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Nate Stupar (34) attempts to tackle Darius Millines (15) on Saturday. The Nittany Lions struggled during their 33-13 loss to Illinois at Beaver
Stadium Saturday afternoon. This was the worst home game loss since losing to Pitt 31-11 in 1984.
Injuries mount
By Andrew J. Cassavell
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Tom Bradley sat for his post
game interview, rattling off the
long list of injuries to his Penn
State defense.
"We got every body part cov
ered here now, don't we?" the
defensive coordinator mused,
cracking his only smile following a
33-13 loss to Illinois in front of
107,638 Joe Paterno's worst
homecoming defeat.
"We stunk," Paterno said. did
a lousy job. I thought we were
Though he graduated in 1961,
Kent Carpenter hasn't missed a
Penn State Homecoming in 50
years. From Michigan to
Connecticut, he's traveled from
all around the country to get to
one place every single year: State
College for the Homecoming
Chloe Elmer/Collegian parade and football game.
Members of the Penn State Colorguard wave flags during the "Everything has changed since
Homecoming Parade on Friday night on College Avenue. I've been here the buildings,
Volleyball team drops back-to-back matches
By Jake Kaplan
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
In the midst of Penn State's
quest for a fourth straight national
championship, coach Russ Rose
has already seen four teams cele
brate as if they had won the title.
This past weekend, the No. 4
Penn State women's volleyball
team lost back-to-back matches
for the first time since November
2002. After Purdue overcame a
two-set deficit to beat the Nittany
Lions on Friday night, Indiana
defeated Penn State 3-1 (25-20, 27-
25, 18-25, 26-24) for the first time in
the history of the program on
Saturday night.
Seven weeks into the season,
ready, we just didn't play very well.
I can make a million excuses, but
we had other opportunities. We
didn't stay on our blocks, didn't
have a good day throwing the ball,
we didn't do a great job play call
ing. We did a lousy job."
In total, nine key defensive con
tributors watched from the side
line as Illinois (3-2, 1-1 Big Ten)
dominated Penn State (3-3, 0-2 Big
Ten) on both sides of the ball in the
See FOOTBALL. Page 2.
More coverage on football.
SPORTS, Page 14.
Courtesy of the Indiana Daily Student
Penn State coach Russ Rose calls his team in for a timeout during its
game against Indiana University on Saturday in University Gym.
Penn State has four losses and going undefeated in 2008 and
three to Big Ten teams after 2009
losing just two matches in 2007
in 33-13 loss
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Parade delivers
PSU traditions
By Vera Greene
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
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the students, the culture but I
think the school spirit is certainly
the same," Carpenter said.
Characters such as Aladdin,
Charlie Brown and Spongebob
Squarepants roamed through
Penn State Friday night as
Homecoming floats traveled from
Curtin Road to College Avenue
for the annual parade.
See PARADE, Page 2.
More coverage on Homecoming
weekend. I LOCAL, Page 7.
Losses echo previous defeats
By Emily Kaplan
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
The last time the Purdue
women's volleyball team beat
Penn State was Dec. 4, 1987 11
months before the oldest player
on the Boilermakers' current ros
ter was born.
Indiana, meanwhile, had never
defeated the Nittany Lions. The
Hoosiers were 0-40 in the all-time
series versus their Big Ten foe.
This past weekend, that all
changed.
No. 4 Penn State seven-time
defending Big Ten Champions and
winners of the last three national
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By Casey McDermott
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Two stabbing incidents barely
24 hours apart broke out in State
College this weekend, leaving
five men all 22 years old and
younger injured, the State
College Police Department said.
Police said it's unclear at this
point whether the two incidents
were related, and investigations
into both are ongoing. Police
could not say whether those
injured were Penn State stu
dents.
At about 2 a.m. Saturday, the
first incident erupted during a
Homecoming party held at the
Knights of Columbus, 850
Stratford Dr., police said.
Three men suffered "life
threatening stab wounds" and
were flown via Life Flight to
nearby hospitals. Two of them,
both 21, were flown to Geisinger
Hospital and another, 19, was
flown to Altoona Hospital, police
said. Their medical conditions
were unknown by press time
Sunday.
Penn State student Nigel
Wilson organized the party as a
celebration for Homecoming.
The event was originally sup
posed to be a dry function with
about 300 guests, Knights of
Columbus Club Manager Lionel
Bassett said. Wilson could not be
reached for comment.
Bassett said the party kicked
off at about 10 p.m., and guests
were checked at the door for
alcohol and weapons. Most of
the guests were in their late
teens and early-to-mid-twenties,
Bassett said.
By 12:30 a.m., Bassett said
event supervisors stopped
admitting people because the
banquet hall had reached its 450-
person capacity, but a large
crowd still remained outside
increasing the total number of
people on the Knights of
Columbus property to about 600,
he said.
The conditions inside hot.
crowded and hectic, Bassett
said were prime for the mood
to turn "rowdy" as the party
went on, and a fight erupted on
the dance floor just 10 minutes
before the event's 2 a.m. end
time.
Supervisors and security per
sonnel asked all of the guests to
leave, he said, but the brawl con
tinued even as it moved into the
back corner of the parking lot.
After the fight failed to die
down, Bassett said event per
sonnel called police but were
told law enforcement was
already on its way.
After things calmed down,
Bassett said he found bottles of
See STABBING, Page 2.
titles was upset in back-to-back
road matches Friday and
Saturday against Purdue and
Indiana, respec
tively.
Both squads
were unranked
entering the
weekend.
And just like
that, the Lions' air
of invincibility in
the conference
has disappeared.
With a 3-3 conference record,
Penn State now sits sixth in the
Big Ten standings. The Lions
See LOSSES, Page 2.