PAGE SIX By DEAN BILLICK Sports Editor It’s been a long, hard winter for Lion guard John Mitchell, but the senior co-captain is ready to wipe the slate clean and begin all over again Sat urday night. And that could spell trouble for Penn State’s eight remaining .foes. At least that’s the word from Ree Hall where State’s upstart Lions have been working for their game against Bucknell. Mitchell has - played exactly seven minutes so far this season since injuring his knea in a pre season scrimmage game. The 6-0 floor general was the leading re turning scorer from last year’s team, but has canned just four points this season. After the scrimmage injury, Mitchell played in the Lehigh and Marshall games, but both times pulled up lame with stretched knee ligaments after a couple minutes of action. - IT'S BEEN over a months though, since that last injury and Mitchell feels his knee is ready; “I think I’m ready now, so it’s up to Ihe coach," Mitchell said last night after breezing through a rough scrimmage. “I’m optimis tic I can play a lot of ball. I don’t feel ns if I’m through'or finished.”- The Nittany co-captain 'was quick, though, to praise the ef forts of sophomore guard Bobby Weiss and junior , guard Bobby Donato. “They’ve done a veal fine job, maybe even better than I could have done,” Mitchell said. “But I’ve played on the first team for two years and I just hate to sit on Ihe bench. My knee feels good and I think I can help the team Tor the lough part of the schedule coming up.”' Lion cdach Jphn. Egli isn’t say ing much but it’d plain happy to have his co-captain back. "HIS KNEE looked good, to night and we’ll just have to see how it reacts under pressure,” Egli said last night. “Mitchell is VanderKelen Signs With Vikings ST. PAUL - MINNEAPOLIS (/P) —The Minnesota Vikings liu’ed Wisconsin’s stylish quar terback R o n' VanderKelen across the border yesterday and ended three weeks of speculation by getting his signa ture on a pro football contract. The Wisconsin senior, pretty much ignored by. the pros until his record-setting passing show in the Rose Bowl, signed a one year contract for undisclosed terms. WHEN VANDERKELEN left the field last November after Wis consin beat Minnesota 14-9 for RUSHING SMOKER PHI KAPPA TAU - . ' % - - ‘ • • , .. i : Wednesday, January 23,1963 7-9 p.m, i-• . ' FRESHMEN WELCOME Fairmount & Garner Refreshments and- Entertainment 'THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, UNIVERSITY PARK. PENNSYLVANIA ' ★ ★ * starting to. work real hard arid that’s good to see.” , Egli said, hoy/ever, he will stick with the. sii'me lineup- that has won four of its last five' games and carried the brunt, of State’s 9:3 record.' '' - '• “Wet-ve. been v winning and I’m not about to change a, winning combination,” he explained. “It’s like'this: -If I’m ' winning with three aces, I’m not'going to change the Big- Ten title, he had four .front teeth missing and his face was a mass of bruises and .blood. But the battering he took in that game -.convinced Viking Coach Norm Van Brocklin that Vander- Kelen was his type of player. - “What I liked the most about' him was his guts,” Van Brocklin said with characteristic bluntness. “He really took some punishment and was better at the end of the game than at the start.” VANDERKELEN, 23, said he had been sought by seven, or eight other pro fpotball clubs, but chose the National F6ot b a J 1 League Vikings because they of fered a greater opportunity to play. JOHN MITCHELL ... readtj tq try again . to duces.” AND WINNING the Lions have bjeen:-With two sophomores, two juniors and a senior doing'- the heavy duty, the cagers have raced to. a surprisingly strong first half. Before'the loss to West Virginia one week ago, State knocked off in succession, Temple,. Bucknell, Colgate and Syracuse.,’ The loss to sixth-ranked West Virginia was no disgrace either. Twice in the last half State fought back huge deficits to close the gap to five and then three points. However,-, the home court advan tage and the Mountie superior bench strength was a little too much for Egli’s “Iron-Five.’’ Senior Earl Hoffman leads the Lion scoring barrage at 240 points with a 47.5 shooting percentage and a 20-point average, per game. Sophomore sensation Weiss trails Hoffman with 169 points, followed by Donato with 137 points, Rod Avillion with 89 scores and Tom Malinchak with 62. Encloses Ice Rink ■Workmen recently, put the finishing touches on Penn State’s newest and most modern recreational facility—the University- Ice Rink—by completely enclosing the huge pavil lion from the elements of winter. - Specially tinted translucent panels of plastic were in stalled at;both ends of the towering dome-like structure, while glass windows and doors were placed along the sides. ' The. tjv enlarge walls of this tinted plastic material almost isolate the 'skater from outside weather, but the addition brings with it several advantages. It not only repels snow, wind and sun light, but helps to maintain an even indoors. temperature by keeping out excessively cold weather, THE ENCLOSURE marks the third addition to the original pro ject since January of 1955, when the skating rink was officially dedicated. The first was the addi tion of a clubhouse and facilities; the second, the gigantic pavillion roof. “For years there has been a crying need for an outdoor facil ity on this campus,’’ Athletic Di rector Ernest B. McCoy remarked ’shortly after -the opening. “It’s ■our belief thqt we are filling this want by providing an ice skating irink.” 5 Duriftg the University’sjChrist ■fmas recess in December of 195'4 r % crowd of 800 skating enthusiasts the artificial rink. At -.that time, work on the clubhouse was nearly finished. Construction of the pavillion roof— the second major phase of the project — : was IH Results Basketball . Fraternity PhPGnm Del 37TnirPhi Del 22 Sterna ‘Nu ' --32 Pi Knp Phi 22 A 1 Phi A 1 - J " 30 Delta Phi 21 Phi Kap Sig "29 A 1 Chi Sig 20 High Scorer.—KlM POWELL, Sigma Nu, 1.4 Independent Lyons lIP 31 Lyons' I 29 Somerset 27 Lyons IV Uutler ■ Clearfield Mifflin 22 Cumberland * > 20 Lyons II 21 Northumberland 16 High Scorer—MlKE KJRSCHNER, Lyons 111, 14 - - . ' Bowling . Independent League A B'lndiunri /Allegheny ' 8 Co'alcrackers 0 Nfittany 36-37 8 Luzerne 0 Tornadoes 8 Cumberland 0 Head Pins . 6 Viceroys 2 High Game—RICHARD HOLVERSTOTT, Head Pins, 223 High Series—CUßT KUHNS, Head Pins. 621 Independent League B Chestnut 8 Butternut York 8 Lawrence 6 Lebanon Owls 6 Poodles 2 ,Lovers 6 Hi-Lo’s 2 High HARRIS, .Lovers, 223 ; BILL BRACKEN. Owls, 223 High Series—HAßßY HARRIS, Lovers, 638 STATE COLLEGE WILL BE CtOSiD ALL DAY WtDNESDAY. JAN. 23 . IN PREPARATION FOR ANNUAL WINTER SALE WhicK begins Thursday moriiing at 8:30 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23; 1963 By JOE GRATA completed two years ago. The ice rink helps to alleviate the University’s apparent need for complete and adequate rec reational facilities. If the admin istration would ever elect do pro mote competitive ice hockey, the surface of the rink measures 100 by 200, a substantial area for the sport. . Approximately 13 miles of pipe, about one inch in diameter, weave beneath the surface of the ice. These pipes lie three inches ..apart, parallel to each other, and rest on metal rockers imbedded in concrete. Two compressors, each powered by a 120-horsepower engine, and two circulatory pumps, powered by 25-horsepower engines, regu late the temperature of a calcium chlorine refrigerant (brine) and continuously move it- through the Intricate pipe network. When .the .temperature of the refrigerant rises to above 18 de crees, it-condenses and flows back 'to one of tlie compressors, gets reprocessed to a temperature of 16 degrees and is recirculated. . According to Jerry Galaida and ‘Slate golf coach Joe Boyle, who handle managerial duties at the rink, the Zamboni ice-resurfacing machine rates as the most popular feature among skaters. THE SELF-PROPELLED vehi cle makes an average of seven daily trips over the ice, scraping off 'the - old surface and laying down a thin sheet of water which quickly freezes into a shiny, new surface. It takes less than 15 minutes for the resurfacing pro cess. “The ick rink is just like another classroom,”' contends- Bob Ruther ford, Jr., supervisor. “Student skating classes are held here all day long. Then we offer open skating for .the-students and gen eral public.” Rutherford * reports that the largest count' of skaters ever to pack the rink was 900, in 1957. Even now on weekends the rink attracts upwards of 500 skaters. Open skating hours are from 7 to 10 p.m.-every day except Sun day. On Tuesdays the hours range from. 1 t 0.3 p.m., and on Thurs days, from 1 to 5 p.m. On Satur days and Sundays the rink is open from 1 to ,4:30 p.m.
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