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Lions puree Syracuse in colorful contest
By CHRIS RAYMOND
Collegian Sports Writer
Aside front the obvious lack of
competition in Saturday’s Homecom
ing game vs. Syracuse, Penn State
alumni can, at least, take some con
solation in the color of the 42-3 con
test.
Case in point:
• Team records fell like marsh
mallows onto the field. (Nearly ev
eryone agreed, however, that records
and marshmallows weren’t nearly as
bad as the tomato which prompted
officials to call time out in the second
quarter for a friendly reminder:
Don’t throw fruit on the field. (Rumor
has it the NCAA’s official biologist
approved the call.)
• Members of the Lions’ six-week
old sign club tried albeit unsuc
cessfully for nearly two quarters to
signal alien spacecraft in the Happy
Valley stratosphere with strange
messages like "aorVd” and “(ISd
■at"
• Penn State fans participated in
Beaver Stadium’s very first slow-mo
tion wave.
• And the Blue Band unveiled a
brand new fight song which sounded
remarkably like the theme from The
Flintstones.
Top that off with a host of awkward
passes, pilches, punts and runs and
you may begin to get the picture.
Still, even with that list of oddities,
the Penn State team remained true to
form:
• The No. 6 Lions returned to
their three-part scoring strategy to
take a seven-point lead just 2:25 into
the game.
• The key to their offensive explo
sion was a first-rate rushing perfor
mance.
• And an air-tight defense pro
vided the spark which started the
whole affair.
The three-part scoring strategy
kick off, gain possession deep in ene
my territory and zero in on the end
zone gave the Lions the game
winning touchdown with 57:35 re
maining when fullback Tim Manoa
bulled his way into the end zone from
11 yards out. The 39-yard scoring
drive was sparked by a Duffy Cobbs’
interception on the Orangemen’s first
play from the line of scrimmage.
Manoa finished the day with 96
yards rushing, but his counterpart
Blair Thomas stole the limelight late
in the third quarter when he all but
Orangemen once again bury themselves with turnovers
By MARK ASHENFELTER
Collegian Sports Writer
If you wanted the perfect example of a team throwing
its gameplan out the window from the outset, an introduc
tion to the Syracuse Orangemen is in order.
Syracuse almost defeated the football team last year
but shot itself in the .foot with a series of turnovers. So
Dick MacPherson, the team’s effervescent head coach,
spent the past two weeks preaching flawless execution to
his team.
Instead of collecting the dividends, however, he
watched in disbelief as the offense made a mockery of his
sermons on the very first play from scrimmage. It was
the first of many such mistakes and led to a 42-3 thrashing
by the Lions.
Quarterback Don McPherson dropped back to pass and
looked for Scott Schwedes, but instead found linebacker
Pete Giftopoulos who tipped the pass to teammate Duffy
Cobbs. Six plays after the interception the Lions had a 7-0
lead and MacPherson had the start of a migraine head
ache.
Syracuse would turn the ball over three more times on
the afternoon, creating all sorts of problems. Besides
stalling any momentum the offense was generating, it
forced the defense to spend more than half the game on
the field. After the game a beleagured MacPherson
Backs run wild
By CHRIS LODER
Collegian Sports Writer
They are a family of sorts, giving advice when asked
and encouragement when needed.
Like a fraternity, the seniors give guidance to the
freshman and sophomores, and like bigger brothers,
they berate the youngsters when they make a mistake.
The freshman and sophomores, meanwhile, listen to
their elders and hope one day to emulate them.
There is no selfishness in this lot; no greed or
jealously. The family is in it together, and like Behja
min Franklin said at the signing of the Declaration of
Independence, “We must all hahg together, or assured
ly we shall all hang separately.”
Thus are the Penn State running backs, a group of
talented and gifted people. They are the epitome of
diversity and on Saturday, they proved that they all
can play football, too
Against Syracuse, eight different running backs got
the call, and along with a wide receiver and a quar-
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matched Manoa’s performance with
one run. The sophomore tailback
from Philadelphia dashed 92 yards on
a sweep to the right to set up a one
yard touchdown plunge by fullback
Steve Smith and better the Lions’ old
mark for long distance running by
two yards. The old record was set by
Bill Suter against Navy in 1894.
Thomas later carried the ball 38
yards for a touchdown juking even
the marshmallows in the end zone to
give Penn State a 35-3 lead. The two
big runs coupled with a two-yard rush
on his first carry of the ballgame
gave the sophomore a one-day aver
age of 44-yards per carry.
All totaled, Penn State finished the
day with 434 yards on the ground
including Thomas’s 132, Manoa’s 96,
D.J. Dozier’s 84 and 47 by third-string
safety turned runner Odell Wilson.
Much of that success could be attrib
uted to the strong play of the Lions on
the offensive line.
"I thought they did an awfully good
job most of the time,” Head Coach
Joe Paterno said after the game.
“They still had some spots where
they were a little bit erratic, jumping
offsides, (picking up) penalties and
what have you but overall they came
off the ball we 11...
I thought our defense played an
outstanding game. I think you ought
to start with the defense, not with the
offense.”
The play of the Penn State defense
was, indeed, impressive as the Lions
held Syracuse to 248 yards in total
offense, while registering six sacks
and forcing four turnovers.
Orange quarterback Don McPher
son spent much of the day scrambling
from linebackers Don Graham and
Shane Conlan losing 44 yards in the
process and his leading receiver Scott
Schwedes was confined to 13 yards on
three catches.
“We were very concerned about
Schwedes,” Paterno said. “We put
people around him as best we could
without giving up too much in the way
of the option game. But that’s a tough
combination in there.
“I don’t know whether we handled
McPherson or not. It looked to me
like we made some*big plays but he
had to throw with a lot of pressure on
him and I thought we mixed up our
coverages really well.”
Cobbs was responsible for two of
the Orangemen’s four turnovers add
ing an intercepted McPherson pitch
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wondered if anyone had listened to him the past two
weeks.
“We stressed that we had to play perfect football, we
can’t have turnovers,” he said. “(We told them) if we had
turnovers we’re going to get beat and if we give them
enough turnovers they’re going to embarrass you.
“Call me a prophet, because we were embarrassed.
The football team was embarrassed, the coaching staff
and most especially a proud tradition of Syracuse foot
ball. It’s a great program and a great school and we’re
embarrassed. If you can’t play any better than that,
that’s it. The turning point of the game started right on
the first damn play.”
But the Orangemen regrouped after the inauspicious
opening and played a steady defensive game until the
final minutes of the half. The defense stopped the Lions
twice after McPherson fumbles in the first quarter, but it
broke as the half expired.
Penn State took the ball 72 yards in nine plays after a
punt and made it 14-0 just four seconds before the Blue
Band took the field. The score hurt, but MacPherson
didn’t think it was a killing blow at the time.
“Anything that happens right before the half is a
tremendous uplift to one team and a dowr.er for the
other,” MacPherson said. “The nice thing was we had a
chance to come in and regroup. I thought we’d be all
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Shane Conlan (31) recorded one of six Lion sacks during Saturday’s game at Beaver Stadium. Penn State held McPherson
to 156 yards in passing as the Lions moved on to a 42-3 victory.
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Bring
on the
Tide
By MATT HERB
Collegian Sports Writer
Enough already. Just when you
thought the sideshow was getting
more interesting than the main
attraction, the football team
plays a game that should have
come with a No-Doz warning
label: Do not drive or operate
heavy machinery while viewing.
So let’s hear it for the sideshow.
In the past two weeks the Lions
spawned a minor controversy
with their, shall we say, untaxing
schedule. In a telephone press
conference with Head Coach Joe
Paterno, one sportswriter com
plained that it consisted of “tur
keys.” Frank Purdue was not
amused with the comparison.
The Lions helped provoke a
vicious marshmallow blitzkrieg
in the freshman section of the
grandstands by urging students
not to participate in just that.
Better they should have urged
them not to take a flying leap
from the top edge of Beaver Sta
dium if the team really wanted to
pul an end to it.
Penn State has been visited by
the Yankee Clipper, Joe DiMag
gio, who made a special guest
appearance before the East Caro
lina game. And by the Centre
County Clipper, Bill Clinger, who
took his congressional re-election
campaign to the skies above Bea
ver Stadium with airplane-ban
ner advertisements.
In between, the Lions have
played some football, but you’d
hardly notice since most wit
nesses have bolted back to their
tailgates by the end of the first
half anymore, by which time the
Lions have usually taken a com
manding lead.
For four weeks the Lions have
played second fiddle to what are
usually the game’s diversions as
fans have entertained themselves
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Red Sox blast Mets for two-game lead
By JOHN NELSON
AP Baseball Writer
NEW YORK The Boston Red Sox
were big hits in New York and under
dogs no more
With 18 base hits, two short of the
record, the Red Sox completed a
stunning sweep of the first two games
of the World Series at Shea Stadium
last night, beating the heavily fa
vored Mets 9-3.
Home runs by Dwight Evans and
Dave Henderson helped spoil the an
ticipated duel between 24-game win
ner Roger Clemens of Boston and 1985
Cy Young winner Dwight Gooden of
New York and sent the Red Sox home
with a lead that no one expected.
“People are going to find out that
we’re a pretty good ballclub,” said
Manager John McNamara, whose
Red Sox battled to win the American
League East, then came back from a
three games to one deficit to win the
playoffs against California.
The Red Sox will go with right
hander Oil Can Boyd, 16-10, in Game 3
of the bcst-of-seven-game Series to
morrow night against former Red
Sox pitcher. Bob Ojeda, 18-5, a left
hander. Only one team, the Kansas
City Royals of 1985, has rallied from
two losses at home to win a World
Series.
“They still have to beat us two
more times,” Mets Manager Davey
Johnson said. “My club has played
s well in long streaks before, and I hope
we start one at Fenway.”
Neither Clemens nor Gooden lasted
past the fifth inning while the hitters
took over. The record for hits in a
World Series is 20 by the 1921 New
York Giants and the 1946 St. Louis
Cardinals.
The image of underdog is one the
Red Sox almost hate to lose. '
“I love ah underdog,” Evans said.
“I love to see an underdog win. We
like to be in that position.”
Henderson, the hero of Boston’s
Game 5 playoff victory with a ninth
inning homer, hit a solo homer in the
fourth inning off Gooden, and Evans
hit a two-run shot in Gooden’s last
inning, the fifth, as the Red Sox took a
6-2 lead. The Red Sox scored two
more runs in the seventh on five
consecutive singles off Rick Aguilera
to put the game away. Wade Boggs’
RBI double in the ninth ended the
scoring
Boston’s 18 hits were two hits shy of
the World Series single-game record
set by the New York Giants in 1921
and St. Louis Cardinals in 1946.
Orangemen
all'right because they go down and Syracuse finally got on the board 19 seconds into the
make it 21 ” fourth quarter, but Tim Vesling s 31-yard field goal only
MacPherson was referring to the Penn State scoring piade the score 28-3. MacPherson knew the outcome was
drive that started the second half and effectively broke decided by that time and didn t even consider going for
any hopes Syracuse had of getting back in the game, the first down when faced with a fourth and seven.
MacPherson made it clear the offense wasn’t to blame for “I thought that was a very good call, he said To at
the loss least get some points on the board because we d been
“I thought they did a great job of hanging in there and disappointed enough.” ■
plaving tough in the first half,” he said. “(Especially) But the two Unhappiest people in the Syracuse locker
with all the damn stuff that was going on around them.” room had to be the duo that was supposed to win the game
Outside linebacker Roger Remo, who had five tackles for the Orangemen quarterback McPherson and ace
on. the afternoon, said Penn State didn’t do anything receiver Schwedes.
special on its way to 42 points. “My main goal, when I first came in was to help turn
“Thev plaved power football, came right at us and the program around so much that we could compete with
more or less said ‘Stop us,’ ” Remo said. “I think in the Penn State and beat them,” Schwedes said My main
first half we did a damn good job against them.” goal was to beat them and we just didn t do it.
The highlight for the Orangemen in the second half was But McPherson, who was sacked six times, summed up
a 71-vard quick kick by fullback Daryl Johnston. Mac- the mood of the Orangemen the best.
Pherson said the surprise play established his club’s field “I’m numb right now, I can t tell yop what it does to our
position for its next three possessions, but it still didn’t spirit,” he said “It hurts right now and it s going to be
amount to anything. bard to bounce back.
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terback, carried the ball 67 times for a whopping 434
yards an average of 6.7 yards per. carry. The Lions
scored all six of their touchdowns on the ground and
compiled 522 total yards
Leading the way were Blair Thomas and Tim Ma
noa, both of whom let everyone know they were not lost
in the shuffle.
' Thomas, the sophomore from Philadelphia, carried
the ball only three times for 132 yards an average of
44 yards per carry and a touchdown. He dazzled the
Beaver Stadium crowd with a spectacular 92-yard run.
Thomas burst up the right sideline, juked a couple of
Syracuse defenders and, thanks to a Ray Roundtree
block, scampered to the goal line. Many thought
Thomas scored, but the officals marked the ball on the
Syracuse inch line
“I didn’t know if he was going to run out of gas,”
Paterno said. “I thought he was in. He’s got good
speed.”
Thomas said D.J. Dozier and David Clark had the
same chance to make the play earlier in the game,
adding that he was fortunate to get the call.
“I think the opportunity just came for me,” Thomas
said. “I saw running room to the outside and then went
up field. We just happened to pick up the blocks. I was
just thinking about getting in.”
The record-breaking run broke the old Penn State
mark of 90 yards by Bill Suter against Navy in 1894.
Manoa, the senior from Pittsburgh by way of Tonga,
had his best game of his Penn State career as he rushed
for 96 yards and two touchdowns. Manoa ripped
through the Syracuse defense, pounding defenders who
crossed his path. The burly fullback scored the first of
his two touchdowns on Penn State’s first possession,
and his score early in the second half put the game out
of reach.
“I think I needed this game to show that I can run,
not just block,” Manoa said. “I’m more confident this
year. I know what I’m doing and I’m not making
mistakes. I’m just having fun this year.”
Although he was satisfied with his effort, Manoa was
a little disappointed that he did not reach the 100-yard
mark.
“I wanted to get in there a little bit more,” he said.
"It’s good (that we have a lot of running backs) in a
Umpire Jim Evans instructs Mets pitcher Dwight Gooden to remove a bandage from his left
World Series last night. Gooden had his share of problems as the Red Sox were victorious,
Clemens, who failed to go five in- then chased Clemens with a run in the
nings only twice this season, was fifth.
knocked out in the fifth after giving The -4 1-3-inning outing was the
up three runs on five hits in his third shortest of the season for Clemens,
straight outing on three-days rest. Except for a 12-3 inning stint on Oct. 1
The Mets, who hit just .189 in the when he was hit by a line drive by
playoffs, were held to four hits in John Stefero of Baltimore. He was
losing the first game 1-0, and Man- ejected from a game on July 30 at
ager Johnson benched regulars Ray • Chicago after 4 2-3 innings. Clemens,
Knight and Mookie Wilson in favor of who set' a major-league record by
Howard Johnson and Danny Heep to striking out 20 batters in a game on
try to get more offense. Johnson and April 29 against Seattle, struck out
Heep went a combined 0-for-6. three and walked four.
The Red Sox scored three of their Boggs made several fine defensive
runs in the third off Gooden, aided by plays at third base and Evans made a
a rare throwing error by Mets first diving catch in right field to help
baseman Keith Hernandez, winner of Clemens avoid more trouble,
eight straight Gold Gloves. The Mets Relievers Steve Crawford and Bob
scored twice in the third, failed to Stanley shut out the Mets over the
score in the fourth when Gooden hit final 4 2-3 innings,
for himself with two out and two on, Gooden, meanwhile, gave up five
way, but it’s frustrating. There’s times when you want
to play the whole game, but there’s good running
backs.
“You try to give it all you got when you get in there.”
And lest we forget Dozier, who has established
himself as the leader and patriarch of the Penn State
running backs. Dozier ran for 84 yards and a touch
down as he passed Matt Suhey for third place on the
Penn State all-time rushing list. Dozier now has 2,836
yards and needs 99 yards to move past Lydell Mitchell
into second place
“It’s nice to get in there and run the ball so many
times,” Dozier said. “Whatever I can do to help the
team.”
Dozier’s touchdown came late in the first half as he
leaped over Syracuse defenders for the score.
“It was a sweep designed to cut inside off tackle,”
Dozier explained. “I heard John Shaffer yell ‘jump,
jump.’ I jumped and scored.”
Dozier credited the offensive line, which controlled
the line of scrimmage throughout the game, for the
offensive explosion
“The offensive line took off and took control of the
game,” Dozier said. “I think they should get most of
the credit.”
Others in the family saw action as well. There was
Steve Smith, the beefy fullback who rambled for 34
yards and a touchdown, and Clark, the often-over
looked-yet-talented tailback who tallied 25 yards.
The children also saw playing time chief among
them sophomore Odell Wilson, the third-string safety.
Wilson rushed for 47 yards on only four carries,
including a 31-yard touchdown run late in the fourth
quarter.
Sean Redman contributed nine yards and Sean
Barowski added two yards
Indeed, the running backs have knitted into a family,
and the whole clan must get ready for their trip to
Alabama next week. After Saturday’s performance,
they said they are ready for the Crimson Tide.
“We just have to take it in stride and work this hard
against Alabama,” Thomas said. “It’s a big game and
everybody’s going to be up for them.”
“I think we feel pretty good,” Dozier said. “We
haven’t seen films and we really don’t know how
Alabama is. After a week of practice, I’ll tell you.”
hand during Game 2 of the
9-3.
earned runs on eight hits before he
was relieved by Aguilera to start the
sixth. Gooden had not given up as
many as five earned runs in a game
since Aug. 6 against the Chicago Cubs
in a game that he won 7-6.
Spike Owen walked to start the Red
Sox third. Clemens bunted the first
pitch in front of the plate, and it was
fielded by Hernandez. Owen had bro
ken back to first on the pitch, but
Hernandez rushed his throw to sec
ond, apparently to try to get a double
play
The throw was in the dirt in front of
the bag, and shortstop Rafael Santa
na was unable to handle it. Both
runners were safe, and Boggs lined a
double inside the left-field line to
score Owen.
Clemens, who went to third on the
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with slow motion waves and fast
forward exits.
That being the case, it is proba
bly a relief that Alabama is next on
the schedule.
“Two weeks ago, people began to
ask about Alabama and say we’re
going to beat Alabama,” saftey
Ray Isom said, “and it got hard to
focus on Alabama when we had
(teams) standing ahead of us. You
don’t want to get to the point where
you relax and let down and lose a
key game. So now that it’s here, we
gel to practice for Alabama. This is
what we’re waiting for.”
Indeed, the Crimson Tide
weighed at least as heavily on the
Lions’ minds as Syracuse after the
game. Maybe even before the
game.
And why not?
For the first time this season,
Penn State will play a ranked team
(Alabama is No. 2 right now). It
will, for once, play a team that has
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to his first quarter interception.
The Syracuse defense stymied
Penn State’s offense in the early
going holding the Lions to just seven
points for all but four seconds of the
first half.
D.J. Dozier capped a nine-play, 72-
yard drive by catapulting into the end
zone from one-yard out to give Penn
State a 14-0 lead just moments before
intermission. Massimo Manca split
the uprights on his point after at
tempt to capture the team record for
the most consecutive extra points
with 55.
The Lions continued to build mo
mentum in the second half raising
their lead to 21 points on a three-yard
run by Manoa to open the third quar
ter. The 227-pound fullback had
moved Penn State into scoring posi
tion one play earlier when;he ran
wide left for 24 yards.
Smith’s one-yard touchdown run
increased the Lions’ lead to 28-0 with
1:47 remaining in the third quarter
and Thomas’s 38-yard rush followed
in the fourth giving Penn State a 35-3
advantage.
Wilson closed the scoring with a 31-
yard touchdown run down the right
sideline with 3:21 remaining in the
contest.
The Orangemen’s sole field goal
came just :19 into the fourth quarter
as Tim Vesling split the uprights
from 31 yards out.
The Lions’ passing game proved to
be their biggest weakness on Satur-
hit, scored when Marty Barrett sin
gled into right field, and Boggs scored
the third run when Bill Buckner
grounded a single between first and
second a ball that Hernandez nor
mally handles
The Mels scored their first runs of
the Series in the bottom half of the
inning, cutting the Boston lead to 3-2.
Santana led off with an infield single
off the glove of Clemens and finally
handled over the second-base bag by
shortstop Owen. Owen, who had five
errors in the playoffs, couldn’t get the
ball out of his glove, however, and
Santana beat a weak throw to first.
Trying to bunt, Gooden popped the
ball up toward first base. Buckner,
playing on two bad ankles and knees,
made a sluggish dive for the ball but
came up short, and Gooden hustled
down the line with a single, sending
Santana to second.
Lenny Dykstra sacrificed the run
ners ahead. Santana scored on a
single up the middle by Backman,
and Gooden came home on an infield
out by Hernandez. Hernandez hit the
ball sharply off Clemens’ right leg,
and it caromed to Boggs, who made a
good play to throw out the runner.
Gary Carter grounded out to Boggs to
end the inning.
Henderson, whose two-strike hom
er with two out in the ninth inning of
Game 5 helped the Red Sox turn the
playoffs around, led off the fourth
inning with a homer on a 1-0 pitch
from Gooden to make the score 4-2.
Evans hit the first pitch from Good
en for a two-run homer in the fifth, an
inning that Gooden perhaps shouldn’t
even have pitched.
Gooden’s spot in the batting order
came up in the fourth with two out
and runners at first and second, but
Manager Johnson elected to let Good
en hit. Gooden grounded out to first,
then allowed a single by Jim Rice to
lead off the Red Sox fifth. Evans
followed with a line homer to left that
landed on the awning over the picnic
bleachers, giving the Red Sox a 6-2
lead.
The Mets chased Clemens in the
bottom half of the inning. With one
out, Wally Backman walked on a 3-2
pitch, and Hernandez followed with a
bouncing single off the glove of sec
ond baseman Barrett that sent Back
man to third. That was all for
Clemens, and Carter greeted Craw
ford with a single to left that scored
Backman for the Mets’ third run.
Crawford, who got the victory, got
out of the inning and blanked the Mets
in the sixth.
national championship aspirations
of its own (at 1-4 going in, Syracuse
didn’t). The Lions will play a team
they have never beaten on its home
turf (in two tries).
Rarely at a loss for words, Pater
no at least anticipated the inevi
table Tuscaloosa jinx question. The
others are cause for worry.
“You have to go down and play
the game,” he said. “It’s not any
different than any place else. It will
be noisy. We’ve been there. I don’t
know why it should be a big prob
lem for us. The Alabama team will
be a problem for us, but not where
we’re playing.”
“It’s in the back of your mind,”
cornerback Duffy Cobbs said of the
jinx. “It’s a tough place to play.
That and West Virginia are proba
bly the two toughest places we
have to play. I don’t think we’ll
approach it any differently,
though.”
Like Penn State, the Crimson
Tide broke the 40-point barrier
Saturday. Unlike Penn State, they
day as John Shaffer and Matt Knizner
combined for just 88 yards through
the air.
Shaffer attributed much of Penn
State’s ineffectiveness through the
air to the play of the Orange defense.
“I think today Syracuse overplayed
the pass to a great extent and that
opened up the run,” Shaffer said. “I
don’t know if that’s because we’ve
thrown the ball well in previous
games or whatever but I think they
definitely overplayed the pass.”
“We kind of hurt ourselves to a
certain extent because we were
throwing into their coverage, throw
ing into their strength and it took us a
half to figure out what they were
trying to do,” he added.
'Although Paterno agreed with
Shaffer’s argument, he said the Lions
will need to improve their passing
game before they meet No. 2 Ala
bama on the road next Saturday.
“We’ve got to throw the ball better
than we did today to be really good,”
he said. “We just got completely out
of throwing the football but we’re
working on it.
“Obviously we’re not going to run
the football against Alabama like
that,” he added. “We’re going to have
to have a much more balanced attack
and that’s got me concerned.”
LION NOTES: Former quar
terback Richie Lucas was honored at
halftime as the llth Penn State player
elected to the College Football Hall of
Fame.. .Dozier surpassed Matt Su
hey to capturethird place on the Li-
ly Collegian
The Dail
Pitching duel
never was
By HAL BOCK
AP Sports Writer
NEW YORK It was billed as a
battle between two of baseball’s best
pitchers Dwight Gooden of the New
York Mets and Roger Clemens of the
Boston Red Sox, hooking up in last
night’s second game of the World
Series.
Neither right-hander was on his
game in the Red Sox’ 9-3 victory, and
by the time the game reached the
sixth inning, both were gone.
Gooden, last year’s National
League Cy Young award winner,
allowed eight hits and six runs in the
five innings he worked, striking out
six and walking two. He threw 91
pitches, 32 for balls 59 for strikes.
Clemens, 24-4 in the regular season
but starting on three days’ rest for the
third straight lime, was knocked out
in the fifth inning after allowing five
hits, three runs and four walks and
striking out three. He threw 81 pitch
es 32 balls and 49 strikes and it
was his second-shortest stint of the
season in 37 starts.
The only time he came out earlier
was in his last start of the regular
season, when he was struck on the
right elbow by a line drive in the
second inning
“It’s the third time I’ve worked on
three days’ rest and it kind of caught
up with me a little,” Clemens said.
“Maybe I’m trying to get a little too
much extra out of my body.
“My legs were a little heavy and
my ball was up. I had good enough
stuff to get them out, but I had to pace
myself a little more.”
Gooden said a couple of pitches cost
him, particularly home run balls to
Dwight Evans and Dave Henderson.
“Evans got a pitch down in the
strike zone,” Gooden said. “Hender
son’s ball was up
"I don’t think I had the best fastball
of my career. My location was off.”
Gooden said he was disappointed in
the outing, in which he gave up a
'postseason-high six runs.
“I hope I get another chance at
them, but they haven’t told me yet,”
he said.
Both pitchers worked hitless ball
for two innings. Gooden seemed to get
rattled in the third when Boston Man
ager John McNamara complained
and plate umpire Jim Evans ordered
Gooden to remove a band-aid.
“I could have left it on, but he said I
can’t rub the ball with the hand the
band-aid was on,” he said.
did so before halftime. All told,
Alabama overran Tennessee 56-28
in a game that rivaled the Lions’
42-3 rout for producing the fewest
thrills for your ticket-buying dol
lar.
With 85,512 fans and 39 points
separating the two teams at its
game, Penn State could at least say
it (barely) beat Alabama on that
count. Especially since Crimson
Tide fans could watch it for free on
national television. And even then
Penn State fans had to pay, earn
ing the University thousands of
dollars in ticket revenue and the
thanks of a grateful nation for
keeping it to itself.
Next week should be a different
story
“I’d be comfortable with any
team that’s 6-0,” Paterno said,
referring to the Lions’ unblemished
record. “I’m comfortable, but
we’ve got to play a lot better than
we did today because Alabama is
awfully tough.”
ons’ all-time rushing list with 2,836
yards.. .Conlan moved into third
place on Penn State’s career tacklel
ist ahead of Kurt Allerman and Jim
Heller with 241 tackles.
Stats
Syracuse 0 0 0 3 3
Penn State 7 7 14 14—42
PSU—Manoa 11 run (Manca kick)
PSU—Dozier 1 run (Manca kick)
PSU—Manoa 3 run (Manca kick)
PSU—Smith 1 run (Manca kick)
Syr—FG Vesling 31
PSU—Thomas 38 run (Manca kick)
PSU—Wilson 31 run (Tarasi kick)
A—85.512
First downs
Rushes-yards
Passing yards
Return yards
Punts
Fumbles-lost
Penalties-yards
Time of Possession
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
RUSHlNG—Syracuse. Johnston 4*32, Mc-
Pherson 15-26. Gayden 12-21. Moseley M 2.
Drummond 1-1, Kmetz 1-0. Penn State, Thom
as 3*132, Manoa 12-96, Dozier 19-84, Wilson 4-
47, Smith 10-32, Clark 7*25, Roundtree I*ll,
Redman 2*9, Barowski 2*2, Shaffer 7*(minus 4).
PASSlNG—Syracuse, McPherson 12-23-1*
88, Kmetz 6*lo*l*6B. Penn State, Shaffer 6-13*
0-68. Knizner 1-3-0-20.
RECEIVING—Syracuse, Gayden 2-10,
Schwezes 3-13, Kelly 3-34, Johnston 3-12,
Davis 2-22, Pennyfeather 1-12, Moseley 3-35,
Nelson 1-18. Penn State, Dozier 1-10. Smith 2-
19, Mrosko 2-21, Roundtree 1-18, Jakob 1-20.
Monday. Oct. 20, 1086—11
Syr PSU
16 23
34-92 67-434
156 88
23 15
18-33-2 7-16-0
11-38 8-40
2-9 • 5-30
26:15 , 33:45