By Paul Trigg 5 Tonight the 1964-65 Grinnell college home basket— ball season gets underway, and it could be one of the tnost exciting ones ever. The team has already played two games on the road, losing to Augustana 79-66 and gefeating pre-season Midwest Conference title favorite . orn‘ell 99-82. 7 The emphasis this year will be on speed and con- ditioning as there is very little height. At 6‘5”, sopho- more center Jim Rhodes is the only man on the squad over 6’3”, However, Augustana and Cornell are two of the biggest, and supposedly best, teams that we will face all year, and the Pioneers seem to have held their Own. Also, a withering man to man press kept the Cor- nell giants off-balance all night. An interesting sidelight at Cornell occurred be- fore the game when Ram coach Paul Maaske led his mooses onto the court and needled Coach Pfitsch with in hearing distance of most of our players, “I hate to say it in front of your boys coach, but you’ve got a bunch of runts here.” Coach Pfitsch, never at a lossfor words, was not heard, but must have said something to the effect of, “You're a real card Paul a you need to be dealt with”; at which Pfitsch‘s team did just that, leaving Maaske, I am sure, somewhat be- wildered. All of this goes to show, I guess, that it’s a 620 over a 570 on those SAT‘s rather than brawn which matters in basketball, Anyway, it was a tremendous ef- fort on a hot night (Grinnell shot 61% from the floor ‘and 82% from the foul line), and the only crimefiis that more Grinnellians weren’t able to see it, From,Northfield, the word is that chief academic rival Carleton thinks they have a very fine basketball team, but they said the same thing about their foot- ball team. Regardless, we are all anxiously awaiting (or at least I am) their arrival so we can watch that 6’ 6" sophomore center from (of all places!) Crosby- Ironton, Minnesota Tonight we will be seeing the defending Confer- ence champions in action, and although Jack Ankerson and Gary Mevis have graduated Ripon still has Willie Alexander, Jim Cahoon and Doug Ankerson, so it should be a good show. Grinnell will counter with three remarkably poised sophomores in Tom Hill, Elliott Hibbs and Jim Rhodes, along with two juniors—Ted Risser and Jeff Frantz. On the bench will be a lot of ex— ‘ perience in seniors Randy Morgan, Clyde Smith, Dave ’ Sellergren, Dick Ulrich and Toni Bucholtz plus Bob Watt, another fine sophomore. I It should be a good game and a good race for the ’ - Dana's, PIZZA SUBMARINE SANDWICHES FREE DELIVERY Mon. 5(wa Min — 9:00 pm. to 12:00 pm. 15 Varieties of Delicious PIZZA FREE DELIVERY ’ Phone 236-6334 ' tional at Galesburg, 111., SCARLET AND BLACK Coach Simone Takes Iiis Swim Team To Be in Relays of Knox Invitational Coach Irv Simone will take 18 swimmers—14 varsity and tour freshman—to the Knox Invita- this weekend. ‘ All 18 Pioneers will see action in the 12 relay events and the diving competition Aside from diving, only relay events are scheduled. Leading the varsity will be lettermen Roger Abendroth, Tony Horton, Eric Jacobson, John Kraai, Ralph Pray, and Howard Schein,, and sopho< mores Ken Adelman, John Eh< conference title again this year with many fine teams in the running. For Grinnell —- a fine team with diversity, determination and depth. Where will they finish? Who knows? So let’s get the season rolling with a good turn- out tonight. Remember — it is your team, it is your gym — so walk right in. ‘ Friday. December ilI I964 rig, Richard Lance, Ray Lang- ham, and Charles Schnell. They accounted for all of Grinnell's points in the 53740 victory over Augustana (111.) two weeks ago. Abendroth is a diver while Lance doubles in diving and stroking. The rest are strict- ly swimmers Also seeing action for Grin- nell will be varsity squad mem- bers Bill Batschelet, Bill Lontz, and Bill Wolff, and freshmen Bruce Austin, Darrell Dunham, Steve Holtze, and Bob Wells. Trophies are awarded to Winners in each event, but no team points are tabulated. Last year, Grinnell placed in only one event—second in the 600< yard freestyle relayl Schein and Pray swam on that unit. GRINNELE. FfiDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASSN. "WHERE YOU SAVE DOES MAKE A DIFFERENCE"