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B RAY McALLISTER
Collegian Sports Editor
ALTO. Calif
:'Jack Christiansen always
comes up to the press box
after the games," Stanford
Sports Information Director
I3ob Murphy said Saturday
morning. "Sometimes the
visiting coach comes up,
sometimes he doesn't. But at
least Christiansen will be
there "
Stanford coach
Christiansen, he of the
"Stanford will' win because
hard work and determination
will make. the difference"
remark, must have
reconsidered after his team's
20-6 loss here • Saturday,
however For—when the
blitzing had stopped and the
fans were filing out and the
television cameras' were
being put away and the Sports
Illustrated writer , mentally
had begun his story—there
stood Penn State-coach Joe
Paterno in the press box.
Alone.
Christiansen. without
explanation. -was showering
in the same building used by
the Penn State team.
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Afterwards, he retreated to
an • off-limits officials room.
Christiansen later
emerged to tell reporters
that "we had almost no
offense. Instead of going
forward, it went backwards
and sideways."
He.may as well have stayed
underground or wherever it
was he had been, for he had
offered nothing new in the
way of insight. Penn State's
defense so completely
dominated the Stanford
offense that the game would
have been over at halftime
and the Stanford defense not
been nearly as successful as
its counterpart.
In fact, just about the only
semblence of offense in that
half came from Lion
defensemen Greg Murphy
and Doug Allen, who,
seemingly forgetting that the
"return" and not the "block"
Was on, roared through with a
surprise for Stanford punter
Tom Lynn'. Allen belted the
ball through the end zone for
the game's first two points.
Late in the half, Penn State
defensive halfback Jimmy
Bradley picked off the ball on
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the Stanford 10 as it was
jarred from running back
John Winesberry, thus setting
up another score.
And those- were virtually
the only indications the teams
felt it desireable to score
points. There even was
speculation that Penn State
linebackers, particularly Ed
O'Neil, were lining up next to
Stanford fullback Scott
Laidlaw. But the officials
never caught it and Stanford
quarterback Mike Boryla,
who was to be dumped seven
times for 40 yards, was
sacked time and again.
"The quarterback has to
think a littld-extra when the
blitz is on," Bradley
explained, "and Boryla
seemed to%e having a little
trouble: it seemed to worry
him.
"We had made up our mind
to blitz a lot. For instance, we
had the "52 blitz super" on
two times in ,the first four
plays; we ran the "8 blitz
half" a lot.
"Oregon did the same thing
and we got it from watching
the film of last year's Oregon-
Stanford game. Boryla reads
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the blitz well, but he's a little
I shaky acting on it.
Meanwhile, the Penn State
offense was having its
problems. Tailback John
;Cappelletti was finding too
.many Cardinal jerseys when
:he made his cuts,
quarterback Tom Shuman
!was rifling passes too high
!and too hard to be pulled in,
,and the receivers were
'dropping some of those
;Shuman did put in their
hands. -
Chris Bahr was wide right
on a 42-yard field goal
attempt and fumbles stalled
other Nittany Lion drives.
Then came the punt. Lynn
seemed to, hesitate after the
;snap and the tie was broken.
"He's a four-step punter,"
Allen said, "and actually we
should have blocked a couple.
On that particular play, we
didn't even have the block on;
We were trying to get off a
return for field position."
Lynn t placed the blame
wholly on himself. "All my
fault," he said. "I shouldn't
have taken that much time.
The pass from center was
high but that wouldn't have
made any difference. I just
failed to note the quick rush."
Therein was to lie much of
the success of Penn State's
defense Saturday; it's rust
was overwhelming, there - is
no other word.
And much of the rush's
success was built on what
amounted to calculated
guesswork. That gaming, as
Paterno had indicated last
week, would be the key
defensively. An outguessing
of sorts.
—photos by Joe Rudick'
Clockwise :
decks Mike Boryla; Tdm Donchez escorts John Cappelletti; Buddy Ellis drags down Reggie lshman
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"We'd try to go out whet
they went in," - defensive enc
Greg Murphy said, "and vice
versa. Sometimes it didn',i,
work but most of the time
did. Just ask Boryla."
Boryla wasn't the onl3
offensive player having
troubles Saturday. Neither
offense was going anywhere
although Penn State seemec
always to have slightly better
field position.
The best position, of course
was given it by Bradley late
in the first half when he took
the ball which popped free
from Winesberry, "The ball
came up and I just took it,"
laughed Bradley. "I saw
Winesberry there but I• didn't
want him so I just took the
ball."
Two plays later, Gary
from
took a 14-yard pass
quarterback Tom
Shuman after which
Shuman nearly did
cartwheels of ecstacy
returning to the sideline
and command of the game
had been established. Dan
Natale hauled in a conversion
pass for the 10-0 halftime
margin. -
Cappelletti turned in a third
quarter score and soccer
player Bahr added a field
goal before Boryla ended the
shutout by hitting Laidlaw for
a score, against Penn State
reserves, with three minutes
in the game.
"It was a fun," O'Neil
grinned afterwards,
apparently unaware that
Jack Christiansen had not
considered it fun enough to go
up to the press box to talk
about it. "It was a fun game."
Tom Shuman scrambles; Brian Masella brings doWn John Winesberry; Ed O'Neil
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