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\7rkl 1 £fcl/h dll This season Florida is accustomed “In the past, our concern might not
VUIICj Drill to grabbing that momentum. The have been to start well, but to finish
Gators have won the opening set in well,” Rose said. “But [the Lions]
From Page 11. eac h of their matches while outscor- would be in a better position if they
coach said by playing poorly, it allows ing opponents, 125-86. Their quick started well.”
good teams like the Gators to gain starts have keyed the Gators’ perfect
momentum and confidence. start
1" assess his offensive line as it prepares Wisniewski added theoffensive line
for Alabama. likes to think it has all its kinks worked
F Paop 11 He said it wouldn’t be fair to criti- out heading into the game, but said it
From Page n. c j ze S p o t because he has a lot of room for improvement
see from Penn State come hasn’t seen enough from either before Saturday.
Saturday. Pannell or Troutman, given the Lions
But Patemo wasn’t too sure how to have played just one game
Bowl
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and recalling Alabama linebacker
Bany Krauss’ hit on him that was
immortalized on the cover of Sports
Illustrated and voted No. 6 in ESPN’s
list of “100 plays that define college
football.”
“It doesn’t minimize the loss,
though,” he added.
The ball was placed 10 inches from
the goal line, and Guman said his ini
tial plan was to leap over the line of
scrimmage. The Crimson Tide
defense broke through and took out
his legs, so he tried to plow through
the line just to the left of the center.
“I was glad they called my number,”
Guman said.
“You want the ball in that situation.
It was, ‘OK, do your job and get the
title,’ and obviously it didn’t happen
that way.”
Krauss was knocked unconscious
by the hit, but he never allowed
Guman to score. Guman played nine
seasons in the NFL and Krauss
played 11. But the two will forever be
linked in one of college football’s most
historic plays.
“If I had a nickel for every time I’ve
heard about it,” Guman said, “I’d be a
very rich man.”
But the game’s defining play
shouldn’t necessarily overshadow
what Guman said was “no question”
the hardest hitting college football
game he played in.
The Nittany Lions trailed 7-0 at half
time, and after lying the game in the
third, they relinquished the lead again
when Lon Ikner’s 62-yard punt return
Halus
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time it wasn’t. She said she worked
extremely hard to become a better
goalkeeper for the Nittany Lions and
is glad all of her hard work came to
fruition. But hard work can never
stop.
“It gives me confidence in my play,”
Halus said. “But I need to continue
watching video and going hard and
working hard at practice and making
the improvements I need so that we
can play better and have a great sea
son and come around with some big
wins the next couple of games.”
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set up a Major Ogilvie touchdown,
which proved to be the difference in a
14-7 final.
“We came a couple plays away from
winning and losing,” said Joe Patemo,
who lost all four games he coached
against former Alabama coach Bear
Biyant. “They were a good team and
they made a couple plays and we did
n’t make them.”
The first of those plays came on
2nd-and-goal when Penn State receiv
er Scott Fitzkee was forced out of
bounds just before the endzone at the
far comer by Don McNeal, Penn State
quarterback Rob Bolden’s great
uncle. Then, - on 3rd-and-goal, Matt
Suhey was stopped on a run up the
middle.
Patemo said he still isn’t sure
whether one of those players crossed
the line. When asked what he remem
bers about the game as a whole, his
response was simple.
“I remember we lost it,” Patemo
said. “They had a great goal line stand
with Krauss. “The thing about that
game was that it was a great defen
sive game.”
The game was a long time in the
making for Patemo.
In his 13th season as coach, it was
his first crack at a national title,
despite three previous undefeated
seasons. Penn State football historian
Lou Prato, who called the game
“much more than just a goal-line
stand” compared the ’7B Lions to if
Boise State got a shot at a champi
onship.
It was one of the most killer
moments,” Prato said. “The game is
probably the most devastating loss
[for Patemo] .’’He also said the defeat
Halus knows if the team is going to
be successful, she is going to need to
play well every second of each game.
The Hershey, Pa., native pointed to
both awards as a sign the team is on
its way to getting some wins.
“I think it just shows that our team
has lots of talent and once we work on
the things we’re working on this week,
we can then come out hard,” Halus
said. “We’ll definitely have some big
wins and I think it just proved to the
other teams in the Big Ten that we
have a lot to give. If we work all
together and we play the way we know
how, we can be a dominating force.”
Halus leads the Big Ten in saves
(35) and save percentage (.875). She
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fueled Patemo to the ’B2 title, where,
ironically, the Lions’ only loss that
year came at the hands of the Tide.
Prato noted the way Penn State histo
ry has cruelly erased the ’79 team that
came inches away from being immor
talized.
“Who remembers that team? It’s
almost forgotten,” Prato said. “The ’B2
team is seen as a great team, and the
’7B team is seen as a team that sucks.”
The legend of the ’79 Sugar Bowl
isn’t lost on current Penn State play
ers either. Suhey’s son is current
Penn State fullback Joe Suhey, and
linebacker Nate Stupar has heard sto
ries from his father, Steve, who played
defensive tackle in the game.
Senior guard Stefen Wisniewski has
heard the tale “quite a few” times
from his father, Leo, who played line
backer at Penn State from 1979-81.
“It was 30 years ago,” Stefen
Wisniewski said. “I think they’ve got
ten over it by now. I’m sure they would
have liked to put one of those goal line
plays in.”
Guman is sure, too.
But given the talent of the players
involved, playing under what he said
may be the top-two coaches in college
football history, Guman said the game
was about more than the final score.
“You don’t realize what that game
meant for college football until it’s
been looked back upon over the
years,” he said. “The players who
were in that game, the coaches who
were in that game, the teams who
were in that game with their tradition
and histories it obviously makes
history.”
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also leads the Big Ten in saves per
game by a large margin with 11.67.
The next goaltender atop the rank
ings is Katie Lynch of Northwestern
with 6.50 saves per game.
The Nittany Lions will look to get
back on the winning track when they
face Lock Haven at 12 p.m., Sunday at
AstroTtirf Field. Halus knows they
have the ability to do so, it’s just a
matter of execution.
“We know we have great girls on
our team,” she said.
“And when we support each other, it
makes the whole team play even bet
ter.”
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“That’s something that we look forward [to], and it moti
vates us to give Joe a win.”
The rivalry between Alabama and Penn State took
hold in the 1980 s, but it began as a result of head-to-head
matchups between previous Penn State and Alabama
teams of which Paterno and Bryant coached. The two
icons last met as head coaches in 1982, when Alabama
beat Perm State 42-21, part of a 10-year series that began
the year before. Bryant retired after the 1982 season and
died less than a month after his final game.
But before there was ever the 10-game series between
the two schools, there were the two Sugar Bowls one
being the 1978 national championship.
Patemo had yet to win a national championship at that
time and failed in his first national title on January l.
1979. Bryant had already cemented his legacy with six
national titles as the Crimson Tide coach.
Former Penn State radio announcer Fran Fisher said
the two coaches weren’t necessarily friends but com
rades who respected each other. Just like college football
coaches look up to Paterno and appreciate his legacy
today, Bryant acted as a kind of role model for the Penn
State coach.
And like any other pupil, Paterno wanted to beat his
mentor, but it never happened. Despite his heartbreak
with never defeating Bryant, Fisher said Paterno never
let it linger.
“Joe is always looking ahead to the next game," Fisher
said.
“He was never looking back.”
Patemo has publicly referred to Bryant’s death as a
reason why he shouldn’t retire. As was the case with
Bryant, the Penn State coach has no other love but foot
bail and figures he’ll face a similar fate if he retires.
The unique mentor-protege relationship was inter
twined with the development of the Alabama-Penn State
rivalry, now coming to the forefront again.
Saturday’s Penn State-Alabama game will be the first
time the two meet since 1990, but 20 years later, interest
has resurfaced about past meetings, and the hype of the
crimson and white helmets clashing again has reached
its peak.
Right guard Stefen Wisniewski, whose father Leo
played during two Bryant-Patemo meetings, said he
understands the magnitude of the upcoming game
because of the two coaches.
Paterno, though he and Bryant are forever linked with
Penn State-Alabama lore, refused to talk about his past
relationship with Bryant at Tuesday's press conference
For the Penn State coach, this game is a new and differ
ent situation. But his players understand the magnitude.
“There is tradition and a big rivalry there, and I know
it’s something not to take lightly,” linebacker Nate Stupar
said.
“We’re excited to keep the tradition alive.
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