—The Daily Collegian Thursday, November 10, 1977
Brooks:
By JIM LOOSE
Daily. Collegian Sports Writer
Back in September, Lady Lion
cross country coach Chris Brooks
cautiously discussed her team's
prospects for the upcoming season.
Brooks said that the team would
probably have little trouble in win
ning all of its dual meets and
repeating as Eastern champions. But
the caution came in discussing the
team's chances at Nationals, since
the Lady Lions finished a disap
pointing fifth in last year's com
petition.
"I guess I'm a little bit older and a
little wiser," Brooks said at the time.
"I thought our best chance to win at
Nationals was last year. Now I'm
aware of the kind of things that can
happen."
If the last seven weeks have proven
nothing else, they have shown that
Principals decide fate of high school football playoffs
PHILADELPHIA ( AP) Whether Pennsylvania will
join the other 40 states that conduct some sort .of
scholastic football playoff appears to be in the hands of
the principals of the PIAA's 540 member high schools.
In its fall meeting Sunday, the PIAA Board of Control
agreed to sound out its members at the district level and
resume discussion. of football playoffs in its spring
meeting in March.
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Brooks is a great predictor. The Lady
Lions went undefeated during the
regular season and retained their
Eastern title last weekend. And as the
AIAW Nationals approach on Nov. 19
in Austin, Texas„ Brooks is still
maintaining caution in discussing the
team's chances of winning.
"We know we're tough," Brooks
said, "and we know we're contenders.
But you never know what will happen
on the day of the race. We're going to
have to keep our luck going."
Brooks expects the toughest
competition to come from California
State at Northridge, but also looks for
Iowa• State, last year's Nationals
champion, and UCLA to be other top
contenders.
While the Lady Lions were winning
the Eastern Regkinals last weekend
with Kathy Mills, Kris Bankes and
"If they go back to the principals, I'm afraid for our
chances," said Ron Carnicella, coach of Johnstown
High, who is president of the Football Coaches
Association.
"But if they go back to the real grass roots to the
kids and their parents they'll find real enthusiasm for
playoffs. .
"I'm optimistic myself. I think the district chairmen
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Liz Berry all finishing high,
California State won the Region eight
title. Julie Brown, the defending
national champion, Sue Kinsey and
Chris Troffer finished one-two-three
in that race to lead their team to
victory.
Brooks looks for Mills and Brown to
compete with each other and then
Bankes and Berry to vie with Kinsey
and Troffer. But she expects the
number four through seven runners
to be.important alo.
"The meet is going to come down to
the four, five, six and seven people,"
Brooks said. "Of course the four and
five people have to beat California
State's four and five people to help
our score. But the sixth and seventh
runners are important, too, since they
can hopefully get ahead of some of
their fourth and fifth runners.
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Mills, who finished third at
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Nationals last year, is expected to be
a strong Contender to win the race
this year. Mills had the lowest time,
16:39, among all runners in regional
competition throughout the country
last weekend. She was the only person
to finish in less than 17 minutes.
The biggest challengers for the
individual title, in addition to Mills,
are expected to be Brown and Kinsey,
Julie Shea of North Carolina State
and Brenda Webb of Tennessee.
"On any given day any one of thoSe
runners could win," Brooks said.
Mills will be joined on the trip to
Texas by Bankes, Berry, Donna
Gardner, Hilary Noden, Mary Rawe
and Penny Fales.. Competition for the
Lady Lions will not end in Texas,
however. From there they will travel
to San Bernadino, Calif. for the
National AAU's on Nov. 26.
will push for it, if they get favorable responses from
their own areas. And they'll get positive responses
from the grassroots."
The feeling of everyone on the Board of Control, and
of PIAA Executive Director Charles McCullough, is
that a district playoff is far too time consuming for a
sport like football.
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Pitt's punt 'center is
'the best, college or pro'
PITTSBURGH (AP) --t Walt Brown's
got a snap job.
"I glance down and shoot it," says the
6-foot-4, 230-pounder, who centers the
football for punts and placekicks at the
University of Pittsburgh.
"You can't really think about it. It has
to be natural. Just fire back."
While he speaks in such instinctive
terms, Brown can also tell you about the
practice, precision, poise and punish
ment that make his task one of the most
demandirig in football.
And his mastery of the specialty is
evident in the fact that he's muffed only
one of his between-the-legs spirals in two
seasons.
"He's . the best deep snapper in the
country," says Pitt coach Jackie
Sherrill.
• "The best I've ever' seen, college or
pro," echoes assistant Coach Foge
Fazio, once, a deep snapper himself of
Pitt.
Brown, who is Pitt's backup center on
scrimmage plays, started centering for
punts and placements in junior high and
did the same at nearby Shaler High
School.
"I guess it just came naturally," he
said after a recent practice session.
Brown's hands are especially large,
and he grabs the ball with his right paw
just as if he was throwing a forward
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pass. He steadies the ball with his left
hand.
"Both of my thumbs are always
jammed the whole season, but I can't put
any tape on them," he noted. "And it's
tough when my hands get cold and
numb."
Rain or snow, Brown's job is to deliver
a precise 14-yard snap on punts.
During practice, he's constantly timed
to make sure he's making the tosses
in .8 of a second. To avoid blocks, the
whole punt can't take longer than 2,5
seconds.
"I've been electronically timed, and
they say I'm between .75 and .8 con
sistently," he said.
Brown looks back under his legs as he
takes his position, but his head comes up
just as he delivers the ball. Often, there's
a defender waiting to smash him in the
face.
Brown's only errant long snap at Pitt
came two weeks ago on , an extra-point
try against Syracuse. The ball was low
but holder Tom Yewcic improvised for a
two-point conversion pass.
That's Brown's lone mutt on over 100
deep snaps that past two seasons, a
testament to his long hours 'of practice,
In fall camp, he makes 100 snaps a
day. During the summer,; he eases off
but still manages 20-30 snaps on certain
days
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