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ions Favored Over Panthers
But Series' Records Show
Underdog Role Means Little
By JIM KARL
Collegian Sports Editor
PITTSBURGH, Pa., Nov. 24—Penn State, boasting one of the most devastating offensive
machines in the nation, goes into tomorrow's season finale against Pitt hopeful of a 7-3
record and a possible bid to the Bluebonnet Bowl.
But the Panthers, winners of only three out of nine games this season and listed as
a six-point underdog by the oddsmakers, have other ideas.
In this red-hot series the team that's favored usually finds itself battered, bruised
and beaten by the time 4 o'clock rolls around on the final major football Saturday of the
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year. . ' * * * * * *
Pitt did last 3iear, when State •
roared from three points behind Starling Tackles Against Pill-.
to edge the favored Panthers,
14-3
Penn State did two years ago
when the Lions, led by All-
American • quarterback Richie
Scouts from the Gotham Bowl
will be present at tomorrow's
game. The Bowl, which is sched
uled for Dec. 9. reportedly offered
a bid to Syracuse but was turned
down, when the Orange accepted
an offer to play in the Liberty
Bowl Dec. 16.
Lucas and sporting an 8-1 record,
went into the game heavily fa
vored. Pitt won 22-7.
Joe Blasenstein set the flavor
for last year's upset. For weeks
and weeks the Lion guard studied
game movies of Pitts tremendous
end, Mike Ditka. The Blazer felt
that Ditka_ was the key to the
Pitt team, and he thought he
could find some flaw in the All-
American's game. He found it.
Blasenstein noticed that on
every opening kickoff when
Pitt's opponent received, Bake
would wait near the sidelines,
then tear in hell-bent from the
blind side to smash an unsus
pecting player.
Blasenstein was ready when
Penn State won the toss last year
and elected to receive. He watched
Ditka linger near the sidelines as
Jim Kerr took the opening kickoff
and started upfiekl. _ .
When Yerr fumbled Ditka
moved in. He never got near the
play. Blasenstein hit him from the
blind side (but with a legal block,
as movies showed) and the Pitt
end was so shaken up- that he
didn't play his normal ferocious
game.
This year the Panthers don't
have anyone of Ditka's caliber,
but they have one of the top
field goal kickers in the country
in Fred Cox. Cox missed a 61-
yard boot by inches this year.
and his 43-yard kick made the
difference in last Saturday's
IQ-9 victory over Southern Cal
ifornia.
Galen Hall (QB) Roger Koch
man (LIM), Junior Powell (R}IB)
and Buddy 'Dorris (FB) will corn
pri,e the backfield.
Bob Mitinger and Jim Schwab
will be at end. Jim Smith and
Charlie Sieminski at tackle, Joe
Blasenstein and Dick Wilson at
guard and Jay Huffman at center.
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NEW YORK (AP) Heavy
weight champion' Floyd Patter
, son will defend his title late next
spring against Sonny Liston if
both come through their tests Dec.
4, a spokesman for Champion
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ing the doubleheader in which
Patterson meets Tom McNeeley
of Boston in Toronto and Liston,
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To Run In NCAA's
The Penn State cross country team will travel to East
Lansing, Mich., Monday to compete in the NCAA. champion
ships on the Michigan State course, but coach Chick Werner
is pessimistic about his team's chances of winning.
"Even if we operate at 100 per cent efficiency, our chances
of winning the meet are remote,"
Warner said yesterday. "The op
position this year -is very tough
and there are a lot of teams who
are stronger than we are."
Although the Lions finished
second in the IC4A meet Mon
day at New York, Werner feels
that State's reputation will
carry to East Lansing. "The
other teams will consider us as
one of the teams to beat," he
said.
Werner rates Oklahoma State,
lowa, Houston, and Southern
Illinois as the teams to beat in
Monday's run.
Michigan State also should be
a contender on the basis of
its IC4A victory, and the fact
that the Spartans will be run
ning on their home course.
Gerry Norman will be the top
Lion contender for the individual
title. He finished second in the
IC4A meet.
Steve Machooka of Cornell, the
IC4A winner, and Al Lawrence of
Houston, last year's NCAA champ,
should battle it out for the title.
The Lions will send the same
seven runners to East Lansing
who competed in the IC4A
meet.
The snowy weather conditions
at the IC4A's brought on a rash
of stiff leg ailments to the Lion
harriers, but Werner said that the
team will be in good shape for
the meet.
Big 8 Changes Bowl Rule
KANSAS CITY (AP) A Big
Eight rule which limits post sea
son games by league football
teams to the Orange Bowl was
modified yesterday for this year.
The league faculty representa
tives in a telephone conference
voted to approve "one or more
additional teams going to a bowl
game other than on Jan. 1,"
Reeves Peters, conference com
missioner, reported.
SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 25. 1'.761
By DAVE LEONARD
Today's Penn' State-Pitt clash
will be the 61st game in- one of
college football's most heated
rivalries. Although Pitt leads in
the series with 33 victories to 24
'for Stale (there have been three
ties), the Lions have more than
'held their own in recent years.
ISince 1950, Rip Engle's first year
as head coach at State, the Lions
f have whipped Pitt six times while
'losing four and tying one. The
Lions won in 1950, the now
famous 21-20 game on snow
'covered Forbes Field, 1952, 1953.
1954, 1958 and 1960. Pitt won in
1951, 1955, 1956, and 1959. The 1957
game ended in a 7-7 tie ... A look
[at State's latest statistics reveals
why Engle now calls Roger Koch
;man "the equa of just about any
!halfback in the country." Koch
man ran around and through Holy
ICross last Saturday for 133 yards
in 25 carries, bringing his learn
,best rushing total to 619 yards in
1118 attempts for a 5.2 average.
As a result of his three touch
downs against the Crusaders.
Kochman has moved into the No.
1 spot in scoring with 48 points.
He's third in pass receiving with
nine catches for 200 yards and
three TDs. "And to top it off."
says Engle, "he's our best block
ing halfback." ...Fullback Buddy
Torrii is runner-up to Kochman
in rushing. He churned out 144
yards in 22 carries against Holy
,Cross, bringing his totals to 424
;yards and a 5.1 averag4 . . . Penn
State claims one of the most un
usual father-son acts in college
football. State's starting ends
Bob Mitinger and Jim Schwab
are the sons of two of the finest
guards ever to play for Lafayette
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