PSU History: Speed and Specialists Take Center Stage in Happy Valley
- Apr 10
- 20 min read
NOTE: This is the latest in a continuing series of offseason essays highlighting Penn State football's history of unique student-athletes. It is in response to Coach Matt Campbell and his staff reconnecting with the Penn State football alumni. The first essay covered the great linemen at Penn State, and the next essay covered family legacies at Penn State. Last week's essay covered the great linebackers and tight ends at Penn State. These essays are designed to highlight history beyond the current generation and include great players and stories that delve deeper into a proud legacy of excellence.
This week’s essay hits the accelerator to focus on the fastest guys on the field, the wide receivers and the defensive backs. Just like tight ends and linebackers made each other better every day in practice, so it goes with the DBs and WRs. Nowhere on a football practice field will you see more trash talking than the 1-on-1 drills between the DBs and WRs.
Also in this week’s essay, we go back and look at the specialists. Many of the receivers and DBs doubled as kick returners and punt returners, but there is also a great Penn State history of place kickers, punters and long snappers.
As the other essays have done, we’ll look past the current generation of players. Fans know well the newest generation of speedsters like KJ Hamler, Joey Porter Junior, Chris Godwin, Jaquan Brisker and more that are still playing on Sundays.
But these are the guys who paved the way.
Much like the tight end position, both the wide receiver and defensive back positions evolved about sixty years ago. Suddenly “playing in space” became a much bigger factor.
Starting with offense, Penn State’s modern WR era began with Jack Curry. The three-year letterman from nearby Danville, PA set Penn State’s career receiving yardage record, one that stood for fifteen years.
In the early 1970s, Chuck Herd and Gary Hayman provided outside speed to compliment the punishing inside run game. In the 1974 Orange Bowl Chuck Herd made a ridiculous one-handed catch in stride to score the go-ahead touchdown against LSU to clinch a 12-0 season for Penn State. Both Herd and Hayman went on to play professionally in the NFL and the CFL.
They were followed by Jimmy Cefalo, a legendary player from Pittston, PA who was chased by everyone. Cefalo was a smart, speedy receiver, and a dangerous punt returner. In 1977 he had two punt returns for touchdowns. He was so good he was the decoy as he handed off a punt return reverse to Mike Guman for a decisive 52-yard TD in a 15-13 win at Pitt.
Cefalo was drafted in the 3rd round in 1978 by the Dolphins. He spent 7 years and played in two Super Bowls. While he was still playing, he started to plot his broadcasting career. His career took him to NBC, a career that included the analyst role for Penn State’s National Title win over Miami in the Fiesta Bowl. He was on NBC’s Today Show and co-hosted the Summer Olympics on NBC from Seoul which won him an Emmy for writing.
In the 1979 draft Penn State WR Scott Fitzkee was chosen in the 4th round by the Eagles. Like Cefalo, he was also a dual threat. Fitzkee started at WR and punter.
During the mid-to-late 1970s Penn State hit the accelerator on their approach to scheduling and recruiting. Part of that change was a 1980 freshman class that included WR Kenny Jackson from South River, NJ and his brother Roger who played safety.
In 1982 & 1983 Kenny became Penn State’s first All-American WR. He made acrobatic plays, created match-up problems and proved you couldn't cover him 1-on-1. In 1981 he set the single-game receiving yardage record with 158 yards on just 5 catches and 2 TDs, including a catch that was the signature play of Penn State’s 48-14 rout of #1 Pitt. Kenny was also an unselfish player, as demonstrated by his downfield blocking skills and leadership on and off the field.
Kenny was the first PSU WR to be drafted in the 1st round when the Eagles took him with the 4th overall pick, still the highest draft pick for a PSU WR. He played 8 years in the NFL before returning to Penn State as a coach in 1993 where he forged another wave of Penn State greats. After Penn State he coached with the Steelers and had two 1,000-yard WRs in the same year.
The 1982 Penn State offense had one of the most talented groups of receivers in school history. Walk-on Gregg Garrity played opposite Jackson before being drafted in 1983 draft and playing 7 years. Garrity made the catch that clinched the Sugar Bowl win over Georgia and the 1982 National Championship.
Most Penn State fans from that era can still hear Keith Jackson on that call “But now Blackledge is gonna put it up on first down, he’s going for the Bundllllllllle…Garity…TOUCHDOWN!”
In that same game, the third WR Kevin Baugh showed his punt return skills, hitting two big returns and netting a PSU bowl-record 108 yards on 5 punt returns after Penn State installed a middle punt return for the first time all season. Baugh was drafted in 1984 by Houston.
The late 1980s and early 1990s saw more exciting receivers. Ray Roundtree came to Penn State from Aiken, South Carolina opening up a pipeline of talent from the Palmetto State. Ray started on the 1986 National title team before being a 3rd round pick by Detroit. He was joined in the 1988 draft by Mike Alexander, a big rangy WR whose NFL career included an appearance in Super Bowl XXV with Buffalo.
That team included one of the fasted players to ever play here when Michael Timpson, a dominant track star in South Florida came to Penn State. He was a dual-sport athlete who was drafted by the New England Patriots before a 9-year NFL career: the longest for a Penn State WR at that time.
Good things continued to come in threes in the Penn State wide receiver room.
Next up was David Daniels from Florida, OJ McDuffie from Ohio and Terry Smith from PA. In 1989 and 1990 those three created match-up problems for everyone Penn State played. In the 1989 Holiday Bowl Daniels made a circus TD catch in a 50-39 shootout win over BYU. Terry Smith lined up as a punter and ran a fake punt in that game too.
Smith remains one of the best receivers ever at PSU in setting up a DB for a double move route. As a guy who threw to him in practice, you could trust he was gonna be exactly where he was supposed to be even before he came out of his break.
Daniels would get drafted by Seattle in 1991, Smith by Washington in 1992 and OJ McDuffie would go in the 1st round to Miami in 1993.
Like Jimmy Cefalo years ago, OJ “Juice” McDuffie was a great high school running back who became a WR at Penn State. McDuffie was a dangerous return man, a great ball carrier on reverses, and a 1st-team All-American (1992).. During his 8 years in Miami, he led the NFL in receptions and became the favorite target of Hall of Fame QB Dan Marino.
In 1991 a highly touted freshman WR named Bobby Engram from Camden, SC arrived at Penn State. He played sparingly in 1991 before redshirting in 1992. But he would announce his presence in the 1993 season opener against Minnesota when he scored a school-record 4 receiving TDs.
Engram earned 3rd-team All-American honors that year and started to show the kind of late-game heroics he’d be known for. Trailing 37-17 at Michigan State in the season finale, Engram fought through an injury and exploded for a couple of TDs in the 4th quarter to win that game 38-37. In 1994 he caught the game-winning TD at Michigan enroute to an undefeated season, 1st-team All-American honors and winning the Biletnikoff Award.
He made an incredible one-handed stab of a ball that Kerry Collins rifled his way against Ohio State in 1994. He made plays to win the 1995 season opener against Texas Tech and would make a play to beat Michigan State on the road once again in 1995. In three years, he earned 1st-team, 2nd’team and 3rd-team All-American Honors. He was picked in the 2nd round by Chicago beginning a 14-year NFL career, the longest of any PSU WR. He is now coaching WRs for the Washington Commanders.
Bobby Engram was part of a pipeline from South Carolina that had started with Ray Roundtree in the late 1980s. They were part of a group that included LB Ivory Geathers from Johns Island, DT Chris Mazyck from Columbia, DB Shelly Hammonds from Barnwell, QB Wally Richardson from Sumter and DB Cliff Dingle, DE Courtney Brown, RB Rodney Kinlaw and Paul and Joe Cianciolo all from the Charleston area.
But back to the WRs…..
Opposite Engram was Freddie Scott who appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated before his 4-year NFL career. In that WR rotation with them was Joe Jurevicius who also appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated (both in college and in the NFL). Joe was a 2nd-round pick by the Giants in 1998 and in his 11-year career he appeared in Super Bowl XXXV with the Giants, won Super Bowl XXVVII with Tampa Bay and started alongside Bobby Engram for Seattle in Super Bowl XL. Eagles fans still dislike Joe for his long crossing route that blew open the NFC title game for Tampa Bay (and landed him on his 2nd Sports Illustrated cover).
They were followed by another RB-turned-WR in Philadelphia's own Chafie Fields. Chafie was an explosive player who made one of the most memorable catches in Penn State history against Miami in 1999. In the Fiesta Bowl following the 1996 season he broke open that win with a huge double reverse that Joe Paterno called despite the danger of being so close to our own end zone. And in 1997 against Ohio State, he made a play as a WR to prevent an interception that would've cost Penn State the win. He is now a major agent representing many of the biggest names in the NFL and NBA. His career as an agent was the inspiration for the HBO series "Ballers" starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.
A few years later Bryant Johnson became another 1st-round pick at WR from Penn State when the Arizona Cardinals picked him. Johnson was another dual-threat guy with just under 1,000 yards receiving and over 500 yards in punt returns in 2002. His NFL career lasted 9 years.
After two years without that big-play receiver, the 2005 season was an offense with big-play guys everywhere. Derrick Williams and Justin King were two high-profile recruits. They were joined by Jordan Norwood and walk-ons Deon Butler and Ethan Kilmer to give Penn State 5 speedsters. All five players would go on to play in the NFL.
Beyond Derrick Williams’ offensive abilities as a receiver and a running back, he was a threat every time he touched the ball as a returner. He is 2nd all-time with 3 punt returns for TDs, and 2 kickoff returns for TDs and earned All-American and All-Big Ten honors both as a receiver and a returner.
Derrick also had a flair for the dramatic. His first career TD catch was a 4th-quarter game winner in a comeback win at Northwestern. In the first full stadium White Out against Notre Dame in 2007 he caught a punt he never should have fielded in traffic and then weaved for a TD. In the 2008 White Out game versus Illinois he caught a TD pass, ran a reverse in for a rushing TD and returned a kickoff for a TD the first Penn State player to do all that in one game.
Jordan Norwood was a slippery player with wiry moves in tight spaces that had teammates calling him Neo from the movie the Matrix. In the NFL he set the Super Bowl record for the longest punt return in Denver’s Super Bowl LI win. His NFL career lasted 8 years.
Ethan Kilmer was a true walk-on player that tried out after he was already a student on campus. He hadn’t even played high school football. But he possessed top-line speed, could jump higher than anyone on the team and was referred to by some teammates as “Jesus” because of a freakish ability to fly. That ability came in handy when he soared over a Florida State DB for a deep TD catch right at the end of the first half in the Orange Bowl win after the 2005 season. He went on to get drafted and play DB for the Bengals.
The other walk-on in that group, Deon Butler would end up as Penn State’s all-time leading receiver. Despite his slight build, Deon possessed incredible speed and football smarts. At Penn State when timing the 40-yard dash, we used to log what we called the "Delta Time". That was the time it took a player to run the last 20 yards: an indicator of top-line acceleration. Butler had one of the best we ever saw, giving him an amazing ability to catch up to deep passes.
In fact, Williams, Norwood and Butler all possessed high football IQs. From 2005 through 2008 they enabled the coaching staff to line them up anywhere on the field. In 2006 they were the first trio of receivers to all notch 40 or more catches in the same season, a feat they repeated in 2007 & 2008. Multiple match-up possibilities, motions and shifts were a driving force of the 2008 Spread HD offense. That offense ranked in the Top 10 all-time in Big Ten history in several offensive categories.
The bridge player between the previous generations or receivers and the current one would have to be Allen Robinson. From Orchard Lake St Mary’s HS outside Detroit, Allen was one of the last guys in his recruiting class. Michigan and Michigan State overlooked him. But his coach’s long-standing relationship with PSU coach Ron Vanderlinden got him a look from Penn State.
That look led to an All-American season in 2013 and two years as the Big Ten Receiver of the Year. He was drafted in the 2nd round and played 11 NFL seasons that included Pro Bowl Honors and leading the league in catches & receiving TDs. He's best remembered for his incredible catch on the game-tying drive that set up the 2013 OT win over Michigan.
Arriving at Penn State with Robinson was safety Adrian Amos. He serves as the bridge between the older generations and the current group of defensive backs that have excelled at Penn State.
Amos, like Robinson, was not considered a four- or five-star recruit by the experts in the 2011 class. But he played in every game as a freshman and became a true force in his Penn State career. After the 2014 season he was drafted in the 5th round and went on to a 10-year NFL career. He was named to the All-Rookie team and grabbed 3 INTs in 8 playoff games.
Prior to the late 1970s Penn State was such a dominant linebacker school that defensive backs operated in the shadows.
In 1969 Safety Neil Smith was a 1st-team All-American after snagging 10 interceptions. That came after his 1968 campaign where he had 8 interceptions. His 19 career interceptions were a remarkable school record given the lack of passing that went on in that era. Eight years later safety Pete Harris became Penn State’s next 1st-team All-American safety when he tied Neil Smith’s single season record of 10 interceptions. Pete was the younger brother of Franco Harris.
At the same time Penn State was emphasizing speed on offense, they were doing the same thing on defense. As college football moved to a more wide-open era, Penn State responded.
In the 1982 draft cornerback Paul Lankford went to Miami in the 3rd round and went on to a 10-year NFL career. That 1981 secondary featured other future NFL talent and the appearance of Penn State defensive backs on NFL draft boards became a regular occurrence.
1991 1st-team All-American safety Darren Perry went on to a 9-year NFL career including a win in Super Bowl XXX for Pittsburgh. His late-game interception set up the game-winning field goal at #1 Notre Dame in 1990 (more on that later) and landed him on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
He was a smart football player with a quick mind that also made him a great card player. If there was a deck of cards around, Darren was always looking for a game of Tunk. His great football mind also led to a long career coaching in the NFL in Pittsburgh, Green Bay and elsewhere.
His teammates included future NFL DBs Leonard Humphries and Shelly Hammonds. Shelly came to Penn State to play DB but made a brief two-week detour. A rash of RB injuries before the 1990 Boston College game forced him to move to running back. He responded with 208 yards on 24 carries and 2 TDs in his running back debut. But within a week he was back at defensive back where he wanted to be.
In 1996 Kim Herring became the next 1st-team All-American safety for Penn State. He grabbed 7 INTs on a team that finished 11-2 with a win over Big XII Champion Texas in the Fiesta Bowl. He went on to a 9-year NFL career that included starting for Baltimore in the Super Bowl XXXV win and starting for Saint Louis in Super Bowl XXXVI the next year. His daughter became a gymnast at Penn State.
Three guys from VA showed up next in the secondary. CB David Macklin played a year or two of basketball while also starring on the football field. His quickness and smarts led to a 9-year NFL career after the 2000 draft. A year later, fellow Virginians CB Bhawoh Jue and Safety James Boyd were also both drafted in the 3rd round and enjoyed multi-year NFL careers.
Jue’s and Macklin’s 9-year NFL careers rank only behind Paul Lankford’s 10-year career as an NFL corner among Penn State players. Boyd was a big hitter and may be best known for the big hit he put on Drew Brees on a safety blitz in the 2000 upset of Purdue.
Five more DBs would get drafted in the next 6 drafts. Safety Bryan Scott went to Atlanta in the 2nd round in 2003. He had a 10-year career, but his football may have even been surpassed by his immense musical talent. Teammates Calvin Lowry and Alan Zemaitis both went in the 4th round in 2006. The 2005 secondary of Zemaitis, Lowry along with safety Chris Harrell and corner Anwar Phillips provided the backbone of that championship defense.
Zemaitis had recovered from a major car wreck to become a dominant leader who led by words and actions on the 2005 Big Ten Title team. That year he nabbed 6 INTs and 2nd-team All-American honors. His 12 career INTs still rank in the top 10 at Penn State. He is now a key part of Penn State’s football recruiting staff.
Two other DBs represented the opposite ends of the spectrum in recruiting.
While recruiting Jarrett Payton from St Viator HS outside Chicago in the 1999 class, we got a call from Richard Gardner, Sr whose son was a WR/DB at small Hales Franciscan HS in Chicago. His son Richard had played against Payton, and he was convinced that his son was a Big Ten player.
After watching the tape with Kenny Jackson, I called Payton’s coach Kevin Kelly and asked what he thought. Kevin Kelly told us that Richard Gardner could definitely play in the Big Ten. Because of our limited scholarships we could only offer him a walk-on slot. For a year and a half Richard and his father paid out-of-state tuition while he worked through a redshirt year and then broke through on the depth chart.
He went on full scholarship, became a starter and made one of the best-remembered pick-6 plays in PSU history that broke open a 40-7 rout of #7 Nebraska. He was drafted in the 3rd round and spent a few years in the NFL.
On the other end of the spectrum Justin King was one of the top recruits in the country in the 2005 recruiting class. He and Derrick Williams were seen as critical to the success of the program at a time when Penn State was having some tough seasons. On a late autumn day, he called Joe Paterno and told him he was coming to Penn State. King kept calling Derrick Williams and the two of them agreed to become teammates at Penn State.
They sparked a run of players and talent to Penn State that saw PSU run up two Big Ten Titles the next four years and a 7-year run where Penn State had the 6th-best record in the country. In that stretch Penn State was the only team in the country to exceed 77% in both winning percentage and graduation rates.
King created a spark on offense at first for Penn State as a two-way player in 2005. Ultimately, he moved to defense full time and was drafted by St Louis in 2008. His stepfather and high school coach Terry Smith may have helped nudge him to Penn State, but his decision sparked a change in the trajectory of Penn State.
Amid all these draft choices, undrafted free agents have also had NFL success from Penn State. Safety Marlon Forbes was a true walk-on who made the team, earned playing time and went to the NFL. In 1993 Forbes ran down Michigan RB Tyrone Wheatley sparking some scouts to notice his size and speed. He played for 4 years in the league. Safety Sean Mayer went from undrafted free agent to Super Bowl Champion for New England. His toughness and football smarts drove his success.
But history will note that in some of Penn State’s biggest moments the secondary showed up and showed out.
Safeties Harry Hamilton and Mark Robinson would be the leaders of Penn State’s secondary in 1982 and 1983. Hamilton was a multi-year Academic All-American in 1982 & 83, while Mark Robinson was a 1st-team All-American in 1982. The two of them were a big reason Penn State contained Georgia Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker in the Sugar Bowl win that clinched the 1982 National Championship.
The two of them may be the best pair of big-hitting safety teammates in school history.
In the 1984 draft Robinson was drafted by Kansas City and Hamilton was drafted by the Jets. Both of them had 8-year NFL careers and concluded the last several years of their careers as teammates in Tampa Bay.
As the 1985 season began, Penn State was coming off a disappointing season. They would start the season as a big underdog at #7 Maryland, a team that some people had marked as the Preseason #1 team in the country. Maryland had beaten Penn State just once (1961) and on a blistering hot day their fans expected that streak to burn up.
Penn State’s next All-American safety Michael Zordich shattered that illusion immediately with a pick-6 on the very first play. That return included the loss of one shoe as he ran through an attempted tackle.
That play sparked a 20-18 road win that led to an 11-0 regular season marked by 7 wins of seven points or less including a 19-17 win over #10 Alabama. The team knew how to win in the 4th quarter and set the tone for the 1986 team.
As for Zordich, despite people believing he was not big enough or fast enough, he was drafted in 1986 and used his toughness and brains to play 12 years in the NFL. He was respected so much for his on-field smarts, he became an NFL coach almost immediately after his playing career ended.
The big game mentality was never more evident than the Fiesta Bowl against Miami. Safeties Ray Isom and Marques Henderson teamed up with corners Duffy Cobbs and Eddie Johnson against future All-Pro WRs Michael Irvin and Brian Blades and Heisman Trophy winning QB Vinny Testaverde.
Penn State’s secondary was supposedly too short and too slow to keep up with Miami. In pre-game one of Miami’s players made a comment to Penn State linebacker Shane Conlan about how short the PSU DBs were.
Conlan’s response was simply “Wait until they hit you.”
Perhaps no one had a bigger smile or was a nicer guy than Ray Isom, but when he had you in his crosshairs, he was a bad, bad man.
Early and often these guys launched into Miami’s receivers. Truth be told, Isom and Cobbs put shots on Irvin that had him looking around. The number of dropped passes mounted even more than the 5 INTs and 2 fumbles that Penn State forced. Those 7 turnovers represented the ultimate in bend-but-don’t break defense and led to the game-winning touchdown and a National Title.
Which brings us to two of the other stars of that game. Long snapper Greg Truitt and punter John Bruno had one of the toughest jobs in that game. Miami had one of the most dangerous punt rushers anyone had ever seen. The snap had to be perfect, and the punter had to be fast.
Not only were they perfect, but they consistently put Miami on a long field pinning them inside the 10-yard-line multiple times. Both Bruno and Truitt would go on to the NFL, a part of a Penn State history of specialists and returners in the NFL.
The most decorated return specialist in the NFL for Penn State was Eddie Drummond. Eddie came to Penn State as a lightning-fast undersized RB. He would play receiver and return kicks as well. He went on to a 6-year NFL career where he made the Pro Bowl and was named All-Pro as a returner. One scout described him to me this way “When he’s got the ball in the open field, he is like trying to catch a balloon when you let the air out of it and it zig-zags every which way.”
As for punters, Bob Parsons started things off in the modern era. He was a 5th-round pick in 1972 and spent 12 years as a punter and tight end in the NFL. Ralph Giacomarro spent 5 years in the NFL after being drafted in 1983. The next year in Penn State’s 13-10 Aloha Bowl win over Washington the game MVP was punter (yes, a punter) George Reynolds. He got drafted the next spring.
Perhaps the most colorful of all Penn State punters was Jeremy Kapinos. “Kap” punted several years in the NFL but was probably best known for his Grateful Dead tattoo and his affinity for the well-known jam band. Reports are that he is still mourning the passing of both Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir.
As for place kickers, Penn State has a number of kickers with lengthy careers. In a previous essay we discussed the success of brothers Chris and Matt Bahr. Chris was bombing 55-yard field goals at a time when that was considered out of range. He was a 1975 All-American, a 2nd-round pick, played 14 years in the NFL and won two Super Bowls. Matt was a 1978 All-American who had a 17-year career and also won a couple of Super Bowls. While with the Giants he kicked the game-winning field goal in the NFC title game and kicked what would be the game-winning field goal in Super Bowl XXV.
Kicker Brett Conway came to Penn State from Georgia before a 7-year NFL career after his senior season in 1996. Regardless of the statistical comparisons he was one of the school’s most consistent and clutch scorers. Much of his success was due to his teammate and mentor Doug "the Kid" Ostrosky.
And no kicker had a better name than Massimo Manca, a kicker who was born on the Italian island of Sardinia. Manca kicked on both the 1982 and 1986 National Title teams.
Robbie Gould sets the longevity record for Penn State kickers. He went from a walk-on from Lock Haven, PA to Penn State to an 18-year NFL career. He was simply the most consistent kicker in the league for a long time. His career included Pro Bowl and All-Pro honors and playing in two Super Bowls.
But for all that longevity, there are a couple of moments that stand out for Penn State kickers. In 1979, trailing at NC State 7-6 Penn State was down to their last play. They could attempt a Hail Mary pass or attempt a 54-yard field goal, which was longer than any kick that kicker Herb Menhardt had ever tried. Coach Paterno looked around and Menhardt was standing next to him and said, "I'll make it."
Menhardt went in, the kick went up, caromed just off the inside of the right upright and through for the win.
Like Robinson at WR and Amos at DB, Sam Ficken bridges the older generations to the newer ones.
Sam came to Penn State in 2011 and his place-kicking career really started with a rough game at UVA in 2012. Despite the setback, he kept pushing and became more and more consistent. The penultimate moment for him came in the 2014 Pinstripe Bowl when he kicked the game-winning extra point for the walk-off win in overtime to cap a big comeback win. His redemption story led to a 4-year NFL career.
But when it comes to an ultimate specialist moment, the gold standard for drama was 1990 on the road at #1 Notre Dame. With the game tied and just 8 seconds left on the clock Penn State had a greater Rudy story that Notre Dame could ever had imagined.
Earlier in the year Penn State lost their starting long snapper. The depth was shaky. One of the student equipment managers, sophomore Bob Ceh, had been a long snapper in high school but hadn't done it since then. Given the seriousness of the situation Bob agreed to shake off the rust and give it a try.
A few weeks later he found himself with the game on the line to complete a 14-point comeback to beat #1 Notre Dame in South Bend. Behind a guy who was a student manager a few weeks earlier was a walk-on WR/Holder Bill Spoor and a freshman kicker Craig Fayak. Take that Rudy! Not exactly how you'd want it lined up. But at Penn State the unexpected happens because players prepare for moments like that.
The snap was on target, the hold was good and the ball sailed through the uprights and a moment was stamped forever in the hearts and minds of every Penn Stater who witnessed it.
These are but some of the stories, the threads in a rich history of great players that built Penn State football. Many were great recruits; others were less heralded and still others walked on. But they join the legions of men who walked the campus, earned degrees, won games and left their mark on a proud legacy that endures..
Reading “PSU History: Speed and Specialists Take Center Stage in Happy Valley” made me realize how quickly traditions evolve when strategy and talent come together. The article reflects the pressure, growth, and determination that both students and athletes experience. As a PhD student working part-time at Last Minute Assignments, I understand these struggles because I faced many challenges during my college days. That is why I genuinely enjoy giving assignment help and supporting students who are trying to balance studies, pressure, and future goals. Nice Post
Hi Jay,
What about Chafie Fields?
Thanks for the great article(s).
Joe