C. State: No friendly den for the By TOM VERDUCCI Daily Collegian Sports Writer Just when things couldn’t get worse, they did. The Penn State Nittany Lions (5-3), hit by disciplinary, academic and physical problems since the August sun scorched preseason double sessions, received some more bad news before they limp into the unfriendly confines of Carter Stadium at 1 p.m. Saturday to face the North Carolina State Wolfpack (6-3), in Raleigh, N.C. Split end Tom Donovan, tied with Brad Scovill for the team lead in pass receptions, will not play Saturday and there is “an outside chance that we can have him before the season is over,” according to Penn State coach Joe Paterno. Donovan suffered a sprained left knee in the second quarter of last week’s game with Miami while cutting down a Hurricane defensive back on a Matt Suhey run. But that’s not all. Defensive end Gene Gladys also will not be in the Lions’ lineup for the clash with N.C. State. Gladys went to Hershey Medical Center yesterday to undergo tests on what was feared to be torn ligaments in his knee and ankle. However, the tests, performed, by Dr. Alexander Kalenak, proved negative. , ■ “Someone fell on my knee and ankle in yesterday’s (Tuesday) practice,” Gladys said yesterday. “They found nothing in the ankle, it’s just a sprain. Right now I think I could come back next week.” While a shuttle bus to Hershey is not being put into operation just yet, Gladys Hungry Wolfpack hopes to devour wounded Lions* By BACHMAN t / Scott Smith who directe the Wolfpack’s'veer sistency on offense. The reason for optimism was diversified so we’re going to use our passing “To beat Penn State we must play real hard on Tf^iP 0 T — Ia !l por S Vr ,' e , r - , , ' offense, is just as elusive as his backs. Besides the play up front. Dieterich was absolutely game to supplement the running game,” he said. defense,” defensive coordinator Chuck Amat‘o “CTeWrecord » Tfc wS®itfi;6-3, wiih’tlfeir SuimlSu! goal attempts and 28 rf 29 extra potato to America. He has great balance, good vision and; decision a seiback l ?St .Sa,»rda s to South on defense » saAobert R fin, rfffeiS’E oSSim £» l?s ,U"y a SSo nITE^ Carolina, utilize .their passing gajne to fourth year as the Wolfpack’s head coach. Quick is on top in the receiving department, Las vea?RßterwasSmost fawTessin f.eld thev a?e aaualU? team’’ g P * ■ he extent of the Hurricanes, but they “When they’ve been burned, it’s been super grabbing 24 passes for 419 yards and four '• i „ r «J' threatening running attack. on offense by the opponent.” touchdowns. Dawson, however, hasn’t been quite ■ g ® K n °fl9 through the uprights .. . But not only will North Carolina States The backfield is led by explosive running back ’"-fijit before the -Lions can entertain any as productive Hauling in 14 receptions for 191 Not everything, however, has been So bright on defense have to pull together, the offense and Billy Ray Vickers. The 6-foot, 205-lb. senior has, . of stopping the Wolfpackjs ground yards he has been used primarily as a blocker ™ e pensive side. Despite their top prospects kicking games will also have to play up to theh^k .been plagued by a knee and foot injury, but is game, they must contend with an awesome front "To be successful with the veer, you’ve got to J* e ha “® a< * s . L f sr ?™ ,e and Bubba capabilities. ; ' still the Wolfpack’s top ground gainer with' 561 • line headed center Jim Ritcher. have excellent blocking from your tight end ” Green, they ve had their troubles this season, “Penh State is in the same boat as we are a 1 yards in 135 attempts. - According to Rein, “Jim may be the best at his Rein said. “Lin Dawsori has given us that kind of especially m the loss to South Carolina. little bit,” Rein said. “We are capable on offense;, His running mate Dwight Sullivan, who follows position the conferenc£‘has ever seen: He is play. He’s one of the finest at his position that “We did not have enough people in pursuit;” defense and kicking, but we haven’t been in all, close behind in rushing with 527 yards in 124 incredible.” «you’re going to find anywhere. Rein said. “We didn’t tackle well and we didn’t three areas in one game. f. irk carries, is a doubtful starter due to a shoulder Besides. Ritcher, guards Chuck Stone and “We can throw effectively, but we’re not going shed the blocks. And our linebackers lacked the “We must do that to beat a great team like * injury. Should he definitely be sidelined, Wayne Chris Dieterich, and tackle Chris Carr will give to come out and throw (because of Penn State’s quickness due to leg injuries to come up and p e nn State. Penn State, brings out the best in McLean would get the call. Against South the Lions their share of problems. performance against Miami). We have a good compensate.’ __ others. It’s a heckuva honorforany team to beat Carolina, McLean churned his way to 97 yards, “Last week’s loss was a tough football game,” offensive line and running backs and our And in order to notch a win against Penn State, them because , they, such a great 90 of which came in the second half. • Rein said. “Iwas fairly pleased with our con- quarterback is good at the option. We must be the Wolfpack must iron out their defensive woes. reputation.” Matt Millen: Matt Millen looks ahead as though he is pondering his future in football. Millen is suffering from a back injury and should he never play football again, he wants to be remembered as “somebody who liked to play hard and enjoyed it” not as “the guy that jumps around like an idiot.” rode to the Medical Center with Bruce Clark, who undergoes surgery tomorrow for a torn cruciate ligament in his right knee, and also got a chance to visit a friend named Matt Millen, who is being examined for a back injury. “Matt’s progress is coming along,” Gladys said. “His spirits are good. I think Bruce was a little scared because it’s the first time he’s been to a hospital.. “When it (my injury) happened, I* thought,‘When things go bad...’” Gladys never did finish his sentence but then, he didn’t have to, because there seems to be no end to the injuries, either. In fact, the. backup defensive end, Ken Kelley, is alsp out of action because of a separated shoulder*.,, -.. Among all the sub tractions,, they’ll be a re-addition this week. , c “I’ll probably play Booker (Moore) some this week,” Pa,ternp said. “I think the point was made. It doesn’t'do any good to try to crucify him. I was pleased wijh the way he handled himself during the incident.” Paterno also Has to be pleased with the way his battered troops have been battling back into formation. “I think the team has come closer together,” Paterno said. “They’ve realized they’re down but they want to start all over now, “They’ve looked around and found the ‘we and us’ and the people in the clutch that we’ve talked about. We’re getting the leadership up front which I think had to come. Certainly the guys are not going to quit on themselves.” As adversity runs rampant, the leadership has not only come from co captains Irv Pankey and Lance Mehl, Playing his toughest game off the field * but from more and more of the other players as well. “All of this brings out the leadership in the. other guys,” Mehl said. “The other guys are pulling together and not looking forme.” What everybody is looking for Saturday is a win but playing in Carter Stadium makes that task a dif ficult game of hide and seek. In the Lions’ last two appearances in Raleigh, none of the fans were taking an early ride home. In 1977, Scott Fitzkee’s late fourth quarter touchdown catch ended a Wolfpack scare as State edged out a 21- 17 win. In 1974, a last quarter score was not enough as it was N.C. State on the winning side of a 12-7 decision. While 1979 is a different year, it should be the same type of game. N.C. State, which has showed various defensiye looks this year, is expected to make the game tough this tjmeby choke off the Lions’ running power. “They have not been "sure what they want to do,” Paterno said. “I think they’ll challenge us by trying to Stop our running game with an eight-man front.” While the game’s tune may not change, look for the Lions’ offense to be singing a different song. “We tryed to be good at ‘X’ number of things before we go on to anything else,” Paterno said. “I might not have changed much, but maybe we could have thrown the ball more on early downs against Miami. “We need some things that will get us an easy touchdown. We’ll have to take some chances with our execution. We can’t win this game without getting a lot of points.” Photo byChlpConm Fullback MhttSuhey, Penn State’s leading ground gainer, might have a hard time adding on to his 753 yards. Lion coach Joe Paterno is expecting North Carolina State to try to stop State’s ground attack with an eight-man front at 1 p.m. Saturday at N.C. State. l.n If the Lions do get a lot of points offensive tackle, volunteered to return to Saturday, it will not be without a lot of his original defensive tackle position to moves, including some made in the replace Millen. secondary which is still trying to soothe “It was really no big deal,” Kugler .the burn marks left by Jim Kelly and said. “I was sitting around and talking to Miami. some guys on the team Monday night ' According to a team source, Grover and one suggested that I switch. I felt Edwards will start at safety with good about it because I know with the Giuseppe Harris pushed over to Tom depth we have on offense it wouldn’t Wise’s corner spot and Mickey .Urquhart hurt.” remaining at the other-defensive back Elsewhere in Penn State’s revolving slot. door, Bill Dugan will sta'rt at Kugler’s On what was once the fearsome front .* offensive tackle spot, Joel Coles will five, Pete Kugler, the former starting remain at tailback, Curt Warner, who By JON SARACENO Daily Collegian Sports Writer Going into the game without your coach is like going into a battle without the general. I really can’t explain it, but something was missing. Although it’s certainly been said many times before, Matt Millen’s analogy, rings true. Penn State played without its MacArthur that Oct. 15, 1977, afternoon when coach Joe Paterno missed his only game as head coach of Penn State. Paternols son, David, laydn a hospital bed in serious condition with a fractured skull after falling off a trampoline the night before the Lions’ battle with Syracuse. Something was missing. Two years later, while Miami gives Penn State a lesson ini humility, there is that same pit-in-the-stomach feeling on the Penh State sidelines. Something is missing. Matt Millen. That all too familiar No. 60 (at least to quarterbacks) is not at his normal tackle position. Nor is Millen among a blue sea of wrapped bodies huddled like monks on the sidelines; Millen lays in a Hershey Medical Center bed, in too much pain to play. He awaits testing to determine the extent of a back injury, something which could end a potentially promising career in the pros. “I really don’t care about the money or anything, I just wanna play because you can only play this game for so long,” Millen quietly says. “It’s fun. SOme people like to draw, some people like to sing or play an instrument I like to play football.” “But if I can’t play (anymore), then I can’t play,” Millen says without flin ching. “I’ll do something else; football’s not the end of world.” Matt and his girlfriend Patricia listen to the.radio as the Lions lose, whileat the same time watching the Pittsburgh- Syracuse game on television. It may not be the end of the world to him, but football and Matt Millen have a love affair. Make that a marriage. It’s Thursday night, shortly after midnight; less than 13 hours before the Lions play Miami. Teammates Dayle Tate, Steve Stupar, Curt Warner and Keith Brown, among other friends, have left Millen’s dormitory cubicle. They have just finished praying. ‘'l keep that part of me private, people are too critical,” Millen says of his weekly prayer sessions. Millen’s eyelids are heavy. His face, contorted with pain, has almost a strangely boyish appearance. Strange because the last thing anyone thinks of is boyish when the name Matt Millen is mentioned. Boyish is a term reserved for those blond-haired, blue-eyed quar terbacks raised in the suburbs on a steady diet of Wheaties not snorting defensive tackles from Hockendauqua with sledgehammer forearms who learn to fight off 10 brothers and sisters at the dinner table, as Millen did. “It takes me about 10 minutes to get to this position,” Millen says, sitting upright at the edge of his bed. “And then to get to my feet is another 10 minutes, maybe. The first five minutes of walking in the morning ...” Millen’s voice trails off, never finishing the sentence, refusing to complain. He will not play against Miami after playing in all 43 games since coming here as a freshman in 1976. In fact, Millen says, he has not been absent for a practice nor missed a day weightlifting in seven years. . “I miss playing, ” he says. “You see them out there and you know what you can do. But. I can’t do it, I can’t even Lio v Paterno says will be “dalii near 100 percent” Saturday, should "see action, Tracy Hall will replace Donovan, Hon Walchack will fill in for Gladys, and while Paterno did not name a replacement for Clark, he did say Rich D’Amico will see some time at the middle guard position. As the world turns in University Park, is there a happy ending in sight? “We don’t even think 1 'about' the bowls,” Kugler said. “We have enough to worry about just winning our. next, three games.” ijr Thursday, Nov. 8 8 stand up. People look at'you like, ‘Who’s he trying to kid?’ How jn the heck can. you play a game if you can’t even walk?” Thinking out loud fbr a fleeting , moment Millen. utters, “I’m like a cripple!” But just as quickly Millen perks up and: ponders his„fate, which seems to have taken a cruel twist. “Don’t worry about tomorrow, worry ; about today,” is his philosophy on life? “This is being done for a purpose. It’s'** not in m'y hands, it’s not in Joe’s (Paterno) hands. God does it for aj reason. He never does anything you: can’t handle. ' " 1 ; ' “Maybe he wants me to walk hunched, over for the rest of my life maybe he-. does, who knows? If he does, that’s what ■ I’ll do. There isn’t much I can do aboujt!i it. Except it hurts.” ' 's!! That hurt, the one- that travels up ! Millen’s legs from his back, has beep! ' gnawing away at him like Chinese wate|; torture since the Thursday before the| ; ; Nebraska game. But the real hurt festered inside of Millen long before* - that, a hurt no doctor could diagnose oc ! probe, let alone a'dminister to. ' ;i; “Yeah, it had an effect on me,” he ; says of Pa ter no's decision to strip his co-’ captaincy away for initially refusing ta complete required running drills. wasn’t a real leader like I should have: ft. been out on the ( field. I felt inhibited. 1-1 guess the title wasn’t there. : v; “I still knew gpys looked,up to me .’.ilf. and I knew I should have been providing! : some leadership, yelling at them to do something here qt; something there, !li ? just couldn’t do it.” ; ‘‘But, I don’t thjnk leadership was a; problem like a lot of people say it was.j’7 Guidance maybe, some guys maybe;; needed some guidance.” . Continued on Page t»J HOW DO YOU SPELL PENN STATE?? L—A—V—l—E ORDER YOUR COPY TODAY! I ■ u • Orders are being Cost is $15.00! taken in 206 HUB Order now before , ■ and during early the price increases to $17:00 registration at Shields! 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Since then, however, Millen has smoothed over his ruffled feathers with Paterno. The two talked for more than one hour on the bus ride back from the Syracuse game because, as Millen says, “The time was right, so we talked. I’ve had a better relationship (with Paterno) since. I talk to him air the time now,” he says, only half-joking. Oct. 11,1976 The Lions are reeling, having lost three straight to Ohio State, Kentucky, and lowa. Coach Paterno decides enough is enough against patsie Army. Disenchanted with his some of his seniors, Paterno gives a pair of young linebackers named Millen and Clark their chance. Both make their presence felt, with Millen intercepting a pass. They will go on to become the most feared defensive tandem in Penn State football history. " Grimmacing, Millen reaches for a glass of water. He remembers the Houston game of his sophomore year most vividly as the last, yes - last, satisfying game he’s played for Penn State, making life miserable for Cougar quarterbaclspanny Davis? “I haven’t played well because I’ve made too many mistakes. I could have done a lot better, but I didn’t. This year I did so bad. This is my worst year ever.” It may indeed be his least productive year, but his previous accomplishments are all there on page 85 of-the Penn State press guide, as is Milleri’s menacing mug shot. by Betsy Overly “First team All-American selection by. 'I haven't played well because I've made too many mistakes. / could have done a lot better, but / didn't... This is my worst year ever. ' United Press International and the Walter Camp Foundation last year ... was one of four finalists for the Lom bardi Award, which was won by Clark... captain of the football, track . and weightlifting teams at Whitehall High... played’ fullback, tailback, tight end, defensive end and linebacker in high school... majoring in marketing in the College of Business Administration...” After all the accolades, how would Matt Millen like to be remembered? ‘‘Somebody who liked to play hard and enjoyed it. I’ll tell you what Idon’t want to be remembered as being, .the guy who used to jump aroynd. I hate that. ‘Ob -yeah, you’re, Jhe ‘guy that jumps around like an idiot out there.’ I hate that.” ..vi •''' ' .. Oct., 21, 1977 Linebacker Mickey Urquhart blocks a Syracuse punt in the second quarter of the Lions’ 45-15 romp. A charitable Bruce Clark waits for Urquhart to fall on the ball for a touchdown, but instead a player Clark called "Old Thundermouth” after the game gets credit for the touchdown Matt Millen. It’s more than one year later, Penn State is not undefeated. In fact, Penn State can’t get out of its own way. Paterno doesn’t have visions of Oranges, Sugar or Cotton dancing in his head. Adversity, a trait Paterno feels is the backbone of every good team, has become the trademark of a team riding a downhill rollercoaster since August. Have players attitudes’ changed? Are the Booker Moores, Ksrl itfCCoys and Dave Paffenroths any different from the Lenny Moores, Steve Smears and Jimmy Cefalos? •' “I can’t see where it would be that different,” Millen says. “I’ve talked to some of . the guys who come back and they tell me what they used to do. You do that now and holy smokes! We’ve gotten k lot more big-time. The big-time ap proach puts you more in the limelight than ever. Anything that happens is going to be brought out even more. “The bad is brought out because the image we have is that we’re so good.” Ah, the grand ol’ image of glorious Penn State, a school which dabbles in just enough athletics to keep its scholar athletes well-rounded. Is it just an image? “I think Joe practices what he The Daity Collegian .Thursday, Nov. 8,1979—9 preaches. He’s really sincere in what he says—and I doubted.” True, Paterno’s integrity, principles and unceasing idealism can hardly be knocked. But big-time football critics claim the sport, complete with self destructing pressure, cannot be realistically and successfully meshed with the entire college experience. “That’s a joke," scoffs Millen. “Nah, it’s not too much. That pressure of winning, I think, is a bunch of bull. Maybe (it’s) because their (players) interests are different from what Joe wants. I see a different thing going on with the younger guys coming in. Maybe the-guys think that they’re here in college to play football and go to school. “But they’re here to have a good time, they don’t particularly care what the rules say; they’re just gonna have a good time. You can’t do that. You can play big-time football and do it the right way Joe’s way whether it’s right or wrong. You chose to come here and be under him, and those are his rules. That’s what you have to do. I think it can be done.” Millen breathes like his next breath will be his last, each one a conscious gasp for air. He’s more closed-mouth about his draft prospects than a CIA agent. He is, as his philosophy dictates, thinking about today, not tomorrow. “I still would have liked to done more. There’s still things to finish. Who knows, maybe I will play again this year. 1 doubt it very much, but ... I wanna Play/’ M //Mi w. jiibii 11l w
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