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Tyrone Daily Herald, Wednesday, November 12,1980 Page Fifteen TYRONE ALUMNI GRID SQUAD members who will play Williamsburg alumni for the 'mythical Blair Co. alumni championship' Friday night at 8 p.m. at Gray Field posed for this team picture for Herald photographer before last weekend's game with Bellwood-Antis. Coach Bob Rupert's and assistants Tom Templeton's and John Roseberry's Golden Eagles alumni downed B-A, 19-14, in game three of their annual alumni series on Saturday night at Bellwood to set the stage for Friday's home test with Williamsburg's alumni squad. Pictured above: FRONT ROW (1 to r) Frank Germino, John Meredith, Greg Ferguson, Al Barto, Terry Eaken, Bob Mertiff, Tim Shock, Bob Stewart, Dale Hoover, Verd Latchford, Dan Hand.

BACK (1 to r) Roseberry, Mike Starr, Templeton, Ash Weaver, Bill Johnson, Dave Moore, Ron Russell, Roger Hunter, Jeff Phillips, Jay Yarnell, Jeff Woodring, Craig Learner, Terry Watters, Charvi Skillings, Tom Shock, Delbert Hamer and Rupert. Missing were: Bob Welsh, Jeff Hunter, Rick Patton, Kevin Detwiler and Mai Romano. Lions' Pryts Handles Pressure To Become Top-Notch 'Backer' By JOE JULIANO UPI Sports Writer PHILADELPHIA (UP1) Going lo Penn Slate has been an educational experience for Ed Pryts in more ways than one. As the slrongside or "Backer" linebacker for the Nittany Lions, Pryts not only has to read the play and make the tackles, he also has to call the defensive signals and yell out any changes when the opposing offense lines up in formation. "I felt more pressure at first but I don't feel loo much now." the G-foot-2, 220-pound junior said in a telephone interview from University Park.

"Maybe 1 felt more because the 'Backer' makes the calls at Ihe line ol scrimmage and has to read formations. "It's a lot more.complicatcd than people think. 1 didn't picture this at all when I was in high school." The learning didn'l start with this season, when Pryts became the starting "Backer." Actually, it began a couple of years ago when he arrived at Penn State from Brookfield High School in Ohio along wilh other players wanting lo make a name for themselves at "Linebacker "1 wanted lo go where the best people were, and 1 knew there were a lot of good people here," the agriculture business management major said. "When 1 came here. I had lo go through Ihe whole process of learning Penn Slate's multiple defenses.

It was so different from high school, where we only had to know one or two defenses. You had to do so much more thinking." His first real action came last year, when he backed up Steve Griffiths at Ihe weakside. or "Fritz," linebacker posilion. He moved over lo "Backer" after fellow Ohio an Lance Mchl graduated, and won the starting job during the preseason. The learning conlinues now under the watchful, precise eye of linebacker Coach Jerry Sandusky, who has developed eight All-America linebackers.

"We work all the time on the techniques coach Sandusky wants us to master," Pryts said. "He's really picky. Maybe that's why so many great linebackers have graduated from here. He lets nothing go by, but that's the only way you can be Ihe best player possible. "Also, all the linebackers are pretty close.

Everybody helps each olher. The competition was really fierce earlier but we're all helping each olher now." Pryts says he has grown in the posilion. The fact that Penn State has allowed an average of just 13 points over nine games has done wonders for his confidence. "1 have a lot to learn but I'm getting a little more confident and a little more comfortable every week," be said. "We haven't been giving up many points so lhat has helped me gain confidence." Pryts' best game this year was against Missouri, when he was in on 13 tackles, including a key quarterback sack, in the Lions' 29-21 victory on Oct.

4. For the season, he ranks fourlh on the team in lackles with 45. The Nittany Lions have won six games in a row going into Saturday's game against Temple at Veterans Stadium. An almost-certain bowl bid awaits them after the game and a showdown with arch-rival Pitt looms on Nov. 28.

But Pryts said coach Joe Paterno is making sure his team concentrates on the immediate fulure rather than looking too far ahead. "Joe doesn'l let it get out of hand," he said. "We've been having a lot of meetings this week and he tells us all the time that w.e have no control over the bowl games and to forget Pill. He says to just worry about Temple. They always give us trouble in Philadelphia." Keeping, your mind on the task at hand is another part of the learning experience, and Ed Pryts obviously has learned that one well, loo.

Outside The Lockerrootn: On Selecting Awards By POHLA SMITH UPI Sports Writer PITTSBURGH (UP1) Who REALLY determines the winners such respected and cherished athletic honors as the Heisman Trophy and Cy Young Award: The sports reporters named to the selection panels because of their presumed objectivity and honesty or the jusi- trying-to-be-helpful sports publicists who court the selectors with the slick persuasion techniques of Madison Avenue admen? I WANT to believe sports reporters independently reach a consensus based on and facts. All reporters who, as have helped select the winners of sports' prestigious awards want to believe that. But I can no longer be sure particularly after reading the results of the 1980 Cy Young Award balloting by the Baseball Writers Association of America. I was stunned to read that Steve Carlton's winning of the National League Cy Young Award had not been stunned because as a Cy Young selector I had studied the league pitching statistics daily for several months before voting for Carlton Ocl. secure in my conclusion that no rational, objective panelist could do otherwise.

Carlton's 24 wins were four more than the total of any other NL pitcher. He also led the league in innings pitched with 304 and in strikeouts with 286 while compiling a stingy 2.34 ERA and helping to lead the eventual World Champion Philadelphia Phillies lo Ihe National League East title. (Only regular season performances are to be considered in the Yet, somehow, Los Angeles Dodger Jerry Reuss received one of the first-place votes with a 2.52 ERA and an 18-5 record that included at least a couple wins out of the bullpen. There is no doubt that Reuss, along with Pittsburgh's Jim Bibby, Houston's Joe Niekro and Philadelphia's Tug McGraw deserved consideration for the second-and third-place votes the selectors cast. In fact, I voted for Bibby second and Reuss third, giving Bibby the nod because he had for Ihe second year led the league in winning percentage and managed to win 19 games despite Manager Chuck Tanner's frequent use of the bullpen.

But until I read on the UPI wire that Reuss had received lhat one first-place vote, I honestly had believed the only people who considered him the legitimate 1980 Cy Young winner svere the Dodger publicists who insulted my intelligence by mailing out slick brochures touting him for the award late in the season. Is il a coincidence that the only pitcher to receive a first-place, Cy Young vote besides Carlton was the only pitcher for whom a brochure- campaign was staged? I hope so, but I'm also well aware of the subliminal effects advertising can have on even the most stubbornly independent HAPPY WOLFPACK-Tyrone youngsters and coaches who represented the 1980 Tyrone Youth Football League championship Wolfpack team were honored at a post-season banquet Held at the Altoona Pistol Rifle Club on Sunday. Shown here posing for group photo for Herald photographer are: -'Front (1 to r), Eric Rumberger, Chad Reese, Earl Carper, John Riz- zo, Wayne Kaspick, Gunner Richards and.Marty Williams; second row (1 to r), A.J. Johnson, Clayton Walk, Bob Potts, Harvey Norris, Chan Julian and Scott Rizzo; third row to r), Shane Julian, Mike Woodring, Andy Fink, Troy Harper, Kerry Cowher and Pat O'Brien; (1 to r), Coaches Ron' Espenlaub, Jim Saltsgiver, Jim Kaspick, Bob Fink and Terry Williams. Orioles' Stone AL Cy Young Winner thinker.

And the possibility that the Reuss brochure may have had some impact on the Cy Young balloting bothers me, because baseball is really the only sport in which such public relations campaigns are not commonplace. Sportswrilers receive literally hundreds of letters, releases and brochures touting athletes for honors ranging from all-state status in high school football and basketball to the Outland, Lombard! and Heisman trophies every year. They also receive numerous phone calls and invitations to media luncheons and staged events designed lo put the spotlight on a team's designated potential award winners. The theory behind those P.R. campaigns is innocent enough: to, help make reporlers aware of talented athletes outside their coverage area.

But in truth, publicists admit, they are actively campaigning for their chosen candidates. ByMlKETULLY UPI Sports Writer NEW YORK (UPI) Steve Stone, who entered the season with a .497 lifetime percentage and proceeded to lead the major leagues in victories, has been named the winner of the American League Cy Young Award for 1980. A 33-year-old righthander plucked from the re-entry draft two years ago by the Baltimore Orioles, Stone received 13 firstplace votes and 100 points in balloting by a 28-man committee of the Baseball Writers Association of America. Mike Norris, 25, the Oakland A's righthander who blossomed with a 22-9 record, also received 13 first-place votes but was left off three ballots and finished with 91 points. New York Yankees' reliever Goose Gossage garnered the olher two first-place votes and wound up a distant third with points.

A first-place vote counts five points, a second three points, and a third one point. The ecstatic Stone gave credit to his team. "It helps being with a team that won 102 games over the last two years," said Stone in a telephone interview. "A lot of teams give games away for pitchers in the sixth or seventh inning bul Ihe Orioles are the kind of team that takes games away for you. "Getting 37 starts with the kind of offense, defense and the relief pitching of a Tim Stoddard and Tippy Martinez is a big help." Stone, who comes from Cleveland, Ohio, started the 1980 season with a 78-79 lifetime record in the major leagues but had a $10,000 Cy Young Award bonus clause in his contract.

"The Orioles never hesitated to put the clause in the contract," says Slone, who is noted as a quipster. "They figured it was the same thing as having a $50,000 bonus clause if an elephant fell on me." Slone, 11-7 in 1979, started this season with two victories in his first five decisions. But from May 9 through July 26 he won 14 consecutive games, tvyo fewer than the AL record shared by Walter Johnson, Smokey Joe Wood, Lefty Grove and Schoolboy Rowe. When he won his 25th game on Sept. 29 he became the biggst Big 8 Grid League Standings FINAL "Huntingdon 7 0 0 Tyrone 5 1 1 Central 4 2 1 Bellefonte 4 3 0 Bald Eagle Area 3 4 0 2 5 0 Chief Logan 2 5 0 Lewistown 0 7 0 1980 conference champions 'Steelermania 1 Too Much For Tampa Residents By ANDREW BLUM PITTSBURGH (UPI) Pittsburgh Steelers fans have long been known for their enthusiasm, but apparently the gung-ho Steelermania and partying that goes along with it was too much for Tampa, residents.

Months before the Steelers' 24-21 victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Sunday, charter trips to Florida advertised in Pittsburgh bars were gobbled up by Sleelers fans, So, when the game date finally came, the fans were ready lo go. Unfortunately, Tampa area hotel and bar operators and some citizens weren't prepared for behavior Steelers fans consider normal, a travel agent said Tuesday. One published report had it that some fans got so rowdy en route to Tampa that a USAir flight stopped serving drinks. A USAir spokesman said Tuesday there were no such problems on Pittsburgh- Tampa flights and no bars were closed. Other published reports of Tampa-style Steelermania had it that a group of fans downed 100 cases of beer in a mere 90 minutes, wiping out one bar's supply.

"They did drink out a bar," said travel agent Hal Cohen of Pittsburgh's Shadyside Travel Agency. "Buc it wasn't 90 minutes. Cohen, who arranges out- of-town trips for fans of the Steelers and Pitt Panthers, was in Tampa last weekend, watching and listening to reports of the fans' behavior. "Some of it was overplayed (in the Tampa papers), and some was underplayed," said Cohen, who basically defended the fans. winner since the current franchise was formed in 1954.

Stone finished the season with a 25-7 record, a 3.23 earned run average and nine complete games. Steve Carlton, winner of Ihe National League award, led (he NL with 24 victories. Stone becomes the second Clarion, Kutztown Battle For PC Crown It has been an unusual football season in Ihe Pennsylvania Conference in 1980. For the first time in 21 years, none of the 13 league teams finished unbeaten. For the first time in 21 years, none of the 13 league teams finished winless.

the first time in 21 years, the Eastern Division ended in a 3-team tie. It was the first tie ever in the East and only the second deadlock ever in the PC. Kutztown will represent the Eastern Division in the PC championship game, for the first time (of course). PC tie- breaking rules stipulated that East Stroudshurg, which represented the division last (in 1978), be eliminated, and that the winner of the game between the two remaining teams be that division's representative. The 2ist PC championship game will be on Nov.

22 wilh Kutztown playing at Clarion. Coincidently, the two title contenders are scheduled to meet in a regular-season game this weekend at Kutztown. East Stroudsburg entertains Indiana and Lock Haven hosts Mansfield in the other two intra-divisional games which mark the end of the regular season Saturday. Shippensburg plays a non- league game at James Madison. East Stroudshurg's Tommy Meier, making his first start at quarterback, was chosen the PC Player of the Week after he hit 19 of 29 passes for 252 yards and two TD's and ran for two other scores as the Warriors ran up a 70-15 win over Bloomsburg.

Kurtztown's defense scored one touchdown and set up a second six-pointer in a 33-0 win over Mansfield that put the Bears into the championship game. In the West, Clarion may have lost a chance for a NCAA Division fl bid after losing to Edinforo, 13-10, on a 44-yard field goal by Rick Ruszkiewicz with 58 seconds to play. straight Oriole to win the award, the fourth in six years, and the fifth in eight years. Norris had a 2.54 earned run average and 24 complete games for the A's. He struck out 180 and allowed 215 hits in 284 innings.

"1 guess that they thought Steve was most deserving and that's the one they voted for," Norris said. "1 can 1 accept that I have a lot of years ahead of me. 1 hope 1 can be considered another year." Gossage, perhaps the league's most intimidating pitcher, was the short man coming out of Ihe bullpen. He had a G-2 record and 2.27 earned run average with 33 saves in 64 appearances. Stone's humor was usually turned against himself, making him one of the most popular players in trie game.

"I was our only weakness," he said of his poor first-half in the 1979 season. "I was like Chrysler. On another occasion, he recalled playing with Thurman Munson, Jon Curtis, Bobby Valentine and Rich McKiriney in the Cape Cod League one summer. "They all got contracts between $35,000 and SI 10.000," he said. "I got mononucleosis and hepatitis." And of his role in the 1979 World Series (he pitched two innings), "I watched the Series along with 60-million other people." Host Penn State Saturday: Temple Struggling Following 9-2 Year By JOE JULIANO UPI Sports Writer PHILADELPHIA (UP1) It didn't take Temple coach Wayne Hardin long to determine that the Owls of 1980 would bear little resemblence to Ihe 1979 squad that went 9-2 and won the Garden State Bowl.

"I think all of us players, coaches and fans expected a little more from us than what we had." Hardin said Tuesday at the Philadelphia college football luncheon. "After two games (losses to Rutgers and Delaware), it was obvious we had to go back to basics. "When you lose 15 of 22 starters, that's a pretty big bite. But things have been coming along. We're still making' mistakes but I think we've been improving a little every week.

Who we play week to week is relatively unimportant. As long as we improve each game, that's all 1 care about." There may be a litlle more concern about this week's opponent, however. The Owls, 4-5. will welcome ninlh-ranked Penn State to Veterans Stadium Saturday. The Nittany Lions are 8-1 overall and have won six straight.

"1 think our scout summed it up the best last night they don't have any weaknesses," Hardin said of the Lions. "They haven't changed any. When you gel the best players in the state and coach them as well as they do, you have a fine football team. "If you look at them today, you find they're just as good as they were the year before, and the year before that and the year before that. To what degree, (coach) Joe (Paterno) can tell you better than I can." The Owls are 0-5 against Penn State since the intrastate rivals resumed their series in 1975 but have lost three games to Ihe Nittany Lions in Philadelphia by a total of five points 26-25 in 1975, 31-30 in 1976 and 10-7 in 1978.

"I don't know if this year's game is going to be close, but 1 didn't think those games would be, either," Hardin said. "But they're a good football team and we know we're going to have to play darn good football to beat them. We have lo play much better than we have been." Temple gained 474 yards in total offense last week and junior quarterback Tink Murphy had his best day as a collegian with three touchdown passes. But the Owls killed themselves wilh five turnovers and a leaky pass defense in a 41-28 loss to West Virginia. "Those things (losses) will happen when you put the ball on the ground as much as we did," Hardin said.

"Had we hung onto the ball, it might have made a little difference." Temple officials say 41,000 tickets have been sold for the game thus far, meaning the best crowd of the home season will be in attendance Saturday. Western Conference Football Ratings WESTERN CONFEREN 1 Huntingdon i Forest Hills Hollidaysburg Indiana North Star State College Richland Somerset Central Bishop McCort Bishop Guilfoyle Mount Union Tyrone Central Cambria Lock Haven Clearfield DuBois Bellefonte Everett Cambria Heights Penn Cambria VoTech Lewistown Conemaugh Twp Ligonier Philipsburg-Osc Conemaugh Valley Windber 1 1 1 1 .2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 .2 3 1 3 3 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 CECL RJ 4) UPS 8-0-1 9-0 8-1-1 4-1 7-0 4-2 5-3 5-3 4-2-1 4-1-1 3-3-1 2-1 3-2-1 4-4 3-3-1 2-4-1 1-4 2-6 0-1 3-2 2-5 1-6 1-8 1-6-1 1-4 1-6 0-2-1 0-8 ASS A 0-0 0-0-1 0-0 0-0 1-1 '0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0-1 0-1 1-0 3-1 1-1 0-1 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 2-2 0-4 1-2 1-0 0-0 0-1 0-3 0-2 1-4 0-1 i 3 "5 0 HUP 8-0-1 9-0-1' 8-1-1 4-1 8-1 4-2 5-3 5-3 4-2-2 4-2-1 4-3-1 5-2 4-3-1 4-5 3-3-1 2-5-1 1-4 2-6 2-3 3-6 3-7 2-6 1-8 1-7-1 1-7 1-8 1-6-1 0-9 490 471.7 471.4 450 441.3 425 418.8 418.8 416.3 411.4 403.8 402 395 375.6 371.4 360 350 337.5 334 330 329 322.5 322.2 320 305 295.6 293.8 292.2 WESTERN CONFERENCE CLASS ft Valley 1 2 Huntingdon 1 Blairsville I Bishop Carroll 2 Bellwood-Antis 1 Purchase Line 2 Northern Cambria 3 United 2 West Branch 3 Northern Bedford 2 Penns Manor 3 Homer Center 3 Tussey Mt 3 ft UPS 3-0 1-0-1 2-0 1-0 5-1 1-2 4-0 3-2 1-3-1 2-3 0-2 1-2 1-4 1-5 0-4 llll HUOS 00-0 5-0-1 2-0 4-1-1 2-0 6-1 1-1 0-0 2-2 1-0 1-1 0-1 1-0 0-2 0-2 3-0 6-0-2 4-0 5-1-1 7-1 7-3 5-1 3-2 3-5-1 3-3 1-3 1-3 2-4 1-7 0-6 446.7 440 440' 433.3 408 401.1 388 350 338.9 333.3 327.5 297.5 291.7 253.8 253.3 Did not play enough games in conference or class to qualify for championship. Hartford Soccer Team Signs Two Hungarian Defectors HARTFORD, Conn. (UPI) Two young Hungarian athletes were headed for new soccer fields half way around the world from home today, having "simply walked away" from a soccer game in Yugoslavia last week. Jyula (Julie) Hejyi, 26, and Sandor (Alex) Tarnoczi, 21, joined the Hartford Hellions after the team learned of the possibility of their defection lo the United States last week and arranged for their trip.

"They simply walked away from the team and left and ended up meeting our immigration counsel," team spokesman Randy Piersall said Tuesday in describing the two players' defection a week ago today. He said that while leam officials "had been aware of the possibility" of the defection, they hadn't been involved in the matter until the two men had made the move. The arrangements for the two players to join' the Hellions were worked out by the team's immigration lawyer, Ryszard Mrotek, who is locally well known for his work on immigration cases. Piersall said both men had left behind family members in Hungary, Tarnoczi his parents and Hejyi his parents and a sister. "Both families were immediately contacted by telephone as soon as the players arrived here," he said, adding the two men were "still pretty shellshocked from the whole trip." Hellions' Coach John Kowalski hailed the acquisition as a boost to the club's efforts in the MISL.

"These are the players that I have been looking for," said the first-year coach. Hejyi was a member of Ujpest Dosza, one of the top Hungarian teams from 1972 to 1978 and played at Ujpest with nine playes who performed for Hungary's World Cup teams. In 1977 he was traded to Csepel, where he eventually teamed up with Tarnoczi who was this year's fourth leading scorer in Hungary before his defection..