FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 16. 1962
Egli
For
Hunts Starting Spot
Sophomore Avillion
By JIM BUKATA '
(This is the seventh in a series
of articles on the 1962-63 Penn
State basketball team. Next is
Tom Malinchak.y
Sophomore Ron Avillion has
basketball coach John Egli
wondering what to. do with
him. !
Avillion is a S-5, 183-pound
sophomore from Luzerne where
he was an all-county choice for
two years.
He came to State as a forward,
but due to the academic ineligi
bility of six members of the /resh
man squad, was made a center last
year. :
(This; year, in the three short
weeks ’ since basketball . practice
began, Avillion has seen action
not only at forward and center,
but also in the backcourt.
I Egli tried Avillion in the back
court with the hopes that he
would become the fourth' ade
quate guard on the squad, joining
Jphn Mitchell, Bob Donato and
Bob Weiss.
j HOWEVER, Avillion’s try to
learn the backcourt position did
not prove successful.
| His outside shooting left much
to be desired and he just couldn’t
handle the ball. ;
I Egli then switched him., back
to forward, hoping that he would
develop as a good comer man.
This rpove may prove to be one of
the smartest Egli has made.
I Not only has Avillion looked
good at forward, but his pel-forms'
ance has made Egli move, Terry
Hoover into the pivot,
i A lack of bulk hurts Avillion
under the boards, but he makes
Up for. this with a great sense
of timing.
: “He seems to know just when
to leave his feet to tip a shot,"
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• AS a matter of fact, the
editor of this rag. a
/ ,r \ Pen Pal League
member from way back,
immediately on seeing the
, advance copy, wrote Miu
Afflerbach. We're not sure
what else they may be corre
sponding about, but the one
fact that can, 'apparently, be
released to our readers is tha t
the nom-pilling Eagle Os
fords, Tabsnaps® and/or
Sloppy Bulges and ail, can
almost certainly be found at
Hut's
Traditional Shop
• 342 East College Ave.
Hut's
Men's Shop
i 114-East College Ave.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. UNIVERSITY PARK. PENNSYLVANIA
RON AVILLION
aid. “He has the knack to
above everyone at just the
ime."
Egli sa
be up i
right t
land his assistant. Snowyj
in. both feel that Avillion i
Egli
Simps<
EAGLE SHIRTMAKERS PROUDLY ANNOUNCES
OH, given tithe a short-necked man with a heavy beard could pill any oxford
cloth, they’re that soft. But until just recently even Little Lord Fauntleroy.
could have pilled a DACRON/cotton oxford cloth shirt with one curl tied behind
him. Which is why we didn’t put out any of them. ★ Sure you know what pilled
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means; it’s when the fabric gets roughed up into little pills. ★ Well, Du Pont has
a brand new type Dacron that resists pilling. It came out about a year ago, but
we waited until Greenwood Mills, the weavers who make our cotton oxfords
produced a DACRON/cotton oxford they were proud of; a really luxuriant lofted
oxford. And that brings us up to now. We are making Eagle Shirts Of this new
material in both a and a button-down collar. At ajx>ut $8.50. 1
★ Tabsnaps, you may recall, are Eagle tab collars that need no collar buttons.
Our button-down collars also have a property highly prized by the toney
cognoscenti**: a sort of sloppy bulge. We used to call this “flare” until we noticed
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everybody else was too. Besides, it really isn't a flare, it’s a sloppy bulge, but itj’s
ours and-we like it. ★ So if you want a drip-dry oxford shirt that won’t pill
perhaps you’d better drop a note to Miss Afflerbach (she says forget the footnote)
and ask her where in your town you can find Eagle Shirts. This is because many
fine stores prefer to put their own labels in our shirts; very flattering, but tough
on Eagle eyed shoppers. Write her care of Eagle Shirtmakers, Quakertown, Pa.
•Du Pont's trademark for its polyester fiber. **That wouldn't be a bad name for an Italian fashion consultant. Say, do yon
suppose we could get Miss Afflerbach to change her name to toni Cognoscenti and
benefited greatly irom a year of
freshman ball.
•'lt's a big change from high
school to college bali." Egli said.
"And that year of. freshman ball
helps a player gefsodjusted to the
change. He also receives game
competition." =
Avillion was the mainstay of
the freshman squad which posted
a 4-4 mark last year. J
ALTHOUGH HE averaged only
10 9 points per game, he was the
teams leading rebounder and
near the top in assists.
One of Avillion’s big problems
so far this winter :is "getting his
eye back." . . |
A lack of summer practice onj
the courts accounts for this andi
it seems like only a
time before Avillion will lie j
making the'nets dance regularly.!
If Avillion should continue to
hold down hLs forward spot, Egli
could very well start three sopho
mores against Maryland. He said
before practice started that Weiss,
Hoover and Avillion must be con
sidered for starting berths.
With the likes of Avillion and
the other promising sophomores
moving up to the varsity, the next
three years for Penn State-basket
ball fans might be rosy.
A DACRON/COTTON OXFORD
THAT WILL NOT PILL!
Penn Slate Barbell Club Reactivated;
Lift Contest Scheduled for Sunday
By KEN DENLINGER
Assistant Sports Editor
Sunday afternoon the strongest, man at Penn State will
be discovered
The distirvetion_wilV be decided in an “all-comers’* weight
lifting match staged by the'JPenn State Barbell Club starting
at 2 p m. in Recreation Hail
Under the direction of -Norm
Gordon, faculty advisor, the club
has . a three-fold purpose which
includes weight training, . body
building and weight lifting.
“There has been a great in
terest shown in the club ' thus
far,” Gordon says, -'and we en
courage anyone with any ability
at all to come out and see what
they !can do.”
GORDON SAYS that at the
moment he hasn't found anyone
ready to challenge Paul Ander
son in a man'-to-mnn lift, but
there are quite a few men who
have not only an
interest but also some ability for
the sport.
Provided there is enough in
terest and enough talent can be
found. Gordon said that in a few
years a Penrr State weightlifting
team may be formed and an inter
collegiate schedule would be
adopted.
“At the moment our goal is to
encourage men to develop an ap
preciation fiv- weight training,"
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■p • IM2 EAGLE SHIaTMAKtSIS. QUAKER IC/WN. PENNSYLVANIA
Cordon said. “Whether it is ta
build, a better looking body or to
overcome weakness or some'phys
ical handicap, we hope to do our
part in raising the national stand
ard of physical fitness
"If it is possible we would liko
to form a team and compete m
collegiate competition," Gordon
continued, "but these are long
range plans.”
As for Sunday's meet. Cordon
says .that there will be'the three
Olympic, events the military
press, the snatch and the clean
and jerk in the afternoon, fol
lowed by a series of power lifts
starting at 7 p.m. in the evening.
These power, lifts will. consist of
the bench press, a.dead .'lift and
90-degree squats.
The match is open for students
(graduate included), faculty and
anyone else connected with tho
University
It's an opportunity to find out
how your muscles stack up
against others m the University.
And. it’s free.
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