—The Highacres Collegian 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. Solution to Cryptogram N - W A - J B K C - L D - M E - N F - 0 G - P H - Q I - R J - S K - T L - U M - V Rosie's Bunny Hutch Finest hoagies in the area 999 W. 15th St. 459-0670 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. 0 - X P - Y Q - Z R - A S - B T - C U - D V - E W - F X - G Y - H Z - I PSU football notes 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 PSU 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). r Penn State BONUS COUPON WEEK BEFORE 10 A.M. Beautifully CLEANED Limit 4 Per Customer and FINISHED I Coupon Must be surrendered with Incoming garmenb.—Coupon Expires Oct. it 19110. 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"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." Attention! Poetry deadline extended The New Horizons Poetry deadline will be pushed to Dec. 8 and the Art Contest deadline has been pushed back to Jan. 19 or Ladies' 9 EACH Exclusively Franchised To Don elllig, One HOUR
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