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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.
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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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