—The Daily Collegian Monday, November 1, 1976
Booters 'frustrate' Shippensburg
By PETE DOUGHERTY
Collegian Sports Writer
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If Shippensburg gained anything out of its 8-0
soccer loss to Penn State at Jeffrey Field Friday
night, the Red Raiders learned the meaning of
"frustration."
For on that chilly night in front of 2,000 fans, the
visitors demonstrated what the word meant far
better than any dictionary could explain it.
To Shippensburg, frustration was watching:
a soft Penn State shot hit a rough spot in the
field and bound past the goalie;
a Red Raider player losing track of where the
goal was and sending the ball firmly into the
posterior part of a teammate's anatomy;
another player hit a goal post with the net wide
open;
another player knock the ball into the wrong
the ball squirt through its goalie's hands and
behind him;
the same goalie drop the ball after a save and a
split-second later looking at it enter the net;
Lion reserve goalie Jeff Heimer make the
finest save this writer has seen this year as the Red
Raiders tried to avoid being shut out.
Shippensburg thought the night would never. end.
It finally did, and, although the final score was'not
indicative of the play of the game, there was no
doubt that Penn State controlled the tempo.
"We have played a string of poor games," Lion
coach Walt Bahr said, "and everybody (the
players) felt they had the challenge of picking
themselves up.
"We didn't play that much better soccer than they
did, but we controlled the ball and kept pressure on
their defense."
Bahr felt the game despite the ease with which
many of the goals came would not be detrimental
Top teams covet national championship
By the AP
Now that the November
homestretch is here, a
number of teams are starting
to get serious about college
football's national cham
pionship.
"The No. 1 ranking helps us
a lot now that we all know it's
within reach for the entire
season," Michigan running
back Rob Lytle said after
rushing for 129 yards and
scoring twice in the
Wolverines' 45-0 rout of
Minnesota.
"If we go to a bowl game,"
said Maryland quarterback
Mark Manges, who com
pleted 10 of 14 passes and
scored a touchdown in the
fifth-ranked Terrapins' 24-14
triumph over Kentucky,
"we'll go to win the national
championship, not to prove
we belong in the Top Ten."
Tony Dorsett, the all-time
rushing king, added 241 yards
and two youchdowns in
boosting his career total to
5,447 as the second-ranked
Panthers downed Syracuse
23-13 . . . but it wasn't easy.
Michigan's victory kept the
Wolverines tied for the Big
Ten lead with ninth-ranked
Ohio State, which pulled away
from a 12-7 halftime struggle
to crush Indiana 47-7 as Pete
Johnson . and Ron Springs
each scored twice. Maryland
is a shoo-in for another
Atlantic Coast Conference
title while Pitt is an in
dependent.
Meanwhile, third-ranked
UCLA and No. 4 Southern Cal
continued their scrap for the
Pacific-8 . crown—both are 4-0
in league action and the
host spot in the Rose Bowl.
The Bruins turned back
Washington 30-21 as Theotis
Brown Id for 220 • Irds
to the 14th-ranked (nationally) Lions as they
prepare for No. 7 Temple.
"We've played some good games and we've
played some poor ones," Bahr said. "After tonight
we know we can go down and compete with Temple
and beat Temple." •
It is, however, more likely that any goals agaidst
Temple Friday will have to be scored more like
Penn State's first two against Shippensburg and not
like most of the Lions' last six.
*The hosts needed just 9:44 to make their presence
known on the scoreboard and to get all the spring
they needed. Ken McDonald got his team-high third
game-winning goal of the year when he took a long
pass from Jim Stamatis, dribbled down the right
wing, and drilled the ball in off a back on a shot
which seemed to have "goal" written all over it.
One minute and 59 seconds later, Bill Klauberg
collected his first tally of the season when he put a
shot past goalkeeper Dave Wilkinson with his body
after a flurry of balls had sailed in front of the
Shippensburg goal.
Then for the Raiders, came frustration galore.
Herb Menhardt sent a shot in the general direc
tion of the goal ("I was trying to score," he said,
"but I topped it.") when the ball took a funny hop
which fooled Wilkinson and went in.
You could say it was Menhardt's 15th point of the
day, as he kicked eight extra points and two field
goals during the junior varsity football team's 64-0
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blanking of Indiana (Pa.) Friday afternoon.
Although admitting he did get more of a grid
workout than expected, Menhardt said he didn't
mind, adding that the key is "being able to adjust. I
know a lot of guys who practice so much football
that when they play soccer they can't keep the ball
down anymore. To be successful, you have to be
able to control it ( the height of the kicks)."
That seemed to be the Red Raiders' problem
and three touchdowns while
Southern Cal defeated
California 20-6 as Vince
Evans passed for 120 yards
and scrambled for 54 more
and a score.
Sixth-ranked Texas Tech
remained unbeaten and
tied for the Southwest Con
ference lead with No. 14
Arkansas by rallying from
a 21-10 deficit to beat No. 15
Texas 31-28 on Billy Taylor's
second one-yard touchdown
plunge midway through the
final period.
Texas fell out of a - three
way tie but Arkansas kept
pace with Tech by whomping
Rice 41-16 as quarterba6k
Ron Calcagni scored one
touchdown and set up two
others with his running and
passing and Michael Forrest
tallied twice.
Seventh-ranked Georgia
took a break from
not being able to control the ball. Moments-after a
Shippensburg player misdirected the ball into the
behind of another Reif Raider,' Han Coster's shot
chose to strike the right goal post instead of going
into the goal cage, half of which was open. Coster
was less than five yards away.
But the 'second half got worse. As might be ex
pected in a game where Penn State scored eight
times, Rich Reice, was credited with a goal, but his
'l2th of the year was certainly unlike the first 11.
Reice just happened to be the last one to touch the
ball when a Red Raider passed the ball to Bill
Tague, who was the lone Shippensburg player to
find net on a shot. But his attempt to clear the ball
counted as a Penn State goal, and the Lions led 4.0
9:44 into the second half.
A change of goalies didn't help. New netminder
Charlie Lawrence failed to 'intercept a Klauberg
pass across the crease and Stamatis rammed it
home at 17:58. Lawrence then couldn't stop
McDonald's rolling shot from 20 yards at 19:09 and
couldn't hold onto the ball at 32:55, when "Johnny
on-the-spot" Leo Bodossian took the loose ball and
scored.
Bodossian capped the scoring against a new
goalie at 8:38, as he went down the right side and
rolled one into the far corner.
Helmer, in relief of Dan Gallagher, saved the
shutout as he dove to deflect a shot from point-blank
range with about 25 minutes to go, and made a
couple of spectacular saves in the final minute.
THROW-INS: Klauberg, on the goal by Stamatis,
got the game's lone assist . . . . The Lions held a 29-
15 edge in shots and 7-4 advantage in corner
kicks Gallagher is now one shy of the team
record for shutouts after his sixth zero performance
of the year. Heimer, who seems to be the Sparky
Lyle of soccer, has played the last 25-30 minutes of
three of the shutouts.
Southeastern Conference
action and trimmed No. 20
Cincinnati 31-17 behind Ray
Goff's pair of first-half touch
downs. Meanwhile, No. 12
Florida, the SEC leader, ran
its league mark to 4-0
Georgia is 3-1 with a 24-19
decision over Auburn as
Jimmy Fisher hurled scoring
passes of 44 yards to Wes
Chandler and 63 to Willie
Wilder:
And that brings us to the
Big Eight. You remember the
Big Eight . . . four national
champions in the last six
years. Well, the league
probably won't produce the
No. 1 this season but it might
have six or so of the Top
Twenty teams. , Would you
believe the Top Ten?
Unfortunately, they keep
knocking each other off.' The
latest round of head-knocking
'roduced a 31-3 of Kansas by
ninth-ranked Nebraska, a 20-
19 squeaker for No. 'l6
Oklahoma State• over No. 10
Missouri behind Terry
Miller's 228 rushing yards, a
42-31 victory for No. 19
Colorado over No. 13
Oklahoma and lowa State's
45-14 thrashing of Kansas
State.
In the race for the Orange
Bowl, Nebraska, Oklahoma
State and Colorado have 3-1
records, with Oklahoma,
Missouri and lowa State all
one game back.
Notre Dame, rated 11th,
allowed a touchdown for' the
first time in six games in
fact, the Irish allowed three of
them and fell behind lowly
1-7 Navy 14-3 before pulling
out a 27-21 victory on Al
Hunter's two touchdown runs
and Rick Slager's 58-yard
pass to Dave Kelleher.
Penn State's Ken McDonald (15) battles for the ball with a Shippensburg oppo
nent during the Lions' 8-0 soccer victory at Jeffrey Field Friday night.
Indiana flattened, 64-0
JV gridders stop lUP
By CHUCK BUCHANAN
Collegian Sports Writer
Joe Paterno smiled.
And why not? Upon walking into Beaver
Stadium last Friday, he looked up at the
scoreboard and saw that the Penn State
Junior Varsity (JV) football team was
manhandling the visiting Indiana University
of Pennsylvania squad.
When Paterno made his entrance, the
Lions had the ball on their own 24-yard line
and there were but two seconds remaining in
the first half. As the gun sounded, Rich Milot
tool a handoff from the Penn State quar
terback. Paterno probably would have been
pleased had Milot tumbled to the turf, thus
ending the first half of the slaughter.
However, Milot bursted through a gaping
hole, executed two big-league jukes on
Indiana defenders, raced past the secondary,
and danced in the endzone 76-yards later. The
point after was good, and the scoreboard now
read "Penn State 40, Visitors 0."
' Joe Paterno smiled, again. The vision
which danced in his head was surely of Milot
dashing through the Pitt defense in similar
fashion come Thanksgiving . And had
Paterno seen the first 29 minutes and 58
seconds of the contest, if a 64-0 final could be
called a contest, he would have had many
more pleasant visions.
Milot's touchdown trek was just one of
several outstanding individual performances
which stood out in a game which saw the JVs
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Linebacker Craig Coder turned in the first
key individual effort of the afternoon just
minutes into the fray. Coder blocked an
Indiana punt on the 20 and promptly pounced
on the ball in the endzone to start Penn State
on their rout.
Minutes later, Lion quarterback Dayl*
Tate, who enjoyed a superb day in leading
the offensive barrage, lofted a perfect 27-
yard aerial to wide receiver Kip Vernaglia.
The sure-handed Vernaglia fought off his.
defender at the flag and hauled in his third
TD reception of the season. .
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Once again minutes later, Lion defensiv,
back Mike Gilsenan picked off an Indian a
pass and scooted 41-yards for the touchdown
which put the Lions ahead 21-0. Tate and
Vernaglia connected for six once more, this
time on a 25-yard streak pattern to boost the
home team's advantage to 28 points.
Defensive end Fred Ragucci took his turn
at blocking a punt, but the ball rolled out chi
the endzone before he could recover it for a
touchdown. The safety made it 30-zip. Herb
Menhardt upped the lead to 33 points as he hit
on a 17-yard field goal just minutes before
Milot's half-ending 76-yard jaunt.
Milot led the attack in the second half as he
ripped off TD rushes of 24 and 22-yards.
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