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Menhardt continues
placekicking tradition
UNIVERSITY PARK,
Pa.—" Linebacker" may be the
position most often associated
with Penn State football, but that
doesn't diminish the importance
of Nittany Lion placekickers in
the last decade.
Recent NCAA statistics in
dicated that Lion placekickers
averaged 1.06 field goals per
game in the 1970 s third-highest
in college football and senior
Herb Menhardt and junior Brian
Franco are maintaining that
pace this fall.
Tradition is what attracted
Menhardt to Penn State and he
hasn't disappointed Penn State's
kicking fans, who watched Alber
to Vitiello, Chris Bahr and Matt
Bahr in the 19705.
"I liked Penn State's tradition
of kickers," the senior from
Flourtown, Pa., explains. "It was
the same situation as the
linebackers. I knew I might not
play right away, but I knew I
would get a chance."
Menhardt played briefly his
freshman year of 1976, missing
his only try. Last year as the
regular kicker, he booted 14 of 20
field goal tries and hit on all 28 ex
tra point attempts. Menhardt has
hit on four of five attempts this
fall, missing a 32-yarder last
week, ending his streak at a
school-record 12 consecutive sue-
New club formed
A racquetball organization has
been formed on campus. The
organization, informal at the pre
sent time, is directed by Dr.
Joseph Marchesani. The
organization was formed on the
basis of "meeting regularly, and
sharing in the good fellowship
which such playing permits," Dr.
Marchesani stated.
The racquetball organization
has no set meetings, but plays at
the Royal Courts in Wilkes-
Barre. The reason the club does
not meet on campus is because
the one-wall courts the campus
offers are not as popular as the
four-wall courts.
The racquetball organization
costs $2O per year for students
plus $6 an hour for court time.
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cessful tries over a two-year
period.
His first two years at Penn
State, Menhardt split duties bet
ween football and soccer. That
followed a Lion tradition,
because Vitiello and the Bahr
brothers all lettered in soccer.
Menhardt was an outstanding
soccer player, reaching the final
Olympic tryout camp in 1979
before breaking his arm the first
day of practice. Now he's turned
his attention strictly to football.
"I came into this season with
more confidence than I had last
year," Menhardt says. "I geared
all my attention to football."
Penn State has posted a 90-20
record (81.8 winning percentage)
at Beaver Stadium since the in
augural game, a 20-0 victory over
Boston University on Sept. 17,
1960. Coach Joe Paterno's teams
have compiled a 15-year record of
69-12 (81.6 winning percentage)
at Beaver Stadium.
PSU
Penn State football coach Joe
Paterno has a 15-year record of 68
victories and seven defeats (90.7
winning percentage) against
Eastern independents. Paterno's
teams have won 16 of their last 17
games against Eastern op
ponents. In the 19705, Penn State
was 49-4 against Eastern rivals,
losing only to Navy (1974), Pitt
sburgh (1976 and 1979) and
Syracuse (1970).
Sophomore tailback Curt
Warner rushed 22 times for 100
yards at Maryland for his third
career 100-yard performance.
Warner gained 100 yards against
Rutgers in the 1979 opener and
149 yards against Colgate in the
1980 opener. Although he missed
three games and parts of other
games in his freshman season,
Warner has 840 yards rushing in
two seasons and could become
the first Penn State sophomore
over the 1,000-yard rushing mark.
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Harter renews vow for
basketball powerhouse
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.
Penn State basketball coach Dick
Harter renewed his vow to make
the Nittany Lions a national
basketball power, when his team
opened practice for the 1980-81
season October 15.
When Harter accepted the job
as the Nittany Lion coach on
March 14,1978, he said, "We want
to be competitive, we want to win
and we want to be champions."
He's already fulfilled the first two
goals and has taken a giant step
toward the third goal.
In two seasons, Harter has
begun to restore Penn State's
winning tradition in basketball by
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Senior fullback Booker Moore's
55-yard scoring run against
Maryland was the longest
rushing play of his four-year
Penn State career. Moore ran 52
yards on a non-scoring play in
the 1978 West Virginia game and
raced 52 yards for a touchdown
against West Virginia last year.
The touchdown pass from
halfback Jonathan Williams to
fullback Mike Meade in the
Maryland game Saturday mark
ed the first time Penn State
scored on a pass thrown by a
player other than a quarterback,
since split end Dick Barvinchak
passed 30 yards to tight end Dave
Stutts on a fake field goal play in
the 1975 Syracuse game.
Penn State's pass defense has
intercepted three passes in each
of hte last two games with defen
sive halfback Paul Lankford
leading the way with two in
terceptions against Missouri and
another in the Maryland game.
The last time the Lion defenders
had consecutive three
interception-days was in the 1978
season, when Penn State in
tercepted three West Virginia
passes and then picked off five
passes the following week against
Maryland.
reversing the losing pattern in re
cent years. His 1980 team finished
the season with an 18-10 record,
the Lions' first winning season in
six campaigns and the most vic
tories for Penn State since 1966.
And Penn State's appearance
in the National Invitational Tour
nament last year was the first
step toward completing Harter's
goal of a championship team.
Four starters and 10 lettermen
return from last year's team and
Harter is expecting improvement
from his third edition of the Nit
tany Lions.
"There's no question we're im
proved in every area over last
year's team," says Harter, who
has compiled a 247-162 record in
15 seasons.
"Assuming we're not hit with
any major ailments or injuries as
the season goes on, we will be an
improved team," Harter ex
plains. "I think that our record
might not reflect that improve
ment, because of the very dif
ficult road schedule we face this
year. There's no question in my
mind that just about every night
out, we will be a considerably bet
ter team than we were last year."
Heading the list of returning
players are 6-10 senior center
Frank Brickowski (11.4 points,
7.8 rebounds), 6-8 sophomore for
ward Mike Lang (7.2 points, 6.5
rebounds), 6-7 sophomore guard
Rich Fetter (9.5 points) and 6-2 1 / 2
junior guard Mike Edelman (8.4
points). All four started last year,
although Fetter is moving from
the front court to guard this
winter.
Harter also has the flexibility
of moving Brickowski to forward,
Lang to center and Fetter back to
forward.
The other returning contenders
for starting berths are 6-7 junior
forward Scott Wolz (4.9 points)
and 6-3 1 / 2 junior guard Craig Buf
fie (3.5 points).
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Freshmen could make a big im
pact on the Penn State program
this year. Guards Brian Dean
(20.9) and Jim Forjan (injured
last year) and forwards David
Griffin (15.7 points, 11 rebounds)
and Dick Mumma (25.4 points, 12
rebounds) could see considerable
playing time.
"I think we have good size with
Frank Brickowski, Dick Mumma
and Mike Lang," Harter ex
plains. "They should do a very
strong rebounding job for us, so
our rebounding will be more than
adequate this year.
"I think our defensive ability,
with the added year of experience
for all the players in our program
plus the addition of Dick Mumma
who's a fine defender and the
other athletes who are freshmen,
should make us a sound defensive
team," he says.
"We should shoot the basket
ball better this year, because we
are going to have height ad
vantages as different matchups
occur against us," Harter notes.
"We will be more experienced
operating against zone defenses.
"We are quicker than last year,
but if we have a team weakness,
it's team quickness," Harter
says. "We still are not an above
average team quickness-wise.
Also, we're not completely an ex
perienced team. We still will rely
on freshmen and sophomores."
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