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The 1971 team pounded Texas 30-6. Huge game for PSU respectability.Have we played their since?
The 1971 team pounded Texas 30-6. Huge game for PSU respectability.
The 1974 team hammered Baylor 41-20. Jimmy Cefalo was MVP.
The 1971 team pounded Texas 30-6. Huge game for PSU respectability.
The 1974 team hammered Baylor 41-20. Jimmy Cefalo was MVP. There was a rare play in that game too. Baylor tried an onside kick at one point in the game and Joe Jackson caught it on the bounce and ran it in for the score.
Love the uniforms. Looks like the big uglies out there.
imho one of Penn State's most satisfying victories ever!
It certainly went a long way following the regular season ending disaster @ Tennessee. Everything that could have gone wrong in that game did.Oh yeah. Jackson’s return of that onside kick was at the end of the game. Tom Donchez has a great game rushing, as well. But Cefalo was a star as a true freshman.
I’ve posted about these games before, since I was able to see them in person. It is still my humble opinion that the 1971 dismantling of the Texas Wishbone 30-6 was the most significant victory in establishing Penn State’s credibility as a football power.
It certainly went a long way following the regular season ending disaster @ Tennessee. Everything that could have gone wrong in that game did.
Wasn't Kenny Jackson from South River too? I guess he would have been class of '80.A little trivia with a nod to one of the PSU players in that game:
Scott Skarzynski (sp) was the PSU wide receiver who caught the long TD pass from Hufnagle. He was from South River HS in central NJ. In the 60s and into the 70s, South River was a powerhouse in NJ HS football.
Skarzynski was a sophomore at South River when Drew Pearson (Tulsa, Dallas Cowboys) was a junior, and Joe Theisman was a senior. Wow.
Skarzynski became a NJ State Trooper, if I recall. And a great trivia answer in PSU football lore.
Wasn't Kenny Jackson from South River too? I guess he would have been class of '80.
That Tennessee game was such a disaster. I think the Vols scored on 3 different types of returns (going on memory here, but I think I'm right): punt, fumble, and interception.
Penn State had about 200 yards more of total offense, and Tennessee only other TD was on a short drive after another turnover. PSU seemed like it would drive the ball easily only to turn it over for a TN touchdown.
The mock and disrespect the Nittany Lions were getting here in Texas after that loss, following that political sideshow of 1969, rivals what PSU has gone through recently. It was brutal. If Penn State ever needed a win, it was in that Cotton Bowl.
Thank God my late wife and I were there to see it! Awesome!