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By BRYAN BRUMLEY Associated Press Writer JOSTENS AMERICA S COLLEGE RING October 20-24 10A.M.-4P.M. Today is the Final Sale Day! (‘auiu iii {<Lini4vasLiM»- IWCnwl VISA !n» - '\*i -'< y -' v ••• / ' 1 sports The Big Game: Lions' season riding on clash with Tide By MATT HERB Collegian Sports Writer So here it is, nearly two months into the 1986 college football season and Penn State is undefeated and Alabama is undefeated and both are peeking over each others’ shoul ders at a potential national championship that one of them will play for on New Year’s Day, so the smart money says. It also says that the loser of their game will pay with more than its four-digit winning percentage, although neither the Lions or the Crimson Tide are going to think about that until it has become a cold reality for one or the other sometime in the early evening tomorrow. You thought Gone With the Wind was a Southern fried barn-burner of an epic? Don’t sell the Penn State Sports Information Department short. “Critical. Essential. Vital. Conse quential. Significant. Momentus. Crucial. Key. Eventful,” said the press release. “The biggest game of my life,” said linebacker Shane Conlan, who played in the Orange Bowl last January and knows from big. “Finally,” said everybody else. The Lions have been skeet shooting this season with a half-dozen clay turkeys for targets. Tomorrow they will be witness to a contest that is expected to live up to all its mega confrontation hype. And for once that doesn’t necessarily mean 'they’ll be watching Oklahoma on TV. For Alabama, a loss could mean taking a detour oh its New Year’s road trip to New Orleans (for the Sugar Bowl) and heading west to Tempe (for the Fiesta Bowl) in stead. For the Lions it' could mean cancelling the reservations to Tempe, falling out of the Top 10 and maybe even losing that one faithful soul who votes them No. 1 in the AP poll week in and week out. Mrs. Paterno isn’t that understanding. N “It’s going to make or break our season as far as a national championship goes,” Conlan said. “We have to win this game or we can kiss our national championship goodbye.” So it’s official: This, is one big game. It may not be a mini-series, it didn’t quite make it into prime time, and it was only about two months in the making, but in terms of TV drama, ABC got itself a boffo Rocky IV ripoff. Alabama’s even going to be wearing red when the game begins at 3:30 p.m. That doesn’t necesarily make Penn State the good guy. Having won the last confrontation between these two teams, a 19-17 squeaker at Beaver Stadium last season, the Tide are the ones out for revenge. Their shot-and-a-beer image doesn’t even make Penn State the favorite. Whatever quantum algebra the New York Times' college football computer performed to come up Alabama Continued from. Page 1 two yards per carry on the running game. They are a good team in second- and third and-long situations, which we don’t want to be in as the offense. “We are going to have to work very hard on our running game to be successful and get positive yardage on the early downs so we stay out of that third-and long situation,” Shula added. Shula said he will be especially prepared for the Lions’ All-American linebacker Shane Conlan, but he won’t turn a cheek on the rest of the Penn State defense. \ - ! “Shane’s a great football player and he is a class person,” Shula said. “He is just a tribute to hard work. He has prepared himself, and that is why he is such a great ball player. But they’ve got a lot of other guys out there who play hard physical football and they make you earn everything you get,.” Alabama has an All-American linebacker of it’s own in senior Cornelius Bennett. The 6-4, 235 pound senior is a four-year starter and two-time All-American. This year, Bennett is seventh on the team v ; .:> ;'£.-/i?&’4; t Hfiatf CoachiJoe Patemo, 21 st season (193-44-2) ; Las! Game: pefeated Syracuse, 42-3 'OffensiveSystem:Multlple “ Defensive Lettermen Returning: 50 Lettermen Lost: 17 Penn State fullback Tim Manoa (above) figures to be one of the Lions’ most Important weapons to morrow while Alabama’s Mike Shula (below) is the field general that sparks the Crimson Tide offense. rw EsifP 1 ' with Penn State as its No. 1 team this week, it couldn’t possibly have been as complex as the equations needed to predict the outcome of tomorrow’s game. Consider the following: • While the Lions are ranked first by the Times’ computer, the Associated Press has them at No. 6. The Crimson Tide, meanwhile, are 12th in the Times' poll and second in the AP’s. If we’re talking logic, then the computer says the Lions will win. If we’re talking experience and gut feeling, the writers say the Tide will win. But of course, we’re talking foot ball which means a coin flip is at least as valuable as the any com- in tackles with 26 total, although he leads the team with eight sacks for 66 yards and has already caused three fumbles. Like Penn State, the linebackers do the majority of the tackling for the Tide. Lead ing the team in tackles is inside linebacker Gregg Gilbert with 48 followed by the other inside linebacker, Wayne Davis, with 42. On special teams, ’Bama features one of the best, if not the best place kicker in the nation in Van Tiffen. Tiffen holds every Alabama place kicking record and a few NCAA records to boot. Going into tomor row’s game, Tiffen has hit 9-10 attempts this season. Which is were the honor comes in. No matter how talented a team, the Tide won’t be able to win the game on it’s No. 2 Rank ing, it’s All-American players, or it’s past accomplishments. Shula said the biggest factor for the Crimson Tide could be pride. “We’re playng Penn State and we’re going to find out a lot about ourselves,” Shula said. “This is a game that as a team you are going to remember, it is one of those special ones.” :?r -f ■ Penn State tailback D.J. Dozier, left, takes the handoff from quarterback John Shaffer, right, and cuts upfield during a game last season at Beaver Stadium. Dozier and Shaffer hope to be In top form tomorrow when the sixth-ranked Lions take on the second-ranked Albania Crimson Tide before a national television audience. puter logarithm. For what it’s worth, the Times’ moved Michigan from 18th all the way to third this week, so its circuits may not be screwed in as tightly as maybe they should be. • No one is flinching in the battle to avoid giving the other team an inspirational locker room clipping. So far neither team has out-respect ed the other. “They’re not going to beat them selves. If you want to beat them you have to go and (do it yourself). They’re not going to kick the ball around, or do stupid things ... They’ve got a lot of quick backs, they throw the ball better, have a better balanced offense than Okla homa,” said Penn State Head ' < %i? . " *»?* *v; 5- Coach Joe Paterno. “Right away you think of experi ence as well as the poise and confi dence they have among themselves. There’s going to be a lot of talent out there and a lot of experience. They’re smart, they don’t make mistakes, they make you earn everything you get,” said Alabama quarterback Mike Shula. That testimony aside, physicists are relatively sure it is impossible to score in negative numbers. • The Tide’s most important as set on defense is its speed since its size is not particularly overwhelm ing, especially at inside linebacker. At least that was the word going into the game. Penn State’s Ray Isom, right, zeros in on Alabama running back Bobby Humphrey during last year’s game at Beaver Stadium. ,fK : Please see LIONS, page 18. ; u. " A series short on games but long on tradition Watching from the sidelines, dressed in a dark Penn State sweater and wearing horn-rimmed glasses, Joe Paterno cut a reassuring figure to the hometown fans. But many of them may have been surprised to know how often the coach grappled with his better judgment today, acting more on im pulse than adhering to the playbook that he has followed for 20 years. This time, the gambler in Paterno was paid off with a victory. Penn State leads Alabama 12-10 in the fourth quarter and is faced with a third and short from the Alabama 11 yard-line. Starting quarterback John Shaffer, groggy and incoherent, leaves the field after being pounded by an Alabama defender. In comes reserve Matt Knizner, who has tossed but one pass in four games. Knizner fakes the handoff to Steve Smith up the middle, rolls right and spots a wide open Brian Siverling. Knizner throws. Siverling hugs the pass and dives into the end zone for a touchdown, The Lions hold on for a 19- 17 win. ' Thus was'the latest installment of the Penn State-Alabama series, a rivalry that dates back to 1959 and the first-ever Liberty Bowl. While the series is still in its infant stage, Penn State and Alabama have played some of the most competitive, bizarre and controversial games in the history of the game. Why is this series so special? Well, check this out: of the eight games played between the two schools, only one (1984) was not nationally or re gionally televised. Enough said. Entering tomorrow’s contest in Tuscaloosa, ’Bama holds a 5-3 advan tage, the most notable coming in the 1979 Sugar Bowl. The dream died. It perished on the gleaming artificial rug of the herme tically sealed Superdome here yester day, put to death by a swarming Alabama defense. Bill Lyon Philadelphia Inquirer, Jan. 2, 1979. The Lions entered the Sugar Bowl No. 1 in the nation, but second-ranked Alabama forced Penn State into lousy field position and costly mistakes. The result was a 14-7 Alabama victo ry'. Chuck Fusina, who finished second in the Heisman Trophy balloting, was sacked five times and was inter cepted four times. The Lions were held to a scant 19 yards rushing, and their defense, which was first in the nation in rushing defense, was ripped by the Tide running attack. But the cruelest joke of all came in the fourth quarter. Trailing by seven, Penn State drove the Alabama one foot-line midway through the fourth quarter. On the The Daily Collegian Friday, Oct. 24, 1986 The New York Times Oct. 13, 1985. ; :ofi 4 r ason (29-12-1). ; ,56-28 J 4 *v‘ ' ‘ ■ * _ j,- ".'-‘-W, .' : • -■-** ■■'■J' *" -• -f'. 'fC \ v : •■ •N'-‘ • third amd goal, Matt Suhey went up the middle, but was thrown back by a sea of crimson jerseys. Fourth down saw a similar fate. Mike Guman took the handoff and, again, the Alabama defense led by Barry Krauss, threw Guman back. Penn State had another chance to win when the Lion defense forced the Tide to punt after three dqwns. Ala bama shanked the punk, giving the Lions the ball at the Alabama 20. Penn State, however, was penalized for having 12 men on the field. The Lions lost, and the rest is, as they say, history. Alabama and Penn State first met on a bitter cold December afternoon at Philadelphia Stadium (now John F. Kennedy Stadium). Bear Bryant’s Tide entered the inaugural Liberty Bowl with a 7-1-2 record, while Rip Engle’s Lions were 8-2. Alabama and Penn State battled hard and the only touchdown came with no time left in the first half. HCre’s how the late Red Smith de scribed it: “Rushing into the play in panicky haste, State lined up without huddling for afield goal by (Sam) Stellatella with Galen Hall, the second-string quarterback, holding. “Hall took the snap from center, sprang up and fired a screen pass to Roger Kochman, the dashing sopho more halfback out on the left flat. Charging down behind a breaking wave of blue shirts, Kochman pitched face-first across the goal line with the clock showing the half ended." Red Smith, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Dec. 20, 1959. The game was marred by turnovers, but in the end, the Lions held on for a 7-0 win. Hall, the hero of the game, is now the head coach at the University of Florida. Penn State and Alabama met in the 1975 Sugar Bowl as well, and again the Lions came up short. The Tide defense was simply too much as the Lions lost, 13-6. The first regular season game be tween the two state universities came in 1981 as a crowd of 85,133 then a record packed Beaver Stadium. What they would see was the Ghost of 1979 revisted. Alabama stopped Penn State seven (count ’em, seven times), from inside the Alabama four-yard line, including four plays from the one yard-line, early in the second half. The Tide scored 17 points late in the second quarter on their way to a 31-16 victo ry. The win was Bear Bryant 314th career victory, tying him with Amos Alonzo Stagg for most wins by a collegiate coach A year later, the undefeated Lions traveled south to Birmingham. Trail ing 27-21 with six minutes remaining, the Lions were forced to punt, but disaster struck when blocker Mike Suter backed in to Ralph Giacomar ro’s punt. The punt hit Suter and richoted deep into Penn State territo ry. Moments later, the Tide scored and put the game out of reach. The final score read Alabama 42, Penn State 21, and the loss was the only blemish in Penn State’s national championship year. In 1983, with Bryant gone and Ray Please see SERIES, Page 18 V»? ’ • «’s'V ¥ ,
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