PAGE SIX “We’re coming up there this weekend, and we’ll try to wrestle like men.” ! The speaker was Panther wrestling coach Hex Peery and the reason for the remark was this writerVcolumn entitled “Challenge Issued To Pitt Matmen” which appeared in the March 1 issue of The Collegian. THE COLUMN ACCUSED Pitt'of using stalling and run ning tactics on the mat. It j challenged the Panthers to try "wrestling like men” in the EIWA tournament today and tomorrow at Rec Hall. “We wrestle more for the fall than either Lehigh or State, so I don’t see how you can say we stall,” Peery said in'a telephone. interview this week. “Slattery .(Denny) ran from Martin (Dick) and your boy Edwards. (George) should never have beaten Kelvington (Daryl). As for the heavy weight bout, my boy was leading 4-0 and just fell into that pin. It was a pure accident.” Peery wasn’t the only one at Pitt that, was unhappy with the column "I tind myself differing with just about all the accusa tions,” Pitt News sports writer Bob Smizik said in a Collegian Letter to the Editor. “If Penn State -fans like WINNING wrestling, with a little thought behind it, I. am sure they yrill enjoy our Pitt wrestling team this weekend.” The article also drew a re ply from Pitt Sports Publicity Director Beano Cook. “The accusations are ridic ulous,” he said. “Our style is to wrestle conservatively and we’ve been winning by doing it.” If the article did nothing else, it at least stirred up interest and maybe it will prod the Panthers to a. little more wrestling man-like. ALL SIGNS POINT to this year’s tourney developing Into one of the best in a long line of outstanding EIWA meets. There is one thing that could take the luster off the two-day meet and that is the conservative, .defensive-type of wrestling that seems to be growing more and more popular. It is our hope that the 144 men in the tourney try to match each others skills and not begin stalling after getting a one or two point advantage. In the championship round of .last year’s tourney, seven of the losers failed to score a point. Defense is good, but you can’t win;the championship without scoring points. . One way to keep the grapplers going the full nine minutes is for the officials to enforce the rules prescribed by the NCAA. When a contestant is stalling, let's have him warned and if he doesn’t respond, penalize him. And Mr. Official, don’t wait until the bout is practically over before awarding the penalty point. Make them wrestle, and if they refuse, they 1 don’t deserve to win. * ONE OF THE HIGHLIGHTS of this year’s champion ships will be the presentation of the Coaches Trophy and the Fletcher Award. The Coaches Trophy goes to the top performer in the tournament, as selected .by the 16 member coached* Howell Scobey of Lehigh was the first wirier in 1936. Thad Turner of Lehigh won-the award last year to. become the seventh Engineer to receive the trophy. JEhe John A. Fletcher Memorial Trophy _ goes to the wrestler who has done the most for his team in the EIWA meets. It was established in 1955 in memory of Navy star John Fletcher who lost his life in a plane crash at sea. s Penn State’s Johnston Oberly, a two-time EIWA champ at heavyweight, won the'award last year. Another Lion. Johnny Johnston, won the trophy in 1957. For this award, points are accumulated from one year to the next and .thus a senior usually.wins the trophy. Going into this yearjs clash, A 1 tßushatz of Army and Dick Martin of Pitt are the high point men, Lehigh’s Dave 1 Angell is next followed; by Ron Pifer of State, Daryl Kelvington and John Zolikoff bfPitt. TEAM POINTS for the tourney are awarded as follows: first place (10), second (7), third (4) and fourth (2). Additional points are. obtained by falls, defaults and forfeits. . Speaking of forfeit?, the 16 competing schools-must enter full nine-man teams. Five points are deducted from a team’s score for each class in which it fails to compete. i a dean's view Panther libit Coach Challenges Colaran By DEAN BILUCK Assistant Sports Editor *; • * *. * * THE DAILV COLLEGIAN. UNIVERSITY PAfipC. PENNSYLVANIA DICK MARTIN . . Pitt 123 -pound ace DALE KUHNS ★ * * Engineers Favored To Retain Crown (Continued from page one) Jim Harrison of Pitt, Al Rushatz of Army, Dick Janish and Bill MacGrath of Rutgers, Chuck Moore and Dave Angell of Lehigh and Daryl Kelvington of Pitt. ALSO IN THE starting fjeld are three 1960 champs—Rushatz, Mike Leta of Rutgers and John Zolikoff of Pitt. Unbeaten Lehigh, boasting, 12 victims, is the favorite to cop the team title, but the Engineers won’t have ‘an easy time. Pitt has .the PROBABLE LION LINEUP 123 Denny Slattery (1-2-2) 130 Bob Haney (9-1) 137 George Edwards (9-1-1) 147 Ron Pile? (8-2) IS7 Paul Slegner (0-1) 167 John Barone (2-4) 177 Bill Polacak (1-5-1) 191 Phil Mytr (8-2). Hwl. Ed Pohland (5-3) man power to topple the Engi neers and coach Charlie Speidel’s Lions can’t be!counted out. The Engineer? currently are ranked number' two in the coun try and on the strength of wins .over Pitt (17-14) and State (15-12) they deserve their favorites’ role. LEADING THE defending champs are four unbeaten grap plers and two lethers who have lost but once. Bill Merriam at 123 j Pat Smartt at 430, Pendleton at 157 and Detrixhe at 177 are the unbeaten Engineers while Dave Angell at 167 and Chuck Moore at 191 have’ one loss. Pitt i 3 headed by Martin. Zoli koff, Kelvington and unbeaten Jim Harrison. Martin is! closing out a brilliant career at Pitt where he has .been unbeaten in dual meet competition. i State’s-chances for victory ap pear to lie with three untested sophomores. Once beaten .Bob Haney at 130, George Edwards (8-1-1) at 137 and Ed Pohland (5-3) at heavyweight.: A GOOD SHOWING by the sophs plus the: expected- strong grappling of co-captains Pifer and Phil Myer at 491 could give the Lions the title. IM Results | BOWLING FRATERNITY LEAGUE B Alpha EpiOon Pi I, Phi S«raa Dtlu • Alpha Gamma Rbo C Phi Sigma Kappa 3 Dalta Sigma Phi f Alpha Chi Rho t Sigma Alpha Hu (; Delta Chi 3 Si*m» Phi Epailon <■ Pi Kappa Phi 4 Ifie* Game-PHIL GAT, Sigma Phi Ep aOon. SOS .nch SerW-I—PHIL CAT. Sigma Phi ■Uofi. &£Q High Game (team l-*-Deft* Chi. BSB .immimuHmniiimKitiuninEmniQQißitmopQg 1 RADIO* PHONO 1 | * SERVICE * j; 1 pick up-AD 8-6021 (! 1 delivery §; i , nrj TELEVISION I ! 4h TSC SERV,ce I it 1 U ,WU J CENTER | |l : jl 232 S.:Allen St.! • jj ■-nm——mua—nmiiuummnmmrnJ. * «■ » The wil] -be attempting to repeat history this weekend. The last time a State team vfon the championship was 1957 when the tournament was held at Rec HalL That year Speidel's Lions won the 130, 137 and 147-pound cham pionships. If State is to win again, those weights will; have to be strong spots for the 1 Nittanies. THE LIONS WOULD, jump ahead in the team championship race with a victory. this year. Lehigh moved in front last -year by winning its 14th title. State owns 13 titles outright and shares another with, Pitt. Cornell ranks third with- 12, followed by YaJe with five -full titles- and two ties. State leads in individual titlists with 78; followed by Lehigh with 75 and Cornell with 74. Lehigh is the lone' uhbeaten school in the 16 team field, and Brown is the only’team not to •win. The competing teams are Army (6-4), Brown (0-8-1), Co lumbia (7-4), Cornell (9-5), F&M (5-7), Harvard (4-6), LehigH" (12-0), Navy (4-5-1), Penn (7-4), Penn State (6-3-1), Pitt (7-1-1), Prince ton (2-6-1), Rutgers (8-3), Syra cuse (5-2-1), Temple (7-5) and Yale (2-6). Rutgers, Syracuse, Army and Cornell rate as outside choices for the runners-up slots. , HiLLEL CALENDAR [ TONIGHT " : Evening Services... 8:00 p.m. Speaker: Dr. Robert Dengler. 1 r k Topic: "Amos, the Prophet" i SATURDAY * : Morning Serviceslo:oo a.m. . | Sprinp Term Hebrew 10 will be offered. 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