IS—The Daily Collegian Thursday, B«jcemb! Bach looks for a Cagers I , ByGORDENBLAIN , Assistant Sports Editor John Bach starts his eighth year as Penn State’s basketball coach Saying! he hopes he wiU not be judged by his record. J Penn {State basketball is coming off a disappointing 1974-1975 11-12 record, the first time in four years the Lion cagers weie below ;the .500 mark. Bach received a lot of heat from fans last year fans frustrated with the years of mediocrity on the Rec Hall floor. This year poses another test for Bach and a very chancey lest because the 25-year coach with a 57.3 lifetime winning percentage has a young team and an inex perienced big man, a position so crucial in college basketball. “I don’t worry about it,” Bach says of the dependence of his job upon a winner this year. “You work twice as hard sometimes and you’re disappointed you don’t do better. Then comes a year you don't do as well as you should. I hope I’m not judged by the record. "When I first came here Joe Palemo told me ‘You got to gel lucky’ God we’ve tried. We’re so close and we have been close. No one was more disappointed than we were last year,” Bach says. The stature of the Penn State program and the physical location of the school have hampered the im provement of the basketball situation at Penn State, ac cording to Bach. In past years a tough road schedule in the opening month of December has hampered successful starts to the season and.has ultimately cost the Lion record by the time March rolls around and tournament Heisman vo PITTSBURGH (AP) He wasn’t asked to vote, but Pitt’s Tony Dorsett says he would have picked himself in the Heisman Trophy balloting. “But I guess I’m prejudiced,” Dorsett said as he awaited Pitt’s Sun Bowl game on Dec. 26 with Kansas. 1 Dorsett rushed for 1,544 yards; in the regular season, but he finished a; distant fourth in the Heisman balloting to Ohio State’s Archie Griffin, who rushed for 1,357 yards. ‘Personally, I feel I have the credentials GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS IN JEWISH COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION Program Available College Seniors and Students are invited to apply for a specialized program of graduate education (Masters degre.e) with special emphasis on: Community Organization, Social jAgency Management, Administration, Community Planning, Fund {Raising, and Budgeting. 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We can live if (center Romel) Raffin can stabilize ari(i (forward Chris) Erijchsen settles down. Normally we’d be looking for iln the sophomore with only (guard • the freshman will lely play - a rr’ a spark froi group but Jefft Miller unfbrtunat •ole. I don’t mean the freshmen but ring to be a lot of m themj” Bach Bach has been to favor playing i the varsity level, i 6-8 junior from Ontarioj is getting ill the center shoes significant to pressure there are g< demands c forecasts, known not freshmen ot Raffin, a Kitchener, < the nod to fi Randy Meister. of graduate te irks with myself I know I'ip worthy of the award,” said Dorsett, a junior who could eventually replace Griffin as the all-time career rushing leader in major college football history. Griffin will be gone next season, and Dorsett and Southern Cal’s Rickie Bell likely will lead the rush for the Heisman award. “The Heisman symbolizes that you’re the best,” said Dorsett. “And that means a lot to someone like myself who strives for the best. Being the best in the whole country means a lot.” size, * J ■eJ 11 ■■v Ik I IKMiiL} 1 ‘ Tommy Doaty Bach says he is counting on Raffin to be the center but adds,. “I don't think we'rej asking him tolplay on the All- America level!’’ Raffin, who played for Canada in October’s Pan- American Games, will get help on the inside game from returning senior 6-8 Dave Andstadt, 6-6 junior Chris j Erichsen, 6-8 freshman \ Carvin Jefferson, and 6-5 j frosh Bob Kinzer. But with all the help, there are many questions. Angstadl, the only main stay of the front court, will j play the seasqti hurt. Bach explains: .“To be very honest, he’s going to jhave to play hurt. He’s faced with a dilemma either play hurt or have an operation and be lost for six to eight weeks. It’s a symbol of'an athlete.” Angstadl is suffering from a recurring foot injury sustained last season. Bach says both Erichsen and Jefferson show a lot of promise but he adds he’s tired of waiting for Erichsen to, develop. Erichsen was. physically and academically hampered his first two years: “I’ve gotten to the point where I can’t wait any longer. Dorsett experience Jim Ouderkirk He could be the strongest up front player. Inside and outside he’s our potential best scorer. Chris has to get his game together,”, Bach says. Erichsen; former high school player of the year in West Virginia, finished last season strong, finally breaking into the starting five. “Carvin has shown a lot of promise at both forward and center,” Bach says of the lanky, rookie center. “He has a world of potential.” ' Bach adds that Erichsen’s and Raffin’s play are crucial if he might be patient in developing the young Jef ferson. ■' Bach hhs said he would have liked toaise Raffin more last year, at forward next to Meister:but he was Unable to when the. Lions fell into a slump in January. He .hopes the same situation doesn’t occur ' again with Jefferson. jßach says his team will play defense in “the other guys backyard”, and is going to get the ball out on the break .even “better than before.” “I think, we’re in the con servative era. We had slower people before.* We’re not ’loaded with All-Americans but we can speed up the tempo. If we would have run any faster last year, we would have run faster to defeat,” Bach adds. “I don’t think we got. the credit we should have gotten for running-last year.” To use a pressing defense and running game, a promise he made last year but took time to develop, Bach is loaded with backcourt people. I He has, a possible number of jsixballhandlers. | The corps of small men are led by seniors and returning starters Jim Ouderkirk, whose 12.8 point game average of last season makes him the leading returning scorer, and Tom Doaty, last ’year’s assist leader. Junior Kevin Cadle and sophomore Jeff Miller, both of whom improved at the end of last year, give Bath’s backcourt jecperience and depth. Fresh men Harvey Wooten and Rob G’Conor add to Bach’s abundance of ball handlers. Wooten, a transfer from Massanutten -Prep in Virginia, figured high in Bach’s plans for switching between forward, and guard: UNIVERSITY CALENDAR Thuisday, Tour ofPaltee Library, 9,10,11 a.m., and 2,3, 4,7 p.m., lobby of Pa ttee. Commons Videotape, 12 noon, Kern lobby. Sports: Men’sbasketball, vs. Delaware, 8 p.m., Rec Hall. Student Assistance Center, 7:30 p.m., HUB reading room. Veterans orientation. Ceramic Science, 11 a.m., Room 301 Mineral Industries. John W. Ha Horan, materials scjence and engineering, MIT, on “Tracer Diffusion in FeAl2o4 Spinel.” Chemistry, 12:45 p.m.. Room 333 Whitmore. James L. Kassner, University of Missouri at Rolla, on “Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Nucleation of Water Vapor.” s Mathematics, 4 p.m., Room 102 McAllister. Antoni Zigmund, University of Chicago, mj “Problems of Differentiability of Functions.” Computer Sjcience, 4 p.m., Room 325 Whitmore. 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Wooten is only ,6-4 but Bach plans to use him because of the lack of depth at forward. “One thing we hope to do is not rush him beyond his talent,” Bach says of Wooten. “We rushed Miller last year too much. “I see as I look ahead that we will have more of a chance to substitute and substitute equally. We lacked here last year,” Bach says. “We’re paying the price for-a lean sophomore year. We lost some promising athletes in Marc Ivaroni (to Virginia) and Maurice Robinson (to West Virginia). The season is very questionable.” And Bach has some questionable people that may play a role in the campaign. A junior walk-on from Philadelphia, 6-5 Darryl Anderson may have to be used forward if injuries thin the frontline. There have been numerous minor in juries in preseason workouts. Bach took Anderson from a group of 25 walk-ons trying out. Bach also says he is depending on a player from the military. Marion Waltower, a 6-5 rebounder, is supposedly going to register for the winter term. Bach termed this former armed services player as “a bit of an unknown quantity.” Bach lost senior Bill Botts when the forward, who had seen little action in his first three years, decided to quit. Bach says he told Botts if a younger player was of his equal he would have to go with the younger player. Bach, says Botts understood and decided to leave. While Raffm’s status on the court is untested, his status at Penn State is being tested. Rumors have been flying indicating the junior is in trouble with the university’s discipline system. Bach assures Raffin is not in trouble. "Romel has faced student charges for an incident in tlte dorms,” Bach says. “It has weighed heavily on his mind. He is still on probation from a year ago.” There’s a lo.t of questions for Penn State’s basketball season. A tougher schedule with three tournaments the Pillsbury Classic in Min nesota, the- Presidential Classic iii Washington D.C., and the Pennsylvania Classic in Pittsburgh will increase the questions. There are only 10 home games on the 25- game schedule. Penn State will bid for an at-large berth in the NCAA playoffs. The eight team Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League, of which Penn State is a part, will not begin play until next year. But for now the Lion cagers will try to get through December and their inex perience. December 4, 1975 SPECIAL EVENTS MEETINGS SEMINARS EXHIBITS Coach Bill Ko/I studies the moves of two squad members as they strug gle for the advantage Tourney will tell says Koil Grapplers please coach By JACR PATON ' Collegian Sports Writer If Saturday’s 41-0 rout of Buffalo is any indication of the Penn State wrestling team’s ability, coach Bill Roll should be feeling good about the new season’s prospects. Roll, however, is not ready to judge his team on the strength erf the season opener. “There’s no telling how good Buffalo is,” said the coach, beginning his 12th year as Lion mentor. “We’ll know better after this weekend.” This weekend is the Penn State Invitational, an eight-team field represen tative of some of the nation’s finest collegiate squads. “I don’t think there is a tournament in the country that can compare with' this one, outside of the nationals,”^aid Roll. ‘ The Lions, 7-4-1 last season, enter the tournament with most of their regulars back, although 126-pound NCAA champ John Fritz has graduated. Several weight classes have been decided in recent days by intra-squad elimination bouts, and Roll finds this situation healthy. “The extra competition among the fellows this year will bring out the best in them,” he said. “They know they have someone right behind them to take over if they start to falter.” Three spots that have been at least tem porarily decided by eliminations are 134, with junior Rich Kepler coming out ahead of senior Tom Teagarden; 142, where returning starter Denny Sciabica has fought off state high school champion John Eichenlaub; and 150, with soph Bill Vollrath returning from a year’s absence due to illness to claim the spot. Freshman Bill Bertrand, another high school champ, has apparently nailed down L j the 190 spot after pinning his Buffalo op p6nent. The other positions appear to be set, barring injury or a new challenger coming to the fore. These start off with Wayne Packer, senior from State College, at 118. Roll called him “superb” in his 17-6 decision Saturday night. Packer lost only once in dual meet action last year. At 126, Jimmy Earl has dropped from 134 and become one of the team’s most improved wrestlers, according to his coach. After the three middle classes comes Dave Becker at 158. Becker won the NCAA Eastern Regional at his Weight as a freshman last year and compiled a 12-5-Jrecord. Team captain Jerry Villecco returns at 167 after two All-America seasons and a 17-4 mark last year. “Jerry’s the man everyone will be looking up to this year,” said Roll, “much like Fritz was last year. He’s so strong, he’ll have opponents hoping just to avoid a pin.” - Junior Jerry White, 15-5 last year, has moved down from 190 to 177 to help fill the void caused by the graduation of Dan Brenneman. The heavyweight of the moment is senior Rich Boehmer, but he apparently will be at that spot only until Brad Benson’s football responsibilities are completed. The sweep of Buffalo marked the inaugural of| the Eastern Wrestling League, whose charter members also include Bloomsburg, Clarion, Lock Haven, and Pitt. Koll believes that the Lions' league participation and an upgraded schedule present more of a challenge to this year’s team. “There won’t be many meets where we'll have such a wide margin of victory,” he says. f — —""i S The Perfect Christmas Gift S | Your official- 5 Penn State class ring... f Accurately detailecß by Jewelry’s finest 5 raftsmen. 2 I I our offers you the largest t I possible selection j 0 Penn State Class Rings are available in 0 0 three styles for men and seven styles for 0 0 women. All styles are available in 10K 0 I yellow or white gold, sterling silver, palla- J 5 dinm and six-part gold. S \ G Bafour \ m Ring found also at m 5 kranfchV \ \ 326 E. College Ave. I Only the Newspaper SATURATION POINT up as much news os you wont for now save the rest for later It II keep. 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