Ohio State Defense on 39-Yard Run for Game’S Opening Touchdown in Third Show Their Character and Resolve
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URL:http://www.alumni.psu.edu/fbl Username: psualum Password: weare Nov. 21, 2011 * Vol. 74, No. 11 espite news of Joe Paterno’s lung cancer Ddiagnosis adding to the continuing fallout from the child sex abuse scandal swirling about State College, the beleaguered Penn State football team showed 105,493 spectators in Ohio Stadium and an ABC/ESPN televi- sion audience what it’s made of Saturday by knocking off the Buckeyes, 20-14, to secure at least a tie for the first Leaders Division title in the Big Ten conference. “No team in college football history has gone through so much in such a short time,” interim head coach Tom Bradley told the media after the game. After the team plane landed in Colum- bus Friday evening, Bradley got the players together and told them the news that as- sistant coach Jay Paterno had revealed to Bradley on the flight about his father. Then Bradley challenged the Lions to STEPHFON GREEN rips through Ohio State defense on 39-yard run for game’s opening touchdown in third show their character and resolve. minute of Penn State's 20-14 win in Ohio Stadium Saturday. He pointed out that the last two times Penn State won in Columbus was in 1978 Medicine in Hershey and become a successful Derek Moye on 3rd & 4 and a four-yard rush and 2008. orthopedic surgeon. over right tackle by Stephon Green. “I asked them, ‘How do you want to A Distinguished Alumnus of the Univer- Then sophomore wide receiver Curtis be remembered?’” sity and a member of the Board of Trustees Drake suddenly entered the game at tailback The offense responded by scoring on its since 2000, Joyner has served as head physi- with Green lined up to his right. first three possessions and taking a 20-14 cian to U.S. Olympic teams and been chair- Drake took a direct snap from center, halftime lead, before turning the game over man of the U. S. Olympic Sports Medicine faked a run right and handed the ball to to the defense to hold the Buckeyes scoreless Committee and a member of the Pennsylva- Green, who burst through the left side of the in the final 30 minutes. nia Governor’s Council on Physical Fitness line and dashed 39 yards for a touchdown. When the last four Ohio State despera- and Sports. This “wildcat” formation produced the tion passes fell harmlessly in the final 36 Joyner said at a press conference Friday game’s first score. seconds of the contest, the cadre of Penn that he will play a key role in the selection of On the visitors’ second possession, Mc- State fans erupted in celebration, and the Penn State’s next head football coach. Gloin converted a 3rd & 10 with a 12-yard pass Nittany Lions walked off the field with their Later Friday the University was informed to tight end Andrew Szczerba. Then running second win in their last three trips to Ohio’s that the NCAA will conduct an investigation back Brandon Beachum, an Ohio native, capital city. of whether it has maintained institutional converted a 3rd & 2 with a nine-yard blast Bradley said he had talked to the cap- control of its athletic program. The athletic over right guard. Next McGloin converted a tains and the seniors and told them what he department responded with a statement that 3rd & 9 with an 11-yard pass to Justin Brown. wanted at Ohio State. it “intends to fully cooperate with the NCAA Eventually, Anthony Fera climaxed the drive “And they did it.” during its inquiry, and understands that this with a career-long 43-yard field goal and a He added, “These players have done is a preliminary step toward understanding 10-0 first quarter lead for the Lions. everything we have asked of them in the last what happened, as well as how to prevent any- Ohio State posted its first score on the two weeks, and I am proud to be their coach.” thing similar from happening in the future.” first drive of the second quarter, when fresh- He said he was excited for them because “With all that has gone on outside of foot- man quarterback Braxton Miller took an op- they had fought through adversity and done ball,” said junior quarterback Matt McGloin tion run from the shotgun position around everything the right way – from the way they after Saturday’s game, “we’ve come together right end for a 24-yard touchdown. dressed to the way they handled themselves on the field as a team.” But Penn State answered with a touch- off the field to the way they played. Penn State marched 80 yards with the down on its third drive of the game, covering The Lions had come to Columbus with opening kickoff and reached Ohio State’s 81 yards on another five- play drive that took a new acting Athletic Director – Dr. David end zone in less than three minutes on just only 2:20. Joyner, the first Penn Stater to earn All- five plays. The third and fourth plays were a Silas Redd broke off a block by guard American awards in two sports, football and 16-yard pass from McGloin to wide receiver Johnnie Troutman and raced 42 yards to wrestling. Joyner, an offensive tackle and tie State’s longest run from scrimmage this heavyweight wrestler in the early ‘70s went season. McGloin immediately hit Moye with on to graduate from Penn State’s College of PENN STATE 10 10 0 0 20 a 20-yard pass on a post route. OHIO STATE 0 14 0 0 14 Photos by Steve Manuel ’84, ‘92g R E C A P 1st Quarter PS: Green 39-yd run caps 5-pl 80-yd drive in 2:33 keyed by McGloin 16-yd pass to Moye on 3rd & 4. (Fera kick) 12:27 PS: Fera 43-yd FG caps 15-pl 54-yd drive in 5:29 keyed by McGloin 12-yd pass to Szczerba on 3rd & 10, Beachum 9-yd run on 3rd & 2 & McGloin 11-yd pass to Brown on 3rd & 9. 1:59 2nd Quarter OS: Miller 24-yd run caps 10-pl 77-yd drive in 4:22 keyed by Miller 18-yd pass to Posey on 3rd & 11. (Basil kick) 12:32 PS: Green 4-yd run caps 5-pl 81-yd drive in 2:20 keyed by Redd 42-yd run & McGloin 20-yd pass to 1 2 Moye & Belton 12-yd run. (Fera kick) 10:05 OS: Stoneburner 7-yd pass from Miller caps 7-pl 37-yd drive in 2:51 set up by Johnson intcpt. of McGloin pass & 15-yd ret. & keyed by Miller 24-yd run. (Basil kick) 5:22 PS: Fera 46-yd FG caps 9-pl 49-yd drive in 5:18 keyed by Drake 38-yd run & Beachum 2-yd run on 3rd & 2. 0:00 Attendance: 105,493 Then freshman wide receiver Bill Belton entered the game for the second time in the “wildcat” position and immediately rushed 10 around right end for 12 yards. On the next play Green took a handoff from McGloin and 1: SILAS REDD breaks off the game’s longest run of 42 yards in the smashed through the left side of the line for second quarter to jump start Lions’ second touchdown drive. a four-yard touchdown – his second of the 9 2: CURTIS DRAKE breaks free around right end for 38-yard run game for the second game in a row. from wildcat position to set up game’s final score. 3: DEREK MOYE After the defense held the Buckeyes to a leaps to catch one of his three receptions for 40 yards Saturday three-and-out, McGloin made a critical mistake. in Ohio Stadium. 4: JACOB FAGNANO (27) brings down Buckeye He threw off his back foot while running kickoff returner Jordan Hall. 5: STEPHFON GREEN powers through to the right, and sailed a high pass off the left side of line for second-quarter TD to give Nittany Lions a 17-7 hands of Szczerba that was intercepted by lead in the Horseshoe. 6: DEFENSIVE END Sean Stanley leaps to Orhian Johnson and returned 15 yards to break up Ohio State pass along the sideline. 7: PLAYERS FROM the PS-37. both9 teams meet and shake hands on the field before the opening Two plays later, Miller carried another kickoff. 8: JACK CRAWFORD sacked Braxton Miller twice for 10 24-yard option from the shotgun through yards in losses. 9: FRESHMAN BILL BELTON runs 12 yards around the right side. And he later completed the right end to set up Penn State’s second touchdown. 10: PENN drive with a 7-yard strike to tight end Jake STATE FANS celebrate Nittany Lions’ second triumph in Ohio Stoneburner in the end zone. Stadium since 1978. But the Lions roared back to score on their fifth and final possession of the half. The key play was a 38-yard run around right end by “wildcat” Drake to the OS-40. The drive concluded when Fera kicked a new career-long field goal of 46 yards, as time expired in the first half. Penn State’s offense fared no better in the second half than Ohio State’s, even though Jordan Hill recovered a Buckeye fumble on the OS-11 in the middle of the third quarter. 8 A couple of rushes and two Ohio State penal- ties gave the visitors a first down on the OS-2.