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By MIKE POORMAN
Daily Collegian Sports Writer
MIAMI At 5:01 p.m. Saturday, the 15-mph
winds gusting from the east through the Orange
Bowl seemed to get a little stronger, and the dark
bundles of clouds, already a bit murky, appeared
to,get even gloomier. Although the rains had not
yet begun, lightning had just struck twice in the
past five minutes.
First, Miami flanker Larry Brodsky found a
seam in Penn State's defense, stayed put until
quarterback Jim Kelly found him across field, ,
sidestepped an overanxious Paul Lankford and
then outraced Lion safety Mark Robinson the
remaining 80 yards to put Miami ahead 14-0
following a two-point conversion.
"It was just a short out," said Brodsky, Kelly's
secondary receiver on the play. "We just fade to
the open area. We call it a gray or black cover
age."
Moments later, things got even darker
On Penn State's second play from scrimmage
after the kick-off, tailback Curt Warner dove
through the line, clutching both the football and
the pulled left hamstring that caused him to miss
last week's game. He was to miss the rest of this
game, too.
"It hadn't bothered me up until that time," said
Warner, who left the game with 13 carries for 28
yards. "I wasn't having any problems with it at
all:"
• The problems were with the Miami defense,
which held top-ranked Penn State scoreless
through the initial three quarters and survived an
awesome record-setting passing display by Lion
quarterback Todd Blackledge to win 17-14.
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By MIKE POORMAN
Daily Collegian Sports Writer
MIAMI Coach Howard Schnellenberger was sitting in the
small, pale white coaches' dressing quarters Saturday night,
putting on his dress shirt. It was a smooth and easy fit, just
proving that he went into the University of Miami's biggest
football game ever with nothing up his sleeves but his arms.
It didn't matter, for Schnellenberger thought a Miami win
was . in the cards. Although Penn State was No.l, its four
predecessors had been upset. And despite being ranked only
19th with two losses, Miami was just 10 points• way from being
undefeated.
"It was like us playing poker with all of Penn State's money,"
said Schnellenberger,
Saturday's game was a bet Schnellenberger has been waiting
to collect on for three years, ever since he came to UM from the
Miami Dolphins.
"I can't tell you how proud I am of my assistant coaches and
all the people who have who have supported it through the last
2 1 / 2 years," he said. "This is a culmination of an awful lot of
work by an awful lot of people. I take my hat off to the entire
football team there must have been 44 guys who played their
Penn State duo shines in loss
Blackledge sets passing marks; Robinson keys defense
By MIKE POORMAN •
Daily Collegian Sports Writer
MIAMI It was the best of times; It
was the worst of times.
It's a bit ironic that Penn State safety
Mark Robinson was the last player to
leave the Orange Bowl field Saturday
after the Lions' loss. He had been the
first everywhere else on the field all
afternoon.
And equally ironic was the fact that
quarterback Todd Blackledge was the
last player the media finally stopped
badgering after the game. After the past
few games, due to the performances of
Curt Warner and Jon Williams, the
crowd in front of his locker had dwindled
to a mere handful.
What wasn't ironic was the way these
two played. Despite Penn State's loss,
the game was one of the best ever, if not
A national televiSion audience and a sparse and
soaked crowd of 32,117 witnessed the loss, which
dropped Penn State's record to 6-1 and marked
the fifth time this season a No.l-ranked team has
been beaten while at the top.
"They just played a great football game," Penn
State coach Joe Paterno said of the Hurricanes,
now 5-2. "It would have been tough for anybody to
beat them today.
"They came off some blocks, made some great
tackles, played hard, were alert (and had) good
'positioning. They never gave us a chance to break
one."
Penn State did have numerous scoring chances
early in the game but could not capitalize.
One came on a Paul Lankford interception of a
Mark Richt pass. Lankford had only Richt and 92
yards of Prescription Turf separating him and six
points, but Richt held up Lankford long enough for
help to arrive, and Penn State was eventually
forced to settle for a 22-yard field goal attempt.
But Lion place-kicker Brian Franco missed that
22-yarder, along with three others in the game.
The first was a 51-yarder with the wind in the first
quarter, while the next was into it from the 46 and
the last was a 23-yarder into a monsoon in the
third quarter.
"I wasn't afraid or worried," said Franco, 11 of
12 on field goal attempts before Saturday's game.
"Maybe it was the timing."
Paterno absorbed some of the blame for the
second miss, which came 'right after the teams
switched ends after the first quarter, forcing
Franco to kick into the wind.
"I was going to call time-out," Paterno said. "I
was all set to call time-out, and somebody said
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the national spotlight
the best ever, for the two sophomores.
It was the age of wisdom; it was the
age of foolishness.
Mark Robinson wasn't listed as a start
er when the season began. But then Dan
Biondi got hurt and Robinson, who was
slowed by an injury himself last season,
stepped in and never relinquished the
safety position.
He leads Penn State in tackles with 44;
he made 10 solo tackles and two assists
against Miami. Late in the fourth quar
ter, when the Lions needed it most,
Robinson caused Hurricane Smokey
Roan to fumble the ball into the arms of
Paul Lankford, setting up an easy score.
"When you stick in there and play,
those things (fumble) will happen," Rob
inson said. "It had to start going our way
because the first half things weren't
really going our way."
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Schnellenberger has nurtured the Hurricane program, taking
a team that had a three-year record of 12-21 before he arrived to
a win over the country's No.l-ranked team and a record of 19-
11.
Along the way, Miami knocked off Penn State two years ago
and won the Peach Bowl last year. But Saturday's win meant
the most, as UM President Tad Foote told the Miami squad in
the locker room after the game.
"I told them I was proud of them, just as millions of other
Americans are," Foote said. "This was probably the best
football game most of us have seen in our lifetime. It certainly
was in mine."
The same could hold true for Pennsylvania natives quar
terback Jim Kelly and right guard Clem Barbarino, for whom
the victory carries extra significance.
"It's the most thrilling game I ever played," said Barbarino,
who went to Pittsburgh's Penn Hills with the Nittany ,Lions'
Joel Coles and Dan Biondi. "On Penn State's team, I know two
defensive tackles, a linebacker and a defensive back."
Kelly opted for Miami instead of Penn State because he was
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something to me and I lost my concentration. .I
turned back and looked up, and it was :00." "
The clock also worked against the Penn State
offense late in the first half, when the Lions were
driving following a poor snap on a Miami punt.
Blackledge moved the offense 28 yards in 24
seconds to set a up a third-and-4 1 / 2 with six
seconds left.
"I was looking for the tight end," Blackledge
said. "He slipped coming off the line of scrim
mage. He got open later, but I wasn't set to throw.
I thought I could take it in, so I ran.
"Looking back at it, I should thrown the ball to
somebody. Or threw it away. That way we could
have gotten three points anyway." The Lions rot
none.
Miami's field goal attempts were sure things,
as the Hurricanes' Dan Miller connected on kicks
from 28, 42 and 23 yards.
"I told you they weren't one-dimensional,"
Paterno said, referring to Miami's reliance on the
pass.
Ironically,•it was Penn State which was forced
to throw the ball. The Miami defense held the
Nittany Lions to 69 yards on 38 carries, the first
time since Nebraska last year they were held to
less than 100 yards rushing.
"We should have been able to run on them,"
said longside guard Mike Munchak. "It may have
been a combination of us making mistakes and
them playing very aggressively. They were shoot
ing holes and stunting a lot. They had their tackles
sliding down and their linebackers filling."
Thus, down 17-0 in the fourth quarter, the Lions
practically abandoned the running game and
tried to pass their way back. And they almost did.
It was the epoch of belief; it was the
epoch of incredulity.
Things weren't going Blackledge's way
the first half, either. His roommate,
teammate and friend, Curt Warner, was
out with a pulled hamstring, and the
Miami defense was bottling up the run.
For the first time this season, if Penn
State was going to win, it had to do it
through the air.
"I don't like to get into a situation
where we have to throw," Blackledge
said. "But I thought we did a pretty good
job of it when we had to."
So good that Blackledge not only com
piled the best single-game passing statis
tics of his own career on Saturday, but he
compiled the best single game passing
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"We knew we were going to win the football
game even going into the fourth quarter," Pater
no said. "I don't think anybody thought we
weren't going to win the football game. Even with
the score 17-0, we thought all we needed were a
couple of big plays, which we are capable of
getting and have been getting."
Fighting torrents of rain and an emotional,
although tired, Miami defense, Blackledge led
Penn State to two scores and in the process put
together the finest passing day for a Lion quar
terback ever. The, sophomore from North Canton,
Ohio, completed 26 of 41 passes for 358 yards, two
touchdowns and two interceptions.
Blackledge combined with split end Gregg
Garrity three times on the way to an 80-yard
scoring drive, which culminated in a 13-yard
scoring toss to McCloskey. A two-point conversion
pass to Kevin Baugh failed.
"When they were driving down the field, a lot of
things went through my mind," said Miami nose
guard Tony Chickillo. realized what a great
team they are and how they were running the two
minute drill picture-perfect and splitting down the
Penn State came right back when Mark Robin
son hit Miami's Smokey Roan, forcing the ball to
pop loose. Lankford nimbly grabbed it for the
recovery. Two plays later the Lions scored 'on a
Jon Williams screen pass to make it 17-12. Black
ledge passed to Kenny Jackson for the conver
sion, pulling the Lions to within a field goal and
possible redemption for Franco.
But he never got the chance.
Miami was stopped by Penn State on its next
possession, and the Lion offense got the ball back
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Saturday, including this 23-yarder in a driving rain in the third quarter, as the
Miami Hurricanes, behind the leadership of quarterback Jim Kelly (No. 12,
below) upset the top-ranked Lions 17-14 at the Orange Bowl in Miami. •
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with 3:07 remaining and promptly m
first downs. The second came on a 3
play to a streaking Williams to put
yards away from the Hurricane en
very next play Williams' number
again, this time a quick, inside pitc
fumbled
"It's our bread-and-butter play,"
"That's the safest play we've got."
forty-one seconds later, the Lions had the ball
again but were stopped when Miami's Fred
Marion intercepted his second Blac ledge pass of
the day to end Penn State's hope of, an unde
feated season. i
"They showed a great deal of determination,
chiracter and championship furl by coming
back from a 17-0 deficit to almost ,catch us," said
Miami coach Howard Schnellenberger.
And maybe because of that, Perin State can still
see the rainbow after the storm. ;.
"It's a setback," said Lion linebacker Matt
Bradley, "but it's not anything) that can't be
overcome."
NOTES: There were 8,078 do-shows for the
game: . .Linebacker Chet Parl4vecchio did not
suit up for the second straight week. . .Before
Penn State's fourth-quarter comeback, the possi
bility of a shutout sent reporiers scrurrying to
find out the last time the Lions were held scoreles
s. . .It was 162 regular seasodigames ago against
Georgia Tech in 1966 and 102 games overall, back
to a 14-0 loss to Oklahoma in the 1972 Sugar
Bowl. . .A Homecoming pep-rally/concert Friday
night in the Orange Bowl featuring the Beaph
Boys and the Commodores drew an estimated
22,000.
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promised by Schnellenberger that
he would play quarterback and
quarterback only, a situation mak
ing Miami's upset even better.
"That's for sure," Kelly said.
"The win two years was a great win,
but this was the best one because we
knew we could beat them. It was just
a matter of who made the most
critical errors. We made some er
rors, but we capitalized on their
errors, and I'm just glad we came
out winning."
Kelly was 13 of 25 passing for 220
yards, including an 80-yard touch
down toss to Larry Brodksy, which
made Brodsky the 'Canes career
leader in reception yardage.
"Our receivers ran great pat
terns," Kelly said. "We kept (Penn
State) .off-balance. We ran the ball
as well as we thought we would.
"And the offensive line played the
best game it ever played. I had
The passing yardage quarterback Todd
Blackledge (right) compiled on Saturday, the
number of passes' and number of:completions are
Nittany Lion ;records, surpassing the
accomplishments of Chuck Fusina, John
Hufnagel, Pete Liske and Richie Lucas.
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time; I didn't think I would. I wish I
had this more often."
Schnellenberger has said his fu -4
tore plans for Hurricane football
include the construction of a stadi
um on the Miami campus (actually
located in Coral Gables). He's also
developing a nationally attractive
home schedule (he turned down a
chance to move the Nov. 28 game
with Notre Dame to the Mead
owlands) as well as narrowing the
realm of his recruiting to mainly
Florida and the South. He has even
said he wants to end his coaching
days with the Hurricanes.
That's why he was sipping cham
pagne in the Miami locker room
after the game.
"This has to be the biggest win in
(Miami) University history," he
said. "To be able to do this on
national television will jet us up to
where people • will think that the
University of Miami can play foot
ball."
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Win keeps Lion playoff .hopes alive
By STEVE GRAHAM
Daily Collegian Sports Writer
The players on Fairleigh Dickinson's
soccer team couldn't have picked a bet
ter night to bewitch the 12th-ranked Li
ons at Jeffrey Field than Friday.
On Halloween Eve, the atmosphere
was conducive to ghosts and goblins, the
air was brisk and cold, and Penn State
coach Walt Bahr had a little bit of ner
vousness in his soul.
But somewhere along the line, the
Knights left their recipe for a witch's
brew back home in Teaneck, N.J. And
Penn State took advantage of the situa
tion, scoring two goals in the first 10
minutes of the game and holding on for a
convincing 3-1 victory.
"I was very worried at halftime corn
ing off with only a 2-0 lead," Bahr said,
"because we had too many opportunities
and didn't score them.
"This one (victory) gives us a little bit
of a cushion. I would say our next tough
est game is Temple (Nov. 8) away from
home. Connecticut. . .we'll flip a coin for
that."
Bahr could also flip a coin on the
chances of Lion defender Dan Canter
making a free kick. And he'd find that he
could almost always call it right because,
after all, Canter is a heads-up player.
With only 7:55 gone in the first half,
Canter put Penn State on the scoreboard
with a beautifully executed free kick that
FDU goalie Reinhardt Schornstaedt had
no chance on.
Then, just over three minutes later,
defender Lou Karbiener hit a crossing
ball that midfielder Jeff Maierhofer
promptly headed into the left-hand cor
ner of the goal for an early 2-0 Penn State
lead.
The two quick goals were enough to
knock the Knights off their high horse.
"They didn't seem to have much really
going for them in front of the goal," Bahr
said of the Knights. "They didn't get
many shots 'away (13), but their buildup
Lions look toward future
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statistics of any, Penn State quar
terback or team ever.
Against a. Miami secondary that
has yielded an average of 160 yards
passing per game, Blackledge threw
for 358 yards, while completing 26 of
41 passes. The yardage, number of
passes and number of completions
are Nittany Lion records, surpas
sing the accomplishments of Chuck
Fusina, John Hufnagel, Pete Liske
and Richie Lucas.
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Penn State's Jeff Maierhofer (right) contributed a goal as the men's soccer
team turned back Farleigh Dickinson 3-1 Friday night at Jeffrey Field to keep
its hopes for an NCAA playoff bid alive. •
was good, and their tackling was good."
The big difference as had been the
case in so many of Penn State's games
this season was the defense.
"I thought defensively we played
well," Bahr said. "I thought (offensive
ly) we rushed things too much with the
ball. We were missing our best midfield
player (Duncan Mac Ewan) with a (foot)
injury, and he really is the one whi)
organizes a little better than the couple of
the season of darkness
Miami's Jim Kelly threw for 180
yards in the first half and although
the 'Canes concentrated on the run
the second half, Penn State held
Kelly to just 50 yards passing over
the last two quarters. And the Lions
stopped the run as well.
"We started to change our de
fensive scheme," Robinson said.
"They moved me closer to the line.
They were running and I was just
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freshmen that we had in there."
Bob Cunningham, who filled in for
Mac Ewan at the starting center midfield
spot, got his first real taste this season of
a full load of . playing time.
At intermission, Cunningham and
some of the other Lions refueled for the
second half's drama, which featured
some rough play and a few controversial
calls by the officials.
Lion for Ward Peter Jancevski opened
and I was more or less free. I was
getting free sticks at them."
Blackledge was sticking it to
them, too, with a little help from his
friends.
Jon Williams tied the record for
receptions by a running back, with
eight (good for 119 yards) and Gregg
Garrity caught six passes for 104
yards, marking the first time two
Penn State players each had more
than 100 yards .receiving in one
game.
Mike McCloskey also grabbed six
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the show by dribbling the ball over half
the length of the field on a breakaway
and firing a pinpoint shot past
Schornstaedt for a 3-0 Penn State lead at
63:24.
About 10 minutes later, FDU midfield
er Martin Shkreli spoiled the Lions''
hopes of establishing a new Penn State .
record for most team shutouts in a sea-.
son. - .
On a penalty kick, Lion goaltender.
Greg Kenney anticipated that Shkreli
would go for the left-hand side of the
goal. Instead, Shkreli placed the ball on
the right-hand side, and the shutout was•
gone in a flash.
"I guess that someone (on my team)
saw him play before and thought he'd go
in that direction," Kenney said.
But what ruffled Bahr was not the goal
but the events leading up to it. The
Knights were awarded the penalty kick
when an official ruled that Lion defender
Bill McDonald touched the ball with hfs
hand while covering the goal for Kenney,
who had been pulled out of position by an
FDU forward.
"I guess I made a wrong decision on
coming out on the guy," Kenney said of
McDonald being in the position of cover
the goal. "The first thing I tried to do was
come out and get him as wide as I could
and then run back to the net."
"I was very upset with the penalty,"
said Bahr, who rarely wrinkles his face
at any game. "I was upset because I
thought Billy McDonald made a good
play.
"Billy was down on his knees. I thought
he, without question, had made a good
soccer play. I've seen it made 100 times
before. No one else there, on my team,
thought it was a hand ball."
But the goal was only one of a few
serious threats on Kenney all night. Ba ,
sically, the freshman had a quiet night,
garnering only eight saves.
"When we get three goals," Kenney
said, "you're really going to have a hard•
time beating us especially here." .
passes for 69 yards, Kenny Jackson
caught two for 36 yards and Warner
had two for 13 yards before aggre
vating his hamstring again.
It was the season of hope; it was
the winter of despair.
"We stuck it out," Robinson said
"And that's a good sign, because
from here on out it's going to tough
beating us: We're not going to lose."
"OK," agreed Blackledge, "we
ran into a buzzsaw down there, but
that's not about to stop us."