Brother act complete: 3 Suheys on '76 Lions
Attitude is first key to stardom for Matt Suhey
Matt Suhey, tri-captain for the Pennsylvania
'Big 33' All-Star football team, is resting here
tint should be a workhorse tomorrow night
when his team takes on the Ohio All-Stars in
their annual battle in Hershey.
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It is Saturday night, November Bth, 1975. The place is
Williamsport field. There are less than five minutes
remaining in the final football game of the season and State
College High School has the ball, for the last time, on their
opponent’s 41-yard-line.
The game is well in hand, but one question remains in
doubt: will Matt Suhey, senior tailback, break the all-time
Pennsylvania rushing record?
Seven straight carries lead to a touchdown and the record as
Matt Suhey is given the game ball and State College wins 34-7.
- . A seemingly perfect ending to a brilliant high school career.
The record though, was not his for long. In fact, he only had it
for two days when a recount of his total yardage showed an
error. But this disappointment merely showed what kind of
attitude Matt has towards the game. When asked if it bothered
him, he said:
“No, I had it for two days. That’s better than not having it at
all.’’
Unlike most football stars, Matt isn’t on any ego trip looking
for glory. “I just run,” as he put it, and he runs with the best.
Matt Suhey: all-state tailback, three-year starter, 4,457
yards rushing, 24 100-yard games, 6 200-yard games, 58 touch
downs.
The list goes on and on. Success has a funny way of followings
people around. Will it follow Matt Suhey? Will he realize the
same accomplishments at Penn State that he did in his high
school days? Only time will tell.
Is it going to be easy for him to land a starting berth?
According to Matt, no! “It’s going to be rough. There are a lot
of great players that aren’t that far apart and I’m just going to
do as well as I can," he said.
Doing as well as he can is Matt’s trademark as evidenced by
the many awards and honors he has received. Obviously,
there is one that means a lot more to him than all the others.
Matt was voted by his teammates most valuable player his
senior year.
He received a plaque this reporter asked to see during the
interview. Unfortunately, Matt has no great desire to show off
trophies or to brag about his accomplishments. He simply
states, “I don’t know where it is! It’s either in my room or the
attic; I don’t know.”
When Matt was photographed for a story in Sports
-Illustrated earlier this year, he spoke of an autographed
picture given to him in fifth grade by Joe Paterno. According
to Matt he still has4he picture in a scrapbook somewhere. Who
knows?! /
A pretty easy going manner for an easy going guy who likes
to go fishing around the local area and who enjoys building
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things with his hands. The homemade birdhouse hanging in a
tree behind his home proved this.
Memorable moments in Matt’s career are many, but to him,,
great team efforts seem to bring back the most memories.
Sitting in a large brawn easy-chair, he told of some of these.
One was the Central Catholic game of his sophomore year. It
was the game of the year between two undefeated teams. “It
was a big game, and there was snow on the ground. It was fun
to play because we did win and we did play well.
“Cedar Cliff was a good game my junior year because we
came off a game where we didn't play very well. You know,
where everybody was down. We were playing a team that was
so much bigger than we were. They were super-big and also
undefeated and they were supposed to be so good.”
State College, behind Matt Suhey, ran up a 364) halftime
lead, then took the game.
In the 69-41 win over Williamsport that same year, Matt
credits the win (despite his five TDs) to the timely recovery of
some injured teammates of his and their ability to work and to
put it all together for the final game.
Matt has no long-range goals such as to gain 1000 yards or to
score 30 TDs in one year. In fact, he is not looking past his
freshman year. Matt sees it this way: “I want to do as well as I
can and reach my potential, doing the best possible I can do. If
I feel I can’t do any better than I’m doing, you know what I
mean, if I feel I’m not better than anybody else out there, I
shouldn’t be out there then.”
In his entire high school career, Matt had only one serious
injury (a hip injury). It slowed him down for one game his
senior year and probably cost him the rushing record.
Speaking of the possibility that an injury could cause him to
give up football, Matt said seriously, “If that happens it
happens, f’d look towards something else. Football’s a bigpart
of my life. I’m getting an education out of it and I’ve gotten a
lot of satisfaction out of it. But football’s not everything.
There’s more to life than that.”
The hip injury will not bother Matt this year as chants of
“chop Suhey” from opposing fans didn’t bother him in
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previous years. When the Little Lions needed a big play, they
gave the ball to Matt Suhey. Let’s hope when the Nittany Lions
of the near future need a big play, they count on the same man
who credits his success to his father and brothers who helped
him whenever he needed it.
Matt’s only apparent weakness would have to be to Penn
State’s advantage. Matt was seriously considering Ohio State
as his first choice. But his lack of blazing speed turned him
back to Penn State when he found out he’d be given a chance
at playing tailback and not fullback where Ohio State wanted
him to play. Although now he is more interested in just playing
and not worried about where, as he explains: “Wherever they
put me i’ll play, just so I get a chance to play.” Matt will most
surely get his chance.
When Matt apparently broke the Pennsylvania rushing
record on that Saturday night in November 1975, he im
mediately credited his head coach Jim Williams (whom Matt
says is a fantastic coach), the entire coaching staff, and all his
teammates.
Without them he couldn’t have done it, even if it was for only
a couple of days. But he knows this, and he also knows he has a
hell of a job in front of him if he wants to win a starting
position at Penn State.
If Matt Suhey’s ability can equal his attitude towards
football, then he has the potential to follow in the footsteps of
men like Charlie Pittman, Franco Harris, Lydell Mitchell,
and John Cappelletti.
Major League Standings
NATIONAL LEAGUE
East
W L
71 31
5H 48
55 55
47 61
44 59
36 64
Phillies
Pirates
New York
.Chicago
St. Louis
Montreal
69 39
59 47
56 54
51 59
48 60
48 62
Cincinnati
Los Angeles
Houston
San Diego
Atlanta
San Francisco
Yesterday's Games
Chicago 4, Montreal 3; 2nd game ppd..
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New York 7, Pirates 4
San Francisco 2, Atlanta 1
Phillies at St. Louis, n'
AMEIUCAN LEAGUE
.676 - New York
.517 in' 2 Baltimore
.500 18*2 Cleveland
.435 25'a Boston
.427 26 Detroit
.360 32**2 Milwaukee
.639
.557
.509
.464
.444
.436
* Kansas City *
9 Oakland
14 Minnesota
19 Texas
21 Chicago
22 California
Yesterday's Games
Milwaukee 9, New York 3
Baltimore 6, Cleveland 2
Boston 5, Detroit 4
Minnesota at Kansas City, n
East
W L
64 41
53 52
32 52
'5O 55
48 56
47 56
.610
.505 11
.500 114
.476 14
.461 154
.456 16
West
63 40
55 52
54 52
50 55
46 58
47 61
.514 10
.509 104
.476 134
.442 174
.435 184