PAGE FOURTEEN
Halftime
It was a long time before the door to Penn State's dress
ng room was opened to visitors after the.2l-17 heartbreaker
at College Park, Md., Saturday.
Most 'of the 39,000 spectators had departed from Byrd
Stadium, but little groups of people remained to talk over
the game and feel sympathetic for Rip Engle and his fallen
gridders.
The sky was graying now, and a post game attraction' was
taking place down on the lonely field. Half-a-dozen little boys,
pretending they were Saturday's heroes, romped back and forth
in the dusk,
Outside Penn State's door one gridder stood battle•clad ski%
slowly drinking a coke.
A well-wisher walked up to Terry Monaghan and congratulated
him on a fine game "Yea, but not good enough."
Monaghan was sick. He moved around the side of the building.
Almost 4S minutes had passed since State failed to score from
the three yard line. The door to the Slate dressing room opened
and despite the hot steam rolling horn the shower room, a cold
chill rattled your bones.
Bob Hart rolled on the rough cement floor while trainer Chuck
Medlar tried to slip his knee into place. Hart is through for the
season. He's due for an - operation at Geisinger Memorial Hospital
in Danville Friday. One of . the best lineman on the team, he Played
less than 3(1 minutes all rear.
Dave Hayes lay on a bench staring at the ceiling, his swollen
left ankle wrapped in tape and gauze.
Buddy Torris. who played most of the game with a badly
bruised arm after Hayes was hurl early- in -The second quarter,
sat on the end of a table staring at the floor.
It was Torris' bull-like 19-yard rush after apparently being
stopped for a short yardage that set up State's second touchdown.
Torris might have had a,
touchdown a few plays later but,
he collapsed almost from sheer'
exhaustion on the one-yard line.
Roger Kochman, a,much criti
cized halfback earlier this year
when he wasn't gaining 100 yards
every game, took the ball in on
the next play.
Rip Engle stood in a little
stairwell near the rear of the
dressing room shaking his head.
Except for a few words which he
repeated over and over, Engle'
didn't say much. "It was a tre-1
mendous - effort . . . we played
a great game . . . we're proud
of our kids . . . we're proud of
our kids .."
And then people come up to
THE RIPPER you and ask in disgust, "What's
wrong with Penn State?" And you wonder if it's worth it all.
Maryland roach Tommy Nugent eased away from well-wishers
after the -game to explain how the Terrapins e<Xploited a weakness
in States defensive armor.
"Their safety - men were playing deep and dropping to the out
tide." Nugent said. "and the middle was wide open." But Nugent
wasn't telling Engle anything he didn't already know.
"We know what the trouble is," Engle said yesterday. 'We've
Teen working hard on pass defense all year. even harder than
usual. but we just don't have a Jim Kerr or a Dick Hoak back
there to grab those interceptions. With either one of those boys
playing Saturday we would have picked off two or three passes."
Moth Kerr and Hoak starred for State last year. Kerr is a
defensive specialist with the Washington Redskins and Hoak is a
halfback with the Pittsburgh Steelers.)
"We're using the same pass defense we've always used." Engle
said. But with boys like Junior Powell (5.8) trying to defend
against Gary Collins (6-3). what can you do?'
After
It's Over
By JIM KARL
Sports Editor
THE DAILY` COLLEGIAN. _UNIVERSITY PARK. PENNSYLVANIA
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From
tissins CUT: Roger Koehn:am
cuts sharply on a sissors play to
move from the Maryland IS !
down to the 2 in second quarter
action at Byrd Stadium Satur
day.
Two plays latex Kochrnan
scored States first touchdown. ,
Fails. toi--.Stop . - : Collint - -
Wrecking .LiOti,Defense
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January 12, _1962.-
By DEAN BILLICK
Assistant Sports Edam
Gary Collins,,a sure-fire bet
All-American, had to be helped
to, the Maryland .dressing
room Saturday following a 21-
17 sqdeaker over Penn State,
but , far 30 minutes of-play during
the game, the 0-3 cirrus-catching
end wrecked the Lions.
It didn't seem tosmatter to Col
tins that he had been in bed with
la virus the day before the game,
land that he: Wos so weak that)
every time, he was, taken out of
the game he was greeted.with an,
foxy can mask,The only, thing that
lithe big end could think of was
"we gotta beat- Penn. State_"
'And ,Collins did his part,' even
though he was able to play, only
about half the genie.
All the AB-American did was
catcluaht posses for SG yards.
punt Six', times . for an average
of 42 yards.. scow on a seven
yard 'pass. set- a new, Atlantic
Coast ),Conference pass ritceiv
ling record of lOU yards for a
team'', .stop Don Caum on a
roll-out, attempt for two extra
points, and in .general come up
with the big plays that put a
damper on Slate's bowl hopes.
"We wanted this game more
than any other this season," Col
lins said as two trainers wiped
the sweat from his face and tried
to cool him by handing him a
Coke,
"I'm so tired ndw, I can't even
think," Collins said. "I have never
been hit so hard in all nW life..
On that touchdown pass that I
TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 7. 1961
caught, someone hit me so,hard I
thought I was splitting in half.
"On that last guanine stand I
was so tired I couldn't even
stand. I only weighed 199 pounds
and I u su ally weigh 210.' .
Maryland Coach Tommy Nugent
had high praise for his kangaroo
leaping end. "Ile kept us in the
:me," Nugent said. "I Think it
was probably his best all-around
performance, especially his punt
mg."
Collins, however, didn't agree
with his coach. "I don't think it
was my best performance," he
said. "It was a team effort all
the way."
Probably the happiest player
in the Terp dressing room was
quarterback Dick Shiner, whose
passing and running in the first
half kept State 'on the defense
most of the time.
"Now I can go back home with
pride," Shiner said. The Maryland
sophomore is a Pennsylvania boy
and wanted to go to Penn State.
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