PAGE SO( 'King Rex' Guides Pcuithers to Wrestling Prominence Sy DEAN MUCK in olden days when Knights of the Roundtable were busy ,rescu ing damsel's in distress and ilobin Rood and his faithful band of followers were ransacking the) countryside, the most powerful person in the land usually was the king. At Pitt they have a wrestling coach named "King Rex" and they call him King for a pretty good reason. For he too has been called "the best" and most power, ful in his field. - His lifetime chart at Pitt of 99-32-4 speaks for itself. HIS NAME IS. Rex Perry' and his rise to the "kingship" begins with a school that couldn't even field a full team. 7t was in the early '3o's that King Rex first entered Oklahoma A & M V) learn the skills of wres tling. He learned well, for iri four years of wrestling Rex didn't lose a single regular match. He" won High-Scoring Weiss Paces Lion G-Men Lion coach Gene Wettstone has called Greg Weiss one of the greatest gymnasts in Penn State history, and a glance at the statistics shows why the hard-working captain merits such high praise. _ . There is no accurate measure of Weiss' value to the team, but his point-scoring ability is a matter of fact Weiss has competed on the parallel bars, the side horse and - .horizontal bar in each of the Nittanies' five meets, and the senior star has taken first ;place in 12 of his 15 appearances. The' horizontal bar has been the `weak" spot in Weiss' per formance. He has finished second to teammate Tommy Seward twice on the high bar and took third behind Army's Phil Costain and Seward in the Lions' only defeat of the sea son The grini-faced Weiss, one of the most consistent performers to ap pear at Mt. Nit tany, set a Penn State record a gainst Syracuse Saturday, scoring a 296 on the p bars. He had set the "nit W'wu previous record of 293 in winning the p-bars against Temple three weeks ago. He is undefeated on the side horse and parallel bars with only BIKE REPAIRS PARTS ACCESSORIES Western Auto Satisfaction Crearanteed 200 W. College Ave. AD 74102 The Inland Steel Company, East Chicago, Indiana, invites you to Investigate our many career opportunities. , Our rormrmwmta. lives will be on yisur campus on Wednesday, March 7th. Con• ' I tact Mr. Robert, G. Schnell* for an appointment% All qualified "applicants will receive consideration for emploiinent without regard to race, creed, color, or national origin three'NCAA tithit And 102 match-(since, and he's had a 26-meet , way they teach math or them's:- es against two losses. • !winning streak in between. • try—no nonsense. His grapplers It was a good thing for Perry The Panthers' 26-game streak give him their undivided atten that he inherited the winning ended in 1957 and the villain tion, no gawking, no wisecracking. habit too, for he Was going to that broke it was none other than Ile teaches them more than tech need tt later when he came to Penn State. : niques. He conditions men men- Pitt.l Petry teaches wrestling the , tally. He toughens. them. • -- . The mat sport was born at Pitt in 1914. The .Panthers lost their first outing, 4-3, Jo Lafayette, and that was the closest they came-to winning for quite - some time. They lost 12 in a row-and in 1917 the apart was dropped. AGAIN IN 1935; the Panthers tried, but 17 straight losses ;dampened their pioneering spirits. Then Perry came along. He didn't exactly set the school mats on ; fire either for his first team lost ;all 10 matches, but at least it was ,a start. He had fielded the first 'full Panther wrestling team. Perry's second lean split 14 ,matches and the Panthers were on their way. He hasn't nad a Ipsing season in the , - 11 years By JOHN MORRIS a meet, at Pitt this week in the, .tway of a perfect season. Weiss' average score for his 151 routines so far this year is an' amazing 278.1. His lowest score' of the year was a 249 on the hori-' zont.4l bar at Temple: STILL RINGS specialist Larry Yohn has the second highest aver age per 1-outine- (266.4), but the senior competes in only his spe ciality. Seward is actually the second ,most productive scorer on the 'team with „seven first places to his credit. In addition to his two high bar ictories over Weiss, the stocky Itinior is undefeated in the free !xercise. He also has recorded four seconds and a third on the paral el bars. A 175 after two major breaks' An his, high bar routine against! the Orange, S aturday dropped' Seward's average 'score to 266.2,: just 'two-tenths of a point offt Yohn's average. JUNIOR BUD WILLIAM S, State's other still rings star, ranks fourth in average score for his events. Williams; a converted rope-climber in his first year as a ringman. is scoring at an aver age of 256.4 per routine. Varsity Baseball Candidatei Report to Joe Bedenk" Wednesday and/or Thursday 9 to 3 P.M. TECHNICAL GRADUATES IMAM Ma COMPANY East Chitiga, Indiana THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. UNIVERSITY PAW. raweIYLVANIA Rec Hall 237 1962 * * * IM !Results BASKETBALL INDEPENDENT LEAGUE G Annuli-vex (4-21 211 Butler .34 t 15 - INDEPENDENT LEAGUE If Nitta.ay 11 (1-4 r 41.Nittanr 21 I 1-5 I 24 Milan,' 42 6-01 21 - Nittany 19 14-21 27 Nittany 23 (L-11 37"Nittany 29 41.31 - $1 Nittany 21 12-41 21 Nittenr 11 (1-51 17 High Scorer—KEVlN SENT, Nittaoy 1114 111 FRATERNITY LEAGUE D Doha Up. 19.01 NAL Chi S. 13-1 1 f AL Chi Rho 1241 '32 Pi Lame- Phi 143 10 Kappa Sig. 16-21 -27 Delta Chi • 114 22 Pi Kap.. Phi 16.21 - 1 S. Tau G. ' 10.7 t lift. 0 High Scarte—DlCK TRICK. Delta Upsilon, 15 BOWLING FRATERNITY .LRAGUIL A Pi Lambda Phi g Theta 2 Sigma Nu g KAPP& Sigma 2 ,Phi Yu Delta 4.0 Bata Theta Pi 2 Delta Upsilon "11 Acacia 0 ' Alpha Kap. Lam!. I, Delta Theta Sigma 2 High Came— DICOC-- KELLEY. Phi Delta Theta. 21g 'High Series—LAßßY FRY. Delta Upsilon. ffMMMIPMMI BASKETBALL SCORES NBA Syracuse 160. Mailadelphia ib COLLEGE Duquesne 72. Georgetown 12 LaFayette 7s, La Salle U Wale infest I. N.C. State U Vitritiisl 72, blitriland fE Toledo 82. Kett St 119 (0t) KAPPA SIG and THETA DELTA CHI - present , • TWISTICUS PART II AT ' KAPPA SIG HOUSE . 'TOMORROW RIONT OPEN TIvirZignIHMAR FOUR D ZA:MKINS AT LUNCH his wrestlers must pass up the chicken, potatoes and pie that get a strong play from , the rest of the student body. Hey has hungry wrestlers that want' to win and•will sacrifice to do it. l - "They eat lettuce and steak" Perry says. 'They do what other people call making sacrifices. That is, they get big helpings of rest and bleep, and they don't ' stuff themselves with food." Perry's success is due to sweat And his wrestlers are constantly reminded of the message which Rex first greeted his initial Pitt team with: "I want no one who is satisfied with mediocrity." The Panthers have done quite Chi Phi Captures Second .Behind Weir's Near Miss By KEN DENUNGER Once again it was Sam Weir and his fast-moving Chi Phi team mates who stole. the show in IM swimming last evening at Glenn land Pool. Weir, who last week, set a new IM record in the freestyle,.demon strated his versatility by coming within onertenth• of a second of breaking the breaststroke record as he churned through the water in 35.4. For awhile it looked as though Chi Phi would win the meet without entering the water. Their opponents, Alpha Chi Sigma, did !not arrive until after, the . free !style, thus forfeiting that event 'to give Chi Phi a - commanding eight point lead. Joe Holden, who won the back stroke, and the victorrOis relay team 'provided the remainder of the scoring for a 30-9 triumph. Acacia. capturing firsts in all five events, swamped Sigma Nu, 31-5. Bill Barber scored firsts ini prices are chopped at .. . PENNSHIRE CLOTHES INC. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22. 1962 a bit better than . mediocrity...ln 1952 they were 9-2; in '53, 10-1; in '54, 94; in '55, 9-2; in '56. 16-0; in '57, 11-1; in '541, 8-24; in '59,- 9-1; in '6O, 7-1-1, and 6-3 last year. So far this season they are 6-1-1, losing their first last week to the nation's number two team, Lehigly 17-14. SATURDAY. PERRY and his "hungry" matmen face a State team that has yet to show its lull pcitential.• Perry will be looking for his' 100th win, but he wont get any concessions f rom the Lions.-- Matching wits with ,Rex will be the dean of the Eastern Inter collegiate Wrestling Association— • Charlie Speidel. The wily Lion ,mat." coach holds an even more amazing record than Perry of 179-48-12. • Putting the two coaching rec ords together,, one wonders how ithe other eastern wrestling 5C110013 ,have managed to win at all. the backstroke and breaststroke, while Guy Jackson and Larry Wolfe won the freestyle and dia ling, respectively. The Delta Phi relay team fin ifhed with a 1:03.7 clocking to .provide the necessary margin for a 24-17 victory over Sigma Alpha Mu. Ken Ralphs, Bill Wilkens; and Jim Schultz were other Delta Phi victors.Ralphs won the fr4tei , style in 38.1, Wilkens took the backstroke in 48.8, and Schulti ;captured the breaststroke in 44.1. "I'm not a dedicated actor." con fesses Fred Mac Murray. In - this mews Post' he tells about the "accidents" that mad, him a star._ How he nearly passed -up his rob in "Mynas* Sans"—now a hit on ABC Teherision. *xi how he salts alehg with his 1 kids. 'Me Sataushay Esinateer 1P4()0V1.2 SAVE NOW SLACKS 2 pair for $7.76 3 pair for $10.76 20. W. 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