10 I Tuesday, Dec. 7,2010
Lady leers score four unanswered goals
By Christine Newby
FOR THE COLLEGIAN
Elmira saw its early one-goal
lead disappear as the Lady leers
scored four even-strength unan
swered goals to defeat the Soaring
Eagles, 4-2 on Monday night.
The victory, which came at the
Murray Athletic Center in Elmira,
N.Y, gave the Lady leers an 8-4
record.
The .667 win percentage marks
the highest win percentage during
the first semester of any season
during Mo Stroemel’s four years
as head coach.
“[An 8-4 record] is where we
need to be going into next semes
ter,” Stroemel said.
Junior defender Abby Miller tal
lied her first goal of the season
with 9:39 remaining in the first
Ex-Cowboys
By Jaime Aron
ASSOCIATED PRESS
DALLAS Don Meredith was
the happiest, most fim-loving guy
wherever he went, whether croon
ing country tunes in the huddle as
quarterback of the Dallas
Cowboys or jawing with Howard
Cosell in the broadcast booth as
analyst on the groundbreaking
“Monday Night Football.”
His irreverent personality made
him one of the most beloved fig
ures in sports and entertainment
in the 1970 s and 1980 s, helping
turn the Cowboys and “Monday
Night Football” into national sen
sations.
“Dandy Don” died Sunday after
suffering a brain hemorrhage and
lapsing into a coma in Santa Fe,
N.M.. where he lived out of the
limelight with his wife, Susan, for
the last 25 years.
He was 72.
A folksy foil to Cosell's tell-it
like-it-is pomposity, Meredith was
at his best with unscripted one-lin
ers often aimed at his broad
cast partners.
His trademark, though, came
when one team had the game
locked up. Meredith would warble,
“Turn out the lights, the party’s
over" from a song by his pal
Willie Nelson.
Meredith played for the
Cowboys from 1960-68, taking
them from winless expansion
team to the brink of a champi
onship.
He was only 31 when he retired
before training camp in 1969, and
a year later wound up alongside
Cosell in the broadcast booth for
the oddity of a prime-time, week
night NFL game.
The league pitched the idea to
ABC, the lowest-rated network,
after CBS and NBC tried occa
sional games on Monday nights
and didn't think it would click. It
became a hit largely because of
how much viewers enjoyed the
contrast of Meredith’s Texas flair
and Cosell's East Coast braggado
cio.
Speed
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recovers from a concussion,
Paterno said keeping up with the
Tutors' offense one he said
can put up 40 points if Penn State
doesn't play well remains the
focal point.
Paterno said Alabama was the
closest comparison to the speed
the Lions will face against Florida,
and he quipped last season’s slop
py conditions at the Capital One
Bowman
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Mount St. Mary’s at 7:30 at the Bryce
Jordan Center.
Forwards DJ Jackson (neck) and Billy
Oliver (headaches) will not suit up after
getting injured against Duquesne. With
the absence of two top players, Bowman
will continue to see more time.
Tm just trying to do anything I can to
help my team win,” Bowman said
Monday.
Prior to Saturday’s game against the
Dukes when Bowman was on the floor for
17 minutes, he had a total of 14 minutes
through the first seven games, which
makes his performance against
Forwards
From Page 8.
Oliver and Jackson left the game.
Playing three guards for the final stages
of the game, the bench stepped up and
senior big men Drew Jones and Jeff
Brooks were able to play the majority of
the game.
DeChellis expects to use different com
binations of players while likely dropping
Brooks to the four spot, a change for the
forward who usually plays transition
defense and covers the weakside.
Brooks is not alone as DeChellis said
everyone needs to produce.
The coach said he plans on using a few
players in different roles tonight, depend
ing on how his players performed Monday
period. The Elmira goalie was
able to get a piece of the puck, but
it was not enough as Miller placed
the puck glove-side, tying the
game at one.
“I got the puck
in the neutral
zone and shot it
between the blue
line and the top oi
the circle,” Miller
said
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“It was exciting.
I haven’t scored
since freshman Stroemel
year, so it was
pretty cool.”
With 7:27 left in the second peri
od, sophomore forward Sam
Summers deflected junior forward
Denise Rohlik’s shot from the
point to put Penn State up for the
first time in the game. Freshman
QB, ‘Monday Night Football’ announcer dies at 72
Friends in real life, they took
opposite stances to liven up broad
casts with their bickering.
Meredith usually took the majority
opinion, Cosell the minority. Cosell
was playing a role, while Meredith
was just being himself.
“Watching him on TV was like
being in the huddle with Don
again,” former teammate Dan
Reeves said. “He just made the
game fun.”
Blowouts were their play
ground. Folks kept watching
because of them.
In a 1970 game from Dallas, the
Cowboys were headed to a 38-0
loss to St. Louis when fans chant
ed, “We Want Meredith!” Said
Meredith, “No way you’re getting
me down there.”
The Houston Oilers were on
their way to a 34-0 loss to the
Oakland Raiders in 1972 when a
camera zoomed in on a disgrun
tled fan at the Astrodome. He
made a one-finger salute and
Meredith quipped, “He thinks
they’re No. 1.”
Meredith was the life of the
party in the “Monday Night” booth
from 1970 through 1984, except for
a three-year stint playing a detec
tive on NBC’s “Police Story.” He
spent 11 of those years teamed
with another former star player,
Frank Gifford, a friend before they
became broadcast partners.
“To say that Don was an instant
success would be a gross under
statement,” Gifford said in a state
ment.
“For millions of football fans, he
would always be the one who
topped Howard Cosell with one
liners or a simple ‘Come on.
Howard.’ ”
Current “Monday Night"
announcer Jon Gruden spoke for
many who grew up during
Meredith’s time in the booth by
recalling how he would “sneak
downstairs and watch Don and
‘Monday Night Football’ when I
was supposed to be asleep. ”
Meredith also appeared in more
than a dozen made-for-TV movies,
specials or dramas.
Bowl leveled the playing field
against LSU.
But would Paterno be fortunate
enough to have a quick team
slowed by the weather two years
in a row?
“The good Lord took care of us
[last year],” Paterno said. "It
rained like the dickens and it was
soft and slow and it gave us a shot
at it. Now, if 1 get it to rain and the
field will get nice and sloppy,
maybe their speed wont be quite
as prominent of a factor as it can
be.”
Duquesne all the more surprising.
Lions coach Ed DeChellis will need pro
duction from all of the younger bench
players, especially the guards. DeChellis
plans to redshirt 6-foot-8 freshman for
ward Jonathan Graham, leaving starters
Andrew Jones and Jeff Brooks and walk
ons Steve Kirkpatrick and Alan
Wisniewski, who hasn’t played this season,
as the only available forwards for tonight.
DeChellis will have to rely on a three
guard lineup for much of the game with
the 6-foot-5 Cammeron Woodyard and 6-
foot-4 guards Bowman and Jermaine
Marshall filling Jackson’s role.
“Some young guys are going to get an
opportunity to play,” DeChellis said
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“Our frontline guys are
going to need to stay out
of foul trouble. It’s going
to be a total team effort.”
in their only day of practice.
“We need to overcome 12-13 points from
Billy and D.J. and eight or nine rebounds,”
DeChellis said.
“Our frontline guys are going to need to
stay out of foul trouble. It’s going to be a
total team effort and everybody needs to
play and chip in.”
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SPORTS
defender Allie Rothman also
assisted Summers’ goal.
Just 5:42 later, assistant captain
Dana Heller, a Collegian photo
staff member, made the score 3-1
after firing a low wrist shot from
Summers and junior forward
Chelly Deiling.
With 2:05 remaining in the sec
ond, captain Sara Chroman, a
Collegian business staff member,
scored for the Lady leers.
“ [Sara] got the puck and rushed
it up ice,” Stroemel said. “She put
it in under the goalie’s arm. It just
squeaked in.”
Elmira put the puck past fresh
man goaltender Katie Vaughan
with 5:15 left in the third, but
Vaughan shutdown the Soaring
Eagles by stopping 25 out of 27
shots, while the Lady leers
recorded 41 shots.
He once filled in for Johnny
Carson on the “Tonight Show,”
and was a popular pitchman for
Lipton tea.
During his playing days,
Meredith recorded his own coun
try music single. Former team
mate Walt Garrison pulled it out
Monday and proudly read the
names of the songs: “Travelin’
Man" on one side, “Them That
Ain’t Got It Can’t Lose” on the
other.
He was the inspiration for the
carousing quarterback in the book
and movie “North Dallas Forty,”
written by Pete Gent, a former
Cowboys teammate and good
friend.
“He loved life, he loved people,
God bless him,” Garrison said.
“When he walked into a room, he
took it over.... You couldn’t be sad
around Joe Don very long. When
you left, you’d come away laugh
ing.”
Meredith left “Monday Night
Football” a year after Cosell and
soon retired from the spotlight
altogether.
He just didn't want to be famous
any more.
His absence meant younger
generations have only heard
“Dandy Don" stories including
current Cowboys coach Jason
Garrett, who wore Meredith’s No.
17 when he was a Dallas quarter
back.
“It was a coincidence, but I
always made the connection,”
Garrett said.
Joseph Donald Meredith was
born April 10,1938, and grew up in
the Northeast Texas town of
Mount Vernon.
He was a natural athlete. He
scored a record 52 points in a high
school basketball tournament. At
Southern Methodist University, he
was All-America quarterback in
1958 and 1959. His popularity in
Dallas was part of why the
Cowboys signed him to a five-year
personal services contract before
formally getting an NFL fran
chise.
Meredith's second career in
Not knowing the certainty of the
Gators’ situation at quarterback
means Paterno’s defense will
need to prepare for all three,
something he looks to get started
game planning for right away.
Looking for tendencies with the
three quarterbacks, plus stressing
assignment-sure, fundamentally
sound technique with his defense
reminded Paterno that something
will have to give one way or anoth
er.
“We are dealing with people. We
are not dealing with inanimate
Wright
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The details and the extent of Wright’s
injury are unknown, but one thing the
Lions can be sure of is the prospect of
replacing Wright would be no easy task.
The redshirt sophomore is currently
ranked No. 6 in his weight class.
Before ultimately redshirting last sea
son, he was Penn State’s first All-American
as a true freshman in more than a decade.
Sandersor said he hasn’t given any thought
to who might take Wright’s place if need be,
but he may have to “be creative” if the situ
ation arises.
The Lions have no other wrestlers with
experience at 184 this season. But there
Lucas
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gets on the floor, she has a shooter’s men
tality and a scorer’s mentality,”
Washington said at her weekly press con
ference last week.
Ed DeChellis
“That is if you give her room, she’s going
to let it go and she believes it is going in.”
Lucas hasn’t started a game yet this sea
son, but is the first guard off the bench,
usually replacing Bentley as point guard
While not a natural point guard, the
freshman has shown flashes of playmaking
ability.
Against Texas Tech, the guard weaved
through the lane and completed a wrap
around pass to a wide-open Julia If’Ogele
on the baseline.
“I got the puck in the neutral zone and shot it
between the blue line and the top of the circle.
It was exciting. I haven’t scored since freshman
year, so it was pretty cool.”
Stroemel said the team looked a “In the second, we were much
little tired at the end of the game, more energetic, but in the third
“We didn’t play the best game period, we kind of slacked off
we’ve ever played, but we’ll take again.”
it,” Stroemel said. The Lady leers did not practice
Stroemel said he will address over Thanksgiving break, but the
the fatigue issue with more condi- team was back to its regular
honing during next week’s prac- schedule this week,
tice, continuing after winter break, “It was hard to not play [over
the week of Jan. 3. Thanksgiving break] and then go
“We didn’t seem to have speed into a game,” Chroman said. “But
in the first period,” Stroemel said, overall, we played well.”
“You could've heard a pin drop. Then coach
Landry walked in and he peeled it off. It looked
so real! He had a makeup artist put it on. We all
wanted to choke him to death for scaring us
like that. But we all just cracked up.”
entertainment obscures what a
great quarterback he was.
Meredith took a team from 0-11-
1 in 1960 to within minutes of
reaching each of the first two
Super Bowls.
“You look at all the expansion
quarterbacks and most of them
have been forgotten about, but he
was able to take us to the champi
onship game,” said Reeves, an
NFL head coach for 23 seasons.
“I’ve been around some outstand
ing quarterbacks: (Roger)
Staubach, (Craig) Morton, (John)
Elway, Phil Simms.
“All those guys had some of the
same traits as Don, but you’d
never get all the traits Don had in
one package.”
He took his lumps until sur
rounded by better players.
“Broken noses and collarbones
and ribs, everything you can think
of, Don had it,” said Lee Roy
Jordan, his roommate for many
years.
Meredith’s free spirit never
meshed with coach Tbm Landry,
which led to a love-hate relation
ship with fans.
But the coach and quarterback
then realized they needed each
other.
The turning point in their rela
tionship came midway through
1965, when Landry cried in front of
the team after a loss that dropped
them to 2-5.
He then recommitted to
Meredith and the Cowboys fin
ished 7-7, their first non-losing
season.
They went to the Playoff Bowl, a
meaningless matchup of runners-
“The good Lord took care of us [last year] ...
Now, if I get it to rain and the field will get nice
and sloppy, maybe their speed wont be quite as
prominent of a factor as it can be.”
objects,” Paterno said. “We’re might be helpful to us and we’ll try
dealing with people, and maybe and find that out.”
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The Daily Collegian
in win
Dan Reeves
Meredith’s former teammate
up, then advanced to the NFL
championship game the next two
seasons.
Dallas narrowly lost to Green
Bay both times.
Meredith threw a late intercep
tion in the first one. The second
was the “Ice Bowl,” one of the
most memorable games in NFL
history, won by the Packers on a
quarterback sneak in the closing
seconds.
Meredith showed up for the
1966 title game with his face cov
ered in stitches.
He told everyone he’d been
shopping with his wife, got tripped
and went through a plate-glass
window.
He couldn’t play.
“You could’ve heard a pin drop,”
Reeves said.
“Then coach Landry walked in
and he peeled it off. It looked so
real! He had a makeup artist put it
on.
“We all wanted to choke him to
death for scaring us like that But
we all just cracked up.”
Dallas lost in the first round of
the playoffs in 1968, with Meredith
throwing three interceptions and
eventually getting replaced by
Morton.
That game turned out to be his
last.
Susan Meredith said she and
her daughter were at Meredith’s
side when he died.
A private graveside service was
planned.
Susan Montoya Bryan in
Albuquerque, N.M. contributed to
this report
are, however, candidates at 174 and 197 that
may be able to change weight classes.
Redshirt freshman Ed Ruth, ranked No.
14 at 174, true freshman Andrew Church,
who has gone 5-5 this season wrestling
unattached at 174, and redshirt sophomore
Justin Ortega, who’s moved up to 197 this
season after competing at both 174 and 184
last year, are all viable candidates.
Though there’s still time for Wright to
recover if needed before Penn State’s next
match, a dual-meet against Lock Haven at
2 p.m. this Sunday in Rec Hall, the Lions
are hoping his injury isn’t as significant as
it appeared.
“If it was serious it’d be a great loss,”
Wade said.
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But, in order to successfully make the
pass, Lucas had to run into a stationary
Tech defender and the freshman’s momen
tum sent both to the ground, resulting in an
offensive foul.
Washington said Lucas has been suc
cessful this season because of her shooting
confidence.
Even in the Hartford game, Washington
said the freshman didn’t play differently
than usual, Lucas just made her shots and
Washington made sure to note the team
needed all 27 of the guard’s points.
“She’s not somebody you have to
encourage to keep shooting,” Washington
said.
“She doesn’t care if she misses five in a
row, she thinks the next one is going in.”
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Abby Miller
junior defender
Joe Paterno