Tom Shuman, here warily eyeing a charging member of the Wolfoack, is not yet through scrambling I uesda% . \o‘ ember I'2, 1971 t t rii; r If Dave Morris L AL' Pack fans like football, booze; basketball third it NA'. Hillsborough Street is Raleigh's answer to Colleg,e Avenue The spacious North Carolina State Univer sity campus horders one side, the shops and bars of the town occupy the other And Hillsborough Square is a State student's equal to Mc- Donalds or the 11113 here. Practically qveryone shows up at liillshorough Square at one time or anoth6r. • Hillsborough Square is a bar, complete with beer, pinball and pool. And people Lots of people. The drinking age in the st ate of North Carolina is 18. To a stranger in Raleigh. Hillsborough Square may not seem to be the place to be. After all, Hillsborough Street is loaded uith bars and nightclubs. "Topless entertainment. No cover charge Come - in." The neon signs pierce the darkness and in vite vou inside The onh sign at Hillsborough Square contained, the name of the estabhshment. nothing else. gilt it was "evident State students favored the Square. By 9 p.m. Friday night the place was coming alive By 11. Hillsborough Square was wall to wall people and the jukeboxes. all four of them, were pumpirig out the music According to one of the checkers, the guy with the dubious honor of checking - 11) . 5 and drivers' licenses for birthdates, about a thousand people show up on a football Friday. But he 'aid last Friday was not a typical football Friday. More than 'too people jammed inside on the eve of the Penn State- Wolf pack scramble. Seems everyone wore an NCSU jacket or shirt. Most of those \Oa didn't were from Happy Valley. Inside, the 'strangers %%ere sneered at briefly, told Penn State was gonna get beat, and then let loose to get down to serious business, which most people call getting drunk Soon the beer 3.2 alcohol content ) began to take hold and the range Yankees were admitted to conversations. I ••1",ill are gonna get beat." one Winn - an told everyone w ho %%alkeci past lair Obvjoully the Penn Staters didn't take her seriousl) After all sNe was drunk and Penn State wouldn't lose in November Everytine was drinking and talking football. N.C. State students take football seriously, even under the influence of alcohol You can gay anything you want about Wolfpack foot ball as long as youtre ready to pay the consequences. Walt - pack fans throughout the Square were betting like mad. To most Lion folloWers the bets seined like a sure thing. Penn State student Mark Hedges thought he was onto something when he made his!bet. Today he's walking around without his mustache (111) %% hen DaNiidThompson, the motor of N.C. State's 7\ CAA basketball irhathpionship team, appeared did the-talk change from football to basketball. State fans boast }laving the best basketball team in the coun t ry, but foot ball stlll has a special place in their hearts. As one fzin put basketball is fine but football is something special Each time Thompson and his mates step onto the floor at Reynolds Colis'eum in the middle of campus, 10,000 fans shove up to take a look When the Pack'gridders have a date at Carter Stadium. some two miles away. 40.000 people turn out. ? Football is a strange game.,ln what other sport can a team put together a fine 14-1 season .3nd be overlooked when the b0%%1 bids are passed out? In what other sport can a team lose to an non-rated team and lose again the day the bids are ex tended and §till go to a major bowl? It's different: and some people do anything to see something different Each" football Saturday students drive, ride bikes, hitchhike or walk to Carter Stadiums , lf it rains, so what? Each basketball day some people show up. The topleam in collegiate basketball can't comnete with their football coun terparts. even thoigh the_y_play in different semesters. The general consensus of the State backers at the Square seemed to be that football was worth watching in any weather, and basketball was okay if there was nothing else to do. The night befote a football game Hillsborough Square is a beehive of activity. The night of a basketball game, the bar is just as packed. ' Besides. all the football players show up at the bar during basketball season. =Collegian sports Sports Writer Vikes clip Cards ST. LOUIS ( AP) Chuck -Foreman and Dave Osborn burst through a sagging St. Louis defense for second-half touchdowns, rallying the Minnesota Vikings to a 28-24 vic tory over the Cardinals in a thrilling battle of National Football League division leaders last night. The Vikings' ground game dominated the second half, with Foreman and Osborn gaining yardage steadily against the St. V. C. State players -( LI are anxious as they approach a big win, but Tom Shuman looks disappointed and bewildered Sooners rise, Lions fall By THE-AP The Oklahoma Sooners supplanted Ohio State yester day as the No. 1 college fciot ball learn in the country. While Ohio State was losing to Michigan State 16-13 on Saturday, Oklahoma trounced Missouri 37-0 and knocked the Buckeyes from the top spot of the weekly Associated Press poll. Ohio State, which had been No. 1 for seven !orrsecutive weeks, fell to ourth behind Oklahoma, Alabama and Michigan. Oklahoma received 48 first-place votes and 1,198 of.a possible 1,240 points from a nationwide panel,l-of sports writers and broadtasters. "It's a tremendous honor to be AP's No. 1 team," said Coach Barry Switzer. "We play three good,. football teams in the next three weeks, and we're gonna try to hold on week by week. We've got the ball now, and it's up to us to carry it." - The Sooners were ranked No. 1 in the preseason poll and through the first week of the regular season, when they did not play. The next week, though, they beat Baylor 28-11 but fell to third. They climbed to second two weeks later and have been runners-up to Ohio State ever since. Alabama, a 30-0 winner over Louisiana State, re ceived 10 first-place votes and 1,102 points. Michigan earned the other four first-place ballots and 1,014 points- Louis defense. Quarterback Fran Tarkenton also used both effectively as receivers on short, swing passes. Jim Hart, the St. Louis quarterback. made a valiant effort to overtake the Vik ings late in the 'game. He capped a long drive with a four-yard touchdown run with 1:52 left and then had the Cardinals threat ening again in the final seconds of the nationally televised game. following a 14-6 triumph over Illinois. Then came previously un beaten -Ohio State with 877 .points, followed by defending national champion Notre Dame, Nebraska, Auburn, Southern California, Florida , and Texas A&M. Notre Dame, eighth last week, did not play last Satur- 1 day. Nebraska climbed from ninth to sixth by defeating lowa State 23-13. Auburn rose from 10th to seventh with a 24- 20 victory over Mississippi State and Southern California jumped from 11th to eighth by routing Stanford 34-10. The Poll The Top Tygnti teams 111 The Associa ted Press college football poll. with first place votes id Parentheses. season re cord and total points. Points tabu lated on basis of . 20-18-16-14-12-16-9-8 etc 1 Okla (48 2 Alabama i to) 3 Michigan i 4) 4. Ohio St 5 Notre Dame 6 Nebraska 7 Auburn 8 S. Cal 9 Florida 10 Texas A&M 11 Penn Stale 12 O. 13 Maryland 14. Houston 15 Mich St. 16. N. Car St 17 Pitt 18 Okla St 19 Calif 20. Tex. Tech. 8-0-0 1.198 9-0-0 1,014 8-1-0 877 7-1-0 668 7-2-0 577 8-1-0 552 6-1-1 487 7-2-0 318 7-2-0 306 7-2-0 245 8-0-1 160 6-3-0 139 6-2-0 117 5-3-1 110 8-2-0 103 7-2-0 65 5-3-0 62 6-2-1 55 6-2-1 48 Others receiving votes, listed alpha betically: Arizona. Baylor. Brigham Young. Georgia. Kentucky. Mississip pi State, Temple. Texas. UCLS. Wis consin, Yale Photo by Ed Palos EMOTION As you read this, you may be experiencing any one of a num ber of different inner situations affecting your outer being. You may be ia) nervous about your third period exam (b) ticked off because the dining hall is serving mostaccioli again, or (c) saddened at the thought of trying to eat down town on your last fifty cents. You might also be experiencing different _combinations of these various situations, producing who knows what kind of day for you. These well-known elements of youi life are com mon to all andtre usually identified as emotions. All of us experience emotions of some kind each day of our lives, and their effects can be profound. But no, this is not a psychology book, it's a sports page. We're just considering the emotional states of a few people - whose actions consistently grab our attention, particularly recently. Call them the Penn State football team. A little more than a week ago, the eighty-odd members of that team composed an opportunistic, climactic win over some hard-shelled turtles from Maryland. Just this pak Saturday, those - same Lions bit, clawed and scratched but ini the end suf fered the big bite from some scrappy wolves. But behind the gambling interceptions or the untimely fum bles are ultimately those same things that keep yOu awal4 or send you bumming for a dollar with which to hit McDonalds. The problem that Penn State encounterediSaturd4' amounted a compound statement of emotions. North Carolina State had the right ones and Penn State didn't. Greg Buttle, whose omnipresence Saturday made him look like the next great Lion linebacker, prefers slightly different terminology when considering the emotions factor of football he calls it "mental preppration." "It's a really big part, mental as well as physical," Buttle said, "whether it's being relaxed, or whatever you do to prepare yourself mentally." In the week which preceded each contest, numerous events and circumstances injected themselves into the Penn State camp. The differences in types of such events were clear. In Maryland, the Lions faced a tearrialhich was spending much of its time proclaiming to eager writers the wayvin which Penn State- would fall. It also faced a game that was televised throughout the East, not to mention one that i 'had sold out at Beaver Stadium weeks ahead of time. Of Course there were also the numerous bowl scouts in the press box. , But all these lights changed colors after the Lions' 24-17 squeaker. • "These guys aren't saybig anything. They're gonna be tough," was- the way one Penn Stater put it. And the team Ohio: Pitt: By RICK STARR Sports Editor Ohio. Saturday's non-opponent, used to have a sign in its football dressing headquar ters which read: "The only team that can beat Ohio is Ohio." It was a nice sign, but not very accurate. If Ohio boss Bill Hess decides to resurrect it this week, it will first need a few amendments like, "The only teams that can beat Ohio are North Carolina, Toledo, Miami. Cincinnati, and, let's be honest, Penn State." But all things considered, it hasn't been a bad year for Ohio, which currently owns a 5-4 mark in the lightly regarded Mid-American Conference. A 5-4 mark is nothing to be ashamed of when the quarterback is the second leading rusher and the iteam, doesn't run the wish bone. Bobcat qUarterback Rick Bevlv ranks behind only his tailback, L. C. Lyons, which means he's a more than adequate runner. Bevly'sproblem is he can't throw. After nine games his passing average is just.now rising above 40 per cent. That per formance rating is against teams like North ern Illinois. Morehead State. Western Michigan and Bowling Green. Bevly probably shouldn't counti very hard on upping that mark once the Penn State defensive line is put upon him. But he's still a treacherous runner and han i , dies the opi ions well, as Hess adliiits. "Bevly is the strongest mining quar terback I have ever coached," the 17-year Ohio coach said. The turkey-laden crowd at Three Rivers f- --‘T Ohio employs a,,,5-3-3 defense which acted Stadium will be in Pitt 's corner. but Steel City tough against the lesser opponents, but got Lion fans should make their blue white bent out of shape against North Carolina and audibles heard at a respectable decibel level . Miami, and last week Cincinnati drilled it 35- 13 But there is one department of Saturday's game Penn State better keep under wraps the kicking game, where Ohio excels. Homer Gary has one of the most talented legs in the land, as he proved against the Lions last year. Gary has to be considered an excellent What happened Saturday? don't worry that's trouble InAt , Jeff Young 44 Ass't Sports Editor wouldn't have 60,000 fans providing drive when they arrived in Raleigh, North Carolina. Finally, the one which applied the power brakes came in the middle of the week when it was an nounced that Perin State players had decided to accept a Cot ton Bowl bid should it be offered Nov. 16, the official date for such action. When an outfit like the one that Joe Paterno runs here has to hold such a meeting in the middle of preparations for the team that a year ago nearly marred a perfect season. it's obvious that the phrase 'should it be offered' is a poorly-chosen one So now some of the players that might have been doubtful as to their motivations or drives had something to smile about, to talk about with some good feelings evident in their voices. It didn't have to be 'Boy, they beat us up pretty good last week What're we gonna do Saturday? They're gonna be mean down there..." The presentation that the Lions did accept immediately following Saturday's loss, a week early, can only bolster the above notions. "During the week we had hard practices, but I don't know if it was there," Buttle wondered. "They seemed to be sorta blase practices, we were a little flat. But that's taking nothing away from N. C. State. They're an excellent team, they were sky-high." "You gotta give them credit. We were flat at first and we lost our poise. They played well," agreed Paterno just after the game. But he later seemed wanting for a retraction of that ad mission. "The kids were up. We were ready to play," he declared. "If you don't have the kids up you're stupid." It's good to ob jectively realize one's shortcomings. &Lone team is 'a little flat,' with other things it may think aboilt if football is a bit stale. Another team is 'sky-high.' Who should win? Think about it as you relax after that third period exam. Mid-American Conference kicker," Hess says. "The highlight of his career is his record 57-yard field goal against Penn State last fall. He gives us the good long field goal threat " That field goal was beautiful, but it didn't go very far toward offsetting the six touch downs John Cappelletti and the Lions pushed across that day. Last year's final was 49-10. Despite the Lion's 7-6 loss to Navy, the smart moneyls on Penn State SaturdaN After the Ohio romp. Penn State faces a very serious challenge at •Pittsburgh Thanksgiving night vs Pitt. Eastern football supremacy will be proven as well as any legitimate claim Penn State can make as a rightful Cotton Howl par ticipant. • If E s eiS:t, 'tate loses to Pitt and goes to the Cotton while Pitt doesn't even get invited to a minor bowl, well ... For the Panthers, it's the usual cats that will torment PSU. Quick Cats like Tony T D.) Dorsett, who runs hke a Panther and stings like a bee, and Billy Daniels.. peremally underrated, perennially dangerous held general. And Pitt middle guard Gary Burley is a legitimate candidate for this ear's Outland Trophy. And, of course, there is Johnny Majors It should be a very interesting meeting of the minds between Lion coach Joe Paterno and Majors, particularly since both teams are so even physically. If you can't make ,it to (or tit in the stadium, ABC is televising the fray nationally Thanksgiving night, which is a satisfying measure of respect -for the awakening Eastern football scene. The smart money on the Pitt-Penn State game is the money that isn't on the Pitt-Penn State game. - . , 1 f ~..„, * 1 ,4214 i 1 Y 'l,Os sc ' Photos by Ed Palsa
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