the daily collegian Moore's gallop sparks Lion comeback By TOM VERDUCCI Daily Collegian Sports Writer COLLEGE PARK, Md. Even if Booker Moore was the only one listening to Joe Paterno's halftime talk Saturday, the coach's words were well spent. "At halftime we said, 'We've gotta get a big play,' Paterno•said. "You don't beat Maryland without a big play. You gotta get the big play with a pass or when everybody's coming you gotta find a crack and split it." So the first time Moore got his hands on the ball in the third quarter, he hauled it 55 yards for a touchdown, wiped out a 10-3 deficit and provided the boost Penn State ( 4-1) needed. to defeat Maryland (3-3), 24-10, in College Park,,Md. All that in one simple slant play. Losing coach Jerry Claiborne called it "the biggest play in the football game." For Moore, it was the biggest chunk of his 98 yards on the day in just 10 car ries and the biggest reason for winn ing TCS player of the game honors. "On that play,','. Moore said, "we had worked them outside with the pitch all day and we ran one up the middle and .I cut it back. They overpursued and I just tried to outrun them to the end zone." And for Penn State, it was yet another win over Maryland, which has beaten the Lions just once since 1917 and not at all since 1961. The Terps played like they hadn't read their history books, however, and actual ly had a chance at winning in front of a Byrd Stadium crowd of 48,123. "We knew if they played their best game they could beat us," Lion defen sive tackle Frank Case said. "I think we weren't quite ready. We were hoping our name would shut them up. They lost 27, 28 in a row (actually 17) so we were hop ing that would take over but obviously it didn't." The two teams went into the locker room at haltime tied 3-3, but the Terps led irr first downs (10-5), passing yards (87-41) and total yards (161-116). And less than five minutes into the third quarter, Maryland led on the scoreboard Penn State quarterback Todd Blackledge hurtles through the Maryland defensive line for a short gain in the Lions' 24-10 victory over Maryland on Saturday. BlaCkledge ran six times for 17 yards and completed five of eight passes for 63 yards and one touchdown. on a Charlie Wysocki 5-yard touchdown run. "When we fell behind," Lion defensive tackle Pete Kugler said, "I don't think anybody wanted to be the first team to lose to Maryland in 19 years. I guess it kept us going. That would have been a bad feeling." After Moore's touchdown, the Lions put together a 48-yard, 10-play scoring drive on their next possession, capped by a five-yard strike from Todd Blackledge to Kenny Jackson in the front corner of the end zone.Blackledge drilled the ball between Terps Ralph Lary and Steve Trimble. "I read the guy underneath me," Jackson said, "and I didn't have that much room in the end zone so I just took off on an out and Todd had a strong enough arm to get it too me." The drive was kept alive by an in terference penalty against Maryland linebacker Joe Wilkins on a third-and three play, from the Terp 16. The flag was one of eight thrown against Maryland as the referees three from the Atlantic Coast Conference And three in dependents walked off 96 yards against the Terps. ' "You can't give that many penalties to Penn State," Maryland defensive guard Marlin Van Horn said. "I want to look at the films. I don't belive half of those in terference calls. "To drive the whole length of the field against us just doesn't happen unless you give them penalties. If you've gotta go 60 yards you don't score against us. I don't care who it is." Wysocki, who slashed his way to 135 yards on 29 carries, said, "We had some penalties; some of them we shouldn't have had. The referees were too quick to call them." Maryland put together a drive of their own to try to tie the game,, as Wysocki's running and Mike Tice's passing (10-of-18 for 117 yards) brought the Terps from their own 24 to the Penn State 42. But on a third-and-seven play, Lion its linebacker Chet Parlavecchio stepped in front of a Tice pass and rumbled 37 yards with it to the Maryland 34. To Paterno, that was "the big play of the game." "It was a curl to the flanker we've been working on all week," Parlavec chio said. "I was hanging inside and as he came across I kept an eye on him. As he broke, I broke, and the ball was right there." Joel Coles and Mike Meade alternated carrying the ball down to the six, where on third-and-goal, freshman Jon Williams, who threw 21 touchdown passes as a high school quarterback, lofted a less-than-artistic pass to a wide open Meade in the end zone. "I didn't know if it was ever going to come down," Paterno said. "We tell Williams, 'lf he's open donl overthrow him.' You're sure not going to overthrow him with a one-handed jump shot." That was it for the scoring, and that was it for Maryland. Van Horn, a fifth year senior and one of 20 Pennsylva nians on the Maryland roster, saw the Terps fall once more to the Lions, but refused to say he was frustrated. "You don't lose to Penn State, you beat yourselves," Van Horn said. "That's what happened today. I was completely confident. We were down two touchdowns and I was still confident. We were moving the ball. I hadn't given up to the last whistle. "This year we were confident to the point where we were gonna stay calm. We weren't gonna get too juiced." Maybe not, but thanks to Penn State, they were fresh-squeezed again. NITTANY LINES i Herb Menhardt hit a 44-yard field goal and tied a school record for consecutive successful extra points (43) but missed a 33-yard field goal. . . .Ralph Giacomarro punted three times for a 4 6 .6-yard average. . . .Case twisted a knee and Leo Wisniewski suffered a slight concus sion. . . .Curt Warner ran for 100 yards on 22 carries. Statistics on Page 9 . . . . . ... .. , . : ~ ~ :, ,pr ~..:.;...,..„„ t.w.40....„5,,,,,".":, ~ ,: er ...i k ...:,,,f...,. ... •:..... .. n ,1 ... , o , . m ar •an .. ir By DENISE BACHMAN Daily Collegian Sports Writer COLLEGE PARK, Md. Maryland coach Jerry Claiborne is still able to say he has a perfect record against Joe Paterno and Penn State. • But it isn't .a record anybody would want to brag about. After Saturday's 24-10 Terrapin loss to the Lions, Claiborne owns a perfect 0-8 mark against Penn State. According to Claiborne and the Ter rapins, their fate was determined on the first play of the game when Maryland suffered one of its eight penalties in the game. Terp quarterback Mike Tice was called for intentionally grounding the ball and was tagged with a 17-yard penalty. Alltotal, Maryland was penaliz ed eight times for 96 yards. "I'd like to have a couple of those penalties, back," Claiborne said. "Penalties hurt our opportunities quite a few times. "It seemed like every time we got a good play or made a good defensive play to stop their drive, we'd pop up with a penalty." The Terrapins agreed with their coach Penn State didn't hurt the Terps as much as they hurt themselves. "They ( the Lions) weren't well drilled," Terp defensive tackle Ed Gall said. "Technically, they were not as good as in other years. They just had a fumble and pass interception go their way." A half is By TOM VERDUCCI Daily Collegian Sports Writer COLLEGE PARK, Md. Penn State's version of Jekyll-and-Hyde football may be entertaining, but as Joe Paterno learned, it can be scary, too. . . The pons once again had to undergo a personality change from a, bumbling, fumbling team to a dominating one in order to register a come-from behind victory. This one was a 24-10 comeback over Maryland on Saturday in College Park, Md. "The first half we played tough but we were erratic," Paterno said. "Maryland comes with eight guys all the time and you better be organized, cohesive, and you better be able to throw the ball. But if you can't do that, you're in for a long afternoon." If the Lions had kept up their first-half antics throughout the game, it could have been a marathon of an afternoon. Penn State fumbled three times, lost one of them, and added an interception' for, good measure. Herb Menhardt's 44-yard field goal averted a total waste of the half and salvaged a 3-3 tie at intermission. "It gets frustrating for guys;" guard Se . an Farrell said, "when they think they're doing a pretty good job and we're giving things away. The offensive line was getting a little ticked off " The troubles spread to the defense. Maryland ran up 74 yards rushing in the first half and completed 7-of-11 passes for 87 more yards. Lion linebacker Chet Parlavecchio (94) returns his interception of Terp quarterback Mike Tice's pass 37 yards in Penn State's 24-10 win over Maryland on Saturday in College Park. Tice, who didn't find himself glued to the ground Saturday like he did last year, echoed Gall's comments. "Everybody thought they were a good ballclub," Tice said, "but they were no Pittsburgh, and they were no . Carolina. "They didn't move the ball real well until they got that one drive (80-yard touchdown drive). And I was only pressured twice once on (Paul Lankford's) interception and when I didn't hit Eric (Sievers) over the middle before halftime." Going into the locker room at halftime, the Terrapins were overflowing with confidence partly because they found themselves even with the Lions on the scoreboard, 3-3, and partly because they felt they should have been on top at least 6-3, if not 10-3. Maryland thought it short-changed itself once in the first half when Penn State's strong goal-line stand on first and-goal from the three forced the Ter rapins to settle for an 18-yard field goal. "I think I should've scored," said Terp tailback Charlie Wysocki of his three scoring attempts. "I read the block wrong. I went up inside, and I should've taken it outside. "But we were moving the ball on them pretty good. I could run the ball on their defense." Claiborne cited another scoring oppor tunity the Terrapins didn't take advan tage of. "Right before the half, we had ex- enough for a whole win "In the first half we gave them the impetus," linebacker Chet Parlavecchio said. "We let them come at us.. We really underestimated them a lot and they woke us up quick." Yet the Lions were even more bleary-eyed to start the third quarter. Freshman quarterback Todd Blackledge kept the ball on an option run but not long enough. Before he hit the ground the ball popped loose and the Terps' Brad Senft recovered on the Maryland 41. Eight plays later, Maryland's Charlie Wysocki pun ched the ball over from the fiye for a 10-3 Terp lead. That's when the Byrd Stadium crowd went wild, and so did Penn State. The Lions scored a touchdown on each of their next three possessions and for all intents and purpoSes, the party and the game were over. As Missour° found out last week, Maryland learned that the Lions can be as good as they are bad in a mat ter of minutes. That's something Penn State has come to expect, which is why no one seemed to panic. "We weren't surprised at halftime," tailback Curt Warner said. "We were killing oursleves. The offense knew if we kept the ball we would score." Freshman wide-out Kenny Jackson said, "We know when we can beat somebody. You can just feel it in the locker room within the guys. We never really get off to cellent field position on the pass," Claiborne said, "but then we had offen sive interference. That really hurt us because we had a chance of going in ahead." While the offense was optimistic about the second half, the defense was equally optimistic about holding the Lions' offense. "We played the first half real in tense," Gall said. "At halftime I felt for sure we would just take it to them. Their offensive linemen had started to lean down a bit." Safety Ralph Lary said, "The first half I thought we were playing good, and if we could hold them in the second half, I knew we could win." But the Terps' first-half confidence didn't begin to compare to the con fidence they felt the first time they got the ball in the second half. After they went up 10-3, the entire bench emptied in excitement. "When we went ahead," Maryland defensive guard. Greg Vanderhout said, "it was a different feeling. Against them it was something new to us." Wysocki said, "Coach (Claiborne) just told us to be relaxed because when you're tense, mistakes happen. We just went out to play our game." But Penn State didn't give the Ter rapins a chance to play their game, countering with a 55-yard Booker Moore touchdown run eight plays after taking the Maryland kickoff. "That was the biggest play of the foot ball game," Claiborne said. "It brought them back into the ballgame and turned the momentum around. "Our secondary overran him. They cut us off in our defense, and our halfback cut back behind him. Bit again, somebody our linebacker or secondary man should've made the tackle." The touchdown didn't cause the Ter rapins to push the panic button, however, but it did deflate them. "When something happens that ib quick," Wysocki said, "it takes something out of you. One play can do it. "Since they scored to tie it up, they had a little more momentum going. We were just worried about the ballgame and getting another score." Lary said,' "We kind of messed up 'a couple of assignments in the second half. Like that one long run you just can't do that." The Terrapins didn't score again, and before they realized it, they were behind by 14 points. Still, defeat didn't enter their minds.° "Everybody felt good the whole fourth quarter," Tice said. "I felt good the whole game. Sure, I was taking a beating, but when you feel confident, you really don't feel the beating too much. "Even when we were down 24-10 with three minutes left to go, we thought we could come back and win." a good start fumbles and things like that but once the second half starts we get a little more composure, we relax and just go down the field." The defense has also been a second-half unit; havilig, allowed just 20 second-half points this year. Paterno said he thinks the pattern could be attributed to inexperience "What happened in the second half is an indication of how young we are," Paterno said. "We do have great potential but we are hurting ourselves. Young teams are going to make mistakes. It's tough to get them to concentrate for 60 minutes." But while playing like cardiac kids has been suc cessful, the Lions realize that someday an attack may be too severe to recover from. , "We can't keep coming out not ready to play in The first quarter," fullback Booker Moore said, "and come from behind to beat the type of teams that we've got to play." tpl "It's a big win." Farrell said, "but I definitely agree with Joe that we're a fair team. We're not really a great team or even that good a team because we're on ly a second half team. We can only play one half well. "That's what we did at Missouri and that's what:We did here. I'm hoping we can knock that ,stuff off and play two halves and see what kind of team we realty are." 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