•K *«(' o* tty Memories of Namath ftiil linger <!{; I can hear already Howard Cosell’s Rasal twang piercing with excitement. *Jt There you have it, the. end of pro ;football’s most charismatic figure—Joe iVftllie ‘White Shoes’ Namath has called quits.-” , R Yesterday, The Daily Collegian ran.a Rmall wire . story on Namath’s Retirement, but the rather in consequential mention of it doesn’t do iNamath’s career any. justice. ;7j; Let’s face it, the name of Joe Namath revokes the same type of response that •£the name Joe Patemo gets on a good day jp State College. 1;: Remember when Joe shaved his ,ifamed;Fu,Manchu. moustache on the •tube for a tidy-sum of cash? That’S right, {the same old Joe who displayed his. ssghapely legs while donning a pair of ftpanty hose a couple of years later. And {doesn't the sight of popcorn from a 'Hamilton Beach Joe Namath Butterup •popcorn popper make you want to reach IJfgr a glass of chocolate Ovaltine? Yes, ' wvfbe Namath drips with class, charm and aex appeal, those qualities which make jiis image so marketable. ' j ° n •2 ■=. Saraceno ’{" Whether Joe is dazzling a blonde with | ;|he wink of his deep sea-green eyes, or ; .maintaining a Daniel-in-the-lions-den I {coolness when pressure situations arise, 1 ;he has a magnetic personality that people. 17. The quarterback who served his ’college apprenticeship under a man in •Alabama they call “Bear,” came into I {the old American Football League as a Rrima donna, a flamboyant and con fident kid. “Broadway Joe,” as he would {become known to millions, signed a {contract for $427,000 and would go on to prove he was worth every penny of it: {during his playing days (and perhaps ;for all-time) the fabled New York sports •scene has ; never witnessed a more li {renowned athlete, and that includes ® Frazier, Jackson, Seaver, Gilbert, et al, ||• “{Ultimately; ' whem you think of - you think of the biggest upset in ,*|Super Bowl history, and possibly of the | 'decade: Joe led the underdog Jets to a a {l6-7 victory in Super Bowl 111. y {Remember how Broadway Joe guaranteed the fans in the Big Apple he h {would take care of those ponies from | {Baltimore? Namath dissected the Colt 1 secondary that Januray afternoon, | completing 17-of-28 passes for 208 yards. H When he walked off the field holding his K| index'finger to the sky in a victory | Salute, chills went up my 10-year-old .y.«pine. '< i never really won anotner important game after that Sunday, nor did he have the supporting cast to help llim. Rather, it seemed like every time I im read the sports pages Joe was either grentering the hospital for knee surgery or | holding a press conference afterwards. k -' But the gimpy-kneed leader never 1' Complained. Instead he would begin the I slow, agonizing task of rehabilitating the I scarred knees, which looked more like | jrpad maps. ' S Joe Namath had all the physical and I ‘mental skills a quarterback could dream | for, and more: The quick Namath setup, | and an even quicker, lightening release &jif the football; an uncanny ability to | inspire and lead his outmanned team to | victory; and a superior knowledge of the | game, with a knack for reading a 1 defense and beating it with the pass. lAfter Namath joined the Los Angeles I Bams last year, he continued to work on ifetrengthening his knees for a shot at the | starting quarterback position. ’’,,But all the publicity hype and brouhaha on the West Coast could not: 1 bring back what Namath had lost, ex '( cept a new nickname, “Hollywood Joe.” >The magic, as they say, was gone. After quarterbacking Los Angeles to a less itlian spectacular start, two wins in four games, Namath rode the bench in favor of Pat Hayden. 'LThe famous figure of Joe Namath quickly stepping back to throw, hands 'poised at his side, ready to snap the arm forward, was lost forever. Joe Namath never played another down for the Rams, or for anyone, Above all else Joe Namath is a candid man. His frankness lets him call a spade a spade, no matter if he was talking to a sportswriter or his mother. New York Times sportswriter Dave Andreson related this story of a young honesty in a column recently: 'I “Do you think that some day you’ll succeed Johnny Unitas as the king of the quarterbacks?” - “No,” he said quickly. ,• “Why not? "he was asked, t’ “Because,” he said with a grin, “I feel I’m there now.” > Namath never attempted to hide his booze-and-broads image from the public, unlike so many athletes who display a holier-than-thou act. Namath an example of football revealing a person’s character, and hot, as many think, building it. •••■ Upon retiring, Namath said football |iad been good to him. He was right. But Joe neglected saying something else jfhore important. > Joe Willie Namath has been even better for football. Collegian sports the daily Paul Simon will be among what coach Karl Schwenzfeier calls his healthiest lineup,of all-arounds this season.'The team hosts 'York University, which is the training ground for the Canadian National team. Gymnasts to host York of North By GARY SILVERS Daily Collegian Sports Writer ’ The men’s gymnastics team (4-0) will get its first taste Of international competition tonight when the Lions host York University at Rec Hall. The York team features some of the biggest names in Canada, for the school, itself, is the Olympic training site of our northern neighbor. Any Canadian, 27 years or younger, af filiated with the university, is eligible to compete in an international event. “I wouldn’t be surprised to see a few high school kids performing,” Lions’ coach Karl Schwenzfeier speculated, “They can bring almost anyone they choose to.” And the Lions will counter with their six healthiest all-arounders senior Bob Desiderio, junior Paul Simon, sophomores Dan Desiderio and Kurt Weissend and freshmen Pat Besong and Tom Forster. . “I’m a little worried about that lineup,” Schwenzfeier said, “because we’re not completely healthy. (Joe) Stallone, who should be in there, won’t be competing at all. He’s still got the knee injurry from the Pitts burgh meet and won’t see action again until we face Southern Con necticut ” (February 4). Another Lion gymnast - who for some unknown reason is also nursing an injury, is Dan Desiderio; however, he will perform tonight. “Dan woke up one morning this weekend and his ankle was swelled,” Schwenzfeier said. “We still can’t figure out why.” Pitt cagers improved Favorite's role reversed By NEIL RUDEL Daily Collegian Sports Writer • The last time the Penn State 1 cagers faced Pitt; the Panthers apparently left a definite impression on coach John Bach’s crew. Reason: Tony Dorsett’s alma mater last season recorded a futile 6-21 mark, not much worse than what the Lion hoopsters appear to be headed for this year. There’s no way around it —Bach’s club is hurting. They’ve dropped seven straight games, are still unsettled on a definite starting lineup and have played with the same consistency as Pitt did a year ago. “They (Pitt) went through quite an ordeal last year,”. Bach, said sizing up Saturday night’s game with the Pan thers at Rec Hall. “They learned from a horrible experience. We’re going through that now.” The Lions certainly are. They’ve had major problems.containing opponents’ frontlines; in Wednesday’s loss to Villanova, the winners forecourt ac counted for 67 of 98 points. And Pitt’s frontline, much improved in a year, will be by no means a letup. Coach Tim Grgurich’s club, 9-6, has both scoring punch and rebounding strength in forwards Larry Harris and freshman soon-to-be-sensation, Sam Clancy. “Larry Harris is one of the best players in the nation," Bach said. “And in 'Battle America' The team also can’t figure out why it’s best hit ratio, thus far is a mere 22 of 36. And now, with a two-week lay off,itmay;beeyeriworse/ “I don’t think we’re out of shape,” Schwenzfeier said, “so we shouldn’t be any shakier than before. What we did in those couple weeks off was add more difficulty to the gymnasts’ routines; That’s the only reason they might still have a few problems But just like a bottle of red wine, a gymnast gets better with age. “With hardly a senior on the team,” Sch wenzfeier siad, “I don’t want to squelch them too early. Next year they should get off to a real fast start —maybe a 215.” A 215 right now would rank the Lions second in the country. However, they’re still trying to find a way to break 211. And if they don’t find the answer soon, the NCAA’s may only be a dream. “We’re not the favorites right now,” Schwenzfeier admitted. “First we must make the Top Eight by winning the Mideast regionals. And that means knocking off LSU (sixth at nationals last year).” But first the Lions will be focusing on York in what could be termed “The Battle of North America. ” “It’s an honor to compete in ternationally,” Schwenzfeier said, “and carry an American flag. Athletes dream of competing for their country.’’ And tonight those dreams will come true. Sam Clancy is the type of player who has bothered us all year.” Both bring impressive credentials to wind chill country. Student tickets for next Thursday’s Penn State basketball game against defending national champion Marquette will be distributed beginning at 8:30 a.m. today at the ticket office in 237 Rec Hall. The tickets, which are free, may be picked up upon presentation of the stu dent’s ID card. There is a limit of one ticket per person, and students may use only their ID cards in picking up tickets. The ticket office will remain open until 4:30 today, and will reopen at 8:15 a.m. Saturday until 11:45 a.m. Tickets will Not be distributed during Saturday night’s game against Pitt. Harris tickled the twine for 30 points in the Panthers jolting of Syracuse and Clancy, don’t tell him he’s a rookie, pumped in a career high 24 points and grabbed 12 rebounds when Pitt bowed to the Cincinnati Bearcats in overtime Sunday. But Pitt has more than Harris, who averaged 22 points per outing last season, and the bruising Clancy who as a senior in high school last year almost led Brashear to a victory over West Philadelphia, the nation’s number one Winning streak 'stalls' as wrestlers fall 24-15 By GEORGE BERMAN Daily Collegian Sports Writer , Both Penn State and 126-pound Scott DeAugustino Thursday night tasted the bitterness of dual watch defeat for the first time as the Clarion Golden Eagles preyed upon the Penn State lineup for a 24-15 win and along with it, the right to proclaim themselves the best in the East at this point in the season. The outcome of the match was decided fast and early. After'Mike DeAugustino decisioned Jan Clark by a 6-2 score and a 3-0 Penn State lead, the Clarion Eagles swooped to two Consecutive pins at the 126 and 134 weight classes. Tom Diamond’s pin of Scott > DeAugustino at 126 shocked everyone including Diamond himself. DeAugus tino, who might be the best 126-pounder in the East, found Diamond, the flu, the referee arid the crowd too much to handle. “Scott was sick this past week,” Koll said about his outstanding freshman, “but he thought he was okay before the match. “He is only a freshman,” Koll added, “and you can’t expect him to have the Blood tests may stop MIAMI (AP) Blood testing is the key to a comprehensive system of identifying horses, a staggering job which has been spotlighted by the Belmont Park ringer case, it was noted Thursday at the Thoroughbred Racing Associations con vention; ' “Since 1970 we’ve had approximately 40 wrong horses that have raced,” said Cal Rainey, executive secretary of the Jockey Club. “Some have been ringers. Some have been honest mistakes. People don’t believe that honest mistakes can happen. But believe me it can.” James B. Moseley, chairman of a Jockey Club committee named two years ago to study horse identification, agreed with Rainey, noting that several unintentional mixups of horses occur long before the horses got to the track, and add ed, “You’ve got to know who the horse is before you can iden tifyhim.” The Moseley committee suggested blood testing of horses to establish positive parentage and to establish their correct identity soon after they are born. Moseley pointed out that hady cagers host Scarlet By DARLENE lIROBAK Daily Collegian Sports Writer It’s a shame that none of the women’s basketball players ever knew Mary Beaver White; if she were anything like the structure that was named after her, they probably would have liked her. The Lady Lions have compiled a 10-1 record in White Building’s North Gym during the past two seasons. Tuesday night they, added another tally to the win column by defeating Pittsburgh, 81- 60. The Rutgers Scarlet Knights, 9-5, will be the next potential victim to enter the Lady Lion’s favorite den Saturday at 2 p.m. It will be the second contest in Penn State’s four-game homestand. “I think it (playing at home) has a very positive effect,” Lady Lion coach Pat Meiser said. “Our home court really is our home. We are there praticing everyday.” And that practice is paying off. The Penn Staters sport a 10-3 record and a No. 14 national ranking. But sandwiched in between those 10 wins are losses to top-ranked teams such as Queens, Maryland and Texas. “I think we were playing well at the beginning of the season and ran into a team, with Eugene do-everything-but sell-popcorn Banks. Rounding out the Pitt starting lineup will be Williams, Ed Schueuerman and Terry Knight—Billy’s brother. “They have a good, deep team,” Bach said. “That’s what concerns me. Pitt’s whole team went through bad times last year and you get to be very positive after situations like that.” On the Penn State side, however, things have been grim. Bach said he’ll start Frank Brickowski at center, for at least the next couple of games, in place of Carvin Jefferson. Brickowski will join Walter Young, a regular again, and Steve Kuhn at forwards plus Jeff Miller and Tom Wilkinson in the backcourt. State will have to win five of its eight remaining games for Bach to avoid his worst season here. CLOSE-CALLS: Wilkinson surpassed the 100 assist mark in Villanova game .. . Injured Lions Gary “Corky” Korkowski add Rob O’Conor, Bach said, may play but on limited duty only ... Bach on Young: “He looks like he’s breaking out of'thd slump” .. . Young has scored 28 points in last two games ;.. Bach said Kuhn will watch Clancy, and Young Harris ... Flashy Pitt soph Sonny Lewis hasn’t been in box scores lately and he was Panthers second leading scorer last season *. . Game time7:3o. consistency of a (Dave) Becker, (Bill) Vollrath, or a (Sam) Sallitt.” While the referee was dealing out penalty points for stalling like Phil Ford deals assists for his North Carolina basketball team, the Lions including Scott had very few come their way. With the crowd behind him, the referee kept Lion coaches Bill Koll and Andy ( Matter constantly on their feet. “I don’t even want to talk about it,” a frustrated Koll said afterwards. “I think he (the official) swallowed the damn whistle. Every time I turned around he was calling stalling-points. I think he might have taken the match out of the kids^hands.” When asked if this was the referee’s first Penn State match, Koll snapped, “Yeah. ..and the last!” V The match marked Dan Baum’s initial appearance of the year for the Lions at 134 and he found himself flat on his back for the first time under the grasps of highly regarded Eagle Randy Miller. At 142, Geoff Brodhead halted the string of pins but also lost, finding himself on the short end of a 13-11 score. Both participants took turns taking down and letting up their opponent in the see- on the 'short' Knight's little bit of a slump,” Meiser said. “I saw some things Tuesday night that I haven’t seen since mid-December. ‘ ‘We’re about back now where we were then. I feel like we are really going now.” Meiser’s Lady Lions have been giving her every reason to feel that way. Balance, momentum, quickness and an improving defense are all blending together for her charges on the court. But there is a problem. “Height-wise we’re at a disad vantage,” Meiser said. “We go into just about every game we play short.” And the contest against Rutgers will be no exception. Their tentative starting line-up reveals that no one has been teasing the Scarlet Knights about the recent hit song directed at “short people.” Center Sandy Tupurins, 6-2, is grab bing 13.1 rebounds per game. The Scarlet Knights leading scorer, 5-11 forward Kathey Glutz, is averaging 15.1 ppg. Forward Patti Sikorski is 5-10, guards Denise Kinney and Erika Sauer are 5-7 and 5-8. And the Lady Lions’ 6-0 center, Mag Strittmatter (10.7 rebounds per game), who faced Pitt’s 6-3 Wanda Randloph Sophomore guard Tom Wilkinson is one of only three Penn State cagers to collect 100 assists in a season. Wilkinson and the Lions hope to halt a seven game losing streak Saturday night against Pitt. Friday, January 27, 1978—9 there have been cases of hospital mixups of human babies. The Jockey Club working with the University of California at Davis, began a blood testing program last year and it un derscores what Rainey called “a problem of logistics.” Blood samples have been taken from half of the 8,000 stallions standing in the United States and Rainey said the other half will be completed by the end of this year. But that is just the tip of the iceberg 60,000 horses, some of them im ported, race each year in the United States; there are 60,000 active broodmares and about 30,000 foals a year. In order to get a unified horse identification system, which the Jockey Club is pointing for, tracks will have to cooperate, be willing to spend money and, Rainey said, “hire competent people who do not have two or. three jobs to do at the track but can concentrate on identification.” The most common identification used in the Unites States is lip tatooing and while Rainey and Mosley said they weren’t against it they also felt it fell far short of the mark. in vasion Tuesday, will again be giving away a couple of inches when she meets Tupurins. “I have to be more aware of a taller person’s size,” Strittmatter said. I know she’ll get the ball more. “It takes a lot of mental preparation on my part. It (being out-sized) doesn’t seem to bother me anymore. I don’t like anyone else to out-psyche me." And all of the Scarlet Knights, not just Tupurins, may be trying to do a psyche job. They were once ranked as high as 14th and have beaten quality teams such as Kansas and Southern Connecticut. “Rutgers is a very fine team,” Meiser said. “They just dropped out of the top twenty. But they have to be charac terized as an up and down team'; they’re inconsistent.” Jen Bednarek is leading the Lady Lion attack (17.8 ppg), followed by Sue Martin (11.9 ppg), Nancy Kuhl (10.8 ppg), Strittmatter (9.3 ppg) and Betty ' McGuire (8.9 ppg). And they will all be trying to continue their love affair with White Building Saturday. “It’s sure a nice feeling playing in White Building again,” Strittmatter said. saw battle. And, of course, Brodhead also lost the penalty points battle. Penn State promptly got back into the match by taking four of the next five bouts —all by decisions. “We won five bouts and they won five btjuts,” Koll said, “but the falls they got made the difference.” \ So entering the heavyweight bout trailing 18-15, Koll decided to save the miracles of Ashley Swift for some other night and entered 205-pound Larry Fath to tangle with Jack Campbell. “I was going to use Ashley if we were leading going into the heavyweight,” Koll said. “Since the match was out of hand, I didn’t want to take a chance of injuring Ashley.” Penn State will try to. get back on the winning, track tomorrow when they tangle with Bloomsburg on the road. 118— M. DeAugustino i PS) dec. Clark. 6-2. 126—Diamond <C> pinned S. DeAugustino, 5:50. 134 Miller (C) pinned Baum, 4:40. 142 —Merriam (C) dee. Brodhead, 13-11. 150—Vollrath (PS) dec. Coleman, 7-4. 158—Becker (PS) dec. Gilbert. 8-4. 167 Herbert (C) dec. Snyder, 7-2. 177 PfauU (PS) dec. Hockenbroch, 4-3. 190 —Sallitt (PS) dec. Booth, 8-2. Hwt. —Campbell pinned Fath, 5:36. horseplay Photo by Chip Connelly end,
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