—The Highacres Collegian, Tuesday, May
Paterno Not
Tampering With
Success At
Penn State
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.—Give Joe
Paterno credit for having enough sense to
leave a good thing alone.
Paterno, who has a 12-year record of 112
wins, 24 losses and a tie, isn’t planning any
drastic changes in the Nittany Lions’
spring practice routine, which starts this
week.
“It is going to be a normal spring,”
Paterno says. “We will be doing the same
things we always do in the spring—trying
to find our best players and trying to make
everybody a little bit better.”
There will be a couple of changes in the
routine, both of which have been caused by
a construction project that is expanding
the capacity of Beaver Stadium to 76,017
for the coming season.
The Lions will play the Blue-White
Game, their final spring scrimmage, at
Hersheypark Stadium in Hershey, Pa., on
May 6 and have cancelled the annual
Camera Day event.
“Not having the stadium available will
change some things, but our practice
schedule will be similar to what we have
had in the past,” Paterno says.
Filling some holes in the defensive
secondary and finding a replacement for
tight end Mickey Shuler will be two of the
top items on Patemo’s spring agenda.
“We have a job to do in the secondary
where we lost some good people and we
have to find a replacement for Mickey,
who was the best tight end in the country
last year,” Paterno says. “And we have to
build depth everywhere.”
The secondary was the area hit hardest
by graduation. The Lions lose safety Gary
Petercuskie, halfback Neil Hutton and
“Hero” linebacker Ron Hostetler, who
often played as a strong safety.
Other defensive losses to graduation are
ends Bill Banks and Joe Diange, All-
American middle guard Randy Sidler and
linebacker Tom DePaso.
Among the defensive returnees are
halfback Mike Guman, end Joe Lally,
tackles Bruce Clark and Matt Millen and
linebacker Rick Donaldson. Guman, one of
the team’s best all-around athletes, is
passing up spring practice to pitch for the
Lions baseball team.
Offensive graduation losses, in addition
to Shuler, are guard John Dunn, tailback
Steve Geise and flanker Jimmy Cefalo.
Leading the list of returning offensive
starters is quarterback Chuck Fusina, who
should be a top candidate for All-American
honors. Fusina, who will be a senior in the
fall, already has broken or tied nine Penn
State passing records.
Fusina, who passed for 2,221 yards last
year while completing 57.7 per cent of his
attempts, will have most of his offensive
teammates returning this season.
Among the returnees are running backs
Matt Suhey, Bob Torrey and Booker
Moore; receivers Scott Fitzkee and Bob
Bassett; and offensive linemen Chuck
Correal, Eric Cunningham, Keith Dorney,
Irv Pankey, Paul Renaud and Marty
Sierocinski.
Dorney, a 6-6, 270-pound tackle, was a
first team All-America selection last year.
Also returning is flanker Tom Donovan,
who missed all of last year with a leg in
jury. Donovan, who has two years of
eligibility remaining, has had 25 catches
for 388 yards in his first two years on the
varsity
Fitzkee. who should be an All-American
candidate at split end, has handled the
punting duties for the last two years and
could do so again in 1978 unless Paterno
finds someone to relieve him of the job.
Matt Bahr, who handled all of the
placekicking and kickoff chores for the
Lions last year, will miss spring practice
to play professional soccer for the
Colorado Caribou of the North American
Soccer League. He is expected to return in
the fall.
Overall, the Lions will have 12 starters
Nittany Lions Have Seven Games In "New Stadium
Coach Joe Paterno’s Nittany Lions open
the 1978 season against Rutgers on Sept. 9
in Beaver Stadium, which is being ex
panded from 60,203 seats to 76,017
capacity.
The stadium expansion project, which is
now in progress, has caused the Lions to
move the Blue-White Game, their final
spring practice scrimmage, to Her
sheypark Stadium.
Other teams appearing at the “new”
stadium this year are SMU on Sept. 23;
TCU, Sept. 30; Syracuse, Oct. 21; and
three bowl game champions—Maryland,
Nov. 4; North Carolina State, Nov. 11, and
Pittsburgh, Nov. 25.
The Lions will play four games on the
road, meeting Ohio State on Sept. 16;
Kentucky, Oct. 7; West Virginia, Oct. 28,
and Temple, N6v. 18.
Four of the Nittany Lions’ 1978 op
ponents—Kentucky, North Carolina State,
Ohio State and Pittsburgh—were ranked in
the final top 20 last year by at least one of
the major wire service polls.
Penn State was 11-l last year, fncluding
a 42-30 victory over Arizona State in the
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16, 1978
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.—Penn
State’s football team will play seven
games in its newly-expanded stadium in
1978.
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“The combination of the potential of our
squad plus the challenge of our schedule
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Paterno says. “A lot will depend on
maintaining the momentum we have by
continuing to work hard. We will need the
same kind of commitment, dedication and
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year’s squad.”
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