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National Beer Sales National Mine Service Company Oran Overly Primo Pacy The Park Press Al Patti Nap Patti's Bar Ron and Polly Pauline Mr. and Mrs. Paul Perhosky Ronald and Clare Pesotini and Sons Dr. and Mrs. Michael R. Petras Phillips Greenhouse Mr. and Mrs. Roy Pietrzak Mrs. Ann J. Plowcha and Family Lyle E. Putt — Realtor Rochester & Pittsburgh Coal Company Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Rodio Rustic Lodge, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. William Schmidt Mr. and Mrs. John Wally Schroyer Dr. and Mrs. W. C. ShofF Joe and Adele Siegman Charles and Marie Signorino Sipos Camera Center Mr. and Mrs. Sam Smith Mr. and Mrs. Sherdell Snyder Mr. and Mrs. George L. Spinelli in memory of their son GREGORY W. SPINELLI L. T. Stadtmiller Mrs. Clare Stasko J. K. Stoner Raymond L. Strasser, Jr. Marcel "Dave" Tourdot Lucille Treganowan Mr. and Mrs. Reggie Troggio A. E. Troutman Company Twin-Pines Motel, Inc. Uncle Bill's Amusements, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Jay C. Underwood Roy and Fran Van Buskirk Joe, Carole, Dawn and Eric Vangrin Bill Van Horn Barber Shop Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Vaughn Mr. and Mrs. Virgil G. Vaughn Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Vuckovich Robert O. and Marjorie J. Warren Mr. and Mrs. William West West End Auto Body Shop Widdowson's Jewelers Donald H. Witt Mr. and Mrs. Frank R. Witt INDIANA FOOTBALL MAGAZINE THE EDINBORO GAME Saturday, Oct. 4, 1975 George P. Miller Stadium Indiana University of Pa. Indiana, Pa. CONABOY Randy L. 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PHONE 349-3601 Open daily 11 a.m. until 9 p.m.; Fridays and Saturdays 11 a.m. until 10 p.m. 2 Today*s Game MAKE IT or BREAK IT By RANDY JESICK lUP Director of Public Information Folks, here it is! The first in a series of at least four consecutive "make it or break it" games for the 1975 Indiana Univer­ sity of Pennsylvania football team, 3-0. That's what today's game with arch-rival Edinboro is all about. That's what it boils down to. Because, following today's face-off against the Fighting Scots, 2-2, the Indians journey to Westminster and then back to Miller Stadium for backto-back invasions by Clarion and Slip­ pery Rock. What a month of October coach Bill Neal and his squad must face! First thing's first, of course, and the first item on the menu is Edinboro. And home cookin' has not been too mouth-watering for lUP in recent years because the last time Indiana won at Miller Stadium was 1969, 27-0. In the last four seasons, in fact, the visiting team has won on each occa­ sion: 1974, 25-7 lUP; 1973, 21-14 ESC; 1972, 17-7 lUP; and 1971, 29-23 ESC. To avid lUP fans the matchup this afternoon is probably most similar to that of 1973 when the home team was seemingly rolling along with a 2-1 mark, suffering only the open­ ing defeat to out-of-their-league Eastern Kentucky. Edinboro, on the other hand, was mired in a campaign that had thus far produced an undis­ tinguished 0-3-1. With its own Home­ coming celebration as an inspiring setting, lUP put it to the Fighting Scots, right? Wrong! The 10,000-plus Home­ coming days fans trudged from the stadium with long looks and "what happened?" expressions as Indiana disappointed its followers with a 2114 setback. Remember that on Oct. 4, 1975, lUP is undefeated, while Edinboro is playing but .500 ball! Of course, part of the warning is this: last Saturday the players of coach Bill McDonald, the former lUP assist­ ant, knocked off the king. Slippery Rock, 24-19. To avoid suffering a similar fate today, the lUP defense will have to perform a reasonable imitation of last week's showing at Shippensburg when they limited Red Raider backs to just 19 yards in 34 carries, a figure resulting, in part, from five sacks of the quarterback for 51 yards in losses. But that task won't be nearly as easy because of Edinboro backs such as 210-pound fullback Rich Holmes and 210-pound halfback Dave Green, a pair of imports from North Caro­ lina who decided to further their ed­ ucation at Edinboro. So the lUP de­ fense, which has played beyond ex­ pectations thus far in the season, will have its stiffest assignment yet. But so will the Indiana offense, which has shown the capacity, under the direction of quarterback Lynn Hieber, to move the football. Unfor­ tunately, many drives have been stalled by mistakes, namely 11 fum­ bles lost, three interceptions and ap­ proximately 10 dropped passes. The front line, in blocking for the runners and protecting Hieber, will have its hands full. As they say on TV, "an interesting matchup" will pit lUP's All-Conference center Jack Conaboy (6-0, 200) against Edinboro's massive middle guard Ron Gooden (6-5, 260). The individual winner between Conaboy and Gooden could well help to determine the outcome of today's game, and the lUP-Edinboro survivor will have taken "one giant step" to­ ward the Pennsylvania Conference Western Division title. lUP open House Today is lUP Open House. The University welcomes prospective students, veterans, transfer stu­ dents, senior citizens, adult educa­ tion students, branch campus stu­ dents, parents, Indiana residents and friends. WHArS GOING ON HERE? In a brilliant tactical move, lUP coach Bill Neal, in an effort to con­ fuse the Edinboro defense, plans to switch All-American quarterback Lynn Hieber (12) to center and All-Confer­ ence and AP All-Pennsylvania center Jack Conaboy (50) to quarterback. YOU MAY BE INTERESTED TO KNOW; The series with Edinboro stands at 31-8-2 lUP . . . Lynn Hieber became lUP's all-time total offense leader last week and now has 4038 yards pass­ ing and running ... he passed Wally Blucas (66-69), who has 3861 . . . are 5000 yards possible for Hieber? . . . Dr. Charles Codlasky coaches the lUP offensive line that has four new starters this year . . . three faculty members, Joan Yanuzzi, Merle Stilwell and Len DeFabo, serve as academic coaches to the lUP squad . . . Home­ coming game tickets are on sale at the Student Union Information Desk: $4 for reserved and $3 for general admission. 3 ^^flnancial n ^ngs and the \ine-up at jJ^'^tt^Comrnonweatth National S'" savings p.ans ' loans ot aH j^o oOO ; So'rieM oampus loca«on Hours-. Monday through Thur Saturday '°ntVnoon EDINBORO: The Fighting Scots FB Rich Holmes HB Dave Green EDINBORO STATS (4 Games) INDIANA STATS (3 Games) Results: 2-2 Rushing: 157.0 Yards Per Game Rick Johnson, FB — 44 for 143 yds., 3.3 avg. Bob Coles, FB — 23 for 116 yds., 5.0 avg. Lynn FHieber, QB — 28 for 103 yds., 3.7 avg. Passing: 215.0 Yards Per Game Lynn Hieber, QB — 45 of 82 for 645 yds., 3 int., 2 TD Receiving: Len Pesotini, SE — 22 for 303 yds., 1 TD Rege D'Angelo, TE — 9 for 127 yds. John Menhart, FJB — 6 for 101 yds., 1 TD Scoring: 21.0 Points Per Game Lynn Hieber, QB — 3 TD for 18 pts. Tom Alper, K — 6 PAT, 3 FG for 15 pts. Defense: Bill Parks, LB —18 solo tackles, 16 assists George Aggen, MG —19 solo tackles, 15 assists Gregg Schmidt, LB —19 solo tackles, 11 assists Team Defense: 7.0 Points Per Game Against Rushing: 88.7 yds. per game Against Passing: 103.0 yds. per game ESC ESC ESC ESC 21 0 14 24 West Va. Wesleyan ...................... 7 Fairmont ........................................ 20 Baldwin-Wallace ............................ 35 Slippery Rock ................................ 19 Rushing: 17B.8 Yards Per Game Dave Green, HB — 79 for 343 yds., 4.3 avg. Richard Holmes, FB — 50 for 280 yds., 5.6 avg. Passing: 110.8 Yards Per Game Jude Basile, QB — 26 of 57 for 373 yds., 1 int., 1 TD Receiving: Howard Hackley, SE —10 for 141 yds. Mark Mellone, TE — 7 for 79 yds. Scoring: 14.9 Points Per Game Dave Green, HB — 4 TD for 24 pts. Larry Littler, K — 8 PAT, 1 FG for 11 pts. Defense: Kevin Erickson, LB — 54 tackles Ron Gooden, MG — 53 tackles Team Defense: 20.3 Points Per Game Against Rushing: 197.0 yds. per game Against Passing: 79.0 yds. per game 5 “I LIKE THIS JOB" by ED BOUCHETTE Sports Editor, Indiana Evening Gazette In 1968, Bill Neal was assistant head football coach at Pitt. In 1969, he was an assistant at lUP and in 1970 he be­ came the school's sixth head football coach. Since then his teams have compiled a 32-16 record fora .667 winning mark (prior to last week's Shippensburg game). He has tasted success, as evidenced by his 8-1 team of 1972. And he also has seen disappointment, one example com­ ing the very next season, 1973, which ended 4-5, only the ninth losing season in lUP history and one which halted the Big Indians' 11-straight-winning-seasons streak along with a 110game scoring skein. But there is more to the man than his football statistics. Why did he come to lUP in the first place? Would he accept a job at a bigger school? Whom does he rate as his best player ever? As usual. Bill Neal answered these questions and more in a recent interview in a frank, honest manner. Q: Isn't a head coach's job bas­ ically that of delegating authority, public relations and recruiting, rather than the actual art of coaching? NEAL: 1 think when you get into the better situations a head coach's job is mostly that of an administrator rather than a coach. It's 80 per cent administrative problems and duties. Such things as travel arrangements, working on correspondence, PR and related recruiting activities with it, the personal and academic problems of the squad and delegating responsibil­ ities to the assistant coaches and overseeing them getting done. I'd like to emphasize that my re­ sponsibilities here are greatly aided because I have two people in Rich Hornfeck and Jim Mill who have the responsibilities of coordinating the offense and defense. My responsibil­ 6 ity is to see that the job is done and I accept the responsibility. Each year I've been here they've (Hornfeck and Mill) assumed more actual responsi­ bilities in those areas. Q: What's the difference in being an assistant and a head coach? NEAL: The major difference is the scope of the responsibility. Rich Hornfeck has absolutely no responsi­ bility whatsoever in what the defense does. Charlie Godlasky has the of­ fensive line and he doesn't worry about the backs. Rich Krinks has the wide receivers and nothing else. Joe Marx has only the quarterbacks. The defense is the same thing. I coordi­ nate the two. In game-day responsibilities my major decisions come in crucial situa­ tions— should we run or punt on fourth down, should we rush or re­ turn the punt, should we go for a one or two-point conversion. I try to look at the game in a broad sense. On third-and-one the assistants de­ cide what we do. Q. Would you leave lUP to accept another assistant's job at a major college? NEAL: I like this job, and I doubt very seriously if I would take one for several reasons: 1. I like my situa­ tion here. It's a fine school, a great community, I have a tremendous staff and we have many things going for us; 2. Our administration standards are such that we get a higher type and class of young man here. We're not dealing with a football bum. We're dealing with a student-athlete; 3. The only advantage of being an assistant at a major school, that I could see, would be financial and it would take a heck of a lot more than what I'm getting here to entice me. Q; Well then, would you take a head coaching job at a major school if offered? NEAL: I always welcome challenges and I always enjoyed a challenge. But at my age (43), I think security car­ ries a lot with any job of that kind and I've got that here. Since I've been at Indiana, I've never actually sought another job. I've discussed other jobs with people, but I would be reluctant to leave here unless there would be a definite advantage in doing so; and I doubt how many would be a defin­ ite advantage. Q: ever? Could this be your best team NEAL: It's difficult to make com­ parisons at this time. We're young and just starting the season and there's no substitute for final results. We had an 8-1 season with a pretty good football team. When this sea­ son's over. I'd rather compare it then. Right now, attitude-wise, this has been the best at this stage of the season. Q: Did you come to lUP in 1969 with the idea that you'd succeed Chuck Klausing coach? as head football NEAL: When the job was first dis­ cussed with me, I was offered the head position. But when it came around to being hired, Klausing wasn't in the position to offer me the job. I came in as an assistant with only one realization — that he (Klaus­ ing) had ambitions of leaving and with the possibility I would get the head job. Q: How did you feel leaving the assistant's job at Pitt for the same job at lUP? NEAL: I was fed up with big-time football. After three years at Pitt, I had coached in big-time football for 15 years. In those years at George Washington, Virginia and Pitt, we played all the big-time teams — Penn State, Notre Dame, etc. And we were in the Sun Bowl at George Washing­ ton. When this opportunity presented itself (at lUP), 1 said, "Hey, here's a place I can be happy and enjoy coaching," which I was no longer do­ ing. 1 thought of getting out of coach­ ing in my last year at Pitt. Q: You've never run the score up against an opponent, even sacrificing a possible bowl bid in 1972 when it would have been to your advantage to run up a score to impress people. Why not? NEAL: My philosophy in coaching is that 1 have a job here and I want to come to work every day and enjoy it. We had a fine football team (in 1972). But I do not believe in embar­ rassing people. I believe in playing as many people as possible. One of the best compliments I ever received was the year the California head coach (then John Katusa) was ill (1972). After we beat them (28-14), his assistants thanked me for not run­ ning up the score and embarrassing them. It was their feeling we could have scored three, four, five touch­ downs more than we did. But what would we gain? I feel if having to score big is the only way to get recognition. I'd rather not get it. Q: Who is the best football play­ er you've had at Indiana? NEAL: Ability-wise, there are a number of them. 1 would say, in my first year in 1969, there were prob­ ably many quality players on that team. I felt 10 or 12 could start on the Pitt team that I left the year be­ fore. There's no question Larry Monsilovich was the best running back. We've also been blessed with a num­ ber of fine fullbacks. We've also been blessed with some fine quarterbacks, but there's no question that Lynn Hieber has the finest ability of any of them. It's difficult to single out people. simply because each year is a new year and each player has different characteristics. Q: What is the difference in the football played at lUP and that in the big time? NEAL: Significantly, there are two basic things: 1. size. Where we have 185-190-pound guards, they have 225230. 2. Overall team speed. But as far as strategies involved and type of play are concerned, there is very little difference. Q: How did your coaching duties at big schools compare with those at lUP? NEAL: Recruiting. In big-time foot­ ball recruiting is your life blood. When you are recruiting a so-called blue-chipper, it's a rat race. You may be a super salesman, but you're com­ peting against numerous salesmen. In the big time, recruiting takes place 12 months of the year — hard. When you go to work in the morning you know that your actual coaching will be part of the day but recruiting will be all day —all of it. The last thing you do at night is call one of your prospects. Now, I look forward to coming to the office and not having to dread that, after putting in a lot of hours recruiting one kid. I'll lose him. My future is not put into the hands of a 17-year-old youngster. Miller Stadium Information CONCESSIONS: Concession stands ore located under­ neath the south stands and at each end of the south stands and at the east end of the north stands. EMERGENCY SERVICES: A University doctor is in at­ tendance at all lUP games as well as an oxygenequipped ambulance and ambulance crew. Am­ bulance service by Citizens Ambulance Service. STADIUM OPENED: 1962; named for George P. Miller, former lUP football coach (1927-1947) and ath­ letic director. The field runs east and west; the pressbox is on the south side. TELEPHONES: Located in all dormitories and Memorial Field House to north of Stadium. In emergency, a telephone is available in pressbox. PROGRAM SALES: lUP football programs are pub­ lished by the University Public Information Office and sold by members of the basketball squad. TICKET SALES: Advance tickets on sale at Student Co­ operative Association office located in the Stu­ dent Union Building from 8 a.m. to 5 P.M., Mon­ day through Friday. Ticket mail orders should be addressed to: Student Cooperative Association, Football Ticket Office, lUP, Indiana, Pa. 157011. Reserved seats — $3 (Homecoming $4); general admission — $2 (Homecoming $3). REST ROOMS: Located under the south stands and at the west end of the north stands. USHERS: Ushering service provided through the cour­ tesy of Gamma Sigma Sigma Service Sorority. LOST AND FOUND: Turn in articles found and infor­ mation on articles lost at the east door of pressbox. 7 The Co-op Store offers a wide assortment of gifts and college days mementos. Our service is designed to accommodate alumni, students, par­ ents and visitors to the lUP campus. We have everything from pennants and decals to books and clothing. Stop by the Co-op Store, located behind the Student Union. It’s your store. CO-OP STORE BEHIND THE STUDENT UNION - PHONE: 357-2591 8 DR. ROBERT C. WILBURN lUP President DR. JOHN CHELLMAN Dean, School of Health Services HEAD COACH THE STAFF Rich Krinks, Graduate Asst. 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COLLEOE FOOTBALL the excitement, the nostalgia make it a personal love affair by Joe Concannon, Boston GLOBE IjjH ■■ here has always been the per­ sonal love affair with the college game, taking its roots from those trips as a kid to the cavernous Yale Bowl in New Haven, Conn., and nurtured by my own experiences as a college writer chasing around the East after teams that came close, but never made it in those earlier student days at Boston University. As a kid, too, I always heard the stories, listening to my father talk about the Four Horsemen and how he had played on the same team with them in Waterbury, Conn., after they had left Notre Dame. I memorized the lead that Grantland Rice had written, making the Four Horsemen “outlined against a blue-gray October sky” a part of our folklore. I guess, ultimately, it would figure that this would be my vocation, writ­ ing about sports and, if it is really the fashionable thing these days to be a pro football writer in one of the 26 National Football League cities, it is not for me. If the Ivy League is not the Big Eight, or the Pac-Eight, it is still a pretty real place to reside. This thesis, essentially, is about the college game, its universal appeal to the spirit. For openers, though, a con­ trast serves to set the tone. Two games, eight days apart, at the tail end of the college and pro seasons, support my basic position better than all the words, arguments or pictures I could ever unearth. The first, on Saturday, Nov. 23, was in Harvard Stadium, that anti­ quated coliseum once referred to by the late Stanley Woodward as “a pile of porous plaster.” The second, on Sunday, Dec. 1, was in Schaefer Stadium, a modern monument that abuts a race track in Foxborough, Mass. Juxtaposed, the two games were light years apart. In Harvard Stadium, it was what the Harvards and Yales like to call The Game, a socio-athletic phenome­ is it for real, or will it be a fake-a trademark of college football. non staged on alternate years in New Haven and Cambridge, Mass. This, of course, is like so many other premiere football rivalries all over the country. At Schaefer Stadium, it was the New England Patriots, alive after 13 years of basic dullness, against the Steelers, eventual Super Bowl champions. Harvard, under coach Joe Restic, is the most unpredictable of college teams ANYWHERE. With a system he says provides maximum flexibility, he puts the quarterback in motion, releases receivers in 42 different pat­ terns, sends 10 men in on punt blitzes, jumps defenses constantly and, in general, fields a team that is fun to watch. In the first half, for instance, the All-America wide receiver from Villa Park, California, Pat Mclnally, went in motion, took a pitch from quarter­ back Milt Holt, rolled out to the right and threw a 46-yard touchdown bomb to opposite end Jim Curry. Later, as time ran out. Harvard moved 76 yards in seven plays to score with nine seconds left in the half. Now, with dusk settling in over the stadium, there was Yale on top, 16-14, and Harvard was penned up at its own five yard line. What happened, basically, was what the college game is really all about. With Holt groggy from a shot he took on the drive, he moved Harvard 95 yards in 14 plays, scoring the winning touchdown in a sweep with 15 seconds to go. “Why,” Restic was asked, “didn’t you go for the field goal?” The rea­ son, Restic explained, was that his continued It V COLLEGE FOOTBALL continued snap man on punt situations was hurt. “And,” he said, “if Holt was in danger (with no time-outs left) he could have thrown it away.” As Restic greeted a deliriously happy team, he said, “I hope you enjoy this for the rest of your lives.” This par­ ticular college game certainly had no corner on the market for exciting, versatile, fast-changing football. You can catch this kind of action from Seattle to Syracuse and Ann Arbor to Austin. Given the tradition, the intensity of these rivalries, the settings in these college stadiums, the imagination and the will-to-win approach of the coaches and players, it is an experi­ ence, a happening staged only in col­ lege football. By comparison, what happened eight days later in Schaefer Stadium was a boring, unimaginative exhibition of football put on by pro­ fessionals in an extravagantly over­ priced park. The Patriots, the early season pro football miracle boys, were crippled, to a significant degree, by injuries. Still, a win over the Steelers would keep the playoff hopes alive. In addi­ tion, the win would have been a nice present to those fans who drive all those miles, arriving before noon and being locked in by traffic until well after darkness. Instead, the Patriots seemed con­ tent not to go all out for the win, even with time and the crowd on their side. Rather than go into the details, my first visit to Schaefer in two years as summed up by a comment I wrote for the sports editorial page of the Sunday Globe the following week. “Maybe,” I wrote, “I’ve been spoiled by watching too many capti­ vating college football games, but I’ve never been more turned off by an exhibition of dull, listless, unimagina­ tive football than I was by the Pa­ triots’ efforts at Schaefer Stadium last Sunday.” “If there is one area in which the pros should excel, it is knowing how to utilize the clock. The Patriots last Sunday scored one touchdown to beat the point spread, but let the clock run out without trying to win the game. “Give me a college team using the clock to score with nine seconds to go in the first half, moving 95 yards against the clock to win with five sec­ onds to go and winning because it had won the toss and had the wind in the FOURTH quarter.” The collegiate game, a tribute to its own past. If it is marked, to varying degrees by imperfection, its strengths are these very imperfections. It is a game played by the young, watched and appreciated by all ages. Its coaches are the innovators, the men Known as a "hard nosed taskmaster" Ben Schwartzwalder enjoyed an illustrious head coaching career at Syracuse University where he excelled as an innovator introducing some of the greatest players in the game. Such coaches make college ball that exciting, razzle-dazzle game that millions are in love with. who experiment, gamble and operate on a chess board 100 yards long. Another statistic, out of the NCAA press kit for 1975, indicates that the college game topped 600 yards total offense and 40 points per game (on the average for both teams] for the seventh straight year. The 648.2 total yards was the fourth highest ever, with the 403.6 rushing figure smash­ ing a record that stood for 18 years by more than 17 yards per game. It is, to a great degree, the era of the run, with the Veer and the Wish­ bone the offenses of the Seventies. As one writer said about the Patriots’ coach (who put in an awesome wish­ bone at Oklahoma], he never had to operate against the clock in college. “He simply outpersonneled people. He didn’t have to coach. He over­ whelmed everybody.” I have never had the opportunity to cover games at many big-time col­ leges, although in 1973 I covered 14 games and only one was in the Boston area. From Orono, Me. to Ithaca, N.Y. to Morgantown, W. Va. to College Station, Texas, I had a pretty good glimpse of the college game, its tradi­ tions and its diversity. Before Darrell Royal brought his Texas team to town last September for a game against Boston College, I did spend four days in Austin, Texas. Staying at the Villa Capri ad­ jacent to campus, it was pointed out that the Wishbone had been named at a cocktail party in Room 2001. The Wishbone and the Veer are popular, yes, but there are those of the opposite schools of thought who feel the two offenses are also limiting. When Alabama fell behind Nebraska in the 1972 Orange Bowl game, for example, it was all Nebraska. Forced to pass its way out of a big hole, Alabama was at a distinct disadvan­ tage. Passing is the thing you practice the least in the Wishbone. Innovators? Yes, even Ben Schwartzwalder at Syracuse, the tough, gruff taskmaster who was criticized for so long because all his teams did was run. After all, when you had a Jimmy Brown, an Ernie Da­ vis, a Floyd Little, a Jim Nance, a Larry Csonka, what did you expect him to do? Yet, in his time. Old Ben was an innovator. Try the scissors, a Schwartzwalder bread-and-butter play of the early Fifties. He took the unbalanced line of the single wing and used it with the T. How about the Broken I, with one back one step off center? At the time, the “I” was a radical offense by itself. “The halfback option pass? Davis caught one in the 1960 Cotton Bowl, setting a record. Davis and an end named John Mackey teamed up on one for 71 yards in 1961. In 25 years under Schwartzwalder, in fact, Syra­ cuse, a team that didn’t pass, averaged 15 passes per game. The forward pass was put into the continued 7t 3t OfTELLM BOUJL \ • • • AND DIVISION II FOOTBALL by John Rhode, Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge is the site of this year’s Rice Bowl, one of the stepping stones to the Camellia Bowl in Sacramento. December 15, 1974, two Grey­ hound buses filled with a happy group of football players left Sacra­ mento to spend a day of sightseeing in San Francisco. These buses held the Central Michigan football team which the day before had thoroughly beaten the University of Delaware in the Camellia Bowl and was now known as the Division II National Football Champion. The cheers of the crowd from the day before were still ringing in their ears as they de­ parted the buses at the wharf in San Francisco and began their day of sightseeing. They would return home that night to Mt. Pleasant, thus end­ ing another festive, competitive year of Division II football. What is Division II? Under the umbrella of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), colleges and universities are classified in three groups. A school or institution applying for Association membership may desig­ nate any division it would like to belong to provided it meets the appli­ cable criteria contained in the Asso­ ciation by-laws. Division I schools are those larger colleges and universities whose foot­ ball schedules are made up of compe­ tition from “major” schools such as Notre Dame, Michigan, Ohio State, Alabama, USC. Each of these schools must schedule more than 50% of its games against this type of competi­ tion. At present, over 160 schools make up this division. Division II is made up of schools whose schedules may include one or more of the “majors,” but not enough to qualify for Division I. There are presently 142 schools in this division including the University of Dela­ ware, Tennessee State, University of California at Davis, Boise State Col­ lege, North Dakota State, and Uni­ versity of Nevada at Las Vegas. Still smaller schools such as Slip­ pery Rock, Susquehanna University, Lewis and Clark, Colorado College, Chico State and Wesleyan Univer­ sity comprise Division III. An im­ portant distinction of the institutions in this division is that they are not allowed to award financial aid to any student-athlete except upon a show­ ing of financial need by the recipient. This is in contrast to the other di­ visions which can grant aid without regard to need as long as the sum does not exceed an NCAA maximum limit. National Championships for Divi­ sion I schools have long been ac­ corded by the various wire services and a number of organizations. The champion here is not a product of a play-off series or championship game, but a vote by sportscasters and coaches based on record perfor­ mances and end-of-season bowl par­ ticipation. The other divisions also have their champions. These, however, are de­ termined in authentic championship games, either in Sacramento (CA) at the Camellia Bowl (Division II) or in sequestered Phenix City (ALA) at the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl. Discussions on the merits of a Di­ vision II and Division III champion­ ship football game were first held four years ago. In Division II there were then four regional play-off games which produced a regional winner, but not a national champion. The games were played at Baton Rouge, La. (Grantland Rice Bowl); Atlantic City, N.J. (Boardwalk Bowl); President,Camellia Bowl Associatiion Wichita Falls, Tx. (Pioneer Bowl); and Sacramento, Ca. (Camellia Bowl). In 1973, the NCAA developed a plan to produce a national champion in Di­ vision II football including a play-off series and a championship bowl game at the Camellia Bowl. Teams for the championship are selected by the College Division II Football Selection Committee. This is made up of one individual from each region (West, Midwest, South, East) who is involved in collegiate football, e.g. athletic director, retired coach. In turn, this person will ap­ point several key men in his area to keep him advised of the teams’ pro­ gress in his region. These key men will speak with the selection commit­ tee member by phone each week dur­ ing the season to evaluate prospec­ tive teams. Selection of participating teams is based on: (a) eligibility of student-athletes for post season com­ petition; and (b) won-and-lost record considering strength of schedule. All Division II teams are eligible in the region where they are located geographically. Of the eight teams to be selected, one is selected from each of the four regions with the remain­ ing four teams selected on the merit of strength without any geographi­ cal consideration. Two teams from the same conference may not be se­ lected in the same year; and any in­ stitution whose conference champion is committed to an NCAA certified post-season football game is ineligi­ ble for championship competition. After finalists have been selected, four games are played the last Satur­ day in November on the college cam­ puses of four of the teams involved. The winners of these games then play the following Saturday in one of two games at Wichita Falls in the Pioneer Bowl or in the (Grantland) Rice Bowl in Baton Rouge. The two eventual winners then proceed to Sacramento to play for the national champion­ ship in the Camellia Bowl. The first year of the national cham­ pionship started off with Grambling defeating Delaware 17 to 8; Western Kentucky defeating Lehigh 25 to 16; Western Illinois losing to Louisiana Tech 13 to 18; and Boise State defeat­ ing South Dakota 53 to 10. Louisicontinued9t 4t GOOD DEFENSE IS A GOOD POLICY. When you re Insured with SAFECO you can get a good policy on just about everything you value. Whats more—we II try to save you money on all kinds of insurance. And our claims service is fast and fair. Make sure you get everything you need, without a lot of red tape. Look in the Yellow Pages for your Independent SAFECO Agent. And ask about SAFECO. There’s more to Nevada than 21 tables, Frank Sinatra For information on Nevada vacations write to: and Hoover Dam. There’s a human side. An American The Nevada Department of Economic Development, side. Like Charlie on the right. He’s been over every inch State Capitol, Carson City, Nevada. of Nevada in his 92 years and it’s people like Charlie who helped us compile 4 books on our state and its heritage. Outside Reno and Las Vegas there’s a different Nevada. A land of nostalgia. Ghost towns and relics. Majestic desert and breathtaking scenery is only a small part of Nevada, the real America waiting for you to explore. Tackle Nevada on your next vacation and if you get to Goldfield wish Charlie a happy 93rd. V COLLEGE FOOTBALL continued college game as an outgrowth over concern about the brutality of the game. It is one of the little-known vignettes of the game. In 1905, a com­ mittee met in New York to “save football.” Headed by the immortal Walter Camp, the committee sought to open up the game, making it a less dangerous activity. Serious thought was given to widening the gridiron by 40 feet, making it more a game of rugby than football as we know it today. There was one problem. One of the newly-built college stadiums in the East, had permanent stands. It would have cost too much money to tear them down. Instead, the com­ mittee legalized the forward pass and the sport became an American tradi­ tion. Imperfections? Well, the games on the more moderate, less ambitious level are filled with them. Yet, if they are flaws, they make for wild, weird games. One game, in particular, I covered last September stands out. The score, in the fog off Narragansett Bay in Kingston, R.I., was the Univer­ sity of Rhode Island 48, Northeastern 36. In the second quarter, alone, the ball changed hands 15 times. Paul Ryan, the URI quarterback, threw touchdown passes of 9, 52, 19 and 33 yards. Mike Budrow, a Northeastern defensive end, twice took the ball right out of the hands of Ryan, once rambling 50 yards for a touchdown. “In 23 years,” said URI coach Jack Gregory, “I’ve never been involved in a game full of so many weird plays.” This, precisely, is what makes it so much fun, so invigorating to cover. No matter where the game is played in any part of the country, it is in­ teresting and unpredictable. As one coach says, if somebody steals his playbook, it matters not. “They could study our plans,” he says, perhaps with tongue in cheek, “but they wouldn’t know what to prepare for.” The same coach was asked by a writer at a press conference if he would state the major premise, minor premise and conclusion of his sys­ tem. “That’s a false basic premise,” he said, “so I’m not going to answer you in syllogistic form.” With Spring football, what Harvard tries to do would be that much more efficient. Without it, there is the un­ predictability, often compounded by the vagaries of New England weath­ er. Writing in The Harvard Bulletin, an editor observed about Restic, “It was almost like watching General Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox, in the act of inventing guerrilla war­ fare.” The offense is based on nine forma­ tions, with the terms used to describe them (King, Queen, Jack, etc.J cover­ ing the number of flankers and set­ backs and where they are placed. From the sets. Harvard runs seven play series (sweep, belly, veer, toss, fire, dive, counterj, employing eight blocking schemes. With six potential receivers, there are 42 pass patterns. The Ivy League itself reflects the mood and the openness of the college game. With Restic its foremost tacti­ cian, there is the Wishbone at Yale, the Veer at Penn, the multiplicity at Dartmouth. Before Bob Blackman left Dartmouth for Illinois and the Big Ten, he had put in a system that de­ manded thought, dedication and pre­ cise execution. I always remember one Ivy game. With one team in front after a late touchdown, the other team gathered in the ensuing kickoff. With every­ one apparently picking up the kick return guy, he suddenly stopped and fired a cross-field lateral. With a wall being set up in front of him, he came within inches of busting it all the way for a touchdown. With Brian Dowling and Calvin Hill around, Yale was the ultimate in charismatic football in the late Six­ ties. As Dowling scrambled and ran around, Yale built an offense that used his unpredictability to great benefit. If you read Doonesbury, the cartoon strip that won Garry Trudeau a Pulitzer, the “B.D.” in the football suit is Brian Dowling. There is so much to the college game played from East to West and North to South with its option attacks and stunting defenses. To those who spend their lives writing about the pros, there is sometimes a tendency to look down their noses at college football. They think the only thing that matters is how hard a Larry Csonka runs, how devastating a Dick Butkus tackles. That is perfectly all right, I guess, but I would not trade a delightful Saturday afternoon looking out over the Hudson River from atop Michie Stadium at West Point, a cold dreary November day in Harvard Stadium watching Harvard play Yale or, yes, even the chance to see Amherst play Williams for anything. And I know other writers who feel the same way about college football in the South, Midwest, West and throughout the country. For me, and for them, a college game remains a personal love affair. ^ 7t Exclusive U.S. Importers: Van Munching & Co., N.Y., N.Y. V camellia continued ana Tech and Boise State then went to the Pioneer Bowl where, after a 21yard touchdown pass with 12 sec­ onds left, Tech defeated Boise State 38-34. Grambling and Western Ken­ tucky met at the Grantland Rice Bowl where Western Kentucky garnered a difficult 28-20 win. On December 15, 1973, the first championship game pitted Louisiana Tech and Western Kentucky in the Camellia Bowl with Louisiana Tech winning handily 34-0. In 1974, play-off games produced the following results: Delaware de­ feated Youngstown 35-14; Las Vegas defeated Alcorn A&M 35 to 22; Lou­ isiana Tech defeated Western Caro­ lina 10 to 7; and Central Michigan defeated Boise State 20 to 6. The Pioneer Bowl hosted Central Mich­ igan and Louisiana Tech with Central Michigan upsetting Tech 35-14. The Grantland Rice Bowl, held on the same day, resulted in Delaware’s 49 to 11 victory over Nevada, Las Vegas. The second national title went to Central Michigan which surprised Delaware with a 54 to 14 victory. One innovative aspect of the play­ off games is a very unique plan de­ vised by the Division II College Foot­ ball Committee to eliminate a tie game. Immediately following the con­ clusion of the fourth quarter of a tie, a coin is flipped, the winner se­ lecting offense or defense for the first possession of the first overtime period and any subsequent odd-num­ bered periods. Team A receives the ball first-andten on Team B’s 15-yard line. After Team A has had the ball for its se­ ries, whether it has scored or not. Team B becomes the offensive team with the ball on Team A’s 15-yard line, first-and-ten. Each team has pos­ session of the ball until it has scored or failed to gain a first-and-ten by either running out of downs or loss of possession through an intercepted pass or fumble. When a team scores, it gives up possession of the ball. Each overtime period consists of four downs and an opportunity to make a first-and-goal situation per team and no time limit is involved. If the score remains tied after an equal number of possessions, play will continue into extra periods until the tie is broken. A Central Michigan runner is staked up by the Delaware defense in last years Camellia Bowl won by Central Michigan 54-14. The sites of the two final play-off games and the championship games are sponsored by non-profit commu­ nity organizations. The (Grantland) Rice Bowl in Baton Rouge is spon­ sored by the Lions Club; the Pioneer Bowl is sponsored by the Wichita Falls Board of Commerce and Indus­ try. The Camellia Bowl is sponsored by the Camellia Bowl Association, Inc. which was founded in 1961 to bring major sports events to Sac­ ramento. These organizations are responsible for field preparation, publicity and promotion, half-time pageantry, and team entertainment. Travel and housing expenses are guaranteed by the NCAA and paid out of monies derived from the games. Approximately 75% of all gate re­ ceipts go directly to the NCAA for disbursement to the schools involved. The two championship contenders re­ ceive the major share. The championship series produces a show that is exciting and new. Visiting teams to the bowl locations are well-received in an array of pag­ eantry and football tradition. In past years over 173,000 fans have wit­ nessed the Camellia Bowl alone. There have been as many as 2,000 bandsmen on the field during the half-time show at the Camellia Bowl Game. In 1974, 1,700 members of the Ben Ali Temple of the Shrine started the day off with the pre-game show entering their color guard, floats, mini-cars, motorcycles, go-carts, drum and glocks corps. Oriental band, clowns and Indians. And, a fastpaced 48-hour fund raising campaign in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, raised more than $35,000 to send the Cen­ tral Michigan University Band to Sac­ ramento to participate in the half­ time show. As with the traditional New Year’s Day bowl games, a Camellia Bowl Queen is chosen with the eight final­ ist schools being invited to send their Homecoming Queens. The Queen is chosen at a Friday afternoon lunch­ eon attended by more than four hun­ dred persons. The Queen with her court, representing schools from Richmond, Virginia to Las Vegas, Ne­ vada, are introduced at the Game on Saturday. The monies that go to the sponsor­ ing groups are taken from the net re­ ceipts of the game and these proceeds are given to the charities of their choice. In the past, these charities have included Lions Clubs, Shriners Children’s Hospital, Cerebral Palsy, Boy Scouts of America, and hospital auxiliaries with an amount totaling almost $40,000. Much excitement has been generat­ ed in the Division II championship. The schools’ coaches and players look forward to the many benefits that come with a championship event— added dollars to the schools’ athletic funds, exposure on national television (ABC), the chance to play schools from other areas, travel to various parts of the United States, and, best of all, the right to claim the national title. On Saturday, December 13, 1975, Sacramento will once again become the football capital of the nation as two teams battle for a true national championship, with all the hoopla that surrounds such a game—bands, parades, queen contests, half-time pageantry, parties at private homes and clubs, buses filled with fans, planes arriving with booster groups and bands, and a town filled with a championship bowl fever. 9t i j THE NERVE CENTER T ■■ here was something electrifying about the game that seemed to make everyone in the stands immune to the cold of the crisp November day. Col­ lege football is like that. Stimulating. The overcast sky and an occasional drop of rain went unnoticed as State, trailing by six, began a desperate fourth quarter drive. A conference title and a bowl bid hung in the bal­ ance. To heck with the weather. Still, Fred Fann couldn’t help but glance over his shoulder now and then and wonder why he hadn’t majored in journalism instead of ac­ counting. “Ah, to be a sportswriter,’’ he thought. “Those guys have it made, up there where it’s nice and warm. And imagine, getting paid to see a game from a free seat that’s removed from the wind, rain and some clumsy guy spilling a soda all over your new topcoat.” Fred Fann, like thousands of spec­ tators, often wondered what went on up there in the press box behind all that glass. Must be exciting. Scoop Inksmear was accustomed to big game drama. His 18 years on the college beat had calloused him against temptations to cheer or show emo­ tion, even as State, the team he had covered all those years, kept its drive alive with a third down completion. He remembered all too well that first year on the job and his first college football assignment. He had let loose with a yell as somebody was return­ ing the opening kickoff 92 yards. He remembered all those icy stares from the veteran writers and he re­ called wanting to crawl under his old Underwood portable. No, the press box is no place for cheerleading, as he had learned so embarrassingly. It is a place to work. Removed from the crowd and the dis­ tractions of the noise and merriment, members of the news media are able to concentrate uninterrupted as they earn their living. Scoop Inksmear, nonetheless. lOt OF THE GAME couldn’t help but “pull” for State. Al­ ways easier to write a “winning” story instead of one describing dis­ appointment. Besides, there was that trip South for a week for bowl rev­ elry, all expenses paid, of course. The stadium public address an­ nouncer kept the fans advised, sup­ plementing the information on the scoreboard. “Johnson the ball car­ rier, . . . tackle by Swanson,” Fred Fann heard as he glanced at the scoreboard. Second down, five, ball on the 20. “Wish I were up there with those guys,” Fred thought. “The view must be great, better even than being here on the 50, five rows up.” Scoop Inksmear made another note on his legal pad as the press box PA blared the information: “Stevens the ball carrier . . . tackle by Jordan . . . gain of three . . . ball on the 17 . . . third and two.” Scoop Inksmear peered through his binoculars, wishing he had a closer vantage point and wondering why The Press Box, a spoitswriter's Saturday afternoon 'office'' continued 9t fTlr and fTlrs *T* Bloody nflory mix fTlr and fTlrs *T* fTloi Toi mix Vodka, gin, rum, tequila — even aquavit — never had it so good. Use 3 parts Mr and Mrs “T” Bloody Mary Mix to 1 part of any of them. Stir over ice for the perfect Bioody Mary. Just iike you get them in The Isiands. Mix 3 parts Mr and Mrs “T” Mai Tai Mix with 1 part rum in double old fashioned glass of crushed ice. 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Far cry from the old days when you had to keep track of every play yourself and figure your own statistics. Now, you are handed halftime and end-ofgame sheets containing team as well as individual statistics. Passes at­ tempted by the quarterbacks, com­ pletions, yardage. Everything. “Attention, press,’’ the press box PA blared. “Everyone wishing to go to the locker rooms, make sure your field passes are visible. The first elevator will leave in two minutes.’’ Another great convenience. Scoop Inksmear thought, remembering how he once had to climb 87 steps lugging his typewriter and binoculars. That was before press box elevators came into vogue. And in those days, if you wanted a quote or two from the coaches, you had to walk down to the locker rooms and back up to the press box to write your story. Now, a “pool” writer or a member of the home team’s PR staff would gather several quotes and phone them to the press box where they would be either announced on the press box PA sys­ tem or mimeographed and handed out. Scoop Inksmear decided to use the “pool” quotes. Besides, he was on a tight deadline and couldn’t spare the time to go downstairs. He’d stay in the press box and write his story, munching on the sandwich he had picked up in the press box buffet line at halftime. Some press boxes in­ cluded elaborate hot food catering with soft drinks, milk and coffee. Other press boxes served a handout sandwich or nothing at all. It de­ pended on a school’s budget. “Wilcox to Haley . . . gain of five . . . the tackle by Stevens . . . first down at the 12,” the press box PA announcer said tersely. Outside, the crowd was in a frenzy, sensing a victory and that long-awaited bowl invitation. Scoop Inksmear wondered how long it had been since State had last played in a bowl game. Was it five years or six? He saw Jerry Freesmile, State’s director of sports information, walking past and he asked him the question. “It was 1969, Scoop,” Jerry Free­ smile answered. “We’ll be handing out a press release with all that in­ formation in it if we win. Let me know if you need anything else.” Jerry had arrived in the press box four hours before kickoff time. Before that he had spent three hours in the office, making sure all the press cre­ dential requests had been filled. En­ velopes would be left at the press gate for writers and broadcasters who had filed their requests too late to be handled by mail. The importance of the game had attracted a larger than usual number of media representa­ tives along with delegates from sev­ eral bowl games and a dozen pro scouts. The news media came first and Jerry made sure they had the better seats. He also had made sure the field phones in the coaches’ booths were in working order. Right now, in the heat of the battle, those phones were sizzling. Three assistant coaches from State and four from the rival team (the number usually varies from two to five] were closeted in separate booths. In each booth, one man was shouting suggested plays and forma­ tions to another assistant coach at the other end of the line on the field. An­ other coach was peering through bi­ noculars and another was making dia­ grams, complete with X’s and O’s. The scoreboard operator immedi­ ately punched out new digits and the scoreboard read: “State 21, Upstate U., 20.” Fred Fann, jumping up and down in a sea of cavorting fans, watched as the clock ticked down. The final horn was barely audible above the crowd noise and Fred, caught up in the excitement, was glad he could begin his celebration immediately. “Poor stiffs,” he said, glancing toward the press box, “glad I don’t have to hang around up there and work.” Scoop Inksmear instinctively began pounding his typewriter, describing to his readers how State had gallantly fought from behind to earn its second bowl bid in five years. Or was it six? “Hey, Jerry Freesmile!” Jerry Freesmile was busy handing out a press release he had written the day before, not knowing if it would ever be read. The release included ticket information, the team’s pre­ bowl workout schedule and travel plans. Scoop Inksmear finished his game story, then added the final paragraph to his “sidebar” feature using the “pool” quotes and inserting a few facts gleaned from the many stat sheets at his disposal. Finally, three hours after the final horn, the last writer gone, Jerry Free­ smile packed up his remaining pro­ grams and brochures, collected sev­ eral sets of stats sheets and made his way toward the exit. The stadium was quiet, dark, deserted. His 10-hour day completed, Jerry breathed a sigh of relief and wondered how it would be attending a game as a sportswriter or a fan. a The fans eye view of the press box-what mysteries lurk within? DON'T TYPE COPIES OF RESUMES, THESIS, TERM PAPERS, ETC... USE azetteland G SAME DAY PRINTING SERVICE 1 TO 1,000 COPIES AT LOW COST! msta PRINT 465-5555 THE QUICK, ECONOMICAL WAY TO REPRODUCE: RESUMES • THESIS • TERM PAPERS • BRIEFS • REPORTS • TEST PAPERS "Downstairs at the Gazette" 9th and Water HB Rick Kurt dt Mario Luther OG Tony Marciano Indiana, Pa. LB Tim Marzaloes OG Dave Mintus DE Russ Palchak S Nick Palombi SE Len Pesotini C Ray Reitz 25 INDIANA 62 41 55 19 17 82 20 67 31 11 50 80 26 ABRAHAM, JQE ............ ............. 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LB, 5-11, 200, Fr., 18 Johnstown (Johnstown) — politcal science HINTZ, TOM ............................. OT, 6-0, 215, Sr., 21 Pleasant Hills (Thomas Jefferson) —marketing *IMBROGNO, PAT ..................... OT, 6-0, 230, So., 19 Kane (Kane) — geology **JOHNSON, RICK ..................... FB, 5-10, 195, Sr., Ligonier (Ligonier Valley) — phys. *JOSEPH, PAT ........................... DB, 5-10, 185, Sr., Connellsville (Connellsville) — phys. 21 ed. 22 ed. KENNEY, DON ......................... DB, 5-9, 165, So., 20 Crabtree (Greensburg-Salem) — math KERR, JIM .................................... OT, 6-0, 220, So., 19 Pittsburgh (Chartiers Valley) — accounting KNOPICK, JOHN ......................... K, 5-10, 165, Jr., 19 Punxsutawney (Punxsutawney) — elem. ed. «KURT, RICK .................................. HB, 6-0, 180, Jr., 20 Lawrence Park (Iroquois) — safety mgt. O’LAUGHLIN, BOB ....................... P, 5-11, 185, Jr., 20 New Casde (New Castle) — safety mgt. ORENCHUK, JOHN ................. OG, 6-0, 190, So., 19 Burgettstown (Burgettstown) — chemistry OTT, JACK .............................. MG, 5-11, 205, So., 19 Taylor (Riverside) — Phys. Ed. PALCHAK, RUSS ......................... DE, 6-0, 195, Jr., 19 Traflord (Penn-Trafford) — safety mgt. *PALOMBI, NICK ......................... DB, 5-10, 175, Sr., 20 Sharpsville (Shnrpsville) — business mgt. PANETTI, GARY ........................... FB, 5-8, 185, So., 19 Throop (Mid-Valley) — phys. ed. **PARKS, BILL .............................. LB, 5-10, 210, Sr., 21 Indiana (Indiana) — criminology **PESOTINI, LEN............................ SE, 6-2, 180, Sr., 20 Duryea (Pittston) — math 25 QUIGLEY, JOHN .................... DB, 5-10, 165, So., 19 Pittsburgh (Canevin) — business mgt. 51 REITZ, RAY .................................. C, 6-3, 210, So., 19 Jeannette (Jeannette) — phys. ed. **RODIO, NICK .............................. DT, 6-0, 210, Sr., 20 Jessup (Valley View) — elem. ed. ROWE, WAYNE .............................. C, 6-1, 205, Fr., 19 Greensburg (Greensburg-Salem) — phys. ed. RUFFOLO, FRANK .................... DB, 5-11, 185, So., 19 Monessen (Monessen) — math ed. RULLO, BOB ................................. TE, 6-2, 185, So., 18 Holsopple (Conemaugh Twp.) — English ed. 79 24 MIHOTA, JOHN .... OG, 6-0, 210, Jr., 19 Puritan (German Twp.) — govt.-public service MINTUS, DAVE ......................... OG, 6-0, 205, Jr., 21 Irwin (Greensburg Catholic) — accounting MUSTO, RAY ............................... QB, 5-11, 175, Jr., 22 Pittston (Pittston) — elem. ed. 52 14 81 47 69 90 73 29 89 22 72 91 19 75 68 58 *SADLON, GARY ..................... DB, 5-11, 180, Sr., 21 Central City (Shade) — phys. ed. SCHMIDT, GREGG .................... LB, 6-0, 200, So., 19 Pittsburgh (Canevin) — business mgt. *SCHROYER, JOHN ................. DE, 6-0, 195, SR, 21 Connellsville (Connellsville) — social sciences ed. ***SHANDOR, PAUL ..................... DT, 6-2, 230, Sr., 21 Vintondale (Blacklick V’alley) — geography ed. SHAW, CHUCK ................. DB, 6-1, 185, So., 22 Connellsville (Connellsville) — accounting SHECKLER, JOEL ...................... DE, 6-3, 220, Fr., 18 Bellefonte (Bellefonte) — phys. ed. SHERIDAN, DAVE ...................... RB, 6-0, 180, So., 19 Johnstown (Johnstown) — naturalscience SIMMONS, CLIFF ...................... DT, 6-1, 220, So., 19 Bedford (Buford) — phys. ed. SMITH, KEVIN ......................... DE, 6-2, 190, Fr., 18 Connellsville (Connellsville) — safety mgt. STANLEY, HOWARD .................. K, 6-1, 185, So., 19 East Brady (East Brady) — phys. ed. SUTER, MIKE ............................... DT, 6-4, 210, So., 19 Lock Haven (Lock Haven) — safety mgt. TANNER, ED ............. MG, 6-1, 195, So., 18 Homer City (Homer-Center) — business mgt. THOMPSON, FRANK OG, 6-1, 210, So., 20 Bellevue (Bellevue) — phys. ed. *TROGGIO, GENE .................... HB, 5-10, 190, Jr., 20 New Casde (Shenango) — safety mgt. 95 LUTHER, MARIO ..................... DT, 6-1, 230, Sr., 21 Homer City (Homer-Center) — elem. ed. 32 74 MADICH, GARY ......................... OT, 6-3, 220, Jr., 20 Crucible (Carmichaels) — gov’t.-public service MAKIN, COURTNEY ............. SE, 5-10, 180, So., 19 Indiana (Indiana) — phys. ed. MARCIANO, TONY ................ OG, 5-11, 215, So., 19 Dunmore (Dimmore) — phys. ed. MARZALOES, TIM ................... LB, 5-11, 190, Jr., 20 Port Vue (South Allegheny) — finance MATRUNICK, DAVE .......... DB, 5-11, 175, Jr., 20 Snydertown (Derry Area) — history ed. MENHART, JOHN..................... HB, 6-0, 180, So., 19 Crucible (Carmichaels) — phys. ed. 27 VAN BUSKIRK, MIKE .................. P, 5-9, 185, Fr., 17 Pittsburgh (Central Catholic) — business mgt. 42 WEST, RAY ..................... 44 WIGTON, DAVE 83 61 45 48 35 26 97 DB, 6-1, Latrobe (Latrobe) ................... DB, 5-7, Buder (Butler) 180, So., — phys. 155, So., — phys. 19 ed. 19 ed. **YOUNG, KEITH ......................... TE, 6-1, 195, Sr., 20 Pittsburgh (North Hills) — business 88 YOUNG, LEROY ....... TE, 6-1, 195, So., 19 Lock Haven (Lock Haven) — biology, *Letter Earned CHEVROLET. ALL KINDS OF CARS FOR ALL KINDS OF PEOW£. Small size, mid size, full size, Chevrolet makes a car for you, whatever your needs. For instance, you may be attracted to Chevrolet’s latest small car offerings: The luxurious Nova LN. The sporty Monza 2+2. Or our newest Chevrolet, the Monza Towne Coupe that’s dressy, fun to drive and sensibly priced. Chevrolet would like you to have the value and economy you want and need. If you don’t find yours on this page, check your Chevy dealer. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Nova LN Sedan. Monza 2+2. Impala Custom Coupe. Chevelle Malibu Classic Landau Coupe. Monte Carlo Landau. Camaro Type LT Coupe. Corvette. Vega Hatchback GT. Caprice Estate Wagon. Caprice Classic Sport Sedan. CHEVROLET MAKES SENSE FOR AMERICA INDIANA OFFENSE 85 78 65 50 63 53 80 12 35 26 33 LEN PESOTINI ......... SE TOM HINTZ ................................ LT JOHN MIHOTA ....................... LG JOHN CONABOY ....................... C DAVE MINTUS ......................... RG PAT IMBROGNO RT REGE D'ANGELO .................... TE LYNN HIEBER .......................... QB JOHN MENHART....................... LH MIKE DOYLE ............................. RH RICK JOHNSON...........................FB DEFENSE 90 73 55 79 28 66 69 47 20 17 21 JOHN SCHROYER ............ LE PAUL SHANDOR ...... LT GEORGE AGGEN....... ........... MG NICK RODIO .............................. RT JIM HASLETT ........................... RE BILL PARKS ....................... LB GREGG SCHMIDT................. LB GARY SADLON.......................... CB TOM CECCHETTI .........................CB JOHN BIERYLA .......................... S DON KENNEY.............................. S THE INDIANS 10 11 12 14 15 17 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 27 26 28 29 30 31 32 33 35 37 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 Klusto, QB 53 Comadena, QB 55 Hieber, QB 58 Ruffolo, DB 60 O’Laughlin, P 61 Bieryla, DB 62 Alper, K 63 Cecchetti, DB 64 Kenney, DB 65 Sheridan, HB 66 Palombi, DB 67 Franco, HB 68 Quigley, DB 69 Van Buskirk, P 70 Doyle, HB 71 Haslett, DE 72 Shaw, DB 73 Kurt, HB 74 Coles, FB 75 Troggio, HB 78 Johnson, FB 79 Menhart, FB 80 Panetti, FB 81 Knopick, K 82 Adams, DB 83 West, DB 85 Stanley, K 87 Wigton, DB 88 Marzaloes, LB 89 Herrman, LB 90 Sadlon, DB 91 Matrunick, DB 93 Higgins, LB 95 Conaboy, C 97 Reitz, G 99 Rowe, C Imbrogno, OT Aggen, MG Thompson, OG Galie, LB Marciano, OG Abraham, OG Mintus, OG Orenchuk, OG Mihota, OG Parks, LB Cole, OT Tanner, MG Schmidt, LB Ott, MG Kerr, OT Simmons, DT Shandor, DT Madich, OT Suter, DT Hintz, OT Rodio, DT D’Angelo, TE Rullo, TE Black, SE Makin, SE Pesotini, SE Palchak, DE Young, L., TE Sheckler, DE Schroyer, DE Smith, DE Caspar, DT Luther. DT Young, K., TE Joseph, DB CONSOLIDATED COCA COLA BOTTLING CO. 28 EDINBORO OFFENSE 26 75 66 53 76 79 82 7 88 39 35 HOWARD HACKLEY WR LEE BARTHELMES.........................LT LOU PROVENZANO...................LG DOUG GOODMAN ................... C RICH RADZAVICH......................RG RICK VORNADORE ................. RT MARK MELLONE ...................... TE JUDE BASILE.............................. QB WES BAIN ................................. FL DAVE GREEN .......................... TB RICH HOLMES ........................... FB DEFENSE 80 70 68 77 83 64 84 42 20 14 32 JAN GEFERT......... DON DLUGOS .... RON GOODEN . RICK McMAHON . JIM BARTO ......... TOM LANE ......... GREG SULLIVAN GEORGE MILLER KEVIN CAMPBELL JIM TERRY............ DAVE SEIGH........ LE ..... LT ... MG .... DT RE ..... LB ..... LB ..... CB CB ..... SS ...... FS THE FIGHTING SCOTS 1 Littler, K 4 Crawshaw, DB QB 7 Basile, 8 Jennings, DB 10 McHenry, QB 14 Terry, DB 16 Hill, QB 20 Campbell, DB 23 Glaser, WR 25 Jahn, WR 26 Hackley, WR 27 Nietupski, TE 29 Ewig, DB 32 Seigh, DB 35 Holmes, FB 36 Delbene, FB 39 Green, RB 40 Libert, RB 41 Smith, DB 42 Miller, DB 50 Green, C 51 Krenu, LB 53 Goodman, G 56 Ferrare, MG 63 64 66 67 68 69 70 71 73 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 Kunkle, OG Lane, LB Provenzano, OG GaHagher, OG Gooden, MG McGartland, OG Dlugos, DT Shaw, DT Hampy, OT Barthelmes, OT Radzavich, C McMahon, DT Taslov, OT Vornadore, OT Gefert, DE Lang, DE Mellone, TE Barto, DE Sullivan, LB Erickson, LB Bradshaw, DT Bruce, OG Bain, WR Larson, TE OFFICIALS Referee ............. Francis Delmastro Umpire ........... ....... Foster Grose Field Judge ...... -... Joseph Gruber Back Judge .... ... John O’Rourke Head Linesman ........ Dale Hamer Clock Operator .... Ronald Owens 29 AAONT€ZUMA'S OFFICIAL GUID€ TO TH€ ANCICNT1H3UIIA APTS. The A;^ec Cmpire. It's long gone. However, modern man Is rediscovering its secrets. A key to the rediscovery is the Sun Stone, o sort of time-CQpsule that outlines the history of the Ai^ecs ond, according to Monte:^mQ® Tequila, whot the Ai^ecs liked to drink ond when they liked to drink it. Within the inner ring of the Sun Stone ore twenty symbols;. ^ one for each day of the A;^ec week. €och symbol also sug gests whot kind of drink rinight be oppropriote to serve on that day. Horny Dull™ Cocktail. A horned animal symbolii^s the 7th day of the A;^ec week, representing highMAZATL spirited ond casual fun. The drink: 1 oi^Monte^mo Tequilo over ice in unusual glassware, mason jor, jelly jor, beer mug etc.; fill with fresh oronge juice or orange breokfost drink. Tequila Fi;^;^ The roin symboli:^s the 19th day of the A:^ec week, representing cool re­ freshment. The drink: 2 o:^ Montei^mo Tequilo,- juice V2 lime; Vi tea­ spoon sugar; two dashes XOCHITL Monte;QjmQ Margarita The flower symbolii^s 'K'- ' the lost day of thi^A:^ec week, representing the ultimate in true beauty ond pleosure. The drink: 2 o:^: MonteiCynno Tequilo; 3^ o;^ Triple Sec; juice M lime; pinch of salt; stir in shoker over ice; rub rim of cocktail gloss with lime peel ond spin in solt; stroin shaker into cocktail gloss . ; A- ~ ** ^ ^ ,'X , ,*X ters; stir in toll gloss over ice; fill with club sodo; gornish with lime shell. QUIAHUITL ■ . nrnngp bitQ ■ Tequila-Pineapple Liqueur. The 3rd doy of the A^ec week is symboli^d by o house, representing hospitolity ond Qt-home entertaining. The drink: fill o Jor holf way with chunks of ripe pineapple; pour Monte:^mQ Tequilo to the brim; odd 1 teospoon sugor (op­ tional); cop jor and place in refrigerator for 24 hours; drain off liquid ond serve os on after-dinner liqueur. Tequila Straight. Woter sym­ bol i;^s the 9th day of the A^ec ^ week, representing simple uncomplicoted pleodrink: Pour 13^ o^ of Monte;cy<^Q Gold Tequilo in^hHTHI^shot gloss. Put salt on bock of thumb; hold o wedge of lime between thumb and 1st finger; lick solt, drink Tequilo, bite into lime in one flowing motion. Monte:cy<^Q Tequilo. In White. In Gold. Mode in the tradition of the finest ancient tequilas. For odditionol Tequilo Arts recipes, write: Monte;^mo Tequilo Arts, Barton Dronds, 200 South Michigon Ave., Chicogo, Illinois 60604. And moy Tonotiuh* smile upon you. niDntezumH TEQUILA *Tonofiuh: Aztec god of the sun. ©1uBois 32 #*GOODMAN, DOUG ....... ..................... C, 6-2, 220, Jr. Sarver (Freeport) **SEIGH, DAVE ....... ..... ................-... DB, 5-11, 185, Sr. Johnstown (Richland) 71 GREEN. DAVE .................................. RB, 5-11, 210, Jr. Jacksonville, NC (Richland) **SHAW, JEFF ................ ............ ........ DT, 6-3, 230, Jr. Erie (Tech) 41 GREEN, MARTY ................................. C, 6-1, 210, So. Sayre *SMITH, DAN .............. .................... DB, 5-11, 175, Sr. Pittsburgh (Central Cath.) 84 *SULLIVAN, GREG 26 #*HACKLEY, HOWARD ....... ..... ....... WR, 5-9, 168, Jr. Canonsburg (Canon-McMillan) 78 TASLOV, TOM .................................. OT, 6-3, 205, Jr. Pittsburgh (Shaler) 73 *HAMPY, GREG .................................. OT, 6-3, 240, So. Erie (McDowell) 14 **TERRY, JIM ................ ..... ............. DB, 6-0, 190, Jr. Kulpmont (Lourdes) 16 HILL, MIKE .................................... 79 **VORNADORE, RICK ....... . .......... OT, 6-2, 225, Sr. Pittsburgh (South Hills Cath.) 85 68 53 39 50 35 QB, 6-1, 175, Fr. Center *HOLMES, RICH .................... -............ FB. 6-0, 210, Sr. Smithfield, NC .. ........................ QB, 6-3, 180, Jr. Arnold (Valley) ..................... LB, 6-1, 185, So. Pittsburgh (South Hills Cath.) * Varsity Letter 31 DE John Schroyer OG Frank Thompson I HB Gene Troggio DB Ray West DB Dave Wigton TE Keith Young PENN FURNITURE CO. 1450 AM COMPLETE 1450 INDIANA HOME FURNISHINGS Voice OF Philadelphia St. 349-2806 THE lUP BIG INDIANS INDIANA, PENNA. AT HOME AND AWAY 32 TIm academic ★ ★★all" american T Mi he Academic All-American Foot­ ball Team is the most important spe­ cial project the College Sports In­ formation Directors of America (CoSIDA] work on during the year, according to Phil Langan, editor of the organization’s monthly publica­ tion. How did it get started? It all began at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, in the summer of 1952. For the preceding five years, SMU had been the only institution in the country to be repre­ sented each year on the consensus All-American teams and the only one to have a player named on the UPI first team each of these seasons. But by 1952 Doak Walker had left SMU to become a star with the De­ troit Lions: Kyle Rote had started his illustrious career with the New York Giants: Fred Benners, who had thrown four touchdown passes to defeat Ohio State in 1950 and the same number to win from Notre Dame in 1951, was in law school: and Don Meredith was still a school­ boy in Mount Vernon, Texas. It did not look as if SMU would have a consensus All-American in 1952, so Lester Jordan, the school’s Sports Information Director (SID] as well as business manager of ath­ letics, was looking for another means of publicizing the school’s football team. Upon checking, he discovered that an unusually large number of his team had made excellent grades the preceding year. He decided to capital­ ize on this information. As a former sports editor of a Texas daily newspaper, Jordan knew the project would have more news value if it were dramatized by form­ ing a team instead of merely listing the names of the scholar-athletes. He also knew that a story with an SMU angle only would have limited ap­ peal, so he wrote the other SIDs in the Southwest Conference for a list of their top football players who also Lester Jordan, originator of the Academic AllAmerica team while at SMU made good grades. He then mailed a story on the 1952 Southwest Con­ ference pre-season academic team to the news outlets. The project met with instant ap­ proval from the news media and from educators, so Jordan started thinking about the post-season team. In October Frank Tolbert, who was covering the SMU beat for the Dallas Morning News, suggested that Jordan select an All-American academic team. To test the idea, Jordan wrote lead­ ing sportswriters and sportscasters over the country, explaining that the primary purposes of the project were to give recognition to football stars who excel in the classroom: to dra­ matize for the general public the fact that players are interested in aca­ demic attainments also: and to im­ press upon high school athletes the importance attached to studies by college players. Grantland Rice, then the dean of American sportswriters, volunteered his help, and Fred Russell of the Nashville Banner and currently chair­ man of the Honors Court of the Na­ tional Football Foundation and Hall of Fame, nominated two Vanderbilt players. Bert McCrane of the Des Moines Register and Tribune said he was glad to give an assist to the “brains” team and wrote of the schol­ arly achievements of Bill Fenton of the University of Iowa and Max Bur­ kett of Iowa State, two team mem­ bers. Hugh Fullerton of the Associ­ ated Press told of the fine classroom records of Mitch Price of Columbia and Frank McPhee of Princeton. Arch Ward of the Chicago Tribune liked the idea and fellow reporters Wilfrid Smith and Ed Prell helped promote the team. Leo H. Petersen, Ed Sainsbury, and Ed Fite of the United Press aided the project, and Whitney Martin and Harold Ratliff of the AP devoted columns to the team. Both Irving Marsh of the New York Herald-Tribune and Furman Bisher of the Atlanta Journal were generous in the space they gave to the team. The highly-encouraging response received from the media and from leading SIDs resulted in the first Aca­ demic All-American team appearing in December, 1952. The play it re­ ceived from coast to coast indicated that it would become a regular fea­ ture of the football season. Fortunately for the success of the project, several players on the early teams went on to make names in foot­ ball annals as well as in business and the professions. Dick Chapman of Rice, a member of the 1952 and 1953 first academic teams, was the first round draft choice of the Detroit Lions, and later earned his PhD. in nuclear physics. Michigan State’s John Wilson, also of the original 1952 team, became a Rhodes scholar and later president of Wells College. In 1954 the three senior backs on the academic eleven—Dick Moegle of Rice, Allan Ameche of Wisconsin, and Joe Heap of Notre Dame were also first round choices. Heap, a devastating player, later developed a career in personnel and is now an executive with Shell Oil Corpora­ tion. In 1956 the first team academic eleven had Jerry Tubbs of Oklahoma at center, Lynn Dawson of Purdue at quarterback, and Jack Pardee of Texas A & M at fullback—three men whose names are still important in football circles. For seven years Jordan selected the team, but in 1959 when CoSIDA and the American Peoples Encyclopedia became joint sponsors of the project, all sportswriters and sportscasters were invited to vote for the team. More than 600 voted and each re­ ceived a copy of the APE Yearbook. Players making the All-American team or the various all-Conference academic selections were given ency­ clopedia sets. Later, the American Heritage Life Insurance Company replaced APE as a co-sponsor and Ted Emery became the co-ordinator. Among the sports information leaders who made major contribu­ tions to the project in its early days were Wayne Duke, now commiscontinued 13t firemans Fund presents the most inciediWe plays of an incredible seasoa freak plays. Upsets. Sensational sophomores. In 1974, NCAA football was wilder and woolier than ever. If you missed any of it, “Fireman’s Fund Flashbacks” will give you a second chance. Because, during half-time on ABC-TVs NCAA national telecasts, we’re replaying the highlights of last year’s outstanding games. Monday, Sept. 8 Monday Sept. 15 Saturday Oct. 4 Saturday Oct. 11 Saturday Oct. 25 Saturday Nov. 22 Thursday Nov. 27 Friday Nov. 28 - Missouri at Alabama* Notre Dame at Boston College Ohio State at UCLA* Michigan at Michigan State use at Notre Dame Ohio State at Michigan Georgia at Georgia Tech UCLA at use* , Fireman’s Fund Insurance is bringing you these games on behalf of your local Independent Insurance Agent. He repre­ sents many fine insurance companies. So he s the best man to see about insuring your home, car, life, or business against the unexpected. And if you don’t think the unexpected can happen, just tune in: Saturday Nov 29 - Army-Navy Saturday Nov 29 - Alabama at Auburn Saturday Dec. 6 - Texas A&M at Arkansas Saturday Dec. 20 - The Liberty Bowl Monday Dec. 29 - The Gator Bowl Wednesday Dec. 31 - The Sugar Bowl Plus other key games as season progresses. *Night games. , __ bnABCTW Liremans Fund Amencan Insurance Companies. Home office: San Francisco. Look for your Firemans Fund Agent in the Yellow Pages. alhamerican continued ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Lester Jordan began his career in 1922 when he became Sports Information Director (SID) at Trinity College. In 1936 he moved to SMU where in 48 years he served in various capacities including Head of the Journalism Dept., Varsity Tennis Coach, Athletic Business Manager, SID, Assistant Athletic Director and Special Assistant. Now retired (1974), Lester lives with his wife in Vallejo, Ca. sioner of the Big Ten; Fred Stabley of Michigan State; Wilbur Evans, now a top official of the Cotton Bowl and the Southwest Athletic Conference; and Wiles Hallock, executive director of the Pac-8. Duke, who was associ­ ated with the NCAA at that time, ar­ ranged for national television cover­ age on the “TODAY” show. Stabley and Evans were presidents of CoSIDA when it became a co-sponsor. Hallock, who was then SID at the University of Wyoming, was chair­ man of the committee that named Jordan recipient of CoSIDA’s first distinguished award, thereby giving prestige to the academic team. Others who gained football fame after starring in the classroom in the fifties included Bart Starr of Ala­ bama, Raymond Berry and Jerry Mays of SMU, Fran Tarkenton and Zeke Bratkowski of Georgia, Sam Huff of West Virginia, Tommy Mc­ Donald of Oklahoma, Bob White of Ohio State, Donn Moomaw of UCLA, Lance Alworth of Arkansas, Frank Ryan of Rice, Jim Phillips of Auburn, and Joe Walton and John Guzik of Pitt. Of the eight former players who are to be inducted into the National Football Foundation’s college foot­ ball Hall of Fame this December, only three played after the academic team was originated. Two of these— Alan Ameche of the University of Wisconsin and Pete Dawkins of the U.S. Military Academy—were aca­ demic first-team selections. Now Fred Stabley, veteran sports information director at Michigan State University, is the project co­ ordinator. Each year he encloses in the October issue of the CoSIDA Digest a nomination blank, asking the SIDs to send in a list of their regular players who have a “B” or better average. He then sends ballots to the SIDS at the end of the season and they vote for the team. Stabley compiles the results and announces the team in February. The great Raymond Berry, All-Pro wide receiver, and member of the First Academic AllAmerica team. Pat Haden, 1974 Academic All-America and Rhodes Scholar 1974 Academic All-America UNIVERSITY DIVISION FIRST TEAM OFFENSE Player and Institution Avg. Major E E T T G G C RB RB RB QB KS Pete Demmerle, Notre Dame Doug Martin, Vanderbilt Joe Debes, Air Force Tom Wolf, Oklahoma St. Ralph Jackson, New Mexico State Kirk Lewis, Michigan Justus Everett, N. Carolina St. Brian Baschnagel, Ohio St. Brad Davis, Louisiana St. John Gendelman, William & Mary Pat Haden, Southern California Todd Gaffney, Drake E E T T LB LB LB LB DB DB S Greg Markow, Mississippi Randy Stockham, Utah St. Randy Hall, Alabama Mack Lancaster, Tulsa Bobby Davis, Auburn Don Lareau, Kansas St. Tom Ranieri, Kentucky Rick Stearns, Colorado Reggie Barnett, Notre Dame Terry Drennan, Texas Christian Randy Hughes, Oklahoma 3.70 4.00 3.59 3.70 3.70 3.13 3.69 3.32 3.20 3.50 3.71 3.70 Eng. & Span. Phys. & Econ. Physics Pre-Med. Pre-Med. Medicine Civil. Eng. Finance Pre-Dental Chemistry English Business FIRST TEAM DEFENSE 4.00 3.96 3.60 4.00 3.39 3.62 3.65 3.87 3.87 4.00 3.81 Business Pre-Med. Pre-Med. Pre-Med. Business Pre-Dental Allied Health Business Sociology Pre-Med Finance SECOND TEAM OFFENSE E E T T G G C RB RB RB QB KS John Boles, Bowling Green St. Dan Natale, Penn St. Mike Lopiccolo, Wyoming Keith Rowen, Stanford Chuck Miller, Miami (Ohio) John Roush, Oklahoma Mark Brenneman, Notre Dame Rich Baes, Michigan St. Rick Neel, Auburn Walter Peacock, Louisville Chris Kupec, North Carolina Tom Goedjen, Iowa St. DEFENSE E E T T LB LB LB LB DB DB S Chuck Cole, Utah Tim Harden, Navy Dewey Selmon, Oklahoma LeRoy Selmon, Oklahoma Kevin Bruce, Southern California Gordon Riegel, Stanford Joe Russell, Bowling Green St. Tommy Turnipseede, Baylor Bobby Elliott, Iowa Jimmy Knecht, Louisiana St. Scott Wingfield, Vanderbilt 15t •••••• ••••••• •••••••• •• •••••• • •• •••••• ••••••• card are a tricky business ll ouis Ganson, Cardini, Jack Mc­ Millan, and Harry Lorayne’s wizardry at card tricks and sleight-of-hand feats have long-amazed and tantalized countless magic fanciers. But they really have nothing over Jon Boyd, Craig Canitz, and Mark Flaisher, rally committee chairpersons at Illinois, Ohio State, and UCLA respectively. For these latter three, and their counterparts at universities across the country, are responsible for that flashy, varied, and volatile halftime feature at football games, and prove, indeed, that card tricks are a tricky business. According to records in University House on the UC-Berkeley campus, the predecessor of card stunts color­ fully premiered at the 1908 Cal-Stanford Big Game. Both rally committee sides [male bastions all] appeared in white shirts with blue and gold, cardboard-stiff rooter caps for Cal, and red and white chapeaus for Stanford supporters. From this rather elementary begin­ ning, card stunts have evolved into elaborate undertakings. The imagina­ tive stunts you see under a balmy Autumn glow or brisk November wind probably were conceived under rudimentary conditions eight or ten months before. Usually, the initial step in planning card stunts is for rally committee members to work with faculty and students in conceiving appropriate themes—for example. Dads’ Day. Homecoming, or the retirement of a university president. Stunts then are drawn on graph paper by the artist and his staff with each square representing a seat in the card section. This design is used as a guide in stamping the instruction cards. One instruction card is made up for each seat in the card section. These are numbered at the tops ac­ cording to row and seat numbers and then marked with the color of the card the person in that seat is to hold up for each stunt to be performed. Early-rising rally committee members tape these cards to the bottom of each seat in every row the day of the game. Directing the stunts is the rally committee chairperson who reads his ‘script’ simultaneously with the band conductor who is reading his music. To give the card section an idea of how the stunts look, several members stand at the base of the section with painted poster replicas of the stunts as they are performed. Another per­ son holds posters with the stunt num­ bers so that confusion among rooters 12345678 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 as to which stunt they are doing is minimized. According to Mark Flaisher, UCLA’s rally committee chairperson, a hypo­ thetical example might explain the process better “Suppose you had a card section of 80 people—eight seats to a row and 10 rows to the section. The design is a large block letter “C” in dark blue with a yellow back­ ground. This is stunt #3 in a series of 25. Here’s the procedure: (refer to diagram). “1. Count out 10 (no. of rows] stacks of instruction cards with 8 (no. of seats to a row] cards to a stack. The cards should be kept in their stacks and wrapped with rub­ ber bands when not being handled to avoid mix-ups. "2. The cards are then numbered at the top with row and seat numbers. Thus, each card in a single stack would have the same row number, continued 21t 16t Take the surf and the sea breeze, the lush pine forest and the quiet sandy beaches. Wrap them around three of the world’s most famous golf courses, a Beach and Tennis Club, equestrian center, and elegant accom­ modations. Yes, the recently redecorated Del Monte Lodge is a special place indeed, and a favorite for those who enjoy quality dining, dancing, and relaxing. Why not make it your special place, too? Del Monte Lodge at Pebble Beach (California 93953) PURE QUAUTY THE DEFENSIVE SECONDARY HOW THEY OPERATE THE ^ZONE s Nrince the advent of extensive foot­ ball coverage on television, followed by the technological innovation of “instant replay” and the resulting evolution of expert analysis, the aver­ age football fan has had the oppor­ tunity to become more sophisticated in his knowledge of the game. The following’s purpose is, hopefully, to add to the spectator’s understanding of the zone pass defense as it is played in the college game today. A majority of college football teams will be using the “Okie” (also called “fifty,” “5-2,” or “3-4”) defense in the 1975 season. So any discussion of pass defense on the college level requires a basic familiarity with this common alignment. The obvious char­ acteristic of this defense (see diagram A) is its “odd-man” look, with a “noseguard” playing directly across from the offensive center. Some teams add two tackles and two ends to make five men on the line of scrimmage with just two linebackers (the true 5-2), while others just add a pair of defensive ends and utilize four linebackers. As the diagram shows, the outside linebackers (in what is technically a 3-4 alignment) are ac­ tually so close to the line' of scrim­ mage that for all practical purposes it’s the same as the 5-2. The major ad­ vantage of this three-lineman scheme is that it potentially puts eight men into pass defense zones. The inside linebackers play the gaps created by the defensive ends lining up opposite the offensive tackles. The four defensive backs as­ sume their positions depending on which side of the field the offense puts its tight end—in other words, the “strong side” of its line. The strong safety usually mirrors the tight end to the strong side of the field. From this basic alignment, a 6-2 zone (as diagrammed in B) can be employed. That usually happens on first down plays or in short yardage situations when a run or short pass Positioning for the defensive back is most important. On short pass situations, it has long bben a rule to keep close to the receiver between him and the quarterback. seems to be the likely call of the of­ fense. The two “flat” zones (or short, outside zones) usually are covered by defensive backs, while linebackers normally cover the inside “curl” and “hook” zones. With just two remain­ ing backs each taking responsibility for half of the deep area, the one maDiagram A The basic "Okie" defense, used by a majority of college teams, utilizes a noseguard over center and in this case 2 ends and four line­ backers, called by some a "34". jor vulnerability of this formation be­ comes apparent. What happens if the offense sends more than two receiv­ ers deep? Answer: someone who also has short pass responsibility must drop back. For this particular strategy to be successful, the defense’s indi­ vidual players must have the speed for effective long pass coverage. So the 6-2 zone defense becomes a distinct advantage when the oppos­ ing team’s offense does not have re­ ceivers skilled enough to beat their defenders deep. But if the offense does have enough talent at the re­ ceiver position, then a 5-3 zone more likely fills the defensive bill. In the 5-3 zone (see diagram C), one of the cornerbacks will drop back to help out with deep cover­ age, making each deep man respon­ sible for just 1/3 of the field rather than 1/2. However, this ploy requires leaving one of the six short zones open. Defenses most often choose the weak side flat to vacate since this is the most difficult area for the of­ fense to reach effectively, continued 22t 19t k y Hitt > f/have flouted the Wild, i I have followed its lure, fearless, familiar, alone; Yet^jhe Wild must win, and a day will come When I shall be overthrown!'* Robert Sendee ’0 4.^ non There's a breed of men with gypsy blood. Like these men, Yukon Jack is a black sheep, a liquor that goes its own way. Soft-spoken and smooth, Yukon Jack is unlike any Canadian spirit you've ever tasted. 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It takes two people to stamp a stunt efficiently: one person calls the color for each seat of a certain row off the graph paper design, start­ ing with seat #1 on the left; the sec­ ond person, working with the stack of cards for that row, stamps the color for each seat beside the stunt number on the card, starting with seat #1 at the top of the stack. "Example: Line #3 on the cards, for row 7 of the sketch would be marked: seat 1-yellow; seat 2-blue; seat 3-blue; seat 4-yellow; seat 5yellow; seat 6-blue; seat 7-blue; seat 8-yellow.” With such scientific regimentation, there is little chance for a mix-up, but they do, in fact, occur. Jon Boyd, chairperson of "Block I” at the Uni­ versity of Illinois, cites one instance. "Of all days, ABC was televising a game last Fall to use as post-season film. I prepped the rooters for one stunt, but actually called out a differ­ ent number. What resulted was half of Abe Lincoln's face and half of the University of Illinois logo. Fortu­ nately, the cameras were grinding away on the field rather than on the stands.” The University of Illinois, which rightfully boasts the largest card sec­ tion in the country, recently com­ puterized their stunts. Boyd explains, "Not only are we the biggest, but Illinois has the only 'dual' block im­ plementing both sides of the 72,000 capacity stadium. Our large operation is simplified somewhat by key-punch­ ing the instruction cards.” Despite its elaborate undertakings, UCLA does not use computers. All the work is done by hand. A unique UCLA feature, now in its 22nd year, is the light and sound stunts which no other school in the country performs. Several weeks prior to every light stunt show, rally committee members record a sound track which follows a script based on the continuity of the stunts. Then at night games, members assemble flashlights, check batteries, and pass out flashlights and filter cards five minutes before halftime. A close-up of participants illustrates the method used in night game card trickery at UCLA where it all started Each student in the card section is given one card with eight different colored gils. Rain, sleet, and snow may not be detrimental to bringing the mail through, but they are definite handi­ caps for card stunt performances. "Rain is a catastrophe,” claims A1 Lundstedt, athletic business manager at the University of Texas-Austin. "We usually cancel the performance because the cards are very, very ex­ pensive and the whole operation is costly. Also, to prevent loss we clip all eight cards with a ring.” Lynn Nakada, former chairperson of Cal's rally committee, attests that her co-members work overtime on those Fall Saturdays to keep the card stunt operation functional and smooth. "Saturday at 8 AM, rally committee members go to the sta­ dium to transport the card packets to the rooting section. That’s two or three hours worth of work right there. Then, after the performance, the cards are returned to the aisle where rally committee persons collect them, cart them to the field for sorting, and put them away for the next Bears’ home game.” Fierce competition is not neces­ sarily limited to the field among the offense and the defense. According to Craig Canitz, the Ohio State root­ ing section, "Block O,” is currently creating and staging dramatic new card tricks to perform at the 1976 Rose Bowl! That’s tricky. A working diagram indicating tha compiexity of an intricate card stunt 21t secondary continued “ The 5-3 zone is more conservative than two-deep coverage because it provides better protection against the long pass; and, as with any zone, the linebackers are deep-conscious, which makes it even more difficult for the offense to go for the “bomb.” Several other advantages of the zone defense should be mentioned. Zone, as opposed to man-to-man, pass defense, takes away the effectiveness of quick curl and hook patterns for the offense. With four linebackers available for pass coverage, not only is the middle of the defensive area well covered, but protection is pro­ vided for any weaknesses in the sec- man, in a deep fly pattern, for exam­ ple, does the defender have to follow the receiver’s fakes closely. But in spite of the increasing popu­ larity of zone defenses, there are dis­ tinct disadvantages to a zone defense. It leaves the sideline area 12 to 15 yards upheld vulnerable, and offenses can consistently gain ground with short passes to the running backs flaring out of the backheld. As tele­ vision commentators love to tell you, the way to beat a zone defense is to hit the “seams,” or those areas around the border lines of the zones of defensive responsibility. So while the three-deep zone defense does a back swinging out of the backheld to become a third receiver on the strong side of the held, either the cornerback or the nearest linebacker (who may have been on the tight end] will have to cover the short pass off this pattern. So it’s essential that each defender know his assignment in any given circumstance and react quickly and decisively to his area of respon­ sibility. A good rush on the passer also plays an important role in pass de­ fense whether it’s man-to-man or zone. The defensive linemen and any blitzing linebackers cannot allow the quarterback a leisurely view of his Diagram B Diagram C Diagram D FL HB FL TE TE SE FL SE TE CB LB LB LB LB CB FLAT CURL HOOK HOOK CURL FLAT SS SS CB LB LB LB LB FLAT CURL HOOK HOOK CURL FLAT SS FS CB CB r < ^•4» 4 lb/ FLAT CURli ssJ FS / The 6-2 zone is used usually in short- yard­ age situations when a run or short pass is sus­ pected. For a defense to get caught using this alignment in the wrong situation, it would mean instant touchdown. In the 5-3 zone one cornerback drops back into the secondary to give assistance with deep coverage. When more than one receiver (above, the tight end and flanker) enter a zone the effect on the defensive backfield is called "flooding." In the diagram the strong safety needs help from the free safety. ondary. A cornerback without blind­ ing speed can still operate effectively in a zone defense since he can be assigned to a short zone and not have to follow a receiver deep. The zone also allows the secondary to disregard most of the fakes a re­ ceiver might make. If the zone is working right, fakes by the receiver don’t serve much purpose since the defenders are responsible for an area first and a man second, and then re­ act when the ball is thrown. The de­ fender doesn’t have to worry about losing his man to a fake since that means the receiver has probably en­ tered another defender’s area. Only when the zone has become man-to- great job of preventing long pass completions, it can find difficulty pre­ venting short pass completions that gain just enough yardage to make a first down and keep a drive going. Diagram D shows what happens when the offense “floods” one de­ fender’s zone. In this example, both the tight end and the flanker run a pattern into the strong safety’s deep zone. The strong safety needs help either from his free safety or his cor­ nerback since covering two receivers in a deep zone requires more than one defender. The cornerback must know his job and react quickly to which­ ever area he’s assigned, as does the free safety. With the offensive half­ receivers running their patterns. Enough pressure on the passer will force him to throw the ball away, throw it too soon or off balance, or keep it and be sacked. 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Asuiprasiii^l^htandmelknvivme. | I | I------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1 The key to communicating with the bench It’s another one of those cliffhangers. Here it is the fourth quarter and the game is so unpredictable and high-scoring that the winner cannot logically be determined. Suddenly a trick play appears which leads to a touchdown and the scoring team uses the momentum to win. Where did that play come from? Who called it? Unbeknownst to many, the play came from the assistant coaches stationed on headsets in the press box. They spotted a potential weakness from above, relayed the debility to the field. This tactic worked for a score. After the game, the head coach will probably give credit to his aide who called the winning play. The communication between the press box and the sideline is a very widely utilized strategem used as much on offense as on defense. Phones make it possible for more strategy to be employed faster than would be possible with all the coaches on the field. At many schools offensive plays are called from upstairs. How the sig­ Game plans are often adjusted during the heat of the game by the men on the phones nals get to the quarterback varies, but a transmitter inside a player’s helmet is illegal. Usually one assistant in the press box will call the play to another assistant on the field. Then, either a series of hand signals to the quarter­ back from the sideline or a messen­ ger with the play gives the call to the quarterback. Several years ago, an interesting method was used occa­ sionally too. One player received the play from a sideline coach, ran into the huddle to cue the quarterback and then hustled off the field before the play began. Now this is illegal; if a player comes onto the field, he must remain for at least one play. The same basics are employed de­ fensively. A coach upstairs will call the alignment to another assistant on the sideline, who will relay via signals to the captain on the field, commonly the middle linebacker. There is always the danger that the opposition may pick up the signals both offensively and defensively. This can be controlled by using sev­ eral coaches to give a play with only one signalling the real play. Addi­ tionally, an indicator can be used similar to the one a third base coach uses in baseball to thwart the oppo­ nent from stealing the signs easily. Many schools use three sets of phones on the field and two sets up­ stairs. While the offense is driving, the defensive coaches may be talking to players or other assistants on the field about what went right or wrong on the preceding series. When the offense concludes its series, the quar­ terback may confer with coaches up­ stairs to check on alignments of the defense. Since the press box view affords the coaches a panoramic view of the field, they can spot potential points of exploitation more easily than the players on the field. Which coaches are in the booth depend on the philosophy of the in­ stitution. Line coaches may be in the press box to watch breakdowns in the “phone booth’’ play; a receiver coach might be upstairs so he can watch the opponent’s coverage. De24t fensively, perhaps the secondary coach will be used in the booth to de­ pict favorite patterns of certain re­ ceivers. Generally, if plays are called from upstairs, the offensive coordi­ nator is a good bet to be in the “booth.” The offense or defense alignments of the opponent may determine the importance of coaches in the press box. For example, a wishbone offense, though it often boggles the defense, is basically simple to understand. The quarterback has all the options. There are fewer plays from which to choose in a wishbone offense, so the advan­ tage of a defensive coach upstairs may not be as great as it would be if a multiple offense were used. If a team surprises its opposition with an unexpected offense or for­ mation, the defense—with coaches upstairs — can adjust more easily since the whole scope of the play can be seen. If headsets were not in exis­ tence, it would be more difficult to spot the breakdowns and it would take longer to adjust. Some teams permit a quarterback to call his own plays and even audi­ ble out plans called from upstairs. This, however, is dependent on the maturity of the signal caller. Other schools would rather remove that responsibility and let the quarterback concentrate on his physical skills. Since the coaches in the booth usually know what play has been called, they know where to look for missed as­ signments. The more intelligent players, if they sense a changing trend, will ask questions of the coaches upstairs, try­ ing to find a new weakness to attack. The phone systems can be similar to a course in advanced psychology. The coaches upstairs and on the field are trying to outguess the opponent. The headsets hopefully reduce the chance of being totally surprised; on the other hand, their utilization can increase the chance of spotting a weakness in the opponent and ex­ ploiting it to its full potential. those who know the score rally at McDonald’s Before the game, or after, or both, the brightest people rally at McDonald’s . . . The ch'^w’s great. The prices are sensible. And the service is the fastest anywhere. . . . High-scoring reasons why . . . \fou deserve a break today McDonald^ U® THE FINEST BANKING SERVICE "You’re Somebody Special With Us” The Savings & Trust Company of Pennsylvania Member Federal Deposit 45 The Story of Two Commitments By ED FARRELL journalism Intern, lUP Public Information Office Unbeknown to anyone at the time, the grid fortunes of Indiana University of Pennsylvania took a turn for the better three years ago based on the decision of an in­ coming freshman. For it was back in the fall of 1972 that George “Butch" Aggen entered lUP and made a somewhat tough decision regarding the future of his athletic career. “I played basketball, baseball and track, as well as football in high school," said Aggen, who earned six letters while at Freeport High School, “but I didn't think I was good enough to play anything but football in college." Lucky for lUP that the humble senior decided to stick with the gridiron. The 6-1, 210-pounder has emerged not only as coach Bill Neal's starting middle guard the past two years, but he also earned National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) District 18 first team honors a year ago and appears headed for quite a few more accolades during the '75 season. Listening to Aggen describe why he likes football. All-star candidate GEORGE AGGEN (No. 55), a 6-1, 210pound middle guard and linebacker . . . about to sack the quarterback. 46 it's easy to understand why he was so successful in other previous athletic endeavors. “I like fooball because of the competition and hit­ ting," said the criminology major, “and that's why I like sports — the competition and because it's a test of your abilities." During his career as an lUP footballer, Aggen has passed the “test" with flying colors. As a sophomore, he vvas the club's third-ranked defensive performer with a total of 147 points in the Indian coaches' defensive rating system. Last year, he was listed as the number two defender (137 points) behind Dave Thompson. But despite the success and recognition that he has received through his own hard work, the senior co­ captain was not hesitant in his praise of the lUP coach­ ing staff. “They're excellent," he commented. “All of the coaches know what they're doing and we operate and work togeher as a team. In college you need more finesse and you have to be a lot smarter on the field. They de­ velop these individual skills." Although he began playing football in the seventh grade, Aggen made a commitment a little later in life that has proven to be even more significant. “I made a commitment to Christianity as a fresh­ man," he related. “Before I made the commitment 1 be­ lieved in God, but I didn't really take Christianity serious­ ly. When I came to lUP, I began to question my faith and it became more meaningful to me." Does Aggen see any conflict between his being a Christian and participating in a physically violent sport like football? “At times there can be (a conflict), but I have to keep the game in perspective," the stocky senior related. “I like to give a good hit, but I don't go out and try to hurt someone. At times, I do lose my head, but I just remind myself that it (football) is just a game." The easy-going Aggen also feels that it is possible to be a Christian-athlete and still maintain a reputation as an aggressive football player. “You should go all out to serve God," he said, “and the same with football — you give all you've got and do your job. If you do that, how can anyone question you?" No one could question Butch Aggen even if they wanted to. His confidence, temperament and strong be­ liefs have marked him as a leader both on and off the football field. And, after listening to him speak in his well-versed, self-assured tones, one has to believe him when he states his goals for the 1975 season. “Right now, I want to do the best I can, play on a successful team and win the Pennsylvania Conference." Simple and direct. That's Butch Aggen's style, a style that has made him into “as good a middle guard as we've had here," according to the man who should know, coach Bill Neal. lUP Program: One of the Best Good Luck The Indiana University of Pennsylvania football pro­ gram you are reading is one of the very best in the entire United States! Who says so? INDIANS Coney Island Cocktail Lounge Best Looking Bartenders in Town Dick Kunkle, of the sports department of the Ta­ coma (Washington) News-Tribune^ says so, and he's the individual who rates football programs (a sampling of three different ones from each college or university) for the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) each year. The NAIA has more than 600 schools as members. Last season, the NAIA, via Mr. Kunkle, rated the lUP football publication as the FOURTH BEST in the coun­ try! But that's not all. In 1973 the magazine was also FOURTH BEST. IN 1972 the magazine was SECOND BEST, in 1971 SEVENTH BEST, in 1970 EIGHTH BEST, in 1969 TENTH BEST and in 1968 THIRD BEST. Programs are judged on two major areas, content and display, with display checked as to organization, typography and editing. Mr. Kunkle emphasizes that a football program should serve four purposes: as a guide to the fans, as a memory book, as a record of the year and as a public relations medium. The lUP football program has been printed by The Park Press of Indiana since 1946. ’s Kestaurant Verace Cusina Italiana 1108 PHILADELPHIA STREET Indiana, Pennsylvania HOMER CITY STATE BANK HOMER CITY-INDIANA-ARMAGH-BLACK LICK Tie wide-awake bank 47 IN1790 HARDLY ANYBODY DIED OF GANGER. Because they died of something else, first. Like scarlet fever. 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So, instead of manning the press box at Hubert Jack Stadium, which sustained no water damage because it lUP defensive tackle Nick Rodio, the 6-0, 210-pound three-year starter from Jessup and Valley View High School in Lackawanna County, was one of the bulwarks last week as the Indians limited Shippensburg to 19 yards rushing in the 19-7 victory over the previously undefeated Red Raiders. lUP currently ranks second in total defense in the Western Division of the Pennsylvania Conference. lies on high ground, Nevel helped run an emergency switchboard at Lock Haven State from 5 a.m. until 2 p.m. last Saturday. "Instead of watching football, our kids, hundreds of them, offered assistance to flood victims in town," Nevel revealed. "Thank heavens this wasn't like Agnes of three years ago. Another flood would've killed this town." Are postponements new in the Pennsylvania Con­ ference? Nevel could remember only three in his 40 years on the job at Lock Haven. One was in 1953, when a 30inch snowstorm struck Mansfield, and another in the 1950s when a hurricane wiped out a Lock Haven game with Maryland State. Ironically, Mansfield and Bloomsburg also were un­ able to play last week due to the waters of the Susque­ hanna. Telphone communications in both areas were out last weekend. "We're looking forward to Indiana's coming to our new Jack Stadium," Nevel mentioned. "From what every­ one's hearing of Lynn Hieber, they'll all want to see him." Speaking of Indiana and its All-American signalcaller, the Braves' game with Edinboro today takes on much importance. A win over the Scots would give lUP the inside track to the PC West title. Edinboro bopped Slippery Rock, which is not play­ ing well, 24-19 last week, while the Indians handled Shippensburg 19-7 to run their seasonal mark to 3-0. The Rockets, with an 0-1 league record, sit in the PC West cellar. Believe it or not. West Chester, last sea­ son's PC East champ, is suffering the same fate after los­ ing a 24-20 PC East encounter to Denny Douds' East Stroudsburg club. "Edinboro's been a hot and cold team," revealed Slippery Rock Sports Information Director John Car­ penter. "If Indiana catches them right, they could record that key victory." Shippensburg, which hopes to rebound, plays Slip­ pery Rock today, while Kutztown, a 17-12 upset winner over Millersville, is at East Stroudsburg in a key PC East hook-up. Statistically speaking, the Braves are third in team rushing with a 157 yards per game norm, behind Clar­ ion's 256.5 and Edinboro's 178.7. Passing figures show lUP easily on top of the heap, with 215 yards per game. The Braves also lead in total offense (372.0) and are second in rushing defense (88.7) and total defense (191.7). Hieber leads all PC passers with a 15.0 per game completion average, and in individual total offense with an impressive 249.3 norm. 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