sports Penn State faces Lock Haven By LIZ KAHN Collegian Sports Writer It just might be an all out, nothing-held-back, offensive battle. ' When the undefeated field hockey team (3-0) travels to meet the vengeful Lady Eagles of Lock Haven (2-0) at 3 this afternoon, virtually any thing could happen at least from an outsider's point of view. The Lady Eagles began the defense of their 1981 Division II national championship title by downing Bloomsburg State last week 1-0, and Indiana of Pennsylvania 2-0 on Tuesday. During its season last year, Lock Haven suf fered from a loss only once, to register an impressive 18-1-2 record. But that single loss was dealt on Lady Lion Field when the Lady Eagles bowed to Penn State in a tight 2-1 match. According to Lock Haven Coach Sharon Tay lor, her team is up and aiming to get back that win. "Every time we play Penn State it's a close game," Taylor said, "and hopefully we can perform in the best way we know how, to reverse last year's decision so it's in our favor this year." But Penn State promises to be tough against Lock Haven, a team which has registered a 12-5-1 record against the Lady Lions since 1964. . Penn State began a six-game road swing last weekend when they beat Purdue and Ohio State in Columbus. Although they are coming away from three straight wins (one at home against Princeton), the play just might have been a little too close for the comfort of Head Coach Gillian Rattray and her two-time Division I national championship team. In all three of its matches this season, Penn State has failed .to score in the first half. And contrary to their performance in other years, the Lady Lions so far haven't been the fast shooting, high scoring team that most of their opponents expecte them to be. Senior Tracy Houston said she thinks, for that reason, today's game will be very important. "The ball just hasn't been going in the cage," she said. "We have to penetrate moreand have good, concise angled shots without being too anxious. Lock Haven is always ready for us, so we have to concentrate and be ready for them, as well as for every game." According to Houston and senior midfielder Judy Mahaffey, the Lady Lions have been prac ticing a lot of circle play, or shooting on goal, in order to build up their offense. "We've dominated every team, but we just enn State may benefit in latest TV development In living rooms coast-to-coast, weekly Penn State football on cable video may eventually be more than a possibility. In a court decision on Sept. 15, U.S. District Judge Juan Burciaga held that, "the right to telecast college football games is the property of the institutions participating in the games, and that right may be sold or assigned by those instituitions to any entity at their discretion." Burciaga further held that, "The contracts for the televising of col lege football for the 1982-1985 sea sons between National Collegiate Athletic Association and American Broadcast System, Columbia Broad cast System and Turner Broadcast system violate . . . the Sherman Antitrust Act . . . and are therefore void and of no effect." This means colleges can now nego tiate directly with the broadcast systems for their , own football tele vision rights rather than submit to the conditions of an NCAA-nego tiated package. On the surface this would Seem to provide the Penn State athletic de partment with a real opportunity. The primary bonus of negotiating your own TV contracts is, of course, the money.. However, this would not necessarily benefit only the football team. "We want to be able to generate enough money to protect our inter collegiate program," Penn State football Coach Joe Paterno said yes terday at his weekly press confer ence. "Because, unless we can generate more income, we're not going to be able to buy field hockey sticks for the women's field hockey team, we're not going to buy tennis rackets, we're not going to travel, we're not going to do a lot of things. "I don't think it's fair . . . to con stantly raise (football) ticket prices so that we can support the other 27 sports. We have to find some way to protect the facilities we have, all the tennis courts, all the things that are maintained by athletic funds, by football. Period." Lady Lions brace for brutal battle Senior Tracy Houston (2) and the field hockey team (3.0) hope to continue in its winning ways as the Lady Lions travel to Lock Haven to battle the Lady Eagles at 3 this afternoon. have to work hard offensively to score a few more points." Mahaffey said, "We really need a good game and Lock Haven wants us. We just have to find that cage. " So, it appears that each team knows what it will have to do in order to come out the victor in today's "battle." Score, score, and score again. An important factor in this afternoon's match, aside from the need for strong offense, is the location of the game. Penn State also stands to benefit in terms of exposure because under NCAA regulations schools were only permitted to be televised six times in two years. With that regulation out of the way the more popular, college teams would be able to appear as often as they were able to sell them selves. Schools appearing more often than others would also have a tremen dous recruiting asset. What first class athlete with professional po tential would resign himself to the relative obscurity of small-time foot ball without the kind of publicity and exposure frequent television cover age could bring? So, with all these obvious benefits to Penn State and other major foot ball schools, why should there be any reluctance to plunge into the college television market? One of the more important reasons is that some of the smaller schools are going to take a real beating if and when the scramble for the big money really starts. Some schools are just not going to be able to compete in a marketplace where popular winning teams are available for broadcast every week. The lost revenue from television broadcast contracts previously en sured by membership in the NCAA could be devastating to small college athletic programs. Court delays NCAA TV decision By JOHN MOSSMAN AP Sports Writer DENVER A three-judge panel granted yesterday a stay requested by the NCAA of a lower court ruling which strips the NCAA of its control over the televising of college football. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel issued the temporary stay and requested both parties in the suit to file further information on specific matters. After all briefs are on file, oral arguments in the case could begin as soon as Nov. 15, according to court clerk Howard Phillips. The judges James E. Barrett, James K. Logan and Stephanie K. Seymour said no time extensions would be allowed. The action came several hours after the NCAA filed its motion for a stay pending an appeal of last week's decision by U.S. District Court Juan Burciaga of New Mexico. Burciaga, presiding in Oklahoma City after federal judges there excused themselves, ruled last Wednes day in favor of the universities of Oklahoma and Georgia in their suit to gain the right to negotiate their "If you end up with 20 or 25 schools that are able to negotiate big con tracts, I think it's obvious you will have a situation where you will eliminate people." Paterno said. "I think Penn State does not want to be in the position to hurt anyone, any more than is necessary to do the job th'at we have to do for our people." All the resulting chaos of the tele vision contract negotiation problem was forseen last year by Paterno and others with the formation of the College Football Association. The CFA was formed by major college football powers looking for a more equitable television contract pack age than was being offered by the NCAA. "We wanted to put together a package that protected the people we felt it was important , to protect, like Rutgers, Virginia, lowa State, Kansas State, people like that." Pa terno said. Unfortunately, some of the larger institutions never gave full support to CFA. As a result, college football programs now face the challenge of independent negotiations. Independent negotiation of college football television contracts has some very serious implications. Not all of which ,bode well for college football specifically and collegiate athletics in general. The decisions reached in the courts in the upcom- The home field of the Lady Eagles is not one of Penn State's favorite places to play. Being away from Lady Lion field has proven to be difficult enough for Penn State in the past, but this afternoon's game will'be a challenge for the Lady Lions, who played on the artificial turf at Ohio State this past weekend. "Their field is like dirt, with hardly any grass," Mahaffey explained. "We'll have to be mentally ready for not only the team, but also the way the ball is going to bounce." ing months will affect every institu tion with a sports program. While the chaos of mid-season television negotiation has been tem porarily averted, the issues it in volves still remain to be resolved. Independent negotiations are not the answer to the NCAA's restrictive contract provisions. Persons respon sible for collegiate athletics would do well to examine the CFA's con tract proposals rather than enter the arena of independent negotiation. "I have three telephone calls right now," said Paterno holding up some message forms. "I have three peo ple waiting to talk to me about coming up here and making some deals." But Paterno has long been aware of the chaos that would result if each school were free to negotiate its own multi-million dollar deals. "I hope the NCAA gets a stay so that people can sit down . . . and negotiate a package with a fairer share of the money," Paterno said. "I don't think Penn State wants to be out on the street right now negotiat ing our . . . games when its going to affect other people. We don't want to get rich at the expense of other people." Eric Ewing is a 10th-term admin istration of justice major and a sports columnist for The Daily Colle gian. own television contracts Burciaga ruled that the NCAA's $2Bl million tele vision contracts with ABC, CBS and the Turner Broad casting System constituted a monopoly in violation of federal anti-trust laws and thus were void. Two days later, Burciaga denied the NCAA's request for a stay of his order pending an appeal. Yesterday, the NCAA requested a stay from the appellate court. Earlier this week, Oklahoma and Southern Cal sold the telecast rights to their Saturday football game for $250,000 the first time colleges have made their own arrangements with broadcast outlets for football tele casts since the NCAA assumed control over such telecasts in the early 19505. The station purchasing the telecast rights, KOCO, also can sell its telecast to other outlets across the country, Oklahoma Athletic Director Wade Walker said. Yesterday's action by the appellate court effectively re-establishes the NCAA's control and voids the Okla homa-USC deal. In seeking a stay of the judge's order, NCAA attor neys argued in their brief that Burciaga's opinion "is plainly at odds" with previous decisions. Photo by NFL strike feared to affect beer sales By.TOM.JORY Associated Press Writer NEW YORK Advertisers for beer and other products pitched to the millions of men who watch Professional football on TV were looking yesterday for new ways to push their wares as the players' strike headed toward its first weekend. "We're going to look at alterna tive programs, but for now we plan to stay with whatever substi tute programming the networks offer," said Jerry Solomon, an executive vice president at the Darcy, McManus & Masius adver tising agency, whose clients in clude the Anheuser-Busch Cos. "It Would be nice and easy and better if there were no strike," Solomon said, "but a limited strike two or three weeks? won't have any real effect on us." NFL players began their first in season strike after ABC's broad cast of the New York Giants- Green Bay Packers game Monday night. An ABC game between At lanta and Kansas City, scheduled for tonight, would be the first affected by the walkout. ABC announced plans to broad cast a theatrical film, "The Cheap Detective," and a special edition of the network's "20-20" newsma gazine, instead of the game. NBC planned to substitute live professional football from Canada for its regular slate of NFL games, and Curt Block, a network vice president, said, "When we thought it was NFL, we were sold out, and no one has pulled away yet." ' CBS said it would broadcast a rerun of Super Bowl XVI between San Francisco and Cincinnati, played last January. "We'll all look at the ratings, and compare them with what we expect for NFL football," said Solomon. "The costs will be ad justed respectively." Block, at NBC, said compensa tion for lower-than-normal ratings "I don't think it's fair . . . to constantly raise (football) ticket prices so that we can support the other 27 sports. We have to find some way to protect the facilities we have." Penn State Coach Joe Paterno The Daily Collegian Thursday, Sept. 23 might include advertising time elsewhere on the schedule. Adver tisers on NBC pay about $BO,OOO for a 30-second spot during a weekend regular season game, and general ly anticipate an audience of at least 12 million and perhaps 15 million homes. "Men 18 to 49 is the audience that we want," Solomon said. "We careless about over-all numbers. We might not be satisfied if they throw in a movie aimed primarily at women." Advertisers, by one industry es timate, were prepared to spend about $4OO million for commer cials on pro football games this season. Breweries and automak ers would be among the hardest hit by a long strike, and with 1983 models about to be introduced, dissatification was most intense in Detroit: , Chrysler Corp., which planned to spend 25 percent of its fall advertising budget on NFL foot ball, was the first to announce an alternative arrangement, with ca ble TV entrepreneur Ted Turner. Turner's Atlanta-based super station, WTBS, would carry a se ries of all-star games now being considered by the NFL Players Association. Other auto manufacturers ex pressed anxiety, but indicated a willingness to wait. "We're going to play it loose for a while," said Doug McClure, Ford division ad vertising manager for Ford Motor Co. There are alternatives college football, magazines like Sports Illustrated but for some spon sors like Budweiser Light, an An heuser-Busch product, a prolonged strike could be damag ing. The networks would be affected ; by a long strike, too. The three ABC, CBS and NBC recently signed a $2.1 billion, five-year con tract with the NFL, and would not pay the league for canceled games. See related story, Page 12 ; Photo by Robert Hammor Sullivan looks to salvage year at Open By TOM SALADINO AP Sports Writer COLUMBUS, • Ga. Fortunately for Mike Sullivan, whose year has been a virtual disaster, the touring golf pros are in Columbus this week for the Southern Open, a tournament that has been a savior for the former University of Flor ida star in the past. And Sullivan, who is far down on the money list with leas than $29,000 this year, is anxiously awaiting today's opening round after winning here in 1980 and losing in a playoff to defending champion J.C. Snead a year ago. "Hopefully I can get back my game here," Sullivan said. "Right now I don't have an awful lot of confidence but I have played well here and anywhere you play well, you have good feelings about the course." Favorites in the field for the $45,000 first prize in the $250,000 event over the par 70, 6,791-yard Green Island Country Club course include Snead, Andy Bean, George Burns, Hale Irwin, ,Larry Nelson, Bobby Clampett and Payne Stewart. 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