Muhlenberg College - Ciarla Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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CONTINUES TO PROGRESS UPWARDS £ I ' k: VARSIT WRESTLING SQUAD Hctuiiiin i vclcraii: ami a nv s coach. Carl Fiankctt. iMoujiht the 1941-42 wrcr tlin a ;i;rcfiati ui its hcst record since wrestling hecanie a varsity sport at Muhlcnljer j I ' onr years ago. The niatnien finished the season with a record of four wins and a like nxunher of losses. Besides its cxcejitional record in dual meets, the 1941-42 squad jdaced third in the liddle Atlantic championships hy gaining one first ])lace. two secon ls. and a third jiosition. The men who placed in the Middle Atlantics and led the team liiionghout the season were: sophomore sensation. Dannv Pri ' sct tt. who won the llo-pound championship: consistent juniors, l. ' iS-pound Bertram (jilhert and 12}i-poun(l Warren Nafis. who gained second places in the cliampionshi] s; and senior Sj)iro Chiaparas. who linished his lie t season as a IT.T-poiinder ]t d)taining a third place in the Middle Atlantic tournament. Other wrestlers were: Monroe Greene. 121-pouiider: Captain Barnev Brown and Raymond Fetter. 136-pounders; Creighton Faust and George jNittolo. 16ii- j)oun«lers: Charles oodworth. ITS-ponnder: and Vi avne Keck. Lerov Ziegen- fuss. and Joseph Shanoskv. all heavvweights. The matnien opined the season hv crushing a gre ' n lemple I niversily S(piad. 26-8. Following this victorv the grapplers tangled with IlaNerlonl and after Iniilding ujt a 10-5 lead, lost out 20-16 as Haverford came through it) the heavy classes. Against the strongest Rutgers team in a decade only one Midilenherg man gained a win. Warren Nafis was the lone Berg ictor as the stjuad fell. ' .V - . In its fourth meet llx ' Cardinal and (yvv mat (|uad swamped Brooklvn Polv- technical Institute 24-8. After lo ing to (Fett -hurg. 21-13. the grunt anil groan squad enlirlained Ursinus in the l.illle Palestra and Iruuneed the Bear 2 ' )-.3. Lafayette pru ed too miieh fur the local? and defealeil iheni 26-10. How- ever, in their final dual meet of the year, the grapjders U])set a favored I ni- versitv of Marvland squad 18-16. arren Nafis and Bertram (Jillierl were iiiiaiii- niously named co-captains of the 1942-43 squad. One HiiiHlml ' r %t ' iil -five

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CALIBRE OF MUHLENBERG WRESTLING Naughty, naughty Fetter Please turn around Somebody ' s got somebody Come on Green, get up Bert the Alert like? it thi Don ' t be fooled, that ' s Nafis on top Take it easv, Bert Spiro wasn ' t pinned, Rosenthal One Hundred Twentv-four

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FRESHMAN BASKETBALL TEAM DOES WELL m FRESHMAN BASKETBALL TEAM Havintj only mediocre talent at hand the Miihlenherg yearlings managed nevertheless to gain a .500 average in the ten games of their 1941-42 haskethall season. Another cause for the ] oor showing of the freshmen might he the change of coaches in the middle of the campaign. The team started under Phil Hillen ' s tutelage, continued under Doggie Julian, who had his hands full trying to pilot his team to a conference championship, anil finished under Dick Bushy, ex- Berg star. However, the frosh team managed to outscore its o])ponents 355 to 342 points. Leading scorer for the year was George Bihighaus with 93 points. The man closest to him was Kessock with 75. Heherling came next with 56 points. Weth- erhold with 44 points and Reaser with 40 points, rounded out the usual starting line-up. Smith started the season as captain, hut was forced from the team when he was tleclared ineligil)le. olpe, McGee, Trostle, Gehert. Miller, and Kirk made up the rest of the squad. Muhlenberg ' s Little Mules opened the season away from home by defeat- ing the I rsinus Cubs 42-37 with Kessock and Bihighaus sharing the scoring honors with ten points apiece. After defeating Lebanon Valley to the tune of 44-35, the Mules dropped their first game of the year to the Elks. The vearlings then lost the next two to the Citv Champion Mack Bulldogs 21-31. and to Lehigh 28-38. but got back into winning form by defeating Lehigh in the Palestra 45-37. Reaser and Kessock were high in this game with 11 and 10 points respectively. Keeping in the win cohiniii. the frosh next defeated Lh ' sinus 31-26. Bihig- haus split the cords with ten points. Allentown Business College was the next victim and it fell Ijy the score of 45-40. Albright proved to be the final nemisis of the frosh when the Albrightian squad cut down the Little Mules twice in a row with 26-34 and 31-37 scores. One Hundred Tweiitv-six