STEVENS POINT — Roy Menzel, former Stevens Point High School basketball player, is bringing Stevens Point, his former high school coach, his family and himself a great deal of publicity in eastern metropolitan and collegiate newspapers.
A junior at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Finance and a regular center on Penn’s basketball team, Roy has literally burned up eastern cage courts and has received no end of notice in the public press.
He is credited with introducing a new style of basket shooting in the eastern game, with breaking a single game scoring record which had stood for years and with being one of the top scorers for the season in the Eastern Intercollegiate League.
Crowds of more than 10,000 people have attended nearly every game in the Palestra home gymnasium of the Penn team. The increased attendance is attributed to the performances turned in by the Penn players, notably Menzel and (Tony) Mischo, and to the fact that the team is leading its conference.
Against Dartmouth, Menzel scored 21 points to set a new individual scoring record at Pennsylvania. In numerous games, he has been Penn’s high scorer and he is leading all Philadelphia college and university players in scoring.
In its account of the Dartmouth game, one Philadelphia paper reported: “Roy Menzel, rangy Penn center from Stevens Point, Wis. gave one of the greatest exhibitions in years by scoring eight field goals and five straight free throws for 21 points. Although conceding several inches to Dartmouth’s centers, the western lad could not be stopped.”
The boy who is heaping all the publicity on Stevens Point is attending the Wharton School of Finance on a Hardware Mutual Casualty Company scholarship won while he attended Stevens Point High School. Besides being a good basketball player, Roy is an excellent student.