Friday, February [9, H765 SCARLET AND BLACK Page Seven All? By Paul Trigg How [he Grinnell College basketball team could lose to St. Olaf by 17 points and Carleton by 1|) points at Northfleld is a real poser indeedr Losses to C02 5053 and Beloit 107-77 only augment the dilemma; and it is everyone' 5 hope of course, that we will not be shown the answer when these two teams in- vade Darby arena this weekend. The mystery of the Grinnell basketball team began with the Cornell game, which seemed to prove all pre-beason pessimists wrong. However, any optimistic hopes were dispelled just as quickly with the two disastrous road trips to Northfield and Cedar Rapids-Beloit, Thus, last Friday night many students trooped over [0 Dar- by hoping they would not want to exit at half-time and head for Lolita. (Word has it that one person did leave at the half, but rather than going to the movie he went to the library.) Instead of being blitzed, however, the Pioneers extended the Oles to the fullest. Again Saturday, thinking Friday night to be an act of God, students marched back to the gym only to see their heroes rout Carleton 81-65 despite the efforts of a 6" 7" sophomore center from (of all places!) Crosby—ironton, Minn. The obvious ques< Lion asked by all was how did this apparent metamorphosis oc- cur? The following is an amateur’s attempt at evaluating the team and what happened last weekend. In the past four years we have seen quite a variety of has ketball player-types here. There has been a guard who could shoot the eyes out of the basket, but played defense like one of his feet was nailed to the floor; a forward Who could also shoot well, but tended to dribble the ball off his metatarsals rather frequently; a center who could rebound and dunk, but was not quite rangy enough to stuii his foul shots; and a host of others. These gentlemen were obviously played for their strengths and in spite of their weaknesses. BeCause of this, it was easy to be- come quite exasperated watching their weaknesses exploited by opposing teams. This year’s team is somewhat different than these past teams, however. There is hardly an outstanding shooter, passer or rebounder on the entire team, but they are a group of good all-around basketball players who don't happen to have a man over 6' 3” amongst them, Thus, they are forced to work hard for every basket because they lack che physical strength and tal- ent of most other teams. Last weekend this is precisely what they did, harassing. driving, and generally out-hustling their opponents. The encouraging aspect of this turn of events is that the average Grinnell tan seems to appreciate the effort that is being put forth by the team. One of the loudest cheers or the weekend occurred after Bob Watt's symbolic theft of the ball from the hands of St. Olaf's very fine guard Eric Grimsrud. At home this team is young, exuberant, and aggressive. One possible explanation for the away games might be that the youth turns to immaturity, the exuberance to disillusionment, and the aggressiveness to docility. Without these ingredients in abun— dance, the team Cannot do battle with the recruit-Infested squads in the rest of the conference (For the record, these last prepo- sitional phrases are in jest). ‘Coe and was smothered 107-77 Basketball. Three Other Contests Cluiier Weekend The biggest home weekend of the winter season awaits Grin- nell teams, On fab are five con- tests, two each for the basket- ball and wrestling teams and one for the swimming team. BASKETBALL Back on the winning trail af» ter losing five straight Midwest Conference tilts, Coach John Pfitsch‘s Pioneers will be tan-i gling with the clubs that handedl them their two Worst setbacks of the campaign. Two weeks ago, Grinnell dropped an 80-53 contest at at Beloit. The 107 markers chalked up by the 13qu are the most ever scored against Grin- nell. Pfitsch will stick with his reg ular starting lineup of forwards Tom Hill and Ted Risser, center Clyde Smith, 'and guards Jeff Frantz and Elliott Hibbs. SWIMMING Unbeaten in dual meet action, Coach Irv Simone's swimmers Will be out to make Knox their eighth victim. T hi 5 will he Grinnell's final tuneup for its two big meets of the campaign H a dual with undefeated Corr hell on Feb. 27 and the Midwest Conference meet on March 5-6. Th e Pioneers upped their string to seven last weekend by brushing aside Carleton, 58-33, and St. olai 6142. They copped all 11 first pla Ce flnishes against the Oles and nine of 11 against the Carls. Ray Langham captured the 60-yard freestyle in both meets. Ken Adelman the 200»yard but- terfly, iohn Kraai the zaoeyard breaststroke, Tony Horton the 200»yard backstroke, Chuck Schnell the 200-yard individual medley, Ralph Pray the 500~ yard freestyle and Richard Lance the diving competition Adelman lowered his school butterfly record to 2:101 in the St. Olaf dual, WRESTLING The Pioneer matmen, who fell to Midwest small-college powers Cornell and Western Illinois and defeated Beloitl last weekend, will be facing an—l Sports Calendar other strong array of oppo- nents Friday and Saturday. Monmouth was the runner-up to Cornell in last year's Mid‘ west Conference meet, Wests mar has won 11 straight duals and Simpson boasts an earlier 20-18 victory over the Pioneers.‘ The Scarlet and Black will carry a 4-4 dual meet mark in- to the two weekend meets_l Coach Edd Bowers Will use his? regular lineup: Bill Barnes, 123- Ken Stru- bler,130; Cliff Dowling, 137, Mike Deatherage 147- Larry Miller, 157; Many Ringo, 177; Bob Geller, I91; and Morgan Michel, heavyweight, Grinnelll will forfeit at 157, INDOOR TRACK Grinnell will go into the Drake meet With only a mini- mum of practice. Because of the cold and snowy weather, practice has been limited to running and calisthenics in the gymnasium Acting Coach Gene Kowert has a 13- -man squad that lne' cludes nine lettermen i l The Vets are Captr John Te-l Paske, middle distance and, broad jump; Rod Brown and Paul Patterson, distance; Mike DeWitt and Jim Murtfeldt. hurdles; John Kelsey, sprintSl and broad jump; .iim Miller,l shot put and discus; Walt Neal,1 pole vault; and Tom Wood, high jump. Rounding out the squad are newcomers Bob Dyer, di tance; Dave Synhorst. sprints‘I and broad jump; and Steve, Brintnall and Dave Doty,l middle distance. The Pioneers are defending 3“” APDAnEL GRiNNELL 709 Main chug. Au‘n. Welcome OPEN FRI. NITES TlLL izun nowlmoneysaver Pepsi half quarts in a Ilamty From @ENQ 5 Don't forget those SUHMARINES on Mon. and Wed. FREE DELIVERY Niie — 9—11 p.m. Grupplers Win One In Mac? at Cornell Varsity wrestlers in a quad- rangular meet at Cornell Col— lege last Saturday took on Cornell, Western Illinois, and Beloit, Grinnell dropped the first two contests by scores of 22-11 and 26713 before trouncing Beloit by a score of 345, Beloit scoring ‘lts only points by a forfeit in the l57 lb. category. Bill Barnes at 123 lbs. and Ken Strubler at 130 lbs. each . sported records of two pins and a win. Cliff Dowling at 137, um lsuccessful in his first two matches, came through in his final match against Beloit by a score of 3-1. Larry Miller took two matches from Cornell and Beloit, as did Marty Ringo. Morgan Michel lost his first one counter. drew a bye against Western Illinois and flattened his opponent from Beloit. Friday the varsity {aces Monmouth ‘here. Saturday the Grinnell team hosts a quad- rangular with visiting teams Coe, Simpson and Westmar. 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