A Freshman's Fall Guide to Penn State Athletics
First of all. Penn State really is the jock-crazed campus
you've always heard it was. Truisms come and go. This one
came and staved.
While il l may also be an institution of higher learning. all
that is lost in the shuffle. It is an institution of higher
athletics. particularly of higher football.
All of that can be turned . to one's advantage. however.
within the framework of a few simple guidelines. Call it
"The Freshman's Fall Guide to Penn State Athletics." It's
something of a crash course to what you eventually would
learn anyway. but maybe it save you time enough to gain
an education.
FOOTBALL Make no mistake about it. Joe Paterno is
Penn State. There are those who would argue that the
University president is more
.representative of Penn State.
or that even the director of student affairs or the Hetzel
Union Building would be. Those are terribly naive persons.
Penn State. football. Paterno's game. is a game which
some 60.000 persons will take in at Beaver Stadium six times
this fall. As lemmings to:the sea. they will trek past East
Halls and across the IM fields. their flasks concealed in hip
pockets. beneath stadium blankets. under big green- Air
Force parkas.
Chances are you will be among them.
Freshmen. naturally. are given seats so oau Mal
scorecards become inoperative when the teams move
beyond midfield. That is because the ' teams are
indistinguishable by then. .
The trick. then. is to move to better seats. limbbing
underneath the railings when the guards have turned their
hacks. steadily advancing section by section until the 50-yard
line has been reached. or the end zone. anyway. Obviously.
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Photo by H.R. Begley II
Joe Paterno is counting heavily on Tom Shuman
Shuman: QB on
If there is a man on the spot, it is Tom
Shuman.
The junior quarterback this season
steps into the position vacated by All-
America John Hufnagel, a replacement
likely to draw no small share of
publicity Normally. a Penn State
quarterback in such a position would not
be under any additional pressure: even
if he faltered in one of the
games. no real damage would be done
Shuman. however. is in no • such
position. His first outing as a starter will
be a nationally televised affair against
Stanford. likely the strongest team on
the Penn State schedule.
don's know how I'll react to the big
game._ : human said. "I can't worry
about the pressure. about the TV. about
the crowd I know they're there but I'm
not going to worry about it.
"Actually. I play a lot on psych. I can't
play unless I'm psyched and I can't get
psyched for practice. So I woi, t know
until it hiippens. But I'm confident I can
do the jcfb.—
Shuman did the job at Pottstown High
School several years back: the team
went 10-1 his senior year though he
threw only 80 times all season. College
scouts were not coming in great
numbers.
Penn State was the only one who was
DUNKEL'S FOOTBALL INDEX
Football rating service to appear
Penn State is again everybody's
choice as the No. 1 college football team
in the East.
But how strong will the 1973 Nittany
Lions rank nationally?
Readers of the Daily Collegian will be
kept up-to-date on the fortunes of all
college football teams this fall through
the famous Dunkel College Football
Index.
This nationally syndicated feature will
appear here twice a week starting Sept.
For 44 years the Dunkel Index has
provided fans with a continuous picture
interested. — Shuman laughed.
"Actually. I had always wanted to go
there. When they gave me the only offer
before Thanksgiving. I took it and it was
pretty well publicized, I guess that kept
other schools away."
Somewhat surprisingly. Shuman was
not kept away from Penn State by the
presence of one Steve Joachim.
Joachim. a high school All-America
who had been built to larger-than
life proportions by the Philadelphia
press. had enrolled at Penn State a
year earlier and the assumption. was
that he pretty well had the QB job
here lbcked up for several seasons.
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"I didn't even know who Joachim
was. - Shuman said. "I had heard of him
but I didn't know what school he_went to,
or anything like that:-
Neither did it matter. Joachim,
locked into second string by-Hufnagel,
opted for Temple and the job was left.
moth or less, to Shuman. His
performance in spring :ball made it a
certainty.
There was still some doubt, however,
as to how capably he could fill it. He had
a strong arm, certainly, but could he
handle Penn State's option offense.
Practice. Shuman says. has given the
answer.
That's been the difference," he said
of the relative strengths and weaknesses
of college football teams.
On the Index. each team earns a
Dunkel Rating figure which shows at a
glance how well or how poorly a team
has performed to date. A team's ratings
are much like a baseball player's bat
ting average or a golfer's handicap.
Through these ratings, the Dunkel
Index each week will rank the teams by
strength and will show how each team is
expected to perform in Saturday's
game:
The Dunkel Index is produced in
Ormond Beach. Fla., by former
newspaperman Dick Dunkel.
however. there is a certain danger inherent in being
confronted in $7 section with only a student ticket.
For those who prefer an alternative to these risks, there is
the old standby: oblivion. This is a state of mind brought - on
by another old standby: booze. Sophomores and juniors, the
cheerleaders say. are the ones Jfeast likely to be•yelling for
Dear 01' State because they are the ones most likely to-be
snockered: the - seniors already are becoming nostalgic.
preferring to partake of the true college spirit while they
still have the chance, and freshman have not yet learned to
drink.
Later. of course, many most freshmen do learn and
by November they have joined the rest. For them, as for the
others, the long treks to Beaver Stadium are chilling that
late in the season. The return journeys are considerably
warmer.
No doubt related to this body-and-soul-warming ritual is
the concept of "the lost Alma Mater. - Traditionalists insist
the Penn State Alma Mater begins: "For the glory of old
State. 'For her founders strong and great It does not.
That version was last sung in 1954 by a junior college
transfer who knew no better:
The current adaptation, likely to be in vogue for a number
of years. is considerably simpler. "We don't know :the
goddam words," it goes, "We don't know the goddam
words. - There is much in the way of repetition afterwards
and nothing_ in the way of originalify: the appeal lies-in the
words' being easy to remember when one is snockered.
For those truly interested in Penn State football, the better
choice would be television. Away games at Stanford and Air
Force will hit.the tubes this season, though you will have to
put up with Chris Schenkel. Bud Wilkinson and. now. Duffy
Pirates in and out of first
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Aaron smashes two more
PITTSBURGH (AP ) The St. Louis
Cardinals showed plenty of resilience
yesterday after Richie Hebner's inside
the-park homer dealt them a crushing 5-
4 loss in 13 innings in the first game of a
doubleheader.
They bounced b ack to whip the Pirates
8-3 in the second game and regain their
one-game hold on first place in the
National League East.
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"It's easy to get down when you lose a
game like that," acknowledged Ted
Simmons, the sturdy Cardinal catcher
who played both games in 'oppressive
heat and rapped six hits.
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"When we went into the locker room
between games, we were all trying to
keep each other going," Simmons said
as he peeled off his sweaty, dust-caked
uniform.
The Pirates took over the division lead
by a few percentage points after
Hebner's 21st homer won the first game.
The ball hit the right field wall ,and
bounced away from Cardinal outfielder
Jose Cruz when he tried to retrieve it.
"I didn't think I could run, that fast,"
said Hebner. who, connected on a
knuckleball from Eddie Fischer for the
homer.
. "I was running like the cops were
chasing me." Hebner added.
Simmons. the Cardinal catcher.
watched helplessly as Hebner scored
standing up, and he wasn't about to,let
first place slip further away,
"This is the closest I've ever been to a
division title." he said. "and I'm at the
point now where I'm willing to sacrifice
everything to get there.-
the spot
"If you work on anything long enough`, it
becomes comfortable and that's what
happened.
"I enjoy running the ball. I don't know
hoW the coaches like it but if that's what
I'm left with on a certain play, I'll take
it."
Shuman's gaining of experience . has
been aided greatly-by the experience of
the rest of the offense. Nine of the 10
were starters last year and that tends to
make things a little easier, •
"The whole offensive - line is
experienced: they're big and quick.
We've got a great group o'f receivers
who are fast and pretty big.
"At fullback we've got (Bob) Nagle
and (Tom) Donchez, who both can run
and block pretty well. And then we've
got (John) Cappelletti, who's a potential
All-America. At least, he's an All-
America in my mind."
That group of footballers offers
Shuman somewhat more in the way of
talent than what he worked with this
summer.
"I worked on my running and
throwing this summer," he said. "I did
almost all of the throwing to my father:
there just wasn't anyone else around.
And my father isn't a very moving tar
get."
Perhaps. But he will-have opportunity
enough to seek out those when the
season begins. And at that time he may
become one himself: Stanford probably
also is tougher on defense than his
father. —Ray McAllister
Toppled Billie Jean no longer Ki
Billie Jean King found that her
seeding as the top women's player at the
U.S. Open Tennis Championship didn't
impress Julie Heldman.
The upset-riddled • tourney at Forest
Hills added King to its loser's list that
include Russia's Olga Morozova,
Romania's Ilie Nastase, who was
favored to -take the men's title, and
Australian Rod Laver.
Leading 3-6, 6-4, 4-1, Heldman
approached the umpire when King didn't
return to the court after the one break
allowed by international rules.
"If you want it that badly, you can
have it, Billie Jean said to Julie then left
Daugherty. Additionally, all games are broadcast late
Saturday night on a local station.
•No doubt, you'll be joined in your late night viewing by a
number of adults who, though having good seats, didn't see
the game too clearly, either. the reason being their so-called
"tailgate parties." Tailgate parties are to them as sneaking`'
booze into Beaver Stadium may become to you. except that
they are considered more sophisticated. Most adults do not
have big green Air Force parkas.
SOCCER This is not a joke. Soccer actually is played at
Penn State. For all of recorded time, Americans, gaining
only glimpses Of the sport on Wide World of Sports, have
thought it incredibly ludicrous. Now Americans are playing
it and suddenly it is a magnificent game.
Three fraternity brothers and a couple of strays was the
soccer attendance record here until someone decided to play
the games on Friday night at. Jeffrey Field. Three and four
thousand do not represent unusual crowds now. and, in a land
Lou Brock, Ted Sizemore and Bernie
Crabo drove in two runs each in the
second game for St. Louis.
SAN DIEGO (AP) Henry Aaron hit
the 707th and 708th home runs of his
major league baseball career last night
and pulled within six of equalling the
alltime mark 'of the legendary Babe
Ruth.
Aaron's first homer in Atlanta's game
against San Diego came in the third
inning when the Braves' slugger tagged
a pitch from Padre hurler Clay Kirby on
a low line into the left field stands.
On Aaron's next time up, with reliever
Vicente Romo on the mound for the
Padres, Aaron blasted the ball 370 feet
out, again into the left field stands.
Aaron now has 35 homers , for the
season.
His home runs last night were his first
this month. His last homer in August
came last Tuesday night.
NEW . YORK (AP ) Rookie Dick
Ruthven settled down after a shaky start
and combined with Mac Scarce to pitch
the Philadelphia Phillies to a 6-3 victory
and a split of yesterday's doubleheader
with the New York Mets.
Ted Martinez. who' had driven in only
10 runs all season. knocked in four more.
collected four hits, including his first
home run of the season, and led the New
York Mets to a 5-0 victory in the opener
behind Jerry Koosman.
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Shuman: 'I can't play unless I'm psyched and I can't get psyched for practice'
for the dressing room.
It was only the third time Heldman
defeated King.
'Bob ,Hope has one. So do Glenn
Campbell, Andy Williams and Jackie
. Gleason. Sammy Davis Jr. joined his
friends in the golf tournament business.
Davis' name is now hyphenated in front
of the Greater Hartford Open.
Billy Casper probably doesn't case
What the name 'of the tournament was;
just who endorses his $40,000 paycheck.
Casper emerged from a tightly packed
field with a seven-under-par 64
yesterday to edge Bruce Devlin for the
Ray Mollister
sports editor
St. Louis
PIRATES
Montreal
Chicago
New York
PHILLIES
Cincinnati 83
Los Angeles 83
San Francisco 77
Houston 71
Atlanta . 65
San Diego 48
Results
Pittsburgh 5, St. Louis 4, Ist, 13 innings
St. Louis 8. Pittsburgh 3, 2nd
New York 5, Philadelphia 0, Ist
Philadelphia 6, New York 3, 2nd
San Francisco 11, Los Angeles 8
Cincinnati 4. Houston 3
Montreal 5. Chicago 2
Atlanta 'at San Diego
winner s purse
The touring pro treated the 6.588 yard
Wethersfield Country Club layout like a
chip and putt course. Casper had been in
a deep slump until winning the Western
Open two months ago, fashioned rounds
of 67,65.68 and 64 to finish 264;
Auto racing has been good to David
Pearson. The veteran driver became
auto racing's fifth million dollar winner.
Pearson accomplished that feat
yesterday when he drove his Mercury to
a second place finish in the Southern 500
stock car race at Darlington
International Speedway.
where football LI king, the soccer people still are crowing
about a traffic jam they had last season.
But the ultimate indication that soccer has arrived for is
arriving, more realistically i is two-fold: 1 ) anyone who gets
to the game late' gets a crummy seat. and 2 ) students are
arriving with flasks concealed beneath their green parkas.
CROSS COUNTRY Very few show up with flasks for
cross country meets. however. Very few show up for cross
country meets, as a matter of fact.
It has never been much of a spectators' sport. of course.
for it is'difficult to become very much enthused over grown
men turning blue as they run around a cold golf course in
what amounts to little more than their underwear.
particularly when they are concealed by hills most of the
time.
Actually. then, the best way to keep up with the sport lies
in either getting the score when it is announced at the
football game or reading Monday morning's paper. For
those more adventurous. it means getting 'to the course in
time for the finish. Either that or running along with the
pack.
PENN STATE ATHLETICS generally have enjoyed about
as-much success as GM and Ford combined, which. while not
bad for the school image, often doesn't do too much for the
spirit of competition. Nor does it do much for spectator
excitement. But the occasional close games have shown that
Penn State does have some,,college spirit.
But, whether you live and die for Nittany Lion football or
live and die I the next mornings only for the boozing at
Beaver Stadium. there's quite a bit to be learned at Penn
State. And. fittingly, your commencement ceremonies four
years from now will be held in Beaver Stadium.
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Baltimore
Boston
Detroit
New- York
Milwaukee
Cleveland
Oakland
Kansas City
Chicago
Minnesota
California
Texas
Results
Baltimore 13, Boston 8. Ist
Boston 9. Baltimore 8. 2nd
Chicago 8. Texas 7. Ist, 11 innings
Chicago 5. Texas 2. 2nd
Milwaukee 13. Cleveland 5. Ist
Cleveland 10. Milwaukee 5. 2nd
New York 4. Detroit 3
Minnesota at Kansas City
California 3 Oakland 1
He collected $10.650. boosting his
track earnings to $1,005.895.
Cale Yarborough pushed his Chevrolet
across the finish line at Darlington. S.C.
eight seconds ahead of the charging
Pearson. The win ended a three-year
drought for Yarborough. ---
Pearson joined the million dollar club
that includes Richard Petty. A.J. Foyt.
Al Unser and Mario Andretti.
Meanwhile, across the continent.
Wally Dallenbach.won his third race in
three weeks, this one a 500 mile race for
Indy-type car at Ontario Speedway.
—MS
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