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By RON KOLB crazy, Galen," whenever soph Galen Godbey sank gained weight and lost wind, Egli saw he' needed =
Assistant Sports Editor a corner shot. He soon became more emotionally a lot of conditioning. .
involved than anyone in Rec Hall. - Bill dressed for the first tournament game
When Bill Stansfield swished a 10-foot jump
Finally the Lions spurted from behind to take against Boston College, heavy foam pad on his
= shot to beat Kent State Saturday, the crowd gave
a tight lead, and the
Stansfield
called time out, late right . arm, but . he didn't
. expect to see much a . c
= him a typical tumultuous cheer that accompanies
in the game. went, wild. He stood up ton. When BIT Young picked up three quick
= all exciting last-second victories. However, Stans
above the crowd and screamed, "Give me an "S,"personal fouls in the first half, Egli pulled the big
= field didn't turn somersaults or raise his hand in
: jubilation. Instead, he breathed an "it's about and a handful of students yelled "S." guy off the bench. No one was more surprised
= time" sigh of relief. The basket was a fitting,cli- "Give ,me a 'T'," Bill shouted, his face red with than Stansfield.
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excitement. T, returned about a dozen more Getting into his first competition of the year,
- max to an otherwise
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LT nightmarish year. fans. But the big' guy just got too wrapped up in he was perceptibly rusty and being naturally right
Stansfield's trou- ........, his yell. "Give me a 'T'," he repeated. The crowd handed, he had to rely on the unorthodox left
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_____l l . l laughed, and Stansfield ' returned to his seat. His handed shots or hooks to score his points. The
before the season be-
bles all started even cheerleading days were over, wrist of his injured arm wouldn't bend without
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Ei gan, during one of the ' L-- But the cast still didn't come off, even after causing pain. It also caused him embarrassment
team's early practice s,-.
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the anticipated unveiling date. He had hoped to and grief.
= . scrimmages. The 6-8, . • ~...._ )) be ready to play at Madison Square Garden in Stansfield mlssed two easy layups in the first
the Holiday Festival . tournament, but doctors sug- half, and a crowd of about 5,000 at the Garden
235-pound center came , 7- --- "' /. ,••• /p
- down with a rebound, '.:•.. ..;; ,i, t ri,s. gested he go home to North Palm Beach, Fla., for felt sorry for him. However, in the midst of a
„0----- W the holidays. Maybe he could make the trip to four-on-one break, Stansfield blew the easiest
and during the ensu
\ -J l - 4 ' :,, • New York later. one of his career. The crowd's pitious sighs turned
= ing scuffle under the
._,,.. Sunny Florida is hardly the place to get to boos. Bill started to fight himself on the foul
E boards, he swung his . -,'",-' •;.• •,•
" ' .-.'.- . - -10 basketball players to play at Penn State, espe- line, and the fans turned to laughter. Finally,
forearm around and ..t....
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accidently smashed a. ."4 cially a 6-8 player who in high school twice made , near the end of the game, he took the ball in the
- teammate's cranium. the all-Florida scholastic squad, averaging 25.5 a pivot and underhanded it in from about seven
Something snapped, KOLB game. However, it took hardly any recruiting to feet. Though he said it was the only shot he had,
and when they discovered that the dazed defender get him to University Park. Stansfield had been apparently tired of missing
- still had his head and his senses, they knew the You see, Stansfield was born in Hershey, and simply had to try something different.
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----:' sound must have come from Big Bill. where his father, H. W. Stansfield, was aju jitsu Egli knows how important it is to have a
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S. John Egli gritted his teeth when doctors told instructor for the Hershey State Police. However, healthy Bill Stansfield. "We could probably be
him it was broken, but no one was more disap-
Dad's job as district manager for Airlift Inter- close to undefeated now if we had had him all
= pointed than Stansfield. A year ago, as a sopho- national moved Bill and family to the South. Bill's season," the coach said. "I know we would have
- more, he had been second only to Jeff Persson sister decided to come to Penn State and is now beaten Syracuse both times."
teaching in Pennsylvania.
in scoring with 15.9 points per game, hitting a "He's not going for the second and third efforts
team-leading 45.5 per cent of his shots. He had Meanwhile, the high school star matured, and yet, but he's getting better," Egli commented after
E also grabbed 187 rebounds. This was to be his as he grew so did the basketball offers. About 44 the Kent State win, in which Stansfield had 13
= year. colleges contacted him, including powers like points. And as soon as he gets down to playing
= Instead, when the buzzer sounded to begin Duke, Utah, Tennessee, Michigan, South Caro. weight and is able to go hard for a whole ball
= the opening game against Maryland a month ago , game, big Bill may turn into what Egli predicted:
ling and all the Florida schools. But, as Bill put
= Stansfield was sitting high up off the court, at l "One of the better big men we've had at Penn
E. : . the end of press row. He had a cast on his right it, "I Just liked Penn State better." State."
arm, and he fidgeted with a movie camera as he The cast was finally removed and 'about a That sigh Bill let out after scoring the win
watched the tap. week before Christmas, Stansfield started dili- ning basket Saturday should mean Stansfield's
Throughout the game he was up and down gent practice sessions again. However, he had awakening from a bad nightmare. Get him into
E-... off his chair, yelling encouragement, like "Go eaten well during the rest period, and because of shape and we can all sleep better.
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UCLA, Houston on Top; ABA Sets Star Tilt
It The Associated Prow
Two unbeaten teams, UCLA and Hous
ton, remain one-two while two other un
beatens, St. Bonaventure and New Mexico,
advanced
,slightly yesterday in The Asso
ciated Press' major college basketball poll.
UCLA, 10-0, again drew all but one first
place vote and amassed a total of 389 points
for the No. 1 spot in the Top Ten. Houston,
15-0, got the other first-place vote and com
piled 351 points for second.
St. Bonaventure ran its record to 11-0
with two victories last week and climbed
from ninth to seventh. New Mexico, 13-0
after a pair of victories last week, moved
from 10th to ninth.
Slipping into 10th was Columbia, which
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overwhelmed two Ivy League opponents
during the weekend for a 9-3 record.
To make room for the Lions, the board
of sports writers and sportcasters dropped
Oklahoma City from the eighth spot. The
Chiefs lost twice last week, 94-92 to Nevada
Southern and 74-63 to Portland.
North Carolina, 9-1, remained No. 3,
but Vanderbilt, 10-2, tumbled from fourth
to eighth after losing to Kentucky 94-78.
Kentucky, 8-1, fifth last week, replaced
Vandy in fourth while Tennessee, 7-1, moved
from sixth to fifth and Utah 11-1, seventh to
sixth.
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1. UCLA (38) 389 More than 12,000 tickets have been sold
2. Houston (1) 351 for the game which will be played in the
3. North Carolina 301 14,900-seat Hinkle Fieldhouse at Butler Uni
4. Kentucky 256 versity, The game will be televised in color
5. Tennessee 183 to the league's other 10 cities, plus New
6. Utah 159 York and Los Angeles. Indiana will be
7. St. Bonaventure 135 blacked out.
8. Vanderbilt 114 Pollard is best known for his All-Pro
9. New Mexico 89 days with Minneapolis when he teamed with
10. Columbia 44 ABA Commissioner George Mikan to lead
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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (IP) Coaches tional Basketball Association.
Jim Pollard and Babe McCarthy, who have McCarthy earned his name in coaching
captured the early inside tracks in their by directing Mississippi State to four South
divisions, match East and West teams here eastern Conference titles and three straight
tonight in the first American Basketball from 1961 to 1963.
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SWEDISH. PRE-DENTAL student Christer Jonsson will
be one of the Scandinavian gymnasts competing in Friday
night's international gyMnastics meet. Jonsson was the
1966 Swedish champion.
Coed Gymnasts To Compete
The wo me n's gymnastics eran co-captain Colleen will
team will open the 1968 season be unable to compete in the
at 2 p.m. Saturday with a dual side horse vault, Miss Corrigan
meet against Springfield Col- said.
lege in the White Fall gym. Ginger is one of several
According to Coach Kathy freshmen who will compete in
Corrigan, the Penn State team the Saturday meet.
came close to defeating the Miss Corrigan said she also
Maroons last year.' This sea- expects to enter Betty Jo
son," she said, "our teams are Spangler, Carol Feldman, Joan
very evenly matched." The York, Susan Duvall, Becky
Springfield team is one of the Yeagley, Connie Jacobs, Judy
top teams in the nation, she
said. Spatz and Gail Tart in the coin-
Among those competing for petition.
the Lionesses this Saturday will Women's gym nasti c s is
be co-captain Linda Harkle- judged on a basis similar to
road as all-around, Colleen men's although no strength
Vlachos and Ginger Hettema. movements are included in
Because of a knee injury, vet- women's rontines.
Francis Hit for $2OO More
MONTREAL (AP)—Clarence a game against the Chicago
Campbell, National Hockey Black Hawks in pursuit of ref-
League president, handed Gen- e Bill Friday to protest a
eral Manager-Coach Emile
judgment
Francis of the New York Ran- call by the official.
gers an additional $2OO fine By leaving the bench and
yesterday for an infraction stepping on the ice, Francis
which occurred in Madison incurred an automatic $5O levy,
Square Garden Dec. 30. bringing his total assessment
Francis took to the ice during for his journey to $250.
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