sports Tom McCluskey (34) and the men's basketball team face Lafayette at 8:10 tonight :in Hersheypark Arena in the Second game, of a double-header that features the :women's basketball team in the first game against American University. Gattuso's fame: The catch By WILL PAKUTKA Daily Collegian Sports Writer In 1932, Tony Alteriri and Vera Mikus• danced for more than 4,152 hours in a Pittsburgh marathon. Forty-five years later, a toymaker named George Willig climbed to the top of the World Trade Center from the outside. Penn State defensive tackle Greg Gattuso was looking for an easier way to make it into the newspapers at the beginning of this football season. "Hey, wanna interview me now?" he would repeatedly ask one sportswriter who covered the Nittany Lions home and away. Of course, Gattuso was joking. Sophomore third-string de fensive tackles are seldom the topic of stories after a game especially If they don't play.. The interview time is usually reset ! for star running backs, quarterbacks and captains. 01 -.A.:se, the writer passed on the offer. He'd go along with :the jokc, but let's not get ridiculous. Deep down, though, it wasn't all a joke for Gattuso. The ;act • that he wasn't playing bothered him, as it would almost anybody. The fact that he was known to reporters only as "the guy whose locker is next to Gregg Garrity's" bothered him because he would have enjoyed seeing his name in a newspa per. Any newspaper. • And that third-string stuff. That hurt too. "On most other teams there are three down men," he said. "I'd be one of the second three in that situation." But on a team with only two down men, the six players get divided into three teams instead of two. "It's a matter of numbers," he said. "It doesn't upset me, but my parents, in the paper they see you're third-team tackle. You 'don't like to see that." The night before Penn State's game against Notre Dame, Gattuso thought about how nice it would be to finally get some playing time. Sure, he had played a little two weeks before at North Carolina State, but nobody had really noticed. If he could play against Notre Dame, that would be some thing. The game would be on ESPN. Films of it would be shown Rackley and Harter have more in common than just their coaching stategies. They matched wits laSt year at Hersheypark Arena when Rackley was the Leopards' rookie coach. Harter won that battle, 53-42, as the Lions came back after being behind at halftime. Although the Arena is designated as a neutral court for both teams, last year it turned out to be advantageous for the Lions. That's another point, not surpris ingly, that Rackley and Harter agree on. "It's a nice trip for us," Rackley said, "but I'd rather play either at their place (Rec Hall) or on our campus." Harter, too, would much sooner play at home than . travel to Chocolatetown, U.S.A. Why, then, have the Lions continued to play at Hersheypark Arena since the 1977:.78 season? Certainly; the "home court advantage" hasn't seemed to make much difference, as Penn State has only a 1-3 record there. All three losses came at the hands of Maryland. Harter explained that, originally, games at the Arena were designed to get exposure for Penn State - baSketball. At first, the scheme worked. The games with Maryland drew favorably. But last - year's game with Lafayette produced a on the Penn State highlights show and the Notre Dame highlights show. Then Gattuso remembered the best part. He would be playing against Notre Dame. He remembered a January day in his senior year at Pitts burgh's Seton LaSalle High School, when a Notre Dame recruiter sat with him and a few teachers. The recruiter was eager to have the 6-2, 260-pound redhead visit the campus at South Bend, see the Golden Dome and'Touchdown Jesus. Gattuso said he really didn't want to though. "By that time I sort of had it in my head I was going to Penn State," he said. When Gattuso said 'how he felt, the recruiter quickly dis pensed with the soft-sell approach. "Well, he told me I was never going to make it at Penn State," Gattuso said. "He said I better have my helmet screwed on straight because they're going to come and get me." Gattuso got up, went into the gym and sat by himself for a while. He had never really been a shy person. His football coach sometimes had to take him out of games to cool down his hot head. His basketball coach (Gattuso averaged 23 points per game his senior year) tried to break him of a bad habit of picking up technical fouls. But 'he was learning to control himself now. He would be in college in less than a year. The episode found its way into a newspaper. "One thing I'm glad about was I didn't say anything back to the guy," Gattuso said. The night before Penn State played Notre Dame, Gattuso thought about finally getting back at Notre Dame. Saying something back in his own way. There was only one problem. "I didn't think I'd be playing," he said. But with three clicks of his heels, there he was at defensive tackle for the Lions the next day. He was part of a goal-line defense trying to hold Notre Dame on fourth down and an inch on the Penn State 4-yard line. Lion cagers Chocolatetown bound By STEVE GRAHAM Daily Collegian Sports Writer Just by the way he talks, Lafayette basketball coach Will Rackley must have been cast from the same coaching mold as Penn State coach Dick Harter. Rackley describes his team (2-2) in much the same way that Harter de scribes the Leopards. "We try to be patient on offense and try to run when we can," Rackley said of his young, inexperienced team. "They're a very patient team," Harter said. "They like playing a slow-paced attack." Sound familiar? It was not too long ago that the Lions (3-1) were employing that same slow-paced attack. But at 8:10 tonight at Hersheypark Arena, Penn State will try to put its newly implanted fast-break attack into high gear when it meets Lafayette. The game will be preceded at 6 p.m. by a women's basketball matchup between the Lady Lions and American Universi ty. meager 2,723 fans in an arena that can seat at least 7,000. • Rackley and Harter would probably load. agree that tonight's contest won't draw From Penn State's standpoint, the key well, either. But they might also agree to tonight's game may be defense. -The that it's not the size of the crowd that Lions' defense was suspect in Saturday's makes basketball exciting, it's the qual- loss to North Carolina Charlotte as the ity of the game. 49ers scored 47 first-half points. The Leopards, however, lost most of "I think we'll have to continue to play their quality when forward Thomas Best , like we did the second half againtt North graduated. Although Best averaged 15.2 Carolina Charlotte, and more efficient points a game last season, he was at his ly," Harter said. "We also have to get worst last year against Penn State, scor- some of our walking wounded back." ing only,eight points. One of the walking wounded, though, is This season, Rackley has, a slew of barely walking. .Center-forward Dick young players trying to fill Best's shoes Mumma sprained his right knee in the as team leader. Guards Chaz Keller (12.3 UNCC game and will miss the Lafayette Lady Lions meet American U. By KEITH GROLLER Daily Collegian Sports Writer Instead of the Blue Band's inspiring rendition of "Fight on State," the women's basketball team just may adopt Willie Nelson's "On the Road Again" as its theme song. The Lady Lions are in the midst of a swing that has them playing on foreign hardwood for at least seven consecutive games. And then when the team does finally get to play on campus, it's at a time when Rec Hall is likely to be empty Dec. 19, the day Christmas break starts. But for now, the Lady Lions are "Queens of the Road" and will take its 2-0 record to Chocolatetown, U.S.A. (Hershey) tonight with nothing but the sweetest of thoughts. The .Lady Lions meet American University at 6 p.m. in the opening game of a basketball twinbill that has the men's team meeting Lafayette in the nightcap. "This is the, beginning of a real long trip for us," said assistant coach Bob Foley. "We'll be away for a quite awhile. But to tell you the truth, we're looking forward to it." And why not? ' The team has already visited the New England states and while it wasn't exactly a repeat of the Boston Massacre, the Lady Lions did stage a little "Revenge Revolution" in whipping Boston UNiversity 90-69 one night after defeating Connecticut 71-66. The win over BU last Wednesday was particularly special because the Lady Terriers had defeated Penn State in the Lady Lion Classic title game a year ago. But Penn State easily avenged that loss with a gang-like effort as six different players finished in double figures. Cindy Davies led the team with 21 points against Connecticut and joined Louise Leimkuhler with a team-leading 18 points in the win over Boston. But don't get the idea that Davies is the Bradshaw breaks hand in defeat By DAVID EINSTEIN AP Sports Writer OAKLAND (AP) Marc Wilson fired three touchdown passes and rookie Ted Watts broke a punt return 53 yards to snap a 20-20 tie as the Oakland Raiders defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers 30-27 in the National Football League last night. The victory kept the Raiders, 7-7, in the playoff chase, while Pittsburgh, 8-6, suf fered a devastating blow when quar terback Terry Bradshaw broke his throwing hand in the second quarter. The Steelers dropped two games be hind front-running Cincinnati in the American Conference Central Division with two games left in the regular sea son. The Bengals and Steelers play in Pittsburgh Sunday. Oakland had not 'led in the game until Watts took Craig Colquitt's punt at the Raiders' 47-yard line and raced through traffic to score with 11 minutes remain ing in the game for a 27-20 lead. Chris Bahr added a 29-yard field goal for the winning points as the Raiders improved their Monday night record to 18-1-1. The Steelers came back to score the game's final touchdown with 10 seconds heard 'round the country When the line held, Gattuso, who swears he wasn't thinking about the episode with the recruiter, was the first to signal a Penn State first down. With 7:45 left in the game, Notre Dame threatened again. Gattuso was still on the field and in a defensive set-up called "Magic," in which he's supposed to drop back and watch for a pass. Gattuso saw Notre Dame quarterback Blair Kiel pump and decided to take a chance. He moved back 20 yards to his own 18- yard line, jumped like an understudy for Richard Simmons and intercepted Keil's pass one-handed. The play helped bring the Lions back from behind Notre Dame, sent them on a nine-play drive for a touchdown and a 24- 21 win. After the game, reporters went to Gattuso and first in line was his old friend the same writer he had offered his story to so many times before. Now, the reporter really wanted it. "I'm not going to talk to you because you have, ahem, ignored me in the past," Gattuso said jokingly. But he would speak to everybody and was in all the sports sections the next day. A week later at Pittsburgh, Gattuso went on to bigger things. He recovered two fumbles as ABC-TV cameras watched. The next day, his picture would appear in sports sections aeross the country, courtesy of an Associated Press photographer, who caught him running off the field with a Pitt fumble. A few days later, Gattuso would see himself again, in the crease between two pages of Sports Illustrated. Now Gattuso knows he might go the rest of,his college career without his picture ever hitting the wire services, or the pages of Sports Illustrated again. He doesn't mind. "Just playing like that, I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world," he said. But, most likely, his days of asking reporters if they want to talk to him have ended. They'll come to him now. And someday, every word he says may be greeted by dozens of moving pencils. What would he think then? "I wouldn't mind that a bit." point average) and Mike Whitman (10.5) have carried the brunt of the scoring team's Dr. J or Larry Bird. So far, the Lady Lions have played as a team with a capital "T." "I don't know, I guess I just had a couple of good games up there," said Davies, a 6-2 sophomore. "I don't think I'm really the team's key offensive threat. We have so many good players that anyone is capable of having a big game." Although Davies scored most of her points with hot shooting from the outside, the Penn State offense likes to fastbreak and has done so effectively in the opening games. The lone problem came late against Connecticut when the Lady Lions saw an 18-point lead evaporate to just five when the offense panicked under full-court pressure. r, "We had a great game for three quarters and then we faltered when they pressed us," Davies said. "We just have to work on bringing the ball up and giving Annie (Troyan). some help. We also missed having Carol Walderman back there to help, but we'll work it out." Walderman missed the trip to New England to work on some academic matters, but will return to the lineup tonight. Stacey Dean, the team's promising freshman guard who set scoring and rebounding records in high school, won't return to the team for another six weeks because of knee surgery. But the team is getting plenty of balance from starters like Troyan, who set a team assist record with 15 against UConn, and Cheryl Ellison who scored 14 points against Boston and did a fine job on the boards, according to the coaching staff. Head coach Rene Portland has also been surprised with the play of backup center Kahadeejah Herbert and reserve guard Carol Fultz, both of whom scored in double figures at Boston. Both will be sure to see plenty of action tonight against a physical 0-2 American team. "We don't know too much about them," Foley said. "But we do know that they're very physical underneath. But we think we can out quick them." to play when backup quarterback Mark Malone hit Jim Smith with a 17-yard scoring toss. It was Malone's second TD toss of the night.. Pittsburgh had taken a 20-14 lead with 1:04 left in the third quarter with an 11- yard bootleg by Malone. The extra point attempt was blocked by Dave Browning. The Raiders tied the game at 20 with 12:31 to play in the final period when Wilson connected on a 38-yard touchdown pass to Bob Chandler, who outleaped Dwayne Woodruff in the end zone. Bahr missed the extra point attempt that would have given Oakland the lead. • Bradshaw was expected to be lost'for four weeks with his injury,. suffered• on the first play on the second period. Also injured in the game were Steelers line backer Jack Lambert with a slight con cussion and Raider running back Kenny King with a bruised chest. Neither of them returned. The Raiders survived five turnovers to the Steelers, who had forced 17 turnovers in compiling a three-game winning streak. The Raiders committed four fum bles that took them out of scoring drives. Wilson fumbled twice, the first time on the Pittsburgh 19-yard line on the third Defensive tackle Greg Gattuso (70) has emerged as a frontline player for the Nittany Lions through their last two victories, contributing an interception against Notre Dame and two fumble recoveries versus Pittsburgh. The Daily Collegian Tuesday, Dec. 8 game, as will forward Rich Fetter, who is still recuperating from a broken hand. Plus, guard Craig Collins is recovering from a bruised hip but will play as much as he's needed. "You can't take tw9 front-line players out without having Problems," Harter said. It's also very important that the Lions don't look too far ahead, namely to the Indiana Classic this weekend in Bloo mington, Ind., where they could possibly meet the defending national champiop Hoosiers. "I' think we need a win to kind of bounce back," Lion forward David Grif fin said. play of the game, after hitting Cliff' Branch with a 38-yard , pass on the first play from scrimmage. The Steelers opened the scoring late in the first period when Bradshaw capped a 52-yard drive with a 5-yard touchdown pass to Bennie Cunningham. After knocking Bradshaw, out of the_, game, the Raiders tied the score 7-7, marching 81 yards midway through the second quarter. Wilson completed four passes in four attempts during the drive and capped it with a 25-yard scoring toss to Derrick Ramsey. Malone brought the Steelers right back, however, moving the team 77 yards with key passes to Lynn Swann, Cunningham and a 19-yard touchdown toss to Smith with 1:56 left in the half. Oakland tied the score again at 15 early in the third quarter on an explosive 83- yard drive that took just four plays, the big gainer a 60-yard run by King. He broke through a hole off right tackle, cut back to the left and went to the Steeler 21- yard line before being caught. Two plays later, Wilson dumped a pass off to Arthur Whittington, who broke two tackles as he danced down the sideline into the end zone. ~:. Photo by Barb Parkyn Play for pay in college sports? Above-board payments not the answer to integrity It is 1966, and Notre Dame is on its way to the college football national championship. But off the field, the Fighting Irish are on their way downtown for under-the-table cash payments. They stroll from the historic and revered Notre Dame campus to the business district of South Bend, Ind. The select players the best on the team pay visits to local businessmen. The players are given money. The scenario•occurs twice every week. Allen Sack remembers that. He played defensive end on that Notre Dame team and he remembers how the players got paid. "They were almtist on salary," Sack said. Sack might not have thought much about that practice then, but today he spends much of his time thinking about such matters. Dr. Allen L. Sack, B.A. in sociology from Notre Dame (1967), M.A. in sociolo gy from Penn State (1970) and Ph.D. in sociology from Penn State (1974), is the director of the Center for Athletes' Rights and Education. He doesn't want to eliminate the practice of paying college athletes, he wants to do it openly. • "I am shocked that they are called prostitutes for that," Sack said last week in a Colloquy-sponsored presentation. "I would rather have it above the board done in an ethical and equitable way rather than, the way it is going on now." Sack's idea of an ethical way is for the athlete to share in gate receipts generated by his sport. Sack also endorses a union for college athletes and their right to bargain collectively. He should be commended for recognizing many of the problems facing college athletes, but his piopo sals for solving the problems put him in the same class as an arsonist working as a firefighter: the fire's only going to worsen. "This country is ready," Sack said. "Many people are disgusted. It's time to do something to restore integrity." By fostering increased professionalism in the col- At the Brewery Tonight Johnny Deadline Band and Jack Daniel's Night •PIainIBU2GERS foncybUzGEßS ail kinds of v uinny 8UK056 . 1 J.- MIASHRCOI I II;:fieIEp oNi ONS eci • r\ .‘• BA!-ON f CHEESE • o\ -. • • • Atli inn soitze rloterell c.tneese ,AND MORE! SWAP ANP OF K7A(.5 • A ili e el Mena country Tavern Irl'ofirees 237-1049 open it: barn. fo room leges, Sack and CARE are not restoring integrity. College athletes are professionals already, but this country is not, ready for unions and strikes from them. Students on athletic grants-in-aid are not ama teurs. Simply put, they are paid to play. They receive thousands of dollars per year in the form of tuition payments, housing, meals and many other benefits. As long as they continue to play, they'll continue to get paid. But the word "professional" scares people like Frank Downing, Penn State's athletic academic advisor. • "No, they're not professionals," Downing said. "They never touch that money. When the money touches the kids' hands, that's my definition." That's too naive. The money touches a kid's stom ach at training table. It touches his feet when he doesn't have to wait for two days in a dorm contract line. It touches his eyes when he doesn't have to read how tuition is going up again. Yet Sack's organization believes these athletes are exploited. They generate money, but don't share in it. They attend a university, but don't receive an educa tion. They work as an employee of the school, but don't unionize or bargain collectively. "The idea of a union is way out," Downing said. "I don't think anything like that will come to pass. His ideas fly in the face of conventionalism and don't stand much of a chance of getting off the ground. "The kids may be unhappy but they're not ex ploited. If a kid does his part he doesn't have the feeling of being exploited." Joe Athlete probably feels he's exploiting the university. He gets .a free education, a free place to live and free food all for playing a game. That's why Sack's ideas don't make sense. CARE could help, however, when it comes to assuring athletes a proper education instead of a Mickey Mouse one that some athletic departments set up just to keep them eligible. But all too often the athletes don't get the proper education because they don't want it. They see the university as a stepping stone to the pros and not as an academic place. And yes, even at semi-sacred Penn State there are ath letes who'd love to be able to play without taking classes at all. Sack is ignoring the economic side of sport when he says the athletes of revenue-producing sports should share in the gate receipts: If that were to happen at Penn State, money would be channeled to the football players and away from the other 29 sports. It would ENGINEERING SEMINARS Chemical Eng., Ceramic Science Eng. and Petroleum Eng. Seminar will be held WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9th 7:30 8:30 AT 124 SACKETT sponsored by TAU BETA PI r 7:711 . 21r 0:4to- .awN Allen Sack be only a matter of time before the University.woulu have only revenue-producing sports. "I see that as a real problem," Sack said. Some of CARE's aims, however, are useful, such as educating the high school coach and athlete about recruiting and educating all athletes about the bene fits' and dangers of diet, training methods and injury prevention and treatment. But the aims that have vaulted this organization into national prominence revenue sharing, unioni zation and collective bargaining for college athletes can only make matters worse in the already poisoned world of college sport. Tom Verducci is an 11th-term journalism major and a sports writer for The Daily Collegian. Begin ning next week, his column will appear on Wednes days. Interested in Racing Dicycles? The Penn State Cycling Club will hold organizational meeting Tuesday, Dec. 8 at 7:30 in Room 67 Willard Be There! December 3 Classes Begin December 14 7:00p.m., Room 201 Business Administration Building Christmas Party: Administrators, Faculty members and Business Students. December 19 January 3 Christmas Break January 11 7:00 p.m., 320 HUB Introduction of new Student Council Advisor. Phone-a-thon, committee reports, announcements, and refreshments. January 25 7:00 p.m., 320 HUB Tentative Guest Speaker February 8 7:0.0 p.m., 320 HUB Nominations for next year's Student Council officers. Announcements. February 22 7:00 p.m., 320 HUB Elections for next year's Students Council officers. Social after the meeting. 5 R-048 1t.91a,91e,~.t.01Le'n~x:421t491 Photo by Nick Ostrosky .o-.~.v~.o~~o,~o,~~~~.0,~„4,~.0, THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT COUNCIL officers: Tom Erickson—President Tammy Lindenberg—Secretary Karl Knepley—Treasurer *All Business Students Welcome! * TV Guide report claims sports coverage biased- PHILADELPHIA (AP) The millions Cosell said. "They can't offend the of dollars spent by television networks NCAA." for rights to broadcast professional and According to TV Guide, the NCAA has college sports don't necessarily buy jour- told ABC announcers not to mention pro nalistic freedom, according to TV Guide football during college broadcasts, and magazine. last August the•association vetoed ABC In fact, the teams involved, through plans to use former pro quarterback their owners or via powerful leagues and Fran Tarkenton to provide color corn associations, often dictate the coverage, mentary on some college games. the magazine said in its Dec. 5 issue. In addition, the NCAA monitors all of From reviews of sports shows, and kßC's weekend college football broad interviews with more than 40 network :asts for offending material and calls the executives; producers and eommenta- :►etwork on Mondays to register object tors, TV Guide's Sally Bedell and Don Lions, the magazine said. Kowet concluded that the networks have For example, ABC announcer Dave bargained away their objectivity in order Diles was rebuked for a slip when he to land lucrative snorts contracts. referred to Ohio University as Ohio State While.occasionally viewers may see "a while another announcer, Jim Lampley, handful of journalistic gems" on the was called "too judgmental." sports scene, the magazine says that The controls exercised by the National "the truth is that writers, reporters and Football League are "subtle," according producers who practice TV sports jour- to ABC News and Sports president Roone nalism too often are victims of a corrupt- Arledge, also quoted in the article. ing bigamy." The NFL, through a film subsidiary, "There is no journalism in college provides the networks with film clips football at ABC," Howard Cosell, an ABC showing highlights of professional foot announcer, told the magazine. Arledge says the networks feel obliged ABC, which is paying the National to air some of the footage because the Collegiate Athletic Association $31.5 mil- NFL controls the game scheduling, and lion this year for rights to college football can deliver either the glamorous games games; "doesn't have a death wish," or the duller ones. Bucs stop 'aerial circus' , to settle down to 8-6 mark TAMPA, Fla. (AP) Three weeks played Green Bay and they kept this ago, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers were confidence. stumbling after two consecutive losses. "We tried to tell them they have as They had a 5-6 record and their playoff much right to play in this thing as anv dreams were disappearing. body; but you can't go out there and play They had become, coach John McKay like something bad is going to happen. said yesterday, an "aerial circus." Something bad is definitely going to Now, the Bucs, 8-6, lead the National happen as it did on a punt in the first Football Conference Central and are one quarter. If that's going to bother you, game from the division title and the you're never going to be a winner. You're playoffs. just going to be a guy who makes a lot of In that short time, the Bucs have done excuses for losing." an abrupt about-face to quietly pull out of The Bucs have started to establish the pack by thumping Green Bay 37-3 and running attack, thereby varying the of- New Orleans 31-14 and, on Sunday, edg- fense and taking some of the pressure off ing Atlanta 24-23. quarterback Doug Williams. "This team has confidence," McKay "I think Doug played pretty well most said. "They got it the week before they of the season." said McKay. Penn State Marketing Club Distinguished Speaker Series presents IFMC entry to business G.T. Gallagher manager sales planning U• 130 9.4 u I The Daily Collegian Tuesday, Dec. 8, 1981-13 Wed. Dec. 9, 7:30 p.m. 102 Forum
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