At left, Penri State quarterback Todd Blackledge and Boston College linebacker Steve DeOssie (99) look at a referee to see if signaled no touchdown, the two compare notes as to whether the Nittany Lion signal caller had actually scored. Penn
Blackledge scored on an option play in the third quarter of Saturday's game at Beaver Stadium. At right, after the play was the game 38-7 to remain undefeated.
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Lions rout Boston College
By SHARON FINK
Daily Collegian Sports Writer
At least Boston College scored
But that was at the start of the fourth
quarter of the BC-Penn State game Sat
uiday. And at the time, the Lions were
ahead 38-0.
And. . .both Penn State tailback Curt
Warner and fullback Mike Meade had
rushed for more than 100 yards. Quar
terback Todd Blackledge had his best
day passing as a Lion. And the Penn
State defense, in the three previous quar
ters, had limited the Eagles to 78 yards
rushing and two yards passing. Whatev
er BC (1-3) did after that was superflu
ous, as the Lions (4-0) rolled 38-7 at
Beaver Stadium.
That BC touchdown was more symbol
ic than anything else, proving the Eagles
could cross the goal line. And for the
crowd of 84,473 waiting to see if the Lion
defense could record its third shutout in
four games, it also ended any suspense
that was left in a game devoid of sus=
pense.
But the crowd got enough excitement
from the Lions in a game coach Joe
Paterno called a good, solid effort.
Although Paterno said the Eagles' de
fense was very tough on the run, Warner
quietly and unassumingly ran up his
fourth consecutive 100-yard game, get
ting 105 on 22 carries. He also scored two
of the the Lions' five touchdowns.
But Warner wasn't the Lions' leading
rusher. Meade, playing almost full-time
because Joel Coles is out, had a career
high 107 yards in 13 carries and one
touchdown. And even tailback Jon Wil
liams had 54 yards and a touchdown.
Mit the Lions are supposed to run. So
one 'of the things that pleased Paterno
was the continued improvement of the
thing the Lions aren't supposed to do well
pass. Blackledge's career-best totals
were eight of 17 for 182 yards and one
touchdown.
One of his receivers also had a career
best day. Flanker Kenny Jackson caught
three passes one of them for a touch
down for 97 yards. The touchdown was
a 39-yard connection in the second quar
ter in which Jackson outmanueverd BC
weak corner George Radachowsky and
weak safety Vic Crawford. It was a play
Jackson said he and Blackledge worked
on last week in practice.
"Their free safety was lining up on the
wrong side," Jackson said. "I saw it, and
Todd saw it. It was something we worked
on this week. That leaves me with one
Montreal pitcher Steve Rogers reacts to the Expos' playoff-clinching victory
over the 'PhiHies yesterday in Philadelphia.
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guy, and if I can get him to the middle of
the field, I can shake him. And that's
what happened.
"I kept on running the post until they
were expecting it, and then 'I went
straight."
Paterno said Jackson's improvement
from week to week is a big factor in the
improvement of the entire passing at
tack.
"The passing is becoming a little bit
more explosive," he said. "We're getting
the ball over more to Kenny. I said to
folks that Kenny had had a very average
preseason practice because he had been
hurt and did not have a chance to really
get his timing down.
"Kenny is just starting to get good,
plus a lot of the coverages we got today
were one-on-one with Kenny. He's pretty
tough to handle one-on-one all day. He's
got to get open once or twice."
The BC defense was tougher on the
pass, though, and Blackledge had his
problems. Several times his receivers
No. 1 poll spot possible
By TOM VERDUCCI
Daily Collegian Sports Writer
Rich D'Amico heard about it on television. Walker Lee
Ashley got the news from a friend at a party. Todd Blackledge
learned of it from a restaurant manager while he was dining
with his family. And Harry Hamilton found out from a friend
while discussing international politics with his family.
By whatever means television, telephone or tell a Penn
State football fan word of Arizona's stunning 13-10 upset of
No.l USC on Saturday did not take long to reach the N 0.2
Nittany Lions.
The next news flash for Penn State comes tonight when The
Associated Press and United Press International release their
weekly college football polls. The new No.l team is likely to be
either the Lions or N 0.3 Texas, an impressive 34-14 victor over
Oklahoma on Saturday.
Penn State ever the bridesmaid but never the bride is
thus once again courting a national championship. The Lions
held the top spot in both polls in 1978 from Nov. 13 until their
Sugar Bowl loss to Alabama on New Year's Day.
"We could possibly be N 0.1," quarterback Blackledge said,
"but I wouldn't be overly surprised if Texas were No.l. It
doesn't mean that much. As long was we keep winning, that's
what counts."
D'Amico, who was a freshman on the 1978 team, also
downplayed the importance of the polls.
"I don't even like to think about it," the senior defensive end
said. "It can do more harm than good. You may think you have
something to celebrate, but you really have nothing. There's
not a No.l team. Nobody's proven anything. It doesn't mean
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Expos eliminate Phils;
Dodgers, Yanks win
By RALPH BERNSTEIN
AP Sports Writer
PHILADELPHIA (AP) Steve Rog
ers pitched a six-hit shutout and singled
home the first two runs yesterday as the
Montreal Expos beat the Philadelphia
Phillies 3-0 to win their first National
League East Division title in the 13-year
history of the franchise..
The Expos won the first two games at
home, but the Phillies won here Friday
and Saturday to send the best-of-five
series to a fifth game.
It was Rogers' second triumph of the
series, and he again beat Phillies' ace
Steve Carlton to seal the victory over the
defending world champions.
Montreal took a 2-0 lead in the fifth on a
two-run single by Rogers, his second hit
of the game.
The Expos boosted their lead to 3-0 in
the sixth.
Andre Dawson led off with a single to
right, and, after Gary Carter flied out,
Parrish belted a double to the wall in
right-center, scoring Dawson.
Rogers walked one and struck out two.
He was in slight trouble in the first when
the Phillies had hits from Pete Rose and
Mike Schmidt, but each was retired.
The Montreal pitcher also made a fine
defensive play in the fifth inning when'he
caught a drive by,shortstop Larry Bowa.
were covered well and he was rushed and
forced to throw out of bounds. And Black
ledge was sacked three times and inter
cepted twice.
But that was minor compared to what
the Lion defense did to BC. The Eagles
rushed for only 78 yards. In three quar
ters, Eagles quarterback John Loughery
was one of 15 for two yards. It took a
quarterback not even listed on the depth
chart, Dough Flutie, to get the Lions for
135 yards in the air.
It was kind of a disappointment for the
underpublicized Lion defepse not to get
the shutout, linebacker Matt Bradley
said, the Eagles' touchdown happened on
a pass pattern that was hard to cover.
The overall effort couldn't be faulted
much.
"We like those shutouts; we look for
ward to them," Bradley said. "But I
guess that happens. We weren't disap
pointed with the guys who were in there.
(Boston College) ran that crossing pat
tern. That's a tough play to cover.
"I really don't like to look that far ahead," Hamilton said. "I
just take things game by game."
"It's too far down the line," Blackledge said. "I'm just
thinking about Syracuse now."
Penn State meets Syracuse this week at the Carrier Dome
and then faces West Virginia, Miami (Fla.), North Carolina
State, Alabama, Notre Dame and Pittsburgh.
Pitt, a 17-0 winner at West Virginia on Saturday, joins Penn
State, Texas, Missouri, Southern Methodist and North Carolina
as the only remaining unbeaten and untied major college .
football teams.
This is not the first time Penn State and Texas have vied for
the No.l poll position. In 1969, N 0.3 Texas vaulted past N 0.2
Penn State to win the national championship although both
teams recorded perfect seasons.
anything until the end of the season."
Although the Lions think the polls mean nothing now, they
don't disregard the importance of Southern California's loss.
"It means a lot to Us," Ashley said. "We've been thinking of
being national champions all along, and with USC, there was no
way we could meet up with them."
Since the winner of the Pacific 10 Conference goes to the Rose
Bowl to play the Big 10 winner, USC could not face Penn State
for a possible national championship showdown. Thus, the
Lions now have more of a say in determining their fate.
Texas is a member of the Southwestern Conference, and its
champion earns a berth in the Cotton Bowl against a school
invited regardless of conference tie-ups.
But a No.l vs. N 0.2 season-ending shootout is not yet on the
Lions' minds.
Philadelphia threatened in the sixth,
and although the Phillies got a break on a
poor throw by shortstop Speier, they still
couldn't score.
Lonnie Smith opened the inning with a
bunt single, and Rose walked. George
Vukovich, whose 10th-inning pinch hom
er won Saturday's game, bounced to
Manuel for what appeared a routine
double play. But Speier's throw pulled
first baseman Warren Cromartie off the
bag, and Vukovich was safe.
With runners at first and third and one
out, Schmidt, the major league home run
champion, grounded to Speier, and this
time the Expos completed the double
play, bailing Rogers out of trouble.
Carlton worked eight innings yester
day, allowing seven hits and all three
Montreal runs.
The victory gives Montreal manager
Jim Fanning, who took over in early
September for Dick Williams, a chance
to become the first man to win a pennant
after taking over in the season's final
month.
Jerry Reuss outpitched Nolan Ryan
and the Dodgers scored three runs in the
sixth inning to soar to their third straight
victory over Houston yesterday in Los
Angeles to qualify for the National
Please see DODGERS, Page 12.
"They're the type of offense that have
a lot of different formations. They try to
mix you up a little bit. We adjusted well.
We went right at them, we didn't play
around."
Obviously , not. The Eagles lost four
fumbles and three interceptions, too.
Some of that was due to the philosophy of
BC coach Jack Bicknell.
"We didn't want to be conservative
today, but we just kept turning the ball
over," he said. "We cautioned our kids
before the game that lack of execution
would mean a long afternoon."
It was a long afternoon for everyone in
one way or another.
NOTES: Brian Franco added a field
goal in the first, quarter for Penn
State. . .He attempted another one in the
second quarter from 47 yards but was
wide to the left. . .The miss was his first
as a Penn State kicker.
Please see related story and statistics,
Page 12.
Dodgers 4, Astros 0
Fullback Mike Meade (38) scores a touchdown behind Sean Farrell's (62) block
on Boston College linebacker Jim Budness in the second quarter of Saturday's
win over the Eagles.
Meade makes most
of new responsibilty
RON MUSSELMAN
Daily Collegian Sports Writer
After Penn State's first four games this
.year, fullback Mike Meade had gained
only 77 yards on the ground while split
ting the first-string job with Joel Coles.
But with Coles sidelined for the the
season with a fractured tibia in his right
foot, Meade has assumed the No.l job for
the rest of this season.
"This is the first time I've been listed
as the starting fullback," Meade said in
the locker room after the Lions' victory
over Boston College on Saturday. "With
Joel there, I felt like my name in the
program should have had an asterik
beside it."
Meade seems to like the idea of having
the starting role all to himself.
"I can prepare better for a game when
I have more responsibility," Meade ad
mitted. "And with Joel out, I saw more
responsibility resting on my shoulders,
which I didn't mind at all."
In the first part of this season, Meade
has been primarily responsible for open
ing holes for tailbacks Curt Warner and
Jon Williams. But Saturday, he . also got
an opportunity to display his running
talents.
Meade shredded the Eagles defense for
107 yards in 13 carries. He got 86 of those
in the first half.
"I knew I had the one long run," said
Meade, referring to a 47-yard jaunt in the
second quarter. "But I didn't know how
far it was."
Nor did he appear to care.
"If you get caught up with the numbers
game, it effects you negatively," he
responded. "If I make over 90 percent of
my blocks, that's as important to me as
rushing for a hundred yards."
That point alone makes coach Joe
Paterno happy.
"Meade is a good football player who's
never really gone into a ballgame and
carried the ball 10, 12 or 13 times a
game,The said.
Although Meade has been used exclu
sively as a blocking back the past two
seasons, Paterno didn't seem to lack
confidence in his fullback's ball-carrying
ability.
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"He's got good speed, and he's a strong
runner, as he showed today," Paterno
said. "With Joel's situation, it was great
to see him play so well when he had to.
He just probably needs some success to
be really good."
Meade, on the other hand, tried not to
lose confidence in his running game.
"It's not so much I had doubts," Meade
said. "You've got to wonder if you can
still do it after not carrying the ball that
much. I still knew I had the ability to run
it if given the chance."
Meade wasn't sure when that chance
would come, though.
"After some of the games, me and
Joel, half-heartedly joking, would ask the
coaches to let us run the ball more,"
Meade said. "But we were serious about
it."
Even though he denied it, Paterno may
have received the news from one of his
assistant coaches just in time to put
Meade into the game plan.
"We were out there to win the game,
but a couple of the defensive looks (Bos
ton College)- gave, we were having trou
ble outside with the tailbacks," Paterno
said. "So we started giving it to the
fullback a couple of times to try to get
them (BC) to stay at home."
According to Meade, who's previous
rushing high was 39 yards, the new
wrinkle in the Lions' offense may force
some other teams to stay at home, too.
"I think now we'll make teams more
weary of our other offensive threats,"
Meade said. "Hopefully, it will make it
harder for other teams to defend. But I
think the biggest thing 'that will help our
running game is Todd's improvement of
our passing game, which he has done
steadily the past couple of ball games."
Like Blackledge has improved the
passing game, Meade's running prowess
could only help the running game im
prove, a thought Paterno'likes.
"And I think he'll get better," Paterno
said of Meade.
Meade said: "Our offensive line makes
running the ball a pleasure."
Getting 100 yard games from Mike
Meade is a pleasure for Paterno.
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Varsity edges alumni taxers
Anyone who thought yesterday's men's
lacrosse alumni game would be one of
those "ho-hum, nice to be back" affairs
was in for a real surprise.
The alumni squad and varsity did
anything but go through the motions in a
hard-fought contest that ended with an
11-10 varsity win in overtime at Pollock
Field.
"I think the varsity may have thought
that they were just going to walk on the
field and beat the alumni," Penn State
coach Glenn Thiel said. "I think they
were a little surprised with the depth of
the alumni team. But they did take
charge when they had to."
Freshman George Connor scored the
winning goal early in the overtime period
after the two teams battled to an appar
ent 10-10 tie in regulation. (Actually, the
two sides disagreed on the score and
decided to settle matters with an over
time period.)
Connor's goal completed an uphill bat
tle for the current Lions as former stars
like Mark Gelsomini and Billy Curran
kept the alumni on top for most of the
contest. Gelsomini and Curran each had
two goals, and strong play by Keith
McGuire, Paul Sullivan and Jack Barry
kept the alumni in charge until the fourth
quarter.
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varsity tied the game and then took the
lead. But the alumni showed they still
had some spunk left and sent the game
into the extra period.
"The alumni had a lot more personnel
than we had anticipated, and they gave
our team a good battle," Thiel said. "Our
guys knew they'd be going against some
talented players, but they didn't expect
to face as many guys as they did."
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Lions finish fall
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Lion starter Mike Belleman gave up
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man Bob D'Ambrosio banged out a single
and a double and knocked in two runs to
spark a 10-hit attack. Designated hitter
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returnees, and his 24 saves helped keep
his team in the game.
Caravella's counterpart in the nets,
freshman Tom Florence, was almost as
impressive, with several clutch saves in
his three periods of action. Thiel was
very pleased with the goalkeeper.
"This was the first time he faced
anybody besides his own team in game
action, and he played very well," Thiel
said.
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Keith Carango and outfielder John Tar
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In the nightcap, Tom Bart worked four
innings, allowing three hits, and relief
pitcher Andy Scherkness closed the door
in the final three frames to give the Lions
a 2-0 victory. Each team collected three
hits, with Randy Simcox driving in the
lone Penn State run. The other scored on
an error.
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USC loses, 'Barra ties
By HERSCHEL NISSENSON
AP Sports Writer
Has anybody seen college football's
Top Twenty?
The weekend wasn't a complete
disaster. Fourteen members of the
Top Twenty actually failed to lose,
although one of them, seventh-ranked
Alabama, settled for a 13-13 tie with
Southern Mississippi and another,
N 0.16 Miami (Fla.), wasn't sched
uled.
The list of casualties begins at the
top with No.l-ranked Southern Cali
fornia dropping a 13-10 decision to
unheralded Arizona, despite Marcus
Allen's fifth consecutive 200-yard
rushing effort.
The other victims were eighth
ranked Brigham Young, a 45-41 loser
to Nevada-Las Vegas as the nation's
longest major college winning streak
was snapped at 17 games; 10th-rated
Oklahoma, under the .500 mark (1-2-1)
for the first time since 1968; N 0.12
lowa State, bombed by San Diego
State 52-31; N 0.17 UCLA, which fell to
previously winless Stanford 26-23, and
No.lB Ohio State, a loser for the sec-
and week in a row, this time bowing to
Wisconsin 24-21.
As a result of the wild, woolly,
wacky, weird weekend, there are
some strange doings in the conference
races. Would you believe Wisconsin
and Washington State in the Rose
Bowl?
For the time being, at least, the Big
Four in college football are Texas,
Penn State, Pitt and North Carolina.
Fourth-ranked Pitt, playing without
quarterback Dan Marino, blanked
West Virginia 17-0, and N 0.5 North
Carolina, minus tailback Kelvin Bry
ant, thrashed Wake Forest 48-10.
Rounding out the Top Ten, ninth
ranked Clemson beat Virginia 27-0.
Meanwhile, No.ll Georgia mauled
Mississippi 37-7, N 0.13 Missouri bur
ied Kansas State 56-13, N 0.14 Southern
Methodist clipped Baylor 37-20, N 0.19
Mississippi State downed Colorado
State 37-27 and N 0.20 Florida State
turned back Notre Dame 19-13.
The top teams just don't get respect
any more.
Arizona trailed Southern Cal 10-0
after one period, but the Wildcats
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rallied on field goals of 27 and 45 yards
by Britt Weber and a 13-yard touch
down pass from • Tom Tunnicliffe to
Vance Johnson.
That was enough to offset Allen's
211-yard afternoon, extending his na
tional record to five consecutive 200-
yard games and giving him 1,136 for
the season. The old five-game yard
age mark was 1,090 by Charles White,
Allen's predecessor as USC's tail
back, who did it in 1979.
But who are the top teams?
Texas trailed Oklahoma 14-3 at half
time but the Longhorns rallied behind
Rick Mclvor's scoring passes of 36
yards to Maurice McCloney and 4 to
Lawrence Sampleton.
With Marino sidelined with a
sprained shoulder, Pitt didn't com
plete a pass. But the Panthers got
touchdown runs of 43 and 2 yards from
Brian Thomas and the defense limited
West Virginia to 138 yards in total
offense.
Tyrone Anthony made North Caroli
na fans forget that Bryant was in
jured. The sophomore rushed for 224
yards on 26 carries.
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