Brown and White Vol. 56 no. 33

              brown and white price — 5 cents bethlehem pa friday march 12 1948 vol lvi — no.s2 e.i.w.a wrestling bouts will be held in grace hall at the fol lowing hours friday 1:00 p.m 8:00 p.m saturday 2:00 p.m 8:00 p.m lehigh u defends crown in current e.i.w.a meet editors choose potential e.i.w.a wrestling champions probable wrestling entries in eastern intercollegiates wrestlers arrive for annual bouts temple brown f&m enter 48 tournament two members drop out a record field of 128 collegiate wrestlers from the sixteen member institutions of the eastern inter collegiate wrestling association invaded grace hall this afternoon for the 44th annual title bouts newcomers to the tournament this year are brown university frank lin and marshall college and temple university dropped from membership this year are two ser vice institutions the united states merchant marine academy and the united states coast guard academy coach billy sheridan's matmen will be defending their crown for the 13th time since 1927 when the engineers shared top honors with the eli of yale defending their in dividual titles for lehigh will be pilgrim mcßaven in the 121 pound class and edwin erikson 165 pound champion a year ago 1948 other defending champions hop ing to repeat in the finals tomor row evening are wayne smith continued on page 2 imavy winner of 46 dual meets in the past six years will be the only undefeated team in this year's competition lehigh has one defeat on the record books for competi tion during the past four months previous team winners were 19u5 yale 1906 yale 1907 yale 1908 yale 1909 yale 1910 cornell 1911 princeton 1912 cornell 1913 cornell 1914 cornell 1915 cornell 1916 cornell 1917 cornell 1918 perm state 1919 perm state 1920 perm state 1921 perm state 1922 cornell 1923 cornell 1924 perm state 1925 perm state 1926 cornell 1927 lehigh & yale 1928 lehigh 1929 lehigh 1930 cornell 1931 lehigh 1932 lehigh 1933 lehigh 1934 lehigh 1935 lehigh 1936 perm state 1937 perm state 1938 lehigh 1939 — lehigh 1940 lehigh 1941 yale & princeton 1942 perm state 1943 navy 1944 navy 1945 navy 1946 navy 1947 lehigh tc slates dance movie an arcaria dance will be spon sored by the town council to morrowing evening march 13 in grace hall admission will be free to all town council members and twenty-five cents to all other persons all expenses of the function will be assumed by the council and all profits will be turned over to the arcadia fund at the last meeting on march 9 a general entertainmen session was held movies were shown the main feature being frontier justice starring hoot gibson it was announced during the meeting that many men are needed to serve on committees which are being formed in the near future by the council long perm state brooks naffzi ger yale lloyd rivard brown robert runyon columbia gard ner reynolds cornell robert cla flin harvard peter kassack penn sylvania unlimited heavyweight class henry o'shaughnessy defending champion columbia new bold smith navy donald berndt or george lasasso lehigh robert zeiser dartmouth ; lawrence bau mann virginia richard benner syracuse james buxton prince ton alphonse fillipone pennsyl vania peter fuller harvard richard clark cornell john ber zinis brown linwood mather army thomas thomas yale wallace chambers perm state robert takach franklin and marshall george jones temple 165-lb class edwin erikson defending cham pion lehigh george vohden syra cuse robert wischard navy donald louria harvard george gilford pennsylvania fred all ner princeton philo lange army william corman perm state george julien yale alexander marshall brown william baron columbia william burdick cor nell gordon hausrath franklin and marshall david donahue dartmouth jackson hambley vir ginia 175-lb class vernon finley army henry settle navy matthew atkinson princeton george gehhardt syra cuse james jackson lehigh fritz mctarnahan dartmouth emilio fanjul virginia reginald tich ner franklin and marshall earl 121-lb class pilgrim mcßaven defending champion from lehigh george johnston dartmouth william morse university of virginia james vovakes temple robert schell franklin and marshall george schautz perm state george hastings yale samuel nicholson army richard feren bach brown charles kiorpes columbia earle wilde cornell david coombs harvard howard edwards navy walter powell pennsylvania charles hall princeton robert valle syracuse 128 lb class wililam chandler navy mel ville gevertz syracuse donald poor princeton robert cory pennsylvania pat dolan dart mouth herman bastianelli or blackburn hazelhurst lehigh ; tad marshall virginia stanley glossner temple stanley mouse tis franklin & marshall albert vigilante perm state larry leeds yale joseph calby cornell peter bowditch harvard ralph vrana columbia frank manchester brown ralph raabe army 136-lb class joseph colego franklin and marshall richard kelsey lehigh wayne smith navy warren orn stein dartmouth donald ar buckle perm state joseph settani syracuse bill hall princeton rfchard gotchel pennsylvania ; howard king harvard john raine cornell philip temko co lumbia albert fern army john erb temple peter lawson vir ginia ; norman hascall yale 145-lb class william niewenhous yale james maurey perm state charles gilmore dartmouth ken neth hunte syracuse edward wanamaker princeton ; andrew matthes or don wareck lehigh patrick derrico virginia george sprowls temple robert wendell franklin and marshall abraham allan army samuel beachen brown robert huber columbia john adams cornell don ray harvard 155-lb class stanley thevenet defending champion army john fletcher navy grant dixon 1946 cham pion eric erikson lehigh frank mansell yale peter larson dart mouth russel randall princeton wade thomas virginia william gross franklin and marshall richard moody brown kenneth o'shaughnessy columbia james conant harvard harry green pennsylvania and pascal perri syracuse lehigh navy f&m columbia named four 1947 e.i.w.a champions selected as 1948 champions pictured on this page are sketch es of potential eastern intercolle giate wrestling champs as selected by a group of college sports writ ers the brown and white in an at tempt to determine who will be who in the wrestling picture this year asked sports writers from the student publications representing the sixteen institutions entered in the easterns to pick their winners each writer was asked to select a champ in each of the eight weight classes here are the re sults 121 pound class — lehigh's pil grim mcßaven captured the 128 pound title in the easterns last year and reached the semi-finals in the national tournament mac comes to lehigh from tulsa ok lahoma is enrolled in the indus trial engineering curriculum and plans to graduate in june 1949 he has been defeated once in dual meet competition this season undefeated this season 128 pound class — a comparative newcomer to the collegiate wrest ling scene is franklin and mar shall's mousetis a sophomore from clearfield pa mousetis wrestled in high school and be came state champ in the 13s pound class he spent two seasons at billy sheridan's summer wrestling camp before entering f & m stan was enrolled at akron university he is undefeated in college competi tion 136 pound class — wayne smith formerly of fort dodge lowa is in the class of 50 at annapolis last year he was a champion in the 136 pound class at the easterns and reached the semi-finals of the n.c.a.a smith lettered in football wrestling and track at fort dodge high school and spent one year at the university of michigan he is undefeated in dual competi tion this season navy dominates 145 pound class — navy's downs is picked for this class if fletcher also from annapolis is entered in the 155 pound class downs who is in the class of 50 attended high school in chester pa and went on to admiral farragut academy be side wrestling he has played base ball for annapolis and guard on the 150 pound football team he is also undefeated for the current season 155 pound class — j a fletcher n climaxed three years of varsity wrestling for the navy last year by taking the eastern crown in his weight division this season twenty one year old fletcher from provi dence r.1 captained his wrestling team in prep school he also cap tained his wrestling and football teams and lettered in a total of five sports he is undefeated this season i fletcher should drop back in weight to the 145 pound class as many of the men in this poll have predicted army's thevenet will be the 155 pound favorite lehigh and columbia favorites 165 pound class lehigh's ed win erikson took second place in the 155 pound division of the eiwa last year ed's home is in n bellmore n.y anti he is plan ning to graduate in june 49 from the civil engineering curriculum while at w c mepham high school he participated in wrestling track and football he later at continued on page 2 winners pilgrim mcßaven ed erikson bart downes henry o'shaughnessy jim jackson wayne s stanley mousetis john fletcher all men interested in becom ing members of odk senior activities honorary should sub mit point lists to arcadia office before march 13 welcome mat is out to visiting matmen any student who has blood type b or three is urged to contact the blood bank in st luke's hospital as soon as pos sible