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never heard of before. We've tried to prepare for every
thing."
Whether or not Paterno and his staff revolutionized
football is a matter of conjecture but the Lions' changes
certainly kept the Seminoles off balance in the first
half.
On offense, State moved All-American tight end
Ted Kwalick to wingback, first-team wingback Paul
Johnson to reserve defensive back and sophomore Gary
Williams to the tight end position.
On defense the changes were intended to aid the
pass defense, so corner back Neal :Smith moved to
rover, Pete Johnson froth rover to linebacker Jim Kates
to middle guard.
During the week prior to the game, both coaches
praised their opponents and neither could resist the
temptations to draw a few comparisons.
BILL PETERSON: _
"Defensively, Penn State is like North Carolina
State, as far as pers6nnel is concerned, but they use
different alignments.
"On offense, Penn State looks like Texas "Tech's
running game, but they have a whole lot of different
formations. They're a great offensive team. They really
come at you.
"Ted Kwalick is the best tight end I've ever seen.
He has great size and great speed. Tom Sherman is an
excellent passer and a fair runner. He's about like the
North -Carolina State quarterback Jim Donnan. But the
thing that worries us most is Penn State's running game.
They have a great running game. Another thing that
worries me is that linebacker Dennis Onkotz. He's a
great one. I thought the Mississippi State boy, D. D.
Lewis, was probably the best linebacker we've ever
faced, but now I think Onkotz may be the best.
JOE PATEENOs
"Sellers would have to be the best I've seen this
year, and I've never seen anybody better. I'd like to
compare him with Gary Collins (Cleveland Browns
end). I thought Collins may have a step of speed on him,
but Sellers has so many moves and real good speed.
"We've played a couple of drop-back passers like
Hammond, but they're not as good as him. Hammond
and Gary Beban are the best quarterbacks we've played.
They're two great ones. Hammond's running is some
times overlooked. He can run and scramble and has
speed and toughness. We've played no passer anywhere
who's near as good as Hammond. Beban is a great runner
but Hammond is the superior passer.
Much has been said in recent days concerning Joe
Paterno's big gamble deep in Penn State territory, but
perhaps the classic line was heard on the trip home
from Florida. As the plane carrying the official Penn
State party circled the Martinsburg airport, it appeared
that a landing attempt could not be made. The pilot
circled the snow-covered field and descended out of a
snow squall in an effort to sight the runway. After
dropping out of the clouds, he saw that the plane was
headed more for the airport terminal than for a runway,
so he quickly pulled up again.
To which sportwriter Roy McHugh of the Pitts
burgh Press quipped: "I wonder if Joe would have gone
for it."—Paul Levine.
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A dAappointed John Egli stood outside the steamy
locker room in a corridor at Madison Square Garden, the
second home of New York sports fans. The corridor was
empty except for a couple dozen St. John's University can
can girls practicing a high-kicking coordination routine for
a halftime show.
It was Tuesday afternoon at about 4 p.m., a bleak day
after Christmas that saw the Penn State Nittany Lions
basketball team suffer a frightful loss .to Boston College.
As he had been used to doing for over a season, Egli tried
to find reasons why his boys only scored 58 points to the
opponents' 87.
He had no reason to be short of reasons. They flowed
from his mouth just as they had before, and just as they
were going to again just 48 hours later. No bitterness, no
excuses. Just every coach's dilemma of explaining what
went wrong. To wit:
"They were just too -good a ball team to keep up
with, they were faster and quicker than we are, and
whenever we tried to run with them, we fell behind."
And, "We weren't following through on offense. We
would set up a play and then someone would break it
with a wild shot. All I ask for is a little more intelligence."
And, "We just didn't have the depth that they had.
I didn't plan to play Bill (Stansfield) as much as I did,
but we got into foul trouble and I had to go with him.
He hadn't worked out much and he just wasn't in shape
to play as much as that." •
And, "I just couldn't ask for more effort from our
boys. They went as hard as they could all the way. The
only thing that was disappointing to me was the play of
Jeff Persson. He's a much better player than he was today
(eight points, four rebounds), and since he's the team cap
tain, he must set the example for the rest. It seems as he
goes, so goes the team. He must give us more."
The two most important men on the team are Bill
Stansfield, at 6-8 and 235, and Jeff Persson, who averaged
17.6 points per game last year and is the only senior on the
team. The big man is presently playing with an arm
and a half because of an injury, while the leader has yet
to assert himself as such.
Add to these factors the plain and simple fact that
the Lions' opening game in the ECAC Holiday Festival
tournament was against the 10th-ranked team in the na
tion, and you surely won't come up with a toss-up.
Nevertheless, that's how the whole affair began. After
the Garden organist had finished playing "Fight for the
Blue and White" at least a thousand times, and after the
earth-shattering foghorn had alerted about 5,000 fans that
the game was to begin, it took almost two minutes of play
ing time before State's Galen Godbey hit a 20-foot jumper
for a 2-0 lead.
The following nine minutes of play seemed to be mis
take against mistake, bad pass against ridiculous shot.
Neither team could generate an ounce of offense, and
with 8:50 remaining in the half, both boasted a red-faced
15 points.
The Eagles then hit a quick flurry of baskets to pull
away for good. Bob Dukiet dropped one through from
five feet for BC, the Lions' Galen Godbey accidently put
one through the opponents' nets on a rebound, and Terry
Driscoll, BC's 6-7 pivot ace who led his team with 19
points, tapped in his first of several.
Moments later the Eagles scored seven straight behind
the hustling ball-hawking tactics of Steve Adleman and
Jack Kvancz, and the Eglimen found themselves down,
31-19. The halftime score was little more respectable at
38-27.
Boston College coach Bob Cousy naturally likes the
fast game. The only time he's deliberate is when he talks
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about his team and the many talents it has. One device
he used to - show off the squad was his version of musical
chairs. Twelve men sat on the . bench, and in the first
half, 10 of them saw considerable action. Even Billy Evans,
their top playmaking guard, got into the game, though he
could hardly move, on his heavily-taped right.leg.
The Eagles' depth' and Penn State's lack of it proved
decisive in the second half as BC literally ran away With
everything •but the locker room sink. Between Lion bas
kets, Cousy's smoothies put together scoring strings of 10,
8 and 6 points, and again the former Celtic great cleared
his bench, this time using all 12 men.
One bright spot in the Lion lineup was -the hustling
performance of 6-2 guard Tom Daley, a sophomore from
—Photo by Ed SwlerzeWski
LEAPING HIGH for rebound during Penn State-Syracuse
consolation game at Madison Square Garden are Lion
forwards Galen Godbey (24) and Bill Young (50). Orange
man George Hicker (21) is sandwiched between the State
rebounders while Vaughn Harper (left) and Tom Ringel
mann (under basket) move in.
Lock Haven. Daley connected seven times from the field
in the second half, leading both teams in scoring with 22
points. Six baskets came directly from steals and subse
quent fast breaks, four of which he executed unassisted.
- Despite the youngster's performance, Penn State was
outplayed in every facet of the game. The Lions hit only
31 per cent from the field, to BC's 43 per cent. The Eaglet
hauled down 83 rebounds (14 by Driscoll) to the Lions' 58.
Assist totals read 23-9 in favor of the winners, as did free
throw percentages, 60-42. Four men hit double figures for
BC, while Stansfield was the only one to supplement
-Daley's total with 11 points.
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Although his team was out of the running for the
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top four places in the tourney, Egli knew it could OEIS
salvage,fifth place with two more wins. Syracuse was the:
next, opponent that Thursday afternoon, havihg lost te.4.
St. Johns in the opener.
Egli also knew that State had played the Orangemen:
to a deadlock two weeks earlier at Syracuse, only to• lose
, In , overtime: In that one George Ricker hit a foul shot witlyl'
no time left on the clock, giving his club a 90-89
Here was the Lions' chance to gain revenge, like all teams
do in John R. Tunis sports novels.,
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After the game, Egli stood outside the same steamy
locker ro6m and in the same corridor, minus the can-can
girls. The dejected face was the same, and though the ex.-2.;
planation was a bit different, the result was similar enough;
Syracuse had won; 83.73.•
• "we're still quite inept, especially our ball handling,'
the 14-year coach said. "Though we worked like hell orvi
defense, we just weren't quick enough• to stay with them:4
And when we have 'to press, we're licked. Quickness iv.;
something we'll have to work on."
. When it came to . determining what player or players
proved the difference, especially in compari4on to the pre-
vious meeting in Syracuse, Egli didn't mention Wayne
Ward, the 6-7 Orange center who scored 21 points, or=
George Hicker, who hit 19. Neither did he single out Jeff
Persson or fill Stansfield.
"We played a bit better today than we did up-there,"
he explained, "except for the play of Bill Young. He wat:l.
great up at Syracuse (13 points, 13 rebounds), but he just'
couldn't get started today. That could have been the dif•:-
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Terence."
Shooting Surprises
Actually, the difference proved to be some clutch
outside shooting from a couple surprising reserves and
a blond bomber.
The 40-38 halftime score gives a pretty good indica
tion
of what the first 20 minutes were like. Though the:.
Orangemen held the' lead most of the way, their margin:
was never more than nine, and they were never losing.:
by more than two.
Pivotman Ward was unstoppable as he hit three of
fensive taps and a twisting layup, contributing 12 Syra
cuse points. On the other side, Bill Stansfield started hit
ting from in close as he, Persson and Daley each added
eight points to the score. Then came a frustrating second
half.
. Guard Richie Cornwall dropped in a foul and Nicker ,•
swished a 25-footer, giving Syracuse a five-point lead that
held to the 61-56 mark. Then 6.4 sub Tom Ringelmann hit '
20-foot jumpers from both corners and Ward completed
a three-point tap play with 5:45 left, making it a decisive
68-56. Again, at 73-64, Ringelmann hit two outside bombs
and Ward added a couple driving layups, putting it Out of - :
reach at 79-64 with About three minutes on the clock. The?'
Lions never caught up.
Case, Ricker Hot
• Throughout the second half, Orangemen Bill Case,'
another substitute, consistently hit from the corners, and '
George Hicker, whose leg injury prevents him from moving
effectively, added 11, points, six of them from the outside.
State captain Persson kept the Lions on the scoreboard
and began asserting considerable leadership in the second
half, leading all scorers with a game-high 22 points.
"We threw a couple away and took a couple shots out
of our range," Egli added, - "and we got hurt on a couple
calls. But we're going to win some ball games this year,
because these boys aren't going to sit down and quit.
They're a bunch of tough kids:"
Penn State and West. Virginia were the first to bow
out of the tournament. losing their first two. Syracuse
was' defeated in the fifth-place game by LaSalle and also
suffered elimination.
In the semi-final round, St. Johns end Columbia sur.
prised everyone by upsetting Boston College and Louis
ville, respectively, to gain a' berth in the final Saturday
night. Louisville won the third-place consolation game,
81-74, and in the all-New York final, Columbia pulled its
second big upset of the tourney by edging St. John's, 60-55.
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