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State Rates EIWA Darkhorse
Nittany Valley Prepares
For Arrival of Mat Fans
Wrestling fans are among the most avid of sports enthusiasts n and beginning tomorrow
afternoon Penn State will be the center of attraction for hundreds upon hundreds of these
"grappling bugs.” And the heavy blanket of snow 'that has covered the State College area
won’t stop them either.
: Whether they come from Hew York; New Jersey, Massachusetts, Maryland or Pennsyl
vania, the purpose will be the same. They will to witness the 58th Eastern Intercol
legiate Wrestling Association (Tot
! Capacity crowds of better th,
tournament which will climax ’
this year’s competition in the
EXWA, the nation's oldest col
legiate wrestling league.
The wrestlers themselves will
begin arriving tomorrow and
their followers should should hit
town by evening.
LEHIGH. THE NATION'S num
ber .two team, and once-beaten
Pitt will head the field of 16
schools that will compete for the'
title.
Lehigh won last, year’s tourney
held at Bethlehem, Pa., while Pitt'
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finished second and Penn State
third-
Thia-year’s show should be one
of the strongest ever held. Two
thirds of last year’s finalists .are
back, headed by four of the 1961
champions—Dick. Martin of Pitt,
State’s Ron Pifer, and Kirk Pen
dleton and Jim Detrixhe of Le
high. V
THE PRELIMINARIES will
-start at 1 p.m. Friday and the
■quarterfinals {will be held, that
night Saturday noon the semi
finals will start and Saturday
evening beginning at 730 the
championships will be decided.
Although Charlie Speidel
coached teams have a habit of
producing top efforts in tourna
ment competition, it’ll take some
doing for the Lions to win this
time. State has had a so-so sea
son, €-3-1, losing close decisions
to rugged Lehigh and Pitt, but
beating teams like Navy. Rutgers,
Maryland and Cornell.
THE LIONS HAVE been tabbed
as the "darkhorse" in this year’s
tourney behind the Engineers
and Panthers State’s 1 chances of
walking off with the team title
depend on how well a trio of
-untested sophomores ' perform.
Leading the Lion assault will
be 1961 Eastern champion and
national runner-up at 147, Ron
Pifer. State co-captain Phil Myer
is being counted on heavily at
191, but Speidel’s .real -chances
for; the upset win lie With Bob
Haney at 130, George Edwards at
137 and Ed Pohland at .heavy
weight All are sophomores.
"I hate to say who is going to
win because anything could hap
pen, but I’d say we have a good
chance," Speidel said in his .of
fice yesterday. “However, I*d have
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TITLE HOPEFULS: Ron Pifer (L) and Phil Myer, Staie's wrestling
co-captains. will carry a big part of the Lions' hopes into the
EIWA tournament si Roc Hall this weekend. Pifer. last year's
147-pound champion. Will be back lo defend his crown and M7 cr
will try tor his first title at 191.
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tp consider Lehigh the team to
beat followed by Pitt."
; Speidel is juggling his lineup
in order to get higher placings
at certain weight classes.
The lower two weights will re
main file same, but from 130
things will be pretty much dif
ferent. At 123 Denny Slattery will
get a chance to prove his season’s
showing was just a bad dream.
Slattery was out the early part
of the campaign with injural ribs
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and only last week against Rut
gers did the Lion junior pick up
his first win.
LAST YEAR SLATTERY fought
to a 6-4 record and got into the
quarterfinals where he lost to
Lehigh’s Bill Merriam, 13-5.
Haney should be seeded first
or second in the tournament and
a good showing by this Lion
speedster is a must for a State
victorv. Haney is 9-1, his loss
(Continued on page seven)
IC4A Meet Expected
To Produce Records
By DENNIS KMECHT
Penn State’s thinclads will face some of the nation’s best
trackmen in the IC4A track and field meet at New York City’s
Madison Square Garden Saturday. j j
Frank Budd, Gary Gubner, John Thomas land .Rolando
Cruz are only a few of the stars'who will be on | hand.
In last year’s meet, coach Chick
Werner’s Lions finished fourth
with 16 points behind Yale with
30, VUlanova with 29, and Man
hattan with 20, but this season’s
team lacks a point-winner in the
dash without sprinter Bob Brown,
and is not likely to finish that
high.
VILLANOVA IS RATED as the
top contender for the 1962 crown.
The, Wildcats won the title three
consecutive years —, 1958-60 and
lost by one point to Yale last year
on a relay disqualification.
Villanova coach Jim EUiot pre
dicted his team might accumulate
20 to 27 points,, but predictions
by other coaches give the Main
Line powerhouse as much as 40
points.
Villanova rests its hopes on
Frank Buad and Paul Drayton in
the dashes, Leon Pras in the
hurdles, Billy Joe in the shotput,
Rolando Cruz in the pole vault,'
and strong entries in the mile and
two-mile. I
RECORDS ARE expected to
fall right and left with a field
of 51 colleges participating in the
meet. The 60-yard dash, 60-yard
high hurdles, mile and two-mile
are some of the events that are
expected to produce record times.
In the field .events, shotputter
Gary Gubner of New York Uni
versity, holder of the world in
door record of 64*11%*', is almost
certain to shatter the IC4A dis
tance of 57 feet
In' the pole vault Villanova’s
{Rolando Cruz has cleared 15*4**j
for times this season and should!
shatter the old record of 15*2".
John Thomas, of Boston Uni-'
versity, who slowed down after,
his great season two years ago,-
has been steadily improving this
year and may be able to break!
his own IC4A high jump record!
of TVi" that he set'in 196 a
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■ VyEDNESDAY. MARCH 7. 1962
Aquanauts Win
Third Stnjiight j
. By ED CARPENTER j
Freshman Toni Parsons led
his undefeated Aqua na u t
teammates to a 37-3 trouncing
of Berks in intramural swim-
ming action last night {at
Glennland Poolj
i. . ;
This marks the! third straight
victory for the Aquanauts, making
them one of the favorites' to Uin
the! independent tournament
Parsons took first places in the
backstroke (38.2 seconds) and the
breaststroke (38.0);
Coming in second in these two
events were Aquanauts Gene
Schoffield in the backstroke alnd
Jim Jenks in the-breaststroke.jin
adition, the victorsjswept the first
two places in the Jfree style and
diving and won the' relay with a
time.of 1:07.3. Jenks won the free
style while Ralph Ganetti took
thfe diving honors.j j
IN OTHER MEETS, Montgom
ery defeated Nittajny 43-44, 31-2,
on a partial forefeit. Nittany 43-
44 entered one swimmer in the
free style and .backstroke, and
both took third in;their events.
In fraternity competition Sigma
>,Pi beat Phi Mu Delta, 30-10. First
places by the victors were copped
jby Dieter Heinze, in the free style,
j Douglas Williams in, the breast-,
stroke, and/ Ben ! Buchanan !in
•'diving.. • j *
{.jSigma /Pi’s relay team, con
sisting of Heintze, Williams, Rich
:jafd Splenda and Roy Rasmussen,
Ijalso ,copped a first place with a
‘time of 59.9.