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'Thanks, I needed that'
By JEFF YOUNG
Assistant Sports Editor
Penn State provided 56,000
screaming admirers
_with its own
version of the Mennen Skin 'Bracer
commercial SatOrday. You know, the
one where the guy gets a cold slap 4n
the face and says,"Thanks, I needed
that"?
Joe Paterno's 4-1 Lions got what
they seemed to be needing, but the
difference was that they did the
slapping. The Demon Deacons if.
Wake Forest were the unfortunate
recipients, suffering their third
straight shutout by a 55-0 margin.
Locker room reactions to the Lions'
Forest feast might've been poured
right out of those skin bracer bottles.
Anyone %% ith. a blue jersey on just
seemed to smile and say, "Boy, that
was nice."
- I think we needed something like
this. It gives the offense confidere,"
field general Tom Shuman • decided.
- Maybe some people didn't really
believe in the new offense. The double
wing is new to us."
Shuman added that he hadn't really
been sold on the double wing himself,
but that the day had been quite
enjoyable.
Sutton, Ferguson haft A's
LOS ANGELES (AP ) Joe
Ferguson hit a towering two!
run homer and relief ace
Mike Marshall came out of
the bullpen to nail down Don
Sutton's victory as the Los
Angeles Dodgers edged the
Oakland A's 3-2 in yesterday's
second game of the 1974
World Series.
The result tied the best-of
seven battle for baseball's
world championship at one
victory each with Game 3
scheduled for tomorrow night
in Oakland.
Sutton dazzled the A's on
two hits through the first
seven innings, then squirmed
out of a one-out. bases-loaded
jam in the eight before
Eagles slay Giants;
PHILADELPHIA (AP) Quar
terback Roman Gabriel, who shared
the lead in touchdown passes with 23
last year, threw his first two of the
season._ yesterday in le t siding the
Philadelphia Eagles to a 35-7 National
Football League victory over the New
York Giants.
Gabriel completed 21 of 36 passes
for 199 yards as the Eagles overcame
an early 7-6_deficitrand posted their
fourth straight victory against one
loss.
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Greg Murphy wears a victory grin while his defensive line mate Mike Hartenstine
delivers the slap to Wake Forest #66=Mike McGlamry
How could it not have been for the
quarterback of an offense that hit
paydirt eight of the 16 times it got the
football, Including five straight in the
third i and early fourth quarters?
Shuman even got the wing limbered
up a bit, completing 12 of 14 passes for
183 yards, more than half his season's
total yardage prior to the game.
Among those completions was a 57-
yard bombshell delivered via fresh
man flanker Jim Cefalo, giving Penn
State a 34-point bulge early in the
third period.
"I think the morale is boosted,"
Cefalo said, who later romped 39
yards around end for a touchdown
and the longest run the Nits have had
this season. "We weren't feeling
disappointed after the other games,
but this kind of game has to boost the
morale."
"It was nice for the team to break
out and hit some long plays," agreed
offensive captain Jack Baiorunos.
The Lion center noted that he and the
first offensive unit sat down for good
early in the third quarter, smiling, "It
was like it used to be."
"We improved on things• like
downfield blocking," Baiorunos
Marshall took over in the Alvin Dark went to his pinch
ninth. running specialist Herb
Sutton hit Sal Bando with a Washington.
pitch to open the Oakland - Marshall threw one pitch to
ninth and when Reggie pinch hitter Angel Mangual
Jackson hit a checked-swing as Washington inched off first
double inside third base, base. ~ •
Dodger Manager Walter Suddenly, Marshall
Alston called for Marshall, whipped a pickoff throw.
who appeared in a record 106 Washington was leaning the
games during the regular wrong way and dived back to
season. 1 the base head first, but be was
Joe Rudi tagged Marshall too late as first baieman
for a single to center that Garvey slapped the tag on.
delivered both Bando and That left Mangual as, the
Jackson and made the score A's last hope and Marshall
3-2. Now the A's had the tying disposed of-him quickly on a
run on first base but it didn't swinging third strike that
stay, there long, ended the ballgame. It was
Marshall struck out Gene Oakland's 11th strikeout of
Tenace and then A's Manager the afternoon.
After rookie Leon McQuay • dived
over from two yards out for a first
period New York touchdown,
Gabriel's passes set up the first of
three one-yard scoring bursts by Tom
Sullivan and threw a four-yard touch
down to Don Zimmerman for a 14-7
Eagles lead at the half.
Gabriel continued to pick apart the
Giants', defense u the third period,
passing five yards to Harold Car
michael for a touchdown and again
setting up a Sullivan score.
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continued. "We, looked at the films
and it seemed like one block here or
cut there would make the difference.
Today those things were there."
Penn State tallied the first two
times it held the football, on drives of
62 and 19 yards in the first period. The
19-yarder was the culmination of a
Greg Buttle fumble recovery at 9:40,
slightly more than a minute after Jim
Easie swept the right end for the
game's ice-breaker. _
Sophomore fullback Duane Taylor
cracked over from the two to make it
140. Taylor finished as the game's
leading rusher with 87 markers on
just 12 carries.
Buttle's fair catch of a punt at the
Deacon 32 put Penn State in the
driver's seat for its third score.
Woody Petchel's 20-yard dash and
Taylor's five-yard dive put the ball on
the seven. Shuman then relieved
backup John Andress and drilled the
ball to Dick Barvinthak in the left
corner of the end zone.
Wake Forest's fii•st and last threat
to crack the goose egg came at 7:37 of
the second period when fullback
Frank Harsh slanted and dove for 54
of his 56 first-half yards: He might've
KANSAS CITY (AP) The Pitts
burgh Steelers countered Mike
Livingston's three-touchdown passes
with the precision passing of Joe Edwards, with the Steelers clinging
to a 14-10 advantage, drifted in front
Gilliam' and safety Glen Edward's
, of a Livingston toss in the second
three interceptions for a 34-24 I Period and roniped 43 yards to a
National Football League •victory
over the Kansas City Chiefs t6tid t wn '
yesterday. i The' Steelers trailed twice, first
Gilliam cut the Kansas City pass when Jan Stenerud kicked a 31-yard
defense to ribbons at key stages (*the field goal for the Chiefs and again
game, and threw one scoring pass, a after ll t ivingston hurled his first TO
31-yard toss to Frank Lewis• that put ,pass, 'l3-yarder to Barry Pearson.
Until the dramatic ninth
inning, it was all ,Sutton's
show. He allowing just two
hits through the first seven
innings. He seemed set to nail
down his 12th consecutive
victory after winning nine in
the regular season and two :in
the playoffs. His winning
streak followed a midyear
slump that had - both Sutton
and the Dodgers baffled.
The people puzzled
yesterday were the A's, who
could not solve the talented
Dodger right-hander. Sutton
struck out nine batters and
walked only two.
He squirmed out of his first
jam of the day in the eighth
inning by getting Bill North to
Steelers scalp KC
an writs
had quite a game had Wake Forest's'
final first-half offensive play never
occurred.
With Harsh and quarterback Mike
McGlamry leading .the way, the
Deacons marched from their 26 to a
fourtiraad 2 at the Lion two. Just over
a minute remained in the half.
McGlamry found Harsh with a
screen pass in the right flat, , which
Harsh took to the one. There, Lion
defensive back Jeff Hite chopped him
down like a scythe and he limped off
the field with a knee injury, unable to
play the remainder of the gam'
"I really felt bad. &lot of theirs
were getting not really hurt, but just
stunned," Baiorunos intimated later
"It's just a shame their schedule's the
way they have it. It's not good for
their program, it's certainly not good
for their morale." He referred to
Oklahoma's 63-0 humiliation of the
Deacons one week ago.
But the Penn State faithful ap
peared to be having quite a bit of fun,
reaching such a frenzy as to deliver
some inspired "We are number one"
cheers reminiscent of a year pasf.
Here's a guess that the booze was
mighty good too. •
hit into an inning-ending
double play_with the bases
loaded following two pinch
singles and an error.
The Dodgers didn't produce
an overpowering offense
against loser Vida Blue.
Los Angeles nicked the
Oakland left-hander for a run
in the second inning and
added two more in the sixth
on a 420-foot home run by
Ferguson over the center
field wall following an infield
hit by Steve Garvey.
But this game belonged to
Sutton's strong right arm,
which produced 19 victories
during the regular season in
the Dodgers; charge to the
National Leagiie pennant.
the Steelers into a commanding 34-17
lead late in the third quarter.
Cefalo shuns 'monkey
By JEFr t JUNG
Assistant Sports Editor
After the third quarter of the
Wake Forest destruction, one
might have decided that Penn
State's freshman flanker Jim
Cefalo had become quite ac
customed to the monkey on his
back.
The reference is to a remark
made by Joe Paterno some
five weeks ago regarding the
possibilities of Cefalo seeing
any type of regular varsity ac
tion. Paterno said he would
not "put that monkey on his
back."
But after five games it has
become clear to all that 1974 is
a year of searching and ex
perimentation for Paterno and
Penn Stat,lnjuries to such
key people at Dan Natale and
Walt Addie have helped bring
changes about, but Cefalo's
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Jim Cefalo ran wild through the Forest
case is pot one of replacing a
veteran. With each game he is
assuming more responsibility.
Cefalo really stepped , into
the spotlight Saturday, with
the reception of a 57-yard TD
bomb from Tom Shuman and
a nifty reversal of field on a 39-
yard scoring run. Both came
in the Lions' 27-point third
stanza.
"I really didn't think I'd be
playing this much," he
responded to the obvious
question as the writers
clustered around him. "I'm
still learning the offense."
Saturday he proved to be an
apt pupil, totaling 146 yards,
with three receptions for 71
and three. rushes for 42. The
remainder came on his only
kickoff return of the day.
The five games Vast have
meant much to Cefalo's
Photo by S.F. Williams
Monday, October 14, 1974-9
Photo by S F. Williams
college football education. He
recalled his first 'class,' the
Stanford encounter, for the
writers.
"I was just in awe. The
60,000 people, the national
TV,' he said. "I was just
standing around, trying to
grasp the whole thing. Now
I'm working on trying to im
prove myself."
Cefalo noted one im
provement he made en route
to his second score Saturday
afternoon, changing direction
on his 39-yard run which is
now the longest any Lion has
scampered this year.
"I almost made a mistake
by going outside the block," he
grinned. "There was quite a
big hole inside, where I was
supposed to go. We had some
good downfield blocking, but I
almost missed the cutback."
Then the conversation drif
ted back to the inevitable.
Cefalo is playing, though not
as a regular, and his per
fortnance is beginning to
make it obvious that he could.
Is it good that he's not playing
full-time?
"I think it is. I'm still learn
ing what Penn State is all
about," he said. "I'm still get
ting used to college football."
"Coach Paterno wants us to
meet other people, .other
freshmen," he continued. "All
the freshmen players are very
close to each other. When I'm
on the field and I look over to
the sidelines, I notice all the
freshmen always edging out.
We've become a very close
group."
Paterno added his response
to the situation when a writer
wanted to know if the play of
Cefalo and tight end Randy
Sidler had put a reverse
on his opposition to playing
neophytes.
"I get. this question every
week. Playing freshmen has
become a way of life," he ad
mitted.
"We had the situation of
long hair and I made up my
mind not to impose my will on
that thing. I certainly didn't
want to go overboard on that
and I don't want to go over
board on playing freshmen.
"Philosophically, I'm a
gainst it. I don't think they get
as much out of college life if
they are quickly put into the
lineup.
"We're faced with
recruiting people who want it.
Obviously, playing freshmen
has helped us."