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Blue-blood fans
should learn
to see Red
Penn State football fans are so loyal
they probably bleed blue. But something
must have choked off their blue blood
• supply to the larynx region.
Penn State football fans are too quiet.
' They sit stoically as if they were at an
opera.
No, it's worse than that. Even Pavarot
ti gets an occasional standing ovation
and a few "bravos."
Surely there must be' another place
where so many people can gather in the
face of so much excitement, yet remain
so unenthusiastic. There must be, but
none come to mind.
Penn State football fans are a breed
apart. Call them Homo quietus if you
like. The species comes in two varieties:
The wild, savage type characterized by a
:fetish to throw objects and to leave the
stadium early; and the domesticated,
'older type characterized by a sleepy
:disposition.
They're certainly not on the endan
:gered list 84,000 show up on Saturdays
:at Beaver Stadium but they are only •
seen, not heard.
With so many fans, Beaver Stadium
:should quake. But it doesn't even quiver.
"I don't want to put the rap on our
'fans," says sports promotion director
Fran Fisher, "but our stadium has been
•
a quiet place."
Barry Jones, assistant in athletics,
describes the Penn State fans as "sub
dued. It takes a bomb under the stadium
to get them out of their seats."
Football coach and Athletic Director
Joe Paterno steers clear of controversy
when he says, "Our fans our fine. They
might not he as enthusiastic as Nebras
ka's, but that might be a unique place."
• But Joe, wouldn't you at least like them
'to be a little louder?
"Well, you know, we all like some
things to be different."
Beaver Stadium is the fourth-largest
stadium on a college campus in this
country. Yet many stadiums are much
louder.
Carter-Finlay Stadium at North Caroli
na State seats just 45,600. I was there in
1979 for the Penn State-N.C. State game,
and those people were twice as loud as
the Beaver Stadium fans.
The 66,000 fans at Texas A&M's Kyle
Field stand and cheer the entire game.
The 76,000 at Missouri's Faurot Field can
be deafening. And the 73,000 ac Nebras
ka's Memorial Stadium shake the ground
underneath your feet.
Penn State fans can learn a lot from
the Cornhusker fans.
Lesson No.l is dress for the game. If
you don't wear the red and white colors
of Nebraska, you may find yourself
wearing the black and blue of pain.
"Some people at Nebraska would not
even think of coming out to the stadium
without their red overalls," Fisher says.
"Here, the color has not caught on. I've
looked. We don't•have that."
Maybe blue is not as vibrant a color as
red, but in bunches, it is impressive. The
gathering of Penn State fans at Nebraska
proved that.
Lion fans should also learn something
from Nebraska's "Go Big Red" cheer.
To hear 73,000 people yell that in unison
was thrilling. Why can't the 84,000 at
Beaver Stadium all cheer at the same
time?
That's what the cheerleaders want to
find out.
"We're trying to do it," says the Nitta
ny Lion mascot, Roy Scott. "We want
everyone to do the 'We are. . .Penn State'
cheer. We tried it the past game for the
first time. It can catch on.
"We tried it before in past years. It
never caught on, though."
The most important lesson Penn
Staters can learn from Nebraskans, how
ever, is general vociferousness. I mean
loudness. Madness. Mayhem.
The Penn State students often create
some hysteria, but the alumni and gener
al public just don't want to cheer for
some reason.
"Certain fans," Fisher says, "get up
set if the guy in front of them gets up and
starts yelling or waving a shaker. They
don't respond to the cheerleaders, who
are trying to be helpful.
"Historically, it has been a very quiet
stadium. It's not something I can put my
finger on."
Jones offers his theory.
"There's just an aura of the Eastern
football fan that he's supposed to be so
sophisticated," he says. "Cheering is
childish and sophomoric. It's not cool to
cheer. You're supposed to sit there and
he sophisticated."
Scott says many fans treat the game as
a social event.
"They come to meet all their friends,"
Scott says. "They're interested in the
game, but it's not really the main focal
point of everything. Some just watch the
game for what it's worth.
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MONTREAL (AP) -- Montreal
manager Jim Fanning said patience at
the plate was the key to his
opening-game victory over the
Philadelphia Phillies in the National
League East Division championship
series yesterday.
Fanning, who took over ors rwtriager
Sept. 8 when Dick was fired,
said his hitters "laid off-Hies'
pitcher Steve Carlton's low breaking
pitches.
A pair of low .200 hitters -- Tim
Wallach and Chris Speier combined
for the go-ahead run in the second
inning off a stuggling Carlton as the
Expos pOsted their 2-1 triumph and
gained a 1-0 lead in the best-of-live
series. The second game will be played
tonight at Montreal
"Our players have hit against
Carlton many times, and they all
remember his stuff," Fanning said
"If they did anything to help
themselves it was laying off those
pitches on which he gets so many
strikeouts."
Fanning refused to describe the
opening-game victory as pivotal.,
"It's only one of what could be five,"
he said.
Fanning was a little upset that
Montreal didn't score more runs
"We had so many opportunities and
couldn't take advantage of them," he
said.
Fanning said he took out winner
Steve Rogers in the ninth with two
Phillies on base and two out and '
brought in reliever Jeff Ilearckm
because he thought Rogers had lost his
stuff and was having trouble with a
blister on the index finger of his
pitching hand.
Rogers agreed with his manager.
"I'm always disappointed when I
don't finish," Rogers said, "but the
quality of my pitches had vastly
diminished. I had run out of gas. And I
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Pinnies' manager Dallas Green said
Carlton just wasn't up to his top
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"He (Carlton) doesn't often get
heat," Green said. "He wasn't the
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of work in which he allowed only five
hits.
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Montreal. Moreland also homered in the second inning.
second when Wallach, a .236 hitter in
the regular season, led off with a
double to center and raced home on a
single by Speier, who hit .225 during
the-season.
Roger, who posted a 12-8 season
record, was the winner. The only run
off the Expos' right-hander was a
leadoff home run in the second inning
by catcher Moreland.
Moreland's drive on a 2-2 pitch just
eluded a desperate one-handed effort
by center fielder Andre Dawson to
A's 2,
KANSAS CITY (AP) Tony
Armas hit two singles and two
doubles to drive in both Oakland
runs, and Steve McCatty outdueled
rookie Mike Jones to give the A's a
victory over the Royals and a 2-0
lead in the American League
Western Division playoffs
yesterday.
Armas lashed a double through
the legs of third baseman George
Brett in the eighth, knocking in
Dwayne Murphy with the winning
run.
But the Oakland right fielder, who
led the A's this season with 76 TIBIs,
had to leave the game after the
eighth inning hit because of soreness
on the left side of the groin area.
McCatty, 14-7 during the season,
struck out three, walked four and
gave up only six hits to the slumping
Royals, who were 50-53 for the year,
the only sub-. 500 team in the
playoffs.
After beating the Royals 4-0 in the
opener of the best-of-5 series
Tuesday, the A's are one victory
away from meeting the Eastern
Division champion for the AL
pennant. The next three games of
the series are scheduled for
Oakland, starting tomorrow.
Jones, a rookie called up in the
second half of the season,
surrendered nine hits.
Yanks 5,
MILWAUKEE (AP) Rick
Ccrone lined a two-run double to cap
a four-run New York fourth inning,
and the Yankees rode brilliant relief
pitching by Ron Davis and Rich
Gossage over Milwaukee last night
in the first game of the AL East
Division championship series.
Davis earned the victory with 2 2-3
innings of hitless, four strike-out
relief after the Brewers had scored
their final run off Yankees starter
Ron Guidry in the fifth. Gossage
relieved Davis to start the Brewer
eighth and finished up, allowing one
single and striking, out three.
Moose Haas, who had beaten the
Yankees in five of his last six
decisions against them, was the
losing pitcher as the Yankees
shelled him for eight hits and four
runs in 3 1-3 innings.
Game Two in the best-of-five
series is scheduled for 3 this
afternoon here.
The Brewers, who won the AL
East "Second Season"
championship to earn a playoff
berth for the first time in their 12-
year history, scored single runs in
the second and third to lead 2-0. But
the Yankees quieted the County
Stadium crowd of 35,064 with their
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Montreal, in its first postseason
game in the club's 13-year history, took
a 1-0 lead in the first. Warren
Cromartie, who hit .415 after being
inserted into the leadoff spot Sept. 18,
opened the inning with a single to left.
Cromartie was forced at second by
Jerry White and Dawson struck out,
but Gary Carter drove a double off the
left field wall, scoring White, who had
stolen second.
Royals 1
He got in trouble in the first inning
when Murphy singled off the glove•of
first baseman Willie Aikens, went to
third on a double by Cliff Johnson
and scored on a double by Armas.
Johnson didn't score because he held
up to be sure the ball wasn't caught.
After Armas' run-scoring double
in the first inning, the 22-year-old
Jones ended the inning by getting
Mickey Klutts on a fly ball and
striking out Kelvin Moore.
John Wathan, who had two of
Kansas City's hits, singled with two
out in the fifth to ignite the Royals'
only rally. Washington followed with
a single to center field, sending
Wathan to second. Then Willie
Wilson slapped an RBI single to
center.
Washington went to third, and the
swift Wilson took second when
Armas failed to field the ball
cleanly. But McCatty got Frank
White to bounce out to end the
inning.
The Royals, who wasted bases
loaded opportunites twice in
Tuesday's shutout by Mike Norris,
lost another opportunity in the sixth.
Aikens drew a one-out walk, Amos
Otis struck out and Hal Mcßae
walked, but center fielder Murphy
ran down Clint Hurdle's drive at the
warning track a few feet in front of
the 410-foot sign.
Brewers 3
four-run fourth, starting with a lead
off walk to Reggie Jackson.
Oscar Gamble, who had broken an
0.-for-27 slump with a second-inning
single, belted a 1-1 pitch into the
right-center field bullpen for a two
run homer as the Yankees tied it 2-2.
Bob Watson followed with a single,
and Larry Milbourne beat out a high
bounder to shortstop Robin. Yount
for a single, as Yount, who appeared
to have a play at second, was slow
getting the ball out of his glove and
threw late to first. Cerone scored
both runners with his double to the
left-field corner, chasing Haas.
In the Yankee ninth, Jerry
Mumphrey singled, stole second and
moved to third when catcher Ted
Simmons' throw went into center
field, then scored when Yount
bobbled Jackson's two-out grounder s
for an error.
A one-out single by Yount, who
had 21 hits in his last 48 times at bat
during the regular season, a walk to
Cecil Cooper and an RBI single by
Simmons pulled the Brewers to
within 4-3 in the fifth. Davis then
relieved Guidry and stopped the
rally by striking out Gorman
Thomas and retiring Ben Oglivie on
a fly to center.
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Change a must for Beaver Stadium fans
Continued from Page 12 insult to both the school and the players
"You need a lot of people to, cheer. , And it certainly has deprived them of a
Generally, people do want to cheer, but home field advantage enjoyed by many
sometimes they're intimidated." - schools.
Whatever the reasons, Penn State fans "I'd like to see our fans go crazy,"
are not good college football fans. offensive captain Sean Farrell says.
They're horrible. They have the fourth- '"That many people could cause some "We keep beating them
something over
happens ," the head
largest stadium and the second-best havoc. They could create real problems ' and hope Jones
team in the nation. Based on the amount for the opponents. says.
of vocal support they give, they don't "I'd have to say I play much better in They can keep hammering away, too,
deserve the flower garden fields and the • front of louder crowds. It's much more and not put a dent in the Penn State fans.
coed intramural football champion. exciting." For all their efforts, the people in Rec
Some people, Paterno included, don't Says Jones, "Our home field advan- Hall can't change them. Each fan has to
even think fan support is an important tage is nil compared to a place like take the initiative himself.
issue. Nebraska or Tennessee." Appropriately, Saturday is Homecom
"l think it's making a mountain out of a Jones and other people in the athletic ing, and the theme is tradition. Penn
molehill," Paterno says. department have tried to wake up the State fans can carry on an old tradition of
But the Penn State' fans' lackluster slumbering masses. They organized an- dullness, or they can shake the doldrums
attitude needs to be changed. It is an other group of cheerleaders (Lion's Le- and start a new tradition of excitement.
Bahr set to give Steelers the boot
BEREA, Ohio (AP) The Cleveland Browns' new Browns' coach Sam Rutiligano said Monday that
place-kicker, Matt Bahr, said yesterday he'll "try. to Jacobs, who converted only four of 12 field goal at
make the best" of the opportunity that the Browns tempts in the first five games, could not cope with the
coach said kicker Dave Jacobs couldn't handle. opportunity given him when the Browns released veter-
Bahr arrived from the San Francisco area yesterday an Don Cockcroft.
afternoon and wasted no time in getting • a medical Bahr, 25, a former All-American at Penn State and the
check, picking up his new uniform and holding a news sixth-round draft choice of the Steelers in 1979, went to
conference. , San Francisco earlier this year after he was cut by the
The Browns announced the trade of an undisclosed ---- -
Steelers, who favored an even younger place-kicker,
draft choice to the San Francisco 49ers for Bahr's David Trout. The 49ers signed him to help out for four
services Tuesday. games when first-string kicker Ray Wersching was
"I'm excited to be coming back to a conference and a
injured.
division that I know," Bahr, who played two years for .
the Pittsburgh Steelers, said in a news conference at the Despite his departure from the Steelers, Bahr said, "I
Browns training camp. had two good years."
Of Sunday's Browns-Steelers game in Pittsburgh, he He said owner Art Rooney is a "class"
" individual in
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said, "The 49ers were going to play the Steelers in a class organization.
November, and I wanted it quicker. You always want to "I'm with a different organization now," Bahr said,
impress your old team and teammates." "so there are different feeling about this game. I just
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going to try my best to help the Browns.
"I was thrilled," he said of the Browns offer. "I knew
the job with San Francisco was only temporary until
Wersching was healthy "
Coming into a new situation, Bahr said, he would have
preferred to arrive "just after a player has retired."
Nevertheless, he said, "I want to make the best of it
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"The best way to make a long career is to look at it
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Pressure?
"Pressure will come from myself," Bahr said. "You
just have to keep things in perspective."
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But of the three he missed, one was blocked and the
other two were attempts from more than 40 yards.
They can sit for the opening kickoff, or
they can stand. They can shrug when the
cheerleaders start "We are. . .Penn
State," or they can join in. They can tell
the one loud person in their section to sit
down and shut up, or they can stand up
and yell themselves.
I hope they choose the more active
role. A change has to be made.
When Nebraska plays at home, Memo
rial Stadium is the third-largest city in
the state. When Penn State plays at
home, Beaver Stadium is the largest
morgue in the world.
Torn Verducci is a 10th-term journa
lism major and a sports writer for The
Daily Collegian.
Browns not wary
of Three Rivers
By 808 DVORCHAK
Associated Press Writer
PITTSBURGH (AP) Three Riv
ers Stadium has been a house of
horrors for the Cleveland Browns,
who have never' emerged a winner
since it opened 11 years ago.
But coach Sam Rutigliano dispels
any notions that the home of the
Pittsburgh Steelers carries a hex or
is inhabited by evil spirits or hobgob
lins bent on spooking his team.
"The only problem we've had in
Pittsburgh is that we just didn't
score more points than they did,"
Rutigliano said yesterday via tele
phone hookup. "It had nothing to do
with where we were playing.
"We don't go there with Halloween
costumes. There's no haunted part
about playing in Pittsburgh. We just
have to get more points and the
record will be broken. It's that sim
ple."
But Rutigliano, who is 1-5 against
the Steelers, couldn't resist teasing
the Pittsburgh media listening to his
amplified words.
"I think it's great copy for you
guys. Pittsburgh being a haunted
house for the Cleveland Browns
makes ,good copy, so enjoy it," he
laughed
Meanwhile, Rutigliano insists that
the Steelers should never have been
mistaken for a corpse even after
they lost their first two games.
"They would have assured you the
Pittsburgh Steelers are not dead,"
The Daily Collegian Thursday, Oct. 8, 1981-13
Rutigliano said. "There's one thing
I'm absolutely sure of —that's a fine
football team and a great organiza
tion. They couldn't have accom
plished all the things they did and let
that go down the drain that fast.
"It's very obvious right now
they're right back on track, which
should lend itself to a typical
Browns-Steelers game."
Under Rutigliano, the Browns
have lost twice in overtime to the
Steelers, and Pittsburgh pulled out
last year's game with a touchdown
pass coming just 11 seconds before
the gun.
Historically, this will be the 63rd
meeting of a heated rivalry known
as the turnpike series because the
two cities are separated by only a
two-hour drive. And the game has
always been special.
"Everybody from the organizatio
nal level right on down to the players
enjoys this series," Rutigliano said.
"Since I've been here, it always has
brought out the best in the Cleveland
Browns. We look forward to it."
But he refused to call Sunday's
game a critical one, even though the
Browns are 2-3.
"Critical situations are in war and
surgery," he said. "You can't call
this a critical game. It's important
because we're playing the first place
team in our division and it's our
third division game.
"But it's a long journey."