*— me uaiiy.coiieEian H'rirtnv iw n i»’»
collegian
Crying wolf not
helping Paterno
this time around
To a journalist, credibility is ex
tremely important. It is also important
to business executives, administrators
and football coaches.
If a journalist writes, something one
day, and something completely opposite
occurs the next, that' writer will be
questioned by his readers. If an
executive or administrator makes a
prediction one day, and something
totally different happens the next day,
he is questioned by his fellow executives
and administrators.
So why should it be different with
football coaches?
On Wednesday I sat across from one
football coach who is rather well known
in these parts. After the coach fielded
questions for 15 minutes, somebody got
around to asking him a question about
his team’s sluggish offense.
The coach leaned forward, looked
through his dark glasses and said, “I
told you before the season began that we
were going.to have problems. How many
times did I tell you?”
Continuing to lament on that subject
for several minutes, something struck a
nerve and he looked up and said, “You
(writers) never listen to me when I tell
you things.”
That coach who claims writers never
listen to him is the same coach that last
year told writers that Texas Christian
University, “is a better team then people
realize.”
Penn State promptly went out and
destroyed the Horned Frogs 58-0,
outgaining them by 270 yards.
One week later, he opened up and told
the writers, “If anybody doesn’t think
Kentucky is a ’ good team, they're
daydreaming.”
He flew back from Kentucky several
days later a 30-0 winner.
The fact of the matter is that writers
are not sure what to believe when Joe
Paterno speaks. I’m not calling Joe
Paterno a liar, but he likes to be con
servative in his opinions.
Believe it or not, the same coach, 10
years ago, was asked about the possible
outcome of a game with Maryland.
Paterno answered by saying, “Win?
Certainly.”
Writers and fans alike realize that
Paterno exhibits a certain class by not
knocking or, as he puts it, “berating”
other teams. He is truly a gentleman and
is gracious in defeat as well as victory.
As he said before that Maryland game
10 years ago, “Win, but do it with charity
towards those you beat. I think you can
have a good football . team without
sacrificing your integrity.”
Nobody- questions the fact that
Paterno should be gracious.
But he must understand that writers,
and fans, will remain skeptical when it
comes to his evaluations of a team. Not
only is it a question of acceptance, it is a
question of proven fact that as much as
Paterno down plays his own team, and
builds up the stength of his opponents, he
has won 125 games and lost only 27 in his
13‘/2 seasons here.
Paterno must realize that even if he
was leveling when he talked about the
problems of his offense early in the
season, the writers and fans have been
weened on his winning ways and again
expect a winner. He has been quoted this
season as saying the team is really not
that good. But writers and fans won’t
accept that.
“I don’t think people are being fair to
the kids,” he said Wednesday. “If you
put things back in perspective and don’t
daydream the way people d 0...” he
continued, never finishing his sentence.
Maybe he was unable to finish the
sentence because deep down inside he
knows Penn State football can’t be put
back into perspective not when 76,000
people pile into a steel bowl to watch his
team play, or when a program is relied
upon to produce millions of dollars in
' I revenue.
Sometimes it’s obvious that he knows
Penn State football is out of proportion.
“I would be the same way if I was
sitting in the stands spending 10 bucks to
see a football team play. I know the
students are anxious to have a
powerhouse every year.”
What is more obvious is that Paterno
doesn’t have a solution to the problem of
putting the football program back into
perspective. Just like a business or a
newspaper that is growing and ex
panding, he doesn’t have a solution. All
he can do is look up over those dark
passes, shrug his shoulders, shake his
lead and sigh, “What are you going to
Lions must get off tails for Cadets
fjoMj
Last week Tate completed 10 of 18
passes for 100 yards. The Lions amassed
318 total yards. Freshman Jeff Hostetler
and sophomore Frank Rocco are now
'VTate’s back-ups, because Paterrio
i&Sved No.' 2 signal:':'bailer Terry;
, to split end Monday. ft)
Freshman standout Curt Warner will
probably watch the game from the
sidelines. The doctors are afraid that if
State’s offensive leader in total yardage
reinjures his knee,’he may be out for the
remainder of the season.
If Warner can’t go, Booker Moore or
Mike Guman who was switched to
flanker this season will join fullback
Matt Suhey in the backfield, with Leo
McClelland seeing some playing time.
Guman, still troubled by a lacerated
knee, is a step or two slower than he’d
r
A-
By DARLENE HROBAK
Daily Collegian Sports Writer
Will the real Penn State football team
please stand up? v
Is it the Nittany Lion squad which
looked impressive in defeating
Maryland 27-7 last week and which, in
the season opener, routed Rutgers by a
score of 45-10?
Or is it the Lion team which looked
anything but impressive in its second
and third games of the season; losing
consecutively to Texas A&M 27-14, and
Nebraska 42-17?
The answer, if one is to be found, may
well be provided at 1:30 tomorrow af
ternoon at Beaver Stadium when the
unranked 2-2 Lions take on the Army
Cadets in the feature attraction of Penn
State’s Alumni Homecoming Weekend.
Quarterback Dayle Tate analyzed the
two personalities of the Lion squad:
“When it was easy we’ve won, and when
it was tough we didn’t. But we’re gonna
get better. We should beat Army, and I
think we will beat Army.”
Army, however, is not a team to be
taken lightly. The 2-1-1 Cadets have a 17-
13 upset victory over Stanford to their
credit, and Penn State coach Joe
Paterno called the Cadets “the best
Army team people will have seen for a
longtime.”
The Lion defense strengthened by
last week’s move which sent Bruce
Clark to nose quard and Greg Jones to
tackle surrendered only 153 yards
against Maryland and seems ready for
Army
But the general consensus is that if
State wants to indulge its alumni with
the nostalgic winning ways of old, the
offense will have to start to jell.
“I think it’s (the offense) gotten a little
bit better, but obviously it’s not good
enough,” Paterno said. “It’s not con
sistent enough, but I’m hoping the little
bit of success we had against Maryland,
and the fact Dayle had a good game, that
we should make a lot of progress.
“I’ll be disappointed if we’re not a
much better offensive team this week
than last week,” he said.
Cadets hope to snap Lions' domination
Penn State football coach Joe Paterno discusses some defensive strategy with linebacker Rick Donaldson. Paterno believes
this year’s Cadet squad is vastly improved compared to their teams of the past.
rt ‘ .if) 4 Tfy* - ; . v* •
Penn State’s Lance Mehl pulls down Nebraska’s Jarvis Redwine as Larry Kubin (74), Rick Donaldson (92) and Steve Griffiths (52) look
on. The Lions should have an easier time tomorrow afternoon than they did against the Cornhuskers when they take on Army in the annual
Homecoming game at Beaver Stadium.
"Si
... . it* ‘■ i .-' ■. '' ' v'.-V
HtfeslSS! 4© Stefbe^^sp
V “We^ing Tt Ihings that leading rusher. He tas 224 yards —95 of keep the defense off the field, gtve them may he in for a treat
"^nSS'S ”i EM “Suone’defense will have basically tomorrow - Specially 11 the real Penn
a, S e Do r „ C S’ is Tate’s leading »
time because we’re just not good at some receiver with nine catches for 134 yards, questionable with a leg injury. Pate o
*!£ “EiXiistency, which t^SSSSSj&^i
I thtnk £ due to inexperience. If we stay position. Kip Vernaglia will he the hack- the .
* Suheyi who has moved into fifth P lace said. “We’ll basically use the same stuff “It’s making our strong side a little pull off a good season.
4*V l '
, ' * >s '' « il
'fiM ?'**«
fit* < *' t ' ■Hfci ** ! < 4 ±
*- * ’- ! >® ‘ v '"»'?>
'•! *s&*;
v y\N*r “ 5
‘ •* , . ' l< / h^V’
T 4 \i * * < * ' , ‘ > , ,4 *H
* <,■>* i _
, ' > , -'/
..;- \4s
, 1 * *? ■
'.,ir
<}
C; » « r
•> 'l y W'
To,'V
ilftilS
r* > / '
By TOM VERDUCCI
Daily Collegian Sports Writer ,
Service academies are so named
because of their service to the
country, but somebody forgot to tell
the U.S. Military Academy.
Dating back to 1968, Army has been
serving Penn State with unfailing
allegiance. In the eight games bet
ween the schools since that year, the
Cadets have bowed down to the Lions
no less than eight times, including a
most recent 38-16 thrashing in 1976 at
Beaver Stadium.
<*r v O*
’ vAvVj
>\ r-/r" bA^'l
- *> "Vv^]
v,j «isity
When the two teams get together in
the same place tomorrow, there is
little reason to believe that Army will
abandon its loyalty, and no one is
more aware of this than Army coach
LouSaban.
“It’s obvious to everyone that we
don’t have much (playing talent),”
Saban said. “We can get hurt rather
quickly.”
Despite Saban’s' pessimistic
analysis, the Cadets (2-1-1) have only
been hurt once this year that being
a 41-3 mugging at the of North
Carolina. Still, victories over Stan
ford (a 17-13 upset in California) and
Connecticut (26-10), and a tie with
Duke, are enough to convince Lion
coach Joe Patemo that maybe, just
maybe, the 1979 Cadets are of a
different breed than their dedicated
predecessors.
“Army is the best Army team that
people will have seen for a long
time,” Patemo said. “They’re better
organized than they’ve been. Saban’s
done a fine job with them. I think the
North Carolina game would be a little
misleading, but at times in that
ballgame they played very well. I
think it’ll be a tough football game.”
Patemo said that an injection of
speed into the Cadets’ corps addicted
them to a more potent attapk.
“It’s one thing if you’ve got a
tremendous amount of deter
mination, but if you don’t have the
speed to get there to do things, it
doesn’t make any difference,”
Friday, Oct. 12, By
Paterno said. “But this club has the
speed. In past years you always felt
with their lack of speed that the
defense would break down and you’d
get a couple of easy ones. You don’t
have that feeling about this football
team. They’re a very impressive
team to watch on film from a coach’s
standpoint ”
Watching other teams is no strange
practice for Saban, either. In fact,
with “about 10 injuries” to his squad,
Saban wouldn’t mind switching his
role from coach to spectator.
“I look at the talent they (Penn
State) have and I enjoy seeing it,”
Saban said. “I enjoy seeing a great
team and great players perform no
matter what side. ”
Two players Saban will not see
perform are his No. 1 quarterback
Earle Mulrane and starting inside
linebacker John Hilliard. Ironically,
both players left last week’s game
with Duke with ankle injuries -
although Mulrane’s was an
aggravation of an earlier sprain
sustained at Stanford - and will not
make the trip.
Additionally, Army’s top offensive
threat, freshman halfback Gerald
Walker, is “still a question mark’’,
according to Saban. The 5-11, 177-
pound plebe is averaging 5.7 yards
per carry and has been a standout
among what is generally considered
an enthusiastic, yet talent-shy team.
“Army’s more of an in-between
team,” Penn State quarterback
Dayle Tate said. “They’re not a
Nebraska but they’re not an easy
opponent. I think we’re going to have
to earn this victory.”
Tate’s teammate and favorite
target, split end Tom Donovan, of
fered a similar analysis.
“They’re a very 'well-disciplined
team,” Donovan said. “They don’t
have a great amount of fantastic
athletes, but they always know what
they’re going to do. They seem to be
'in the right place at the right time. ”
"•v
Photo by Chip Connolly
Sanguillen sends home Ott, Pirates with series tie
No way was Pirate catcher Ed Ott going to let the Orioles’ Ed-Murray score
on this play in the sixth inning of last night’s second game of the World Series.
•Murray was out and so were the Orioles as Pittsburgh tied the series. ‘
- JEANS—CORDS^—BIBS — DANCEWEAR—SHIRTS—SWEATERS—OUTWEAR
I
n 1
I
I
* I
I
LEVI'S—LEE—WRANGLER—CAPEZIO—DANSKIN—ELY— _____
BALTIMORE (AP) - Pinchhitter
Manny Sanguillen delivered a two-out,
two-strike single during a continuing
downpour in the ninth inning, scoring Ed
Ott with the winning run last night as the
Pittsburgh Pirates nipped the Baltimore
Orioles 3-2 in the second game of the 1979
World Series.
The victory tied the best-of-seven
series 1-1, with the teams moving to
Pittsburgh for the next three contests,
beginning today with a battle of left
handers, Scott McGregor pitching for
Baltimore against John Candeleria of
the Pirates.
Sanguillen, the seldom-used third
string Pittsburgh catcher, won a battle
of nerves, with Baltimore reliever Don
Stanhoiise and drilled the decisive hit on
another > rainy, bone-chilling night in
Baltimore;
Pinch-hitter Bill Robinson opened the
ninth with N a single to left against
reliever' Tippy Martinez. Baltimore
Manager Earl Weaver immediately
went to his bullpen for Stanhouse, a
right-hander who saved 21 games this
season.:
The frizzy-haired pitcher made just
one pitch to Bill Madlock when pinch
runner Matt Alexander took off for
second. The speedster previously had
been thrown out only once all year, but
Orioles catcher Rick Dempsey gunned
him down.
After Madlock flied out, Ott bounced a
bad-hop single off the chest of Baltimore
second baseman Billy Smith. Then, Phil
Garner, goat of the Pirates’ 5-4 opening
game defeat, worked out a walk on four
pitches.
That brought up Sanguillen, one of the
last survivors of Pittsburgh’s 1971 World
Champions. The 35-year-old catcher had
batted only .230 this season, with only 17
hits and four runs batted in.
Stanhouse, working deliberately as a
heavy mist fell on the already soaked
; Memorial Stadium field, worked the
;count to 1-2. Sanguillen, always a bad
ball hitter who has a reputation of
swinging at almost anything, fouled off
three pitches, then drilled his hit to right.
Ken Singleton charged the ball arid his
throw to the plate was cut off by first
baseman Eddie Murray. Murray
relayed to catcher Rick Dempsey, but
Jgp*"
To Our Brothers of K 1
Your Little Sisters
think you are the best
dinner or not!
- • -■ i ■
WE LOVE YOU ALL!
(• /■VV,.','*
■ 1-;
Pittsburgh’s Bill Madlock is tagged out by Baltimore’s Bill Smith while trying to steal second base in last night’s World Series
action. The Pirates, however, weren’t caught as they edged the Orioles, 3-2, to even the series..
Ott, running all the way, beat the tag for
the deciding run.
Armed with the lead, Chuck Tanner,
manager of the National League
champion Pirates, went to relief ace
Kent Tekulve to nail down the victory.
—CANDIES
*1 1
The lanky right-hander, who saved 31
games in the regular season, made quick
work of the Orioles in the ninth, striking
out Dempsey and Kiko Garcia for the
first two outs, then getting A 1 Bumbry on
a bouncer to shortstop.
10% OFF
TAILGATE PARTY TRAYS
WITH THIS AD
Wide Selection of
Cheeses & Crackers
Delicious Tasty
Hoagies Cheesfefe
99 c / _ r '| for your
Hills Plaza
State College
238-2105
The Daily Collegian Friday, Oct. 12, 1979—9
The Pirates scored first, nicking
Orioles starter Jim Palmer for two runs
in the second inning on three straight
singles. Willie Stargell started the rally
with a single to right and moved to
second on John Milner’s single.