12 CAPITAL TIMES, February 15,1991
Female
PSH sports find success
Mike Givler
Capital Times Sports
The 1990-1991 athletic season at
Penn State Harrisburg may not only go
down as one of the best seasons in the
history of the college, but it may also
mark the beginning of the women's
program.
Athletic Director Duane Crider said
this season has been the best varsity
sport season since he took his position
four years ago. The soccer team just
missed the chance to go to the district
playoffs and the basketball team is also
enjoying one of its best seasons ever.
Crider added that it is not just the
amount of wins that has made this
season a memorable one. "All of the
sports have received the much needed
interest from students. This wasn't the
case in the past," Crider said.
Crider said the best example of this
was last year’s baseball team which
suited ten players to many of its games.
This year the fall roster has expanded to
twenty-two players.
Softball will be offered this spring on
a club basis due to the renewed interest
shown. Recreation Specialist Denise
Keary can be thanked for the sudden
surge in the women's program this year.
Keary, also the coach of the softball
team, is hoping for an eight game
schedule which will feature games
against the Hershey Women's League
along with games versus other
Commonwealth Campuses. The slow
pitch team is hoping to go to a varsity
fast-pitch schedule next-year.
Nittany Lions add Ga. Tech to slacked schedule
UNIVERSITY PARK-The look of
Penn State’s football schedule has
changed dramatically in recent weeks
with the addition of unbeaten Georgia
Tech, the national champion in the
United Press International coaches poll,
and the move of the Pittsburgh game
from November 23 to Thanksgiving
Day.
The modifications at the front and
back of the 1991 card mean the Nittany
Lions will open the season on August
28 and wind it up on November 28 at
Pitt Stadium.
The Penn State-Georgia Tech game
was arranged by organizers of the
Kickoff Classic as the ninth renewal of
the showcase that traditionally kicks off
the college football season. It will be
played on Wednesday, August 28, at
Giants Stadium in the New Jersey
Meadowlands. Kickoff is set for
approximately 8 p.m. The contest will
be televised nationally by Raycom
Sports and broadcast coast-to-coast by
Mutual Radio.
"We look forward to the chance to
open the season against the defending
National Champions," athletic director
Jim Tarman said. "This could be an
exciting start to the 1991 college season
and to an attractive and demanding
rams on horizon
Keary also plans to start a basketball
club for women next year which would
compete in the York White Rose
Women's Basketball League.
A strength training course is also
being taught by Keary which is geared to
all students that will help tone and
condition the body. The course, being
taught Tuesday and Thursday from 6:30
p.m. to 8:00 p.m., teaches proper
technique, warming-up and how not to
overdue it
Keary also teaches one of the three
aerobics courses offered by the campus.
She teaches one of the two low-impact
classes while Health Education Graduate
Assistant Debbie Morris teaches the
other and Laura Stickley teaches the lone
high-impact course.
"The low-impact courses accent the
lateral movements and there is not as
much stress on the back and joints,"
Keary said.
The Schick 3 on 3 intramural
basketball tournament champion will be
decided during half-time of the home
Misericordia game on Feb. 12. The
winner of the ten team tournament will
advance to play in the regional
tournament in Philadelphia on March 2.
Other Spring intramural sports which
will be offered are 5 on 5 basketball and
coed volleyball. Registration for these
activities must be before Feb. 15 at 5
p.m. Registration will also be open for
people interested in table tennis, indoor
soccer, street hockey and beach
volleyball later in the semester. There is
also the possibility of an ultimate
frisbee contest being held.
schedule for next year's edition of the
Nittany Lions."
This will be the second appearance
for Penn State in the nine-year history of
the gartie. Nebraska defeated the Lions in
the inaugural classic in 1983.
"We put this invitation to the
members of the football squad," Coach
Joe Paterno said, "and they voted
unanimously and enthusiastically to
accept at a meeting attended by players
only. Georgia Tech had and outstanding
1990 season and presents a formidable
challenge as an opening opponent next
year."
This will be the first game between
the Lions and Yellow Jackets since
1966, Patemo's first year as head coach.
Under the late Bobby Dodd, Tech
blanked Penn State, 21-0, at Grant Field.
There have been six games in the all
time series, instituted in 1921. The
rivalry is even with three wins apiece.
"We are absolutely thrilled to host
these tradition-rich institutions," Peter
L. Levine, chairman of the New Jersey
Sports and Exposition Authority, said.
"They epitomize the best in collegiate
athletics and their appearance in this
ninth Kickoff Classic will certainly add
to the game's prestigious history.”
Voted the consensus national "Coach
SPORTS
Photo by John Rudy
Mike Watts (23) tips-in two of his 27 points in a 74-65 win over Neumann college at
home.
Holocaust
Bass went on to become a teacher
and then a principal in the Philadelphia
school system. He participated in the
1963 Civil Rights march on
Washington, D. C. and heard Martin
Luther Kind give his famous "I have a
dream" speech.
Since then Bass has received an
award from Jesse Jackson's Operation
Push and the Humanitarian Award from
Facing History and Ourselves.
of-the-Year," Tech skipper Bobby Ross
has 54 lettermen returning this fall,
including 15 starters led by junior
quarterback Shawn Jones, senior All-
America free safety Ken Swilling, junior
All-America outside linebacker Marco
Coleman, junior running back William
Bell and junior placekicker Scott Sisson.
"We're excited to have a chance to
play in this year's Kickoff Classic,"
Ross said. "It’s an honor to have this
opportunity. I'm also excited about the
chance to compete against Penn State.
They are truly one of America's premier
football programs."
The shift of the Pittsburgh game
from the previously scheduled November
23 to Thanksgiving Day, November 28,
was made to accommodate a national
telecast by ABC Television, Tarman
said.
The network has tentatively set
kickoff time for 11:15 a.m.
This will mark the first time Penn
State has been part of a Thanksgiving
Day game since 1974 when the Lions
defeated Pittsburgh, 31-10, at Three
Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh.
College Football Association TV
rights move from CBS to ABC for the
1991 season. The Lions were represented
on the ABC schedule in 1990, in a game
at Southern California that was one of
After his talk, Human Services
major Teresa Proctor said, "so many
blacks think we were the only ones who
had a difficult time." Jews too faced
persecution, she said.
Anthony Cunningham , a public
policy major, said he hadn't known that
a black regiment fought in Europe
during World War 11.
seven Penn State contests on national
television last fall.
Penn State will carry a two-game
winning streak over Pittsburgh into the
1991 finale. The Nittany Lions won, 16-
13, at Pitt Stadium in 1989 and battled
to a 22-17 triumph at Beaver Stadium
last November to extend their regular
season win skein to nine straight.
1991 Lion's Schedule
Aug 28 Georgia Tech
(kickoff classic)
Cincinatti
at Southern Cal
Brigham Young
Boston College
at Temple
at Miami, Fla.
Rutgers
West Virginia
at Maryland
Notre Dame
at Pittsburgh
Sept 7
Sept 14
Sept 21
Sept 28
Oct 5
Oct 12
Oct 19
Oct 26
Nov 8
Nov 16
Nov 28