tournament. i ships Saturday. j . . . . Sources close to Thorn said he' Laurell and Lion coach Chick! f Vcwuecfs^wriffcn fc;" 1 - » '*■»« during Werner have renewed an old; L„Tr%h. m.SSs’ own bo the summer. jfriendship that began when Wer- .■ . w ■ Thorn's father picked him up'ner took a State Department tour ’’ shortly after noon and they drovedo Finland in 1955. Laurell acted! Minnesota Twins back to their home in Princeton. ;as Werner’s interpreter on thej g y COOKIE LAVAGETTO W Y. a . . . t ... . „. itour - ! ORLANDO, Fla (A*) — Most ev- Ftiends reported that Thorn ; The Swedish coach will leave eryone was surprised when we • an< *j u . n^a PPy* for Michigan after the IClAs.jfinished fifth in Washington last ?" u * hu sl J»wing during the visiting three season. I felt all along that we ip et on ar the season. other Big .Ten had a good, interesting team and . f a , 2 °"P? int £ame can I schools before' f feel we’re going to show fans a a v *Ji ßibles. Thorns mMt havejheading to the W in Minneapolis and St. Paul an jstartcd when he was bedded down west coast . He !. even better one this season. a !ram he thL l i m * ssed :expects his tour v As for the individual positions, a game that night against Penn; to last un ti! the there will be very few change?. n f' •. . . . , . . , |end of June. ••. > We’ll probably have Harmon ,«^? t - I?, ‘f W » ? .* e S. ed /n te, - hei LaureU S!,ie iKillebrew at first base, Billy played against Pitt the following that Sweden ha! Gardner at second, Zorro Versal- S Ir’ and t'Y'sted his ankle. mu ch to learnj W&CM 'dies at short and Reno Bertoia at That forced him to miss anoth- if it wants to im- Jlthird , ve«lfty e pSk h £ en Feb at ®l i,t Ml outfield is pretty well set hh. I ; track and field I■■ M with Jim Lemon in left, Lenny He als ° sat out the final game showmg m the c u «»f L.mrnt Green in center and Bob Allison of the season against George i 1960 Olympics. He said his coun-'in ri«ht. Washington. ,try was particularly weak m the There should be no difficulty Then in the Southern Confer- sprints, hurdles, shot put and dis-; V /ith catching. Earl Battey is one v", Ce a i f fpT n ’ CUS - tof the best in the business. orP-rfl He said Sweden's best event I The pitching could stand irn with Thorn *' “ the hi gh i um P with the jave- jprovement. although we have with Thorn netting 15 points. • , d . h- jpcdr R; - »nd Cr- ~ But last Friday, West Vir ginia and Thom were the vic tims of a major upset when Wil liam & Mary posted an 88-76 vic tory. Thorn was held scoreless as the Mounties lost a chance for their seventh straight confer ence crown. Authoritative sources also re ported that Thom, a straight A high school student, was dissatis fied with his studies. He is in pre-mod. IM Handball Entries All handball-doubles entries must be turned in at the IM office in Rec Hall by 4:30 p.m., March 14. COLLEGE MEN Part-Time Employment 15 Hours Per Week Sales work for internationally known firm with offices in every major city throughout the world. Local calls to establish customers. Car furnished. 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He has been spending the < LC!VCIQQITO week at Penn Slate and plans | to go to New York with the g* Lions for the IC4A champion- |D6TT6r O ©CI SO II an secom . e .a v a one seven-foot jumper and two or three others that can reach $-9," he said. Laurell had some interesting views on ihe recent high-jump duel between Russia’s Valeri Bru mel and Boston University's John Thomas. "Thomas still has much to learn." Laurell said, "but when he learns the fast approach he will go very, very high—higher than Brumel." Brumel, who won all three of his recent battles with Thomas J runs very fast when he approaches! the bar. Now Thomas has started to use the fast approach too. -to Ramos aik .amilo Pascual, two of the top men in the league. PAGE SEVEN
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