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Remembering
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... and Alabama
Pete Speros was what you would call a
detached observer.
• The junior offensive tackle remembers
watching the 1979 Sugar Bowl, New
Year's Day on television. He remembers
watching Alabama stop Penn State's
Matt Suhey on third-and-two feet in the
fourth quarter. He also remembers
watching the next play, where 'Bama's
Marty Lyons, Byron Braggs and Barry
Krauss stopped Mike Guman six inches
from the goal line.
And he remembers the final score:
Alabama 14, Penn State 7.
But at the time, sitting at home in
Potomac, Md., as a highly-sought after
senior at St. John's" High, he didn't really
care who won.
"It was kind of funny," Speros said. "I
had just visited Alabama (on a recruiting
trip), so I was kind of neutral at that
time. I was more or less just sitting back
and enjoying the game, not really rooting
for anybody.
"And now, I laugh about it a lot, and
say that I was just sitting there. A lot of
guys now wouldn't believe it."
At the Jackson household in South
River, N.J., that day, the viewing audi
ence was definitely bipartisan. •
"My father is from Alabama, so he was
rooting against Penn State," said sopho
more wide-out Kenny Jackson. "And
ever since I really understood football, I
enjoyed watching Penn State play. I
wanted Penn State to win really bad
because I was thinking of coming to
school here then. •
"I couldn't believe the way they' lost.
The only time that Joe (Paternn) had a
chance to be national champion, they
didn't come through. It was kind of
upsetting in that way." ' •
For Jackson and Speros, and most of
the Nittany Lion underclassmen, playing
the Crimson Tide does not take on a
special meaning because of that loss.
They were never a part of that 19-game
Penn State winning streak going into the
Sugar Bowl, or had held the No. 1 spot for
all those weeks back in 1978.
"(Saturday's game) is not like a re
venge, because when I look back, I really
don't understand," Jackson said. "Ala
bama is just a really good foptball
team."
Yet for all the players on this year's
team who were on the 1978 squad as
freshmen, you would think there's been
some talk in the Lion locker room about
the last time the two teams met.
"No, not really, and that's surprised
me," said starting defensive tackle Dave
Opfar. "Because for the seniors on the
team now, that was our first taste of
defeat. It really hasn't been brought up.
We're just trying to keep things in per
spective.
"But I'm sure it will come up in the
pre-game speeches."
What has come up is the inevitable and
constant talk about Paul "Bear" Bryant.
The Alabama coaching legend is tied
with Glen "Pop" Warner as the second
winningest coach in college football his
tory. A win Saturday would tie him with
Amos Alonzo Stagg for the top poSition,
at 314 victories.
Paterno even made a point of remind
ing his squad of something he knew they
were going to have to listen to all week.
"He toldus that's all we'd be hearing,"
Opfar said. "At our meeting Monday, he
said they're going to be talking about
Bryant, Bryant, Bryant."
And they have. The students and the
sports writers and the crossing guard in
Bellefonte. But not the Nittany Lions.
"All of are aware of the fact that he's a
great coach and had a lot of success and
going for the record and all those kinds of
things," Speros said. "But to he honest
with you, no one has even talked much
about it. It's more or less their problem,
not ours."
After Alabama beat Mississippi State
two weeks ago, you could indeed see
what a problem the chase has become for
Bryant.
"I have no comment," Bryant said
following the game when queried about
the record. "I've commented too much
already."
So from looks of it, on the surface
anyway, Saturday's game will simply be
the best in the country that day, between
college football's fifth- and sixth-ranked
teams. No thoughts about Bear finally
reaching the honey. No thoughts about
Penn. State avenging the 1978 national
championship lost on the goal line in the
Louisiana Superdome.
"Who's got time to think about what
happened in 1978?" Paterno askedlrheto
rically yesterday. "If some of our guys
are talking that way, they're stupid."
And they're not.
Mike Poorman is a 10th-term journalism
major and sports editor of The Daily
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Valenzuela wins NL Cy Young
By JACK STEVENSON
AP Sports Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) Fernando Valenzuela
thanked his team and his manager yesterday for
helping him win the 1981 National League Cy Young
Award.
He left out Cy Young because he didn't know who
he was.
Voting for the award, which the 21-year-old Valen
zuela won in a tight race with Tom Seaver and Steve
Carlton, was so close that only the lack of a second
place vote for Seaver of the Cincinnati Reds decided
it.
Valenzuela was the first rookie to win the Cy
Young Award. Vida gtlue won the American League
Cy Young Award with Oakland in 1971, his first full
Female sportswriter
files suit against PSU
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By KEITH GROLLER
Daily Collegian Sports Writer
Evelyn Clayton, a sportswriter for the
Syracuse Herald and a United Press
International correspondent, has filed a
formal protest against Penn State be
cause she was denied entrance to the
football team's locker room after the
Syracuse-Penn State game Oct. 17 at the
Carrier Dome.
The Penn State team policy doesn't
allow women in the dressing room.
"I've been covering sports for eight
years, and I've never had any trouble
with Syracuse or any other school be
fore," Clayton said. "When you cover a
game, you have to be able to talk to the
coaches and the key players. And you
have just a short time to do it."
Clayton said that she wanted to talk to
Curt Warner, the Lions' outstanding tail
back who broke school rushing records in
the Syracuse win. When she tried to enter
the Penn State locker room following the
game, however, a Syracuse police officer
stopped her.
"I thought he didn't understand,"
Clayton said. "I told him I was a member
of the working press and had to be
admitted. He still wouldn't let me in.
"I asked him what authority he was
acting under and he said Penn State's. I
then went to the Syracuse Sports Infor
mation Director (Larry Kimball), and he
said, 'Follow me,' and went into the
locker room.
"But again when I got to the door, I
was stopped," Clayton said. "I saw 'the
Penn State SID (Dave Baker) as I was
being led out and asked him about it. He
said it was a Penn State rule, and I
couldn't go in."
According to Clayton, Baker said she
would have to wait about 30 minutes until
the players cooled off and were dressed
and then he would bring them out for her
to talk to.
"I told him that's unfair," Slayton
said. "I lost my competitive edge. The
AP (Associated Press) and all of the
other reporters were in there doing inter
views and getting quotes. I had to hurry
and get my story on the wire. Baker's
suggestion, was unsatisfactory."
its
year, but he had lost his rookie status, based on
number of appearances, with the A's the previous
year.
"t feel very great being in the major leagues and
winning the Cy Young Award in my first season,"
Valenzuela, who speaks only Spanish, said through
an interpreter. "I feel a little bit surprised because
of the competition, but I'm very happy.
"I thank my teammates and I'm thankful to
(Manager) Tom Lasorda, who gave me a chance."
The Dodgers, to honor their left-handed pitching
star from Mexico, chose an Italian restaurant in Los
Angeles' Chinatown.
-Somebody asked Valenzuela if he knew who Cy
Young was. .
"Seeing this is my first year in the major leagues,
Baker said the story isn't exactly the
way Clayton tells it.
"Yes, I did tell her about our policy and
that she wasn't allowed in the players'
room," Baker said. "But I asked her
what players she needed, and she • said
the only one she wanted was Warner.
"But after the game he had, there were
at least 30 people around him, and I
couldn't possibly get him at that time. I
told her to -wait, and she said, 'That's
fine.' She said she'd get the quotes from
somebody 'else." .
Recent court decisions have opened
- men's locker room doors to women
sports writers. But a National Collegiate
Athletic Association legal opinion states
that the women must have equal access
to the athletes, not necessarily to an open
locker room, according to Baker.
"Some teams have open locker rooms,
others have them wait and bring players
out for them to talk to," Baker said. "We
alwiys bring a couple of players out after
each game.
"With her, I think we made every
obligation to let her talk to the players.
She could've talked to any of the players
she wanted. We made a point to secure
people for her. We had several people
available to help her."
Syracuse SID Kimball said, "She did
come up to me and tell me what was
wrong, and I told her them: wasn't any
thing I could do about it.
"No, I didn't escort her into the locker
room. I have no way of knowing what
happened, but I do know that if that was
the Penn State policy, I'm sure Dave
Baker made every effort to accommo
date her.
"I have no reason to doubt him if he
said he would bring the players out as
soon as he could," Kimball said.
Immediately after the incident,' Clay
ton filed a complaint with the Syracuse
Police Department. The officer involved
was suspended, according to Clayton,'
and the Syracuse police are no longer
guarding the doors at the Carrier Dome
during the Orangemen's games.
As for the protest against Penn State,
Clayton said, "I don't know where it
stands. I let my office handle it.
"But I do intend to pursue it."
I don't know much about him," Fernando an
swered. "But he must be something special for
baseball."
Young was one of baseball's greatest pitchers. He
won 511 games between 1890 and 1911 and was
elected to baseball's Hall of Fame' in 1937..
The outstanding pitchers in the American and the
National leagues, as voted by a panel of members of
the Baseball Writers Association of America, re
ceive the Cy Young Awardi.
Valenzuela• was purchased from Puebla of the
Mexican League for $120,000 by the Dodgers in 1979,
who outbid the New York Yankees. •
He had a laugh on newsmen who asked, "When
will you learn to speak English?"
"I think I will go on this way," he answered.
Faust's dream comes true
By TOM VERDUCCI
Daily Collegian Sports Writer
It is 6:30 a.m. on the campus of the
University of Notre Dame, and the
only stirring is from a few students
rolling over in their sleeping bags.
These students have been camping
out overnight in order to buy Notre
Dame basketball season tickets.
Suddenly, there is more than a stir
in the line. It is a whirlwind awaken
ing the sleepyheads at daybreak.
"Great to see you out here! Glad to
see you support Notre Dame athlet
ics!"
He goes down the line and shakes
the hand of every student.
He is Gerry Faust, and he is the
brightest and most dynamic new per
sonality on the college football scene.
Faust is the first-year head coach at
Notre Dame, and although these
Fighting Irish have struggled through
a disappointing 4-4 season so far, the
coach has not lost any enthusiasm.
"I love it," Faust said in a telephone
interview yesterday. "It is a great
place. I love the people, I love the
school, and I love the players. It is
more than I thought it would be."
Faust came to Notre Dame after a
remarkable 18-year head coaching
career at Cincinnati's Moeller High
School. His career record of 174-17-2
included victories in his last 33 games,
70 in his last 71 and 90 in his final 93.
But perhaps his greatest day came
on, Nov. 24, 1980, when he accepted the
head coaching . job at Notre Dame,
replacing Dan Devine.
"I don't miss Moeller because I love
Notre Dame so much," Faust said.
"If I was not at Notre Dame, though,
that is the only other place I would
want to be."
It was a dream come true for Faust.
He said, "I wanted to go to Notre
Dame ever since I was a kid" as a
collegian he wasn't good enough for
N.D. and played quarterback at Day
ton and the school fits him perfect
ly.
Both have strong religious founda
tions. Both place a heavy emphasis on
academics. Both have a rich tradition
of athletic success.
The storybook tale continues to un
fold on the opening day of this season.
The Irish whipped LSU that day, and
No.l Michigan was upset by Wiscon
sin. After just one game in his college
coaching career, Faust had himself a
No.l team.
But the clock struck 12 for Gerry
Faust and the Fighting Irish of Notre
Dame. Four defeats in his next five
games broke the spell for Faust.
"I think we threw too much at them
in the beginning," Faust said. "The
only person who put pressure on me
was myself."
• Skip Desjardin, assistant sports edi
tor of The Observer, the Notre Dame
student newspaper, said there was no
pressure to oust Faust at the time but
the coach "was extremely disap
pointed. He was very worried that he
had let people down."
The Irish have since rebounded with
blowouts of Navy and Georgia Tech
and probably will have another this
week at the expense of Air Force
before their encounter with Penn
State next week.
Things have changed for Notre
Dame. The Irish are winning instead
of losing. Key players have switched
positions. But Gerry Faust has re-
Thursday, N0v.12 10
"Then you will have to learn Spanish."
Valenzuela, in the strike-shortened season, posted
a 13-7 record with a 2.48 earned run average. He
equalled the record for rookies by winning eight
straight games. He became the first rookie pitcher
since Cleveland's Herb Score to lead the league in
strikeouts. Valenzuela had 180.
The voting for the National League Cy Young
Award was ,close among the panel of baseball
writers from each league. Valenzuela had 70 points
on eight first-place votes, eight seconds and six
thirds. Seaver had 67 points on the same number
of first and third place votes, but just one less for
second-place. Carlton of Philadelphia had 50. Both
Seaver and Carlton have won the award three
times.
Gerry Faust
mained the same through this uneasy
season
He still goes to mass before dawn
every day. He's still in his office 10
minutes before 7 a.m. every day. He
still doesn't get home until 9 or 9:30
p.m.
"There are only so many hours in a
day," said Faust, who seems to have
more than 24 on his clock. "This job is
a very visible job. It's visible not just
in the area here, but in the whole
country."
Faust is more visible on campus
these days than the famous Golden
Dome. He shakes the hands of stu-.
dents camping out for basketball tick
ets. The morning of his first game at
NOtre Dame he drove around campus
on a golf cart and shook hands with
everyone in sight, thanking them for
coming out to watch the Wish.
He goes to the dormitories at night
and conducts question and answer
sessions.
He agrees that he is not like the
average football coach at. Big-Time U.
"No, I'm a little different," he said.
"But we only have 8,000 students here.
There's always been that closeness
with the students."
Please see FAUST, PAGE 11
Warner still
questionable
The status of Penn State tailback Curt
Warner for Saturday's football game
with Alabama in Beaver Stadium is still
uncertain, coach Joe Paterno said yes
terday.
"I'm not sure, really. He tried to run
some (Tuesday) night and he's going to
try to run some today (Wednesday),"
Paterno said at his weekly press confer
ence. "We want to be awfully careful that
he's right because we've got a couple of
other ballgames after this one.
"He's very anxious to play; he thinks
he's going to be able to go. "
Warner originally pulled a muscle in
his left hamstring the week of. practice
before the West Virginia game. He sat
out that game but did start against Mi
ami two weeks ago at the Orange Bowl.
In the second quarter against Miami,
Warner pulled a different muscle in the
same hamstring which forced him' to
miss the rest of that game and the entire
North Carolina State contest last week.
Because the pulls were not related and
occurred in different parts of the ham
string, chances are improved that Warn
er may play Saturday.
"One thing that would tempt me to use
him is the fact that he did not reinjure the
other (injury) when he got hurt," Pater
no said. "And the doctors and trainers
feel that's good: So maybe he'll be ready.
At this point I really don't know."
In
_other news concerning Penn State
injuries, Paterno said tight end Vyto
Kab, who missed last week's game, is
questionable for the Alabama game be
cause of back spasms.
Paterno also said linebacker Chet Par
lavecchio (bruised knee) and shortside
guard Sean Farrell (hip flexor) had not
practiced prior to' yesterday and that he
would evaluate their status after yester
day's practice.
—by Mike Poorman
I A .
Faust keeping self busy
Continued from Page 10 •
There has always been a closeneis
between Faust and his family, too,
but now that closeness is threatened
by amount of time he puts in at
Notre Dame.
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At Moeller, Faust would be with
his wife, two sons (ages 13 and 12)
and daughter (15) on Saturday night
if he wasn't out scouting —and on
Sunday.
But at Nptre Dam, Faust's week
ends are full. Even on Sunday he is
in meetings and in his office from 11
a.m. until 9 p.m.
The only time he is together with
his family is at the training table on
Sunday with the other coaches and
their families.
"Then (at Moeller) I was with my
family at least one night a wpek,"
Faust said. "Now I don't have any."
Gerry Faust seems too good to be
true: He is a devoted Catholic, a
devoted family man and a success
ful football coach.
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"He is an amazing person," Des
jardin said. "You just can't get
upset with him."
But no, Gerry Faust is not perfect
"I've got a lot of faults," he said
"I keep them secret, though."
And Gerry Faust seems to be in a
perfect place. To him, Notre Dame
is Sharangri-La and Utopia rolled
into one. He loves Notre Dame.
But no, Notre Dame has not been
perfect.
"Everything's been great," Faust
said. "I wouldn't change a thing
except some more wins."
After Air Force, wins will not
come easily for Faust. Following
Penn State, Notre Dame is at Mi
ami. With two more losses, the Irish
could have their first losing season
since 1963.
What does a coach do when faced
with big games like those?
Laughing, Faust said, "Pray."
He was only half joking.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) The young
Portland Trail Blazers are the hottest act
in the National Basketball Association,
but the show has yet to prove itself on the
road,
The Blazers are 7-0, the only unbeaten
team in the league, but six of those
victories have come at home, where
sellout crowds have cheered the Portland
team for 192 consecutive games.
The only road victory came at Golden
State and required a rally by the Blazers.
"I know Portland is playing really
loose right now and they're really good
on this floor," Dallas Coach Dick Motta
said after the Blazers smashed his Mav
ericks 117-95 Tuesday night for their
seventh straight triumph.
"But that is because they get so much
love and respect from their fans. Players
here should be thankful they play here,
where fans appreciate them and encour
age them. They don't hear crowd crit
icism here."
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His 41-point average in those three contests jumped Brewer's
season average to 26.6, and moved him, at least temporarily,
into fourth place in NBA scoring ahead of the Lakers' Kareem
Abdul-Jabbar, who is averaging 26.1. He averaged 20 minutes
and 9.2 points through 46 games for the Spurs last season.
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There hasn't been much to criticize
this season as the Blazers opened by
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in succession.
The team is an unlikely group with no
starter who has been in the league more
Brewer making most of playing time
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (AP) San Antonio guard Ron
Brewer, who was sitting near the end of Portland's bench a
year ago, has been the hottest scorer in the NBA as an
emergency starter in place of the injured George Gervin.
Brewer, a fourth-year player out of the University of Arkan
sas, scored career bests of 39, 40 and 44 points in leading San
Antonio to three straight homecourt wins over Cleveland, New
York and Los Angeles.
Brewer's unexpected scoring has helped stake San Antonio to
a 5-1 record atop the Midwest Division as the team begins a long
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The emergence of the 6-4, 180-pound native of Fort Smith,
Ark., gives the Spurs a double scoring threat because Gervin is
leading the NBA with 32.3 points a game through the three
contests'he played before suffering a deep thigh bruise against
Denver last week.
"I feel like it's due," Brewer said after he hit 10 of 24 field
goal attempts and the Spurs routed the Lakers, 128-102, Tues 2
day night.
"This is the first time," said Los Angeles' Magic Johnson,'
who tried to help guard Brewer, "that I've been steamrolled in
my life."
Brewer was given little playing time for the Trail Blazers and'
averaged 7.9 points through 29 games until San Antonio traded'
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