—The Daily Collegian Monday, August 18,1980
Three players vie for starting quarterback
ByPAULBOYNTON
Daily Collegian Sports Writer
The competition is keen, the
similarities are many and the dif
ferences are few.
The starting quarterback for Penn
State will be Frank Rocco, Jeff Hostetler
or Todd Blackledge. All three athletes
have similar physical builds big and
strong. All three have average speed but
have no hesitation to run with the
football. And all three players can throw
well.
As pre-season practice opens today,
none of the three candidates for center
stage have a clear-cut advantage over
the others, according to the director,
head coach Joe Paterno. The starter will
be decided in the two-a-day drills over
the next two weeks.
The quarterback will be the key for the
offense that needs to establish con
sistency in the early part of the season.
The Nittany Lions were hampered by an
inconsistent offense last year during a
disappointing 8-4 season. -
Starting quarterback from last year,
Dayle Tate, decided not return to the
team after suffering a broken jaw in
spring practice. Tate’s career at Penn
State was marred by various injuries.
The offense could be the key to a
successful 1980 season. The defense is
expected to be solid.
Rocco, a sophomore, could have a
slight advantage over sophomore
Hostetler and freshmen redshirt
Blackledge because of more playing
experience. But Rocco’s sparse playing
time does not give him that much, if any,
advantage over his competitors. Rocco
started in the Liberty Bowl win over
Tulane last year and also played ex
tensively in a win over Temple.
Rocco, 6 feet 3 inches tall and 204
pounds, said mental' toughness and
consistency will be the determining
factors on who will be the starter.
“Everybody makes mistakes,” Rocco
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five good things in return. A guy like that
will start in any position.”
Rocco said there are no hard feelings
between himself and his competitors. He
said they work together and the com
petition has made them all better
players.
Hostetler, 6 feet 2Vz inches tall and 212
pounds, said he thinks Paternohas made
a decision as to who the starter will be
and merely wants to make sure of that
decision during the pre-season.
* “He seems to respond to pressure,”
Paterno said of Hostetler. “He has great
all-around athletic ability with a big
league arm.”
Blackledge, 6 feet 3'/2 inches tall and
214 pounds, said the athlete who takes
charge and wins the leadership will be
the starter.
“We had no strong leader oh offense
last year,” Blackledge said. “We had
nothing to rally around. That’s what we
need.”
Sophomore tailback Curt Warner,
expected to be a starter in the backfield
along with fullback Booker Moore, said
the team needs a quarterback to take
charge.
Center Bob Jagers, an offensive
captain, said he has confidence in all
three quarterbacks. He said offensive
leadership in the early part of the season
will have to come from experienced
players.
The Nittany Lions have the capability
to be a fine offensive squad. The running
attack should be potent with Warner,
who showed glimpses of greatness last
year as a freshmen, and Moore, a senior
who is the 11th leading rusher in Penn
State history with 1,365 yards, running
behind an experienced line. The depth at
quarterback will allow whoever is
playing the position to run also. .
The solid running attack will open up
the passing game, according to
Hostetler.
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Jeff Hostetler is one of three players competing for the starting quarterback
position at Penn State. When pre-season practice opened today there was no
indication fropi head coach Joe Paterno who the starter will be. Frank Rocco
and Todd Blackledge are the other players looking for the opportunity to lead
the Nittany Lions into the 1980 season.
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NEW YORK (AP) Garry Maddox
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Phillies swept a doubleheader yesterday
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Steve Carlton posting his 19th victory in
the opener.
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Randy Lerch, 4-13, with relief help
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Maddox put the Phillies in front 2-1 in
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Pirates 5,2 Expos 0,4
PITTSBURGH (AP) Rodney Scott
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Orioles 1, Yankees 0
BALTIMORE (AP) Terry Crowley
doubled home the only run in the sixth
inning and Scott McGregor pitched a six
hitter as the Baltimore Orioles defeated
the New York Yankees 1-0 yesterday.
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Stabler hit tight end Rich Caster with
two of his touchdown aerials and went to
Billy Johnson for the third.
While with Oakland last season,
Stabler riddled the Saints in a nationally
televised game last year. He showed
them yesterday that he had not lost his
touch since being traded to Houston.
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Tampa Bay last week. But he was much
more deadly against the Saints, com
pleting 18 of 28 passes for 217 yards.
The Saints scored twice in the fourth
quarter to. cut Houston’s lead to the
three-point final margin.
In Saturday’s games, Dallas defeated
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Diego 17-14, St. Louis turned back
Tampa Bay 21-14, Detroit downed
Buffalo 24-17, New York nosed out
Denver 9-6 and Baltimore trimmed
Green Bay 17-3.
Monday night’s games are
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Kansas City and Miami at Seattle.
Dallas’ Danny White pitched a pair of
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Cliff Branch caught a pair of touch
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Dan Pastorini and 21 yards from Jim
Plunkett, but it was rookie Marc
Wilson’s fourth-down, 17-yard scoring
strike to running back Terry Robiske
with nine seconds to play that gave the
Raiders their victory over the Patriots.
Jack Thompson’s pair of touchdown
passes, a 44-yarder to Steve Kreider and
a 1-yard flip to Dan Ross, gave , the
Bengals their triumph over Chicago,
while Steve Deßerg and Joe Montana
each tossed one TD pass in the 49ers’
victory over San Diego.
St. Louis overcame fumbles on its first
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lead to beat the Buccaneers, getting the
winning touchdown with 6:14 to play on
Rod Phillips’ 1-yard dive. The Cards tied
it on Mark Bell’s sensational 70-yard
punt return.
Detroit quarterback Gary Danielson
ran 1 yard for one touchdown and passed
46 yards to Ulysses Norris in Detroit’s
victory over the Bills, while Joe Danelo’s
third field goal of the game, a 24-yarder
with three seconds remaining, carried
the Giants past Denver.
Joe Washington’s 73 yards rushing, 18
on a touchdown play, and rookie Curtis
Dickey’s 72 yards on the ground helped
Baltimore beat the Packers.
Strange calmly takes
Westchester Classic
HARRISON, N.Y. (AP) Curtis
Strange, unflinching in the face of
pressure applied by golf’s most
dangerous performer, turned back
Tom Watson with a solid, 2-under-par
69 and scored a 2-stroke victory
yesterday in the Westchester Classic.
Strange, 25, acquired his second
title of the season and third in less
than 12 months with a 273 total, 11
shots under par on the hilly, 6,603
yard Westchester Country Club
course.
The victory was worth $72,000 from
the total purse of $400,000 and
stamped Strange as one of the
brightest young players on the PGA
Tour. It was his fifth consecutive top
-10 finish and pushed his winnings to
$263,025 for the year, third behind
Watson and Lee Trevino.
Strange, the 1974 national
collegiate champ from Wake Forest,
scored his first pro victory last fall in
Pensacola and won the Houston Open
this year in a playoff against Trevino.
Trevino didn’t play in this one, but
Strange had to contend with golf’s
biggest winner, the formidable
Watson who has won five times in the
United States this year.
They started the mild, sunny day in
a tie for second and, with eighth holes
to go, Strange led Watson by one.
But Watson, who has had some
difficulties with his driver all week,
promptly took himself out of it. The
British Open champion made a bogey
on the 11th hole, drove into tree
trouble on the 12th, had to play out,
was short in three and eventually
made a double bogey-6.
That gave Strange the breathing
room he needed and he brought it
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home without major difficulty,
avoiding potential trouble with an 8-
foot par-saving putt on the 16th.
Veteran Gibby Gilbert came on to
takesecond with a no-bogey 69 and a
275 total. The journeyman Gilbert
won $43,200 and reached the $lOO,OOO
level for the first time in his 13-year
career.
Phil Hancock was third at 276 after
a 69.
Watson birdied the final hole, after
the national television cameras had
ended their coverage for the day, and
finished with a 73.
He was tied for fourth at 277 with
Mike Reid and George Cadle, the
third round leader. Reid had a 69 and
Cadle a 74.
Watson picked up $16,533 and
pushed his leading money-winning
total to $410,258. He also reduced his
stroke average for the year to 70.07
and again moved in front of the ab
sent Trevino in the race for the
Vardon Trophy, which goes to the
man with the low stroke average on
the tour. Watson, who has won the
prestigious title the last three
seasons, came into this tournament
with a 70.11 average, behind Trevino,
who remains at 70.09.
Mark Lye, Australian David
Graham, Mike Sullivan and Rogr
Maltbie tied at 278. Lye shot a closing
68, Graham 69, Sullivan 70 and
Maltbie 71.
Cadle, leading by one when the
day’s play started, went three over
par on the first four holes and really
wasn’t a factor in the title chase
again.
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