Above and to the right are some examples of the fierce net play - that took place in Rec Hall last night New Army? TIM PANACCIO Issisiant Spurts Editor For the first time in nine scars. Joe Paterno will be going up against a different Army head lootball coach tomorrow afternoon at Michie Stadium (2 p.m.). It was 1966 when P4terno and Tom Cahill made their, appearences at their respective schools. Cahill has since been fired after an 0-10 season last year. This year Homer Smith will be looking across field at Paterno Smith's Black Knights of the Hudson are 1-2, the opposite of the-Lions. Army is coming off a 27-14 loss to California. a game in \Ouch the Cadets held a 14-0 lead at the half. "I'm disappointed we didn't in the game." Smith said. our kids played so hard that teci sorry for them. but we noeded to play 14 points better than we did." Speaking of points, the Cadets having been scoring some in the form of 14 every game thus far. They opened the season with a 14-7 win over Lafayette, then lost two straight to Tulane (31-14) and ('al Believe it or not. Penn State does not hold the upper hand in this series. The Cadets own that distinction with a a slim 10-9-2 edge that will probably disappear after this weekend. l'enn State has won the last the meetings. clffensively. the Cadets look good for a change. Junior split end Hou ie Williams leads the receivers kith 130 yards on five pass receptions. flOu ever, the people to mention are the backs on Smith's Wishbone-T. Senu4r fullback Willie Thigpen uas the top running hack at West Point last season and is running the same pattern this season with 189 yards. Not very far behind is Brad 1)odrill who can opt for both ullback or halfback. His stats read 166 yards. However the interesting note here is that the most yardage coming out of the backfield is from quar- 2 miconceptions Editors notes: The Letters to the Editor of yesterday's Collegian included a letter by Ed Abramczyk of Chi Phi Fraternity. The letter criticised Collegian sport writer Mike Rodman for inaccuracy and ignorance of jour nalistic style in his Oct. 3 story, "Ref helps Chi Phi to slim vi in " flatly. if ever. does the Collegian refute criticism in print, but two misconceptions should be pointed out in ::: . .. •iti fairness to Rodman. •:..• First, Rodman was asked to write in a satirical style i:i: .••••:.: and not write a "straight" news account. •:,... :•::: •tit Second, the paragraphs of his story were built in the :i::. .-.• :.x :.:.* wrong order by the Collegian production staff, a mistake •:, that went undetected by the night editors. f.:- 5~..'.~~~ei5titivi`ti{ti:•?:~....:v'.~......r?:~i:•... • :t......: ei.:v i'r'i. ° •i:•..:~r::{ti S terback Scott Gillogly who has 239 yards, that's 8,604 inches for you Math majors in Happy Valley. Actually, when you think about it, the quarterback is a {key man in the Wishbone because he has to make the Crucial decision whether to lateral off the the back when he rolls out or to carry the ;ball. Thus, he sometimes becomes a victim of the play or the-hero picking up yar dage because the linebackers are fooled as to who they should key on. An intriguing fact comes via the kickoff returns where Markus Hardy leads with 6 and that includes 138 yards returned against Tulane. Defensively, Smith is saddebed by the loss of junior linebacker Greg Dyson who suffered a knew injury and won't play. He was leading the Cadets in tackles with 20. "Overall," said Smith, 'lhere was vast improvement in several areas against Cal, and for that I am pleased. Penn State won't be as quick as California, but they will be a lot more physical. Com pared to us they are be bigger, faster and older." What about Penn State? That's something even we'd like to know. Whose gonna go in the backfield? Walt Addles probably won't play. Tom Donchez (342 yards), Rusty Boyle (76 yds.) and several others will. Joe Paterno will no doubt resort to the Power-I to blow the front defensive line out and chalk up yards. That means Duane Taylor (37 yds.) and Dave Stutts (15 yds.) will fill-in behind Donchez. Don't count out Woody Petchel (15 yds.) or Jim Cefalo (41 vds.). Quickie quiz: What Penn State player has the most yardage to his credit? Answer: Brain Masella with 577 on 15 punts. Rick Starr Sports Editor 1:i =Collegian sports Photo by [truce Knom The Black Knights of the Hi ... some of the more famous Cadets of the past coached by Ead Blaik Three Lady Lion By DAVE MORRIS Gillian Rattray's stick- Collegian Sports Writer women are looking to bounce James Taylor performs a back from an opening game song which contains the line loss to Slippery Rock. They "back on the road again" and tangle with Wilson tomorrow. the line perfectly explains the Rattray said starting situation of Penn State's halfback Barb Doran is ill and women's athletics this may not play in the contest, weekend. adding that she missed two Three Lady Lion teams days of practice. field hockey', tennis and golf _ The squad saw films of the compete this weekend and loss to the Rockets and all of them play on the road. Rattray said they learned Robertson strikeout leads to joy in Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH Bobby Robertson struck out, but there still was joy in Pittsburgh. It was a scene that could have been written for the final act of "Damn Yankees" instead of the final night of the , National League Eastern Division title chase. Bottom - of the ninth; the Pirates, needing a victory to clinch their fourth division title in five years, trail the Chicago Cubs 4-3; Manny Sanguillen on third with two out. Slugger Bob Robertson pinch-hi 6 •for pitcher Dave Giusti and the count runs to 3-2. Pitcher Rick Reuschel fires a pitch low and inside. Robertson swings and misses for strike three. West Germans 'Hit a says By JEFF YOUNG Assistant Sports Editor Everything was strange to the young ladies from 'Vest Germany but the music and the game. However, that was all they really needed. With the Little German Band in the backgrouncliklec Hall was homey enough for a much-experienced West Ger man national team to take three straight games and a volleyball match from the United States eastern team last night. Two lopsided scores, 15-4 and 15-6, were sandwiched around a 16-14 overtime battle which saw the United States squad return from a 10-3 deficit all the way to a 14-12 lead. But the United States' women fell victim to some tough hitting. "They' hit a lot harder tonight, they played better," U.S. coach Scott Mose some time after the crowd of about 2,000 had departed. "They lot harfer' U.S. coach didn't show us any surprises, but they were really up tonight. Yeah, it might've been the band." Mose's comments matched the West German squad', t s play to that of Wednesday _night's match between the same two teams in NeW York City. "They took some timeouts, made some substitutions tonight," Mose continued. "They didn't do anything like that last night." They didn't need to during game one, as they leapt out to an 11-2 lead. Two U.S. timeouts, the limit per game, didn't help any. Hitters Eliska Svitl, Annedore Richter, and Silvia Neier,tons took their turns driving the ball to the U.S.side of the floor. Game Twb's early going saw no changes in the pattern of play, as Richter and Neier tons continued smashing the ball off U.S. hands to the floor or out of boUnds. But at 5-1 West Germany, Mose replaced Connie Kemp with Army's past outshines present Navy, lowa and this week, Army. Three rejuvenated fpotball programs. Three somewhat new or first-year coaches in George Welsh, Bob Commings and Homer Smith, respectively. Of that trio, Homer Smith has inherited the worst football playbill around. Yet Smith has the most impressive creden tials in the grouping. Last year he was offensive coordinater at UCLA en reute to a 9-2 season, just one victory short of winning the PWI title (23-13 loss to USC) and a trip to the Rose Bowl. veryone] knows about his Wishbone-T offense and that's just one thing{ that has people talking about Army this year. Smith replaces fired Tom Cahill whose image suffered greatly last year as a result of a winless season. Cahill came i onto the Cadet scene in 1966 replacing Paul Dietzel during an era in which the Cadet football program was struggling to find the proper leadership and not being able to accomplish such a feat. It was hiring, firing and replacing people every couple years. Cahill will want to forget 1973 as well as 1970 when Army's only triumph was its 26-0 opening game whitewash of Holy Cross. _ But he'd probably like to remember other years. Suph as hig initial season when Army was 8-2 and he was voted Coach of the Year. A running back named. Charlie Jarvis and a quar terback named Steve Lindell would set some records for Cahill in the next few seasons. In fact, Army again went 8-2 the very next year. And it was 7-3 in 1968. That's when a guy named Joe Albano started catch ing passes from Lindell-and became Army's second greatest receiver in its history. Albano held four records before he graduated at the end of the 1970 season. Perhaps the man Cahill will remember second best at running back was Lynn Moore who captained the Black Knights dismal 4-5-1 squad of 1969. Kingsley Fink was Cahill's most recent star until he graduated last season. During his career at West Point he found his way into the record books, eventually surpassing Lindell as the top signal caller in Cadet history. That's all recent chronicle and it has some blemishes beside the fact that even during Cahill's winning days, the most noted acclaim,to come West Point's way was the Commander-in- Chief's 'trophy awarded annually to the winner of football competition between the three services academies. Army won it in 1972, the first year it was given, with a 6-4 record. Cahill (40-39-2) has remained with Army as an associate athletic director and he's not happy. It's interesting to note squads take the weekend road from the mistakes committed in that game. "We need a variety of shots on the goalkeeper," she said, referring to the Slippery Rock contest where the shots were somewhat stereotyped. . Meanwhile, up north Joan Nessler and three members of her tennis team will attend the Eastern Collegiate Tennis Tournament for Women at SUNY New Paltz. But the ball eludes catcher Steve Swisher. Robertson, not immediately recognizing what has happened, is slow to head for first on a bad leg. "I was swearing and cussing." Giusti recalled later. "I thought the game was over and I started walking down the runway. The next thing I know, I'm yelling, 'Run, you 5.0.8." Swisher catches up with the ball about 20 feet behind the plate. He looks towards home, but no one is there to tag the .sliding Sanguillen. He fires to first, but the ball glances off Robertson's shoulder and into right field. Robertson takes second to be Cathy Cain on the front line. , With fire in her eyes and power in her hits, Cain sparked the U.S. into playing West Germany point for point. Two straight hits by the U.S. captain prevented the West Germans from gaining on an 12-11 edge, then her serve bounced off Svitl's hands to tie the score. After taking their first and only lead all night when Gisela Hohr was caught on the net, the U.S. committed a double hit and again succumbed. Svitl's save set up West Ger many's go-ahead point. Game Three mirrored Game One, but it might not have, had Cain not been playing with a right arm just removed from a cast yester day morning. Early in the con test, she blocked a hit and the arm began swelling. Mose thought it best she sit down. `:That -just took the steam right out-of us," he said. "She broke it in camp six weeks ago. She asked the doctor if Carol Backenstose, who has played number one for three years, will represent the netters in singles. Going for Penn State in doubles is Anne Morton and freshmen Wendy Gavett. Backenstose and Morton were runners-up in the doubles event in last year's Eastern tourney. The third team on the road this weekend is the Lady Lion spik• e U.S. Fr if .1 I . •,: • ,„/„... kta , • Aga she could play, he said sure. no previous international ex- But if he knew the power of perience. some of these hits, he wouldn't "They haven't got the ex- have let her." Mose emphasized the great you get it?" he asked. difference between the West "You've got to pay for it, and Germans, a national team on that's what we're doing. a two-year training program, "In any given situation, you on their way to the World Cup say 'well, I've been here games in Mexico City, and his before. I know what to do', and women, a regional squad those girls have. My girls just with six weeks of practice and haven't." #.4.7 t-4 Tim Panaccio Assistant .011„ Sports Editor „an r that he came into the scene the year Joe Paterno made his debut at Penn State. - Joe had a an impolite welcoming that year with an 11-0 defeat at Cahill's hands, the only one Penn State has un dergone in Paterno's reign. But even the fame which Cahill achieved during the late 60s fails to touch the legendary Col. Earl Blaik, the man who stands out most at West Point in its 84-year old history. From 1941 till 1958 Blaik pioneered some the greatest college football teams ever to come out of an academy school. He had National Championships in 1944, 45 and 46. Included in that string of perfection was three undefeated seasons, an equal number of Lambert Trophies and a winning streak of 25 consecutive victories. Blaik's record was an awesome 121-33-10 during his 17 years and it ccame during an age when football was only nine games during the season, not 10. Odd as it may seem, Blaik was voted Coach of the Year only two times, once by the Football Coaches Association of America (1946) and later in 1953 by Touchdown Club a group in Washington.. Blaik had some memorable Black Knights during World War H and during the Korean War. People like Glenn Davis, John Green, Gil Stephensen, Doc Blanchard and Tommy Bell. Blaik was inducted into the National Football Hall of Fame in 1964. From the glory days of Blaik to the more recent and rebuilding days which Homer Smith will be facing, one thing that impresses people about the Academies besides tradition, is attitude. feel the problems that lie ahead are the kind of problems I have trained myself to handle," says Smith. "I have always thought that the problems a coach faces in football are as complete as any problems he may encounter in business or government or management." golfers. Julie Smith, Marsha Gullo, Jo Meyer and Judi Mitchell will represent Penn State in the Eastern Regionals in Ocean City, Md. Smith and Gullo won the team title in the event last year. Penn State also won the title in 1970 and 1971. Mitchell, a freshman, won the Delmarva junior title last • year.. replaced by a pinch-runner and there is pandemonium over a tie ballgame in Three Rivers Stadium. Manager Danny Murtaugh and several players took to the field and finally managed to cam the crowd which twice had been warned against throwing things onto the field and Reuschel got out of the inning by getting Rennie Stennett to tap back to the mound. The ending, in the 10th, was normal enough, though still dramatic. Al Oliver's one-out triple was followed by two in tentional walks and when Sanguillen tapped a dribbler down the third base line, the Pirates had their 5-4 victory. Friday. October 4. 1974-9 Photo by Bruce Knuth perience, and how else can Women's basketball coach Pat Meiser announced that an organizational meeting for interested persons. will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Wed nesday, Oct-. 9, in the Game Room at White Building. Basketball tryouts will begin the following Monday and continue from 4-6 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and from to 3-5 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday.
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