September 27, 1979 Lion's Eye Page 7 Soccer Team Drops Opener Haverford College defeated the Delaware County Campus soccer team 4-0 on Sept. 15, spoiling Head Coach Ron Case's debut. Case attributed the lack of of- fensive movement on the Delco team to the fact that the players had only been together since Sept. 4 just ten practice sessions. : The Lions played Delaware ~ County Community. College Sept. 19 and won, 4-1. They won > Lions Win One, Lose One The Nittany Lions opened the 1979 season with a 45-10 romp of Rutgers University on September 15. Penn State now leads the series 9-1 (Penn State won last year 26-10). Freshman tailback Curtis Warner bolted for 280 total yeards to lead the Lions. He scored three touchdowns, car- ried four kick returns for 109 yards, and rushed for 100 vards on just 12 carries. Penn St. 45, Rutgers 10 Rutgers 307 0-10 Penn State g PSU — FG Mendhardt 21 Rut — FG Startzell 28 PSU — Warner 6 run (Mendhardt kick) PSU — FG Mendhardt 41 PSU — Warner 18run (Mendharadt kick) oy — Warner 62 pass from Tate (Mendhardt ic . y PSU — Safety (ball centered out of end zone) oy — LaPointe 2) pass from Tate (Mendhardt ic ; iy — Dorn 72 pass from McMichael (Startzell ic PSU — Safety (McMichael tackled in end one) PSU —— McCletiand 32 run (Mendhardt kick) A — 77,309 Rutgers Penn St. First downs 22 Rushes-vards 30- (minus 8) 63-324 Passing vards 178 125 Return vards 25 6) Passes 12-281 8-13-1 Punts 5-39 6-41 Fumbles lost 1-1 0-0 Penalties-yards 48 7-62 INDIVIDUAL LEADERS : RUSHING — PENN STATE:* Warner 12.100 vds-2 TD: Suhey 16-68; Moore 18-70; McClelland 6- 43-1; Meade 9-39; Rakowsky 1-5; Paffenroth 1-3. RUTGERS: Dorn 3-27; Blackwell 7-19; Johnson 5- 10; Moore 1-1; Leek 1-10: McMichael 13-26. PASSING — PENN STATE: Tate 6 comple tions, 10 attempts, 112 yards, 1 interception, 2 TD; Rakowsky 2-3-13. RUTGERS: McMichael 11-23 168-1-1; Leek 1-5-10. RECEIVING — PENN STATE: Warner 2-711 TD; LaPointe 121-1; Suhev 2-13; Hall 1-11; Gor. man 1-7; Meade 1-2, RUTGERS: Dorn 4-94-1 TD; O'Dell 5-63; Johnson 2-11; Blackwell 1-10. Previously winless Texas A&M surprised the Nittany Lions on Sept. 22, winning 27-14. The Aggies’ tailback Curtis Dickey rushed for 184 yards and three touchdowns to lower Penn State's record to 1-1. The loss was Penn State's most lopsided at home in nine years. Texas A&M 27, PSU 14 Texas A&M 777 6~2 Pen. St. 700 7-14 PSU — Moore 3 run (Menhardt kick) A&M — Dickey 69 run (Hardy kick) R AZM — Dickev 11 run (Hardy kick) A&M — Dickey 21 run (Hardy kick) A&M — Brotiers 1 run (kick failed) osy i Shey 8pass from Tate (Menrhardt kick) — 72.576 , Texas ASM Penn §). First downs i5 15 Rushes vars 59-259 48-147 Pass ng vards 29 17] Return yards 48 15 Passe 5-110 13-30-} Punts 12-41 7-38 Fumbles-iost 1 2:2 Penalties-vards : 5-5 8-50 INDIVIDUAL t EADERS RUSHING — Texas A&M, Dickey 31-184, Broth- ers 12-32, Mosley 12-31. Penn State, Warner 14-65, Suhey 16-47, Tate 10-30. PASSING — Texas A&M, Mosley 4-90-21, Dic- key 1-1.0-18. Penn State, Tate 13-30-1-191. RECEIVING — Texas A&M, Mosley 1-18, Whitwell 1.10, Carr 1-8. Penn State, Donovan 5-78. Suhey 2-17, Guman 2-25, Hettinger, 1-45. Try Lion's Eye Classifieds the first home game of the season Sept. 22, defeating Schuylkill Campus, 3-1. The Lions were scheduled to play Swarthmore College Tuesday. Looking ahead, the Lions face Brandywine College at home this Saturday at 1:00 p.m. Coach Case is hoping for a big turnout. Come out and support your team! — Bill Quinn (} RP Na berg) NZX Zo aS i -" DJ oy Ly Penthouse Announces | 20 Worst Football Teams” Just in time to inject a note of reality into alumni hopes for a winning football season, Pent- house magazine's October issue identifies what sports writer Lawrence Linderman calls “The Penthouse 20 Worst Foot- ball Teams of 1979-80." These teams are not obscure teachers colleges: they are, or have been, potential rivals’ of the best. But all have fallen on hard times in recent years, and Linderman sees little hope for the football season soon upon us. ~The list: 1. Northwestern. Its 0-10-1 record set last year ‘‘figures to be even worse in 1979." Says the magazine: "Northwestern's major problems are offense and defense, in both of which they are deficient." 2. Wake Forest. Last season's 1-10 record may turn out to be better than 1979's likely outcome. ‘Wake Forest may well lose every time out in 1979. including its curtain raiser against unheralded Ap- palachian State." 3. University of Texas, El Paso. UTEP has won only one game per season since 1975, “and they won't do any better this time around. UTEP's gridiron specialty is the equal- opportunity defense, which allows opponents to score five touchdowns a game without regard to race, creed, color or talent.” 4. Vanderbilt. Finishing 2-9 last year, ‘‘this fall Vanderbilt will again be atrocious and nothing new that head coach George MacIntyre can say or do will help the Commodores ° escape what seems to be para- mount possession of last place in the southeastern Conference.” 5. Idaho. Last year's 2-9 record isn't likely to be much better this year, but Penthouse concedes that the team might be able to give us less than the 36 points per game it yielded in 1978. 6. Texas Christian Universi ty. “Defense will again be the Froggies' short suit, but the same can be said of their of- fense.” Look for another 2-9 season this year. 7. Virginia. After 1979's 2-9 record, Linderman says: ‘I look for the Cavaliers to beat James Madison this year . . . And that's about it.” 8. Columbia. ‘“The doormat of the Ivy League’ in 1979 after last year's 3-5-1 season. Graduations have made the outlook dimmer. 9. Oregon State. This school had a winning season — in 1970. Last year's record was 3-6-1 and 1979 looks like the ninth consecutive losing season. 10. West Virginia. Another losing season after 1978's 2-9 record, but there is hope: the state legislature has approved a $20 million new stadium, and “high school athletes always _have an edifice complex. The Mountaineers will begin get- ting their share of blue-chip players quite soon and should show marked improvement within the next couple of years." 11. Rice. Rice's record for the last three seasons is 3-29. This year, says the magazine, ‘‘the Rice defense will again give up twice as many points as the of- fense can score, which is why the Owls can be expected to check in with a record that will approximate last season's 2-9 performance.” 12. Army. The once-mighty football school hasn't been able to attract top high school players, many of whom don’t find four years in the Army after graduation an enticing prospect. The loss of eight star- ting seniors from the "78 season won't help Army either. (Navy, incidentally, is not on the Worst 20 list.) 13. Illinois. Last year's 1-9-2 record foreshadows this year's results. Failure to take to the air with the forward pass was to blame last year, and likely will be again in ‘79. 14. Boston College. “Hollywood producers could do worse than to study Boston College's 1978 football season for possible adaptation as a movie comedy,’ Penthouse says. Head coach Ed Chlebek was fired last year — but rehired after his players plead- ed that he be given a second chance. After last year's 0-11 record, Boston College *‘will im- prove, although not dramatical- ly.” 15. Kansas. ‘The Jayhawks ~are a decent enough college team, but unfortunately they're playing in a murderously tough conference.” Last vear's 1-10 record may be a taste of the current season as well. 16. Syracuse. Once the sym- bol of Eastern football power, the school of Jim Brown, Ernie Davis, Floyd Little and Larry Csonka, the Orangement have fallen on hard times. This year, “the Orange will be mostly black and blue.” 17. San Diego State. Used to winning seasons, this school found introduction to the Western Athletic Conference last year a sobering experience. For "79, ‘the team has been so depleted by graduations that its chances of finishing near .500 seem very remote." 18. Tulane. The Green Wave's last winning season was in 1973, and the next isn't likely to be this year. “One reason for Tulane's protracted decline is its somewhat steady offense,” the magazine says. On the other hand, ‘‘the defense won't be able to stop a sneeze." 19. Washington State. Despite the services of the na: tion's *‘finest collegiate quarter- back,” WSU last year had a 3-6-1 record. ‘*Since Washington State was the PAC Ten's easiest team to push Continued on Page 8 5 the sport shoe center 2, Sport - ng goods \ ~ ront & jackson sts. media po. __ SPORTS SHORTS Beaver Stadium Sold Out The Penn State Nittany Lions are scheduled to play to capacity crowds at Beaver Stadium in University Park for six of their seven home games this season (September 15-Rutgers, September 22 ‘Texas A&M, October 13 - Army, October 27 - West Virginia, November 3 - Miami of Florida, November 3 - Pittsburgh). A limited supply of tickets are still available for the Penn State -Temple game at University Park on November 17. For ticket in- formation, contact the Penn State Athletic Department, 237 Recreation building, University Park, PA 16802. Beaver Stadium - home of the Nittany Lions - will be enlarged again for the second year in a row and will seat 84,000 for 1980 season games. : Football Broadcasts Penn State travels to Nebraska to face the Cornhuskers Satur- day, September 29. Then, one week later they play at Maryland. Both games start at 1:30 p.m. and can be heard on WNAR Radio. 111 AM on the Penn State football network. Football-Paterno Style” pre-game show airs twenty-five minutes before each game. Bahr’s Kick Lifts Pittsburgh Former Penn State star Matt Bahr kicked a 20-yard field goal with 13 seconds left Sunday, Sept. 16 as the Steelers scored three times in the final quarter for a 24-21 victory over the St. Louis Car- dinals. Bahr, brother of Chris Bahr of the Cincinnati Bengals, became first-string kicker for the Steelers after pittsburgh's all-time leading scorer Roy Gerela was waived during the pre-season. 20th At Beaver Penn State opened its 20th football season at Beaver Stadium with a 45-10 victory over Rutgers University on September 15. The Nittany Lions have posted an 85-16 record - excluding the first two games of this season - (84.2 winning percentage) since the in- augural game, a 20-0 victory over Boston University on September 17, 1960. Coach Joe Paterno’s teams have compiled a 13-year record of 64-8 (88.9 winning percentage) at Beaver Stadium. Press Guide for Sale A limited number of copies of Penn State's 1979 football press guide are being offered for sale to the public. The press guide, which has won numerous national and regional awards, is designed for use by the media in covering {§ Penn State's 1979 football team. The 192-page book includes complete biographical informa- tion on Penn State's current players and coaches, a preview of the 1979 season, historical information, records, statistics, future schedules and other information about Penn State foot- ball. The press guide may be purchased for $3 per copy from the Penn State Athletic Department, 237 Recreation Building University Park, Pa. 16802. Add $1 for first class mailing. Now _ it's easier to vote because it's easier to register...by mail. Ww 7 a\ Your vote is your voice. Say something. Register-by-mail forms are avail- able at your county courthouse, libraries, post offices and many other public locations. It's that easy. And it's postage-free!
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