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Fiesta Bowl, December 26, at Tempe, Ariz: A pair of not-quites line up in tepid Tempe, 9-2 Ohio State and 9-2 Penn State. Earl Bruce's Buckeyes, led by signal-caller Art Schlichter, did not live up to pre-season expectations. Joe Paterno's Nittany Lions (love that nickname) fell to archrival Pittsburgh, spoiling an otherwise superlative schedule against a slew of talented teams. Both sides can salvage up a little bit of pride. Truthfully, they'd rather be in Pasadena and New Orleans. Ohio State 32, Penn State...
...rival Cincinnati high school, a rather competent quarterback named Roger Staubach. College coaches value especially the precise execution that Moeller players learn. Woody Hayes made three recruiting trips to the school in his final year at Ohio State, and U.S.C.'s John Robinson, Penn State's Joe Paterno, Michigan's Bo Schembechler and Notre Dame's Dan Devine are regular callers...
Looking forward to the Sugar Bowl, Bryant cannot find flattery enough for Penn State and Coach Joe Paterno. "Joe is much more knowledgeable than I am, a well-educated person and a very fine gentleman. Penn State has a real sound football team, and they don't make mistakes. I have a great deal of respect for Joe and his team. Me, I'm just a rural old guy who's been around a long time and is not all that bright, to be honest about it." A gleam, a smile, a rumble, and the wily...
...League but plays it like the Southwest Conference. (Penn State is, in fact, an independent.) Football has never been a mania at Penn State. Long before the N.C.A.A. this year clamped a 30-player annual limit on new recruits and a ceiling of 95 football scholarships overall, Paterno rarely recruited more than 25 players a year. By comparison, Oklahoma bestowed 40 to 50 scholarships a year before the new limits were imposed. Players point proudly to the absence of a jock aristocracy on the 27,000-student Penn State campus. There is no lush special housing for players; they live...
...Paterno himself is just another slightly scholarly-looking tenured professor (health, phys-ed and recreation), though his pupils bring in $5 million in annual revenues and $2 million in profits, which is plowed back into sports facilities for the rest of the.student body. Phys-ed classes at Penn State have first call on the school's indoor arenas, so the Nittany Lions occasionally must sweep snow off their field in order to practice. Says Paterno: "We never had a rug in our locker room. We're more spartan, and it's more of a challenge. We recruit...