Lion hooters sharing football
Penn State is a football power with a good
soccer team; or is it a soccer power with a
good football team?
Parts of both statements are needed for a
clear picture of the two fall sports. The
Lions have dominated Eastern football the
past decade, appearing in, five bowls in six
years.
The boaters, likewise, have been very
successfull, garnering three consecutive
NCAA playoff bids. The only other school to
have both its soccer and football teams
ranked in the top 20 last year was,UCLA.
The Lion booters held down the sixth spot
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in the final Intercollegiate Soccer Foottiall The winning atmosphere generated at
Association poll while the gridders found Beaver Stadium drifted over to Jeffrey
themselves 10th in the Associated Press Field; the booters new home named after
rankings. Bill Jeffrey, a successful coach who guided
Soccer at Penn State always hasn't been the Lion teams from 1926-1952.
in the limelight. Just ask any of the seniors After two straight NCAA • bids, soccer
on the squad. When they arrived as came out of hiding last year. Penn State
freshmen in 1970, they inherited a team that spotlighted the sport by scheduling five
went 3-6. The year before that it was 0-6-3. home games at night under the Jeffrey
"Every win was a surprise," winger Field lights. Attendance averaged 4,200 with
Jimmy Startzell recalled. That season was the top crowd of 6,200 witnessing the Lions
full of surprises, because Herb Schmidt first win over Army in 14 years.
coached his squad to a 9-3 log and Penn Now that soccer has attained the label of a
State's first NCAA playoff appearance. winner, anything short of a victory isn't
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limelight
accepted. Even a tie is no good to some
diehard soccer fans.
"Ties are really depressing," Startzell
said. "You feel you've wasted your
The acceptance of soccer at Penn State is
part of a wave that is sweeping the country.
The Philadelphia Atoms, champs of the
North American Soccer League, had
several games this summer where they
drew 16,000 fans through the turnstiles.
"I think soccer is here to stay," Startzell
predicted.
—Mark Simenson