SATURDAY. JANUARY 19. 1963
Gymnasts Battle
Lions Hope To Regain
Lost National Prestige
Penn State s gymnastics squad, seeking to regain suprem
acy in Eastern'and national circles, opens its 1963 season
tonight against , a mediocre Springfield College team in the
Indians’ gym.
For years the Nittany Lion gymnasts ranked as the best
In the country, winning NGAA titles in 1959-60-61. But last
year, despite the brilliant performances of the now graduated
Greg Weiss; coach Gene Wettstone’s proteges managed a 5-1
dual-meet mark, dropped to ninth ★ ★ ★
in the nationals and placed as
runner-up in the Easterns
This year State’s gymnasts, led
by a core of seven lettermen and
solid reserves, are out to regain
that lost prestige. Among the dif
ficult hurdles on the gymnasts’
agenda are Army, Syracuse and
Pitt—the filial three opponents
on the Lions’ schedule of six dual
meets.
SPRINGFIELD SPORTS a rec
ord which perhaps does little jus
tice to its performance in four
meets so far this season. Coach
Frank Wolcott’s Indians have cop
ped only one victory—a 51-45 up
set over the Pitt Panthers—while
dropping close decisions to Navy,
51-45, and Temple, '49-46.
The other Indian loss was a
severe one, 62-34, dealt by the
perennially powerful - Cadets of
Army. Top performers for
field have been Bill Scherer, free
exercise, and sophomore . all
around competitors Steve Ross
and Bruce Wright. -
Senior all-around, man Tom
Seward and sophomore Mike
Jacobson head the cast of Lion
entries. Seward will compete in
free exercise, parallel bars and
horizontal bar. Jacobson, con
sidered by Wettstone as one of
the best young gymnastics pros
pects on this year’s team, will
make his intercollegiate varsity
debut horizontal bar and
parallel Bars events.
Lettermen Gene Harlacher and
Bill Schlegel conclude State’s en
tries in free exercise, while an
other outstanding sophomore,' .Jim
Culhane, will back Jacobson and
Seward up on the horizontal bar
and the parallel bars.'
COMPETING ON the still rings
will be Bud,.Williams, runner-up
in the event in last year’s East
erns Tournament, and sophomore
Bill ..Jenkins and John Martin.
Veteran F. P. Sforza and sopho
mores Pete. Saponaro and Tom
Burnett will vault the long horse;
Harlacher and juniors Allen Por
ter and Ray Cherry will test
Springfield competitors on the
side horse.
The series between the two
schools, which began only two
years ago, stands at 2-0 in favor
of Penn State. The Lions won last
year’s meet by a wide 64-32 mar
gin.
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. . . Slate’s No.' 1 gymnast
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The team left by bus at noon
yesterday, and will quarter' at
the Hotel Sheraton-Kimball in
Springfield., They’ll return to
campus on Sunday.
WETTSTONE SAID yesterday
before departing that the stay at
Springfield College will probably
prove to be the most pleasant of
gny this year.
“The last time we were there,”
Wettstone remarked, “the stu
dents made us most welcome.
After the gym meet, they even
had a dance.”
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INDIAN HUNT: The Nittany Lion gymnasts in free exercise and on the side horse, and Ray
make their debut tonight against Springfield in Cherry, another Lion entrant on the side horse,
the Indians' gym.. Two of State's entries in the Springfield owns one victory in four starts,
meet are Gene Harlacher, left, who'll compete
Host Mar
Riflemen Seek Rebound Win
By cD CARPENTER
The ability of-a team to
bounce back after, defeat is one
way to tell the difference be
tween. a fair team and a top
notch one. This is tHe problem
confronting the Penn State
rifle,team today.
It. was just one week ago that
the Lion sharpshooters dropped
their first match of the season.
The loss, 1444-1424, was against
an exceptionally strong West
Point team.
The question now is whether the
riflemen can bounce back against
Maryland at 1:30 this afternoon
on the-University rifle range.
LION COACH Sgt. Joe Watson
is optimistic that his club will
win. This marks the fifth time
that Watson has predicted a vic
tory. He has been right on'three
of them.
“We should win this one, but
it will be closer than last year’s
meet,” Watson said' this week.
State won last year'by 1426-1401.
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The meet may be tougher than
many people think, however, for
the Terps will be here for revenge.
It marks the fourth year that
Maryland has been on the sched
ule and'The Lions have won all
of them.
If scores during practice are any
indication of what to expect in a
meet, the Lions _
should have litti
trouble in picf
ing up t h e i
fourth victor,
Watson has hei
two formal prai
tices this weei
and the Lior
have shot scort
of 1447 and 144;
Unfortunate!
scores in practii
are not indict
tive of what a
team will do dur- Nn * el
ing actual competition. For ex
ample, less than a week before
meeting Army, the Lions fired a
1443 during a practice round.
"except for one
change, will be sending the same
team to the firing line that rep-
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resented the Lions last Week. The
change-will find sophomore Hiram
Wolf shooting in place of Lcs
Parmelc. The remaining nine
riflemen will be captain Rich
Gogolkiewicz, Bill Shaffer,' Walt
Estep, Neil Anderson, Den Bntm
bach, Warren Grossman, Chuck
Nagel, Walt Morrow and Rich
Taylor.
A victory this afternoon would
boost the chances of an improved
record over last year’s 10-3 mark.
Stanford Names Ralston
STANFORD, Calif. (AP)—John
Ralston, a winning coach at Utah
State' University the past four
years, was named head football
coach at Stanford University yes
terday.
Dr. J. E. Wallace Sterling,
president, said the appointment,
subject to the approval of the
Board of Trustee, is for three
years at an undisclosed salary.
The 35-year-old Ralston, a Uni
versity of California graduate,
has compiled the impressive rec
ord of 31 victories, 11 defeats and
one t'e with the Aggies.
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