MONDAY. MARCH 12.1962 PEHH STATE (right)' grimaces as Pitt's Daryl Xelringion attempts an p* in their 147-pound match. Kelvingtoa beat Pilar. 3-1. to win tbo EIWA crown tbai-Piler won .laaf TM& j 'll Speidd Praises Polacek For EIWA Performance [ • By JIM KARL | . .* ‘ t Sport*.Editor Aside from Ron Pifer’s unexpected loss to Pitt’s Daryl Xelvington for the 147-pound championship, one of Pehn State’s biggest surprises ini the JSIWA tournament was Bill Pblacek’s third place fihish|atl77. ’ | ,Polacek won four bouts and lost only..one in the two-day tourney, beating Rutgers’ Don Cory, 2-0, in the final con solation round for' third place. ] I . | His lone loss was to. Lehigh's Jim Detrixhe, who didn’t have a point scored against, him in four matches and won the 177- pound crown. ' I DETHIXHE, SCORED 5-0 de cisions over Dod Dunning of Syra cuse, Polacek, and Art Mann of Yale. He/beat I Pitt's Ken Barr, 4-0, in the finals. Neither, coach Charlie Speidel nor anyone else expected a high finish from Polacek. The Lion senior was l{s-l in dual meet competition this year, winning his first match last (week against Rut gers’ 'Mike Leary. “Up until now this season has been a nightmare,’’ Polacek said after his victory over Cory. “I got some breaks—that boy from Yale just needed 15 more seconds rid ing time and ij would have been out of the tournament I’m happy I_got this far." I “IAST YEAfI POLACEK won! his first match'jin .the tournament but then was’ eliminated by the same Cory on a referee’s decision in overtime. | “Polacek -, deserves a lot of credit,” Speidel mid yesterday. "He never got 4 nickel to come to Penn State arid he didn't have outstanding wrestling ability.{He developed late and he proved, he could wrestle in the tournament.” Kelvington was twice a brides maid, never a Ibride until Satur day night when he took the 147- JACKHAINnJACKHAXrnUAI ! CANOE: j * 'l* f-T ;5 , '! |5 CANOt '•< ■ A— a if . CQtDGKE. I "I |§- Cfc*» kitd« Ttncni the Corner from BtiMnni Ltd. - ) • j ■ J By BtAMOLEB A conflict with 'final exams has forced Penn State to with draw from the Intercollegiate Fencing Association’s 65th an nual championship meet Fri day and Saturday at NYU’s Alumni Gyipjin New York. The decision to ppll out et the IFA tourney—the eastern' cham pionships —• was made since.it would have j been virtually, im possible | fbr the Lion swordmen to prepajr* fbr the' IFA’s and for finals at the same time; However. State will enter a full team in the NCAA championships. Each member’ school is allowed to pound title away from Pifer. An , eaci ] BCWA runner-up the past two the March 30-31 meet years, Kelvingion won the 3-1 at 01110 ; State, decision by using a. “Navy ride* THE HITT ANY representatives to-keep. Pifer from standing and will be Chick Poole, sabre; Art using has legs to -escape. Fuller, foil; and Dave Lewis, epee. HE .WAS WARNED ’once for During the regular season, Poole stalling- on top, but it was .too was 6-3, Fuller 8-1 and Lewis 5-4 near the end of the match to do fbr . the .Lions, who. won one of aify good. - three dual meets. tight but I had to because Filer’s like a spider with his legs. He’s r * rr y Chamberlain.- Wicked.” . 72 ,n sabr «- i Pifer and Lion coach Charlie ALTHOUGH CHAMBERLAIN Speidel felt that Kelvington was had a better record than Poole, j stalling. . r Coach Dick Klima-said the de-| ! ; “The' only time Pifer loses a cision ■to send Poole to the na-j match is when, he's the only man tionals was based on. his reeoref 1 lon the mat who is wrestling,” over the last two meets. In those Speidel said. I ’ •: meets Poole was 5-1 and Cham ! PIFER SHOOK HANDS with tS’fiSTm!!!* I Kelvington in; front of the near set^\ came m f i?! T \ Capacity crowd of 5,000, but un- NYU has won the IFA, team der the privacy of the stands he championship three straight years said he was dissapeintedthat the I ?J u ?£ s ,!i nce 193 i In J^: I Pitt senior didn't wrestle. "bon,, the Violets won the NCAA i rHe was stalling, the*’*; no cn>wn U* two seasons, dpubt about it," Pifer said. “It However, Columbia’s Ivy took more guts to shake hands League champions and Navy are with him than it did to wrestle eagjected to give' NYU a rugged bin. >h"Regardlessj it's been a wonder ful three years wrestling for Penn State and I appreciate the sup ■'} (Continued on page six) 1 i a -sparkling, light' bright ’ buoyant-colpgne-j-m«d«, ; bc.,W and, Mated. in i .... 5.06 and 850 ] CUSTOM SHOP rOB MOl THE DAR.YS COLLEGIAN, UNIVERSITY PARK. Barr's Littf A group of well-conditioned wrestlers and the coaching ethics set down by Homer Barr —these are the ingredients in State College High School’s grappling win. streak of 64 1 straight dual meets over the past! Six’ years. ' .Considering this record. Barr; must be one of the most success-! ful scholastic wrestling coaches; in the country. - ! Last week, Barr and his Little Lions received national mention in Sports Illustrated’* weekly fea ture, "Faces-in the Crowd." THE WELL-VERSED boss of the State! College grapplers is no stranger to this area. Wrestling' for nearby Clearfield High School in his senior year, Barr won a PIAA schoolboy championship, i That year was Barr’s first in high school i competition. After school obligations at his parent’s Fencers Eastern §! 51 'as. w* £' giwtumwe ooMgs women ass feat >■ )RlwttliiJAßtfM«SarMM : Jf -iflwsnfsnwrrt. Wwclsl Soon* ter Ctt * taaa'woraatt ttiimenaw.Writ*C*n*a> *j : ■MtosisMomjsnMMt J; KATKABIKE GIBBS E. DCSTWUfI.«Mn. . 21«w»*raw»»raat H 'g|TW««j«. T. ; fa* ***■■* 3 WMBWaaL .*•. osi*m w« me' i' ' ■■■—■■ By JOE GRATA Td Sit-Oat sYIVANIA v Lions— 64 Straight fimn kept him from trytng-outihampered by . the flu. When he nor the team in other years. 'lost Ithe' match, many! of. the Veteran Penn State wrestling spectators who packed Rec Hall dooch Charlie Speidel was quick Tound tears rolling down their tjo take notice of Barr, who cen-'chWhs." j tfinued his brilliant wrestling| After graduation in ’3l, Bare career *** jNittany Lion. coached''high school wrestling in WRESTLING heavyw ei g h t,| w »"«\ a , c ? m P iUr « |a 35-IS Barr quickly became a favorite rfc ® n J- IBMi he began [h« cu* iflf Lion followers, twice winning 1 ””* 'J O^ the easterns and racking up an h** first team won its first overall college record of 44 winsi^’ 0 I ” ec,s ' one. and against onljr 5 losses. In 1949. he! I ***” began the streak of *4 (finished fourth in the NCAAi stra *« ht ' | wrestling tourney. (4-5), and in' ' Meet by meet and yearjby yeag, inis junior year, third (5-I).’ jthe r.trenk has steadily accumta [ Barr’s career came to a climaijlated, bringing with it more fans jin his senior yedr when he was.niore glory, and more pressure, runner-up to Brad Glass of Prince- ~wE STRESS A LOT of hard Itbn m the nationals, losing on a, Work , and superb conditUmingu" - Pxp i aincd . " W e are taughf ndedvf l, Ut , the .. sco ” s knoUedj»t to aggressive, to go firitfor the -1. The only other loss tn Barr’s takwlown the reverse, and the ollege career came in the last p j n « ual meet of his senior year, when u . L *. - . e dropped a - 7-6 decision to' 'Sp*idel attributes his protege« •nmniiv nt<-v ciaVv • success to many things, omell s Dick Clark. j -He’s made a study of the gam* } l TIOHJLit WA3 SECOND ‘to; and knows what's what," Speidel inone,” Speidel recalled. "He was!said. "He's done a lot for the youth ithe 'god' of the campus. In thatiof the community, and the people 'last bout with Clark, he was'of this area recognize it." He Meet battle in this year's post-season competition. | Columbia defeated its cross town rival, 14*13, to end NYU’s 34-meet win streak. The Middies banded NYU its only oth er setback: this'season. Since 1933. the team title has |jone to NYU, Columbia or Navy in all but years. ] LAST SEASON, the Violets finished pn top with 71 points, 13 ahead of Columbia. NYU won the epee and foil team titles and tied Columbia in the sabre. Herb Cohen and Jerry Halpem, who won the individual foil and «pee championships last season, will be back'- to defend their crowns for NYU. Columbia’s Allan Schwartz, sabre titlist in 1961, has iraduated. But NYU’s Israel Co hn, who was sabre runner-ffp, fa back. 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